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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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

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Speaker 1: Buck is out on Friday, rolling into the Memorial Day weekend.

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Speaker 1: I am manning the unseekable ship of truth here and

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Speaker 1: we have got a lot of breaking news as the

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Speaker 1: continued fallout seventy two hours now since the shooting that

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Speaker 1: occurred in you of All Day, Texas. And we are

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Speaker 1: joined now by Jack Carr. And Jack has not been

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Speaker 1: able to hear the press conference which just happened and

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Speaker 1: we played in an hour one and we've been reacting

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Speaker 1: to it. But Jack is a former Navy Seal sniper

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Speaker 1: New York Times best selling offer author of In the Blood,

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Speaker 1: and Jack, I appreciate you joining us here, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna kind of give you a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the background. I've been writing down the timeline. Obviously, you

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Speaker 1: as a Navy seal have been trained in a lot

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Speaker 1: of very difficult hostage and active shooter type situations over

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Speaker 1: your your time. So what happened is the suspect, I

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Speaker 1: mean suspects probably being kind to him. At this point.

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Speaker 1: The killer enters the school at eleven thirty three. Police

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Speaker 1: enter within two minutes and exchange fire with him. This

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Speaker 1: guy locks himself into a classroom. There are many kids

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Speaker 1: inside of that classroom. By eleven thirty five, he has

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Speaker 1: locked himself into the classroom. There then are nine one

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Speaker 1: suspect is killed. That is seventy five minutes that they

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Speaker 1: allowed this guy, with living kids and maybe teachers inside

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Speaker 1: them there. This sounds like a complete failure by whoever

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Speaker 1: was in charge there. And I know, obviously you're not

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Speaker 1: an expert on this particular situation, but when you hear

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Speaker 1: armed killer seventy five minutes alone with kids that are

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Speaker 1: sense to you based on how you've been trained. It's

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Speaker 1: kind even training. It's just a responsibility as citizens as

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Speaker 1: the first time police officers should be thinking about this

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Speaker 1: is not when it happens. We have many years to

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Speaker 1: go back and look at and take lessons from from Columbine,

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Speaker 1: or you can go overseas and look at the best

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Speaker 1: Land school siege in September of two thousand and four

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Speaker 1: that was checking terrorists three days in a school in Russia.

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Speaker 1: Over three hundred people killed. So we see this time

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Speaker 1: and time again. We can juxtapose this. Were at the

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Speaker 1: situation in Nairobi, Kenya a couple of years ago where

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Speaker 1: a suicide bomber walked into the courtyard of a hotel

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Speaker 1: And there was an sas SO British Special Operator in

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Speaker 1: the area who heard the explosion, heard the gunfire, and

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Speaker 1: what did he do. He ran to the sound of

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Speaker 1: those terrorists down. I just had Melee Chapin on my

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Speaker 1: and she credits Christian craig Head, this sas operator with

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Speaker 1: So juxtaposed that with what we've seen in this country,

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Speaker 1: and if the policy of these police departments is not

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Speaker 1: add fuel to the argument that we need to harden

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Speaker 1: these soft targets. If we couldn't look at what happened

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Speaker 1: We did it after September eleventh with TSA and airports,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that we have not done that to

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Speaker 1: unconscionable that we do that and unforgivable that, regardless of

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Speaker 1: It is our responsibility to protect our lives at those

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Speaker 1: last couple of days. It's just heartbreaking, Yeah, Jack, I

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Speaker 1: Before the gunmen went in an open door, the kids

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Speaker 1: But also it gives the police officers who were two

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Speaker 1: part of trying to prevent. As you started with us, Jack,

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Speaker 1: that's right, we have plenty of lessons we can look at.

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Speaker 1: author of In the Blood. Over Memorial Day weekend, what

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Speaker 1: It takes you ten minutes or less. All you have

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Speaker 1: to do is grab your phones right now, dial pound

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Speaker 1: two fifty, say Clay and Buck and boom. You'll be

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Speaker 1: well on your way to saving a bundle. Do it today.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you hanging out with us as

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Speaker 1: we roll through the Memorial Day Friday. A lot of

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be hopping in your cars, driving all over

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Speaker 1: the place. We will have a best of on Monday. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that does exist. I'm told Buck Sexton is out today.

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Speaker 1: He is on early vacation with his early Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: weekend vacation with his girlfriend. They're having a fantastic time.

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Speaker 1: I hope as we track was turned into a serious story.

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Speaker 1: Seventy two hours after the shooting in Yuval Day, Texas,

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Speaker 1: we have been reacting to the press conference that we

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Speaker 1: began this show with live. Prior to knowing about the

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Speaker 1: shooting situation and the fallout from that, we had recorded

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Speaker 1: an interview with Florida Governor Ronda Santis. This was a

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Speaker 1: couple days ago. We did this so thinking it was

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Speaker 1: going to be a Friday, relaxing Memorial Day headed into

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We did this interview, but I want you

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Speaker 1: to know it's not live and that's why we're not

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Speaker 1: reacting to shooting related news and whatnot. But I do

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Speaker 1: think you will enjoy this. This is Florida Governor Ronda Santis,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoy it. By the way, before

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Speaker 1: we play it, I want to also let you know

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Speaker 1: I want law enforcement to react to this situation. Load

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Speaker 1: up the phone lines, law enforcement in particular one eight

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Speaker 1: hundred two eight two two eight two eight eight two.

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Speaker 1: We have been taking your calls reacting to the data

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Speaker 1: and details and facts that are coming out surrounding the

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Speaker 1: shooting inside of that school. A lot of you want

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Speaker 1: to weigh in. I appreciate all of you calling in

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Speaker 1: one eight hundred two eight to two eight eight two.

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Speaker 1: But here is Florida Governor ron De Santis, and I

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Speaker 1: was talking earlier in the program today, Governor about the

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Speaker 1: fact that I'm going to be coaching and involved in

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Speaker 1: Little League Baseball over the Memorial Day weekend. Those are

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Speaker 1: by big holiday plans. I don't think your kids are

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Speaker 1: quite old enough to be involved in Little League. But

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Speaker 1: I always think this is pretty wild, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure a lot of our listeners know it. You played

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Speaker 1: in the Little League World Series as a kid up

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Speaker 1: in Williamsport, right, that's right. And it was the type

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Speaker 1: of thing where we at the beginning of the season

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Speaker 1: in Dunedin, Florida, our motto was WWT. We wrote that

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Speaker 1: on the bottom of our hats, and that was for

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Speaker 1: we one Taiwan because Taiwan at the time was the

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Speaker 1: juggernaut and they would win the Little League World Series,

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Speaker 1: remember and then not and you know it. Then it

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Speaker 1: then came out years later that you know, they were

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Speaker 1: winning twelve year old Little League World Series with fourteen

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Speaker 1: year olds, But nevertheless, that's just the way it was,

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Speaker 1: and so that was kind of our goal. So we

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Speaker 1: started from the district tournament sectional state Southern regional back

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Speaker 1: then was Texas all the way to Virginia in the

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Speaker 1: entire southeast a thirteen states and there were only four

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Speaker 1: American teams that would make it back then, and so

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Speaker 1: that was a huge, huge undertaking and we made it

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Speaker 1: and we didn't end up playing Taiwan, but it was

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Speaker 1: it was a heck of a ride and just as

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Speaker 1: now as a parent. Yeah, my kids are five, four

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Speaker 1: and two, So the two oldest have played t ball. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they both like it and they're gonna they're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to do it probably going forward. But you do appreciate

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Speaker 1: how much the parents have to put into these seasons.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we were practicing every day. You're traveling around

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Speaker 1: the state for all these tournaments, and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: all our parents had to work and do all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: but you basically go along for the ride, and so

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Speaker 1: you don't really have summer vacation plans when you're in

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Speaker 1: the heart of Little League Summer baseball in the road

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Speaker 1: to Williamsport preach it. I'm in the middle of that

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Speaker 1: right now. Now, I'm curious, do you still have VHS

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Speaker 1: tapes of that run? When was the last time you

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Speaker 1: watched something from your Little League World Series team? You guys,

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Speaker 1: ever have any reunions or anything like that? So I

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Speaker 1: went last year. They asked me to come for the

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Speaker 1: Dunedin Little League closing ceremonies and that was the anniversary.

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Speaker 1: So this is twenty twenty one. It was the anniversary

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Speaker 1: of our Little League World Series run and I when

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Speaker 1: they asked me to do it. I'm like, yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been twenty years. So like no,

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Speaker 1: no governor spent thirty years. I was like, oh man,

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Speaker 1: time flies. But so we had some of my teammates

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Speaker 1: were there and we were able to do that, and

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Speaker 1: then we are able to speak to obviously all the

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Speaker 1: current players and the families and whatnot. So that was

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Speaker 1: a neat thing. And that was the same fields that

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Speaker 1: I played on back when I was a kid. Back then,

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Speaker 1: we had Unneed National, which is what I was. You

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Speaker 1: also had done Eed American and they've since added those.

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Speaker 1: That's just one little league now. But it's interesting. When

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Speaker 1: I was eleven, uh, Dunney National we lost in three

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Speaker 1: games and we were out so very quick. All Stars

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Speaker 1: and Nope, you didn't have really much of a chance.

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Speaker 1: But Dunneed American was one game away from Williams Spoort

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Speaker 1: they lost in the Southern Regional Championships, and that kind

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Speaker 1: of gave us the notion that, hey, maybe we can

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Speaker 1: do it when we're twelve, and so we ended up

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Speaker 1: doing that. But we had dunned An American one game

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Speaker 1: away from going in nineteen ninety and then Dunny National.

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Speaker 1: My team made it in nineteen ninety one, so pretty

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Speaker 1: incredible for one relatively small municipality. I think, by the way,

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Speaker 1: you also played at Yale. And if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: George Bush Senior, wasn't he the Yale baseball camp captain

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Speaker 1: as well? Am I wrong? Or is that an overall?

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Speaker 1: He was? He was the Yale baseball captain in nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty eight, and so he had already served in World

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Speaker 1: War Two and they went to college after that, and

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Speaker 1: back then Yale would go to the College World Series.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were they were a good program. But

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Speaker 1: the most iconic picture in the history of Yale athletics

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Speaker 1: is Babe Ruth coming to Yale Field to get an

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Speaker 1: award from the Yale baseball team. In George Bush forty

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Speaker 1: one gave Ruth the award, and Ruth he died within

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Speaker 1: like a year, so that was like one of his

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Speaker 1: last public appearances, and so that's something that's kind of reverberated. Now.

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Speaker 1: I was the baseball captain in two thousand and one

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Speaker 1: there and it just so happened to be Yale's three

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Speaker 1: hundredth anniversary. So they did this big jubilee in the

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Speaker 1: spring to kind of celebrate that, and Bush forty one

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Speaker 1: town for that and he asked to come and meet

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Speaker 1: with the baseball team. And so I was getting ready

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Speaker 1: to go out to practice. So Yale Field is is

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Speaker 1: not on the Yale campus. You kind of got to

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Speaker 1: take a bus. It's in West Haven, Connecticut, and so

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Speaker 1: you go. They'd run buses from the athletic department out there.

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Speaker 1: So I'm getting ready to go on the bus. No

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Speaker 1: different any other practice. The athletic director yells from me.

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Speaker 1: He's like, hey, are you get going to go out

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Speaker 1: to prexim again? He said, get out there hurry at PRIP.

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Speaker 1: But I'm like it was weird. Why would you do

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Speaker 1: you care with it? So people are like asking me

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Speaker 1: about practice like it was this big deal. Well, I

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Speaker 1: get out there to the field and there's all these

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Speaker 1: guys with suits and the earpieces in kind of like

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Speaker 1: in the bullpen area, and I'm looking at myself. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: this is really where. So my coach called me over

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Speaker 1: and he's like listen, He's like, you see those guys

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Speaker 1: out there with the suits their secret service agents. George

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Speaker 1: Bush forty one is here. He's like, you tell all

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Speaker 1: those guys before he comes here, do not drop any

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Speaker 1: f bombs in front of the former president. And so

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I but he came out and

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Speaker 1: basically just started, you know, talking about you know, our

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Speaker 1: season and everything like that. But I thought that that

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Speaker 1: was really that was really nice of him to be

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Speaker 1: interested in coming out there. And this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that obviously had had done a lot in his life,

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Speaker 1: and he was a really nice guy. And at that point,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was somebody. You know, I was a

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Speaker 1: blue collar kid from the Tampa Bay area. I end

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Speaker 1: up there playing baseball, but I had never really met

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Speaker 1: anyone that was that was that well known, and so

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Speaker 1: it was kind of an interesting thing. But since I

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Speaker 1: was the captain, I welcome him. The Yale Field introduced

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Speaker 1: him to the team and we had, you know, we

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Speaker 1: kind of had a Powwell session there all the way

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. Are there pictures of

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Speaker 1: that or video of that. I don't think I've seen it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. There definitely our pictures somewhere. So

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Speaker 1: it was the local paper in New Haven, the New

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Speaker 1: Haven Register, was there and they were taking pictures, and

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Speaker 1: so I remember after that happened, one of the guys

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Speaker 1: at the athletic departments like, you need you should get

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Speaker 1: that picture. Send it to him. He'll sign it to

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Speaker 1: you and give it back. But you know, I was graduating,

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Speaker 1: I had all this stuff going on, so I just

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Speaker 1: never did it. So so they are out there somewhere.

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Speaker 1: They may not be on the Internet, but but they're

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Speaker 1: definitely there, probably within the newspaper's archives. There you go, APB.

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Speaker 1: I thought, we've got people who could track that down.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if we can find somebody out there to

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Speaker 1: find that. Now, by the way, how would you assess

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Speaker 1: your baseball if you were a scout? What would you

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Speaker 1: have said about Ron Descantis college baseball player? How would

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Speaker 1: you have assessed your game? You know, I mean I

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Speaker 1: was a good Division one player. I think I hit

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Speaker 1: three thirty six my senior year. I always hitting him.

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Speaker 1: I was a four year starter. I always hit in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the line up, third, fourth, fifth, I

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Speaker 1: stole I think my coach. Actually, I had him come

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Speaker 1: when I was running for governor and I had him

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Speaker 1: do We did a rally and I had a bunch

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Speaker 1: of people just speaking. People I knew from the military

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Speaker 1: or Congress were like, hey, you know, Congressman to Santa's

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Speaker 1: great guy. Here's what I know about. Well, he spoke

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Speaker 1: about about coaching me and everything, and and he he

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Speaker 1: had the crowd in the palm of his hand. He's

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Speaker 1: like five hundred activists down in Boca ratone and he said,

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Speaker 1: now listen. People asked me, it was a good player.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I'd say. I calculated his career stats, and

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Speaker 1: I calculated Bush forty one's career stats, and Congressman to

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Speaker 1: Santis hit one hundred points higher than George Bush forty one.

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Speaker 1: And everyone started to happen about that. So so seeh

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Speaker 1: it was fun, but it was interesting. The guy that

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Speaker 1: succeeded me as captain of the Yale baseball team was

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Speaker 1: a fellow named Craig Breslow, who was a left handed

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Speaker 1: pitcher from Trumbull, Connecticut. And he got drafted I think

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Speaker 1: like the fifteenth twentieth round. He got released after a

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Speaker 1: year or two, but then he got hooked up with

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Speaker 1: an independent ball. He started throwing in the loan nineties.

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Speaker 1: He hands up in double A with the padres and

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Speaker 1: lo and behold as a left handed pitcher throw in

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Speaker 1: ninety two. You know, you're one call away from the

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Speaker 1: big league. So he ends up in the big leagues

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Speaker 1: a few years after he graduates from Yale, and he

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Speaker 1: ended up playing twelve years. Forward to me getting elected

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Speaker 1: to Congress in twenty twelve, and people know that I'm

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Speaker 1: friends with him, and they know that we played together.

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Speaker 1: So these these reporters would ask me. They're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: your friend Craig Breslow playing baseball, you know, for I

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Speaker 1: think you may have been for the Red Sox. Then

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Speaker 1: he's like, he's like, why didn't you play in the

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Speaker 1: Major League. I was like, if you think I was

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Speaker 1: good enough to play in the major leagues and I

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Speaker 1: would choose Congress over the big leagues, you're nuts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: of course I wouldn't be in Congress if I could

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Speaker 1: do it, so but it was interesting to be able

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Speaker 1: to see that, and he ended up having a really

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Speaker 1: good career, and I think other than Ron Darling, he

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Speaker 1: probably had the longest pro baseball or of anyone that

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Speaker 1: has played at Yale. The reason why I bring up

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Speaker 1: baseball obviously, and I appreciate you coming on with us

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Speaker 1: here as we get ready for Memorial Day weekend. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you can share your Memorial Day weekend plans with your

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Speaker 1: family and whatnot as well. But you've got baseball cards

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Speaker 1: that are out and you're raising money, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a really cool idea based on autographing those baseball cards,

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Speaker 1: and it's a limited edition. Explain where the idea came from,

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Speaker 1: what is on these cards, how people can get them,

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Speaker 1: or clay. We've sold so much merchandise, I mean, people

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Speaker 1: love the merchandise. We have Fauci pound sand flip flops.

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Speaker 1: We havee T shirts that have all the lockdown libs

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Speaker 1: that have visited Florida and all this stuff and it's

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Speaker 1: fun and we raise money and it helps spread the message,

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Speaker 1: which you're like, you know, maybe we should do some

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Speaker 1: stuff that people would actually be able to keep as

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Speaker 1: a memento. And so, just grown up, I did the

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Speaker 1: baseball cards. And so what we decided to do is

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Speaker 1: we have a normal baseball card, so it's me in college,

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Speaker 1: a picture of that, and that's numbered one to five hundred,

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Speaker 1: just typical card. Then we have numbered one to twenty five,

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Speaker 1: an autograph version, and then we have numbered one to

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Speaker 1: ten and autograph with a relic. So they actually cut

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Speaker 1: up my old pair of black boots and they put

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Speaker 1: a piece of that in there because that's what they

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Speaker 1: do nowadays. They can tell of a bat or a

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Speaker 1: jersey or all that stuff. So we ended up doing that,

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Speaker 1: and so those are those are being something you know,

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Speaker 1: people are doing, you know, thousands of dollars for the

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Speaker 1: relic autograph, so we have that we're also going to do.

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Speaker 1: So when my staff was like, Governor, we need to

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Speaker 1: get those boots. They need to do it to make

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Speaker 1: the cards, I'm rummaging through my closet and I found

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Speaker 1: a handful of pairs of these old desert canny boots

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Speaker 1: for when I served in Iraq, and so I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, well maybe we do something with that.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna also debut in the not too distant

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Speaker 1: future a Governor de Santis Iraq War Edition where I'm

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Speaker 1: in there in the Desert Fatigues, and they're going to

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Speaker 1: do the relic is going to be pieces of the

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Speaker 1: desert cammy boots that I that I wore when I

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Speaker 1: was deployed back in two thousand and seven, So those

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Speaker 1: will also be an autograph. I think those will be

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Speaker 1: numbered one to ten so you know, these are people

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Speaker 1: that they want to contribute, they want to help the cause,

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00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: and that's great. And you know, people can go to

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Speaker 1: like my website, Ron DeSantis dot com just give and

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00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: that's fine and people do it. But for them to

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Speaker 1: be able to get a little bit of a memento,

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Speaker 1: I think people really like it. And we are these

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Speaker 1: are limited that We're not going to just produce a

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Speaker 1: bunch of them because they lose their value. So any

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Speaker 1: collector could know we're very sensitive to making sure that

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Speaker 1: these are limited edition. Did you have a favorite baseball card?

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Speaker 1: Last question for you. When you were a kid growing up,

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Speaker 1: was there one you were most proud to have? Did

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Speaker 1: you collect? Of course nineteen eighty nine Ken Griffy. My

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Speaker 1: favorite two? My favorite two, say, I mean the first

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Speaker 1: one that was really big for me was the Don

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Speaker 1: Mattingly nineteen eighty four Don Russ. I mean that was

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Speaker 1: like the hottest thing ever I had to find. I

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Speaker 1: searched far and wide to get that. I did get it.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't in great condition, but I did get it.

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Speaker 1: But then when the Griffy came out, I mean that

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Speaker 1: was just there. And so you know, I still have

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Speaker 1: some of those Griffis to have. Some of them are

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Speaker 1: in very good condition. I've got some PSA tens and

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Speaker 1: so we're going to just keep those. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I would never I don't think I could ever sell

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Speaker 1: above me. It's just it just is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And so so yeah, that was that was kind of

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Speaker 1: the the the epic rookie card. Amen, and hey, have

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Speaker 1: a good Memorial Day weekend, you and your family. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you swinging by, know how busy you are, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys have a great time. Okay, God

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Speaker 1: bless take care. That's Florida Governor Ron De Santis tape

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Speaker 1: to interview again. Obviously if you are around our age,

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Speaker 1: and I think he and I are the same age,

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Speaker 1: that Ken Griffy Rookie Card number one, nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: upper deck set is the iconic card of many of

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Speaker 1: our lives. So hopefully I'll give you a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a nostalgia. Now, much more serious conversation coming on

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Speaker 1: the flip side. Going to take some of your calls

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Speaker 1: reacting to the Texas News promise you at two thirty

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Speaker 1: Eastern eleven thirty on the West coast, we have a

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Speaker 1: story that is going to brighten your day Memorial Day

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Speaker 1: style as we head into the weekend, I promise you

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Speaker 1: seven eighty one. Welcome back. In final segment of the week,

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Speaker 1: the Friday before Memorial Day, we wanted to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we honored the service of all those who have

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Speaker 1: given their lives for this country. And we have a

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Speaker 1: great Memorial Day story for you right here. So Nick

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Speaker 1: Leo is about to hop on with us. His grandfather,

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Leo, joined the US Army at nineteen as a

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Speaker 1: member of the twenty third Headquarters Special Troops known as

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Speaker 1: the Ghost Army. They landed in Normandy. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I have been to Normandy. One of the greatest days

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Speaker 1: of my life was getting to spend an entire day

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Speaker 1: touring the beaches of Normandy. It still looks almost identical

776
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Speaker 1: in many of those places too. It did too, as

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Speaker 1: it did in nineteen forty four when our army stormed

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Speaker 1: the beaches there. While in France, Nicholas Leo met a

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Speaker 1: young frenchwoman named Pierrette Muller fell in love. After the war,

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Speaker 1: he went back to France to marry her, with German

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Speaker 1: POWs as witnesses. They were together seventy five years before

782
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Speaker 1: she passed away. In twenty twenty, he joined the Navy

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Speaker 1: Reserve served as a Navy radio operator during the Korean

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Speaker 1: War aboard the destroyer USS Gatling. Where this comes into

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Speaker 1: account here is I have open DMS. Sometimes that's because

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Speaker 1: people are telling me that I'm the worst human being

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Speaker 1: on the planet. Other times it happens that people slide

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Speaker 1: in and tell me interesting things. I can't keep up

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Speaker 1: with all of them. But I happened to be able

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Speaker 1: to see Nick's message to me. Nick, come in and

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Speaker 1: tell people what you sent to me and what happened

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Speaker 1: as a result. Hey, Clay, how are you doing? Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on. So we had a ceremony from

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Speaker 1: my grandfather in our local town, and we had a

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Speaker 1: couple of representatives of local government from both New York

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Speaker 1: Senators Schumer and Jillibrand, and he received all this recognition,

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Speaker 1: and he also got letters from Pelosi and Biden, and

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Speaker 1: my grandfather hates problem every single one of those people

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Speaker 1: and have had And Jilbrand actually shown up. He might

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Speaker 1: have had some words, but he was very respectable to

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Speaker 1: everybody because it's such an honor. Now, I said to

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Speaker 1: him after by the way he's ninety nine years old

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Speaker 1: at the time that all this ceremony is going on, right, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: But you know, and he's still as quick as you

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Speaker 1: can imagine for a ninety nine year old. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he does nothing gets past him. So Trump was his

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Speaker 1: favorite president of all time. And I said to him after,

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Speaker 1: I said, this is too bad that you couldn't have

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Speaker 1: gotten this letter and all this recognition when Trump was

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Speaker 1: in office, and he goes, that's my only regret. I

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Speaker 1: waited all these years. This was the classified in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six that he was part of this, so it's

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Speaker 1: been a long time coming that he got this recognition.

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Speaker 1: So I said to him, he said, I just wish

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Speaker 1: this would happened under Trump. So I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: I said, how can I get him something from Trump?

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Speaker 1: So that's when I went to Twitter and I sent

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Speaker 1: a bunch of DMS out to the Trump kids, Kaylee,

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Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert, Marjorie Taylor Green. And then I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: send it to Clay. Send it to Clay, of course,

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Speaker 1: and you checked at DMS, and within five minutes, sure enough,

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Speaker 1: I got a response. I couldn't believe it. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: that was quick. So I said to you, I asked

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Speaker 1: if possibly you could get maybe something over to the

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Speaker 1: Trump people, that we could possibly get him a letter

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Speaker 1: saying something similar to what we got from Biden. And

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Speaker 1: within two weeks from you responding, I come home from

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Speaker 1: work and find a letter addressed with the presidential seal

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Speaker 1: and West Palm Beach address on it. And when you

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Speaker 1: got to be kidding me? So sure enough I opened

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Speaker 1: it and it is exactly what I thought. It was

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Speaker 1: going to be a letter for my grandfather congratulating him

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Speaker 1: on this honor from Donald J. Trump. So I you

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Speaker 1: know you had made that happen, and it just it

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Speaker 1: blew my mind that it was like it went from

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Speaker 1: just a DM to get this letter in the mail.

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Speaker 1: And then the next day I brought it over to

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Speaker 1: him and you should I handed him, and he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He looked at for a minute and then alsodden. He

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Speaker 1: looks up at me and his face gets all bright

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Speaker 1: and just goes Trump. And I went, yep, I got

842
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: to a letter from Trump. And he was like, you

843
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me, and I go, no, no, he goes,

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Speaker 1: of all the politicians I've written over the last how

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Speaker 1: many years he has, He goes the only guy who's

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Speaker 1: ever responded was from Trump, and now I finally got

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Speaker 1: a letter from him personally congratulating me. And it made

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Speaker 1: his day. When I tell you, he talks for two

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Speaker 1: hours straight. I haven't seen him with this much energy

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Speaker 1: in months, and you know, I just wanted me and

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Speaker 1: my family play. Are just so thankful for you being

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Speaker 1: able to take the time to do that and you know,

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Speaker 1: send a message along. You know, it's something as simple

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Speaker 1: as just, you know, a letter, but it means so

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Speaker 1: much to somebody like him who waited so long for

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Speaker 1: this recognition. Then Trump was his favorite president too, so

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00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: it was so nine years old, he gets a letter

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Speaker 1: from Donald Trump, his favorite president, and I look, all

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Speaker 1: I did was I saw this story. I am eternally

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Speaker 1: thankful to particularly World War Two veterans, right if you

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Speaker 1: have ever seen what they did. And so I happened

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Speaker 1: to check my DMS. I saw this. I reached out

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Speaker 1: almost you know, like you said, fairly instantly. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a great story. I think this oftentimes doesn't

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Speaker 1: get told. Trump's a good dude, I mean, in general,

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Speaker 1: and I know the media wants to destroy him and

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Speaker 1: attack him and say he's an awful person. But I

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Speaker 1: old grandfather that he was a huge Trump supporter and

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Speaker 1: that he would just because he had gotten a letter

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Speaker 1: from Joe Biden and you sent it and said, man,

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Speaker 1: he wished this had happened when Trump was in office.

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Speaker 1: I said, I know, if I get this to the

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Speaker 1: Trump people, they will send him a letter. And what

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Speaker 1: your grandfather recently he died recently, right, so that he

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Speaker 1: just died. But this is one of the last great

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Speaker 1: moments I imagine of his life, was to get this

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Speaker 1: recognition and from the man he was a big fan

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Speaker 1: of as as commander in chief. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean

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Speaker 1: this was the last time. I actually like he passed

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Speaker 1: away a week ago yesterday actually, and that's the last

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Speaker 1: great memory I have with him and giving him this

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Speaker 1: letter and he just he finally got and I think

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Speaker 1: that's part of you know, he was ready to go.

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Speaker 1: He got the recognition he finally deserved. He waited at

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Speaker 1: fifty one years before they declassified it, and then you

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Speaker 1: add another how many years for this to go through?

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Speaker 1: Told Congress, and I mean, it's just it was one

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Speaker 1: he was good and you know he was just like

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Speaker 1: I said, the happiness on. If you look at the

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Speaker 1: picture that I had sent you with him holding the letter,

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Speaker 1: you could see the smile on his face. He could

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Speaker 1: just it just shows how happy and grateful he was

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Speaker 1: of it all in together, no doubt, and look it's up.

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Speaker 1: I believe at Clay and Buck. There are so many

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Speaker 1: awful stories. I feel like, as you well know, Nick,

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Speaker 1: on a day to day basis that Americans hear about.

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Speaker 1: I do think that oftentimes there's really great stories like

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Speaker 1: this that don't get the light of day. So I

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Speaker 1: just want to thank your grandfather, thank everyone out there

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Speaker 1: who served and have given their lives. Nick. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you reaching out to me. I was glad to be

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Speaker 1: able to be a small part of helping him to

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Speaker 1: be honored for his service. I'm glad that the Trump

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Speaker 1: people were so responsive and we're able to get him

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Speaker 1: that letter and thank God for his service. And I

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Speaker 1: hope you and your family are able to have a

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Speaker 1: little bit more joy in mourning what was an incredible

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Speaker 1: life that he had. Thanks Nick, Thanks Hey, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much again, and our family appreciate it. Try to

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of good out there as we

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Speaker 1: roll into the Memorial Day weekend. Look, this is an

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Speaker 1: incredible honor to get to talk to you guys every

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Speaker 1: day because so many of you have served and fought

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Speaker 1: for this nation. Whatever you're doing with your family, take

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Speaker 1: a moment to thank everyone who has given their lives

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Speaker 1: to allow us to have the freedom that we do

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Speaker 1: every single day. People like Nicholas Leo ninety nine years

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Speaker 1: old who stormed the beaches of Normandy to preserve freedom

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Speaker 1: for the world. Thanks to Donald Trump for helping to

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Speaker 1: honor him. Thanks to all of you for honoring us

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Speaker 1: with your time every single day. We'll be back on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Best of Tuesday Live. This has been Clay and Bucky Sleet,

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Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.