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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. Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: If it sounds a bit different on my end, it

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Speaker 1: is because I am in Asheville, North Carolina, broadcasting from

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Speaker 1: five to seventy AM WWNC. We're going to tell you

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Speaker 1: the story of this station. During the course of today's broadcast.

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Speaker 1: They were not ever off air in the midst of

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest disasters relating to flooding and hurricanes

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Speaker 1: in the history of the United States, the deadliest hurricane

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Speaker 1: since Katrina. I flew in this morning on a helicopter

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Speaker 1: from Tennessee over the mountains. Buck, I have been over

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Speaker 1: all of these different communities looking at what they are

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Speaker 1: dealing with. Flew over I forty. We are sharing videos.

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Speaker 1: You can go look at them yourself. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: see it for myself. We are raped money tonight in Knoxville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: at the Yehaw Brewery, and certainly we want to be

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Speaker 1: talking to as many people in western North Carolina and

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Speaker 1: eastern Tennessee as is possible with so many people still recovering.

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Speaker 1: It's stunning, Buck, It's stunning to see from the air.

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Speaker 1: The scope of the disaster in this area, it is

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Speaker 1: unbelievable to me really just kind of to characterize it

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Speaker 1: and simplify it in one thing. I mean I forty

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina. I cannot imagine that they are going

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Speaker 1: to be able to get it open for a year

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Speaker 1: or more. There are and I shared videos from the

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Speaker 1: helicopters so that many of you can see just how devastating,

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Speaker 1: for instance, just that small segment of the storm was.

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Speaker 1: There are parts of I forty. If you've ever driven

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Speaker 1: through gone from Tennessee into North Carolina going east, there

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Speaker 1: are parts of I forty where the eastern side of

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Speaker 1: the interstate doesn't exist anymore. It has been washed away.

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Speaker 1: There is no underlying support at all for the land there.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be I can't imagine that they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to do this in less than a year.

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Speaker 1: And it may be to the point where at some

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Speaker 1: aspects of the interstate they even have one lane going

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Speaker 1: one way and one lane going the other way. My

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Speaker 1: point on using that as an example here, Buck is

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Speaker 1: this is going to be an incredibly intensive rebuild, and

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Speaker 1: I want to be honest with what I saw. I

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Speaker 1: did not see some massive amount of government military support

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Speaker 1: from FEMA from the air based on all the destroyed

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Speaker 1: regions that I saw. Now, I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: somebody who's pretending that they are an expert on the

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Speaker 1: federal government's response, but just for what I saw and

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Speaker 1: over all these devastated communities. Again, you can see the

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Speaker 1: videos that we have posted. I want to bring attention

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Speaker 1: to what's going on in this region of the people

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Speaker 1: who are still struggling here. But the radio station where

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Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting from, the only reason they are up right

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Speaker 1: now with this show is Starlink because of Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: So thank you Elon. They still don't have running water

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Speaker 1: at the radio station. Much of Ashville does not have

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Speaker 1: running water. Is talking to the guys at at one o'clock,

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Speaker 1: We're going to have somebody on the ground here to talk.

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Speaker 1: They have the kids in school is a long way

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Speaker 1: from being able to open back up here because they

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Speaker 1: There are people struggling in a massive way still that

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Speaker 1: to bring attention that's why I'm here. I know there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people doing incredible work, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people extending their hands not from the government, that are

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Speaker 1: working like crazy. The helicopter pilot I had buck said

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Speaker 1: that the place where they work has been filling up

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Speaker 1: constantly five hundred pounds of material and flying it into

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Speaker 1: to try to get people what they need. He said.

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Speaker 1: One of the things they need now is it starting

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Speaker 1: that they are bringing in. It's going to be a long,

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Speaker 1: difficult cold winter now based on this timing. And again,

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that people are aware

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Speaker 2: I spoke to a contact of mine last night, Clay,

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Speaker 2: about this. I knew you would be there and I

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Speaker 2: these air rescues and going out in helicopters. One thing

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Speaker 2: people who are doing the work increasingly don't want criticize FEMA,

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Speaker 2: not because they don't think that FEMA should be criticized,

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Speaker 2: but because they're hope and more federal resources are going

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Speaker 2: bit of a catch twenty two. It's a it's a

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Speaker 2: and you know neighbors. What he said to me, I'll

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Speaker 2: just sort of quote this anonymously is that rednecks with

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Speaker 2: chainsaws have saved more lives than the federal government and

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Speaker 2: it isn't even close.

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Speaker 1: That's what he doesn't surprise me at all, having grown

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Speaker 3: So that's been the case so far. There.

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Speaker 2: Again, the federal government has vast resources, so the hope

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Speaker 2: is that you know, you want it's like they want

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Speaker 2: to encourage the federal resources to be better utilized.

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Speaker 3: So they got to say, hey, guys, you got.

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Speaker 1: To do better.

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Speaker 2: But they don't also want to be in a position

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Speaker 2: where there is antaganism, because really just about saving and

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Speaker 2: helping people, right, So, you know, getting that ground truth

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Speaker 2: out it's a little bit of a of a there's

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Speaker 2: some delicate aspects to it right now for the people

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Speaker 2: on the front lines. That was I thought that was

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Speaker 2: interesting perspective, and you're seeing it now and you saw

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Speaker 2: from the air what an absolute mess all this is.

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Speaker 2: I also think it's very clear that because the because

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Speaker 2: the Biden administration is in charge of the federal government,

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Speaker 2: and because of the demographics of the areas that are

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Speaker 2: most affected, the national news media is completely uninterested, disinterested,

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Speaker 2: take your pick in what is going on here. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you go at the you know, you go at the

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Speaker 2: front page of a lot of news sites right now

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Speaker 2: and they might have some minor news item on what's

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Speaker 3: Which we'll talk about because that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 2: And Kamala Harris doing just fine, even though I ever

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Speaker 2: knows she's not doing well at all the hurricane. The

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Speaker 1: I expected Buck based on the way that people had

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Speaker 1: And I saw a destruction that is mind boggling to

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Speaker 1: in the air buck, there are still massive cars just

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Speaker 1: likes of which I've never seen before. And again, we're

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Speaker 1: not going to be FEMA or the United States government

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Speaker 1: based on what I saw that gets this area back

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Speaker 1: rednecks to your point, Buck with chainsaws, a lot of

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Speaker 1: a beautiful region and this is typically Buck when a

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Speaker 1: lot of people flood into this area probably a poor

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Speaker 1: choice of words there on flood, but so many people

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Speaker 1: come in and to see the leaves changing, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: Look, I have in laws with a They have a

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Speaker 2: I just would point out if you're wondering who is

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Speaker 2: MSNBC coming in coming in hot here, Clay, this is

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Speaker 2: the main story on the website right now. I'm not going, look,

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Speaker 2: this is the biggest story. Trump thinks Americans have forgotten

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Speaker 2: how bad his hurricane relief efforts were. So I just

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Speaker 2: when people are saying things like don't politicize it, what

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Speaker 2: they're actually saying is shut up. We know we're doing

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Speaker 2: a bad job. But Donald Trump is hitler and nothing

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Speaker 2: else matters. I mean, that's what the new that's where

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Speaker 2: the news media is that wants Kamla to win. We're

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Speaker 2: a few weeks away from election day, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think that there's if they had I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: what they are doing is effective and has been a

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Speaker 2: display of the competency of the federal government at this level.

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Speaker 2: And just like again talking to this contact who's doing

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Speaker 2: some of the rescues there, why would the federal government

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Speaker 2: suddenly be good at this look good? The look at

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Speaker 2: the federal government's been like the last four years. What

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Speaker 2: in what world would it be normal for us to say,

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Speaker 2: you know what, this Biden team, they've really got their

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Speaker 2: act together. Efficiency, mission focus, no politics. We would have

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Speaker 1: No doubt. And let me just say they say they

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Speaker 1: don't want to make anything political. Well, we've got an

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Speaker 2: That's why seeing with your own eyes is so important.

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Speaker 1: No doubt. I'm in North Carolina right now, as you

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Speaker 4: We are all.

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Speaker 1: Over the place. Buck is in Los Angeles. I am

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Speaker 1: I just want to start with this, when did you

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Speaker 4: So we kind of had an idea. On Wednesday, we

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Speaker 4: and my producer Tank, he puts their colors name up

436
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Speaker 4: on the screen and I looked over and I thought,

437
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Speaker 4: what is it? Wait, this can't be. She's the only

438
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Speaker 4: Brandy I know that spells it with too ease at

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Speaker 4: the end. And from pretty much that point on, it

440
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Speaker 4: was it was waterworks. It was just I was just

441
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Speaker 4: so happy to know that they were okay. I have

442
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Speaker 4: not seen them since the Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: They were evacuated down the sisters house with our four

445
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Speaker 4: dogs and they're doing great. They you know, it just

446
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Speaker 4: we made it. We made a lot better than a

447
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Speaker 4: lot of folks did. I mean, we took some damage

448
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Speaker 4: to our home, but nothing in comparison to what some

449
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Speaker 4: of these folks have lost.

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Speaker 3: Mark.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with us and giving us first of all,

452
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Speaker 2: that this is just this incredible, uh story about what

453
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Speaker 2: you and the station have been through and also been

454
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Speaker 2: able to accomplish over the last two weeks. What is

455
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Speaker 2: the what are the imminent needs right now? I mean,

456
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Speaker 2: what what is the focus of these rescue and recovery

457
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Speaker 2: now really, I guess more recovery efforts currently going forward,

458
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Speaker 2: Like what has to happen, what needs need to be met,

459
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Speaker 2: what's on the ground doing at all of that?

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Speaker 4: So you know, as far as like supplies that have

461
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Speaker 4: that have come in, I mean, it has just been

462
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Speaker 4: it has been an American outpouring. It's incredible to see

463
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Speaker 4: the amount of supplies that we have, and right now

464
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Speaker 4: we're really good on supplies. But this is not a

465
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Speaker 4: short term situation. Our water system was decimated by about

466
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Speaker 4: eighty five percent of it. I think there's eighteen hundred

467
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Speaker 4: miles of waterline in Ashville. Eighty five percent of it's gone.

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Speaker 4: So what we're really you know, what we're really hoping

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Speaker 4: for is that we can get the water back online

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Speaker 4: as fast as possible. They're measuring that time off out

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Speaker 4: of water in weeks and not days. Power is back on.

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Speaker 4: There's still about a thirty thousand people in Bunkham County,

473
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Speaker 4: which is where we are, that is that that are

474
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Speaker 4: still without power. It's getting better and better every day.

475
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Speaker 4: But you know, I think what we're worried about in

476
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Speaker 4: the long term is we've got cooler to they're moving in,

477
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Speaker 4: and we've got people who used to have homes that

478
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Speaker 4: don't have homes. And really, you know, I think the

479
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Speaker 4: big thing is is all of these groups that are

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Speaker 4: on the ground in here, whether they are doing you know,

481
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Speaker 4: whether they're doing recovery work or whether they're doing supply work.

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Speaker 4: We work with a group called Heartswodthands dot org. It's

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Speaker 4: a local charity. They're based out of Swannanoah, which was

484
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Speaker 4: one of the most devastated areas, and strangely, every single

485
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Speaker 4: thing around their warehouse was destroyed, but their warehouse wasn't touched.

486
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Speaker 4: They have two functions. They feed all of our first

487
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Speaker 4: responders hot meals every day, and then they also package

488
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Speaker 4: food boxes for pickup and delivery for folks who are

489
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Speaker 4: in need in the community. You know, usually hearts with hands.

490
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Speaker 4: They're the ones that are loading up the trailers and

491
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Speaker 4: taken them to Florida or somewhere else. I don't think

492
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Speaker 4: anybody ever thought it was going to happen here. And

493
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Speaker 4: you know, this storm was so different because of the terrain.

494
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Speaker 4: You know, a storm hits Florida, you got miles of

495
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Speaker 4: beachline for the water to reced to. There's nowhere for

496
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Speaker 4: the water to recede to here. So it was literally

497
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Speaker 4: like a thirty five football of water and debris that

498
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Speaker 4: came down the French Broad River and just decimated everything

499
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Speaker 4: in its path. I mean, there are there are towns

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Speaker 4: that used to be here that don't exist anymore. And

501
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Speaker 4: it's you know, as someone who covered hurricanes their entire

502
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Speaker 4: career living in Florida, I've never been through anything like

503
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Speaker 4: this before. I mean, the just the fury that the

504
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Speaker 4: water has brought to western North Carolina is just incredible.

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Speaker 1: I think this is important. I was just talking out

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Speaker 1: front with a state trooper who came by. We're talking

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Speaker 1: with Mark Starling, hosts six to nine am Eastern morning

508
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Speaker 1: shows on this incredible story here at five seventy am

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Speaker 1: ww NC. I forty many things. I asked out front,

510
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Speaker 1: how long is this gonna take? He said, this is

511
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Speaker 1: gonna take years to rebuild, So for people out there

512
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Speaker 1: who haven't done anything yet. Maybe they haven't recognized the

513
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Speaker 1: severity of this. There's gonna be a need for help

514
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Speaker 1: here four months and months, if not years.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're a tourism based economy. There's only one

516
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: thing to see here right now, and that's destruction. You know,

517
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 4: hotels are not able to rent hotel rooms because you

518
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 4: can't run a hotel room without running water. So that

519
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 4: is pretty much just don't have running water still at

520
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Speaker 4: the radius, that's right. Yeah, we've been without water since

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Speaker 4: I believe it was Friday is when we lost water. Yeah,

522
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Speaker 4: it is. It's an untenable situation for a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: And there are people that are leaving. You know, there

524
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Speaker 4: were certain places that right after the storm happened and

525
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 4: that they were saying, listen, if you can leave, leave,

526
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 4: help's not coming. And it's like, well, whoa wait a second. Here,

527
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 4: these are our communities. We're not going anywhere. And you know,

528
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Speaker 4: for what we wanted to do here at the radio station,

529
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 4: at iHeart Asheville was we wanted to show the community that, like,

530
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Speaker 4: we can get through this. And we've been kind of

531
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Speaker 4: repeating this line. Community is the answer to this crisis,

532
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 4: and it is amazing. You know, people have I always

533
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Speaker 4: go back to this one phone call and a guy

534
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Speaker 4: came called in and he says, you know, I've helped

535
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 4: so many of my neighbors today and I didn't even

536
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Speaker 4: ask who they voted for first. And it's just kind

537
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Speaker 4: of that, like everything else outside of Western North Carolina,

538
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 4: everything else doesn't matter right now. Like our job as

539
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 4: a as a station and as a group of stations

540
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: and as an airstaff is to kind of unite our

541
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Speaker 4: community and bring us bring everyone together and get through

542
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 4: this together. I mean, it's going to be a heavy lift.

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Speaker 3: And what we have.

544
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Speaker 4: Seen is the absolute best in humanity in an absolute horrific,

545
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Speaker 4: horrific time.

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Speaker 1: We asked whether it was appropriate to even try to

547
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Speaker 1: come in here. You guys need so much help. The

548
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: story was, we want you to help get this story.

549
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: Because you're talking to all fifty states right now. You're

550
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Speaker 1: talking to people all over the world, really, but certainly

551
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: in all fifty states. What would you ask of them?

552
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: What can they do if they're listening right now and

553
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: they're hearing about how bad things are in Western North Carolina.

554
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Speaker 4: Honestly, I would recommend giving. Yeah, if you can give

555
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 4: please give Hearts with Hands dot org is again such

556
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 4: a wonderful organization. It's local. All that money stays local

557
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 4: as far as help goes. If you have a skill

558
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 4: and it's and and you feel like it would be worthy.

559
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 4: We need help here. You know. The cleanup, the cleanup

560
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 4: for the most part has gone pretty well, but there

561
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 4: is just so much of it.

562
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: You know.

563
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Speaker 4: We've got our our chainsaw teams from the radio station.

564
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 4: They're running wide open pretty much from six a m.

565
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 4: Until seven or eight o'clock at night. And uh, you know,

566
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Speaker 4: the one thing I guess that we don't need is

567
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Speaker 4: people coming to Western North Carolina per se to the

568
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Speaker 4: to the heavy disaster zones and kind of clogging things up.

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Speaker 4: There are areas in western North Carolina that are open

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Speaker 4: for business.

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Speaker 3: Maggie Valley.

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Speaker 4: I got a call today from a business owner. He's like,

573
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Speaker 4: hey man, He's like, I run a knife shop, and

574
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Speaker 4: he's like, we're totally open for business here and and

575
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Speaker 4: we would really rather you know, like direct people to

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Speaker 4: us if you if you can't, if they can't hang

577
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Speaker 4: out in Nashville, tell them to go come up to

578
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Speaker 4: Maggie Valley and see us, or go to Waynesville. And

579
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Speaker 4: you know there's a there's some there's some good truth

580
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Speaker 4: to that because these other these other areas, they they

581
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Speaker 4: too are tourist economies.

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Speaker 1: This is what happened in Hawaii right where everybody decided

583
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Speaker 1: they didn't want to go to Hawaii. Buck and the

584
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Speaker 1: whole thing. So one more time that website, and by

585
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Speaker 1: the way, what you did, thanks to you and the

586
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Speaker 1: sacrifices that you made for your family. I can't even

587
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Speaker 1: imagine what you've gone through talking to so many people

588
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Speaker 1: in so many positions of peril. This is the best

589
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Speaker 1: of radio.

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Speaker 4: It absolutely is. And I gotta I have to shout

591
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Speaker 4: out my team because the team here at iHeart Ashville

592
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 4: is truly the most incredible group of people. They're most

593
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 4: of our staff works on music stations. They're not familiar

594
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 4: with the news talk format. That didn't matter because it

595
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 4: wasn't such a so much of a formatic thing. It

596
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 4: was we just need to be able to show people

597
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 4: that we're here to and when, and we care and

598
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 4: we're gonna help you one way or the other. If

599
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: we can't help you, we will find someone to help you.

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Speaker 4: And that's how it's worked out. And the community has

601
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 4: answered those calls and said, hey, you know what, I

602
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 4: can go over there and check on this guy. I

603
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 4: you know, I'm on my way to my next appointment.

604
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 4: I'll stop by and make sure that they're okay. It's

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 4: the power of radio, and it is the power of

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Speaker 4: this iHeartRadio Ashville team. They are just such an incredible

607
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 4: group of humans. You know, Tank Spencer and I were

608
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 4: here by ourselves for the first portion of the storm

609
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 4: because our team couldn't get here. I don't know if

610
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 4: you saw coming, well you didn't see it coming because

611
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 4: you came it from the air, but coming up our

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00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 4: driveways line, it was lined with about a hundred trees.

613
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Speaker 4: Every tree came down, there was no way to get

614
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 4: in or out. It crushed the fence in the front.

615
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: Once those trees got out of the way, our team

616
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Speaker 4: was unstoppable. They got in and they just they just

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Speaker 4: got it done. And they have continued to you know,

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Speaker 4: this is our home, this is our community, and we

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Speaker 4: want to just see it built back. We know it's

620
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Speaker 4: going to take time, and we know it's going to

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Speaker 4: be heavy lifting, but this is where we call home

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Speaker 4: and Western North Carolina mountain folks are different. I got

623
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Speaker 4: news for you. Mountain folks are tough and that we

624
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 4: will real we will rebuild this community. It may not

625
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 4: look exactly like it did, It'll be better. That's the

626
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Speaker 4: way I feel, And I feel like our community is

627
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 4: more united today than we ever have been in the

628
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Speaker 4: past because of this storm. And if that's the good

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Speaker 4: that we can that we can pull out of this,

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Speaker 4: I'll take it all day long.

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Speaker 2: Mark, Thank you so much, incredible work. Appreciate you telling

632
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Speaker 2: us about this and everyone who can go and donate

633
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: and help out. Please do you know this past Monday,

634
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Speaker 2: many of us took a moment to reflect that it

635
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: was the one year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack

636
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Speaker 2: on Israel, the worst massacre of the Jewish people since

637
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Speaker 2: the Holocaust, when the twelve hundred Israeli's lost their lives,

638
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Speaker 2: dozens more injured, two hundred and fifty hostage is taken.

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Speaker 2: The conflict remains as intense as ever. The IDF is

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Speaker 2: working to rescue hostages and fight back against Hesbela's daily

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Speaker 2: barrage of missiles. Israel's allies need to stand with her

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Speaker 2: in this moment, and that is where the International Fellowship

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Speaker 2: of Christians and Jews comes in. IFCJ has been on

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Speaker 2: the front lines to help and right now, your gift

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Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty dollars helps the Fellowship provide

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Speaker 2: food and necessities to the families of reservists who have

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Speaker 2: been called up to help them in this time of need.

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Speaker 2: And your gift will be matched by a generous donor

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Speaker 2: doubling its impact. Call one hundred and fifty dollars A

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Speaker 1: Tons of you just giving us so much feedback, I

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Speaker 1: want to think again. And if you didn't hear the

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Speaker 1: full thing, it'll be up on the podcast. We wanted

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Speaker 1: to share with you what the experience has been like

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Speaker 1: for people in Nashville and surrounding communities in western North

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Speaker 1: Carolina eastern Tennessee. And Mark Starling, who was the host

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Speaker 1: that was on with us in the opening segment of

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Speaker 1: this hour from five to seventy AMWWNC. But you've talked

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Speaker 1: about this a lot. Radio uniquely connects with the audience

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Speaker 1: there are lots of different medias. There are lots of

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Speaker 1: different ways that people make connections, writing, TV, a variety

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Speaker 1: of different subjects, but radio at its core, really connects

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Speaker 1: with people. And I thought the stories that he was

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Speaker 1: sharing in a time of crisis here really connected with

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Speaker 1: you in all fifty.

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Speaker 2: States, and my family in Ashville at the height of

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Speaker 2: the storm and its destruction, or you know, in the

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Speaker 2: morning after it, they were listening on that station. Carrie

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Speaker 2: told me before Clay I even knew you were going

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Speaker 2: to Ashville, said, you've got to talk to these guys.

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Speaker 2: The iHeart team in Ashville has just been all hands

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Speaker 2: on deck, not just to get information out, but also

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Speaker 2: to coordinate response.

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Speaker 3: And rescue efforts. It's an amazing thing.

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Speaker 2: But yes, you can imagine for people who had the house,

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Speaker 2: you know, partially carved in by falling trees, surrounded by

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Speaker 2: lethal floodwaters on all sides, roads either washed away or

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Speaker 2: blocked by trees, to hear on on AM or FM radio,

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Speaker 2: we know you're out there, We're in your community. We're

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Speaker 2: coming for you. Hold tight.

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Speaker 3: Help is on the way.

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Speaker 2: I think of how meaningful that is, and it was

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Speaker 2: the only way to get people that message no doubt.

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Speaker 1: We want to continue to update you with everything going

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Speaker 1: on in the world of politics as well. I'm here

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Speaker 1: in Ashville. You heard, by the way, Heartswithands dot Org

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Speaker 1: is a great organization local that you can donate to

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Speaker 1: if you were moved by the stories that you heard

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Speaker 1: being shared by Mark Starling and many others who are

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Speaker 1: talking to us outside and around the scenes here as

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Speaker 1: I'm in Ashville. But I also wanted to not neglect

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the political realm right now. And

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Speaker 1: let's play this book. I don't know if you saw this.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned as we went to break just a second

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Speaker 1: ago that obviously this week was the one year anniversary

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Speaker 1: of October seventh, and to how do you pronounce his name?

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Speaker 1: By the way, I've read.

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Speaker 3: It for Tanahasei Coats.

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Speaker 1: Tanahasei Coats is a left wing icon who basically believes

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Speaker 1: that America is awful and that racist racist.

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Speaker 3: You got you in the word racist.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the book is really just every sentence is

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Speaker 2: about how racist, really actually white people are, but America

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Speaker 2: is more broadly as well racist racist, racist. And so

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Speaker 2: I heard this interview last night and I just thought

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Speaker 2: it was a perfect distillation of how awful many of

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Speaker 2: the people who argue that America is racist truly are.

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Speaker 2: And this was him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Can I just add, because I think this important, Clay,

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Speaker 2: the left also believes that Israel is racist, racist, racist,

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Speaker 2: So that's where the connection is. Okay, we've already done

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Speaker 2: the trash America. It's all racist. All the white people

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Speaker 2: in America are racist. Israel, the left also believes racist.

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Speaker 2: And all the Israelis who first of all not I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're not even all white.

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Speaker 3: There's a whole other conversation, but they're all racist.

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Speaker 1: This is what many kids on college campuses are being taught,

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Speaker 1: which is why I want to play this for you.

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Speaker 1: And this is why maybe is next month is Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: and you've got grandson or granddaughter sitting at the table

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Speaker 1: and they're going to say, oh, Israel, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: not a safe actor here. They deserve some of what

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Speaker 1: happened to them. This is the kind of arguments they're

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Speaker 1: hearing on campus. I want you to hear it. This

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Speaker 1: was a discussion about why this guy coach would have

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Speaker 1: potentially been one of the terrorists as well. Listen to

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Speaker 1: his rationale. This is cut one.

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Speaker 6: Well, I twenty years old, born into Gaza, which is

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Speaker 6: a giant open air jail. And what I mean by

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Speaker 6: that is, if my father is a fisherman and he

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Speaker 6: goes too far allen to the see I just shot

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Speaker 6: by somebody off of you know, side of Israeli botes.

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Speaker 6: If my mother picks the olive trees and she gets

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Speaker 6: too close to the wall, she might be shot. If

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Speaker 6: my little sister has you know, cancer and she needs

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Speaker 6: treatment because there are no you know, facilities to do

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Speaker 6: that in Gaza, and I don't get the right permits,

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Speaker 6: she might die. And I grow up under that oppression

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Speaker 6: and that poverty and the wall comes down. Am I

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Speaker 6: also strong enough? But even constructed in such a way,

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Speaker 6: Why I say this is too far?

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I am buck. If you ever think, hey,

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Speaker 1: maybe I should kill somebody because of their race, their ethnicity,

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Speaker 1: or their religion, newsflash, you are not the good guy.

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Speaker 1: But that's what many of these people believe.

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Speaker 2: Well this all Also, I don't think we've we've addressed

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Speaker 2: play the the reason that this is getting uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: so much attention. You you just played the most recent

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Speaker 2: appearance by by mister Coates on this on this issue.

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Speaker 2: He was on the CBS Morning Show pushing his new book,

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Speaker 2: which I believe only a portion of deals with this,

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Speaker 2: only a portion of it deals with Israel Palestine. But

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Speaker 2: his position is very explicitly Israel is an apartheid state.

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Speaker 2: It is evil along the lines of South Africa or

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Speaker 2: even Nazi Germany, which is obviously very offensive to.

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Speaker 3: The Jewish people.

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Speaker 2: And the one of the anchors who I had never

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Speaker 2: heard of before, Tony something that is I forget his

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Speaker 2: last name, but Ducoppel da Kappel. He just basically said,

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Speaker 2: why did you leave out in your explanation of the

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Speaker 2: Palestinian plight? Why did you leave And I say, Tony, actually,

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Speaker 2: you know has done his research.

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Speaker 3: He's like, why'd you leave out the Second Intifada?

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Speaker 2: Why did you not talk about the fact that there

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Speaker 2: was an effort in what was otherwise peacetime, a long

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Speaker 2: and sustained effort to send as many Palestinian suicide bombers

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Speaker 2: into civilian areas as pos to kill people who are

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Speaker 2: at birthday parties, the old, the young, women, and children,

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Speaker 2: to pay the families of the suicide bombers, the Shahid

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Speaker 2: the martyrs in perpetuity, to hold up those families as

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Speaker 2: the great heroes of the Palestinian people. Not scientists, not athletes,

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Speaker 2: not businessmen, suicide bombers. The greatest heroes of the Palestinian

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Speaker 2: people in the early two thousands, the suicide bombers and

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Speaker 2: their families.

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Speaker 3: Why no talk of any of that?

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Speaker 2: And Clay, The thing about Tanahassikots is he's an icon

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Speaker 2: of the left. He is the most celebrated black author

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Speaker 2: of his generation. And so the rules at CBS are

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Speaker 2: you are not allowed to ask him questions. You are

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Speaker 2: allowed to clap and tell him how brilliant he is.

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Speaker 2: Those are the unspoken rules of the Democrat Party. Those

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Speaker 2: were broken by that anchor at CBS. They have now

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Speaker 2: brought in we're not making any of this up. Diversity educators,

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Speaker 2: struggle sessions, reports about how people are crying in these meetings.

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Speaker 2: How dare he ask him any questions? I mean, this

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Speaker 2: is this is why the Democrat Party, the left is

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Speaker 2: so broken.

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Speaker 3: It's a cult.

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Speaker 1: This is insane totally. And they also have now sent

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Speaker 1: out instructions at CBS saying that they're not to say

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Speaker 1: that Jerusalem is in Israel. I mean, I didn't believe

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Speaker 1: some of this stuff I had to go read it.

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Speaker 1: I saw the headlines CBS News is broken and this

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Speaker 1: we haven't spent a ton of time talking about it,

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Speaker 1: but the way they edited the Kamala Harris sixty minutes

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Speaker 1: interview buck When Dan Rather got caught making up news

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Speaker 1: about George W. Bush, they fired him. They basically ended

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Speaker 1: his career when they failed about the National Guard and

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Speaker 1: all those stories. But really, to me, this is far

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Speaker 1: worse than that, because it goes to the very essence

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Speaker 1: of the organization itself and whether it can be trusted.

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Speaker 1: And so when you have people out there arguing Jewish

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Speaker 1: people are so bad that basically anything you do to

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Speaker 1: them can be justified, and then you simultaneously have people

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Speaker 1: like the guy who's fighting back against the Madison Square

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Speaker 1: Garden rally against Trump saying, oh, this is like Nazis

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Speaker 1: rallying in nineteen thirty seven and nineteen thirty nine, all

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Speaker 1: these other things. I just want to push back and say,

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Speaker 1: you realize the left in this country is the one

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Speaker 1: arguing that any violence against Jewish people can be justified

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Speaker 1: based on their history, which is the same argument that

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Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were making. Now it's a

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Speaker 1: left wing in the United States argument.

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Speaker 2: I want to also point out that there's a fundamental

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Speaker 2: rejection of principle that the Allies the pro Palestinian pro

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Speaker 2: Hamas and by the way, people will they will bristle

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Speaker 2: when you say they're pro Hamas. Hamas is the government

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Speaker 2: of Gaza, the elected government of Gaza. So I don't

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Speaker 2: know in what universe there if there was, And credit

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Speaker 2: to Doug Murray for slamming this point home a few times.

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Speaker 2: If there was an election in the West Bank, Hamas

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Speaker 2: would win tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So Hamas are the chosen representatives of the Palestinian people

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Speaker 2: by the Palestinian people. At this point, there's nothing else

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Speaker 2: that we could point to or even talk about. And

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Speaker 2: they explicitly endorse the murder of as many Jews as

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Speaker 2: they can.

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Speaker 3: And then those same people who are saying.

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Speaker 2: Look at Israel, Israel overreacts or Israel is going too far,

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Speaker 2: Israel's violating crimes of you know, they're saying they're committing

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Speaker 2: war crimes, have nothing to say about Palestinians. Never, I mean,

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Speaker 2: on October seventh, and I don't know what else you

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Speaker 2: could How could it be more.

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Speaker 3: Evil than that?

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Speaker 2: But This is the way that Hamas has been fighting

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Speaker 2: all along. They just want to go and murder Jews

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Speaker 2: and then say that they are a resistance organization. They're

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Speaker 2: not a resistance organization that wants to negotiate. They just

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Speaker 2: exist in this world where the more Jews that they

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Speaker 2: can kill, the better. That is their only real mission.

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Speaker 2: They've e miserated the Palace Indian people. They're absolutely corrupt

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Speaker 2: and God bless Netnyahu and the idea for hunting them

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Speaker 2: down and killing as many of them as he possibly

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Speaker 2: can who are involved in October seventh. That is just

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Speaker 2: that has warfare conducted the way that it should be.

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Speaker 2: And the fact that the Democrat Party has all this

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Speaker 2: confusion on this issue, Clay, what kind of lack of

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Speaker 2: moral clarity is possible where you could have on October

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Speaker 2: seventh Democrats, Kamala voters, let's be honest about it, marching

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Speaker 2: in support of Hamas and Palestine or the Palestinians.

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Speaker 1: It's truly delusional and that is the base of the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Party right now, which is why Kamala Harris didn't

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Speaker 1: pick I think you could die it in directly with

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Speaker 1: the presidential election in a few weeks why Josh Shapiro

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Speaker 1: is not the pick because people like Coats on the

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Speaker 1: left in the Democrat Party would have lost their minds

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Speaker 1: if they picked the Jewish guy after October seventh.

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Speaker 2: I think that's also a critical point, Clay, because if

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Speaker 2: they lose this election, and they lose it because of Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: it is the Democrat coddling of anti Semites that may

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Speaker 2: have cost in the election. I will say poetic justice

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Speaker 2: in that poetical it was very karmically.

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Speaker 1: Just if that ends up happening, I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you we're just talking about what happened at Israel on

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Speaker 1: October seventh. The impact of what happened with the United

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Speaker 1: States on nine to eleven continues. And think the Lord

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Speaker 1: that we have tunnel the towers out there to help

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Speaker 1: everybody with who is still fighting the battles of terror

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Speaker 1: and beyond. William Gilbert enlisted in the US Army to

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Speaker 1: become part of something much bigger than himself. He loved

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Speaker 1: the sense of brotherhood. During his career, he was honored

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Speaker 1: with a Good Conduct Medal, a non Article five NATO Medal,

878
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Speaker 1: a Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star medal. While on

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Speaker 1: Patrol one day, a soldier from william squad stepped on

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Speaker 1: an ied. As William and others tried to help, another

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Speaker 1: ied detonated, resulting in the tragic death of William and

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Speaker 1: two of his fellow soldiers. William left behind his pregnant wife,

883
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Speaker 1: Monica and their children. These are the stories you never

884
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Speaker 1: year about. The Tunnel of the Towers Foundation provided William's

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Speaker 1: family with a mortgage free home, although he was never

886
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Speaker 1: able to meet his youngest daughter, she is the epitome

887
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Speaker 1: of everything he was. Honor heroes like United States Army

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Speaker 1: specialist E four William Joseph Gilbert join us in donating

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Speaker 1: eleven dollars a month to Tunnel the Towers at T

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Speaker 1: two t dot org. That's t the number two t

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Speaker 1: dot org.

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Speaker 3: What is Trump film like? These days?

893
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 2: We've been talking a lot about the Kamala campaign, scrambling

894
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: trying to come up with some message of masculinity that.

895
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Speaker 3: Will resonate, you know, because when when you think.

896
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Speaker 2: Of the Democrat Party these days, which is very supportive

897
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Speaker 2: as remember this, the Democrat Party requires for you to

898
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Speaker 2: be in good standing, requires you to believe that you

899
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Speaker 2: know an eighteen year old high school student guy who

900
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Speaker 2: said he's a girl should be able to just get

901
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: out there on like the women's lacrosse field and lay

902
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 2: out all those chicks and just you know, that's it.

903
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 2: You know, that is a mandatory belief, and they wonder

904
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Speaker 2: why we're like not really on board with the whole

905
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: masculinity thing for Democrats. So that is a component of

906
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Speaker 2: all of this. But on the Trump side of things,

907
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 2: I gotta say he's kind of strutting his stuff, feeling

908
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: pretty good about himself right now. I think I think

909
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 2: the Trumpster feels the call of destiny right now, and

910
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: he's doing his thing. I mean, you compare Trump out

911
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 2: on the stump just doing effectively live one man show

912
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Speaker 2: for an hour here, two hours there, versus the Kamala

913
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Speaker 2: superscripted sit down with people who are in the tank

914
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Speaker 2: for her, and she still cannot manage to string together

915
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Speaker 2: a few sentences to convince anybody she's good at much

916
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Speaker 2: of anything.

917
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 3: But this was a moment.

918
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 2: Trump was in Detroit yesterday and he said to Detroit audience, Look,

919
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Speaker 2: if the Democrats w I Kamlo wins this one, the

920
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Speaker 2: whole country's.

921
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Speaker 3: Going to start to feel like Detroit does right now.

922
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Speaker 3: Play it.

923
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Speaker 5: I don't think anything that we're talking about today is

924
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Speaker 5: high on our list. I mean, the whole country is

925
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Speaker 5: going to be like you want to know the truth,

926
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Speaker 5: It'll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up

927
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Speaker 5: being like Detroit. If she's your president, you're gonna have

928
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Speaker 5: a mess on your hands. She destroyed San Francisco, she destroyed,

929
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Speaker 5: along with Newscombe, California, and.

930
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Speaker 4: We're not going to let her do that to this country.

931
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Speaker 4: We're not going to let it happen.

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Speaker 2: Clay, I mean, it's quite a move to tell people

933
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Speaker 2: in Detroit that Kalma's going to make the rest of

934
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Speaker 2: the country as dysfunctional as unfortunately the city itself of

935
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Speaker 2: Detroit has been for a long time. But I do

936
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Speaker 2: think the message that Democrats, when they have total control,

937
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Speaker 2: as they do in these cities, they make a mess

938
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Speaker 2: of things.

939
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Speaker 3: It's very true. It's very true.

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Speaker 1: I know Detroit pretty well because my wife is from there.

941
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Speaker 1: It became the worst city in America, and it started

942
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Speaker 1: to come back. But you know how it started to

943
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Speaker 1: come back because they've embraced more aspects of capitalism and

944
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Speaker 1: the fact that Detroit got so incredibly affordable for a

945
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Speaker 1: lot of different people out there, and then I think

946
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Speaker 1: there are other individuals that deserve a lot of credit.

947
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Speaker 1: They brought the wings back to downtown Detroit, the Red Wings,

948
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Speaker 1: that is, they've got the Detroit Lions, the Detroit Tigers,

949
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Speaker 1: all of the Pistons, all of those teams now play

950
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Speaker 1: right downtown and they've slowly developed many of the streets

951
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Speaker 1: and brought them back to where there's some form of safety.

952
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Speaker 1: But ultimately, what Trump is talking about is the degradation

953
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Speaker 1: of the American marketplace. My father in law is a

954
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Speaker 1: lifelong Detroit resident. He was one of the first people

955
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Speaker 1: I met who I knew was super smart, super plugged in.

956
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Speaker 1: And he told me early in twenty sixteen, I'm voting

957
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Speaker 1: for Trump. And I said, oh, that's interesting. Is what

958
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Speaker 1: is driving that? And he said, he's right. We don't

959
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Speaker 1: make things anymore. And that is the thing that matter

960
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Speaker 1: the most to my father in law, who is an engineer,

961
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Speaker 1: is American manufacturing has all been outsourced. There aren't the

962
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Speaker 1: jobs that they used to be. Detroit was an economic

963
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Speaker 1: miracle for the forties, the fifties into the early nineteen

964
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Speaker 1: sixties before you started to have the riots and everything

965
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Speaker 1: fell apart and everybody flooded into areas that are still really,

966
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Speaker 1: really nice, like Oakland County, but Dwayne County itself in

967
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Speaker 1: the Detroit area has struggled massively, and a big part

968
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Speaker 1: of that is because many of the best jobs that

969
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Speaker 1: people moved to the Detroit area to get in manufacturing

970
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Speaker 1: don't exist there anymore. And there's a lot of people

971
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Speaker 1: that have been struggling as those blue collar jobs have

972
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Speaker 1: abandoned the city. And Frankly, Buck, I think a lot

973
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Speaker 1: of people in Detroit not at along because they saw

974
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Speaker 1: what happened in Detroit as emblematic of what was happening

975
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Speaker 1: all over many parts of the country. And I think

976
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Speaker 1: it's why Trump's going to win the Midwest because he

977
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Speaker 1: recognized this early. It was a huge part of his

978
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen campaign. We've got to make things in America,

979
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: and all of you out there who lived through twenty

980
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: twenty in the supply chain crisis, much of that was

981
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: because we don't manufacture things on shore anymore and we

982
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: were having to get caught with all of the issues offshore.

983
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: I've never heard anybody answer, well, when Russia invaded Ukraine,

984
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: all of American commerce kind of wagged their finger at

985
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: Russia and said, oh, we're not going to do business

986
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: with you anymore. McDonald's isn't there. You name it. If

987
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: China invaded Taiwan, we have no ability to do to

988
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 1: China what we did to Russia, and I think China

989
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 1: knows it. But so much of our product is now

990
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: sourced in China. We could say that to Russia and

991
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: look like social justice warriors because now they have something

992
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: else other than McDonald's. But we couldn't do that to China.

993
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: And that's what we got to bring back so many,

994
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: so much more of our manufacturing and have it rooted

995
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Speaker 1: in some way. I was yesterday Buck you started talking about.

996
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: Yesterday was XX Day, which we talked about Women's Sports

997
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: Day and the fact that there. I think many of Democrats'

998
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: policies are hemorrhaging, none more than men can be women's champions.

999
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: And if a man says he's a woman, you have

1000
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Speaker 1: to believe it. I was talking with a guy at

1001
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: Marsha Blackburn's rally in Jackson, Tennessee, and he was talking

1002
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: about the impact of a car factory coming to West

1003
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: Tennessee and how many jobs it was going to bring

1004
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: and how much it matters to just have in many

1005
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: of these communities the ability for somebody not to have

1006
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: to flee and go to a big city and be

1007
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: able to get a high paying job in the United States.

1008
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's the essence of Trump's campaign.

1009
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 2: I think that if Trump just stays on message from

1010
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 2: now until the election, there is a very good chance

1011
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 2: that not only I think he becomes president, but he

1012
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: may even surprise us with one or two states that

1013
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 2: are thought to be somewhat outside the reach of the Republicans.

1014
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: Right now, I think that it's there's a real chance

1015
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 2: here to do a little bit of running up the scoreboard.

1016
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 2: That's how much more on point Trump currently is.

1017
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 3: And again I keep.

1018
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 2: This is within the two percent of the elect or

1019
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 2: whatever the number is right now, that isn't done. I'm

1020
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 2: in for Trump, I'm in for Kamala, right, I'm talking

1021
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 2: about in that last that's what all these think about

1022
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 2: the billions of dollars being spent, billions of dollars being

1023
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 2: spent to convince it's probably more like one percent of

1024
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 2: the population. But you know, but let's say two percent,

1025
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 2: just to be in the safe side. Two percent of

1026
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 2: the voting population to make one choice or another, and

1027
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 2: so you know, look, Trump is out there also with

1028
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 2: his economic message. Trump promised that he would put this

1029
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 2: is cut nine, that he would put tariffs on imported

1030
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 2: cars if that's what it takes to help.

1031
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 3: The American auto industry. Listen to this plainte.

1032
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 5: China is currently building gigantic auto plants in Mexico, and

1033
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 5: they think that they're going to sell all of these

1034
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 5: cars into the United States, which would destroy Michigan, totally

1035
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 5: destroy your state. But it's not going to happen, not

1036
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 5: going to happen, not even close. They might as well

1037
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 5: stop building the damn plants.

1038
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Speaker 4: I will impose.

1039
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 5: Whatever tariffs are required per one thousand percent. They're not

1040
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 5: going to sell any cars into the United States with

1041
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 5: those plants.

1042
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 2: Now, the terriff issue, I know, even on the right,

1043
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 2: there's some back and forth.

1044
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 3: Not everyone agrees with tariff. I do think it's interesting.

1045
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 2: The Biden campaign, I'm sorry, whoops, the Kamala campaign has

1046
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 2: wanted to hit Trump on tariffs, but it has started

1047
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 2: to emerge more. Yeah, except that Biden kept Trump's tariffs

1048
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 2: on China in place. So how can you be in

1049
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 2: charge and go along with the guy before you and

1050
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: not undo what he did and then say what he

1051
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 2: did is bad.

1052
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.

1053
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Speaker 1: I'll also point out, Buck, this is Trump was making

1054
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: this argument when they tried to claim that he was

1055
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: saying that there would be a bloodbath if he lost. Remember,

1056
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: all he was saying was the American auto industry, if

1057
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: China were allowed to subvert our economic interests by bringing

1058
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: in low cost automobiles, would actually drastically impact the automobile

1059
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: industry to such an extent that it would be an

1060
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: economic blood bath. And they tried to turn it into oh,

1061
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: he's going to murder everybody if he doesn't win. It's

1062
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: just emblematic of the dishonesty that is involved there. Okay, Buck,

1063
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Speaker 1: I want to tell you guess what happened. Ten to

1064
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Speaker 1: one hit last night. I had some positive news. I

1065
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1067
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Speaker 1: We had the Thursday night football game between the forty

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1073
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1074
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Speaker 1: we've been on a little bit of a role. Two

1075
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Speaker 1: ten to one's in the last three weeks. If you

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Speaker 1: Five dollars pick, you get back fifty dollars and we

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Speaker 1: just want to ten to one special two of the

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Speaker 2: Can I say I've been writing Clay's coattails here to

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Speaker 2: financial glory on some of these bets.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not my second ten to one, so Clay,

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Speaker 2: you got to keep this going.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to have two. Let's try to make it three.

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