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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.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Third hour

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Speaker 2: of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

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Speaker 2: Courage does always go subscribe to the podcast. You can

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Speaker 2: search out my name, Clay Travis, you can search out

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Speaker 2: Buck Sexton's name. Buck is out on Good Friday, as

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Speaker 2: many of you likely are with your families beginning to

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Speaker 2: celebrate the Easter weekend. And I hope that many of

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Speaker 2: you out there have fabulous weekends planned and that you

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Speaker 2: are going to have a fantastic time with your family.

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Speaker 2: We've had a good time so far in the first

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Speaker 2: couple of hours. Buck. We'll be back on Monday. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back together. But I hope that he has a

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Speaker 2: fabulous job. One of the things he was going to

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Speaker 2: be doing. If you listen to the show yesterday, you

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Speaker 2: know that he was scheduled to be on an air

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Speaker 2: boat with his nephew, who is obsessed with dinosaurs and

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Speaker 2: wants to see alligators. Kind of jealous. Honestly, that sounds

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Speaker 2: pretty incredible. I've been on airboat rides a few times,

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Speaker 2: and if you've never done it before. It is a

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Speaker 2: super cool thing to do where you're riding around in

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Speaker 2: the swamps. I'm also jealous, I said earlier in the show,

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Speaker 2: my kids are out of school today, and my wife said, hey,

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Speaker 2: I'm taking the kids to go go kart and play

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Speaker 2: putt putt, So they are running around doing all sorts

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Speaker 2: of really fun things. Meanwhile, I'm hanging out with you.

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Speaker 2: A lot of you are working, a lot of you

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Speaker 2: are moving around. I'm always enjoy and then don't take

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Speaker 2: for granted the opportunity to get to talk with you

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Speaker 2: guys every day. And since it's Good Friday, I was

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Speaker 2: reading as I do and as Buck does. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we read basically everything all day long to get prepared

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Speaker 2: to talk with you about so many different topics every

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Speaker 2: single day. And I saw a thread discussing this on

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Speaker 2: social media. I think Elon Musk weighed in, but I

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Speaker 2: thought it was so interesting, particularly on Good Friday, a

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Speaker 2: day where we celebrate I think the innate goodness of

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Speaker 2: the Christian faith, and I think it actually ties in

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Speaker 2: very much with modern history in the United States. And

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Speaker 2: you guys know, I am a superhistory nerd. I went

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Speaker 2: and my wife still makes fun of me for it

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Speaker 2: in high school to Civil War sleep away camp on

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Speaker 2: scholarship to Gettysburg College where they have something called the

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Speaker 2: Civil War Institute, And that week the focal point was

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Speaker 2: the eighteen sixty four Shannandoah Valley campaign of jubil Early

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Speaker 2: you were like, oh, you just you love every little discussion.

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Speaker 2: I live near the Battle of Franklin Western Theater. I'm

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Speaker 2: obsessed with Civil War. But when I told my wife this,

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Speaker 2: she said, I can't believe that people would voluntarily have

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Speaker 2: been particularly upset by the notion that has really taken root.

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Speaker 2: I would say driven by much of the sixteen nineteen

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Speaker 2: of shame, that we all have much penance and retribution

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Speaker 2: that we should be paying on behalf of this nation's history.

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Speaker 2: And in particular, I find that to be completely wrong

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Speaker 2: was thinking about that as I got ready for today's show.

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Speaker 2: And I was thinking about not only what we did

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Speaker 2: particular about good versus evil, which is certainly a huge

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Speaker 2: I know all of you are, like me, trying to

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Speaker 2: be better every day than you actually are. Right, You're

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Speaker 2: And I was thinking about this in the context of

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Speaker 2: We had the ability to drop a bomb on anyone

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Speaker 2: In nineteen forty five, no country in the history of

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Speaker 2: have become a global dictatorship. The United States of America

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Speaker 2: had a power unparalleled in the history of modern civilization,

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Speaker 2: in the history of humanity. No one has ever had

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Speaker 2: generations of US dropping bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We

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Speaker 2: the idea of power leavened with generosity, the idea of

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Speaker 2: and I think it's the underpinning foundation of the country

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Speaker 2: that is being used to justify what could be in

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Speaker 2: the future. You may have heard us talking some yesterday

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Speaker 2: it after we had that conversation. Bucket myself. The bastardization

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Speaker 2: many awful aspects to it, but ultimately I see it

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Speaker 2: And I want to expand on this a little bit

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Speaker 2: more when I come back. But all of this, to me,

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Speaker 2: that far too often gives itself over to evil. Talk

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Speaker 2: about that more a little bit. But it is Easter,

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Speaker 2: and I've been telling you guys that I want you

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Speaker 2: to be able to preserve your family memories. Grandkids, kids,

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Speaker 2: little ones dressed up sometimes like bunnies, little Easter baskets,

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Speaker 2: gonna take photos for aably, going to take videos. You're

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Speaker 2: How many of you have preserved your VHS tapes, your

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Speaker 1: Com, slash Clay, Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton on the

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Speaker 1: front Lines of Truth. Welcome back in Clay Travis, buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton show. A lot of you reacting to the course

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Speaker 2: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us here on

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Speaker 2: Good Friday. I'm gonna take some of your calls as

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Speaker 2: read some of your VIP emails. I'm obviously fired up,

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Speaker 2: super History Nerd and the Good thing about history is

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Speaker 2: it helps you to see parallels, and it helps you

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Speaker 2: not reflective of what that history would would suggest, which

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Speaker 2: is I think again, you attack American history, you attack

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: They've convinced huge segments of the United States youth that

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Speaker 2: our country is not worthy of respect or praise. And

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Speaker 2: once they do that, it allows them to destroy the

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Speaker 2: institutions that under gird the entirety of the American political process.

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Speaker 2: Mark in Colorado wanted to react, Mark, thanks for listening.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, that was one of the most fantastic presentations

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Speaker 4: that I've ever heard. That was something like what Rush

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Speaker 4: Limbaugh would have said. You do credit to him for

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Speaker 4: the way you presented that, and I would hope that

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Speaker 4: your team will put this together in a YouTube video

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Speaker 4: What you said was so fantastic. The thing I would

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Speaker 4: add is that when America and I believe this time

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Speaker 4: will come. If we turn our backs on Israel, that

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Speaker 4: will be our final demise because Israel is God's chosen people.

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Speaker 4: Out of the miss takes they've made, the things they've

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Speaker 4: but Israel is God's people. We have got to support

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Speaker 4: to you that John F. Kennedy was shot from the

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Speaker 4: we could talk about that another day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the call, Mark, This is one I love.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the range there, Mark's like, man, that

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Speaker 2: Did anybody expect that he was going to go to

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Speaker 2: to stand by Israel. Everybody's nodding along. They're like, man,

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Speaker 2: and Mark's making a lot of good points here in Colorado,

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Speaker 2: That's why I love talking to you guys. By the way,

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Speaker 2: And that's also what Hillsdale is doing. Hillsdale is working

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Speaker 2: That is Clayanbuck for Hillsdale dot com. Welcome back in

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Speaker 2: Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're going to close up

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Speaker 2: Appreciate him joining us. And you've got a brand new

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Speaker 2: thank you for that. It's called Twilight's Last gleaming Kin

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Speaker 2: America Be Saved, and it's based on a speech for

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Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan delivered many years ago. He made an interesting

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Speaker 2: out with a question, not a declaration. Do you still

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Speaker 2: Good hearted people are going to have to fight every

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Speaker 2: then I'm afraid the communists are going to win the day.

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Speaker 2: We just talked about the history of this country, and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Todd you have seen this happen too. I

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Speaker 2: moral decrepitude. How much do you think the struggle that

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Speaker 5: I think that is the number one issue, and I

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Speaker 5: write about this in Twilight's Last Gleaming. This radicalization of

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because as much as we focus on Trump

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Speaker 2: The battle that they're facing now in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 5: So we're facing an inflection point. And there was a

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Speaker 5: endorsing the God Blessed USA Bible, which by the way,

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Speaker 5: so that it was not something that Trump created. But

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Speaker 5: I contend that the bigger issue was not the Bible.

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Speaker 5: They had problems with what Trump was telling people in

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Speaker 5: understood that the fight against the Communism, against the Communists

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a fight, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: But we've got to be willing to stand up and

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Speaker 2: No doubt. And as you look forward. Obviously, it's a

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Speaker 5: That's an interesting point, and I think that's true for

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Speaker 5: I think people are just hungry for a change in

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Speaker 2: Tell us one more time about the book and how

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Speaker 5: Sure, well, I appreciate that it's Twilight's last gleaming. Can

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Speaker 5: I'm happy to sign a copy over on our website

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Speaker 2: Todd, keep up the good work. Have a great Easter

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Speaker 2: with you and your family, and we appreciate you making

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Speaker 5: God bless happy Easter guys. No doubt we'll take some

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Speaker 2: You can switch to the cell phone company. My family

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Speaker 6: Whatenty four, a weekly podcast from Clay and Buck covering

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Speaker 6: all things Election. Episodes drop Sundays at noon Eastern. Find

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We appreciate

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Speaker 2: all of you hang out with us every single day,

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Speaker 2: including Good Friday, when a lot of people are not

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Speaker 2: working and are out and about with their families. Buck

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Speaker 2: will be back with me on Monday. He's out and

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Speaker 2: about with his family today. And I encourage you as always,

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Speaker 2: if you're gonna be traveling around maybe for the Easter holiday,

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Speaker 2: and you just want to listen to some of our

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Speaker 2: program you can go download the podcast. It'll take you say,

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Speaker 2: you can take it with you anywhere. Search out my

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Speaker 2: name Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton. You will be

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Speaker 2: ready to roll. I hope you guys are going to

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Speaker 2: be enjoying a lot of the Sweet sixteen basket games

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Speaker 2: tonight as well as Major League Baseball coming back, and

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Speaker 2: then celebrating the Easter Holiday with your family and friends

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Speaker 2: as you roll into the weekend. Going to take some

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Speaker 2: of your calls here and then also going to read

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Speaker 2: some of your VIP emails. Appreciate the staff that is

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Speaker 2: in today as well on a day that is for

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Speaker 2: many people out there, a holiday. Patricia in Dayton, Ohio,

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Speaker 2: thanks for listening what you got for us.

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Speaker 7: I just want to tell you how much I appreciated

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Speaker 7: your touching description of your love of history, and in

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Speaker 7: doing so, I would like to invite you and your

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Speaker 7: family and also Bucking his family and anybody else to

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Speaker 7: the National Museum of the United States Air Force, which

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Speaker 7: is located just off the Air Force base right Patterson.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to have an ID card to get

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Speaker 7: on it, but it's the National Museum, and you would

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Speaker 7: see every single airplane almost that was ever built. And

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Speaker 7: you'll need at least four or five days there to traverse.

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Speaker 7: And I think play that your teenagers would love this.

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Speaker 7: They're not getting any kind of military history or, as

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Speaker 7: you've pointed out, any kind of history about our ancestors

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Speaker 7: and what courage they exhibited, and you just should. Really,

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Speaker 7: we just invite you to come to I Love to

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Speaker 7: Kyle National Museum of the United States Air Force.

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Speaker 2: I will come. Thank you for the call. I will

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Speaker 2: come there at some point, I promise, thank you for

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Speaker 2: the call. Patricia. I've never been. I've driven through date

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Speaker 2: and a ton because my wife is from Michigan, and

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Speaker 2: I've made that drive from Nashville to the Detroit area

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Speaker 2: an awful lot over the years and gone right through.

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Speaker 2: I would love to go one of my favorite stories again,

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Speaker 2: history nerding out. One of my favorite stories of the

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Speaker 2: World War II is the one hundred and first Airborne guys,

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Speaker 2: the people who jumped out and liberated France on D Day,

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Speaker 2: And if you want to see it. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I know everybody doesn't read, and this is a challenge

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Speaker 2: that I deal with in my own family. My second kid,

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Speaker 2: getting him to read anything is almost impossible. There's the

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Speaker 2: Band of Brothers movie, right, I would encourage you to

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Speaker 2: go read the books, but the Band of Brothers television

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Speaker 2: series on HBO. When those guys are jumping out the

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Speaker 2: paratroopers behind the German line to try to provide cover

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Speaker 2: for all of the troops that are going to arrive

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Speaker 2: on June sixth and nineteen forty four for D Day,

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Speaker 2: they're jumping out into halls of bullet the planes are

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Speaker 2: going down. Here before all of that happened and all

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Speaker 2: that training occurred, here's here's something that I read that

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Speaker 2: I just I can't get past. All of those guys

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Speaker 2: in thee hundred and first Airborne, none of them had

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Speaker 2: ever been in an airplane, according to the book, the

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Speaker 2: first time these are all farm kids. Remember it's nineteen

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Speaker 2: forty one, nineteen forty two. The first time every one

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Speaker 2: of those kids went up in an airplane, they jumped

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Speaker 2: out of it. If you can remember the first time

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Speaker 2: that you ever went on an airplane, think about if

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Speaker 2: you would had to jump out of it. Those dudes

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Speaker 2: were a different breed. Just think about that for a minute.

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Speaker 2: You were probably a little bit nervous, a little bit

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Speaker 2: scared first time you ever got on an airplane. By

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Speaker 2: the way, a lot of people of that generation never

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Speaker 2: got on an airplane. My dad told me the other day.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it. My grandma and grandpa never got

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Speaker 2: on an airplane in their entire life, never got on one.

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Speaker 2: So I try not to take it for granted. I

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Speaker 2: fly on airplanes nowadays, like a lot of you do

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Speaker 2: all over the place. It's pretty incredible. But imagine the

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Speaker 2: first time you ever got on an airplane, if you

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Speaker 2: jumped out of it. I don't want to jump out

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Speaker 2: of an airplane now. I won't do it. People are like, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know you sure you don't want to go skydive.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to do it now. The first time

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Speaker 2: those guys ever got on an airplane, they jumped out

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Speaker 2: of it. I don't want to jump out of an

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Speaker 2: airplane on a sunny day. I'm a total wuss. I

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Speaker 2: don't like heights. They jumped out while getting shot at.

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Speaker 2: I mean, in the dark, with tons of weight on

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Speaker 2: their I mean, it is just kids today, and I

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Speaker 2: shouldn't even just say kids. It's really our entire nation

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Speaker 2: is so undereducated about our history that you can be

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Speaker 2: manipulated by getting a tiny subset of it. Right. That's

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Speaker 2: what's so discuss to me about the whole sixteen nineteen project. Oh,

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Speaker 2: we're going to eliminate July fourth and its significance, and

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Speaker 2: we're going to focus entirely on slavery and argue that

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Speaker 2: the United States, because of its foundation based on slavery

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Speaker 2: under that idea, has only done ill throughout history. You know,

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Speaker 2: a lot of white people died to end slavery in

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Speaker 2: the Civil War, just fyi. A lot of white people

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Speaker 2: died in black people trying to liberate Europe. Just fyi.

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Speaker 2: This idea, it just really is insulting to me. This

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Speaker 2: idea of defining America based only on sins is really

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Speaker 2: the antithesis of everything that Christianity represents. Whether you're white,

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Speaker 2: Black Christian, I mean white, Black, Asian, Hispanic, whatever your

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Speaker 2: background is, the entire basis of Christianity is you're never

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Speaker 2: defined by the worst thing that you did. You can

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Speaker 2: always achieve redemption. Because if everybody is defined by only

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Speaker 2: the worst thing that we've done, then the history of

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Speaker 2: humanity is a tale of woe, regret, disaster, and failure.

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Speaker 2: What the entire purpose of Christianity defines is everyone is

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Speaker 2: capable of redemption. Even people who have committed incredible sins

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Speaker 2: are capable of being redeemed. That's an innately uplifting story.

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Speaker 2: It allows you and me and everybody out there to

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Speaker 2: not be defined by failure by moments when you did

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Speaker 2: not rise to what you had hoped to achieve. Everything

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Speaker 2: about the negative side of American history, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying it shouldn't be taught. I think it's important to

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Speaker 2: understand that everybody is flawed, and everybody has struggles, and

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Speaker 2: everybody is not just. Every thing you do is not

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Speaker 2: going to lead his success. You're going to get knocked down.

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Speaker 2: It's ton But when you only focus on the knockdowns,

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Speaker 2: unless you're a heavyweight boxer and the goal is to

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Speaker 2: knock somebody down, then you're focusing on futility. And when

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Speaker 2: you focus on futility, it makes people weak and they

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Speaker 2: don't have the toughness to get back up when they're

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Speaker 2: knocked down. So I just think it's so important. Susan

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Speaker 2: and Florida. A couple more of you went away in Susan,

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Speaker 2: what you got for us?

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: When I saw the sixteen nineteen project, I had a

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Speaker 3: viscole reaction because when we censor our history by disguising

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Speaker 3: our scars, we belittled the struggles our ancestors fought so

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Speaker 3: hard to overcome. I don't think Americans should be cowering

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Speaker 3: behind its previous quote mistakes, as so many wish. Instead,

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Speaker 3: I think it should courageously move forward, knowing it's true,

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Speaker 3: straight all the guts in the glory, and seeing it

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Speaker 3: as a reminder of where we have been and where

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Speaker 3: we should go in the days ahead, and where we

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Speaker 3: should never go again.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. I think that's right, Susan.

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Speaker 2: I think it's well said. Sylvia says, I agree with

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Speaker 2: the last caller. You've got to have a monologue on

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Speaker 2: all places. You guys are great. Oh so nice, Sylvia.

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Speaker 2: I listened to Rush for twenty five plus years. Keep

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Speaker 2: up the great work. We need more like you and

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Speaker 2: buck Well. Our wives may disagree on a day to

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Speaker 2: day basis, but I hope for three hours every day

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Speaker 2: you guys think we do a pretty good job. We

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Speaker 2: do enjoy very much the opportunity to hang out with

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Speaker 2: all of you every single day. Kevin and Bucks County, PA.

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Speaker 2: What you got for us?

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Speaker 8: Hey, Klay, I heard your discussion about World War Two

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Speaker 8: of the power of US. Here's a trivia question related

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Speaker 8: to that. It came up with June nineteen forty four,

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Speaker 8: US are a model of five hundred and thirty five ship.

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Speaker 8: One hundred and twenty eight thousand troops are headed in

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Speaker 8: harm's weight. Where are they headed? And the answer is.

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Speaker 9: Same month as D Day. But these troops are headed

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Speaker 9: to the Mariannors. And it just shows on opposite sides

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Speaker 9: of the world. In one month, the same month as

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Speaker 9: D Day, we have a lot of that size heading

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Speaker 9: to battle Japan.

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Speaker 8: This amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the call again. If you take nothing

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Speaker 2: else from today, First of all, I hope all of

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Speaker 2: you have fabulous Easter weekends, and we appreciate all of

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Speaker 2: you listening every single day, but I would endeavor and

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Speaker 2: challenge all of you to learn more American history, not

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Speaker 2: only for yourselves, but because so many people that you

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Speaker 2: have the ability to interact with on a daily basis

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Speaker 2: also need to learn more American history because we cannot

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Speaker 2: aspire to greatness, in my opinion, without understanding the greatness

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Speaker 2: that we've all had together.

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