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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, and welcome at everybody to the second

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Speaker 1: hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about borders here for a moment.

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Speaker 1: We could start with our own border, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: discuss what's going on far far away, a border that's

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention, certainly the media and all

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Speaker 1: over the world right now, at least the Western world

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Speaker 1: and its media. I want to start with ours though,

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Speaker 1: because while the Biden regime is very focused in on

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Speaker 1: the situation in Ukraine, and you're going to see a

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Speaker 1: lot more talk about what's happening there, and there could

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Speaker 1: be an invasion any day by Russia. What will the

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Speaker 1: scope and scale of that invasion be. Who knows. We're

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Speaker 1: still trying to figure all this out. But just so

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Speaker 1: you know, about our own border, southern border, the first

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Speaker 1: three months of fiscal year twenty two, there have been

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Speaker 1: over half a million encounters the southern border. That means

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Speaker 1: essentially they've had either an are to make of someone

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Speaker 1: crossing illegally or it got away someone coming into the

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Speaker 1: country they know is illegal. And then who makes a

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Speaker 1: run for it that is more than double the first

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Speaker 1: three months of fiscal year twenty twenty one and the

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Speaker 1: same period of time. CBP released its December border numbers

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight thousand, eight hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: encounters in December, so getting close to two hundred k

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Speaker 1: for the month. That is an increase over November. It

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Speaker 1: is definitely a lot higher than the seventy three thousand

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Speaker 1: encounters in December of twenty twenty. So in December last

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Speaker 1: month we had data from the Customs and Border Patrol

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight thousand encounters. Our border is

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Speaker 1: basically open. So let's just talk about that for a

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Speaker 1: second here, because there's there's no interest from the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Party in doing anything about this other than keeping it going.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they actually think that this is of benefit

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Speaker 1: to them. So now let's I just wanted to put

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Speaker 1: that's now going to be spent across the apparatus of

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Speaker 1: our government and the media industrial complex for Ukraine, which

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Speaker 1: for those who like these bits of trivia, actually means

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Speaker 1: border lands in Slavic in a Slavic language, that's where

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Speaker 1: the name comes from. Ukraine has been on the borderland

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Speaker 1: of what is the Russian Empire or the Russian Federation

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Speaker 1: now for a very long time. It's been thought of

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Speaker 1: that way. The very name itself means border essentially and clay.

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Speaker 1: Now we're being told that we have to be ready

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Speaker 1: for a major crisis. Why are these crises happening under

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration? Here is the Deputy National Security Advisor saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, man, it's just the fact that it's all

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Speaker 1: happening when Biden's it off. It's all a coincidence. I

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Speaker 1: know there's a lot of temptation to connect these issues

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Speaker 1: because these events are taking place simultaneously. The North Korea

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Speaker 1: challenge has been with us for quite some time, really

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Speaker 1: going back years, in actually decades. The United States has

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Speaker 1: been very clear that it considers North Korea's missile tests

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Speaker 1: to be provocative, to be a threat to peace and stability.

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Speaker 1: We have taken action with regard as senitions. Just in

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Speaker 1: recent days and weeks, we've taken action at the Security Council,

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Speaker 1: and we will continue to provide all manner of reassurance

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Speaker 1: to our Asian allies, in particular the South Koreans and

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Speaker 1: the Japanese with regard to these tests. But I don't

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Speaker 1: see these issues as connected in any way other than

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Speaker 1: they took place taking place around the same time. It's

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Speaker 1: just a coincidence play. You got Afghanistan debacle, China getting

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Speaker 1: more aggressive, North Korea getting aggressive, Russia making that's all

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Speaker 1: the coincidence under Biden. Yeah, they clearly don't have any

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Speaker 1: respect for Biden. And this is why even if you

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Speaker 1: pathetic n income poop, which is where he is right now,

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Speaker 1: because our adversaries will take advantage of his weakness. And

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Speaker 1: in addition to the loss of life which was indefensible

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Speaker 1: that happened in Afghanistan, the message that at sent was

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Speaker 1: our foreign policy is weak, ineffective, inconsistent, and there is

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Speaker 1: no reason to trust what the Americans say. And now

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Speaker 1: the same thing might be playing out in Ukraine, and

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Speaker 1: again it directly implicates what might happen in China as

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Speaker 1: It's as if many people have just stopped paying attention

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Speaker 1: buck the United States through Jensaki just said that they

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Speaker 1: believe a Ukraine invested and Ukraine overall attack is imminent. Okay,

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Speaker 1: an invasion is eminent. So the question that I have

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Speaker 1: responding to what Russia is doing in terms of they're

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Speaker 1: not leading this interaction in any way. What's Putin's time

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Speaker 1: frame here? Why is he got one hundred thousand troops mobilized?

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Speaker 1: What could he be waiting for? What is his go moment?

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Speaker 1: For lack of another phrase, Given the fact that the

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Speaker 1: basic models of what they think this is going to

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Speaker 1: analysts come with this from different perspectives, and we're going

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Speaker 1: established Russian protocol of what they call Maskarovka, which is

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Speaker 1: warfare by deception, essentially meaning oh, we're not invading, We're

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Speaker 1: just going to help provide security at this one location

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Speaker 1: where there's been a disturbance involving some Russian Russian national

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Speaker 1: I mean, and to anyone listening to this, you start

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Speaker 1: whole point is that it's pret that's right. It justifies

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Speaker 1: the it's it's pretextual. So the pretextural textual essentially invasion

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Speaker 1: by stealth, which they've already been doing. If you remember,

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Speaker 1: this is essentially an escalation of that which has already

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Speaker 1: been underway in Donbass. There is trench warfare going on

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Speaker 1: already seez Crimea with a referendum. Maybe they are going

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Speaker 1: of ast it requires in quotes on degree of military

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Speaker 1: some east region of eastern or northeastern Ukraine. That's one possibility.

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Speaker 1: The other is all out blitzkreeg. Get it done, you know,

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Speaker 1: saying that is also a possibility here. That would clearly

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Speaker 1: technically another country. They want that in Ukraine. They don't

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Speaker 1: And so it might be relatively short if they go

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Speaker 1: We know from Afghanistan, from rock from other places. You're

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Speaker 1: Russians aren't going to be able to handle that very

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Speaker 1: it is how sustained And also in the moment, is

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Speaker 1: much actual fighting would occur If Russia decides to invade Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: they may well get run over. But is this a

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Speaker 1: how does that change the calculus of what might take

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Speaker 1: But right now, most people seem to be people watching

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Speaker 1: the Ukrainians will fight, and they'll fight pretty hard in

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Speaker 1: in Russia understand that this could be when new Chechenia.

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Speaker 1: So they went into chechening in nineteen ninety nine, the

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Speaker 1: Russians did, and it got very nasty. Now, Czechnia was

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Speaker 1: a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. In fact that different times

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Speaker 1: keep in mind Chechnya as a tiny place with a

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Speaker 1: whole different ball game. I'll tell you what, Buck, It's

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Speaker 1: kind of nice when all we had to worry about

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Speaker 1: was mean tweets. I mean, for all of the we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about this more. We got a loaded show for you.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Alex Barnson a third hour. Gordon Chang

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Speaker 1: also hanging out with us. But remember when that was

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Speaker 1: all the focus. Every day, every morning Trump would send

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Speaker 1: they might have been trumped up in many ways, no

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Speaker 1: there to become hyper aware of what you're eating and

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Speaker 1: counting calories and exercising in an effort to get yourself

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Speaker 1: healthier because COVID is going to be an ever present threat.

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Speaker 1: But the best thing that you can do is not

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Speaker 1: socially distanced. It's not to wear a mask, it's to

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Speaker 1: get yourself into better physical shape so you are better

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Speaker 1: prepared to fight off illness, whether it's COVID or something else.

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Speaker 1: Imagine how much more healthy. The United States would be

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Speaker 1: right now, Buck if all of the time that we

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Speaker 1: have spent expending on vaccine mandates and on mask mandates

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Speaker 1: instead we had made an incredible effort to get people

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Speaker 1: to exercise. You're also seeing something. I mean, yes, all

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Speaker 1: of that, right, I mean allan it is. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be an eighty five year old with four comorbidities

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Speaker 1: But but I see what you're saying, and I agree.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there could have been a much bigger focus

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Speaker 1: on overall health all along here, especially when people have

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Speaker 1: all this time work from home, and no, no, they

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Speaker 1: shut down the gyms, or they make you wear a

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Speaker 1: mask in a gym, which is completely you couldn't even

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Speaker 1: go on a hike. But who I had friends who

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Speaker 1: were screamed at by people outdoors nowhere near them for

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Speaker 1: not wearing a mask outside. They were afraid that the virus,

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Speaker 1: like I heat seeking missile fired from a MiG fighter

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Speaker 1: jet or something was going to you know, gonna hit

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Speaker 1: them fifty feet away. People who jog in masks, I

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Speaker 1: mean outdoors, what are these people thinking? That was the

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Speaker 1: That was the norm in New York for a long time.

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Speaker 1: They're folks, These people are nuts. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: what you have to saying. You're not dealing with rationality anymore.

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Speaker 1: You're dealing with what is essentially a state enforced cult

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Speaker 1: with a massive Democrat Party media apparatus pushing this on everybody,

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Speaker 1: and it knows that if it stops pushing it, then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden there can be problems for their power.

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Speaker 1: So they don't know they've got the tiger by the tail,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, that they don't want this to end.

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Speaker 1: Jensaki was asked by Peter Doocey, Hi, five, Peter's good.

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Speaker 1: He can't hey, for all the good publicity, he's get

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Speaker 1: a last twenty four hours. He's a good guy, ask

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Speaker 1: good questions. You know. I both like Peter, but good

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Speaker 1: for him, man, because it's just you should be doing

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Speaker 1: backflips with all the craziness the lives are thrown at him.

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Speaker 1: Here's Jen Saki telling Peter Doocey that it's not parents

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Speaker 1: who should make decisions about children's health, it's public health officials.

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Speaker 1: On schools in Virginia, seven districts representing three and fifty

476
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Speaker 1: thousand students are suing the state. They're hoping to get

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Speaker 1: a strict masked mandate for students that has been rolled

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Speaker 1: back by the new governor reinstated. So who does the

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Speaker 1: president think knows best for students, school board members, or parents. Well,

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Speaker 1: the President believes that public health officials have the best

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Speaker 1: guidance on what we can all do to protect ourselves,

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Speaker 1: including teachers, administrators, and students. I mean, she's in an

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Speaker 1: indefensible position all the time, and so she says indefensible

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Speaker 1: things to defend what's indefensible. But Clay, what public health officials,

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Speaker 1: I mean, where are they on this one? Show us

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Speaker 1: the data? There isn't anything to support it. It's the

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Speaker 1: emperor that wears no clothes. And that's why, you know,

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Speaker 1: I went on Hannity on Friday and I've said it

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Speaker 1: on this show too. I'm not going to get my

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Speaker 1: kids a vaccine, and my kids are not going to

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Speaker 1: go to school and wear masks. And that's the kids

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Speaker 1: in my life, Like the kids and everybody out there

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Speaker 1: listening's lives, whether you're a parent or grandparent, that is

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Speaker 1: the most important thing you recognize in your life. But

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Speaker 1: what we trust parents to do is analyze risk for

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Speaker 1: their children. That's really probably the single most important job

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Speaker 1: of a parent, since your goal is to get your

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Speaker 1: kids into healthy adulthood. And the idea you heard Grand

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Speaker 1: Paul earlier on this show. I've got a kid turning

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Speaker 1: fourteen this week. It's going to be a ninth grader

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Speaker 1: next year. He's an eighth grader now, he's a teenager

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Speaker 1: going through puberty. Like the myocarditis risk to him buck

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Speaker 1: more substantial than the COVID risk to him. Based on

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Speaker 1: the data, He's probably already had COVID because I've had

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Speaker 1: it twice, my wife's had it. We haven't ever. He's

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Speaker 1: never had any symptoms, but it would totally make sense

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Speaker 1: that he would have had it too. He doesn't need

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Speaker 1: the vaccine, and most kids out there don't have any

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Speaker 1: need whatsoever for any kind of COVID vaccine or COVID shot,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. What you're seeing is

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Speaker 1: the tyranny of bureaucracy, where people are saying you have

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Speaker 1: to do something, not because they think you have to

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Speaker 1: do it, but because someone else who is never responsive

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Speaker 1: to you, never accountable to you, is telling someone else

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Speaker 1: to make you do something. This is why This never

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Speaker 1: gets fixed. This is why we're never able to shout

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Speaker 1: at these commie lunatics and get them to see the light.

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Speaker 1: But we're not going to stop. Look at the volatility

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Speaker 1: IRA accounts to. In a world of instability and rising inflation.

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Speaker 1: You want about to nan Clay Travis buck Sexton show.

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Speaker 1: We have got a positive story out there, Buck, So

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Speaker 1: you've about this. I've talked about this. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people who are sports fans and don't consume a place

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Speaker 1: like OutKick or pay attention to stories like these may

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Speaker 1: not even know this happens because ESPN basically hasn't covered

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Speaker 1: this story, nor have any of the other major sports outlets.

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Speaker 1: But you have a University of Pennsylvania men's swimmer who

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Speaker 1: for three years was on the men's team that decides

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Speaker 1: to become a woman, flips over and becomes a woman,

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Speaker 1: and now is potentially going to set in March all

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Speaker 1: time records for women. This is a biological man swimming

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Speaker 1: as a woman, and a lot of people have been

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Speaker 1: afraid to speak out and have any opinion about this,

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Speaker 1: even though virtually everyone who cares about sports at all,

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Speaker 1: best man or best women, best woman wins, and we

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Speaker 1: know that if women's sports were going head to head

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Speaker 1: against men's sports, men would win. Everything. Because men are bigger, stronger,

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Speaker 1: and faster than women. By the way, doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: some women are not bigger, stronger and faster than men.

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Speaker 1: Just means that the elite, high level athletic competition men

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Speaker 1: are always going to dominate women in every single athletic category. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is crazy because people have not been willing to

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Speaker 1: speak out because they're afraid of condemnation or being accused

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Speaker 1: of being anti transgender. And this is the power of

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Speaker 1: far left wing sports ideology that now suffuses all of

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Speaker 1: evident truths. Finally, we have got a men's swim team

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Speaker 1: coach who spoke out and said this is wrong. I

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Speaker 1: swim coach Seth Houston openly spoke out about this and

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Speaker 1: said in an interview with SwimSwam dot com, which is

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Speaker 1: a swimming website, he thinks, quote, it's black and white

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Speaker 1: right now, you compete as what you were biologically born

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Speaker 1: until we get to the point where we've expanded opportunities,

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Speaker 1: him for actually being willing to speak out. He said,

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Speaker 1: because the NC double A rules are are not adjusting.

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Speaker 1: The NC double A has proven once again that it's

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Speaker 1: not leading, it's not even following the NC double A governance.

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Speaker 1: Have become a bystander waiting for other organizations to make

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Speaker 1: of that. I'm completely okay with the opportunity to compete,

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Speaker 1: but I think title nine we have to give time

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Speaker 1: to accommodate, whether that's creating a third division, a transgender division,

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Speaker 1: or whatever. So those quotes, I mean, buck. It speaks

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Speaker 1: to how crazy the world we live in is that

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Speaker 1: this is the first coach that has been willing to

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Speaker 1: publicly say this is wrong because they're all so terrified

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Speaker 1: of being targeted. Ye, speaking the truth, the most obvious

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Speaker 1: truth is a revolutionary act these days. As the saying goes,

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Speaker 1: and it is just it just keeps getting more absurd,

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Speaker 1: And they're gonna keep pushing because they don't care, the

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Speaker 1: same way they keep pushing on other things. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to COVID, They're gonna keep pushing on the trans

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Speaker 1: agenda because it's about power. Friends, Brian in Upstate New

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Speaker 1: York been to Ukraine three times since twenty fourteen. Huh, Brian, Yes,

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Speaker 1: yes I have. What do you want to tell us

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Speaker 1: about it? Well, I want to tell you that while

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Speaker 1: the front lines. I've actually been the city of mad

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Speaker 1: Upo and the Farrokana and all of that war tourn area.

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Speaker 1: And I want to tell you that the Ukrainians what's

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Speaker 1: going on in Russia. Now, yes, it's escalation, but there

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Speaker 1: has been a wartime front. Um. The Ukrainians have been

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Speaker 1: fighting with the Russians on their eastern front for the

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Speaker 1: last eight years, um and and it's been a constant thing.

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Speaker 1: It's been a way of life for them. And I

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Speaker 1: heard you guys talking about, um, hey, you know, are

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Speaker 1: they gonna are they gonna really fight? Are they gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of back off if they all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden you get a massive encouragion whatever. Um. The

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian people are one of the most patriotic people I

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Speaker 1: have ever met. I wish every single American was as

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Speaker 1: patriotic as the Ukrainians. That I met in the three

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Speaker 1: you this that the Ukrainian people, Um, they fight to

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Speaker 1: because if you get captured by the Russians, they do terrible,

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Speaker 1: terrible things to you. If you if you are quote

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Speaker 1: unquote lucky enough to be let go and sent back

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Speaker 1: to your village, they make sure that you have been well.

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Speaker 1: I heard multiple testimonies of different men that actually got

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Speaker 1: away and we're like castrated. They do that. They literally

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Speaker 1: do that to people. If they even let you go before,

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Speaker 1: they tought you to death. So the Ukrainians are superpatriots.

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Speaker 1: They are have been fighting and they will fight to

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Speaker 1: the death. I just wanted to give a first hand

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Speaker 1: account of the Ukraines that I have known, and I

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Speaker 1: have Matt while I was there. Ran Thanks Brian, thanks

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Speaker 1: for thanks for calling in. And yeah, Russian atrocities in

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Speaker 1: Chechnya are well documented. Russian atrocities then Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: I've read extensively about that. They do not care about

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Speaker 1: the Geneva Convention that's putting good mid way. They do

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Speaker 1: awful things to captives. This war could get very bloody

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Speaker 1: if it does in fact start in the first place,

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Speaker 1: which we are still waiting to see what happens. Paul.

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Speaker 1: We got about a minute in Duluth, Minnesota. Paul, what

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Speaker 1: have you got for us? Yeah? You said earlier, you know,

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Speaker 1: Oh we lost him, Okay, Paul, he decided he was

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Speaker 1: he was done. Kelly and ogged in Utah. We got

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Speaker 1: less than a minute. Kelly, what have you got for us? Well,

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Speaker 1: real quick, I just want to preface this with a warning.

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Speaker 1: Rush gave us off, and don't try to think you're

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Speaker 1: But the hypocrisy, and I enjoy you guys talking about

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Speaker 1: it is the bullying is supposed to be reprehensible to

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Speaker 1: the Left to be a bully, but Obama and his

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Speaker 1: little brother Biden are big on bullying. And that's maybe

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Speaker 1: works in the US Senate. But Biden calling names to

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Speaker 1: that's bullying. And Obama with his I got a pen,

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Speaker 1: I got a cell phone. Thanks for calling in. We

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Speaker 1: got Alex Barns and joining us in a few stick around.

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