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Speaker 1: But my administration is doing everything in its power to

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Speaker 9: There's a mister President. There is a depth of root

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Those really beautiful I'm glad, we I'm glad. I asked

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Speaker 9: Spoke the morning immediately. You and I talked the very

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Speaker 10: First of all, mister President, First Lady. A long time ago,

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Speaker 10: So the people in along this river are not standing

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Speaker 2: All the debris that has.

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Speaker 10: So from the bottom of my heart on behalf of

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Dandy, great yeb appreciate it. Do

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Speaker 1: the press going to be respectful of this event, this

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Speaker 2: Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: This was, I guess Christy said a one in five

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Speaker 2: There's just admiration.

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Speaker 1: The only a bad person would ask a question like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who you are, but only a very

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Speaker 1: this has been heroism. This has been incredible, really, the

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Speaker 2: Brian, go ahead, please, President.

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Speaker 1: Unfolding, probably Christie, but I was notified by a lot

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Speaker 1: So Chip and but Christy called right away.

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Speaker 2: She was there. I looked, I looked the next morning,

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Speaker 6: So I just want to say as.

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Speaker 12: I told you that the other day, but I want

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Speaker 2: Today, thank you for your response. This is Texas strong.

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Speaker 6: Thank you on behalf of Texas as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Well, that's that's a nice reporter.

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Speaker 13: So what is your message? And maybe Governor Abott as

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll start off by just saying, you know, they've

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Speaker 1: Our nation a year ago was dead and it was

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Speaker 1: done a great job. This state has been unbelievable. I

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Speaker 2: We just we get it done.

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Speaker 1: We've had some pretty big problems here with the floods

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Speaker 1: they spend their money wisely. You know, we give them

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Speaker 5: Sure, you know, one thing that you pointed out that

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Speaker 2: We're going to.

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Speaker 5: Rebuild not just Kurrville or Hunt or Kirk County, but

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Speaker 3: We're going to come.

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Speaker 5: Together and fight together and ensure that we elevate even better,

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Speaker 5: As we rebuild, we got to constantly comfort the families

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, good mister President.

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Speaker 12: Over, all way for Ship he's my representative, all way for.

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Speaker 14: Him, Mister President, If I can just jump in and

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Speaker 14: which has raised over thirty million dollars from the great

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Speaker 14: people of this state and from around the country, and

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Speaker 14: they sent checks out today of five million dollars to

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Speaker 14: people in this community to help them with cash for people,

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Speaker 14: for small businesses, first responders, and all the people that

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Speaker 14: need help to reunite and the final point, I'll just say,

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Speaker 14: for all of the media clamoring to ask that ridiculous

446
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Speaker 14: first question and try to point fingers, the governor said

447
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Speaker 14: it best when he said that pointing fingers is for losers.

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Speaker 14: This state is about looking forward, and we'll figure out

449
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Speaker 14: how to make our systems the best they can be.

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Speaker 14: But importantly, when you see twenty six feet of water

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Speaker 14: rising a foot per minute, don't go around pointing fingers.

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Speaker 14: The people in this community rallied around to help people,

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Speaker 14: and that's the enduring image. There's little goals from Camp

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Speaker 14: Mystic who were singing hems as they watched the damage

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Speaker 14: as they left that camp coming out of there, and

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Speaker 14: that's who the people of Texas are. And I thank you,

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Speaker 14: mister President.

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Speaker 1: Thank you verymmers. You know two words, unity and competence.

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Speaker 1: If you were to ask me two words that I've

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Speaker 1: seen here.

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Speaker 2: One is unity. The unity has been unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: And then the competence, the competence of the Coastguard and

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Speaker 1: some of the people within the Post Guard that saved

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Speaker 1: a lot of lives. They went out and they saved

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Speaker 1: a lot of lives. But there were others other than

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Speaker 1: the Coastguard. But I would say competence and unity. The

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Speaker 1: way everyone has just pulled together. It's rare that you

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Speaker 1: see this.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: I've been to so many and I've seen bickering and fighting,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just it doesn't work the same way.

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Speaker 1: This has been amazing. This is and this is the

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Speaker 1: biggest because I've never seen one like this. Neither is

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Speaker 1: anybody else. By the way, yes, please.

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Speaker 12: It's still packed, mister President's been a while since we've

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Speaker 12: seen each other. Obviously, the staffing was where it needed

477
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Speaker 12: to be. In fact, it was heavier that it should

478
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Speaker 12: have been because of the holiday weekend. Whatever they're saying

479
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Speaker 12: in the left news isn't the truth. You're a developer, though,

480
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Speaker 12: at one o'clock in the morning, the technology only goes

481
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Speaker 12: as far as it goes. Kids don't have their phones,

482
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Speaker 12: phones are dead. People by the riverside don't have electricity.

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Speaker 12: They're not going to get a phone alert that way.

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Speaker 12: As a developer going forward, knowing that everything was done

485
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Speaker 12: lightning fast by secretary known by you, by the governor

486
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Speaker 12: and everybody else, you did everything right. What do we

487
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Speaker 12: do next time?

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Speaker 5: Though?

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Speaker 12: To make sure that people are alerted if they're dead asleep.

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Speaker 12: Maybe an alarm system, maybe a siren system. You might

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Speaker 12: know better than I. But what do we do going forward,

492
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Speaker 12: because we've got to make sure that people get the

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Speaker 12: alert when it's time to get the alert.

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Speaker 2: Thank Yeah, you'll probably have to do that.

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Speaker 1: You'll probably come up with something very unique, because there

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Speaker 1: is no system right now.

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Speaker 2: There's been no this is a thing like this has

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Speaker 2: never happened.

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Speaker 1: That anybody knows, certainly, not to this extent. But I

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Speaker 1: know the governor and everybody is working on at the

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Speaker 1: meeting and they'll figure something out.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, so we begin a session in ten days.

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Speaker 5: We will address every single question that you just ask.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned some of the ideas, there are many more

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Speaker 5: and we want to hear. Most importantly, we have to

506
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Speaker 5: devise a response this right for this community, and this

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Speaker 5: community has to weigh in and they need time to

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Speaker 5: be able to convey that to us.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna work on alerts.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna work on every single solution to make sure

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Speaker 5: things like this don't happen again, not just in this community,

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Speaker 5: but in other river basins across the state also.

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Speaker 6: So we will work to get it right.

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Speaker 5: And we've jotted down, Joe, every idea that you just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz, go ahead, pleased it.

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Speaker 15: Well, mister President, I want to say thank you for

517
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Speaker 15: being here. First, lady, thank you for being here where

518
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Speaker 15: we are right now. The Hill Country is a very

519
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Speaker 15: special part of the state. It is universally considered the

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Speaker 15: most beautiful part of the state. You've got rolling hills,

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Speaker 15: You've got these incredible, peaceful, wonderful rivers, the Guadalupe River.

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Speaker 3: Just about all of us have been swimming in that river,

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Speaker 3: floating in that river.

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Speaker 15: And one of the things that's really special about Kirk

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Speaker 15: County is there forty summer camps here. This is a

526
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Speaker 15: place where all across Texas our kids go. The governor's

527
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 15: daughter came every year to camp here. Both of you

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Speaker 15: know our girls really well. Heidi, the week before this

529
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Speaker 15: flood was here in Hunt picking up our daughter Catherine

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Speaker 15: from camp. And Camp Mystic that faced such devastating loss

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Speaker 15: is an institution in this state. It's one hundred years old,

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Speaker 15: was founded in nineteen twenty six. And I'll tell you,

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Speaker 15: in Texas, it's not just here that the herd has felt.

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Speaker 3: It's every part of the state.

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Speaker 15: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, West Texas, East Texas Texans

536
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Speaker 15: have gone. And what's amazing is you see at the

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Speaker 15: closing ceremonies of these camps. You see multiple generations. You'll

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Speaker 15: see grandmothers and moms and little girls who have all

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Speaker 15: gone to the same camp. And the pain that the

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Speaker 15: state is feeling. And on Monday, I went and walked

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Speaker 15: through Camp Mystic. In the center of the camp is

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Speaker 15: a cabin called the bubble In where the littlest girls

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Speaker 15: were staying. And in front of the bubble in are

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Speaker 15: right now seventeen small white crosses in the ground, and

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Speaker 15: each cross has the name of another little girl who

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Speaker 15: lost her life. The final cross has the name of

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Speaker 15: Dick Eastlin, the camp director who gave his life trying.

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Speaker 3: To save his girls.

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Speaker 15: And the water rose in that camp, and in that

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Speaker 15: cabin eight feet high. You can see the water line

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Speaker 15: eight feet high. It blew the windows out of the

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Speaker 15: cabin and it swept those girls out. I will tell

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Speaker 15: you I've never seen anything more horrible in my life.

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Speaker 15: And I just sat there crying. I saw mom and

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Speaker 15: Dad come up to one of those crosses, drop to

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Speaker 15: their knees and kiss that cross, and.

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Speaker 3: The mom was weeping.

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Speaker 15: I also want to tell you, and you said this,

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Speaker 15: You talked about unity. The way this community, the way

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Speaker 15: the state is coming together, is incredible.

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Speaker 3: There are stories of heroism.

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Speaker 15: I met a mom and dad who had a fourteen

563
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Speaker 15: year old boy at Camp Lahunta, a boy's camp. Their

564
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Speaker 15: fourteen year old son was awakened at three in the morning.

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Speaker 15: The water was rising. The counselor said, let's go save

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Speaker 15: the little boys. And they went down to the seven, eight,

567
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Speaker 15: nine year old boys and pulled them out of their

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Speaker 15: camps through the crashing water.

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Speaker 3: And this mom and dad were crying.

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Speaker 15: Now their son survived, And I said, look, your son

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Speaker 15: will always have this trauma. You will always have this trauma.

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Speaker 15: But at the same time, your son will always know

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Speaker 15: when he was fourteen years old that there are little

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Speaker 15: boys and one day there are men who are alive

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Speaker 15: because he had the courage as a fourteen year old

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Speaker 15: to risk his life to save them. And so we

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Speaker 15: are grateful you're here. And I will say something Chip

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Speaker 15: referenced is very true.

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Speaker 3: There's a video.

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Speaker 15: Of a school bus full of campers from Mystic after

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Speaker 15: this crisis, riding past the devastation and they are singing

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Speaker 15: Christian hymns.

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Speaker 3: And I promise you.

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Speaker 15: There's not a person here who can watch that video

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Speaker 15: and not weep tears of sorrow but also tears of joy.

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Speaker 3: So we are grateful for the.

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Speaker 15: Response, Governor, the first responders, everyone who's come together, and

588
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Speaker 15: to all the moms and dads, just know we love you.

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Speaker 15: The agony my street at home, every house has a

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Speaker 15: green ribbon around it for the girls at Mystic and

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Speaker 15: that's true in a lot of streets all throughout Texas.

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Speaker 3: And we will come through this one way or the other.

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Speaker 15: I'll tell you the Hunt Store right now sign says

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Speaker 15: Hunt Store, except today it doesn't. It says Hunt Strong.

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Speaker 15: They redid the sign. That's the spirit of who we are.

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Speaker 2: Thank you ed very much.

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Speaker 10: Well, yes, please, I want to respond just to something

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Speaker 10: that Joe Pag said and the Governor, the Speaker and

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Speaker 10: I announced yesterday that we will begin our hearings in

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Speaker 10: two weeks, but in three weeks we're going to have

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Speaker 10: a hearing in this room so that the residents and

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Speaker 10: the people in this area don't have to come to Austin.

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Speaker 10: We're going to come to them and we'll stay here

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Speaker 10: as long as it takes to hear their stories and

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Speaker 10: their needs and their wants. So we're going to be

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Speaker 10: here in three weeks in this room.

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Speaker 2: Very good.

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Speaker 1: Well, I just want to thank everybody for coming together

609
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Speaker 1: and the word unity again. But I just want to

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Speaker 1: thank you very much and we'll be helping you from Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. Like no other president would do. Nobody else,

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Speaker 1: nobody else would do it, nobody else would would be

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Speaker 1: even get back to you. You know, you're fully funded,

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Speaker 1: as you know, and Christy I would say they were

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Speaker 1: fully funded within minutes of hearing about this. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the state of Texas number one, they do it right

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Speaker 1: and they've done it right for a long time, and it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, a very special place to me.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you that.

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Speaker 1: Politically, I don't want to say politics, but politically it's

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Speaker 1: been a very special place to me. Our great Secretary

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Speaker 1: of Agriculture, who you've done such a great job, Brook Rowlance.

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Speaker 1: You come from Texas, and I just want to thank you.

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Speaker 1: She even got because of eggs right down. You know,

625
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Speaker 1: they hit me with that one, and she got them

626
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: down so quickly. Nobody knew what by easter. Everybody who's

627
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: having eggs at a lower price than they eve thought possible.

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Speaker 2: But you've done a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: But it's just been a special it's been a very

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Speaker 1: special state to me, and it's my honor and we.

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Speaker 2: Will continue to work together.

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Speaker 1: And well, it's a bad situation and you can never say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a bigger, better, stronger, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just so many lives have been lost, you can't

635
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Speaker 1: say that. But we're going to make it. We're going

636
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Speaker 1: to make it back. We're going to make it back,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to make it good again. And everybody

638
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Speaker 1: wants to do it. And I just want to thank

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Speaker 1: you and I want to congratulate you. You guys have

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Speaker 1: been unbelievable. Thank you for your your words before it

641
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. The job you've done, Kim, everybody, every single

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Speaker 1: one of you. So you should be very proud and

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Speaker 1: we're very proud of you. Thank you all very much

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Speaker 1: for doing such a good job. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 16: Okay, say where you are?

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Speaker 17: And that was President Trump with a live look in

647
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Speaker 17: Texas surveying the damage there in the devastation area. And

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Speaker 17: speaking of this topic, Mike, We've got Mike Chrispy here

649
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 17: and Bo Davidson here. We're at a turning points live

650
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 17: sas summit is hurricane damage and disaster relief. It's a

651
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Speaker 17: topic that's on everyone's mind right now. We have two

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Speaker 17: gentlemen with a Scott and John of XTI Aerospace that

653
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Speaker 17: have a potential.

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Speaker 3: Solution to this problem.

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Speaker 17: So Scott, I want to just open it up with

656
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Speaker 17: you and talk about XDI Aerospace and what you could

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Speaker 17: do differently from what we're seeing right now on the

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Speaker 17: television screen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks bo.

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Speaker 18: So at XDI Aerospace, we are developing an aircraft currently

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Speaker 18: that takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter, flies

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Speaker 18: horizontally like an airplane, so it has all the safety

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Speaker 18: and stability and capabilities that fixed wane bring. So when

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Speaker 18: you think about things like disaster relief and having no

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Speaker 18: availability of infrastructure like a runway, like some a road

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Speaker 18: of some kind, we can go point to point and

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Speaker 18: utility in times of disaster relief that we have never

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Speaker 18: been able to solve that problem historically. Then we've had

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Speaker 18: to wait to get you know, trucks in and you know,

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Speaker 18: other infrastructure laid so that we could we could really

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Speaker 18: provide solutions to the victims.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 19: And I want to ask you guys, President Trump He's

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Speaker 19: talked about unlocking American innovation, and he passed a recent

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Speaker 19: executive order that you know, affects your industry and I

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Speaker 19: think will affect American people. Talk a little about that

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Speaker 19: and how it affects the folks at home watching with

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Speaker 19: the recent executive order by President Trump.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, let's just look at what's happening in drone technology

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Speaker 20: over the last you know, four or five six years.

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Speaker 20: We're seeing it from logistics to surveying to military applications.

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Speaker 20: It completely transformed the war in Ukraine. Now imagine taking

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Speaker 20: that technology and this is where this is where the

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Speaker 20: future is heading. So we have small drones and becoming

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Speaker 20: a center of excellence because right now it's in China.

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Speaker 6: It needs to come over here to the.

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Speaker 20: US, US innovation, US jobs, US technology. But then take

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Speaker 20: those platforms and they're going to get bigger and bigger

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Speaker 20: and bigger, up to the size of the Tryfan that

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Speaker 20: Scott was talking about. Imagine an autonomous vehicle that's twelve

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Speaker 20: thousand pounds and so across this spectrum for both commercial

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Speaker 20: and military uses. Is absolutely this transformation that's happening in

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Speaker 20: aviation and it's going to be in place in five

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Speaker 20: to ten years.

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Speaker 17: John, you mentioned the vertical economy. That's a phraseology I

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Speaker 17: had never heard before. You mentioned that drone technology has

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Speaker 17: to go into carved out space for drones, whereas your

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Speaker 17: technology and your planes can go into current aerospace. Explain

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Speaker 17: that and why that's important.

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Speaker 20: Well, thing about it right now. You know people are

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Speaker 20: familiar with the air taxis, the EVE tools. If I'm

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Speaker 20: going to take one of those off and land in

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Speaker 20: LA or Tampa or Miami, I have to go build

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Speaker 20: a vertiport. I have to go build infrastructure, which we're

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Speaker 20: talking billions of dollars. And imagine who wants to charge

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Speaker 20: an equivalent of a text labatity on the top of

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Speaker 20: a roof.

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Speaker 6: Probably no insurance company. Ever.

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Speaker 20: We can actually go in right now and use all

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Speaker 20: I've been a pilot for thirty years.

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Speaker 6: I could take this airplane.

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Speaker 20: I could land it anywhere, any airport, any backfield without

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Speaker 20: building one dollar in infrastructure.

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Speaker 6: So it's ready to use the data it comes out.

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Speaker 19: I want to ask you, guys, we've seen over the

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Speaker 19: last number of months a lot of attention on the

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Speaker 19: FAA on air travel difficulties for Americans trying to get

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Speaker 19: to small and more rural towns and more rural airports,

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Speaker 19: connecting flights not happening anymore, cancelations. What can you guys

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Speaker 19: do to connect these smaller communities? And where do you

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Speaker 19: think the future of airspace is traveling? So we can

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Speaker 19: reverse those troubling trends that were set forth by the

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Speaker 19: Biden regime and you know boota j edge.

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Speaker 2: And all that.

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Speaker 19: How do we fix all that? And how can you

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Speaker 19: guys play a part in that?

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Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, it's our ability to connect these smaller

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Speaker 18: communities with you know, with a solution that's point to

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Speaker 18: point provides a solution for the congestion that we're seeing

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Speaker 18: in the airports, the air traffic controls. We hear a

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Speaker 18: lot about it. This aircraft is a solution, a specific

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Speaker 18: solution for that. Your large carriers will tell you that

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Speaker 18: one of their major problems is getting in and out

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Speaker 18: of these major city airports, either from the air traffic

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Speaker 18: system or from the just sheer congestion of the aircraft

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Speaker 18: on the ground. Our ability to move people away from

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Speaker 18: those centers of congestion are a real help and will

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Speaker 18: be of real help to alleviate that pain.

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Speaker 17: Point Scott, We know that in I'm sorry to say.

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Speaker 6: Imagine this. I know you've worked campaigns.

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Speaker 20: Imagine you flew directly into cedar rapids Iowa, and then

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Speaker 20: it's hours and hours to get to Waterloo. But imagine

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Speaker 20: if you could take off and land in the fairgrounds

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Speaker 20: and Waterloo and then the fairgrounds in Des Moines.

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Speaker 6: You could probably add two or three extra.

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Speaker 20: Campaign events a day when the machine like this that

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Speaker 20: could fly around the whole state with probably aren't even refueling.

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Speaker 19: Amazing.

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Speaker 17: Scott, you mentioned we talk about disaster relief because we

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Speaker 17: just saw this press conference from the President. We're in

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Speaker 17: a disaster area now, even in Tampa, Florida, a lot

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Speaker 17: of hurricanes come through. Have you had any conversations with

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Speaker 17: this administration? We've heard such bad things about FEMA when

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Speaker 17: we think about the Carolinas in years past. Have you

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Speaker 17: had any conversations with the administration or what FEMA or

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Speaker 17: other agencies could do to use your technology and how

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Speaker 17: soon could we see it help.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, it's a great question, bo when certainly it's an

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Speaker 18: area of focus for us. Our conversations I would I

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Speaker 18: would characterize are at the NASCON stage, but we really

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Speaker 18: want to have further deeper conversations with the administration because

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Speaker 18: we think this aircraft is a utility that has multi

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Speaker 18: potential uses, whether it's disaster relief, whether it's moving people,

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Speaker 18: whether it's alleviating congestion, any of these things. You know,

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Speaker 18: FEMA and its issues. You know, we think we've got

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Speaker 18: a good solution and we'd love to have further conversation.

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Speaker 19: And you guys are now listed on the stock market.

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Speaker 19: Talk a little bit about the way that you guys

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Speaker 19: have grown as a company financially, where you're at, how

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Speaker 19: that's looking, and where it's headed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 18: Great, So we were we're public company. We ended up

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Speaker 18: public in March of twenty twenty four, so we rely

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Speaker 18: on the investors right now. We're pre revenue, so we're

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Speaker 18: in that development phase, but we do have almost three

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Speaker 18: hundred pre orders, so we're sitting with over three billion

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Speaker 18: dollars of orders on the aircraft. As soon as we

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Speaker 18: can get it built. I can tell you a lot

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Speaker 18: of our customers are just just ecstatic about the aircraft

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Speaker 18: and can't wait to see it come to market. We

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Speaker 18: are moving as quickly as we can. We expect to

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Speaker 18: fly the demonstrator aircraft within the next two years and

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Speaker 18: then move from there through certification into entry into service.

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Speaker 18: So our objective is to get this aircraft in the

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Speaker 18: hands of its potential users as fast as we possibly can.

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Speaker 17: John, what kind of customers do you think that you'll

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Speaker 17: have and what kind of price point will it be?

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Speaker 17: Will it be an affordable solution for people to go

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Speaker 17: from point to point as Mike talked about in Iowa

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Speaker 17: for instance, for a campaign event.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, actually compared to it actually equivalent not only helicopters,

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Speaker 20: but let's say fixed wing airplane.

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Speaker 6: It's in the same ballpark.

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Speaker 20: It's called eleven to thirteen million, and that range for

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Speaker 20: a brand new one. There's going to be leasing options,

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Speaker 20: but right now we're looking at, you know, from high

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Speaker 20: net worth people, corporate travel departments. We talked about airlines,

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Speaker 20: life flight. I had a life flight a few years ago.

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Speaker 20: This probably would have changed my outcome. I could have

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Speaker 20: gone to Denver instead of a small hospital in Montana. So,

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Speaker 20: and I honestly believe Scott and I talked about this

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Speaker 20: quite a bit. Because this is so versatile. Some of

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Speaker 20: the use cases that are going to probably be the

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Speaker 20: most popular and transformational.

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Speaker 6: I don't think we've even thought up of yet.

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Speaker 17: Well, Scott John, We thank you so much. XDI Aerospace

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Speaker 17: is the company. We hope that you'll check them out.

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Speaker 17: They're doing some wonderful, wonderful things in revolutionizing aerospace. Thank you, gentlemen,

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Speaker 17: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 6: Thanks guys, we're talking with you wonderful group.

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Speaker 10: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 12: And welcome back.

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Speaker 21: We are live in Tampa, Florida for Turning Points Student

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Speaker 21: Action Summit. It is day one and I'll tell you

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Speaker 21: what it is. A phenomenal day already packed with great speakers.

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Speaker 21: Of course, I'm Michelle Backus, joined by Bo Davidson, Mike Chrispy,

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Speaker 21: and the great Ben Berkwam as well.

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Speaker 9: Guys.

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Speaker 21: Sixty five hundred people are expected to be at this

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Speaker 21: event this weekend. It's really exciting to see you're seeing

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Speaker 21: younger kids, you're also seeing older kids. Really, this is

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Speaker 21: an event for everyone.

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Speaker 22: You know.

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Speaker 19: It really is amazing because we are almost at the

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Speaker 19: one year anniversary from Butler, Pennsylvania, when that assassin almost

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Speaker 19: took the life of President Trump got spared his life

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Speaker 19: so we could save the country. And to think where

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Speaker 19: we've been from that point a year ago to today,

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Speaker 19: with thousands of patriots young and old and everything in

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Speaker 19: between here today celebrating that and the momentum that has

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Speaker 19: risen from that day to now into the next three

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Speaker 19: and a half years. It's a very special energy, guys.

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Speaker 17: Mike, and you know, I think Michael Knowles is on

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Speaker 17: stage right now. We've got Ben Carson coming up, We've

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Speaker 17: got Donald Trump, Junior, Pete Hegseth, Benny Johnson, Megan Kelly,

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Speaker 17: Tucker Carlson and Ben BERKWAHM. I got to bring this

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Speaker 17: to you because I know you're a father. I'm a

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Speaker 17: dad too of a seventeen month old kid.

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Speaker 6: Are you encouraged?

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Speaker 17: You've done a lot of these, Ben, You've done a

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Speaker 17: lot of turning points, and you've seen how the organization works.

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Speaker 17: I know Charlie started to back up leaving about twenty twelve.

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Speaker 17: Are you encouraged by what you see each year with

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Speaker 17: the engagement of young people, especially knowing that your father.

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Speaker 23: Yeah, this is to me, this is the future of

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Speaker 23: our country. And my biggest fear are actually what the

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Speaker 23: left is producing. So you look at where we're at

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Speaker 23: now politically, you look at how dark the left is now, Well,

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Speaker 23: this is a prelude to what's coming on the left.

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Speaker 23: This is what they're being taught. They are communists, jihadis,

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Speaker 23: they hate God, they hate life. All of these things

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Speaker 23: the foundations of this nation. And that's what we're up against.

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Speaker 23: And so to me, it's events like this, it's Turning Point.

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Speaker 23: It's raising up and cultivating and discipling this next generation.

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Speaker 23: That's that's gonna determine what this nation is in twenty years.

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Speaker 23: And and it's it's nothing that there's no other better

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Speaker 23: organization that's doing anything near what Turning Point's doing for

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Speaker 23: this next generation.

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Speaker 19: The leftists don't have events like this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, gender each other, harmonic party. I mean, that's

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Speaker 6: really what it is.

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Speaker 23: I mean, they're their events like this are burning down cities.

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Speaker 23: They're out there in la you know, rioting. That's the difference.

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Speaker 23: They don't have things where they actually come together and

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Speaker 23: uplift and talk about what they can do to be

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Speaker 23: right now. They do have conventions, they do have, but

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Speaker 23: it's behind closed doors, so you and I in the

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Speaker 23: world don't know about it.

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Speaker 6: That's that's what.

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Speaker 2: We're up against.

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Speaker 23: And this what's refreshing to me is like the kid

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Speaker 23: from Berkeley, the loudest interview I did this morning was

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Speaker 23: the Turning point Chapter President from Berkeley, who's in the

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Speaker 23: Lion's den every single day and is standing up whether

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Speaker 23: he stands alone, these guys are. They're warriors we need

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Speaker 23: and we need to cultivate that and develop more.

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Speaker 6: Of that well.

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Speaker 21: And to that point, that's what's so special about these events.

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Speaker 6: It's a community.

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Speaker 21: You have kids like in UC Berkeley, for instance, you

881
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Speaker 21: think you're alone, you come here and realize there are

882
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Speaker 21: more in the view than you think. You aren't out numbered.

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Speaker 21: And that's why this is so important. Let's head out

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Speaker 21: to the stage right now. I believe you have Michael

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Speaker 21: Knowles out there, and let's see what he has to say.

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Speaker 3: Will go down as.

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Speaker 24: The biggest blown opportunity in American history, or if we

888
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Speaker 24: will be known by our posterity, if we have posterity

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Speaker 24: as marking the improbable and magnificent beginning of a new

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Speaker 24: Golden Age. Thank you very much, thanks, thank you, thanks

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Speaker 24: very much.

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Speaker 2: That's right, thank you.

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Speaker 24: Come on, get out of here, stop it, get out

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Speaker 24: of here.

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 24: I think, do you know my friends here at TPOSA,

897
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 24: They've given me a clock. They say that I'm going

898
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Speaker 24: to get the hook if I go on any more

899
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Speaker 24: than five minutes and thirty two seconds longer, I'll stop it.

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Speaker 24: Come on, all right, maybe I'll just recite poetry.

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Speaker 3: No, I want to hear from you. Can we do?

902
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Speaker 24: We have a little bit of time for a Q

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Speaker 24: and A. Can we do a little bit? Do we

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Speaker 24: have the microphones?

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Speaker 3: All right? I love you.

906
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Speaker 24: Know they always say before these things, they say, if

907
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Speaker 24: you disagree with me, cut to the front of the line.

908
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Speaker 3: I'm a TPUSA. Now one person here disagrees with me.

909
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Speaker 3: I love it. I love that.

910
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Speaker 24: Okay, there's a microphone. Time is running out for our

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Speaker 24: country for this speaking slot.

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Speaker 3: So who's up first?

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00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 25: Hellop, Hi huge friend, Michael, watch your show every day.

914
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Speaker 25: I wanted to ask why so many Catholics are liberal.

915
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 25: I'm Catholic, I have Catholic friends. I try to be

916
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Speaker 25: a traditional as possible. It's difficult for me to get

917
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Speaker 25: to the nearest TLM, so I usual the Norvisorto. But

918
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Speaker 25: because I'm from Miami, many my friends and family are

919
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Speaker 25: Hispanic and bite default culturally Catholic. Yeah, I wanted to

920
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Speaker 25: know your perspective. How could some of my friends have

921
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 25: drawn incorrect conclusions and basically become libs?

922
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 24: I blame Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Really no, I'm joking,

923
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Speaker 24: and it was a problem before them.

924
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Speaker 3: I blame them for a lot, but.

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Speaker 24: Not that it's because Catholicism is a sticky identity. It's

926
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Speaker 24: because it's something that you have for your whole life,

927
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Speaker 24: and it's not based on necessarily conscious choice.

928
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Speaker 3: But it comes.

929
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Speaker 24: In the Great Christian tradition with often with infant baptism,

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Speaker 24: and it's a familial thing and so because of that,

931
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Speaker 24: sometimes people they keep the appearance but they don't.

932
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Speaker 3: Have the substance of it.

933
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Speaker 24: This is why the mainline Protestant church is emptied out

934
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 24: now they're all priestesses and transvestites and things. It's why

935
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Speaker 24: because people then often chose the Evangelical.

936
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Speaker 3: Churches, which was more of a choice.

937
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Speaker 24: So you had a firmer commitment of faith there than

938
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Speaker 24: in the mainline Protestant. But you see, you're seeing a

939
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Speaker 24: little bit play out in the Catholic.

940
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Speaker 3: Church as well. But I feel good about it.

941
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Speaker 24: I'm not really bemoaning the like, Oh no, the mainline

942
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 24: Protestants are LIB and half the Catholics are LIB and

943
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Speaker 24: some Evangelicals. I'm not worried about it. We've turned a corner.

944
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 24: We've turned a corner. Religiosity is way up, record baptisms

945
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Speaker 24: in Europe, in France this year. You've got religion on

946
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 24: the rise in America. Young people are as trad as

947
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Speaker 24: can be there slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.

948
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Speaker 6: It's just great.

949
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: So it's all if Kenghis Khan were Christian. So it's fabulous.

950
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Speaker 3: I'm not too worried.

951
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 6: It's a sticky identity that's good.

952
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 24: That gives you the inertia of history, that gives you momentum.

953
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 24: Sometimes though, we need to refresh it. We need to

954
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Speaker 24: have a reform in the proper sense of the word.

955
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 24: I think that's going on right now, and it's irritating

956
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,439
Speaker 24: a lot of radicals because the reform looks a lot

957
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Speaker 24: like the tradition, and that's what people want.

958
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Speaker 22: Hi, Michael did just Joshua again? Do you think Obergafel

959
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 22: can be overturned? And so, what do you think we

960
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 22: conservatives can do to help we define marriage between a

961
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 22: man and a woman.

962
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Speaker 24: Oh good, we got some applause for overruling Obergafell. Well,

963
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 24: the common answer from the Republicans is no, Obergafel is

964
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 24: what redefined marriage? Based on in Anthony Kennedy's telling, a

965
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 24: supposed right to intimacy in the Constitution?

966
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 6: Have you seen a right?

967
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 2: I didn't.

968
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Speaker 6: I missed that part.

969
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 3: An invisible ink.

970
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 24: Scalia and his descent made fun of him, and he said,

971
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 24: even if there were a right to intimacy, anyone who's

972
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 24: married knows that marriage restricts that right rather than expands it.

973
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 24: Ask the nearest hippie. But in any case, it's a

974
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 24: really dumb decision. The whole point of it is preposterous

975
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 24: to redefine the basic natural institution of marriage. So the

976
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 24: answer is, of course it can be overturned. It has

977
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 24: to be overturned. It's absurd constitutionally, it's absurd. Anthropologically it's absurd.

978
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 24: And for the doubters and the cowards and the weaklings

979
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 24: out there who say, well, let's settle law, we can't

980
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 24: touch it.

981
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 3: I heard that about Roe v. Wade for fifty years.

982
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 24: I was told it was never going to be overturned

983
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 24: in my life. Now it's in the dustment of history.

984
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 5: Keep the faith.

985
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,479
Speaker 24: You want to promote marriage, get married, and stand firm

986
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 24: and speak the truth when you're asked about it.

987
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 3: Yep, this is one minute left.

988
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 23: This will be the last question him, Michael love your

989
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,399
Speaker 23: show family, watch it all the time.

990
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 5: I got to tell you I have twelve kids.

991
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Speaker 16: My man, my man.

992
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: All right, okay, well I'd like to make a correction.

993
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 24: Then I said earlier we had a below replacement birth rate.

994
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 24: Apparently you have fixed it. So thank you for your

995
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 24: patriotic service. We're a small Catholic, Mormon or Orthodox Jewish family.

996
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 6: Twelve kids.

997
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Speaker 24: Great love it evangelical, so evangelical.

998
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 3: Oh let oh man, we're.

999
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 24: So if the guy with all the kids isn't even

1000
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 24: part of the religion that characteristically has all the kids,

1001
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 24: it's just what are.

1002
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 3: We even doing here? We won, We're back. It's great.

1003
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 6: I keep interrupting you.

1004
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 2: What's your question?

1005
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 24: So how do we encourage this generation of the beauty

1006
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 24: of big families?

1007
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Speaker 6: Great question.

1008
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 12: It's scary.

1009
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:27,479
Speaker 2: You can do it.

1010
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:28,320
Speaker 23: It's not scary.

1011
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 6: They they don't know.

1012
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 24: They don't know because these people were saying only children,

1013
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 24: or have one sibling or something, so they don't know.

1014
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 6: They're probably wondering about it.

1015
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 3: Grass is always greener.

1016
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 24: I don't think you need to persuade them that it's good.

1017
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 3: In theory.

1018
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 24: What you need to persuade them is that they can

1019
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 24: afford it. A lot of people say, well, we can't

1020
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 24: afford it.

1021
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 2: I get it.

1022
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 3: Things are very expensive.

1023
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 24: If the modern world is very expensive, kids very very expensive.

1024
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 24: So my rebuttal to that I'm a little ways behind you.

1025
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 24: I have produced a quarter of your children, but.

1026
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 6: I got to catch up.

1027
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 2: Man.

1028
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 3: That's great.

1029
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 24: The way you respond, I think, is okay, having a

1030
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 24: lot of kids, it's expensive. Which one of your kids

1031
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 24: would you sell? What would the price be? What do

1032
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 24: you think the kid's worth? Fifty grand? You think is more?

1033
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 3: Which one?

1034
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: You got to be?

1035
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 3: Number seven or number eight? At that point you must

1036
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 3: have been getting tired. What a two hundred grand, three

1037
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 3: hundred grand?

1038
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 5: Nothing?

1039
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 6: Nothing?

1040
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 24: One little smile from your kid, even one little pout

1041
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 24: from your kid where you're like smacks you in the

1042
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 24: head like my middle kid does to me all the time,

1043
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 24: that is worth an infinite amount of money.

1044
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 3: That's totally priceless. And I think people are going to

1045
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 3: get that.

1046
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 24: We've fallen out happily from the fashionable materialism and the

1047
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 24: selfishness that has been deviled us for the past quarter

1048
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 24: or half a century. We were told, hey, you do

1049
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 24: you put yourself First, you got to take care of yours.

1050
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 24: We need self love, self care, Be selfish, be selfish.

1051
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 3: That'll make you happy. Well, what happened?

1052
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 24: We have record numbers of Americans deaths of despair, so

1053
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 24: much so that the average life expectancy.

1054
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