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Speaker 1: Welcome. In Thursday edition, Clay Travis buck Sexton Show appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you hanging out with us. Buck is out

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Speaker 1: traveling with his family on a summer vacation. He will

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Speaker 1: tomorrow solo. We have an absolutely locked in loaded program.

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Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburn has announced that she is going to

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Speaker 1: be running for governor of Tennessee. She will be on

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Speaker 1: with us at the bottom of this hour. In the

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Speaker 1: second hour, big battle in North Carolina. Coming to replace

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Speaker 1: Tom tillis Michael Wattley, who ran the RNC did a

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Speaker 1: great job in twenty twenty four North Carolina native. He

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Speaker 1: is going to be the Republican nominee to run against

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Speaker 1: former Governor Roy Cooper of the state of North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be an epic battle next year.

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Speaker 1: We will talk with Michael Wattley, who hopefully will be

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Speaker 1: the next Senator from North Carolina, and then two point

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Speaker 1: thirty we will speak with Tim Scott, who is the

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Speaker 1: current Senator from South Carolina, about all of the ongoing

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Speaker 1: shenanigans in Washington, DC and beyond. So there is the

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Speaker 1: roadmap of where we are going bottom of the hour,

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Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of guests, two senators and one

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Speaker 1: who hopes to be a senator, as well as one

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Speaker 1: who hopes to be a governor. All of that coming

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Speaker 1: your direction now. Within that construct, we have got a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on right now that I want

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Speaker 1: to dive into. I think, in an incredibly consequential manner.

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Speaker 1: Trump has demanded that we have a new census. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to explain why that could be so incredibly consequential,

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Speaker 1: not only right now because there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: errors in the twenty twenty census and he believes they

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Speaker 1: need to be rectified, but also because in twenty thirty

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Speaker 1: they are going to be seismic differences in the overall

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Speaker 1: census tallies. And I think this is a battle that

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Speaker 1: you should be paying a lot of attention to because

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Speaker 1: it could be incredibly important not only for the midterms,

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Speaker 1: but also in the twenty twenty eight presidential race and

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Speaker 1: beyond that in the twenty thirty interplay as it pertains

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Speaker 1: to the census. But I wanted to start with what

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Speaker 1: I would say is a genuine acknowledgment that our cities

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Speaker 1: have become too violent, and it's time to actually put

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Speaker 1: bad guys behind jail, behind bars in jail. And we

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Speaker 1: are getting these questions and these viral stories from all

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Speaker 1: over the country, but I wanted to start with one

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Speaker 1: that we talked with Bernie Marino about a violent attack

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Speaker 1: on an innocent woman, Holly who Bernie Marino came on

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Speaker 1: with us last week and talked all about it. She

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Speaker 1: has now had a public appearance. Many of you saw

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Speaker 1: her awfully bruised and battered face, and she now has

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Speaker 1: our friend Senator Bernie Marino of Ohio Cut eleven. This

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Speaker 1: is what it sounded like.

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Speaker 2: We need more police officers, but like he said, you

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Speaker 2: know the judges who are just letting people out with

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Speaker 2: a slab. The man who attacked me and might have

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Speaker 2: permanently damaged me forever should never have been on the

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Speaker 2: out of jail previously for something he should have been

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Speaker 2: in there for years. It's really sad to me because

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Speaker 2: I can't even fathom how many other people who have

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Speaker 2: been attacked by the same type of man over and

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Speaker 2: over and over in Toledo, in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton. Our

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Speaker 2: I am so sad and I need to be the

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Speaker 2: voice to help all of the victims that never got

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Speaker 1: Well said, Well said by her again. If you heard

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Speaker 1: Bernie Marino tell her story. She is a mom of

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Speaker 1: a young special needs child. She went out on a

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Speaker 1: in an uber after she got knocked out. Think about

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Speaker 1: that for a minute. It's an innocent mom. Could have

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Speaker 1: on video. Police came, they didn't do anything, and she

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Speaker 1: got in an uber and drove home. How does this happen?

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Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of you out there

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Speaker 1: we arrest these bad guys. This guy got out for

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Speaker 1: saying no, We're not going to let this happen. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: I was talking with you about Look. I love Washington, DC.

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Speaker 1: I went to college there. I'm a history nerd. It

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Speaker 1: And what you hear people say is, oh, crime's coming down, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: from all time highs. How about we actually address the

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Speaker 1: fact that any significant rate of violent crime is unacceptable

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Speaker 1: in this country. How about we have a real conversation

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Speaker 1: about that. And I give credit to Janeine Piro. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to play some of these audio clips, new DC attorney,

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Speaker 1: formerly at Fox News, and I give credit to President

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Speaker 1: Trump for raising this as an issue. Here is Judge

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Speaker 1: Janine Piro cut two saying, Hey, I'm in charge now,

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Speaker 1: and this is not going to be acceptable.

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Speaker 3: Violence against anyone in this district will not be tolerated,

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Speaker 3: especially violence which has hate at its core and is

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Speaker 3: the genesis of violence. The President put me here to

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Speaker 3: do a job to clean up the district, to make

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Speaker 3: sure that crime doesn't overshadow this phenomenal city, our nation's capital,

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Speaker 3: and I have, throughout my career fought anti semitism for

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Speaker 3: thirty two years as a prosecutor and a judge. I

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Speaker 3: do so. I fight hate crimes with a vengeance. So

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Speaker 3: don't even think about targeting people in this district because

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Speaker 3: of who they are or because of where they're from.

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Speaker 3: I promise you justice will be swift and it will

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Speaker 3: be certain.

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Speaker 1: I love her. Let's get Ali. Let's get a request

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Speaker 1: in for Judge Piro. I think we've had her on

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Speaker 1: the program in the past, and certainly we overlap quite

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Speaker 1: a lot at Fox News, so I know her from

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Speaker 1: the green room at Fox News, and I think it's important. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you might be sitting around out there and you might

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Speaker 1: be saying, hey, okay, what's the counter argument to this?

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Speaker 1: Trump said in fact cut three, Hey, maybe we just

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Speaker 1: need to take over the DC police force and actually

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 1: Here's cut three.

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Speaker 5: I'malized in DC.

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Speaker 2: Are you considering taking over the DC police is at

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Speaker 2: an option on the police?

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Speaker 6: We're considering it, Yeah, because the crime is ridiculous. I

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 6: We want to have a great safe capital, and we're

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Speaker 6: going to have it, and that includes cleanliness and includes

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Speaker 6: other things. We have a capital that's very unsafe.

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Speaker 2: Do you want hires to look at overturning the DC

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Speaker 6: We're going to look at that. In fact, they or

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Speaker 6: the lawyers are already studying it. We have to run DC.

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Speaker 6: This has to be the best run place in the country,

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Speaker 6: not the worst run place in the country.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's right on all of this, and I

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Speaker 1: They don't actually solve the issues when it comes to violence.

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Speaker 1: And what the president's referring to is I ran through

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Speaker 1: this yesterday. I think maybe it was a day before yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We have one of the highest violent crime rates of

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Speaker 1: ran through countries. I mean Ethiopia, a DC Baba, which

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Speaker 1: may not be as safe and that's unfortunate. But they say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: And I give a lot of credit to Trump and

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Speaker 1: Judge Janine Piro for shining a light on this. And

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Speaker 1: what's the counter argument? This is really funny to me

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Speaker 1: because Trump is basically saying, hey, rates of violent crime

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Speaker 1: DC is far higher than a city like New York City,

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Speaker 1: for instance, when it comes to rates of violent crime.

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Speaker 1: New York City is far safer than Washington, DC. What's

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Speaker 1: the response, Okay, it seems like a good thing, something

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Speaker 1: Fox News, in fact, used to sit next to Judge

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Speaker 1: Dennen Piro on the five, a show that many of

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Speaker 1: crime's down. What are we worried about in DC? Here's

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Speaker 3: What are democrats thinking when it comes to the nationalization

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Speaker 5: They're thinking hard, No, why not? Because there's no reason

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Speaker 1: Trump is about crime?

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Speaker 5: Well, it actually is about crime, and the good news

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Speaker 5: Year, twenty twenty four had a violent crime drop to

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Speaker 5: Just because Big Balls did a terrible job at Doze

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Speaker 5: does not mean that he deserved this. Any incident is terrible,

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Speaker 5: But we have.

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Speaker 1: To followers to jack. Okay, So how do you argue

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Speaker 1: fact that should be supported by everyone. We need violent

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Speaker 1: that accost them. I've said for a long time that

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Speaker 1: one of the ways to know whether your neighborhood is

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Speaker 1: too many American cities and neighborhoods, the answer is no.

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Speaker 1: And I know there's a ton of you listen to

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Speaker 1: a granddaughter trying to stay in shape. How many different

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Speaker 1: going for jogs or walks or workouts in the neighborhood

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Speaker 1: had no interest in. And dad doesn't have any culpability

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Speaker 1: oftentimes gun violence and violent teenagers actually started when dad

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Speaker 1: didn't show up at the birth at the hospital. And

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Speaker 1: dad hasn't been around for sixteen years or seventeen years

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Speaker 1: to that point. In many ways, these are young men

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Speaker 1: are angry at the world and they take out their

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Speaker 1: anger on the world, and all that anger starts because

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Speaker 1: Mom's doing her best to raise that kid by herself,

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Speaker 1: and she's got three jobs, and the kid, as a result,

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Speaker 1: doesn't have somebody at home whipping him into shape like

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Speaker 1: a dad hopefully would, and he falls in with the

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Speaker 1: he's dealing drugs or he's trying to carjack and Mom's

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Speaker 1: out there trying to do her best, and then you

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Speaker 1: come home and you charge her with a crime, and

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Speaker 1: then she may have two younger kids that she's also

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Speaker 1: trying to raise, and how does that benefit society? So

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Speaker 1: that's when I work through it. I like to go

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Speaker 1: to what caused the problem, not to just what's connected

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Speaker 1: to the problem. And to me, what caused the problem

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Speaker 1: is Dad's not there. And I think the number this

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Speaker 1: I think the number one issue that unites much of

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Speaker 1: negative level. Is Dad's not there?

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Speaker 4: I didn't.

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Speaker 1: It connects on everything. Families not having enough money to

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Speaker 1: the lint. This is my personal opinion. If I could

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Speaker 1: change one thing, every kid that's born has a dad

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Speaker 1: go perfect. That's my concern, and that's why I get

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Speaker 1: a little bit nervous about holding parents responsible criminally, because

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Speaker 1: so many people are doing everything they can to help

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Speaker 1: rates of crime, it collapses in every household where dad

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Speaker 1: is they are raising a sun And by the way,

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Speaker 1: it's almost all boys. And the data actually reflects meaning

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Speaker 1: have far less negative consequences from an absent male figure

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Speaker 1: They can't be dad and mom. I think young girls

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Speaker 1: But what the data shows is boy's outcomes collapse when

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Speaker 1: That's a real conversation that we should be having, but

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Speaker 1: these books are great. They're eight of them. I love mysteries, thrillers.

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Speaker 1: want to react, and for those of you who want

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Speaker 1: if you had to go to one root cause, absent fathers, White, Black, Asian,

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Speaker 1: Hispanic absent fathers I think lead to violent crime. And

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Speaker 1: this actually wasn't planned, but it came out of a

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Speaker 1: if we really want to go after violent crime rates,

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Speaker 1: let's prosecute parents more often. And I said, my concern

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Speaker 1: there is that actually dads are absent, and you would

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Speaker 1: end up going after mom or grandma or maybe even

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Speaker 1: and the person who's the most responsible for everything that

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Speaker 1: is going on will not be held accountable. And so

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Speaker 1: that was my concern. And let me hit you with

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Speaker 1: this because I mentioned that I was going to discuss

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Speaker 1: it earlier, right before I take your calls. President Trump

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this a lot on the program. Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll dive into this a bit more tomorrow, but basically,

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Speaker 1: Red states would be on tap to add ten House

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Speaker 1: seats if the census had been done correctly, and Republicans

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Speaker 1: four seats, Texas would add four seats, California would lose three.

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Speaker 1: New York would lose two overall, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: we get to twenty thirty two. But they screwed up

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, so they really should redo the census. And

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Speaker 1: that is what President Trump has called for. And we

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Speaker 1: will dive into some of that tomorrow. But again, go

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Speaker 1: content that is going up there. Vipe Eric black dad

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Speaker 1: out there. Let me start with this. I was fortunate

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Speaker 1: to have my dad in the home as a kid,

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Speaker 1: and my kids have the same good fortune. You are

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Speaker 1: spot on about LBGT, LBJ and the great society. The

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Speaker 1: government dictates on the programs essentially force dads out in

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Speaker 1: order to access the so called benefits. Never have a

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Speaker 1: people paid such a high price for a block of cheese.

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Speaker 1: Larry Elder, Deroy Murdoch, and Jason Riley have written and

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Speaker 1: spoken extensively on this subject. They challenge the black people

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Speaker 1: out there who've been brainwashed by the liberal culture to

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Speaker 1: wake up, grow up, and man up. It's good email

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Speaker 1: from Eric, and I appreciate it. I'm glad he's being

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Speaker 1: a good dad. Look, it's easy to try to racialize this,

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Speaker 1: and I try to avoid doing that. I got an email,

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Speaker 1: and I'll read the email. I'm not going to tell

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Speaker 1: you who wrote it because I'm not going to put

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Speaker 1: him on not going to put him on blast. But

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Speaker 1: he said, he said, why are you not talking about

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Speaker 1: the fact that this is a huge problem for black

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Speaker 1: men and nobody will talk about it for black men

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Speaker 1: and black families. And you're being a coward because you're

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Speaker 1: not focusing enough on race as it pertains to this issue.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking at that email from him right now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's helpful. Honestly, it wouldn't make me

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Speaker 1: feel better as a white dad. If the white crime

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't take lee in that. I wouldn't take enjoyment

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Speaker 1: in that. If the Hispanic crime rate was zero and

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Speaker 1: that's great, go Hispanic people, white people, Man, you're the problem.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you racialize a problem. I think you

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Speaker 1: actually then divide people what I would argue is kids

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Speaker 1: without dads is a huge American issue, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic. Now,

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Speaker 1: I do think that there is a socioeconomic component to this.

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Speaker 1: In this larger context, I think the government tried to

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Speaker 1: If you're black, you probably heard before when white people

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Speaker 1: get a cold, black people get pneumonia. It is true

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Speaker 1: when rich people have small problems, poor people get big problems.

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Speaker 1: And so I think you have to be careful when

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Speaker 1: you put government policies in place. This is to me

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Speaker 1: the essence of Democrat politics. They sit around from their

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Speaker 1: gated mansions and they think, oh my goodness. You know

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Speaker 1: the real problem with crime in America is the police.

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Speaker 1: We should take them away. This is Zora and Mundami, right,

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Speaker 1: all the people with money, they've got protection. Mamdani goes

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Speaker 1: down to Uganda. He's got a security detail following him everywhere.

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Speaker 1: He's not worried about crime happening to him because he's

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Speaker 1: rich enough to have his own security. You ever notice

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Speaker 1: that none of those politicians who called to defund the

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Speaker 1: police ever gave up their own personal security details. Well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute. If you think all of us should

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Speaker 1: give up police, how come you need him. That's a

651
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Speaker 1: really good question, isn't it. So many people in America

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Speaker 1: they talk left and they live right. All those media

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Speaker 1: that right at the New York Times. They're married, raising

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Speaker 1: their kids. Their kids oftentimes go to private schools, they

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Speaker 1: live in gated communities. Everybody lecturing you on MSNBC nuclear families.

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Speaker 1: They want a mom at home, they want a dad

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Speaker 1: at home. They want to have security for their kids,

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Speaker 1: they want private school choice for their kids. Why do

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Speaker 1: they lecture you from a left perspective and then live

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Speaker 1: like the most conservative person on the planet in their

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Speaker 1: own life. Because the best way to raise a family

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Speaker 1: is a nuclear family, mom, dad, both at home with kids.

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Speaker 1: This is what the data says. They all know it,

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Speaker 1: they want it for their own families. But if you

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Speaker 1: try to say, hey, we should do this more, Hey

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Speaker 1: maybe we should put policies in place that actually make

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Speaker 1: dads more likely to be at home. As soon as

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Speaker 1: you raise that issue, oh suddenly they don't want to

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Speaker 1: have that conversation. So a lot of you want a

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Speaker 1: wagh in. Let me hit some of these calls. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that VIP email and let's see here. Who should

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Speaker 1: we go to? First? Guys is Ralph and Cincinnati? Ralph?

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Speaker 1: What you got for us?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 9: Brother? How are you?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: I'm fantastic.

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Speaker 9: So I think we're looking beyond the obvious. And it's

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Speaker 9: not a black, a white thing, Hispanic, Asian, or even

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Speaker 9: a money thing. Because there's a lot of very wealthy

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Speaker 9: people who've divorced and the mother automatically gets the kids,

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Speaker 9: and then we hear the stories about their kids driving

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Speaker 9: very expensive cars and killing their friends. So let's just

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Speaker 9: avoid the monetary things. I'm gonna ask you a question.

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Speaker 9: Even you're a lawyer and you have a lot of

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Speaker 9: colleagues that went into family law, I think the perpetuation

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Speaker 9: of divorce lines their pockets. The thing is, I'm dealing

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Speaker 9: with it myself. I want fifty to fifty time with

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Speaker 9: my kid. I don't want more than fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 4: That would be unfair.

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Speaker 9: Automatically, the mothers always get custody regardless.

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Speaker 4: So if we're going to talk about.

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Speaker 9: All the homes, we need to dig deeper. Some of

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Speaker 9: us fathers want to be involved. Some of us fathers

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Speaker 9: want to take care of our boys. We're not allowed to.

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Speaker 9: So in Ohio twice the Senators of the Republic of

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Speaker 9: the Congress whoever pitched this concept, and both times it

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Speaker 9: was the Ohio Bar Association that shot it down. Why

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Speaker 9: because that's their income. How many of your colleagues went

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Speaker 9: directly to family practice. Some of them were criminals, but

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Speaker 9: then they went through their divorce and saw him which

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Speaker 9: they paid an attorney and said, well, I got to

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Speaker 9: get my money back. So I just want to give

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Speaker 9: a shout out to dad's out there that want to

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Speaker 9: be in their kids' wives. Don't give up. Keep fighting.

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Speaker 9: There's a huge movement happening right now. It's kind of

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Speaker 9: underground even in Britain. This is a global thing. There's

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Speaker 9: a movement called Parents against People Against Prance or Alienation.

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Speaker 9: They're a young man in the United States who started

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Speaker 9: a website called TUF the Unmarried Father. Those guys suffer

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Speaker 9: the worst. Are there guys out there that don't want

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Speaker 9: to be in the family? Sure?

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Speaker 4: Were they baby trapped?

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Speaker 9: Maybe did they hook up one night and get a

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Speaker 9: girl pregnant. Maybe we don't know, but there's a lot

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Speaker 9: more of us out there that want to be in

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Speaker 9: our kids lives, but we're already labeled deadbeats just because

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Speaker 9: we're not in the house.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. No, it's a great call. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't This is why, in general, I think any

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Speaker 1: dad that is fighting to be involved in his kid's

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Speaker 1: life should be involved in his kid's life right his

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Speaker 1: or her kid's life. And I think that there are

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Speaker 1: tons of things in the divorce universe that we have

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Speaker 1: created that incentivizes divorce and often alienates parents in both directions.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: I think there is a religious component to this. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned that the great society happens. I think also a

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Speaker 1: decline in religion has led to less men as heads

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Speaker 1: of households and less men who are expecting to take

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Speaker 1: on the responsibility. But I think in a divorce context,

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Speaker 1: in an ideal situation, kids would get fifty percent of

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Speaker 1: time with their dad in fifty percent of times with

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Speaker 1: their mom. General rule. Okay, Now, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: dive into everybody's individual divorce story, but I do think

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Speaker 1: that one of the constant let me just say this

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Speaker 1: as a lawyer. One of the consequences of no fault divorce, right,

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Speaker 1: which is this idea of hey, there's nobody at fault,

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Speaker 1: we just don't want to be married anymore, is that

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Speaker 1: sometimes fault matters.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: We typically don't have no fault car accidents, right, Just

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Speaker 1: think about it. Most people don't want to get into

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Speaker 1: a car accident. But if you had a cheap car

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Speaker 1: and you could just run into a Jaguar and you

746
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Speaker 1: got rewarded because you intentionally caused some sort of an issue,

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Speaker 1: the courts would look at you a scance. They would say, well,

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Speaker 1: you're more responsible for this. And that's the whole point

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Speaker 1: of like traffic law, right, Hey who did the When

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Speaker 1: you say nobody's at fault? A part of me is

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Speaker 1: of the opinion that fault does matter. It's very rare

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Speaker 1: that fifty percent male fifty percent female is the reason

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Speaker 1: for the divorce. And I'm talking about the financial side,

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Speaker 1: not so much the child and the parenting side. But

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Speaker 1: I do think there should be substantial family court processes

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Speaker 1: that would actually go to making things better. I'll take

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Speaker 1: some more of your calls when I come back, but

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Speaker 1: I do have empathy and sympathy for dads out there

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Speaker 1: that are trying to be involved in their kids' lives

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Speaker 1: that feel like the entire apparatus of the court system

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Speaker 1: is slanted in favor of the moms and they can't

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Speaker 1: actually do anything to help raise their kids. That is

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Speaker 1: very frustrating, and I have a great deal of empathy

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Speaker 7: And politics, but also a little comic relief.

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis at buck Sexton.

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Speaker 8: Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you

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Speaker 1: Walk back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Join now

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Speaker 1: by Senator Tim Scott. He's got a new book, One Nation,

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Speaker 1: Always under God, profiles in Christian courage and Senator I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on with me. I believe that part

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Speaker 1: of the motivation for this book, according to my team,

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Speaker 1: was you seeing Harrison Butker, who is a field goal

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Speaker 1: kicker for the Kansas City Chief speaking out about faith

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Speaker 1: and his family relationships. Why did that strike you to

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Speaker 1: such a degree, and then did that help to motivate

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Speaker 1: you to write this book?

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Speaker 4: Yes, certainly, I see the attack on Christianity in our

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Speaker 4: country all over the place, and certainly his story got

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Speaker 4: so much press. I just kept thinking to myself, why

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Speaker 4: is it okay to attack the very foundation of the

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Speaker 4: greatest nation on earth and what we were founded upon?

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Speaker 4: And I find it to be just utterly ridiculous. Clay

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Speaker 4: On the attacks that Christianity has to endure, and I

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Speaker 4: wanted to do something that highlighted and celebrated strong profiles

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Speaker 4: and Christian courage. Why our country is the greatest country

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Speaker 4: on the planet, it's because of men and women who

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Speaker 4: responded to a call in their heart to make something

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Speaker 4: and someone better outside of themselves. And I'm so thankful

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Speaker 4: that we have professional athletes rare these days, who take

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Speaker 4: a strong stand for faith, not just at the microphone

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Speaker 4: after a game, but literally giving a speech that they

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Speaker 4: wanted to literally take tiny pieces out of that speech

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Speaker 4: and find a way to make fun of him and

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Speaker 4: condemn his faith. Utterly ridiculous to me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard any of the program.

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Speaker 1: Probably not, you kind of a busy guy, but we've

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Speaker 1: ended up talking quite a lot today about the decline

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Speaker 1: of fathers, and I think it in the family household,

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Speaker 1: and I think it ties in with the book that

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Speaker 1: you were writing, because one reason that might be happening

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Speaker 1: is an absence of religion, and a lot of young

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Speaker 1: men are honestly going back to church. Now. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're a dad yet, but I've got three boys.

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Speaker 1: I think all the time about how to raise them

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Speaker 1: to be strong, good parents. Why do you think we're

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Speaker 1: struggling to such an extent with young men and how

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Speaker 1: do we get black, White, Asian Hispanic dads back in

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Speaker 1: the family raising strong young men.

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Speaker 4: Well, Clay, I think one of the reasons why President

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Speaker 4: Trump has endorsed the book One Nation Always under God

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Speaker 4: is because I focus really on that subject matter by

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Speaker 4: telling my own story of growing up in a single

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Speaker 4: parent household. And what you just said, Clay, is so important.

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Speaker 4: It was so casual when you said it, but it

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Speaker 4: was powerful in my ears. One of the scriptures I'm

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Speaker 4: really excited about is Proverbs twenty seven seventeen that says

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Speaker 4: iron sharpens irons, one man sharpens the other. The best

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Speaker 4: way to do that, Clay, is to have a father

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Speaker 4: in the household. You just said very casually that you

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Speaker 4: are there for your three sons. Seventy two to seventy

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Speaker 4: four percent the numbers escape me of African American boys

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Speaker 4: do not have their father in the household. Forty percent

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Speaker 4: of white working class families don't have a father in

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Speaker 4: the household. That does not tell about the future we

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Speaker 4: want in this nation. And so you covering fatherhood and

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Speaker 4: the importance of a male role model in the house

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Speaker 4: is undeniably the most important thing we can do to

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Speaker 4: get this nation back on tracks except for faith. Faith

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Speaker 4: is the foundation family, the most powerful single unit in

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Speaker 4: the nation. Upon those two, you build an objective standard,

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Speaker 4: you apply it fairly to everyone. You get a flourishing

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Speaker 4: country called America. Without that very important building blog called

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Speaker 4: a family. We as a nation, we don't work, and

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Speaker 4: we don't work without a faith filled foundation on which

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Speaker 4: all things stand. So I can spend as much time

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Speaker 4: as you want to on the importance that a father

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Speaker 4: plays in the household. I just became a honustat Clay

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Speaker 4: just a year ago, of three kids that I've inherited

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Speaker 4: by getting married, and I gotta tell you it changes

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Speaker 4: your focus to the future. It reminds you of the

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Speaker 4: importance of a value system, and it underscores why one

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Speaker 4: nation always under God and these profiles and Christian courage

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Speaker 4: is something that has as much to do about the

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Speaker 4: future as it illuminates the past.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that we talked about is pre

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Speaker 1: you think about things only getting better in the country, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the goal. We want everybody's generation to be better

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Speaker 1: than it was before. But you and I, if we

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Speaker 1: went back to nineteen fifty you just ran through some

867
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Speaker 1: of those statistics, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic. I know there

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Speaker 1: been fewer Asian and Hispanic households, but certainly a lot

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Speaker 1: of white and black households. Dad would have been home

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Speaker 1: right nineteen fifties America, dad was home raising his kids.

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Speaker 1: In general, I know there were exceptions. There's people out

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Speaker 1: there listening. You yourself just said you didn't have a

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Speaker 1: father in the household. This has been an issue that's

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Speaker 1: gone on for a long time. How do you think

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Speaker 1: we change it?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: It's one thing if we were getting a little bit

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Speaker 1: better every year, But this is one of those things

879
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Speaker 1: where you look back and you say, boy, you know what,

880
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Speaker 1: seventy years ago, kids growing up in America were more

881
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Speaker 1: likely to have a dad in the household. What could

882
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Speaker 1: we do? What should we do? I don't even see

883
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Speaker 1: this as remotely political, because I think every kid is

884
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Speaker 1: way better off with a dad in the household. What

885
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Speaker 1: should we be doing to encourage that?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 4: Number one, we need to remind men of their responsibility

888
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Speaker 4: and not in fathering a child, but by raising that child.

889
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Speaker 4: It's such an important part of it. You know, if

890
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Speaker 4: you think about what a father provides for me. The

891
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Speaker 4: lack of a father made me very disillusioned about who

892
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Speaker 4: I would be growing up, what I could become. Someone

893
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 4: to teach me how to drive, how to shave. That

894
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Speaker 4: person was absent, and it makes everything more difficult. I'm

895
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Speaker 4: thankful that I became a Christian at a very young

896
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Speaker 4: age and I found the father figure needed in understanding

897
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Speaker 4: my heavenly Father. And as a result, I could go

898
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Speaker 4: to Ephesians two and read about certain attributes or characteristics

899
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Speaker 4: I would have. I could go to Galatians three twenty

900
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Speaker 4: eight and see that I was adopted in to this

901
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 4: whole family called the Lord's family. But to make it

902
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Speaker 4: practical in everyday American household, number one, the man needs

903
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 4: to understand his responsibility. Number two, he needs to be present.

904
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Speaker 4: The way that we encourage both, I think, is by

905
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Speaker 4: reminding men of that importance. I spoke got a men's

906
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Speaker 4: group about two Saturdays go with a couple hundred men

907
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 4: in the room, and I talked about you can be

908
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 4: a male without being a man. A male just tells

909
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 4: you you know who you are a from a DNA perspective,

910
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 4: being a man They're attributing characteristics that come with being

911
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 4: a man. Being responsible, being accountable, being self sacrificing, serving,

912
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,959
Speaker 4: not just leading. These are characteristics of being a man.

913
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Speaker 4: Being a male may be reproductive. It may be having

914
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Speaker 4: a good time on Saturday nights, but not showing up

915
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Speaker 4: on Sunday mornings. Being a man says you show up Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,

916
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Speaker 4: and Saturday. It's twenty four hours a day, seven days

917
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Speaker 4: a week, three sixty five. That's how a man becomes

918
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Speaker 4: a father. A male does not necessarily do so.

919
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Speaker 1: The book is One Nation Always under God, profiles in

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Speaker 1: Christian courage. We're talking to Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

921
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Speaker 1: All Right, these are big issues, these are important issues,

922
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,720
Speaker 1: but I'm about to put you on the real hot seat.

923
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 1: Who's going to be better this year? South Carolina or Clemson.

924
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 4: Listen, I know that the polls is.

925
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Speaker 1: I can already tell that's a good politician answer to

926
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Speaker 1: start with. Listen. For those of you who don't know

927
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Speaker 1: both both hope, let me tell people. South Carolina game

928
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: costs expect to be very good. Clemson Tigers also expect

929
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Speaker 1: to be very good. The biggest rivalry in the state

930
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Speaker 1: of South Carolina. Okay, that's the backlog. Now you can

931
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Speaker 1: dive in.

932
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Speaker 4: Thank you brother to plenty of park player. I know

933
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Speaker 4: the poll suggests that Clemson is going to be better.

934
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Speaker 4: One pole has them at number six. They have South

935
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Speaker 4: Carolina at nineteen. As a lifelong game Cock fan, yes,

936
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Speaker 4: I'm a crazy politician, I'm just going to tell you

937
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 4: the truth and where I stand. The game Cocks are

938
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Speaker 4: going to have a better season. I know it because

939
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Speaker 4: Shane Beemer. He's the man, the myth, and he will

940
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Speaker 4: be the legend. And as a result of that, he

941
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Speaker 4: will coach his team to a nine to three record.

942
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Speaker 4: And the Clemson Tigers, They're going to stumble a couple

943
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 4: of times and they will end up around eight and four,

944
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Speaker 4: eight and three. The difference, of course, is we play

945
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Speaker 4: in the SEC. They play in the ACC. We're not

946
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Speaker 4: talking basketball, we're talking football.

947
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Speaker 1: That's actually I thought you would dodge it. I didn't

948
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Speaker 1: think you would pick a side. So I've impressed. But

949
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Speaker 1: I love Shane Beemer, really good dude, the head coach

950
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Speaker 1: at South Carolina. I also like Dabo, but I know

951
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Speaker 1: Shane Beemer. Rebel Lenora's sellers. For those of you out

952
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Speaker 1: there who do not know, fabulous quarterback for South Carolina.

953
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: What should people know about him? Getting ready for about

954
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Speaker 1: three weeks from now when Toby's leather, you know.

955
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Speaker 4: Interesting enough, he turned down more nil money, yeah they

956
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Speaker 4: at Carolina than he could have gotten three to four

957
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Speaker 4: million dollars more someplace else. That tells me. Number one,

958
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Speaker 4: he's a South Line boy born and brad. Number two,

959
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Speaker 4: he's committed, which is an unusual characters characteristic. We'd like

960
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Speaker 4: to see him fathers as well, by the way. And

961
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Speaker 4: number three, he has a strong run game, but he's

962
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Speaker 4: been he's been improving his past game, and that to

963
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 4: me is a quintessential quarterback. Can scramble, but thread the needle.

964
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Speaker 4: I don't want him to run too much because that's

965
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Speaker 4: how you injured. I want them to stay in the pocket,

966
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Speaker 4: scramble a little bit and hit that the receiver who's

967
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Speaker 4: bringing a ten and out or a goal post. And

968
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Speaker 4: when that happens, I think we'll having a good season.

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Speaker 4: I know as a critical of my Clemson Tigers, and

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Speaker 4: I'm going to have some emails coming in about that.

971
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Speaker 4: But I got to tell you, I love dabble and

972
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Speaker 4: Jim Clemens is the best president and university president and

973
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Speaker 4: all of America. Clemson's president. But at the end of

974
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Speaker 4: the day, a man's got to be where a man

975
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Speaker 4: has been his whole life. That's the Carolina game Cock.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 1: I actually think and I know there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: politicians and I'm sure you've seen it in your career

979
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: for sure, who try to thread the needle and avoid

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Speaker 1: picking aside. I actually think sports fans appreciate someone who

981
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Speaker 1: picks the side more because the traditional politician tries to

982
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Speaker 1: avoid it. Hey, I hope the book does really well.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on with us. You got an

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Speaker 1: open invite anytime you want to come on and keep

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Speaker 1: up the fighting.

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Speaker 1: Amen, go check it out. That is Senator Tim Scott.

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