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Speaker 1: This is America's Voice Live and Welcome to America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 2: I'm Steve Gurrik, the pulse of the people.

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Speaker 1: I'm seen Grady is Thursday, the twenty seventh of November,

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Speaker 1: in the year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us on today's special Thanksgiving edition here

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Speaker 1: on America's Voice Live. We've got a great show planned

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Speaker 1: for you today. So let's jump right in, shall we?

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Speaker 1: You ready to go? Because I am. We kick off

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Speaker 1: today's Thanksgiving special by first and foremost wishing all of

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Speaker 1: our viewers you a very happy Thanksgiving and a bit

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Speaker 1: of a history lesson too. All right, as we surely remember,

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Speaker 1: the story starts out with the arrival of the Pilgrims,

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Speaker 1: who sailed in the Mayflower to escape from religious persecution

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Speaker 1: and found refuge and friendship with many of the local natives. Furthermore,

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Speaker 1: after a bountiful harvest season, both groups got together and

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Speaker 1: shared in a festivity where each person brought something to

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Speaker 1: the table for everyone to indulge in, or what is

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Speaker 1: commonly known as the first Thanksgiving, a sign of good

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Speaker 1: faith and just giving a moment of thanks for a

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Speaker 1: lasting friendship. Here me to discuss is the executive director

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Speaker 1: of the Providence Forum, doctor Jerry Newcomb. Doctor, thank you

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Speaker 1: for being here.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Steve, Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's a time for family, for friends, for faith,

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Speaker 1: which those that came to the shores early in the

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Speaker 1: New World, they carried faith of several different kinds, but

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Speaker 1: that was all part of the combination when they got

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Speaker 1: together at that first Thanksgiving out for.

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Speaker 6: Us, would you sure well. The Pilgrims were basically a

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Speaker 6: group of Christians that were an individual congregation in mid

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Speaker 6: England who they formed in sixteen oh six or thereabouts.

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Speaker 6: They made a covenant as they became a congregation, but

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Speaker 6: they received so much persecution and pushback that they finally

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Speaker 6: left to Holland they were able to go there. They

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Speaker 6: were there for about a dozen years, but they were

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Speaker 6: So they found there was an opportunity to go to

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Speaker 6: the New World. So they had the famous voyage of

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Speaker 6: the Mayflower, and they also had some hired hands who

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Speaker 6: going to be a part of this Christian commonwealth as well.

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Speaker 6: But they were blown off course and so they were

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Speaker 6: not actually landing in the northern parts of Virginia, which

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Speaker 6: the Pilgrims took that same type of covenant that they

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Speaker 6: and they politicized it. It's called the Mayflower Compact, and

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Speaker 6: And they said, we came for the glory of God

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Speaker 6: that first winner was so difficult for them that about

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Speaker 6: all circumstances. And I think that's a beautiful lesson for

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Speaker 1: I mean, the punishment, the hardship, the clothing they had

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Speaker 6: And it's interesting though, I once talked with a professor

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Speaker 6: of the Pilgrims.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did create these relationships, at least early

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Speaker 1: they arrived much earlier than that. What else can we

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Speaker 1: take from the Pilgrims? What else can we take from

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Speaker 1: their experience from I mean, just the intestinal fortitude, the discipline,

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Speaker 6: And I think this is where their faith in Jesus

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Speaker 1: I was going to get a little amused when I

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Speaker 1: I want to be one with nature. You know, one

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Speaker 2: It comes with none of those things.

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Speaker 1: These are one hundred and two people the land on

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Speaker 1: one second permanent colony. Of course Jamestown was first a

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Speaker 6: And they were set back because initially there were two

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Speaker 6: But the Speedwell proved on seaworthy, because that set them

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Speaker 5: But yes, they had different craftsmen and so forth.

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Speaker 6: And one last thing, if I may, it's interesting how

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Speaker 6: imposed upon them a sort of communism or communalism, where

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Speaker 6: it doesn't matter how hard you work, everybody will have

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Speaker 6: everything in common. It sounds Christian and so forth, but

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Speaker 6: in reality what it did was it undercut the incentive

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Speaker 6: it undercut incentives. He changed things around, and a lot

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Speaker 6: Governor Bradford said, okay, this is your land, you work

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Speaker 6: it and you get the profits and so forth, all

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Speaker 6: of a sudden the productivity just shot up. And America's

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Speaker 6: say there was a type of fory into socialism and

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Speaker 6: Jamestown earlier as well. It never works, It will never

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Speaker 6: work because it never works undermines human nature. It works

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Speaker 6: against human nature never works.

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Speaker 1: Some of the first things that grew corn means squash,

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Speaker 1: taught to them by the Indians how to grow these crops.

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Speaker 1: So a very important thing to start agriculture in America.

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Speaker 1: And you know, this is just an important time. Here's

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Speaker 1: one other myth though. People realize that was the first Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: but it was not something that became common in the

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Speaker 1: before it became a common practice. I'll give you the

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Speaker 6: Doctor, surely. And it's interesting. Our Virginian friends will say,

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Speaker 6: wait a minute. The first Thanksgiving in America was in

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Speaker 6: sixteen nineteen, you know, in Jamestown at the Berkeley Plantation.

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Speaker 6: But the American tradition of Thanksgiving gets back to the

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Speaker 6: Plymouth one in sixteen twenty one. So that's the prototypical Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 6: George Washington, first president under the US Constitution, declared the

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Speaker 6: day of Thanksgiving in November seventeen eighty nine, but half

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Speaker 6: es centurily later or whatever, seventy years later. Abraham Lincoln

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Speaker 6: during the Civil War, he's the one who made Thanksgiving

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Speaker 6: an annual holiday. And when you think about it, Steve

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Speaker 6: doesn't that really remind you that the people who founded

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Speaker 6: the source of our rights. Even our Declaration of Independence,

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Speaker 6: which is what we're celebrating in the two hundred teeth anniversary.

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Speaker 6: It says, Hey, our rights come from the Creator. And

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you being here. Happy thanksgiving to you.

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Speaker 1: Chris Widener, Chris, nice to see you today.

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Speaker 2: Great to see you too, Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: You have to you can't just talk to talk Chris,

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Speaker 4: That, Yeah, I love the word revival because when you

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Speaker 4: Which is why we're putting on that revival next May

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Speaker 4: The revival is specifically to call the church back to

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Speaker 1: Revival two fifty dot com. You can check it out

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Speaker 1: for yourself. The book The Coming American Revival will be

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Speaker 4: As absolutely thank you, absolutely thanks for having me on, Steve.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 1: The markets in general have been getting a lot of

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Speaker 8: Hey, Steve, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say we have mixed results.

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Speaker 8: don't help because they're still too high. But if you

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Speaker 8: look at you know, the market in general, there's just

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Speaker 8: not enough homes out there. So how do you resolve

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Speaker 8: that problem? Well, you have to start building homes. You

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Speaker 8: have to have a situation where supply and demand come

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Speaker 8: in line, and that's where you're going.

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Speaker 9: To have some relief.

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Speaker 8: Now, until that happens, the price of homes is going

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Speaker 8: to stay elevated and you're gonna have a lot of

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Speaker 8: frustration and to come up with a policy or programs

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Speaker 8: that says, well, a fifty year mortgage will make that

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Speaker 8: monthly payment more affordable. That's true, But again, do you

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Speaker 8: want to be paying for your home until you're in

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Speaker 8: your nineties if you even live that long. To me,

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Speaker 8: that's not the way to solve this problem.

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Speaker 2: No, that's not going to work for people.

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Speaker 1: The last I think we only got about a minute

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Speaker 1: left here, Dan, But the idea that the government payments

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Speaker 1: would not go to Obamacare anymore to the Affordable Care Act,

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Speaker 1: but to consumers directly in the form of health savings accounts,

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Speaker 1: I think is a pretty good idea and worth pursuit.

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Speaker 8: Your thoughts, Yeah, my thoughts on that is the simple

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Speaker 8: fact of the matter is is Obamacare, the Affordable Care

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Speaker 8: Act simply did not work because it's not affordable. You

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Speaker 8: have the costs related to healthcare continuing to rise significantly,

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Speaker 8: so obviously there's got to be another way to do it.

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Speaker 8: We know the Affordable Care Act is unaffordable. We need

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Speaker 8: a change there.

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Speaker 1: It was never affordable, it was never about here. It

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Speaker 1: was always just an act. Dan, That's the way I

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Speaker 1: look at it, Always just an act, Dan Geltrue, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You for being here today. Thanks, Steve, really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: The market's still doing well, gold back over four thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars oil, as he said, in pretty good shape. What

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Speaker 1: about you? Send me an email Steve Gerber dot com.

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Speaker 1: How are things in your neck of the woods. Can

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Speaker 1: you afford it? It's too expensive? Are you struggling? Tell

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Speaker 1: me Steve Gerber dot com. Send me an email. We'll

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Speaker 1: take a break and be right back on America's Voice Live. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thanksgiving edition of America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving a time where Americans give thanks to all that

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Speaker 1: they're grateful for, of course, from family and friends, to possessions,

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Speaker 1: even a good job.

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Speaker 2: Maybe more thankful for that today than at other times.

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Speaker 1: One thing I think most Americans are thankful for as

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Speaker 1: a whole is the United States military, the brave men

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Speaker 1: and women who.

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Speaker 2: Have served, are serving, and will serve in the future.

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Speaker 1: America was one and the load of patriots, and it's

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Speaker 1: these brave American heroes who step between the American people

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Speaker 1: in any.

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Speaker 2: Threat that may come their way.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's imperative that we give thanks to

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Speaker 1: our veterans and service members this Thanksgiving holiday. Hear me

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Speaker 1: to discuss this as a United States Navy veteran and

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Speaker 1: an attorney for children, Drew Mavona, Drew, nice to have

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Speaker 1: you here.

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Speaker 9: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Without the military that are all celebrating the two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty year anniversaries right now, and we've got Veterans

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Speaker 1: Day coming has come through and so we've had a

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Speaker 1: chance to look at the military and celebrate.

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Speaker 2: But without that.

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Speaker 1: Military, we wouldn't be celebrating much of anything, would we.

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Speaker 9: No, we wouldn't agree with you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: So what would you like to say to the military

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Speaker 1: out there, somebody like yourself who has served and others,

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Speaker 1: what would like to say to him on this Thanksgiving Day?

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Speaker 9: You know, I think it goes without saying that we

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Speaker 9: appreciate your service, and so often, as a veteran, I

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Speaker 9: hear that, you know, thank you for your service. And

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Speaker 9: it's kind of hard to take in because so often

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Speaker 9: in the military we don't feel that we're accomplishing that

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Speaker 9: much at home, you know, so much of what we

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Speaker 9: do is abroad. But being able to take that thanks

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Speaker 9: in understand that people are so grateful for the sacrifices

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Speaker 9: for the work that we do, and all the families

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Speaker 9: that are have spouses that are in the military, the

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Speaker 9: sacrifices they put in really just at the end of

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Speaker 9: the day, so grateful.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm grateful for here, Drew, and I

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Speaker 1: want you to weigh in on this that today that

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Speaker 1: they don't We don't have an American president sneaking into

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Speaker 1: an active military zone right now, into a war zone.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a vice president or senator is going

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Speaker 1: behind enemy lines or going to the front lines, because

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Speaker 1: we have no major war for them to go to.

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Speaker 2: And that's worth being thankful for, isn't it.

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Speaker 9: Yes, it is, And I agree with that. You know,

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Speaker 9: the world still in tumultuous place and there's lots of

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Speaker 9: things going on, but what we don't have is a

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Speaker 9: major conflict that America is involved in. And like you said,

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Speaker 9: are a president or vice president having to fly behind

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Speaker 9: enemy lines to greet those groups that are forward operating.

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Speaker 9: It's a very special time.

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Speaker 1: It is a very special time. Presidents have been very

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Speaker 1: historic in some of their visits, and it's an important

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Speaker 1: time for them to say, look, you're not home with

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Speaker 1: your families.

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Speaker 2: We get it. And so sometimes the.

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Speaker 1: Presidents and vice presidents, other dignitarians will travel to make

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Speaker 1: sure that they are remembered.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, most definitely. When I was abroad, we've had

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Speaker 9: a dignitary's come and visit us. And it's so thankful,

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Speaker 9: you know. We feel so appreciated when somebody takes time

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Speaker 9: out of their day, flies halfway ross the world to

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Speaker 9: say hey to us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. In fact, George H. W.

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Speaker 1: Bush went to Saudi Arabia in nineteen ninety, George Bush

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Speaker 1: to Fort Campbell, Kentucky two thousand and one, to Baghdad

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. These are some of the

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Speaker 1: places that they've gone to.

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Speaker 2: Say.

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Speaker 1: Look on these holidays as you go into Thanksgiving and Christmas,

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Speaker 1: we have active military all over the world even today,

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Speaker 1: of course in a number of places, but not an

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Speaker 1: active war zone, which is something to be thankful for

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Speaker 1: it is remarkable the amount of food that goes out

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Speaker 1: to the troops. Let me give you an example, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand pounds of turkey, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy seven thousand pounds of beef, ninety eight thousand pounds

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Speaker 1: of ham. So even though we have this government shutdown

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Speaker 1: that has slowed things down and kind of disrupted things,

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Speaker 1: at least they eat well.

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Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, we do eat well, I would say, at least,

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Speaker 9: I would say on an aircraft carrier. You know, the

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Speaker 9: food in the Navy a little bit better than being

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Speaker 9: in a Ford operating base in foothills Afghanistan. But a

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Speaker 9: lot of times military does have the benefit of eating well.

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Speaker 9: And that's just a small kind of thanks that the

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Speaker 9: government provides to those people that are making those sacrifices.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what do you hope for going forward?

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Speaker 1: We've got better recruiting numbers, We've got improvement in moraleary places.

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Speaker 1: Except for the fact that they didn't get checks here

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Speaker 1: for a while. That gets corrected. But what do you

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Speaker 1: have to be thankful? What are you looking for as

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Speaker 1: we go forward in the military.

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Speaker 9: You know, as we go forward in the military, especially

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Speaker 9: with the modern generation. I hope that those recruitment numbers

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Speaker 9: stay up. You know, so often we think about getting

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Speaker 9: into tech or AI, these new things we hear about,

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Speaker 9: and the young Americans might not necessarily think about that

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Speaker 9: service to their country. But across socioeconomic spectrums, rich or poor,

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Speaker 9: the government needs your help to make that freedom. So

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Speaker 9: if you're not exactly sure what you want to do,

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Speaker 9: like I was when I was nineteen, and you're able

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Speaker 9: to serve and you're healthy, hey do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do it?

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Speaker 1: Step up, be somebody, an army of one as they

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Speaker 1: used to say, So tell us about.

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Speaker 2: What you're doing now that you've left to tell you.

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Speaker 2: An attorney for children, what does that entail?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm one of the few attorneys in the country

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Speaker 9: and especially in Texas, that focuses on helping injured children.

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Speaker 9: And we're talking about daycare injuries, you know, childcare injuries.

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Speaker 9: That is my focus, that is my passion, and that's

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Speaker 9: what I do every day because so often adults have

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Speaker 9: a voice in the law, and you've seen the billboards

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Speaker 9: and everyone knows as an adult you can hire an attorney,

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Speaker 9: but children don't have that same voice, and I'm here

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Speaker 9: to try to give them that voice.

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Speaker 2: Something else to be thankful for.

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Speaker 1: Drew, I greatly appreciate you being here today and for

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Speaker 1: all the troops out there, wherever you may be in

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Speaker 1: the far corners of the earth, who want to say

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Speaker 1: thank you for standing your post for us today so.

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Speaker 2: We can enjoy the thanksgiving. Drew, thank you for being here,

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Speaker 2: thank you for having me. Take care all right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: We'll take you quick break and be right back on

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Speaker 2: America's Voice Live.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: Whether we like it or not, there is a strong

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Speaker 1: need for unrelenting and unapologetic voices who can take a

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Speaker 1: stand against the narratives that legacy media tries to.

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Speaker 2: Feed us every single day.

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Speaker 1: Individuals like Charlie Kirk realized this, and instead of just

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Speaker 1: presenting his points, he actively made an effort to invite

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Speaker 1: those with different opinions, those that didn't agree with him,

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Speaker 1: to discuss and hash out those disagreements in the name

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Speaker 1: of honest, socratic debate. Charlie was sad killed, his legacy

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Speaker 1: and method of debates still remained strong, and a new

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Speaker 1: effort to bring honest debates to inner city communities is

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Speaker 1: being spearheaded by an organization named Standing True to America's

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Speaker 1: National destiny, showcasing the everlasting impact Charlie had on all

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Speaker 1: of us, even within the black community. He crossed all lines.

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Speaker 1: Join me how to discuss this as the founder president

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Speaker 1: of Staying True to America's National Destiny. Bishop E. W. Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Bishop Jackson, thank you for.

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Speaker 3: Being here, Thank you for having me. Steve a pleasure.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if this is a revival. Some

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Speaker 1: people don't like that word. They say it's not really

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Speaker 1: a revival like we had in the eighteen hundreds. But

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Speaker 1: it is a resurgence. It is a reconnecting with God,

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Speaker 1: with Jesus Church attendants of fifteen to twenty percent, Bible

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Speaker 1: sales up forty percent, downloads of biblical apps on these

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Speaker 1: phones that we carry around of eighty percent. There's something

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Speaker 1: happening that's undeniable, isn't it.

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Speaker 10: There is no question there is a move of God

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Speaker 10: in the United States of America, And frankly, I think

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Speaker 10: Charlie Kirk has really just brought it forward. But it

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Speaker 10: really began, in my view with Donald Trump, who I've

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Speaker 10: said God had his hand on Donald Trump. No matter

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Speaker 10: what we may think of Donald Trump's spirituality, I think

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Speaker 10: God made clear that he wanted some things that happened

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Speaker 10: in our country, and he was using Donald Trump to

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Speaker 10: get them done, and he was obviously using Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 10: to get them done as well. And now that movement

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Speaker 10: has just continued to flourish.

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Speaker 1: Bishop, don't you find it incredibly ironic?

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Speaker 2: Hypocritical?

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Speaker 1: Maybe you hear all of these people, you sit it

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Speaker 1: on social media every day, people that are certainly not

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Speaker 1: Christians taking shots at Christians. Well, that's not what a

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Speaker 1: Christian would do. That's how would you have any idea

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Speaker 1: what a Christian would do. You're sitting there from the

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Speaker 1: cheap seats taking shots at people like you, people like me.

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Speaker 1: The hatred, the vitriol quite something, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It is?

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Speaker 10: And they'll never give us credit for it, Steve, But

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Speaker 10: we're going to pray for them and love them and

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Speaker 10: they're to stop us, just like they didn't stop Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 10: They're not stopping his wife. They're not going to stop

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Speaker 10: us either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about this America's national destiny, True to

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Speaker 1: America's national destiny. Tell me about what this organization is

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, what your goals are.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 10: Our mission is to bring Americans together across racial and

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Speaker 10: Because I really believe that America was intended by our

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Speaker 10: founding fathers to be a nation united around principle. They

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Speaker 10: believe that America is a providential nation. I believe that,

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Speaker 10: in other words, a nation formed and inspired by God

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Speaker 10: to bring liberty and peace and prosperity to people from

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Speaker 10: literally all over the world, because it turns out that's

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Speaker 10: where we come from. We're the only nation that really

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Speaker 10: doesn't have any natives if you go back far enough.

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Speaker 10: We're all here by having traveled to this continent. And

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Speaker 10: I really believe that there's a national destiny that God

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Speaker 10: that's what standards commit into helping us do.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this because here's something I've never

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Speaker 1: depth in faith than a lot of your white of

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Speaker 1: fellow Americans. And yet you've always been on the left

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Speaker 1: side of the ledger you're not today.

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Speaker 2: I can hear that.

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Speaker 1: And there was a move when Donald Trump got elected

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Speaker 1: always seemed to me an odd relationship between the Democrat

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Speaker 2: But there is a change there too, isn't there.

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Speaker 3: It's coming.

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Speaker 10: We've sent a little bit of a setback in this

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Speaker 10: last election. But look, the Democrat Party was the party

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Speaker 10: of slavery, the party of the kru Klux Klan, the

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Speaker 10: party of lynching, the party of Jim Crow. They like

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Speaker 10: to talk about our history as Americans, but they don't

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Speaker 10: like to talk about the history of the Democrat Party,

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Speaker 10: which was really in the forefront of the most racist

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Speaker 10: ideology that the country's ever known. And we've got to

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Speaker 10: get people to start thinking about the issues in light

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Speaker 10: of facts and truth, rather than being manipulated by Democrats

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Speaker 10: who just keep telling them Republicans are racists.

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Speaker 3: We're not. We're going to save you from them.

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Speaker 10: And oh, by the way, we're going to abort your babies,

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Speaker 10: and we're going to teach your children to be transgender

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Speaker 10: and all this other stuff, but you can ignore that

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Speaker 10: because we're going to be your racial saviors. I mean,

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Speaker 10: it is really horrible manipulation and propaganda that people have

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Speaker 10: simply got to be delivered from.

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Speaker 1: And keep those folks they need victims they do, and

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Speaker 1: keep folks in the inner cities, oftentimes on a government

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Speaker 1: check on government dependency.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't get better.

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Speaker 1: It just perpetuates generation and generation, all of this we're

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Speaker 1: going to help you. I don't see the empirical evidence

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Speaker 1: the Hispanic community, or a lot of other places either

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Speaker 1: for that matter. But they keep saying they're going to

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Speaker 1: do it. They keep promising they're going to do it,

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Speaker 1: but they never deliver on a do they It's.

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Speaker 10: The spirit of slavery, isn't it, Because what do slavery do?

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Speaker 10: They bought people, and they're doing the same thing now

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Speaker 10: they're buying people. It's just a different packaging, it's a

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Speaker 10: different approach of different marketing, but it's the same thing,

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Speaker 10: creating dependents and making people believe they simply cannot make it,

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Speaker 10: they cannot exist without the support of the government, and

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Speaker 10: therefore they owe the government and particularly this party that

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Speaker 10: they think takes care of them, their allegiance, their absolute

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I still give thanks for this nation this day Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, please tell us about the

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Speaker 1: series of these open forums you're holling within inner city

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Speaker 1: communities and what they're about and what you are accomplishing.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 10: Charlie Kirk really inspired me because the black community is

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Speaker 10: caught up in this ideological battle, but they have basically

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Speaker 10: been emotionally hijacked with facts, not with truth, but just

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Speaker 10: with this emotional racial appeal. And what we want to

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Speaker 10: do is a similar thing, going to the inner cities

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Speaker 10: and start asking questions, Well, is America systemically racist?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean by that? Let's talk about that.

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Speaker 10: Why is it that black people succeed in this country

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Speaker 10: and become millionaires and billionaires? And why is it that

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Speaker 10: so many do so? Well, what's going on? If it's

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Speaker 10: so systemically racist, how can people succeed? And there are

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Speaker 10: a number of other questions we want to ask and

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Speaker 10: really have a discussion about. Rather than just dismissing America

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Speaker 10: as a racist country without any evidence.

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Speaker 3: I think people will find out.

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Speaker 10: This is the greatest nation on earth to live, to work,

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Speaker 10: to build a business, to raise the family, and to

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Speaker 10: educate your children that's ever existed, and people ought to

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Speaker 10: be taking advantage of the opportunities, not denouncing the country.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an amen to that, Bishop,

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Speaker 1: Amen on this Thanksgiving sir, Happy Thanksgiving to you, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for such an uplifting message.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Steve. God bless you. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: I bless you all right after the break well story

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Speaker 1: that reminds us of just how wonderful America is because

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Speaker 1: it is just like the Bishop said, plus answers to

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Speaker 1: our America's Voice question of the day, what are you

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Speaker 1: thankful for? In twenty twenty five, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: What makes America wonderful? We do it every day with

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Speaker 1: the hope of putting a smile on your face before

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Speaker 1: you head on your way. And what a day to

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Speaker 1: do it, I mean, unless you're a little sleepy from

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Speaker 1: the Turkey, of course.

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Speaker 2: Today's story comes to us from my studio.

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Speaker 1: In order to take a moment and just say thank

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Speaker 1: you without fail, everyone at home tunes into the Morning

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Speaker 1: Show into America's Voice Live in order to hear news

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Speaker 1: stories and topics not covered by legacy media sources, oftentimes

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Speaker 1: because the important thing to be mindful of is hearing

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Speaker 1: all sides between your viewership and support. On my social media,

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Speaker 1: you all at home can ensure that we keep bringing

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Speaker 1: you the stories that matter most. In itself can never

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Speaker 1: be appreciated enough. So in the spirit of being thankful,

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Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you

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Speaker 1: to all of you at home for making me and

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Speaker 1: real America's voice a part of your day every day.

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Speaker 2: And as far as what makes America wonderful, well, that's obvious.

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Speaker 1: Viewers like you you share in the pursuit of finding

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Speaker 1: voices who are not afraid. I'm telling it like it is.

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Speaker 1: So from all of us here, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I truly appreciate you being here every day.

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: The question today, what are you thankful for? In twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five? What are you thankful for? Sam Foles the

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Speaker 1: third says, I'm thankful I'm going to be able to

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Speaker 1: retire at the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: I would be too, Sam, Can I come with you?

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Speaker 1: I may not deserve it, but after forty plus years

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Speaker 1: of construction work, my body's earned it.

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Speaker 2: I guess it probably has.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: We need more people like you, Sam, Real America is

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Speaker 1: willing to work hard, not ask for handouts. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for bringing you, Sam chet Colman Wright. So I'm thankful

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is our president and pray God will

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Speaker 1: protect him every day. You know all we hear in

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Speaker 1: the media these days, I could not possibly agree more.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a target every day. Keep him safe, Lord, please,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Ann our president Donald Trump. You're thankful for the president.

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Speaker 1: Many of us are. Seventy seven million Americans voted for him,

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Speaker 1: of course, and that's critical. David and Judy Taylor write

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Speaker 1: that Donald is the president and MAGA is still strong.

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Speaker 1: It is we saw that with the collapse of the

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Speaker 1: government shut down, when Democrats realized you just can't beat

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You can't beat people who believe in this country.

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Speaker 1: Linda Ketchers side rights President Donald J.

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Speaker 2: Trump. I see a theme here developing.

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Speaker 1: People that watch this program believe in the president, believe

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Speaker 1: in America, believe in freedom, believe in a country for

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Speaker 1: our kids and our grandkids. That's what we're fighting for. Look,

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Speaker 1: I lived the American dream. I was blessed to do.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for it today. But I want my

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Speaker 1: kids and grandkids to have the same opportunities that I

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Speaker 1: had that you've had. Alan Anderson Rights, Trump, Yeah, there,

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Speaker 1: it is not yours. I'm thankful for firearms instructors who

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Speaker 1: are teaching a growing number of Americans how to shoot.

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Speaker 2: I agree with that. By the way, I.

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Speaker 1: Saw several states now if you miss this, several states

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Speaker 1: now are going to require guns safety in schools. It's

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Speaker 1: about time. I have preached that message here on this

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Speaker 1: program for years. There are three or four hundred million

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Speaker 1: guns in America, maybe more for people that don't know

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Speaker 1: how powerful that opportunity is. You need to know how

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Speaker 1: to use guns. All of that right, So Americans learning

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Speaker 1: to shoot and how to use the equipment.

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Speaker 2: That's a smart thing.

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Speaker 1: Meety seven Rights, God's infinite love and grace.

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Speaker 2: Nine. I could not agree with you more.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been more outspoken since the death of

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk at the hands of an assassin way back

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Speaker 1: in September. We don't mind telling you we're Christians, and

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Speaker 1: we're okay with it.

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Speaker 2: We're Christians.

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Speaker 1: D D writes, my Savior, husband, family, friends, and my

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Speaker 2: We are your family.

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Speaker 5: D D.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I feel like we're all in

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Speaker 1: this together, don't you. Yeah, I feel like we're all

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Speaker 1: in this together. So again, on this Thanksgiving Day, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here, Thank you for spending time with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for you know, skipping the football game for

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Speaker 1: a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it, and we appreciate you being here every

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Speaker 2: single day we do.

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Speaker 1: This is a family at Real America's Voice, with Rob

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Speaker 1: Zig and Parker Sig and all the great people behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes that you never get to see or hear from.

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Speaker 1: They appreciate you coming here every day too, because we

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Speaker 1: work hard for you to tell you the truth and

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we give you a little different

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Speaker 1: look at the country from our perspective. God bless you,

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Speaker 1: God bless America. Happy Thanksgiving, my friends. We'll talk soon.