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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. This is Thursday. So

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Speaker 1: we have the group with us. We have Kyle Olsen,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Broadwater, and of course me Tutor Dixon, and we

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Speaker 1: want to talk about what's going on in the country. Kyle,

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Speaker 1: you were talking about this and so I wanted to

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Speaker 1: bring it up because the US Surgeon General has now

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Speaker 1: declared gun violence a public health crisis. They've been trying

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Speaker 1: to do this for years. They've talked about it back

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Speaker 1: and forth. It's so funny to me, because, like, are

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Speaker 1: you not seeing that the crisis here is that you

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Speaker 1: are letting people who are committing violent crimes out. They

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Speaker 1: don't even go to jail. I mean, look at California,

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Speaker 1: but look here in Michigan. It's the same. These people.

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Speaker 1: They should be on a list, They should know this

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Speaker 1: is going to happen. They shouldn't even be on a list.

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Speaker 1: They should be in jail. There is a solution to this,

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Speaker 1: but this is now the solution, right.

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Speaker 2: So Vivig Murphy is the Surgeon General and he's saying

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Speaker 2: that there are several things that the US Congress and

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Speaker 2: states should pass to what he calls to eliminate what

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Speaker 2: he calls gun violence. And he's saying that the US

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Speaker 2: should ban automatic rifles, which I thought automatic weapons were

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Speaker 2: not legal, Introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate

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Speaker 2: the industry whatever that means. I thought the industry was

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Speaker 2: heavily regulated. Pass laws that would restrict their use in

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Speaker 2: public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store

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Speaker 2: their weapons. Pass laws that would restrict their use in

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Speaker 2: public spaces. Does that mean you can't if you're in public,

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Speaker 2: you can't defend yourself.

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Speaker 1: It just I would say that's no more open carry

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Speaker 1: or conceal carry. You're not going to be able to

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Speaker 1: carry a gun with you anywhere. And we know what

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Speaker 1: that means. That means that the only person with a

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Speaker 1: the number of times that we don't even hear about

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Speaker 1: somebody being protected because they have a gun, and I

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Speaker 1: would argue this is the great equalizer for women in

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Speaker 1: a country right now where women are a threat constantly.

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Speaker 1: We've just seen the murder of the mother of five,

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Speaker 1: We've just seen the murder of the twelve year old girl.

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Speaker 1: We see Lake and Riley Ruby Garcia. What do we

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Speaker 1: have to defend ourselves? If suddenly you've got somebody saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: because there's bad guys with guns, we're going to take

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Speaker 1: away all guns, which is always always what they say.

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Speaker 1: That's always what they say. The answer is. The other

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Speaker 1: thing that bothers me is penalize people who fail to

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Speaker 1: safely store their weapon. And I and this is something

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Speaker 1: we've talked about on the podcast before because obviously I

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Speaker 1: agree with these families who have had issues like this

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Speaker 1: that their child has gone someplace and the weapon wasn't

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Speaker 1: stored and a tragedy occurred. I don't understand how penalizing

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Speaker 1: someone after the fact is helping. Why are we not

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Speaker 1: if you are claiming this, why not do an education campaign?

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Speaker 1: Why not started talking about this? Like he talks about

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Speaker 1: this and says he's comparing this to cigarettes, right, He's like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we did this sin in this eighties, seventies, eighties with cigarettes,

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Speaker 1: and we started getting people away from cigarettes. Okay, but

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, that was a very personal health decision

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Speaker 1: and you could choose to stop smoking on your own.

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Speaker 1: So I see the same thing when it comes to

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Speaker 1: safe storage. Yeah, for safe storage, you can do that.

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Speaker 1: You could have a whole campaign. If he thinks that

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Speaker 1: they were successful with cigarettes by doing that, then why

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Speaker 1: not do that with safe storage? But you cannot do

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Speaker 1: that with people using their gun or carrying their gun.

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Speaker 3: Well, and every single rule he lists here is demonizing

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Speaker 3: the gun industry. In reality, what he could do is

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Speaker 3: go and make nice with this industry and encourage them

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Speaker 3: to work together towards this goal. But if you're going

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Speaker 3: after every single thing this this industry stands for and

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Speaker 3: you're not enabling them to do business, how are they

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Speaker 3: going to work with you on education campaign? Like, in

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Speaker 3: my mind, wouldn't it be just lovely if you had

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Speaker 3: safe storage advocates working with gun manufacturers and every gun

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Speaker 3: that sold includes this safe storage unit. I mean almost

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Speaker 2: And I read a story this week in about a

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Speaker 2: nonprofit which I won't name because I'm still looking into

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Speaker 3: To reveal your scoop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's not a scoop, but I don't want

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Speaker 2: But there's an organization that is working to basically try

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Speaker 2: for crimes. And so what they're trying to do is

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Speaker 2: in gang situations or those sorts of situations, they're trying

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Speaker 2: in because here's it's a nonprofit that is working in

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Speaker 2: that is an option. So because you can look at

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Speaker 2: people are using guns to you know, exact revenge or

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Speaker 2: whatever their motivation is, and so those are the sort

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Speaker 2: all of that should be trained on those communities and

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Speaker 2: on those areas versus this sort of you know, shotgun

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Speaker 3: Well, and the Democrats always issue edicts and then they

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Speaker 3: assume that everyone's going to follow them but in reality,

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Speaker 3: if you're using a gun for a crime, do you

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Speaker 3: prosecuted for it to begin with. So he's just creating

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Speaker 3: more rules that the Democrats are not going to follow.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, are dumb prosecutor is

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Speaker 3: going to go after all these things finally now because

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Speaker 1: Well my issue with this though, again is lawmakers pass laws.

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Speaker 1: They convince these people that this is going to be

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Speaker 1: the US Surgeon General. So people want to listen to him,

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Speaker 1: the DC bubble, and they say, man, that's a really

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Speaker 1: good idea. We got to pass this law. No one knows,

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Speaker 1: No one knows the laws passed. And the thing is

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Speaker 1: are not hearing this message. And I don't believe that

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, maybe I'll be found wrong about that, but

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Speaker 1: I do think that if you are going to compare

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Speaker 1: they got rid of cigarette, they stopped smoking all together.

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Speaker 1: Guns have more than one purpose. It's not like you're

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Speaker 1: You could have a gun for hunting, you could have

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Speaker 1: while I agree people should be taught how to safely

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Speaker 1: it is not right. And I would say that this

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Speaker 1: is something that we've seen here in Michigan. Again, you

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Speaker 1: I say, these people come out and say this, these politicians,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I talked directly with family members of

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Speaker 3: Of course, they all wanted to be in front of

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Speaker 3: do you know what that siren is? I mean, are

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying again, if you don't explain

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, it has no effect. They own the

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Speaker 1: It is a message to go run. That is not

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, what.

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Speaker 1: Is the solution if everybody's like, oh, what's that sound?

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Speaker 3: I think it's also just the easiest, most public thing

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Speaker 3: show them, they can get b or all of it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the quickest possible way for them to

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Speaker 3: say they're doing something. And I'm not saying, like I

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Speaker 3: know these parents in particular had explicit things that they

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Speaker 1: Well, And why don't you say, Kyle, I want to

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Speaker 1: bring up a story that you did I think last

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Speaker 1: So all of these blowney lines about how much she

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Speaker 1: Well, it's Democrats that are doing it. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: that has anti Semitic views, America takes care of that.

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Speaker 1: We vote them out. They are no longer there. They

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Speaker 1: don't have that control.

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Speaker 2: I think one of the most disturbing things about Jamal

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Speaker 2: Bowman was that before he was in Congress, he was

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Speaker 2: a He was a school principal in New York City.

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Speaker 2: How in the world does somebody like that become a

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Speaker 2: school principal and not only become one, but remain one.

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Speaker 3: Very good point. I actually never even put that together

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Speaker 3: what he was teaching kids.

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Speaker 2: He was watching him at that rally and when he

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Speaker 2: remember he pulled the fire alarm. Yeah, he's that guy

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Speaker 2: is a nut. And I watched one of his interview

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Speaker 2: or he was like a selfie video or something after

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Speaker 2: the rally, and he was talking about, you know, like

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Speaker 2: every other word was ceasefire. Yeah, it's like just part

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Speaker 2: of his you know, his the thing he says. And

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Speaker 2: I thought, how many how many of his constituents, like

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Speaker 2: things are not good in America right now and with

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Speaker 2: inflation then you know, all of everything, and how many

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Speaker 2: of his constituents really have the time to sit around

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Speaker 2: and think about a ceasefire?

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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on

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Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. And now you hear people coming

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Speaker 1: out and saying like he's a truly angry guy. This

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Speaker 1: he yells at people in the video is coming out

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Speaker 1: of him yelling at people. And then he yelled at

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Speaker 1: him his concessions. I mean, he yelled at that weird

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Speaker 1: thing with AOC like really angry. And I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: There are certain people that I think, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: not you know someone personally when generally when you vote

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Speaker 1: for them, so you don't know exactly how they're going

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Speaker 1: to treat people. I mean, and we've heard of people

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the Shila Jackson Lee story and

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Speaker 1: that was scary how she treated employees, a lot of swearing,

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Speaker 1: a lot of belittling. But I think that this happens

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the aisle and somebody gets a

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Speaker 1: little bit of power, and in certain cases those people

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Speaker 1: are they can't handle it. They treat people badly, and

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Speaker 1: that's why that should be exposed and you vote them out.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't be able to say and I mean, it happens,

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Speaker 1: but this is the result of bad behavior. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what could be worse pulling and he was on video

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Speaker 1: pulling the fire alarm.

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Speaker 2: During a vote with the intention of subverting democracy.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't go to jail for trying to to

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Speaker 1: stop an official proceeding. What is it like, that's what

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Speaker 1: they sent everybody to solitary confinement for for j six

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Speaker 1: and he's just walking around swearing.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was looking it up because I wanted

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Speaker 3: to see if he was also a convicted felon or

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Speaker 3: not for this, but of course not. It says any

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Speaker 3: charges will be dropped in three months if mister Bowman

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Speaker 3: provides a formal apology to the Capitol Police and pays

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Speaker 3: the one thousand dollars fine.

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't the other people have a formal apology? And

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Speaker 1: the people I mean, and I know that there were

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Speaker 1: people that broke windows and did property had the property

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Speaker 1: damage on January sixth, people in jail. There are plenty

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Speaker 1: of them who walked in that building. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: making excuses for them, but come on.

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Speaker 3: I'm asking for the same standard at.

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Speaker 1: Least exactly exactly. This is ridiculous. And I mean, even

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Speaker 1: this woman that I was sending you guys the article

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Speaker 1: about the other day that they're going after the eighty

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Speaker 1: six year old woman who was protesting outside of an

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Speaker 1: abortion clinic, and now they're pumped through her in jail potentially.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is happening on our side. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I'll just end this by saying, you go back to

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Speaker 1: Michigan having this horrible violence problem, and now you've got

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Speaker 1: two of the poorest cities too. Something I just heard

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Speaker 1: that this morning.

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Speaker 2: That you, yeah, we've got Michigan has two of the

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Speaker 2: poorest cities in the country. Flint is number one and

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Speaker 2: Detroit is number three.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how can you how can you go after

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Speaker 1: this little old woman at an abortion clinic when you've

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Speaker 1: got all this violence, when you've got I mean, i'd

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Speaker 1: say what Whitmer's done the Michigan is criminal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's lost half of our fortune five hundred companies, and

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Speaker 1: we didn't have that many to start with. And I

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Speaker 1: mean she's destroyed us with these climate policies. It's just

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Speaker 1: at some point you've got to hold people accountable. New

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Speaker 1: York saw that this week. They saw what it looks

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Speaker 1: like when you act a fool and you get voted out.

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Speaker 1: And I just hope that people are seeing this. I

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Speaker 1: think we need to go back to a time when

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Speaker 1: you have respect, you go out and you debate respectfully,

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Speaker 1: you use truth when you are out campaigning. And that's something.

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Speaker 1: Just the other thing, this cheap fakes thing that we

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Speaker 1: talked about last week, I thought about that more. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: think of all this stuff that they manipulated just during

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Speaker 1: our campaign, all of the audio that they pushed together

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Speaker 1: and they made, and even Whimmer admitted that she knew

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Speaker 1: that wasn't what I had said. They are the masters

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Speaker 1: of manipulation and lies, and it's time to hold them accountable.

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Speaker 3: Well, and they get away with it. I mean just

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Speaker 3: last week, Whitmer had this glowing sit down interview with

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Speaker 3: The New York Times that was on their podcast, and

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Speaker 3: it was on I think it was the Sunday Paper,

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Speaker 3: and gosh, you want to talk about an interview where

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Speaker 3: she just got to say whatever she wanted was zero

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Speaker 3: fact checking. I mean, she provided no statistics and numbers

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Speaker 3: for all of the things that she said. I mean,

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Speaker 3: her vision of Michigan sounds really great. I would love

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Speaker 3: to live in maybe her actual vision of Michigan that

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Speaker 3: she's talking about, but she's living in La la Land

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Speaker 3: because there's no businesses. I mean, I obviously moved to

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Speaker 3: Michigan this last year officially after the campaign, and moving

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Speaker 3: here versus some of the other states that I've lived in, Indiana, Ohio, DC, even,

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Speaker 3: there's so many things that I'm like, why is it

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Speaker 3: like this here?

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Speaker 1: One of our favorite family restaurants is closing in Kalamazoo,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's devastating. But Kalamazoo is a total

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Speaker 1: hell whole now. Nobody can have a business there. There's

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Speaker 1: people shooting up on the streets, no one to try

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Speaker 1: to help them get out of that situation. We talked

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Speaker 1: to the women the other day about drug abuse. It's

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Speaker 1: like they had such great points. That podcast was very

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Speaker 1: interesting to me because I thought, you know, they're right,

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Speaker 1: No one cares. No one wants to. They want to

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Speaker 1: find a place to put them and clean the street

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Speaker 1: and move them away and then they'll move back. But

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Speaker 1: they don't want to actually get these people off of

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Speaker 1: drugs or try to help them in any way. Kalamazoo

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Speaker 1: is a dump. You've got this situation with the right

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Speaker 1: aids all leaving Michigan. I mean, everything is leaving. You

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Speaker 1: talk about the two headquarters. Dealiantis is now going to

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Speaker 1: lay off a bunch of people. Kelloggs is leaving, all

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Speaker 1: of these places are leaving this state. And yet you're

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Speaker 1: right that magazine or newspapers they don't push back at

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Speaker 1: all and say, oh wait a minute, your vision of

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Speaker 1: what you present as Michigan is not the reality for

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Speaker 1: people living on the ground. So if I'm in Iowa

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Speaker 1: or if I'm in Utah and I read that article,

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Speaker 1: I think Michigan looks pretty good, and you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: she'd make a great president because her economy is fantastic

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Speaker 1: her the state is thriving as all lies.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's funny you bring up the topic of how

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Speaker 3: you you know, when someone big comes in, you clean

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Speaker 3: up the streets to get the drug use of the

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Speaker 3: homeless people off the street. That's literally what they're doing

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Speaker 3: for Gretchen Wimmer right now. She wants to run for president,

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Speaker 3: whether it's the cycle or the next one, and they

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Speaker 3: are cleaning up the streets where they need to, or

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Speaker 3: cleaning up the stories whatever they need to of Michigan

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Speaker 3: to make her look great. Yes, for her presidential run,

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Speaker 3: it's got to like they met stop the streets.

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Speaker 1: By making her look like this wonderful. But it's funny

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Speaker 1: because you see her interviewed in that interview where she

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Speaker 1: pretends like she can't hear or.

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Speaker 3: I are you there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the minute she gets out a tough question, she

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Speaker 1: doesn't know know how to answer, and that's why she

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Speaker 1: struggled in the debates. And I know everybody's talking about

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Speaker 1: the debate tonight and what's that going to be like?

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Speaker 1: And I do think that you watch carefully whether or

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Speaker 1: not the people understand what's happening. And it was funny

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Speaker 1: after the debate, so many people said to me, man,

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Speaker 1: there was not a question you were stumped on. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I take it seriously that I'm asking you'd

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Speaker 1: allow me to serve you. So I want to learn

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Speaker 1: everything I possibly can and make sure I know when

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Speaker 1: you walk into these debates. People assume that the person

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Speaker 1: who is already in the office knows. So like you've

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Speaker 1: heard people say, oh, Donald Trump won't be a problem

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Speaker 1: because he's already had it, Joe Biden already knows he's president. No,

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Speaker 1: you go in there prepared and Grutchen Wimer didn't prepare,

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Speaker 1: and no one called her on it.

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Speaker 2: Right, and she is right now I think she is

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Speaker 2: just her persona is on social media and she puts

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Speaker 2: out these tweets about abortion, and you know, we're fixing

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Speaker 2: the roads and we're doing all of these wonderful things.

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Speaker 2: But there's no media in the state of Michigan that

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Speaker 2: I'm seeing that is willing to challenge her or even

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Speaker 2: maybe I should say even has access to her to

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Speaker 2: challenge her. Good point, and which is a whole nother

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Speaker 2: discussion about, well, then why are they not demanding the

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Speaker 2: access or refusing to cover her until they get the access.

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Speaker 3: But it just it's a very similar actually it's a

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Speaker 3: good comparison potentially of debates of what it could be

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Speaker 3: like tonight with Joe Biden and Trump, because very similar situation.

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Speaker 3: Whitmer was never pressed by the media. She never did

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Speaker 3: interviews that her team did not explicitly know what was

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Speaker 3: going into them, or some Instagram video of her doing

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Speaker 3: a cooking show and she had her lines prepared, yes,

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Speaker 3: that she was going to say, but they weren't factual,

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Speaker 3: and of course the moderators did not call her on it,

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Speaker 3: but you did. And so that's the thing is, if

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Speaker 3: Trump can effectively call Joe Biden on his bluffs and

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Speaker 3: catch him on those things. That's where the magic could happen.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened with you and Whitmer at

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Speaker 3: the time, because you literally were the only one that

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Speaker 3: actually told the truth on her because the media wasn't

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Speaker 3: going to do it.

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Speaker 1: And I do still credit Governor Doucy because he called

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Speaker 1: me early that day before the first debate and he said,

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Speaker 1: what do you need And I said, any advice you

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Speaker 1: can give me, and he said, don't think about your

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Speaker 1: answer carefully, listen to hers and think about what she's

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Speaker 1: not telling the truth about. And that I think was

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Speaker 1: so important because man, I was the only person that

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Speaker 1: was going to fact check her, and I knew not

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Speaker 1: only all of what I wanted to do with the state,

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Speaker 1: all of the destructions she had caused, and that when

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Speaker 1: people asked me about this, you don't really get to

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Speaker 1: talk about it on the news stations to get like

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Speaker 1: three minutes right. So when people ask me, well, what

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Speaker 1: do you think about Joe Biden preparing this much? Now

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Speaker 1: you've got to go through every scenario. But for Trump

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Speaker 1: it's going to be worse. It's going to be they

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Speaker 1: are going to try to trap him and same with

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Speaker 1: Gretchen Whitmer. They're not going to try to trap Biden.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna at when he says something, you know what.

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Speaker 1: They won't to ask about the laptop. If they do,

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Speaker 1: if Trump brings it up, they're going to cover it up.

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Speaker 1: All of these things. They will protect him. Trump has

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Speaker 1: and I think it's fantastic. I think it shows that

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Speaker 1: three people, because that's the truth of what's happening tonight.

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Speaker 1: He's going up against three people. And I think that

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Speaker 1: if you're watching tonight, just know this is not walking

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Speaker 1: in and having a conversation. You have to be so

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Speaker 1: on it, and you are. Trump is not only tonight

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Speaker 1: the person who is the opponent of Joe Biden, but

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Speaker 1: he is also the moderator for Joe Biden because there's

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Speaker 3: It's true, they're going to assume the worst intentions for

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump and the best intentions for Biden.

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Speaker 1: And everything absolutely well. We are anxious to see it tonight.

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