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Speaker 1: Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, laughing as I

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Speaker 1: come into hour number two. By the way, Buck is

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Speaker 1: in Taiwan. He interviewed the President of Taiwan there. He

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Speaker 1: will have for you on Monday, some of those interview segments.

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing as I come back in out of break

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Speaker 1: because I shared the gallop pull about trust and media

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Speaker 1: that a lot of you are reacting to on social

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Speaker 1: media as well, and the comments there are really pretty great,

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Speaker 1: and you guys are giving me a lot of talkbacks,

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Speaker 1: a lot of calls about who you trust. And as

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Speaker 1: I was reading to make sure that I'm updated on

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Speaker 1: all the news during the commercial break, I come across

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Speaker 1: our good friend Jesse Kelly, who many of you are

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Speaker 1: going to hear on six PM or later versions of

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Speaker 1: the Premiere Radio Network. He is down in Houston. He

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Speaker 1: responded to my question of who do you trust to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you and not law by saying, Jesse Kelly,

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Speaker 1: did I trust me the most? You dead last? So,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly, I've got to respond. I haven't had time yet,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to say this is exactly the response

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Speaker 1: I would expect from someone who ordered seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: shots at tequila. You know that's true. We were on

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Speaker 1: we were in New York City for those of you

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Speaker 1: who may have forgotten and need to understand why you

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Speaker 1: can't trust anything, Jesse, Kelly says. And we were having

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Speaker 1: a nice we were on the rooftop, great restaurant. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: having drinks, everybody's having a good time. Jesse decides we

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Speaker 1: need a round of tequila shots. Around of tequila shots.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There were like six of us. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: should that cost? Seven eight dollars each. I understand that

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Speaker 1: I'm getting old, but at most and I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about a dingy, you know, college bar, because I will.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you this. If you, whatever your financial

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Speaker 1: situation is, if you go into like an sec college

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Speaker 1: bar for a big game weekend, you will never feel

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Speaker 1: richer than when you order like five beers. What they

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Speaker 1: come back and say, I was, I was out recently

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Speaker 1: and I went to the bar, and you know, it's crowded,

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Speaker 1: and the last thing I want to do is stand

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Speaker 1: in a crowded bar line, and so you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: try to buy it. I'm an old man now and

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Speaker 1: unk as my kids will call me and so I'll

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Speaker 1: try to get a bucket or so I don't have

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Speaker 1: to get back in line very fast, and I'll say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, give me six Coors lights, six Miller lights.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not willing to order bud light whatever. It

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Speaker 1: is an easy bar, you know, tab order. And the

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Speaker 1: last time I did that, the girl came back and

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Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, that'll be twenty one dollars and

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this, It's been so long since

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Speaker 1: I went anywhere and somebody charged me something, and I thought, man,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot less than I expected.

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Speaker 2: You guys know what.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about, Like everything costs too

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Speaker 1: much relative to what I think it should cost. Now

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Speaker 1: because of the Biden inflation, everything just went up like

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Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty percent at least, and so everything

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Speaker 1: you order, it feels like it's way more expensive than

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Speaker 1: it should be. And I think that's the angst and

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Speaker 1: the anger and the uh being upset. But this was

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Speaker 1: the second time in my life. The first time I

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Speaker 1: was in New York. Producer Ali, You'll probably know where

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Speaker 1: this place was. It was I think after my first

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Speaker 1: maybe my second year of law school, and my current

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Speaker 1: wife then girlfriend Laura. We were in New York. I

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Speaker 1: think it was like the so what's the really fancy

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Speaker 2: So bad? Is it?

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Speaker 1: The Soho? Is that the name of the hotel? The

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Speaker 2: Would that be?

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Speaker 1: Like you walk in and there's kind of this cool

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Speaker 1: bar and the I don't know, it's probably like a

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Speaker 1: has a studio near there, right like that. Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: used to use the tribe Grand, Tribeca Grand, that's what

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Speaker 1: I am twenty three, I have no money, and I

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Speaker 1: remember thinking, I'm going to be the first person to

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Speaker 1: history of mankind. I just couldn't believe what it cost

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Speaker 1: at the Tribeca Grand. This same thing happened with Jesse Kelly.

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Speaker 1: We're at I think it was the Peninsula Hotel, where

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Speaker 1: six shots seventy five dollars each, seventy five dollars each.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly ordered shots on my tab at the table.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know there was a seventy five dollars

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Speaker 1: a gold bar, that should come with stock in the hotel.

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Speaker 1: So when Jesse says he trusts me the least of everybody,

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Speaker 1: I just think it's important for all of you to

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Speaker 1: know that he's balding and also that he's the kind

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Speaker 1: of person who orders seventy five dollars shots of tequila.

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Speaker 1: So trusted Media, tons of you reacting to that story,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to take your reactions to that.

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Speaker 1: But I think one reason trusted media has collapsed is

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in media are Charlatans. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people in media are completely dishonest, and they don't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of gratitude. I am every single day.

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Speaker 1: I encourage all of you to think, try to do

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Speaker 1: this too. Every single day. When I wake up, the

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Speaker 1: first thing I think, before I even reach over and

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Speaker 1: the day is, I think, boy, here are two or

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Speaker 1: three things that that I am very grateful for the

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Speaker 1: most time. It has to do with my boys, my wife,

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Speaker 1: my family, the jobs that I feel very fortunate to have.

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Speaker 1: Before I do anything else, before I get out of bed,

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Speaker 1: for about thirty seconds one minute, I just lay in

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Speaker 1: bed and I think, Hey, here are the things that

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Speaker 1: I am grateful for. Because I think gratitude is probably

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Speaker 1: the most underutilized and the most important of all emotions

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Speaker 1: in the world at large. How many people in media

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Speaker 1: do you think are grateful for the jobs that they have,

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Speaker 1: feel incredibly fortunate to be able to live in this country,

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Speaker 1: make a living saying exactly what we think. Every single day,

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Speaker 1: when I sit down, I put on my headset. For

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Speaker 1: about ten seconds, I think, boy, this is an incredible privilege.

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Speaker 1: I've done that for twenty years. When I did local

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Speaker 1: sports talk radio in Nashville, I remember sitting down thinking, man,

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Speaker 1: get paid nothing to do with this. My first shop

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Speaker 1: So I've legitimately done this for no money because I

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Speaker 1: to have media jobs that pay them millions of dollars?

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Speaker 1: Say whatever they think? This clip is going viral, and

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Speaker 1: think that, in addition to facts versus feelings we were

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Speaker 1: talking about with Ben Shapiro, who I think has done

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Speaker 1: profoundly thankful and filled with gratitude that we all get

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that there aren't things every day where

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Speaker 1: you wake up and you think, boy, Hugh, this has

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Speaker 1: not been a day, this has not been a week,

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Speaker 1: this has been really hard. I'm not saying that it

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Speaker 1: just mean that, as a general rule, do you feel

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Speaker 1: immense gratitude every day that you wake up for the privilege,

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Speaker 1: for the good fortune that you live in the United States.

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Speaker 1: Warren Buffett has a great example of this. By the way,

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Speaker 1: what are there seven billion of us? It's really good illustrative.

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Speaker 1: your grandkids. He says, if you live in the United

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Speaker 1: States today, pretend that every seven billion people in the

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Speaker 1: your fate. But he said, you know what, no one

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Speaker 1: in America should ever change their marble. Think about that

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Speaker 1: That no matter whether you are the richest or the

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Speaker 1: When my mom came here from Guyana. She's an immigrant.

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Speaker 3: My mother got the root waking racist. That's weird.

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Speaker 1: Tell me this is the land of opportunity.

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Speaker 1: that's the immediate reaction that I have. If you're not

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Speaker 1: Guyana if you think it's super, super racist place and

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Speaker 1: I said, boy, I expected it to be a lot better.

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Speaker 1: This sucks. I'd go back to the country I was

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Speaker 1: born in, wouldn't you? How is the immediate reaction here

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Speaker 1: not boy, that's a tremendous lack of gratitude. How much

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Speaker 1: money do you make? Joy your ead millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: a year. You make more money than ninety nine point

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Speaker 1: nine percent of Americans. You got to go to Harvard,

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Speaker 1: a place that ninety nine point nine percent of Americans

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Speaker 1: that as a first generation American. Would you have become

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Speaker 2: we have a census and then controlling making sure that

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Speaker 2: we have a good census to reapportion them. Michigan is

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Speaker 2: going to be the center and this is how we build.

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Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember when Florida was a swing

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Speaker 2: state and Ohio was a swing state. But because Republicans

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Speaker 2: stepped up, took ownership, and began to change policies to

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Speaker 2: make it more favorable for their citizens, they are now

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Speaker 2: read states and they are thriving. And that is what's

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Speaker 2: possible in Michigan. Mission again, can not only be the

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Speaker 2: most beautiful, most gritty, most amazing state. But we can

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Speaker 2: also be the most well run state if we choose

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Speaker 2: to pick up and we all get to support for

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Speaker 2: a strong topic ticket and start planning for the future.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to John James. He represents the tenth Congressional

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Speaker 1: District of Michigan. Right now, you went to West Point.

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Speaker 1: What was that experience like? You also served overseas in Iraq?

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Speaker 1: What was that experience like? For people who do not

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Speaker 1: know your background, give them your bio and let them

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Speaker 1: know how you came to be where you are today.

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Speaker 2: I came to be where I am today by the

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Speaker 2: grace of God and a mama who would not quit

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Speaker 2: on a boy who was raised in Detroit when she

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Speaker 2: watched a bunch of other young black men go down

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Speaker 2: the wrong path. She refused to surrender me to the streets.

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Speaker 2: And my father and mother worked hard together to give

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Speaker 2: me the best and my brother and sisters the best

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Speaker 2: life that they could. And I know that since they

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Speaker 2: come from the Jim Crow South, they came to mission

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Speaker 2: again for opportunities, and I've been exceedingly blessed in my life.

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Speaker 2: And so they taught me that I had to use

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Speaker 2: my blessing to be a blessing to others. That is

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Speaker 2: why I knew that I needed to serve my nation,

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Speaker 2: this great country that has given us so much. No,

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Speaker 2: we're not perfect, but we're the greatest nation that's ever been,

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Speaker 2: and we need to share the good news of anyone

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Speaker 2: who will listen, and most who won't. This is what

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Speaker 2: I was able to do. I graduated high school, I

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Speaker 2: went to West Point. I graduated West Point two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four. I became a ranger, qualified a patry pilot,

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Speaker 2: and I flew seven hundred and fifty hours combat in

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Speaker 2: Operation and Rocky Freedom. I came back home after that

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Speaker 2: to join my family's business, and I was able to

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Speaker 2: help ten x the company top line revenue and add

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Speaker 2: hundreds of jobs in Michigan and around the country. I

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Speaker 2: started a family, beautiful life, three little boys, got a

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Speaker 2: couple of master's degrees, and now I'm in Congress. I'm

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Speaker 2: serving the people of the state of Michigan because it's

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Speaker 2: the honor of my life to give back and serve.

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Speaker 2: And that's what animates me. Interesting part about my West

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Speaker 2: Point story and real quick my class was the first

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Speaker 2: class to take the oath of Affirmation, which means we

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Speaker 2: will complete. We make a promise to complete our obligation

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Speaker 2: in our first hour of the junior year, and we

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Speaker 2: were the first class to make our oath of affirmation

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Speaker 2: knowing that we would go to war. We were sophomores

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Speaker 2: during September eleventh, and as a result, our class, our

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Speaker 2: West Point class, has taken the most casualties of any

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Speaker 2: Academy class since Vietnam. And that is not just direct combat.

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Speaker 2: That's also the unseen scars of war. That's also the suicide,

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Speaker 2: that's also the overdoses. And so when you look at

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Speaker 2: the mental health crisis in this nation, as a congressman, now,

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Speaker 2: as a governor, leader, and as long as there's breadth

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Speaker 2: in my lungs, I'm going to commit my life to

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Speaker 2: addressing the scourge of substance use disorders, mental health under service,

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Speaker 2: and making sure that we all have the resources that

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Speaker 2: we need. We are not serving our veterans and we

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Speaker 2: are not serving those who who struggle with mental health adequately.

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Speaker 2: Our schools, our hospitals, and our jails are not made up.

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Speaker 2: They are not configured to deal with the special needs

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Speaker 2: of folks who are struggling with mental health. So the

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Speaker 2: lessons that I learned at West Point on, the lessons

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Speaker 2: that I learned in combat, and the things that I've

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Speaker 2: seen serve in the state of Michigan are all pushing

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Speaker 2: me to restore hope in the state of Michigan. Restore

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Speaker 2: trust in the state of Michigan, restore wellness in the

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Speaker 2: state of Michigan. Restore family and family values in the

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Speaker 2: state of Michigan. And also this is important too, restore beauty.

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Speaker 2: When God looked down on the earth and he saw

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Speaker 2: things that they were good, he saw things that were

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Speaker 2: operating in the purpose that they were created for. Every

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Speaker 2: plan that we make has to work with in His purpose.

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Speaker 2: And then when it's truly good, that's when things are beautiful.

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Speaker 2: When you look at things throughout the course of humanity,

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Speaker 2: we're not just here to eat, sleep, work, and die.

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Speaker 2: We are here for a purpose. Men, we are more

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Speaker 2: than just our job. Women, you are more than just

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Speaker 2: a vessel for babies. You are here to bring glory

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Speaker 2: to God and love your neighbors as yourself, and make

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Speaker 2: this world a better place. These are all the things

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Speaker 2: that we have the privilege to do in this great country.

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Speaker 2: Now we can all do it together in the future

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Speaker 2: with the right leadership.

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Speaker 1: I love all that. For people who are fired up.

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Speaker 1: They can find you where you.

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Speaker 2: Can go to John JAMESMI dot com, where you can

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Speaker 2: find me on all the socials at John James and

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Speaker 2: I thank you all so much on God bless you all. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the way, one last question, how are the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions going to the Super Bowl this year?

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Speaker 2: The Detroit Lions going to Super Bowl this year and

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Speaker 2: every other year for the rest of my life. Dan

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Speaker 2: Campbell is the best coach that has ever existed on

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Speaker 2: the planet. And you know the best move he let

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Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers win that first game to take

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Speaker 2: the pressure off his guys. You know what, that's what

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Speaker 2: a great great coach, you know. So Lions, Lions will

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Speaker 2: go sixteen and one Super Bowl champions and the score

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Speaker 2: will be seventy four to zero. Lions.

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Speaker 1: Outstanding stuff. We appreciate the time. Is great to hang

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Speaker 1: out with you up at mckinaw and look forward to

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Speaker 1: talking with you throughout the campaign.

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Speaker 2: Of course, thanks a lot, Douglass.

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Speaker 1: What I that is John James demo, who is a

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Speaker 1: the Democrat's worst nightmare In many ways, I think if

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Speaker 1: you look at what would happen if Republicans could take

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Speaker 1: back control of the governor's mansion in Michigan. Just think

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Speaker 1: about that. Leave aside John James's campaign. I think he

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Speaker 1: made a really good compelling pitch there, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk to some of the other candidates out there

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Speaker 1: as well. But as he said, you've got a big

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Speaker 1: Senate race going on, and that could be transformative if

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Speaker 1: that seat were to flip as it nearly did in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and if you take over the governor's mansion,

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Speaker 1: Democrats are in dire straits because there is a real

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Speaker 1: march I think for the Republican Party in the state

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Speaker 1: of Michigan. I feel that momentum again because my wife's

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Speaker 1: family is all from there, and we are in Michigan

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Speaker 1: on a not pretty regular basis, So I feel like

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Speaker 1: I understand that state a little bit better than I

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Speaker 1: do others, and that could be a huge difference. Because again,

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Speaker 1: if you told me right now, hey, Republicans are going

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Speaker 1: to win Michigan in twenty twenty eight, I would say, okay,

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Speaker 1: Republicans are going to win the White House. And if

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Speaker 1: you told me Republicans are going to be able to

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Speaker 1: the governor's mansion. I would feel even better about what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen in twenty twenty eight. So again, Michigan

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Speaker 1: is a state I think everybody should be paying attention

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Speaker 1: to to see what happens in all of these competitions.

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Speaker 1: All right, get your pens, get your pads, get your paper.

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Speaker 1: It's winning time now. We have won three out of

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Speaker 1: the last four weeks. You just heard John James say

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They're on a roll. Okay, I want you, guys,

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Speaker 1: Fortunately they are also my team. They cannot do anything well.

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Speaker 1: you get back two hundred and eighty dollars. Let's play along,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we can make it four out of five. Go

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Speaker 3: You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. We

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in, Clay, Travis buck Sexton show, a lot

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Speaker 1: of feedback, continuing to roll in. Uh, let's hit some

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Speaker 1: more of these talkbacks, and again my request for you,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit this a couple of times today and

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Speaker 1: then also talk about it tomorrow because we are one

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Speaker 1: month out and I'm told this is when pre orders

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Speaker 1: the books determine whether you end up in the front

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Speaker 1: of stores. You know, this is frustrating. We're pushing uphill

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Speaker 1: in terms of getting attention in bookstores because frankly, a

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Speaker 1: lot of big media outlets they don't like me that much,

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Speaker 1: they don't like you guys that much. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to promote our stuff in the same way. But I

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Speaker 1: think the cover it's jarring. It's called balls for a reason.

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Speaker 1: It's got two big basketballs on the front cover. The

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Speaker 1: goal here is to cut through the noise and make

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Speaker 1: people who may not have seen or heard arguments about

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Speaker 1: why young men should be voting Republican, why sports fans

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Speaker 1: should be voting Republican, why the culture it matters, trying

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Speaker 1: to cut through and reach new people. And one of

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Speaker 1: the best ways to do that candidly is if you're

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Speaker 1: walking through an airport and you see a book. We

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Speaker 1: all do judge books by their cover, and you think,

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Speaker 1: for a minute, wait, what's going on here? And maybe

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Speaker 1: you read this thing and you start to change the

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Speaker 1: way that you think. This is how my brain works

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Speaker 1: all the time, always evangelizing, always trying to reach new audiences.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you on talkback. Let's see William from

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Speaker 1: San Diego. Who do you trust in media? William FF?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I trusted Rush Limbaugh a lot. I trust you

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Speaker 5: Claying Bookshall a lot. Mostly I trust the Epic Times

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Speaker 5: and Newsmax is pretty good too.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Let's see Trent truck driver. He's in Kansas

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Speaker 1: right now. Here's who he trusts. Gig Hey, Clay, this

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Speaker 1: is Trent. I'm a truck driver in Kansas. I listen

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Speaker 1: to you guys every day.

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Speaker 4: I trust you and Buck wholeheartedly to give us truthful, accurate,

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Speaker 4: factual information. I listen to other talk radio shows and stuff,

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Speaker 4: but at home, I don't particularly watch news. Unless there's

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Speaker 4: really something serious going on. I may turn on Fox News,

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Speaker 4: but most of the time I just strictly get my

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Speaker 4: information from you guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate that, and we don't take that responsibility

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Speaker 1: and obligation and privileged lightly. As I was talking about,

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Speaker 1: we're grateful every single day to get to talk with

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Speaker 1: all of you and spend three hours with all of you.

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Speaker 1: We got another hour still to come on the Thursday edition.

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Speaker 1: Lots to dive into. Keep hanging with us,