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  There it is. Display name.
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  See. Hello, everybody.
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  Sorry for technical difficulties.
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  Welcome to Underground Studio. I'm trucker Mouth and we're back
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  on the road. OK, So what we've got here is
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  we've got to figure out this camera first before we get
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  moving, before we get going down the road here.
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  Yeah. So all right, so again, I'm
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  talking about this is the Back on the Road show.
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  And you know, this week right here, I'm going to do some.
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  We'll talk about cross-border trucking, OK. cross-border
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  trucking is a big part of our economy.
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  Lot of our, lot of our economy comes from imports, other
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  countries exported into our country.
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  We're importing it in and it's and it's, it's, it's a big, it's
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  a big issue. You know, cross-border trucking
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  with all the, you know, the immigration and, and, and
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  everything like that. It it's, it's, they're really
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  tightened up on things. But just to give you an idea of
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  what what all goes on on on cross-border trucking we'll get
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  going here. So cross-border truck and
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  freight continues to grow. In May, United States, Mexico
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  Canadian agreement, which is USMCA, United States Mexico
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  Canadian agreement negotiated new tariffs and should change
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  the trajectory trajectory of of the way things are brought into
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  the country. Last October, cross-border
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  trucking has seen the year to year growth, especially on the
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  southern border, especially on the southern border here.
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  Now I wonder how I can make that screen bigger.
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  I'm not Yeah, any who I'm on here anyway we're we're
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  reporting. So yeah, it's it's a big thing.
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  You know, we get a lot of things, you know, through our
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  borders that we don't make here and because there God knows
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  nothing from the United States anymore.
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  A lot of things aren't anyway. So it's it's it's Trump, Donald
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  Trump, President Donald Trump has proposed these tariffs on
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  certain on certain products coming into the country.
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  Now there we got that there. OK.
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  So the the cross-border trucking has seen a double digit percent
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  increase from April and May this year and but losses from
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  sweeping tariffs the year before, it contributed to that
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  number. So to that year, year before
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  last was real bad. And that's making last year and
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  this year real good look a lot better, but from losses and what
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  looks so good. But most, most of the growth is
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  coming from the southern border, OK, Most of it's coming through
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  the southern border from February 2025 to May of 2025,
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  coming across the northern border from Canada has dropped,
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  cross-border trucking has dropped and there's been a mass,
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  a massive growth coming from the southern border up from Mexico
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  because of computer related exports.
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  OK, so we've got computer, computer products are coming up
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  from or coming up through South America, through Mexico and our
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  country and got, you know, that's no, no wonder as as many,
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  you know, everybody got a computer nowadays.
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  So everybody got a computer nowadays.
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  So we need them, we need them export.
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  We need to have stuff coming in the country like that.
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  We need that. And sorry about moving things
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  around here, man, but I and yeah, I'm sorry, I'm tongue tied
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  here. Yeah, just like I said, a lot of
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  the big influx coming up through South America, through Mexico is
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  computer rate items. So and then in the Canadian
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  border has grown cross-border Turkey has grown in two
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  consecutive months up from the on the southern border end,
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  they're seeing the growth too. On February 20th, President
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  Donald Trump OK, announced new set of tariffs on certain
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  Canadian products, including dairy, alcohol and motor
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  vehicles. So y'all, y'all people that,
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  that, that drink the Canadian club and other liquors made-up
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  in Canada. You're probably going to pay
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  more. That's Trump's, you know, dairy.
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  I guess we get a lot of dairy from up there and, and motor
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  vehicles. So that's just some of the
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  products he wants to put A and Trump's using Section 338
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  against so to allow tariffs on countries that discriminate
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  against US commerce. OK, So he's going to use a
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  section 338 on, on countries that discriminate against our,
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  our commerce, which include China, which we know what
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  happened is India, Japan, Vietnam, Mexican, Canada, just
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  to name a few. Canada discriminates against our
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  against our commerce. I don't understand that Section
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  338 has never been used. So Trump pulled this out of the
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  air. He's going to use the Section 38
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  to invoke these these tariffs. And Canadian Prime Minister Mark
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  Carney said the tariffs on on automotive vehicles, motor
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  vehicles violates the USMCA, which is United States Mexican
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  Canada agreement. So the Prime Minister is saying
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  that violates the United States Mexican Canadian Agreement and
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  he ain't going for it. And then he wrote and then he
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  wrote this big statement. OK, I've seen the statement on
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  online, I couldn't blow it up to read it all.
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  But here is this big statement. We can't have these tariffs on
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  there. We got to do something.
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  We have to do something to offset the cost of the border.
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  It's OK, $30 billion a year to to maintain the border.
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  That's that's, that's the Border Patrol, the people work at the
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  border. Everything that goes in with
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  immigration, that 30 billion a year, $30 billion a year.
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  So that that is a I ain't know the word for that number,
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  massive, huge, mind blowing number, $30 million a year for
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  that fucking board. Excuse me, language for that
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  border down there. And it's a shame.
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  So we got to spend that much money, you know, that much money
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  because trying to fight off and keep and keep our, our, our way
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  of life as it is. And there's got to be something
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  to offset that. And also it costs hundreds of
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  millions a year to the main, the maintenance on the walls.
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  I guess that's the wall itself, I guess, I guess the grounds
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  around the, the fence. And you know, that United
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  States, Canadian border is the, is the, is the biggest, it's the
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  longest border in the world. And we got to maintain that.
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  And you know, hundreds, hundreds of $1,000,000 for that.
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  So, you know, something's got to be done.
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  I mean that that 30 billion years for Border Patrol,
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  security, immigration and then these truck and then these
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  trucks that come through are running on our roads.
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  You know, they're damaging our roads and the roads mean
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  maintenance. Man hours of billions are just
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  just to do the maintenance. Mexico and Canada have tariffs
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  on some US goods in addition to 50% in addition to a 50%
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  Canadian tariffs. U.S.
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  Trade Representative Jameson Greer, this is my notes here.
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  Announced 10% or total 10% tariffs or 6060 countries,
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  including 99.4% of US imports, Includes Canada, China and
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  Mexico. Effective July 24th using
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  section 122. That's only good for hard 50
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  days supposedly. They got so many sections, so
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  many, so many different proposals and laws.
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  It's it's crazy. Oh my God, you know why?
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  Why can't? So if they do these tariffs,
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  what what is it? They do it?
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  How they how do they pay by by the truckload?
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  I don't know how I'm probably act like I'm young.
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  I don't know how them tariffs are enacted.
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  They they pay by the truckload. Maybe should they just maybe
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  they should just do, maybe they should just do a like a toll.
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  You know, there's 18 to 22,000 commercial vehicles a day
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  approximately coming over our borders, 18 to 22,000 a day,
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  just say 20,000. So if you have you impose a fee
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  on on the commercial vehicle going over like the like the
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  bridges do you, you, you charge it maybe going over and and then
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  they go back for free or something.
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  You don't have to get them both ways, but you know, so there's
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  20,000 a day times whatever amount of money you want to put
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  on there, you know, $20.00 because I don't think there's, I
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  don't think there's a, a toll on the borders if I'm correct.
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  I don't never pretty sure ran a toll on the borders, but maybe
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  they should just have that where where depending on what
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  commercial vehicle you have to have here it is the bigger
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  that's much more that's the toll you pay.
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  We have to do something to offset this that $30 billion a
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  year can be put in our economy to help homeless people.
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  Will, you know, help help, you know, put that back into the
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  military something It's it's crazy number.
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  Oh boy. So use the Section 3 O1 now
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  here's now here's section 3O1 tariffs on imported goods
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  produced by foreign labour. Oh yeah.
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  I like guessing this section three O 1 is going to impose
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  tariffs on countries that their goods are produced by forced
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  labor. That's child labor and all that.
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  Yeah, I I like that the Liberty Justice Center challenge
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  administration i.e. EPA tariffs filed lawsuit now I
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  ain't what the I what the IE is international X4.
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  I don't know whatever a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me, but yeah,
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  they're the section three O 1 is is going to be put on tariffs
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  for countries that have forced labor like child labor.
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  I like that Hell yeah. Long term future of a
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  cross-border trucking could be shaped by the United States
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  Mexican Canadian agreement and you know that's a big agreement
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  between between the countries there, man.
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  That's a big agreement there. And yeah, so stock 20396 Mexican
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  96 Mexico met for the third round of talks.
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  The 4th was scheduled for September, so we'll come up on
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  our fourth round talks with Mexico.
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  No formal trades or negotiations have been scheduled with Canada
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  because, you know, like I said, there's a big, big influx coming
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  up through the southern border there man.
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  And, you know, we've got to have a agreement because no form
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  agreements between the three countries.
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  They extended the United States met Canadian agreement terms to
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  conducted annual reviews until approval or agreement expires in
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  2036. So United States met Canadian
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  agreement expires in 2036. Boy, yeah, it's, it's got to do
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  something offset that, that that horrific, you know, number there
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  that 30 billion. And I just wish we could find a
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  way like I said, make a toll or have a toll on them or something
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  like that. I don't know how they how they
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  do the tariffs. Is it by truckload or what?
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  Well, then again, you got you got the cargo ships coming in.
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  Yeah, I'm not sure how they invoke them tariffs.
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  Oh heck. So OK, so it's about all we got
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  from the the cross-border trucking.
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  I just wanted to, you know, put a spotlight on all that goes on
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  there, man. And then and the money that's
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  that's that's spent each year for that quarter, that's
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  astounding numbers. OK.
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  So we're going to go take a what happened here.
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  I got it. I don't have my, I don't have my
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  my. There we go, my commercials.
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  All right, so we're going to go with listen here.
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  Dot. Oh, OK, here we go.
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  All right, so we're back, I'm trucking them out.
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  We're back on the road here and yeah, that's all.
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  Well, I'm, I'm troubled here with my stuff.
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  OK, so now we're going to talk about right now I caught my eye,
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  I was going to go into broker, broker transparency and broker
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  reliability, but I changed up and I'm going to talk about, and
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  this is something that I highlighted on me for when I was
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  podcasting last year. Is, is, is they're trying to
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  they want to recruit more veterans EOEAOS now the
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  military, which is end of obligated service and to go into
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  truck driving to get out of the military.
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  They want they want they want them to go into truck driving
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  and they come out with it. And then and and that's nothing
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  new for for the government to try to recruit people and the
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  truck and coming out of the military, but they really ramped
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  it up here in response to them. 20,000 non domicile CDLS that
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  are going to be yanked off though, they're going to yank
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  them. They're yanking them.
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  They're they're revoking them 200,000 So that's going to put a
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  crunch on on the truck in there when they they revoke all these
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  non domicile CDLS from these people was not supposed to have
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  them anyway. Well, I don't know how they got
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  them, but one how they got them, but all of them didn't get them
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  the legal way. I there's no way because they're
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  they're getting illegal veteran illegal all the time.
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  They can't, they can't, they can't read the signs.
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  They can't talk. They can't, they can't read no,
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  so can't read code Rd. signs. They're out there killing people
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  and they're getting their racks in there.
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  Just this road. There was 1 here like I said in
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  Pennsylvania here not far from where I'm from a couple weeks
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  ago. And officer Parrish was 20 year
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  veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police was he was a truck
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  pulled over pulled over doing ADOT inspection on it.
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  And this, this, this, this guy with a non domiciled CDL came
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  down and he ran and he hit the truck and because the truck was
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  alongside the road getting a suspension and killed the state
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  tripper. And it was 20 year veteran of
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  the Pennsylvania State Police. So they're they're yanking
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  200,000 non domiciled CDLS and that's going to be 200.
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  And most of them if they're non domiciled, most of them are
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  probably Rd. jobs. So that's going to hurt.
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  You got to have freight out there running around because
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  that's going to hurt the economy bad.
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  So they're really ramping this up and they got a program, it's
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  called Freedom Haulers and it's a patriotic hiring campaign in
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  response to the nearly $200,000 out CD OS that are being
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  revoked. And, and truck, truck drivers,
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  you know what I mean? If they're after non domicilers,
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  emotions are probably Rd. jobs. So we've got to fill in
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  positions. And I'm a veteran, I'm a truck
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  around, I'm a veteran, but I don't want my ass.
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  They, they yanked my stuff. They yanked my CDO eight years
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  ago now. And the traffic stops.
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  Nobody gave me a pathway nowhere.
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  Anyway, I done crying about it. I moved on.
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  But showing, showing Duffy, the transportation secretary, I
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  guess he was really pushing this and he needs to because he, he,
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  he ain't, he ain't on the ball with this.
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  He should never left. He should never left the damn
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  the program for the non domiciled CDLS.
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  That's how they were filling seats.
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  They they were filling seats that way just to get trucks on
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  the road to bring in illegal immigrants in and put them in,
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  in, in these, in these, in these trucks, not in this program.
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  I don't know whoever came up with that, but probably him.
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  So you have an express lane for veterans to become truck
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  drivers. And if if you operated a heavy,
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  heavy truck in the military, you're automatically eligible
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  for this program. And they have a freedom of
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  horrors website. And it actually just had a major
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  announcement yesterday about this program.
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  And I don't know what it what what it was.
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  It's supposed to have been on the 27th and it changed it to
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  the 30th. I don't know what what they come
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  out with. But so basically what what the
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  program is, is veterans who drove a heavy truck in the
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  military, like I said, are automatically eligible for the
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  program and they have what they call the Military Skills Test
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  Waiver program. So if you have at least two
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  years, at least two years of experience safely operating a
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  heavy military vehicle without taking, you can get your CDL
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  without taking the driver's test.
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  Now, I had a similar situation. I had a Class B license for four
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  or five. Let me see 9494 years, four
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  years before I got my Class A, so I already knew how to deal
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  with the weights. I drove mixer and and building
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  materials, trucks and stuff. I got there.
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  I already knew of how to deal weights.
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  I already knew how to do the heating 410 feet.
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  All that. What I didn't do with was
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  combination was the packing. And now I understand if you're
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  going to get a Class B license, I understand them saying, OK,
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  well, if you drove this truck and military for two years, you
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  know, we don't really need to do the skills test for you.
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  But if you just drove a, a, a heavy vehicle in the military
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  and it was a combination, you got to you got to show them you
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  can, you can drive. I don't think they should waiver
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  that. If you didn't drive a
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  combination vehicle in the military, a heavy combination
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  vehicle and you want your Class A, you should have to take the
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  driver's test and, and, and you know, display display you can
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  operate safely. And that's just my opinion.
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  Because what they did up there is that one, I, I went to a
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  truck driving school and he, and he and the guy told me, he said
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  one of one of the instructors up there at the school, he said,
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  why don't you swap test out? You already do everything but
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  the back end. You're you're good.
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  You can drive good. I was like, I know you could do
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  that. He said, yeah, you come up, you
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  come up, you get your permit and all and you just test out.
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  You don't have to go through the program and it cost you a lot
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  less money. I didn't know that.
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  I didn't know that about this. I paid for a whole fucking
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  freaking program again. So yeah.
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  And I was doing fine with my class.
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  BI told some asshole talking me into going getting my Class A
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  and we're going to go teams. So I went through a a
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  separation. We're going to go teams and and
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  in the meantime, he got a DUR and I was thinking about myself
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  anyway. So and there's 40,040 thousand
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  people actually in the military have already taken advantage of
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  the program. But just just me.
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  I mean, I'm thinking if you didn't, if you again, if you
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  didn't operate a combination, a heavy combination vehicle in the
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  military, you should have to take the skills test and
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  demonstrate you can operate the vehicle in a safe manner.
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  Because a combination vehicle, tractor trailers, a whole
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  different monster than than driving a straight mixer or
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  something. Yeah, you got the weights and
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  all, but the you got the backs out.
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  So you got to watch it. And then backing or even
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  turning, even turning, hell, even going down the road
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  straight sometimes it's a challenge and a tractor trailer.
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  But yeah, it's, it's just they're really pushing.
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  They're really pushing that for people actually in the military
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  who drove and they have a a website that you can go to
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  Freedom Haulers website. I guess it's WW freedom
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  haulers.com or something. So yeah, they they without
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  taking the driver's. That's that's amazing.
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  Like I said, if you drove, if you just drove a deuce and 1/2
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  or something and you're going to get your Class B, that's a
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  single truck, not combination. Yeah, I can understand that.
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  But if you didn't drive combination in the military, you
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  should have to take the skills test and demonstrate you can.
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  You've been driving a 70 foot, 80,000 LB vehicle.
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  Oh, it's been a rough 1 today. So, OK, everybody, we're at the
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  end of the road. OK, Thanks for coming along.
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  Which rocker bell? See you next time.
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  I'll pick you up back on the road.
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  Which rocker bell? Wait a minute here.
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  We ain't going yet Outro. OK, let's let's not going here.
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  Not sure we're going to stream.
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  See you later. Why ain't that play?
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  Why ain't that answer play? Yeah, no and stream.
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  We're done. No.
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  Beat got Wisdom to share if you listen this week.
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  So pull up a chair and stay for a spell.
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  We're heading down the trail where good stories dwell.