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Congressman Andy Barr joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty three, fifty five casee de Talk Station. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Friday Eve, Jim Lewis building blocks for liberty at the
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  Speaker 1: going on a daton in the meantime. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRSSEE morning show. Running for US Senate, currently
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  Speaker 1: a member of the House Representatives, probably serving Kentucky sixth
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  Speaker 1: Congressional district since twenty thirteen, Andy Barr. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five carssee morning Show. It's pleasure to have you
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  Speaker 1: on today.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am doing much better today. Not going to go
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  Speaker 1: through my health history with you, sir, but it'sufficed to
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  Speaker 1: say to my listeners and no, I've been struggling late.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great and I feel really good today. So
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  Speaker 1: and I hope you can say the same. What's the
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  Speaker 1: motive good? What's the motive to run for Senate? Andy Barr?
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  Speaker 1: What's your primary goal? And what do you hope to accomplish?
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  Speaker 1: If you could pick one singular issue that you want
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  Speaker 1: to get fixed or done or accomplished, what would you
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  Speaker 1: what would you say? It would be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean the problem we have in this
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  Speaker 2: country right now is that we've got extreme, far left
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  Speaker 2: people who want to commit suicide. They want the country
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  Speaker 2: to commit suicide, and they want to do it in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different ways. They want to open our
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  Speaker 2: border to flood our country with people who disagree with
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  Speaker 2: our culture, inundate our country with poisonous drugs. They want
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  Speaker 2: to punish success by embracing socialism over free enterprise. They
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  Speaker 2: want to use the fear of climate change to drive
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  Speaker 2: an irrational shift away from reliable energy, which would destroy
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  Speaker 2: and undermine our international competitiveness. And they want to weaken
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  Speaker 2: our defense budget. They want to weaken our military with DEI.
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  Speaker 2: They want to rationalize terrorism and anti semitism and appease China.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of issues in there, but it's
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  Speaker 2: all fundamentally linked to this idea that there is a
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  Speaker 2: group of people in our country who want to repudiate
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  Speaker 2: everything that makes our country strong and good. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm running to prevent the suicide. I'm running to restore
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  Speaker 2: the American dream. And as President Trump says, make America
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  Speaker 2: great again, and that's what we mean when we say
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  Speaker 2: make America great again. We mean to prevent the suicide
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  Speaker 2: and to restore the greatness of our country. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: why I'm running for the United States Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I embrace everything you just said, because there
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  Speaker 1: are so many people out there that really just don't
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  Speaker 1: believe the concept that, oh, they don't want to bring
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  Speaker 1: down America, they just want some fairness. I just need
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  Speaker 1: a little extra money from you to give to that
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  Speaker 1: person over there.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, this is just to bring down the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America. I mean, look what happened to Europe talking
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  Speaker 1: about this carbon dioxide removal phenomenon, this religion that people
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  Speaker 1: have embraced. Look what happened to Europe. They're a cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Trump comes in and he wants to undo the energy policy,
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  Speaker 1: and good for him, because clearly, keeping the lights on
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  Speaker 1: when it's going down to minus six degrees over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend is important thing to have. You can't do it
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  Speaker 1: with windmills and solar panels, and of course if you try,
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  Speaker 1: the price of energy goes through the damn roof. And
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  Speaker 1: the government isn't offering a subsidy to help us with
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  Speaker 1: our energy bills like they are with Obamacare, are they, Andy, Well, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and you know, this religion of sustainability over American
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  Speaker 2: competitiveness is what is going to threaten our ability to
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  Speaker 2: compete with China, our peer competitor. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of adversaries out there in the world, but the one
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  Speaker 2: thing you can say about China is they are committed
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  Speaker 2: to winning the race for these technologies of the future,
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  Speaker 2: including artificial intelligence and an AI is a very, very
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  Speaker 2: very important technology of the future. And we have to
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  Speaker 2: win the race. And we have to win the race
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  Speaker 2: at every phase of the stack, and at the very
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  Speaker 2: base of that stack is energy, and China is building
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  Speaker 2: two new coal power plants a week. Uh. They do
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  Speaker 2: not care about emissions. They do not the United States.
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  Speaker 2: The United States, we to the extent you care about
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  Speaker 2: the climate or the environment. Uh. The answer is the
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  Speaker 2: American way, which is innovation, technology, science. That's how we
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  Speaker 2: compete and win. Uh, and and and solve problems. We
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  Speaker 2: don't solve problems with another thousand pages of regulations. That's
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  Speaker 2: not how you solve problems. But that's how the left
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  Speaker 2: wants to do it. And frankly, they use climate as
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  Speaker 2: an excuse to grow government and to control your life. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I've been I've been fighting that my entire my entire term.
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  Speaker 1: Of Congress, without question. You take the idea of carbon
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  Speaker 1: removal from the process, and you eliminate all of the
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  Speaker 1: plans that they want to run after. It's all the
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  Speaker 1: name of that religion post Roman Andy barr is where
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  Speaker 1: you find them online, it's bar b a r R
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  Speaker 1: four Senate dot com forty If you have kc detalk
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  Speaker 1: station and you find them online, bar b a r
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  Speaker 1: R four Senate dot com. And that is the word
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  Speaker 1: for not the number four bar for Senate dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Andy bar on the program, UH trying to get elected
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  Speaker 1: in Kentucky for I guess it's Mitch McConnell's seed correct, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the people of Kentucky seed Well. Mitch McConnell
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  Speaker 2: has has held the seat for forty two years, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the this is the excuse me. This is
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  Speaker 2: the first time, this is the first time in forty
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  Speaker 2: two years that the seat has been open and there's
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  Speaker 2: not been an incumbent running. So it's it's an important choice.
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  Speaker 2: It's an important choice for the people of Kentucky. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and for the future of the country and control of
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  Speaker 2: the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: It clearly is. And Uh, I just got to stick
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  Speaker 1: to the energy policy. You you sound or are clearly
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  Speaker 1: and above the all the above type of strategy. Guy,
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  Speaker 1: You'll do what's practical to give us efficient and reliable energy,
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  Speaker 1: which we definitely need for AI. You know the interesting thing,
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  Speaker 1: I got a of it over to artificial intelligence. I
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  Speaker 1: think is great for a couple of reasons. One artificial
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  Speaker 1: intelligence power needs has opened up the concept of actually
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  Speaker 1: using small modular reactors which don't produce any carbon if
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  Speaker 1: you care about that your religious fanatics out there, but
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  Speaker 1: also produces an abundance of electricity and with a very
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  Speaker 1: small footprint. These aren't the giant three mile island type
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  Speaker 1: reactors anymore. It's new technology. We're in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: now for God say so, let's wake up to it. So,
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  Speaker 1: by virtue of artificial intelligence, corporate lords and masters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Bill Gates of the world, who are clamoring for
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  Speaker 1: this reliable energy source. It sounds to me like we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start getting it. It's been an impediment, but
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  Speaker 1: there's the answer to so many problems. And then pivoting
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  Speaker 1: over to the other benefit of AI, in spite of
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  Speaker 1: the downsides of it, we can use artificial intelligence to
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  Speaker 1: ferret out fraud, waste and abuse in our government programs,
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  Speaker 1: which seems to loom everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Andy, well, you're exactly right that AI has tremendous promise.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whoever wins the AI race is going to
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  Speaker 2: shape the global standards that govern AI. Remember that, and
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  Speaker 2: the United States needs to set the standards, not the
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  Speaker 2: authoritarian communist regime in Beijing. And whoever sets the standards
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  Speaker 2: will in turn help that country move markets towards its
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  Speaker 2: companies and its norms. Leadership and AI can also produce
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  Speaker 2: faster innovation, greater productivity, higher GDP growth. I was at
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  Speaker 2: an AI kind of summit yesterday in financial services, and
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  Speaker 2: you can see the amazing applications from fraud prevention to
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  Speaker 2: improving credit underwriting, to providing faster ways to submit an
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  Speaker 2: insurance claim. There's just amazing efficiencies that can be gained
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  Speaker 2: in our economy. But in the military context, AI can
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  Speaker 2: improve targeting, logistics, surveillance, wargaming, decision support, autonomous systems. And
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  Speaker 2: believe you me, the Chinese Communist Party is applying AI
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  Speaker 2: and some of the most sophisticated AI to their military platforms.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they want to annex Taiwan. Taiwan is an
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  Speaker 2: island democracy, and it's not just about their historical grievances
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  Speaker 2: of the nationalists versus the communists from nineteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 2: They want to take over Taiwan because Taiwan, that small
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  Speaker 2: island democracy, produces ninety percent of the world's most advanced semiconductors,
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  Speaker 2: the two to three and nanimeter semiconductor chips that go
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  Speaker 2: into AI. And so you've got it. In order to
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  Speaker 2: win the race of AI, you've got multiple stacks. You
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  Speaker 2: have to have energy, you have to have semiconductors, you
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  Speaker 2: have to have advanced semiconductors. You have to have AI infrastructure,
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  Speaker 2: the data centers. On top of that, you have to
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  Speaker 2: have the models. We have the best models for sure.
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  Speaker 2: In Vidia for example, UH produces the chips. But we
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  Speaker 2: have all these companies like you know, claud Anthropic, Chat, GPT,
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  Speaker 2: Open AI. They have the best models. But but as
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  Speaker 2: Jensen Wang says, the CEO of Nvidia UH China is
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  Speaker 2: nanoseconds behind us in all of this. And then finally,
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  Speaker 2: the applications, the technology companies that build the apps on
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  Speaker 2: top of of these of over these models, so in
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  Speaker 2: the entire AI stack, we have to be dominant in
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  Speaker 2: order to protect our national security, advance our economic competitiveness,
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  Speaker 2: and at the very base of that, at the very
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  Speaker 2: base of that is energy. And you talked about all
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  Speaker 2: of the above. Yes, we need all of the above,
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  Speaker 2: but in order to run these AI data centers, you
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  Speaker 2: have to have firm, baseload power, not intermittent power, not speculative. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: SMRs is definitely part of the in terms of the solution,
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  Speaker 2: but we need to go back to baseload, firm power.
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  Speaker 2: The most reliable, affordable energy we know, and that's fossil energy,
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  Speaker 2: including coal. And Kentucky, we're very fortunate in Kentucky our geology,
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  Speaker 2: we have an ocean of coal. After one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years of mining coal, we still have an ocean
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  Speaker 2: of coal. My plan for Kentucky, my vision for Kentucky
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  Speaker 2: as Kentucky's next US Senator, is to put our people
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  Speaker 2: back to work in mining, in energy, in manufacturing, and
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  Speaker 2: help us build the AI infrastructure of the future so
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  Speaker 2: that yes, Kentucky compete at Kentucky can compete and win,
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  Speaker 2: but also to help Kentucky help the United States advance
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  Speaker 2: our national security and help the United States win the
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  Speaker 2: race for ai and these other energy energy demand technologies
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  Speaker 2: of the future, including quantum computing and digital assets as well. Well.
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  Speaker 1: We need electricity to run the globe. There is no
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  Speaker 1: question about it. You have the only problem. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: my tongue is in my tie, and you're can take
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  Speaker 1: quick break here, but you're going to have to lure
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  Speaker 1: those former coal miners away from those green energy jobs
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  Speaker 1: that Obama put him in. Remember right, Continue with the
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  Speaker 1: conversation with Andy Barr. He's currently representing Kentucky's sixth congressional district.
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  Speaker 1: He's running for Senate, going to in his hope, take
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  Speaker 1: over for Mitch McConnell after nine thousand years.
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  Speaker 2: B A R.
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  Speaker 1: R Bar four Senate dot com Real quick here, you
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  Speaker 1: know you're talking about chip manufacturing. My son follows this
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence in these industries very closely. And he had
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  Speaker 1: commented to me the other day, had read an article
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  Speaker 1: about maybe Taiwan investing in manufacturing here in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's been around touting all of the foreign investment that
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  Speaker 1: he has brought in the United States. Why given the
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  Speaker 1: threat that China poses a legitimate existential threat to the
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  Speaker 1: Taiwanese people, and this industry. Would it be whove them
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  Speaker 1: to just move it over here to a safe place.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start making these vital chips now here.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Absolutely absolutely need supply chain resiliency. We've learned that
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  Speaker 2: the hard way, and not only for not only for chips,
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  Speaker 2: but also for the ingredients of pharmaceuticals. We are supply
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  Speaker 2: chains are overly dependent on China. With that and critical minerals.
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  Speaker 2: China dominates over ninety percent of the critical minerals, including
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  Speaker 2: some of the rare earth elements to go into our
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  Speaker 2: national security weapons systems. It's extremely dangerous. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of supply chains that we need to move around.
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  Speaker 2: That's why President Trump is so focused on using the
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  Speaker 2: tools of economic staycraft and not just trade, not just tariffs,
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  Speaker 2: but export controls and outbound investment restrictions that I've worked
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  Speaker 2: with this administration on. I've led on that, and you know, look,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the bottom line, Brian is I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: running for this seat if I didn't think I was
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  Speaker 2: the best candidate for the job. You can tell that
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  Speaker 2: I'm very immersed in you know, restoring you know, American
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  Speaker 2: competitiveness through free enterprise, you know, making sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: the global leader in these technologies in the futures because
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  Speaker 2: we're in a competition, and I'm the only candidate in
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  Speaker 2: this race who's actually helping President Trump right now enact
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  Speaker 2: his agenda. There's a lot of candidates out there who
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  Speaker 2: like to talk about supporting President Trump. They say they're
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  Speaker 2: a Trump guy. Whatever. Well, I was the chairman of
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  Speaker 2: his campaign in Kentucky in twenty twenty four in the primary,
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  Speaker 2: and the President has worked with me over the years,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a major difference between me and these other candidates.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually helping President Trump now in the Congress. And
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is I'm the only candidate in this
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  Speaker 2: race with a proven track record of actually advancing conservative
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  Speaker 2: policies in the Congress. There are other candidates with other credentials,
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  Speaker 2: but those credentials don't include the ability to hit the
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  Speaker 2: ground running on day one. I'm doing the job now.
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  Speaker 2: I know the job. I have existing relationships with senators,
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  Speaker 2: with the administration, with cabinet members. I work with those
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  Speaker 2: cabinet members. They have my cell phone number, I have theirs,
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  Speaker 2: and we talk about how we can work with this
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  Speaker 2: president to advance the cause that we all share and
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  Speaker 2: then the last thing I would say is we owe
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  Speaker 2: it to our philosophy to win, and I am a
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  Speaker 2: proven winner in a tough swing district in Kentucky. I
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  Speaker 2: represent the only purple swing district in the state, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lexington area is known as the Big Blue Nation.
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  Speaker 2: We say it because of the Kentucky Wildcats, but it's
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  Speaker 2: the Big Blue Nation for another reason too. Politically, Fayett
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  Speaker 2: County in central Kentucky, my home area, voted Obama, Obama, Clinton, Biden,
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, and yet for seven straight elections. Even though
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  Speaker 2: I have been battle tested, even though Nancy Pelosi has
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  Speaker 2: thrown millions of dollars to defeat me, even though I
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  Speaker 2: flipped a seat from Democrat to Republican and held it.
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  Speaker 2: I have won over and over again in that tough district.
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  Speaker 2: And the only way a Democrat can win statewide in
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky is to win my district. That's how one of
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  Speaker 2: my opponents, the former Attorney General, was defeated in a
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  Speaker 2: statewide election in twenty twenty three. He lost to our governor.
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  Speaker 2: Our governor, our Democratic governor won because he defeated my
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  Speaker 2: opponent by nineteen points in my district. This may sound imodest,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not going to lose my district. I've won
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  Speaker 2: it seven straight times. I can block their path. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to take Kentucky off the map, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to defeat the Democrats and those who want
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  Speaker 2: to help our country commit suicide. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: stop the suicide, nominate the best, strongest conservative Republican who
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  Speaker 2: is going to help this president, who will win in
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  Speaker 2: the fall. And the Democrats released the poll, and the
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  Speaker 2: poll showed in December that I am the only Republican
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  Speaker 2: candidate with a comfortable double digit lead over all the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: The other Republican candidates who have been on your show,
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  Speaker 2: who have talked about running for this seat, they risk
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  Speaker 2: putting this seat in danger. They're either tied with the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats and by the way, not just the Democrats, but socialists,
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  Speaker 2: they're tied with them, or they have a very uncomfortable
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  Speaker 2: single Digitally. I want to earn the support of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: in northern Kentucky, not just because I can win, but
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  Speaker 2: because I would be the best senator to advance our cause.
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  Speaker 2: But you owe it to your philosophy to win, and frankly,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans should not be worried about Kentucky and holding the
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  Speaker 2: seat in Kentucky in the fall. They need to be
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  Speaker 2: worried about Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire. We
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  Speaker 2: need to take Kentucky off the map so that this
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  Speaker 2: president knows he has a reliable supporter and principal conservative
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and they'll have an opportunity to make that choice
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  Speaker 1: on the Republican side of the ledger is the primary
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  Speaker 1: in March, sir, I can't I apologize for not.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that the primary is May nineteenth. May May nineteenth,
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  Speaker 2: and many of your listeners may have never met me
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  Speaker 2: or know about me and my service in Congress because
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  Speaker 2: I'm not in the media market for northern Kentucky. But listen,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a privilege of a lifetime to fight big government,
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  Speaker 2: to support free market capitalism and free enterprise and cut taxes,
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  Speaker 2: cut spending, cut regulation, forced the government to live within
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  Speaker 2: this means. It's been a privilege to fight for those
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  Speaker 2: ideas and those ideals in the United States Congress for
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  Speaker 2: the last several terms. But it would be an even
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  Speaker 2: greater privilege to represent all of Kentucky, including northern Kentucky, which,
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  Speaker 2: let's face it, it is an economic juggernaut for the
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  Speaker 2: Commonwealth with CBG and the logistics up there, and I
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  Speaker 2: would be honored to represent the folks.
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  Speaker 1: Up there getting better every day. Andy Barr final on
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  Speaker 1: line B A R R Bar for Senate dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Learn about his issues, where he stands on things help
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  Speaker 1: matter if you choose to. You got choices to make.
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  Speaker 1: May's coming up fast approaching, Andy bar It's been a
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  Speaker 1: great heavy on the morning shows. Good talking with you
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  Speaker 1: and good luck