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AFP - Fighting Socialism · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station. It is 728 at 55 KRC, the
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  Speaker 1: talk station.
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  Speaker 2: It is Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Stating the obvious, it is time for Donovan O'Neill, the
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  Speaker 1: return from Americans for Prosperity Action here in Ohio. It
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  Speaker 1: is time to push against socialism. Welcome back, Donovan O'Neill.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a gift that the Democrats have given us
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  Speaker 1: in these crazy far left call them legitimately definitionally communist
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  Speaker 1: that we have something that we can hang our hat
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  Speaker 1: on that might that should scare the crap out of
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  Speaker 1: america generally speaking donovan it's always good having you.
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  Speaker 2: On it's good to have you on it i think
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  Speaker 2: it is i think they they've overplayed their hand and
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  Speaker 2: shown who they really are um socialists at heart folks
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  Speaker 2: who think they know better than you i or our
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  Speaker 2: friends and neighbors about what what it takes to run
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  Speaker 2: an economy, how it takes to run a nation, what
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  Speaker 2: it takes to create opportunity and prosperity for people. And
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  Speaker 2: it's having a tangible impact at the doors. We're hearing
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  Speaker 2: it at the doors. And that's why we're rolling out
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  Speaker 2: this Fight Socialism campaign to really equip grassroots folks, folks
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  Speaker 2: across the country with the tools they need to push
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  Speaker 2: back against these radical DSA, Democrat Socialists of America policies
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  Speaker 2: that are throughout the left now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, far be it for me to and fail to
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  Speaker 1: observe that the government loves to play up fears, and
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  Speaker 1: we have economic fears, we have global fears in terms
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  Speaker 1: of war, oh my God, El Nino or La Nina,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it happens to be, we're all going to die,
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  Speaker 1: extreme weather events, you pick anything. And they're ginning up fear,
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  Speaker 1: and the answer from them is always, we need a
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  Speaker 1: government solution. And it really bothers me, Donald, that we
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  Speaker 1: seem to have lost our independent, entrepreneurial, freedom-loving spirit here
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  Speaker 1: in America. that we say, oh, wow, I'm worried. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, what there but for the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: go I. I really hope there's a big government program
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  Speaker 1: there to save me from, well, the problems of the world.
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  Speaker 1: That never happens. I mean, if you just study what
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  Speaker 1: they've done in order to fix the problems that they've
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  Speaker 1: identified in the past, you can fully appreciate that they've
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  Speaker 1: never fixed anything. I think of the Great Society program,
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  Speaker 1: supposed to end poverty forever and end up with multiple
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  Speaker 1: generations of dependent people on government revenue. I just, that
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  Speaker 1: failure of critical thinking, Donovan? Is it just people have
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  Speaker 1: given up on politics? I don't know. It just bothers me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the reality is the stakes are real, right?
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  Speaker 2: People are, rent is too high. Grocery store prices are
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  Speaker 2: too high. Fuel prices aren't dropping. Energy bills are going up, right?
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  Speaker 2: And when those things happen, that's where these, the evil
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  Speaker 2: of socialism takes root, right? It's these promises that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you give us the control, if you sacrifice for
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  Speaker 2: the greater cause, sacrifice in many cases like China, Russia,
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  Speaker 2: North Korea, South America means death. If you sacrifice for
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  Speaker 2: the greater cause, we will usher in a new era
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  Speaker 2: of prosperity. But that new era of prosperity, has never
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  Speaker 2: arrived in these socialist experiments. And so what we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is both recognize the stakes that we're in,
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  Speaker 2: and then help connect folks to why the ideas of
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  Speaker 2: free enterprise, free markets, capitalism, the stuff that made this
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  Speaker 2: country the wealthiest nation on earth that it is, and
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  Speaker 2: the most prosperous, not just for a few, but for all, right, Brian?
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  Speaker 2: You and I know this. That's what we have to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's the task in front of us. And it's why
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  Speaker 2: we rolled out a playbook alongside this campaign to help
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  Speaker 2: walk folks through who maybe are feeling like they can't
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  Speaker 2: push back against the DSA platform or the socialist policies
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  Speaker 2: their friends and neighbors are talking about over a cup
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  Speaker 2: of coffee so they can do just that, push back
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  Speaker 2: against these radical, crazy ideas that are quite harmful if
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  Speaker 2: actually enacted.
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  Speaker 1: Quite harmful. And, you know, the whole laugh, the joke
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  Speaker 1: behind all of this, They're screaming about levying additional taxes,
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  Speaker 1: paying your fair share, getting those evil billionaires, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Our prosperity and the success of our country and the
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  Speaker 1: massive size of our economy, generally speaking, our gross domestic product,
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  Speaker 1: is the basis for all the things that they claim
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  Speaker 1: they want to provide from government. If we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a successful country through capitalism, or at least what's left
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  Speaker 1: of it here, they wouldn't have anything to take from us.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this is the truly contrasting vision, right? Socialism,
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  Speaker 2: these socialists see a rotten country, and their core purpose
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  Speaker 2: is to dismantle the foundation upon which it stands. End
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  Speaker 2: of story. And that's what we have to push back against. Really,
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  Speaker 2: the heart and soul of our nation is what they
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  Speaker 2: want to go after. And I'm not just saying that, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's not hyperbole. It's what they talk about on their website,
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  Speaker 2: in their public speeches.
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  Speaker 1: They see a rotten country, and then they'll back up
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  Speaker 1: all their assessments and conclusions about this place, the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, sucking so much. Oh, my God, look
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  Speaker 1: what we did. The Tuskegee Syphilis experiments. Look what we did.
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  Speaker 1: There were Jim Crow laws on the books.
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  Speaker 2: Were. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? And we aren't there anymore. We corrected,
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  Speaker 1: we righted the ship, and we continue to right it
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  Speaker 1: throughout the course of the 250 years we've been around.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, this immense wealth that allows
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  Speaker 1: us to clean up our environment, fund some social welfare.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's... they have just in, in
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  Speaker 1: so demonizing it, I always go back to the goose
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  Speaker 1: that laid the golden egg, man, because Donovan, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do. And what is going to become
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  Speaker 1: of all the promises that they've made to you and
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  Speaker 1: you are going to rely on them. Hell, they can't
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  Speaker 1: even keep social security afloat. And I would, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some would argue that's not even socialism, but they fail
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  Speaker 1: you every single time. And when they kill the gold,
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  Speaker 1: the gold, the goose that laid the golden egg, IE,
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  Speaker 1: the American capitalist system that has this massive gross domestic product,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing left. I, you can't come to any other
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  Speaker 1: conclusion than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and that, you know, Brian, you're a pro
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  Speaker 2: at this, right? And that's the second point that we
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  Speaker 2: make in our playbook of how to score that knockout
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  Speaker 2: against socialism, right? Ask before you swing, who builds the apartment?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to pay when the grocery store loses money,
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  Speaker 2: let alone the Momdami grocery stores in New York, right?
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  Speaker 2: Where they're going to undercut the privately owned property. grocery stores, 25%
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  Speaker 2: with their government-run stores, right? Most people, right, when you
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  Speaker 2: push against that socialist utopia, they're not used to answering
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  Speaker 2: that question. And so equipping yourself with one question, one fact,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to drive that wedge, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to break through the facade that is the socialist utopia
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  Speaker 2: is a way to begin to plant those seeds of
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  Speaker 2: doubt and sort of erode what it is that they believe.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get my listeners over to the website?
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  Speaker 1: How do we get them in touch with the platform
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  Speaker 1: and program? And how do we get my listeners to
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  Speaker 1: help you help ourselves? Donovan and the old Americans for prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Three quick things. First, go to fight socialism
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  Speaker 2: dot com. There's a playbook. It's a bare minimum website, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to get built up more. But right now,
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  Speaker 2: the key part, there is the playbook fight socialism dot
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  Speaker 2: com to fight. We've got the fight against socialism right
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  Speaker 2: here in Ohio against Sherrod Brown. Sherrod Brown is an
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  Speaker 2: avowed socialist. He is somebody who votes 98% of the
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  Speaker 2: time with the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party has
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  Speaker 2: been co-opted by the DSA. Join us. Go to AFPaction.com
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  Speaker 2: to get in the fight to defeat Sherrod Brown this November.
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  Speaker 2: And three, if you can't do either of those things,
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  Speaker 2: just vote. Well, you got to do those things, Brian. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have another thing there because you've got to
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  Speaker 2: do those things. You've got to get out and vote
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to make sure that you equip yourself
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  Speaker 2: to push back against socialism. It's a radio snafu there,
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  Speaker 2: but Brian, the urgency is so, so important.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to my world, man. Try it four hours a day,
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  Speaker 1: five days a week for almost 20 years. Yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge I've screwed up before too, but that was a
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  Speaker 1: minor one. Fightsocialism.com, AFPaction.com, whatever you do. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: If you're not inclined to door knock or Right along
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  Speaker 1: with the AFP Action folks talking to people, at least
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  Speaker 1: have this information to talk to your friends and neighbors about. Right, Donovan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Think local. Act local. And get them to go out
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  Speaker 1: and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Neal, thank you for what you do. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining the program every week. And again, FightSocialism.com. Joe Strecker
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  Speaker 1: will add those links to the blog page at 55KRC. com.
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  Speaker 1: So people, well, not that you can't remember FightSocialism.com, but
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  Speaker 1: it's there. Donovan, thanks, man. We'll talk next week.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your holiday weekend, brother.
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  Speaker 2: 736-55-KRCD.