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"Facts vs Feels?" (Friday, February 13, 2026, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We could tell you what six seven means to find
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  Speaker 2: I don't even start, don't even start talking about all
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  Speaker 2: these Friday the thirteenth glitches going on. Mister big Shot
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  Speaker 2: Shot started the show saying, Hey, I was born on
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  Speaker 2: who are concerned because of the day, unless unless you
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  Speaker 2: of those things that went on a couple of emails,
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  Speaker 2: text messages on Firearms, Ken Styles working with Turning Point
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  Speaker 2: USA on Campus Tour two A Facts versus Feelings, Terry
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  Speaker 2: writes in coming in from Chicago Land, which I guess
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  Speaker 2: just any place that Chicago has sprawled to right and
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  Speaker 2: Evanston great listeners up there in the Windy City as well.
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  Speaker 2: Terry writes, in four million people in one year that
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  Speaker 2: had never owned a firearm, what is the percentage they're
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  Speaker 2: all Democrats? Joe, that's a that's a fair cop that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, many folks maybe fearing and I won't be
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  Speaker 2: the first one to say Alex Pretty, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to say Alex Pretty, that's that's entirely
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  Speaker 2: up to you. From what I understand, mister Pretty owned
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  Speaker 2: his firearm for a lot longer than just the past year.
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  Speaker 2: But new owners, new owners as long as they understand.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately a lot of our friends on the left
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  Speaker 2: don't understand their constitutional rights. They just think, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: militias and things like that implications that you should be
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  Speaker 2: Ken Styles, I just wanted to make it feel at home.
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  Speaker 2: On the road from Virginia Tech University, where he lecturer
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  Speaker 2: on security Matters, International and Domestic and Individual. He's on
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  Speaker 2: tour with Turning Point US, a tour that's coming to
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  Speaker 2: William and Mary University here in Virginia, but it's also
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  Speaker 2: going to California. Has been in Michigan and all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Turning Point USA debating to a facts over
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  Speaker 2: feelings and I think I want to thank Turning Point,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, for not using the word feels facts
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  Speaker 2: over feels there. But Ken, you were talking about these
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  Speaker 2: bills that don't seem to make any sense, because somebody
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  Speaker 2: who served in the military would know that the bill
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  Speaker 2: he's proposing has nothing to do with the guns he
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  Speaker 2: carried in service to his nation. But he's he fits
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  Speaker 2: the profile. We can give it to this guy because
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  Speaker 2: he's a veteran and he can say these things even
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  Speaker 2: if it makes no sense. It's like somebody else is
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  Speaker 2: writing these legislations and handing them to representatives out of
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  Speaker 2: central casting.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, because you know part of that and another bill
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  Speaker 22: is they want to outlaw so called high capacity magazines,
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  Speaker 22: magazines that hold more than ten rounds, which was the
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  Speaker 22: basis of the Clinton assault weapon band back in nineteen
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  Speaker 22: ninety four. Now, the good thing about that law was
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  Speaker 22: the House and the Senate placed a sunset clause in
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  Speaker 22: that bill which became law, so that in two thousand
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  Speaker 22: and four, unless it was renewed, it went away. The
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  Speaker 22: other interesting aspect about the Clinton assault weapon ban in
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  Speaker 22: nineteen ninety four was there was also part of the
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  Speaker 22: bill that said the Department of Justice and FBI was
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  Speaker 22: going to analyze the data to see how this assault
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  Speaker 22: weapon ban affected crime. Yeah, News Alert, there was no
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  Speaker 22: effect at all. After ten years, the number of robberies,
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  Speaker 22: the use of firearms, the use of rifles in crime
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  Speaker 22: as well as including murder, pretty much stayed the same.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, and we're visiting. Ken Styles is a
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  Speaker 2: lecturer at the Virginia Tech Hume Center for National Security
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  Speaker 2: and Technology. Twenty nine years of service to the country
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  Speaker 2: in the Central Colligence Agency. And I want to pick
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  Speaker 2: up on something you talked about just there, with the
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  Speaker 2: magazine size and some of the accouterment and the definition
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  Speaker 2: of a salt weapon. Canada has all of those things
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  Speaker 2: in place, all of those restrictions. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: most difficult places to own firearms. And yet we saw
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  Speaker 2: what happened earlier this week at tumblr Ridge High School,
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  Speaker 2: and so it reminds us that maybe we need to
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  Speaker 2: spend more time thinking about the people who pick up
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  Speaker 2: the firearm and what their intentions are, rather than the
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  Speaker 2: firearm itself. Because where I grow up in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: an assault weapon was a stickball bat And I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see anyone putting restrictions and background checks at Low's before
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  Speaker 2: you could buy a broom handle.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 22: Absolutely, And that's what all legal gun owners and organizations
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  Speaker 22: that support firearms, sports and hunting and the Second Amendment
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  Speaker 22: to say, listen, that inanimate object is not the bad thing.
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  Speaker 22: And what's interesting to note is if a police officer
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  Speaker 22: kills somebody, the media attacks the person, right, But if
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  Speaker 22: a criminal kills somebody, they attack the inanimate object, the pistol,
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  Speaker 22: the rifle, whatever it might be, which is kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 22: You know, either the person is bad or the things bad.
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  Speaker 22: I've never known a firearm to jump up and just
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  Speaker 22: shoot somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's a famous I think it was thirty six
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  Speaker 2: hours of YouTube dedicated to a rifle sitting in a
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  Speaker 2: rocking chair that Ted Nugent put there and came back
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  Speaker 2: after thirty six hours said, I don't know, this hasn't
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  Speaker 2: hurt anyone, hasn't even exactly there yet, But I think
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  Speaker 2: you know. And aside from the glib nature of that
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  Speaker 2: can is the fact that the assailant in Canada had
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  Speaker 2: been in front of law enforcement for mental health issues
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  Speaker 2: multiple times in the six years just that the Royal
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  Speaker 2: Canadian Mounted Police were aware of his transitioning. There were
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  Speaker 2: multiple calls to the house. There was an instance where
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  Speaker 2: the firearms were confiscated, and I guess his father went
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  Speaker 2: through the court procedure to get them return. But all
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  Speaker 2: of those instances also put to lie some of the
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  Speaker 2: rhetoric about things like red flag laws. We saw it
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  Speaker 2: happened just here in Croze, Virginia, not a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: where somebody who had come to the attention of law enforcement,
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  Speaker 2: but not the mental health community. Where are we falling
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  Speaker 2: short of helping people who are in real pain and
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  Speaker 2: need somebody to talk to before their last.
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  Speaker 4: Ditch effort is to pick up I hate this phrase,
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  Speaker 4: but that's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: I get paid extra for them, because that's too so far,
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  Speaker 2: they're keeping data.
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  Speaker 4: Points about that.
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  Speaker 22: Since the nineteen sixties when gun control laws started to
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  Speaker 22: crop up. Because of all the assassinations during that tarmoil
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  Speaker 22: mental health bids bids have declined by ninety five percent.
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  Speaker 22: Does anybody think America is ninety five percent saner than
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  Speaker 22: they were?
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  Speaker 23: No?
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  Speaker 22: That, and that's that's a problem. The other thing is
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  Speaker 22: the Secret Service did a study on mass shootings not
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  Speaker 22: too long ago, and from that analysis, about ninety percent
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  Speaker 22: of the assailants had mental health issues. Nine of those
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  Speaker 22: were known. In about seventy five percent of the assailant
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  Speaker 22: made their future crime known, that they were going to
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  Speaker 22: take some sort of action. And yet the mental health
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  Speaker 22: aspect never gets discussed.
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  Speaker 2: When you talk about it, And that's a stunning number
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  Speaker 2: ninety five percent fewer mental health facility beds. And I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned I grew up in New York, and certainly the
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  Speaker 2: famous investigative report by that very young Heraldo Rivera and
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  Speaker 2: the mental health facility in Staten Island, along with literature
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  Speaker 2: like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you know, changed
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  Speaker 2: the American mindset towards mental health care. I have made
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  Speaker 2: the case that when people say, oh, well, you want
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  Speaker 2: that again, no, because that was government institutionalized healthcare, mental
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  Speaker 2: health care.
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  Speaker 4: We worked very hard to try.
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  Speaker 2: To promote better, you know, private sector answer for regular healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: Do we need a private sector push to come up
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  Speaker 2: with better mental health care?
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  Speaker 4: Ken?
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  Speaker 22: That's out of my lane, but we certainly need to
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  Speaker 22: do something to provide the support and the medical oversight
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  Speaker 22: for those people who are having issues. I rely on
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  Speaker 22: them to self medicate and allow them to live on
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  Speaker 22: the street and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, and Ken styles, I appreciate it. This
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of stuff. This is why I love
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  Speaker 2: Turning Point USA, and I rail at all the folks
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  Speaker 2: who want to tear it apart. Once Charlie was taken
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  Speaker 2: from his the hand of a crazy person with a
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  Speaker 2: rifle in their hands. Ken I appreciate it. Find them
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  Speaker 2: Turning Point, USA, get them to your college campus, get
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  Speaker 12: First Thing Today on the Tunk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: But it's time for our sports director.
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  Speaker 2: They joined us at great personal peril to himself, being
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Friday the thirteenth, the sporting world is the land of
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  Speaker 2: the singularly most superstitious population by a percentage I've ever
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  Speaker 2: come across. This is why, as much as I dearly
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  Speaker 2: loved baseball, it drove me nuts because I would be
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  Speaker 2: on teams with twenty four other hyper superstitious people, and
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  Speaker 2: here I was born on a Friday the thirteenth, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't be superstitious.
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  Speaker 4: He's wearing number thirteen.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you know, never changing their underpants. What's
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the weirdest superstition in all the years you covered ACC
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  Speaker 2: Athletics and National sportsmanc that weirdest superstition you ever saw?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: That's a great that's a great question. We're a couple
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: of good ones.
• 29:07
  Speaker 18: Terry Holland had to have a certain tie sent to
• 29:11
  Speaker 18: the cleaners every time he had a big game at
• 29:13
  Speaker 18: home and David Cook, the manager at the time, had
• 29:16
  Speaker 18: to make sure that he got the tie to Terry's house. Uh,
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  Speaker 18: Dave Otam When I when I spent the six years
• 29:21
  Speaker 18: with David Otum and Winston Salem, we were we were
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  Speaker 18: very avid runners. But Dave, Dave had a route for
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: every acc team.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no.
• 29:30
  Speaker 18: In other words, depending on who we were playing, Like
• 29:33
  Speaker 18: if we're playing, uh, the tar Heels, we ran Carolina Avenue,
• 29:38
  Speaker 18: If the Cavs were coming to down, we ran Virginia Avenue.
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  Speaker 4: All these were in Winston Salem, and you know, yeah
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: they Dave.
• 29:45
  Speaker 18: Had to sit a certain way every time we recorded
• 29:49
  Speaker 18: the pregame show.
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  Speaker 4: He had to sit to my right. I mean yeah, no, no, no, no, Oh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: my goodness, over the top.
• 29:54
  Speaker 18: Well, I don't know if Casey Mears or Carl Long
• 29:58
  Speaker 18: have superstitions, but well, the duels last night and all
• 30:01
  Speaker 18: this stuff going on Daytona a cool night, but the
• 30:04
  Speaker 18: duels took place, okay, to finish the grid for the
• 30:07
  Speaker 18: Daytona five hundred.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Just a great story, all right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 18: Fifty eight year old Carl Long has been a Daytona
• 30:14
  Speaker 18: fixture for a long time. Followed closely because this should
• 30:17
  Speaker 18: be a documentary. He began racing in nineteen eighty three
• 30:21
  Speaker 18: at Orange County Speedway in South Boston. He won the
• 30:24
  Speaker 18: track championship at South Boston in eighty seven and the
• 30:27
  Speaker 18: Streetstock Championship at Orange County in ninety. In ninety two,
• 30:31
  Speaker 18: he raced in NASCAR sanctioned competition for the first time.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: He was Rookie of.
• 30:36
  Speaker 18: The Year in Orange County and awarded the Best Sportsmanship award.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 30:41
  Speaker 18: In seven, he ran a limited schedule for Long Brothers
• 30:45
  Speaker 18: racing in the us AR Hooters Pro Cup Series. Now
• 30:49
  Speaker 18: he attempted the eight Daytona five hundred for E and
• 30:52
  Speaker 18: M Motorsports. He got a sponsorship for Millstar and Rhino's
• 30:57
  Speaker 18: Energy drink, but did not qualify. Okay, oh, this just
• 31:00
  Speaker 18: gets better. He began fielding his own car with Redline
• 31:04
  Speaker 18: Oil sponsoring in the nationwide series, and then he his
• 31:09
  Speaker 18: first start at Darlington. All Right, he attempted the Daytona
• 31:12
  Speaker 18: five hundred and nine. He had a sponsorship from Romeo
• 31:15
  Speaker 18: Guest Construction, one of Long's first sponsors in.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: The mid nineteen nineties. Okay.
• 31:21
  Speaker 18: In May of twenty seventeen, he announced he had reached
• 31:24
  Speaker 18: an agreement with NASCAR to allow him to return to
• 31:27
  Speaker 18: the Cup Series. Garage all right, the team received sponsorship
• 31:31
  Speaker 18: from a marijuana vaping manufacturer, Ved burks Well. NASCAR prevented
• 31:37
  Speaker 18: the company from appearing on the car after Long misspelled
• 31:40
  Speaker 18: the company name and his admission to NASCAR, So upon
• 31:46
  Speaker 18: further investigation, the sanctioning body ordered Long to remove the sponsorship.
• 31:52
  Speaker 18: All right, so he gets he gets to Raleigh, Durham
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: Domino's Pizza. He was named Manager of the Year in
• 31:59
  Speaker 18: nineteen eighty eight, and additionally, he holds the record for
• 32:03
  Speaker 18: most pizzas delivered in one night at one location.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Oh really, Oh god, a NASCAR guy delivery. All right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: So anyway, Casey mirrors avoids a wreck.
• 32:12
  Speaker 18: I'll get back to Casey in a second, in the
• 32:15
  Speaker 18: second or in the first duel, Casey mirrors avoids a wreck,
• 32:20
  Speaker 18: and he finishes eighth, and he qualifies and will make
• 32:24
  Speaker 18: his four hundred and ninety fifth start in racing on Sunday.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: He will start forty first. Very cool family in the garage.
• 32:36
  Speaker 18: NASCAR gives it garage in the garage. Carl Long trying
• 32:40
  Speaker 18: to figure things out.
• 32:42
  Speaker 30: The car owner I tried something qualifying that thought I
• 32:44
  Speaker 30: was gonna make us faster, and it didn't.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: It made us slower.
• 32:48
  Speaker 30: So but I tried it because I knew we had
• 32:51
  Speaker 30: an opportunity to race our way in and he did it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 30: You know, Just just happy to move forward from miss
• 32:57
  Speaker 30: I am entered on the Atlanta race. But I probably
• 33:00
  Speaker 30: he got a strip that car down to get this
• 33:01
  Speaker 30: one going.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know if we'll make it to Atlanta or not.
• 33:04
  Speaker 18: So he's gotta take stuff from a car he wanted
• 33:07
  Speaker 18: to take to Atlanta. He's putting it into the Daytona
• 33:11
  Speaker 18: car and anyway he will be in the field for us.
• 33:14
  Speaker 18: So that's just something to watch on Sunday. I know
• 33:16
  Speaker 18: I'm gonna be all right now for Casey Meres. Casey Mears,
• 33:19
  Speaker 18: didn't you know he came from a lap down to
• 33:21
  Speaker 18: earn the open position available from the first duel. He
• 33:24
  Speaker 18: advanced when fellow open competitor Corey Lajoy, running in the
• 33:27
  Speaker 18: top five of the time, turned into the outside wall
• 33:30
  Speaker 18: and a chain reaction collision on the final.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: App of overtime. Anyway, Casey Meres makes a.
• 33:34
  Speaker 18: Little move and so now with the avoidance of the
• 33:38
  Speaker 18: last lap crash. He finished eighth in the second race
• 33:41
  Speaker 18: and is in the forty one car field for the
• 33:44
  Speaker 18: Great American Race. Now he's got an issue though his
• 33:47
  Speaker 18: daughter is in a cheer competition in Vegas. Now he's
• 33:51
  Speaker 18: trying to get his family, or at least part of
• 33:53
  Speaker 18: the family to Daytona.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Casey meres in his press conference.
• 33:58
  Speaker 19: Yeah, so my wife, my daughter has a cheer tournament
• 34:01
  Speaker 19: in Las Vegas this weekend. So my wife and my son,
• 34:05
  Speaker 19: they have flights going to Vegas, and they have flights
• 34:08
  Speaker 19: going to Orlando tomorrow. And depending on how this worked out,
• 34:11
  Speaker 19: was going to depend on where they were going to be.
• 34:13
  Speaker 19: So couldn't be more happier that they're taking that flight
• 34:16
  Speaker 19: to Orlando.
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: And your gosh name man, get choked up.
• 34:20
  Speaker 19: It means a lot, but they I think a lot
• 34:22
  Speaker 19: of people don't really know and understand, you know what.
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: The wife and kids do. You know, See I came
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: to talk. It's not it's not a championship speech.
• 34:33
  Speaker 18: So anyway, it was a brilliant night and a night
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: really for the old guys because of what happened. Brock
• 34:41
  Speaker 18: Nelson scored twice for the US Olympic team last night.
• 34:44
  Speaker 18: He's been with the Colorado Apvalanche since twenty ten. He's
• 34:48
  Speaker 18: third generation Olympic and then Lebron had another triple double.
• 34:54
  Speaker 18: He's fifth on the all time list now. And so
• 34:57
  Speaker 18: there was just a ton of great stuff last night.
• 35:00
  Speaker 18: So the old guys well, and then the fifty.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Eight year old did the fifty eight year old American curler,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: you know exactly, you know, the oldest Olympic athletes fifty
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: eight years old. America is down like eight to two.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: And I don't don't ask me how curling is scored.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: You know, I can barely tell you how darts are scored.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And I used to be on a darts team, but
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: team very good. Yeah, the Ministry of Silly Darts. We
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: used to play in Brooklyn. I mean they were serious.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: We used to Oh, we used to get into so
• 35:31
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• 35:34
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• 35:37
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• 35:42
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• 35:46
  Speaker 2: of it was Pete and I would take the game
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: so unseriously that it would frustrate these uber serious like
• 35:55
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• 36:00
  Speaker 2: all you know hair has got the same haircut and everything, and.
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• 36:05
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• 36:08
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• 36:11
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• 36:15
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• 36:18
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• 36:22
  Speaker 2: of things and qualify for the postseason, which infuriated people
• 36:27
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• 36:32
  Speaker 2: curling guy, I mean, he's fifty eight years old, he's
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: he's basically there to drive everyone around. According to the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: story I was reading online and they were down eight
• 36:41
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• 36:44
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• 36:46
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• 36:50
  Speaker 18: So you're dark, dam it would be safe to say
• 36:53
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• 36:55
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• 36:59
  Speaker 2: The only corks I ever were involved with a wine bottle.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: That's they would leave it at that.
• 37:05
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• 37:12
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• 37:14
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• 37:21
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  Speaker 10: Doing well? Joe great to be with you.
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  Speaker 33: Yes, Spotify, YouTube and Apple. Wherever you like your favorite
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  Speaker 2: They haven't taken me down yet, and I've said I've
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  Speaker 10: To get more more aggressive? Were edgy? If you want
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  Speaker 29: Come on?
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  Speaker 1: This is lame.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, so I was just called lame by
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  Speaker 2: a former House Freedom Caucus chair. That's that's the high
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  Speaker 2: water mark for uh today, Uh this morning, Bob. I
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  Speaker 2: know as a as a deep man of deep faith,
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  Speaker 2: Uh yourself, and you know, I know the events up
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  Speaker 2: in British Columbia have dominated a lot of our conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Uh there, am I wrong to point out that this
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  Speaker 2: is yet again how the woke agenda is failing children.
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  Speaker 2: When children are calling out to the adults in the
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  Speaker 2: room for for help. Maybe they're feeling pain. Uh, they're
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  Speaker 2: not happy there, they don't know what's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: in that, and and and make ourselves popular in the process.
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  Speaker 10: Well, as I've said many times, there is.
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  Speaker 33: It is clear to me that there's something wrong with
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  Speaker 33: a person mentally, psychologically, emotionally, certainly spiritually who thinks they
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  Speaker 33: are or wants to be the opposite sex. We ought
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  Speaker 33: to stop using the word gender. There's no gender at sex.
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  Speaker 33: God made sex. We're all created with thirty trillion or
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  Speaker 33: so cells that are all male or all female. There's
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  Speaker 33: nothing we can do to change that. And when a
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  Speaker 33: child expresses confusion or pain in that respect, we ought
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  Speaker 33: to be coming alongside that child and helping them realize
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  Speaker 33: that God has fearfully and wonderfully made them. God makes
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  Speaker 33: no mistakes, and almost every child will grow out of
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  Speaker 33: that without the wrong kind of reinforcement that our culture,
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  Speaker 33: in our society, particularly in our academic institutions and in
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  Speaker 33: our schools across the country, and in our media and
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  Speaker 33: our entertainment industry and so forth, that have caused such
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  Speaker 33: great harm, let alone our medical institutions that have perpetrated
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  Speaker 33: physical harm on children and all that. To say, Joe,
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  Speaker 33: to your point, you see it unsadly disproportionate amount of
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  Speaker 33: these shootings that have taken place at the hands of
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  Speaker 33: trans individuals, which obviously doesn't mean that all trans people
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  Speaker 33: are violent or you know, this potential for lethal violent
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  Speaker 33: that's not work. But there is a troubling, absolute, unmistakable
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  Speaker 33: statistical difference where the very narrow portion of our population
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  Speaker 33: that struggles with trans issues is disproportionately represented with these
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  Speaker 33: these shootings that have been taking place, particularly the last
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  Speaker 33: couple of years.
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  Speaker 10: We can point to one after another.
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  Speaker 33: And so it just shows the failure and the of
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  Speaker 33: our of our society and our culture that has has
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  Speaker 33: addressed this issue in the completely wrong opposite way.
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  Speaker 10: In the harm to.
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  Speaker 33: Those most vulnerable among us who need our help and
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  Speaker 2: So well said Bob, and I appreciate that, sir, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of that your brothers and sisters from the US House
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  Speaker 2: of Representatives. Because nothing else is going on in Washington,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: they have no deadlines or anything else to meet, all
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  Speaker 2: took a flight to Munich, which I understand is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: My mother used to work for a Munich bank and
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  Speaker 2: the area is beautiful. But I think they have a
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  Speaker 2: deadline at midnight tonight that the government's going to shut
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  Speaker 2: down again, but they all fly off to Munich to
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  Speaker 2: rub elbows with the global economic folks at this Munich forum.
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  Speaker 4: What's up with these people?
• 48:25
  Speaker 33: Well, setting aside the fact that what values coming from
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  Speaker 33: them going to the global economic forum that they were
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  Speaker 33: at in Munich to begin with, never underestimate the ability
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  Speaker 33: of willingness of members of Congress to take a taxpayer
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  Speaker 33: fund a trip.
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  Speaker 10: I'm proud of the fact that I never took.
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  Speaker 33: One in terms of going overseas to explore or to experience.
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  Speaker 33: The only time I left the United States on the
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  Speaker 33: taxpayer diamond my four years was when I went to
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  Speaker 33: Turks and Kkos to help bring back an American who
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  Speaker 33: was being held because of a mistake with having accidental
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  Speaker 33: AMMO in his luggage.
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  Speaker 10: Young man.
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  Speaker 33: I remember that Central Virginia and that was a twenty
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  Speaker 33: four hour trip down there with a few other members
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  Speaker 33: of Congress, including John Fetterman by the way, to help
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  Speaker 33: bring back these thankfully successfully get these Americans back.
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  Speaker 10: Went to the border five or six times, as you know.
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  Speaker 33: But right we're facing yet another government shut down at
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  Speaker 33: the hands again of Democrats who don't want to fund
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  Speaker 33: Department of Homeland Security. They don't want to address, obviously
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  Speaker 33: the harm being done to the country by the border
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  Speaker 33: invasion that Abigail Spanberger and Joe Biden and all Democrats
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  Speaker 33: for Mark Warner facilitated over four years to bring in
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  Speaker 33: as many legals as they could. We're suffering the harm
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  Speaker 33: from that, as evidenced by what's been happening in Minnesota
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  Speaker 33: and other places. But the Dems, one of course, shut
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  Speaker 33: down ICE Border Patrol, but also they're shutting down FEMA, TSA,
• 49:47
  Speaker 33: They're shutting down Coast Guard and other safety and security
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  Speaker 33: that falls under Department Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and you raise an interesting point also, Bob,
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  Speaker 2: in this these are the folks who would be able
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  Speaker 2: to write it law that changes how Ice would operate,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't want to do that. They just want
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  Speaker 2: to pull the plug on Ice. And we can have
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  Speaker 2: a debate about Department of Homeland Security and what it's
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  Speaker 2: done since two thousand and two under the Patriot Act.
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  Speaker 2: That's a different conversation. But these are the folks who
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  Speaker 2: have the power to actually change the laws, and they
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  Speaker 2: won't do it.
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  Speaker 33: Yes, elections have consequences. Republicans do have the majority, so
• 50:25
  Speaker 33: Democrats can't necessarily get what they want, but they can
• 50:27
  Speaker 33: have the debate, they can make the case. They have
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  Speaker 33: the court of public opinion. They've got elections coming up
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  Speaker 33: in nine months here where the American people will get
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  Speaker 33: to decide they like Republicans have majority, they like what
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  Speaker 33: the President and Republicans are doing, or do they want
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  Speaker 33: to change it. And Republicans have shown a willingness, as
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  Speaker 33: you not, to negotiate some things with respect how Ice
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  Speaker 33: is operating. They've agreed with cameras and some other things,
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  Speaker 33: and they've actually been more flexible than I would be.
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  Speaker 33: Quite frankly, I'm concerned about the drawdown in Minnesota. I'm
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  Speaker 33: concerned about the president that it said, the message that
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  Speaker 33: it's sent, and other blue cities and states across the
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  Speaker 33: country that want to resist. I said, have you put
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  Speaker 33: up a fuss, you put up a fight, They'll just
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  Speaker 33: draw down, the retreat and they'll go home.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a frightening precedent, because we love to run
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  Speaker 2: on precedent, Bob. But you know, how much is it
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  Speaker 2: just DHS that's going to suffer the shutdown, because that's
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  Speaker 2: been a debate that I can't really find a good
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  Speaker 2: answer to, or is it the whole government deal that
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  Speaker 2: they made.
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  Speaker 33: It'll be the portion of government that was only funded
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  Speaker 33: for the two weeks that expires tonight.
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  Speaker 10: So it'll be all of DHS to some degree.
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  Speaker 33: I mean in a sense, as you know, because DHS
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  Speaker 33: is safety and security again, Coast Guard, FEMA, TSA, ice,
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  Speaker 33: border patrol and so forth. They will be declared essential,
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  Speaker 33: so the vast majority of them will keep working without
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  Speaker 33: being paid if it extends into the pay periods non
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  Speaker 33: essential workers, which there are less. But the irony of
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  Speaker 33: it is they're mad about ice and border patrol in particular. Well,
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  Speaker 33: they got seventy five billion dollars in the big Ugly
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  Speaker 33: Bill when their annual budget is.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: Only like ten billion dollars, so there's flush with cash.
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  Speaker 10: I want them to use some of it to build
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  Speaker 10: the border wall.
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  Speaker 33: By the way, report from the Washington Times a week
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  Speaker 33: or two ago that only twenty seven miles.
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  Speaker 10: Had the needed age still remaining needed.
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  Speaker 33: Eight hundred miles have been built in the past year,
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  Speaker 33: and I didn't see any questions about the border wall
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  Speaker 33: in the hearings that Congress had this week with DHS
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  Speaker 33: with the ICE Director. By the way, that will have
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  Speaker 33: a wears beyond the administration.
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  Speaker 2: Bob Good is on with us. Good for America dot
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  Speaker 2: org is where you find his podcast, and it's a
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