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Veteran Voices: Navy Aviator Darryl Centanni on Entrepreneurship, Plus Vince Coglianese · KSEV Mornings with Craig and Wayne

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  Speaker 1: And now, the mob guys break for your knees and.
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  Speaker 3: This is The.
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  Speaker 4: Mob, guys, on KSCV Radio. My name is Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 4: He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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  Speaker 5: He is on special assignment, so he's not with us
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  Speaker 5: this Friday. He's probably not going to be here A
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  Speaker 5: lot of Fridays, although I do think he was a
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  Speaker 5: part of the show last Friday. But by and large,
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  Speaker 5: the man is a very busy dude. So it's just
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  Speaker 5: me today. I do want to talk about Hasan Piker
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  Speaker 5: a little more. I played a little bit of audio
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  Speaker 5: in the first hour where Hasan Piker was saying crazy
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  Speaker 5: stuff and he continues to say crazy things.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to dive a little deeper into it.
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  Speaker 5: And I promise there's a relevance beyond just crapping on
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  Speaker 5: a dude who gained popularity because of his role in
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  Speaker 5: campaigning for someone in Michigan, and also just because he's
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  Speaker 5: a popular Twitch streamer out of California. Before I do that,
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  Speaker 5: I want to play something else. This is audio from
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  Speaker 5: Fox News. They were talking about California's high-speed rail and
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  Speaker 5: how a whole bunch of people tied to that initiative,
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  Speaker 5: tied to consultants and whatnot that were involved with this,
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  Speaker 5: just stole tons and tons of money from taxpayers in California.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you wonder the depth of the, say, fraud that.
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  Speaker 4: Exists in the world of government.
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  Speaker 5: And people like Wayne Dolcefino actually do a really good
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  Speaker 5: job of exposing it. But here is one of several
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  Speaker 5: examples of how they just go crazy and how they
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  Speaker 5: find every avenue possible to bilk the American taxpayer, in
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  Speaker 5: this case the California taxpayer, of as much money as
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  Speaker 5: humanly possible.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go. All right, hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I've got to make sure that this audio is
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  Speaker 5: playing from the right spot again. so that you can
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  Speaker 5: hear it. That's a me problem, not a you problem.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and hit that again.
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  Speaker 6: General Report is exposing an eye-popping tab for travel expenses
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  Speaker 6: by officials working on the California High Speed Rail Project.
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  Speaker 6: Much of the spending went to, quote, questionable locations. Kelly
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  Speaker 6: Saberi from Fox Business, live in L.A. with details. Kelly,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not at all surprised. Tell us more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kelly, tell us more.
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  Speaker 2: Dana, we're talking about over $ 680, 000 in taxpayer money. So
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  Speaker 2: in one instance, a consultant flew his own private plane
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  Speaker 2: coast to coast, then requested that the authority reimburse him
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  Speaker 2: as if the expenses were for a commercial flight.
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  Speaker 7: D.C.
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  Speaker 2: To California round trip. This expense amounted to over $ 8, 000.
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  Speaker 2: The rail authority allowed consultants to expense premium ride shares
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  Speaker 2: to places unrelated to the job. We're talking about repeated
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  Speaker 2: trips to the gym, an escape room, cigar lounges, and
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  Speaker 2: a night out that included a club and tiki bar
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  Speaker 2: with a 2.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: Pickup time. Yeah, I'm going to jump in right here.
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  Speaker 5: I'm laughing because of how ridiculous this is and how
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  Speaker 5: often this happens and how you need people to be
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  Speaker 5: in positions of power who not only will fight this
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  Speaker 5: sort of spending and stupidity, but won't give the government
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  Speaker 5: the opportunity to spend money on things like this because
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  Speaker 5: they won't take as much money from you. The funny
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  Speaker 5: thing to me, and I guess the comparison I've made before,
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  Speaker 5: you compare the government and money that it's given to
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  Speaker 5: a drug addict, like truly you do, and how a
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  Speaker 5: drug addict behaves if you try to help them and
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  Speaker 5: you give them something and they can't break the addiction.
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  Speaker 5: The government can't break its addiction either. to waste and
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  Speaker 5: stealing of our money.
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  Speaker 4: They can't do it.
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  Speaker 5: And in places like California, where they're propped up even
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  Speaker 5: further than they are in Texas, they do things like this.
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  Speaker 5: You find out that consultants talking about a high-speed rail
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  Speaker 5: took $ 680, 000 of taxpayer money to get themselves to places
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  Speaker 5: like Planet Fitness escape rooms, nightclubs, tiki bars, a cigar
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  Speaker 5: lounge in Washington, D.C., and then also one guy who
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  Speaker 5: flew a private plane for $ 8, 000 That said he was
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  Speaker 5: on like a United Airlines.
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  Speaker 4: Flight and just he booked at a bad time. That's
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  Speaker 4: why the tickets were expensive as they were. This is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: And this is the kind of stuff that government and
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  Speaker 5: I think Wayne and I have talked a bit about.
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  Speaker 4: In the first few weeks of the show.
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  Speaker 5: Probably somewhat does due to just not caring like accidental.
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  Speaker 4: I shouldn't call it accidental. It's intentional.
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  Speaker 5: But it's the kind of thing where they they're just
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  Speaker 5: so indifferent that. to the amount of fraud that typically
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  Speaker 5: exists in the world of government, that so many places
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  Speaker 5: just allow things like this to happen, don't really care
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  Speaker 5: if they're easy to discover, because they know they can
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  Speaker 5: just do it again. The arrogance of people that are
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  Speaker 5: given power and expect power after they've been given it
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  Speaker 5: one time is the thing we most need to fix.
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  Speaker 5: I'll keep saying that throughout the show, and this is
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  Speaker 5: a great example of it. Now, I also want to
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  Speaker 5: play the audio of Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker has asked
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  Speaker 5: what I think is a very good question. That should
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  Speaker 5: be asked to a lot of people on the left
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  Speaker 5: who seem to care about one issue much, much more than, say,
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  Speaker 5: a very similar issue happening in a very different place.
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  Speaker 4: The hypocrisy of acting as.
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  Speaker 5: Though you need to be yelling and screaming on a
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  Speaker 5: daily basis about Israel or you pick the topic and
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  Speaker 5: then ignoring what is, again, an identical situation somewhere else.
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  Speaker 5: It demonstrates that you're only doing this for political reasons.
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  Speaker 5: You're not doing this because it's a core fundamental human
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  Speaker 5: belief of yours. And that's what they pretend. They pretend
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  Speaker 5: all the time that they're only yelling and screaming because
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  Speaker 5: they're nice people who care and someone is being hurt
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in the world. And that's the funny part of
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  Speaker 5: this discussion or odd part of it is you can
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  Speaker 5: find a ton of other examples of any of this.
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  Speaker 5: And I think one of the really good ones used
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  Speaker 5: by Axios here is China. But here I'll play some
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  Speaker 5: of that audio.
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  Speaker 8: It seems you care a lot more about how Israel
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  Speaker 8: treats Muslims than how China treats Muslims. Yeah, because Israel
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  Speaker 8: is murdering not just Muslims but Christians as well with
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  Speaker 8: my tax dollars.
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  Speaker 4: And that, I think, is unacceptable.
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  Speaker 8: It's the same principle behind America's global war on terror
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  Speaker 8: that is an abject failure that I oppose as well,
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  Speaker 8: that many Americans also oppose as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 4: So you wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 8: Talking about it if Israel wasn't an ally? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 8: would not be.
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  Speaker 4: I would not be frustrated with the actions.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, I would still talk about it because it's
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  Speaker 8: a genocide. And there are and I believe Amnesty International
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  Speaker 8: considers what China has done to the Uyghur Muslims. to
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  Speaker 8: be a cultural genocide, if I'm not mistaken. And you
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  Speaker 8: agree with that?
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 4: I do agree with that. It is a genocide.
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  Speaker 8: There are different terms applied for different actions.
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  Speaker 2: I already don't care.
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  Speaker 5: Now the bullcrap is being heightened to a degree that's
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  Speaker 5: insane because he's going to go on and say how
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  Speaker 5: this genocide is different than that genocide to him. And
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  Speaker 5: by the way, I'm not ceding the idea that Israel
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  Speaker 5: is actually partaking in a genocide. I don't actually believe that.
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  Speaker 5: But what I do think matters and what, to me...
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  Speaker 5: feels to be the most important of this, is exposing
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  Speaker 5: the person's motivation, in this case, to talk about something
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  Speaker 5: for political reasons, as opposed to being reasons that they
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  Speaker 5: actually genuinely care about. That matters when you're yelling and
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  Speaker 5: screaming from the rooftops the way that some people do
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  Speaker 5: on a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of these topics.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason it matters, because there's some times where
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  Speaker 5: I'll dismiss it. I'll say that the intention isn't as
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  Speaker 5: important as the message In this case, I think it's
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  Speaker 5: the opposite because you're choosing what situation you highlight and
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  Speaker 5: which ones you ignore. And mainstream media does this all
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  Speaker 5: the time in what they choose not to tell you about,
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  Speaker 5: what they choose to ignore and pretend isn't happening because
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  Speaker 5: they get trapped in that logic problem that Hasan Piker
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  Speaker 5: is stuck in right now, where you're exposed for demonstrating
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  Speaker 5: a certain reason that you're talking about one thing and
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  Speaker 5: not another thing that has nothing to do with just
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  Speaker 5: helping people. But there's something more than that, I think,
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  Speaker 5: in this topic. And here's what I believe to be
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  Speaker 5: important about it. Like our economy created what China is
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  Speaker 5: right now. So Hassan Piker to say that he cares
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  Speaker 5: more about Israel and what he thinks they're doing that's
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  Speaker 5: wrong because he, in fact, is a taxpayer in the
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  Speaker 5: United States and we give money to an ally of ours.
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  Speaker 5: We help them defend themselves in that part of the world.
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  Speaker 5: He's acting as though our economic boosting up of China
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  Speaker 5: didn't also exist because we have deep financial ties to
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  Speaker 5: the world's second largest economy. And we're a big reason
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  Speaker 5: the outsourcing of our manufacturing that they are what they
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  Speaker 5: are today. If we hadn't done that, if we had
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  Speaker 5: kept manufacturing here in this country, which President Trump is
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  Speaker 5: trying to force.
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  Speaker 4: Back into the United States.
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  Speaker 5: We wouldn't be having a discussion about any of this
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  Speaker 5: at all. But to pretend as though American money and
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  Speaker 5: influence hasn't propped up China much more than it's propped.
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  Speaker 4: Up Israel is ludicrous, I think, to say out loud.
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  Speaker 5: And again, it's such a semantic way to try to
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  Speaker 5: end an argument or end a discussion and move on
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  Speaker 5: in such a disingenuous fashion that you just want everyone
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  Speaker 5: around you to kind of shut up is basically how
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  Speaker 5: you're behaving there. And how little he wants to have
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  Speaker 5: a discussion about this because it's simply the kind of
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  Speaker 5: thing I don't think he could win a logical debate on.
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  Speaker 5: So he'd rather just move on. He'd rather just change
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  Speaker 5: the topic because he knows he's going to win.
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  Speaker 4: Been outed in those moments.
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  Speaker 5: And honestly, I'll tell you one other thing, because this
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  Speaker 5: is this is odd and I'll just put it out
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  Speaker 5: there and then we'll take a break. My cousin Vinny
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  Speaker 5: is coming up in a little bit, so he'll be
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  Speaker 5: on the show. When you start to become prominent in
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  Speaker 5: the world of opinion, like what I do for a
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  Speaker 5: living or what people like my cousin Vinny do at
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  Speaker 5: a much higher scale, for a living. Occasionally, I get
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  Speaker 5: to fill in on some fancy places. But when you
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  Speaker 5: do that, there are people that come out of the
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  Speaker 5: woodwork who do have money that want to influence what
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  Speaker 5: you say.
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  Speaker 4: They'll come out of the woodwork. They'll offer you something.
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  Speaker 5: In the case of a bunch of these social media people,
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  Speaker 5: these influencers, you found out they were getting a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of money from odd sources. And that was on both sides.
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  Speaker 5: That was conservatives and Democratic influencers. But there's people that
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  Speaker 5: dangle checks that want you to... profoundly change what you
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  Speaker 5: believe in order to take the check. And people like
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  Speaker 5: Hassan Piker scream to me that they're the type of
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  Speaker 5: person that cashed out, that they're the type of person
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  Speaker 5: that 100 percent was willing.
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  Speaker 4: You tell me what to say. You tell me where
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  Speaker 4: to say it.
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  Speaker 5: And then you write the fancy check for me and
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  Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and do it for you.
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  Speaker 4: And I think you need to be.
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  Speaker 5: Able to, you know, figure out to dissect who those
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  Speaker 5: individuals are and who the people are that are telling
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  Speaker 5: you the truth, regardless of where the paycheck.
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  Speaker 4: Is coming from. All right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 5: We call ourselves the Mob Guys. My name is Craig Colonese.
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  Speaker 5: He is Wayne Dolcefino.
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  Speaker 4: He's not here today. He's on special assignment.
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  Speaker 5: But Vince Colonnais, my cousin, where now it's easier to
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  Speaker 5: demonstrate that we are related to each other, is on
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, Vince?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing so good.
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  Speaker 11: And I'm sorry that Wayne's not here. I feel like
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  Speaker 11: I need Wayne here to, like, to really stick the
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  Speaker 11: landing on this whole name change and everything. I was
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  Speaker 11: having a great time.
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  Speaker 7: With him last week.
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  Speaker 5: I saw you even responded to me on social media.
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  Speaker 5: Wayne has been talking about it all week. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: kind of happy he's not here today, actually.
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  Speaker 11: What does that mean when you say he's on special assignment?
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  Speaker 11: Is he on a bathroom break? What is special assignment?
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  Speaker 4: Actually, people have asked me that.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I thought that sounded better than saying he just didn't
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  Speaker 5: want to show up today because he's traveling and he's busy.
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  Speaker 7: So I was curious.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's traveling.
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  Speaker 5: He's he's an investigative reporter still that does a whole
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  Speaker 5: lot of work and, you know, occasionally doesn't have time
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  Speaker 5: for the radio show. There's a lot of things to
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  Speaker 5: talk about out there, Vince. One of the biggest things
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you this way. I have a friend who's
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  Speaker 5: tied to a pretty big company in Georgia and they
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  Speaker 5: were in D.C. this past week and they were in
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  Speaker 5: some meetings and conversations that inevitably she had to text
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  Speaker 5: me about. So a friend of mine sends me this
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  Speaker 5: text about how many people in D.C.
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  Speaker 4: Are convinced. And granted, she'd be on the right. Her husband,
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  Speaker 4: who's a big name at a big company, would be
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  Speaker 4: on the right.
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  Speaker 5: They're convinced that that we will lose in Texas, that
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  Speaker 5: conservatives will lose, that Tallarico will win. And she told
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  Speaker 5: me like that there's a lot of people there worried
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  Speaker 5: about it. And I'm on the ground floor here in
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  Speaker 5: Houston and I am still convinced that it won't happen again.
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  Speaker 5: But I do think that now that money is being
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  Speaker 5: funded or flooded into the Paxton campaign, the thing we
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  Speaker 5: need to do is tell people the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Tell people who Tallarico is. What are you hearing as.
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  Speaker 5: Someone that does the show nationally and and lives in D.C.?
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  Speaker 5: Like how much of that that I was hearing from
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  Speaker 5: my friend is actually true?
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  Speaker 4: Legitimate in the world of political politics.
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  Speaker 11: Well, you know, the reality is like I'm accustomed to
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  Speaker 11: the doomsday feeling because Republicans always have that feeling going
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  Speaker 11: into an election. I think that's a pretty routine thing.
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  Speaker 11: There's also a long history of Democrats believing that they're
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  Speaker 11: going to win in Texas. This will be the moment.
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  Speaker 7: This will be the time.
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  Speaker 11: We finally got Texas. We turned Texas blue. And oftentimes
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  Speaker 11: that ends up being nothing, actually. And that's why We've
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  Speaker 11: I've mentioned this before. Texas is described as fool's gold
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  Speaker 11: for Democrats. Now, having said that, I think one of
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  Speaker 11: the key elements, you know, regardless of whatever the feeling
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  Speaker 11: is right now, if you're going to defeat James Talafica,
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  Speaker 11: you're going to do it by telling him people who
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  Speaker 11: he really is and doing it with a lot of
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  Speaker 11: volume and intensity. And I'll tell you what, these undercover
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  Speaker 11: videos that are coming up, coming out right now. about him,
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  Speaker 11: about his campaign, about the super PAC that's supporting him.
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  Speaker 11: I think these are all devastating. Any political campaign that
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  Speaker 11: would have undercover videos that shows, for instance, the Texas
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  Speaker 11: majority PAC, which is the super PAC that's supporting him,
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  Speaker 11: they've got one of their top guys on camera admitting
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  Speaker 11: they're paying people $ 25 per vote to vote for him.
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  Speaker 11: That guy was just fired by the PAC because that
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  Speaker 11: was revealed in public. You have lawyers saying, that that
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  Speaker 11: looks highly illegal, what they're describing. That's devastating in terms
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  Speaker 11: of just the criminality of it. And then meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 11: freakishness of his positions, you know, you've got his various
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  Speaker 11: pastors at his church who are all on camera saying
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  Speaker 11: things like he doesn't believe any of the stuff that
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  Speaker 11: he's trying to pretend to be normal. He's actually way
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  Speaker 11: freakier than people realize that as soon as he gets power,
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  Speaker 11: he'll go back to the freakiest possible positions. And then
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  Speaker 11: we got a brand new one this morning. It's on
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  Speaker 11: Amber Duke's ex-account today, and it's of a guy from
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: his church, his spiritual advisor, who is talking about how
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: they have this rewrite of the Bible that they use
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: inside of the church. They call it the inclusive Bible,
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: where they get rid of all of the gendered language
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: of the Bible, which is kind of interesting because I
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: don't even know how you describe the Lord's Prayer without
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: the gendered language of our Father, but somehow they're removing
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: it all. And then you think, that's where James Talifrico
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: comes from? Yeah, I'm not interested at all. I don't
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: think the Christians in Texas are interested in that at all.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: No, it's crazy because I think that Bible, and that
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: was Daily Caller reporting that was really excellently done by
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Amber Duke, as you said, in that Bible they even
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: refused to call Jesus the Son of God for some reason.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's because that's also gendered language or something like it,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: but it seems to just fly in the face of
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: what actual religious beliefs are, which is startling. And I
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: do believe, and I think you probably believe this too,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: that the biggest problem Paxton has faced thus far is
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: this message hasn't been landing with enough Texans. Enough people
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: haven't been hearing this without a version of disbelief for
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: it or a version of dismissing it or maybe just
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: not even– it's not even landing in front of them.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: And we need to do a better job of getting
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: that message to more people. So I do think some
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: of these hidden camera things are absolutely– a goldmine in
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: convincing people of the reality of what's behind the scenes,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: because the message isn't coming from the right anymore. It's
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: coming from these individuals on the left that aren't aware
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: they're being recorded.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: Can I just make a bigger point, too? Have you
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: ever noticed that these hidden camera videos only really work
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: against lefties? Like, it never happens to conservatives. Like, there's
• 19:18
  Speaker 11: never a moment where, like, a conservative's caught on camera
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: being like, actually, I really want to raise taxes. It's like, no,
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: they're kind of the same person, both in front of
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: cameras and away from cameras.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: And meanwhile, these.
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: Democrats, they'll go out in public and then lie to
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: you about their positions about gender and borders and prisons.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: And then admit the rest of it in front of cameras.
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: It's also, hidden cameras, it's all so crazy. It's too much.
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: People need to wake up to it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right about that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: It's fantastic to say it that way because yes, there's
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: not a lot of times, and actually I think Trump
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: is often described as identical, both on camera and off camera.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: There's nothing about him that changes. But very, very seldom
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: do we need to defend a position behind closed doors
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: by saying something differently. And it's crazy, because I think
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: they are also trying to defend the lack of his
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: radical beliefs in the last couple of weeks. because they
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: all know that those are the things he actually thinks,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: and everybody on the left actually wants him to think that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I want to ask you about it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: And his internal polling must suck.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: By the way. It has to be.
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: If he's at the point that he's going on Fox
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: News to tell you he believes that there are two genders,
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: you know that there's a nightmare internal poll going on
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: right now with James Salafrico.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. I do want to ask you about Hasan Piker.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw the most recent stuff,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: the Axios interview.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: I am assuming you did, actually.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: And some of the things he said now, I really
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: think it's interesting that many politicians on the left are
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: pretending they don't know who he is. They're pretending that
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: he's just some ineffective or a non influential person.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: And yet the stuff he's saying is still OK. You're
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: laughing at that. The stuff he's saying is still so crazy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: What is your reaction to the latest with Hassan Piker
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: and saying America is worse than Al Qaeda?
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: OK, so there's a couple elements. One, you're right. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: Democrats are trying to distance themselves tactically right now. Only because, again,
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: for the same reason we were just describing, they're trying
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: to trick the voters into thinking that they have nothing
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: to do with this guy. And, you know, I saw
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: Neera Tanden, who is like one of the most establishment
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: Democrat operatives in the country, was tweeting the other day
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: that she thinks Hassan Piker might be a Republican plant.
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: He's not a real person. There's literally anything, they're throwing
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: everything against the wall in the hopes that it's sick.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: And the reality, of course, is what you just described.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: He does this interview with Axios where Alex Thompson, the reporter,
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: asks him to compare the United States to al-Qaeda, and
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: he says the United States, pound for pound, is responsible
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: for more terrorism than al-Qaeda.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Now, there's a.
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: Huge number of problems with that, to include the fact
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: that the United States is not responsible for terrorism, but
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: al-Qaeda is 100% a terrorist organization. And you know this
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: as a guy with a huge background in sports. He
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: doesn't even understand what pound for pound means as an analogy. Like,
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: literally comparing weight classes and how two guys who would
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: never fight each other could potentially spar off.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Anyway, the whole thing is so stupid.
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: But the left is completely connected to this guy. El-Sayed
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: welcomed him into the beginning of his campaign. He used
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: him to win the primary. There's no question about it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: And I just saw this morning... that apparently he's routinely
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: talking to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He's excited to be a part
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: of her 2028 presidential campaign. This guy is fully integrated
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: into the Democrat Party. The problem they have right now
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: is he's just being very candid about their radical policy positions.
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: So they need to establish fictional and tactical difference from him.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Well, and here's the big difference, too, when you align
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: yourself so closely with a social media influencer, is it
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: benefits Hassan Piker to continue to be radical for himself
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: because his audience that you just said that about internal
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: polling in Tallarico, Hassan Piker's audience expects him to be
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: this crazy lunatic of a person that he is. And
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: it doesn't fit so well with the politicians who need
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: to lie and pretend that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: That they don't believe the same thing.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: But it's a beautiful reflection of where the Democratic Party
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: is going or has gone over the last few months
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: or years and how radically left so many people are
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: within that party. I just had Orlando Sanchez on who
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: is running for county judge here in Harris County, trying
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: to out someone who's terrible. And he said that in
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: our county, there's five million voters. Only 700000 people will
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: show up and vote. So I guess the final question
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: or final thought for you, Vince, is how much of
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: a need there is. And I think a lot of
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: these young people who are upset and angry would actually
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: benefit to understand this belief better. There's a need for
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: people to actually use their voice to vote and to
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: change things at a local level. in a lot of
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: places and see if that makes their lives better. You
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: can yell and scream about the national politician doing the
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: national job that you think may or may not be working.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: But the truth is, at your local level, these are
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: the people who are probably impacting your day to day
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: life the most. And in a place like Harris County,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: where the last six years Democrats have been in charge
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: of everything, things have gone poorly last eight years.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: You need that to change. What do you want to
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: say to that?
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: A hundred percent. In fact, like the people who are
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: most likely to have a direct impact on how much
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: you pay in taxes are going.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: To be the local people.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: About the assessments on your homes and whether or not
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: they raise your taxes or whether or not criminals actually
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: go to jail and stay there, whether or not prosecutors
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: are actually prosecuting criminals. It's all the whole game is
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: local on the most direct impacts on your life. I
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: just think the biggest thing to remember just now, now,
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: I think a lot of Americans have woken up to this.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: The rest of us, all of us need to.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: It's that like being asleep at the switch is not acceptable.
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: Like you just can't like coast through life and hope
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: it's going to work out. And like, that's not the
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: way this works. You have to recognize your own agency
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: in all of this. And you have to recognize that
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: too many of our leaders have abdicated their responsibility to
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: lead our country well. So now as their parole officers,
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: you and I have to hover over them. until they
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: get the job right. And if they don't, then we
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: fire them and bring in somebody who will.
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: Amen.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: He is Vince Colonese. He is the host of The
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Vince Show every single day. We get an hour of it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: We should get more of it from 12 to 1
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: o'clock here on The Voice of Texas. But it's all
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: over the place, plus your Rumble show that I think
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: happened a little bit ago at 8 o'clock Eastern, 7 Central.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Anything else we should know before I let you go today?
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: Just that I'm so pumped to be on The Craig
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: Colonese Show, and I think I'm having a great time today.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know Grandpa's happy.
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Thank you, buddy. I'll talk to you soon.
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: Very, very soon.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: That is Vince, the host of The Vince Show. Check
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  Speaker 5: him out at Vince Colonese all over social media. We
• 25:42
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• 25:53
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• 25:56
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  Speaker 4: Veteran Voices segment. Thank you. Thank you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: In the evenings here about his first book, So You
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Think You Want to Be a Pilot. He has written
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: a second book that is much more in advice, even
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: though it still leans heavily on his military experience, for anybody.
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  Speaker 5: It's called So You Think You Want to Be an Entrepreneur. Daryl,
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  Speaker 5: welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Greg. Thank you for inviting me.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, thrilled to have you on again, man, and thrilled
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: to be covering a second book by you and a
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: lot of, I think, what's in the new book. does
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: demonstrate where you learned this stuff from. It does lean heavily,
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: as I said, on your military experience, because one of
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: the best parts about it is the amount of failure
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and risk and the lessons of resilience and leadership. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I know I just read the subtitle of the book,
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: which all come from what you experienced. So why don't
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: we start with your military experience, then how it winds
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: up giving you the right ability to give people advice
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: when they want to become entrepreneurs?
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Sure, Craig. Yeah, I served in the United States Navy
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: for 24 years. I was a naval aviator and served
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: in a P-3 squadron. And after 24 years, I had
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: a lot of different experiences. I lived around the world.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: And aviation is a non-forgiving career. You can make mistakes,
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: but you can't make them twice. And one of the
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: things you always learn, aviators really lean into, after they
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: fly a mission or whatever, they lean heavily into lessons
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: learned and learning from your mistakes. And I kind of
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: took that and put that into the book. And what
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: I try to do is take a real story, not
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: all of them are military stories, but basically to take
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: a story, a true story, either myself or somebody else,
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: and then try to tie that to the lesson, the
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: point I was. There's 23 chapters in the book, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: try and tie that to a business lesson. And I'm
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: planning on doing an entire series like this. It's mainly
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: for young people, veterans, as they transition to their next careers,
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: and also for young people coming out of high school
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: and college.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and doubting probably some of the risks they'll need
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: to take in order.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: To go that road. I thought a really good thing.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: That's also, I think, up on your website and part
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: of the forward in the book is where you reference
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: like an airplane.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: You're a pilot. You've flown a lot of different.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Planes and how most of us just get on the plane,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: get off the plane. And what we see is the
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: success of that or the success of the simple things
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: around it. What we don't see is all the work
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: it takes going in to get to that point. And
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: I think that's part of what you address pretty well
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: in the book is that you might see the success
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: on the outside, especially as an entrepreneur. looking across to
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: the greener grass of some, you know, successful business person
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: you want to emulate, but you don't know about all
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: the steps behind the scenes and all the trials and
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: tribulations it took.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: And I think more people do need to appreciate that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Don't you agree?
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Yes. And, uh, you know, that's one of the things
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: as a business owner, um, you know, you see a
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: lot of people, you know, see on the news where, uh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: they talk, you know, you know, people are, some people
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: get disgruntled with, uh, you know, big businesses, big tech,
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: and all those types of things. And, you know, if
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: a company has to lay off people, they say, well,
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: why are they doing that? Well, one of the things,
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: what I try and relay in the book is there is,
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: you know, our country is made up 45% of the
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: jobs of the businesses in our country are small businesses.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: That's anywhere from one person to 500 people, and believe
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: it or not, the government designates under 500 people employees
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: or 35 million as a small business. Forty-five percent of
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: our country is that, and somebody takes risk. So those
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: business owners that start up those businesses, they take incredible
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: amounts of risk, and that's behind the scenes, and they fail.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: And one of the things I talk about in the book,
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: I have a whole chapter on failure and And what
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: I say in the book is, is failure is not just,
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: you know, something that happens. Failure is actually a requirement
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: to be successful. There's nobody who just all of a sudden,
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: if you see an actor or a movie star, there's
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: years of failure behind that. They have failed at things,
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: but you learn from your mistakes and you keep moving forward.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: You persevere. And that's one of the things I try
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: and highlight in the book. Hey, You want to be
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: good at something? Well, guess what? You've got to go
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: do it. You've got to get off the couch. You've
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: got to do it. And if you fail, you fail.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: But you keep trying. You try and learn from your
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: mistakes and move forward.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Well, and what's really amazing about that, and I know
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: you talk about leadership under fire too, and the idea
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: of– and this can be on an individual level. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: think what's funny about entrepreneurs and how you behave in
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: life is there's different degrees of it. There might be
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: the beginning stages– where it's just you and your kitchen,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: and you might eventually get to a place where you've
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: got like 15 employees or 50 employees, whatever it might be.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: But regardless, there will be moments of pressure, moments of
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: what is similar in some way, probably not at all
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: to guys like you, but at least for the sake
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: of the discussion, might be similar in some way to
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: the type of pressure you feel in combat, the type
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: of pressure you feel in our military. And you need
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: to be able to think best in those moments. You
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: obviously talk about that a little bit in the book,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: but But give me a better understanding of how you
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: can help people that feel their own version of chaos
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: around them and how they crystallize their mission to go
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: ahead and succeed.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a great question. So one of the things
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: I talk about in the book is I talk about, hey,
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: you're always on a knife's edge. So one day I
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: was sitting in January 2025. I was looking out on
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: our ramp with this big, beautiful car. uh, ramp. It
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: was our ramp, 10,000, uh, 10, we had 10 acres
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: of buildings and airplanes. And we got this, this beautiful company,
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: 35 government contracts, and you're on a knife's edge. And then,
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: and then three months later, we're looking at, uh, filing
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: chapter 11, not because we don't have a successful business.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: We have a very successful business, but, uh, honestly, we
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: had a cashflow issue where our, our, our, our, uh,
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: Invoices weren't getting paid fast enough. And it did feel
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: like combat. In fact, every single day was like combat.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Every single day our business was lawyers, and we had
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: to fight for our business. Just like being in the
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: war zone and dealing with things every day. So you
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: just got to stop. You can be bad one day,
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: but you got to sit back, analyze it, and attack
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: one problem at a time. And you can't, you know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: you just, and you got to work at it and
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: you got to work with people and you just attack
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: one problem at a time, but you never quit. You say, okay,
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: wait a minute. There's got to be a way to
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: solve this. And you solve that one problem and you
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: move on to the next. And there's something else I
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: talk about in the book. The other thing I talk
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: about in the book is one of the things I
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: realized that happened to me was I got arrogant. I
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: got a little, I lost my humility as a human being,
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: my background and where I grew up. I grew up
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: in and New Orleans, a working-class community, I kind of
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: got a little arrogant. And at that point, guess what?
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: They say in the boxhole, there's no atheist in the boxhole. Well,
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: guess what? I leaned into Jesus. I leaned into my
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: faith a lot. But that's what you got to do.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: You got to buckle down, and you got to take
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: one problem at a time. Don't look at the big
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: Don't try and look all the way down the line.
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: You just got to look one problem at a time
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: and solve those problems and get through it. And then
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: analyze where you made your mistake. And that's what this
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: book is about. I made mistakes in this book, and
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: I wanted to pass it on to somebody else so
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: they don't make the same mistakes, or at least they
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: can identify them a lot earlier than I did.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: You mentioned it a little bit before in your answer,
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: and I know it's also a big part of the book, too,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: because you talk about military and transitioning from a military
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: career into an entrepreneurial career. Why do military men and
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: women make great entrepreneurs in Europe?
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Because I think that they do. But why do you
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: think that's true, if you agree with me?
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: I think because they can address problems. They're organized. You
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: don't succeed in a military career in the military. One
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: thing you learn is organization. And you have to organize
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: your life. You have to organize everything around you. And
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: like I said, you're able to address one problem at
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: a time. And no task is too small, okay, and
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: no job is too big. You see what I'm saying?
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: And you live by that. You know, I was Marine
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: Corps trained. I wasn't in Marines, but I was in
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: the Navy. I got my commission through the Navy, but
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: we had Marine Corps drill instructors. And that's one of
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: the things you learn. No task is too small. In
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: other words, you've got to roll up your sleeves and
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: go for it. No matter how high your rank is,
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: you've got to help roll up your sleeves. And no
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: problem is too big. And no goal is too distant.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Everything is successful. And look at big entrepreneurs like Elon
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Musk and Bezos and those guys. What do they do?
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: They drink. dreamers. They think big. Well, they think big
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: because they know that they can solve small problems. And
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: then you can think big. But you've got to be
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: a little bit of a dreamer. And that's why military
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: guys are very good entrepreneurs. And they're also great employees,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: I might add. Yeah. Great employees.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would I would assume as much.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: What is a lesson that you learned that kind of
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: surprised you, whether it's a leadership lesson or anything like that?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Is there something that you've you know, that you think
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: you could share that was uniquely sort of unexpected?
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think one of the biggest things is in
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: the military, in the military, you We had this thing
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: where people were always the most important. Our people were
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: always the most important thing. And that is true. That's
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: absolutely true in anything you do in life. It doesn't
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: transfer equally into entrepreneurship, especially small business. And there's a guy,
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: Marcus Limonis, who's very famous. He started Bed Bath & Beyond.
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: And he has this quote, people, process, and product. Okay,
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: that's what you need to focus on. And I wholeheartedly
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: disagree with that. I believe for small business, I think
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: that's great for big businesses. It's great for government. It's
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: great for the military, people, process, and product. In a
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: small business, it's more process, product, and leadership. And the
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: reason why I say that is you can have the
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: best employees in the world, the greatest employees in the world,
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: but if you're in a small business... If you can't
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: afford them, if they're too expensive to pay for them,
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: you put yourself out of business real quick. Your company
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: is not going to be successful. So that's why I
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: say this process, product, and leadership. You've got to roll
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: up your sleeves and lead. So you've got to give
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: younger people and people that might not have all the
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: skill sets You need to focus on their values, their
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: value system when you hire them, okay, that you're going
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: to make them better, and you've got to train them
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: and work them up and give them opportunities for small businesses.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: Because you can't afford– I can't afford to bring in
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: the big players because we'd be out of business. And
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: so what you've got to do is you've got to
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: train those players to be big. And you've got to expect,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: as a small business person, to have a little bit
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: of a revolving door when it comes to employees. There's
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: nothing wrong with that as an employer. And for an employee,
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: they should not feel guilty about that. For an employee,
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: they should feel the opportunity is good, they learned something,
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: and they can move on. Anyway, so that's the biggest
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: thing that I learned. Because otherwise you could go broke.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go broke very quickly as an entrepreneur.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: That's definitely true.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: You know, as you were talking about that, I was
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: thinking about something that I– I can't remember who told
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: me this, but someone a few years ago told me
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: that one of the philosophies for Disney came from this
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: study that showed that people who are dissatisfied are only
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: dissatisfied if the beginning of something or the end of
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: something doesn't go the way they expect, that you can
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: forgive a lot of the bumps and bruises. And this
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: is more, say, like a person experiencing an amusement park
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: or something. You can forgive some of the bumps and
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: bruises in the middle if it has a powerful beginning
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: and a powerful ending. And I kind of think a
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: part of the lesson that you share in being an
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: entrepreneur is that same mentality, focusing on setting things up
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: the right way, coming into a situation, as you just
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: sort of outlined, so that you have the best chance
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: of success as you go, and focusing on the end goal,
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: focusing on that success that's going to come after the
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: bumps and bruises and ups and downs, because truthfully, those
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: are the only two things that the people outside of
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: you will focus most on. They'll see the beginning, they'll
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: see the end of the road, and all that stuff
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: in between will just sort of fall back into the ether.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Do you kind of agree with that sentiment that a
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: lot of people... Okay, go ahead.
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I do. And I also think, you know, one
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: thing is, you know, and I know a lot of
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: entrepreneurs and a lot of people that own businesses and
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: stuff like that. I work with a lot of people.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: You know, if you talk to them... Even if we're successful,
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: we never always feel like we're successful. We're always striving
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: for the next opportunity. Like, I want to try this.
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: I want to try this. It's not always about money, okay?
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Money is important. Profit, and profit's not a dirty word,
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: by the way, sure.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Sure, of course not.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: Profit is important. When a business owner talks about profit,
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: he needs profit for two reasons, right? One, to take
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: care of his employees so he can hire employees and
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: so he can pay his employees well. And two, he
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: needs profit because profit is what the banks want when
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: you have to borrow money. You have to borrow money
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: to grow your business. And a lot of people don't
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: understand that. So whenever you hear somebody say, You know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: you hear a lot of these socialists out here talking
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: about profit. Profit's a bad word. Well, that's what, pal.
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: You don't have profits. You don't have a job.
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: You know, because those banks don't lend on a wish.
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: They don't lend on a prayer. Hey, there's no bank
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: that's ever given me a loan because I was Daryl
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: Centennial Commander in the United States Navy. Yeah. Okay? That
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: means nothing to them. My service to a bank. It
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: means absolutely nothing. Okay? And one last thing I'll part
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: with is a lot of advice says go out and
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: get you a small business loan. Well, guess what? An
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: SBA loan. Well, I love the SBA. But the SBA
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: only backs the loan, and banks only, you know, 40%
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: of the small businesses that put in for SBA loans
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: actually get a loan. So you have to have profits.
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: to succeed. You have to have profit to grow your business.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: So I hope that kind of answers your question.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: It definitely does. And I really appreciate that.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: And I'm thinking a lot about how, and I know
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: the book is kind of designed around personal life story
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: and then how it relates to lessons in leadership or
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: actions that readers can take based on this experience of yours.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: And I do, because this is a veteran voices segment,
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: I do want to reflect back on the military experience.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Is there a story you think of and maybe a
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: version of how you could share it on the air
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: that maybe you shared it in the book, of something
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: that happened to you within the military that you then
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: applied later in life to being a successful entrepreneur.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely. When I was the executive officer of a squadron,
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: a test squadron out in California, we had an opportunity.
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: We were doing an exercise, a missile exercise, and I'll
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: make it real short, but the bottom line is it
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: meant that exercise is going to be canceled and hundreds
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: of millions of dollars is going to be wasted, government dollars.
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: And we decided that we looked out there and said,
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: wait a minute, let's look at this problem and see
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: if we can solve it. Well, we decided that we
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: could solve the problem with a different type of aircraft.
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: And that decision later on became a business plan. Once
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: I went back to the government, and said, hey, you know,
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: we could save the government a lot of money by
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: modifying our aircraft and using smaller, more civilianized aircraft and
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: contracting that out. And that sat on the shelf for
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: almost 20 years. And that became pretty much a business model.
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: That became our business model. So nothing, you know, that
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: was something that came out of the military that I
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: later said, okay, we're going to turn this into a
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: business plan. And that's one of the ways my business
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: actually got started. And so nothing ever dies, you know.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: An idea never dies. It just needs to be matured.
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: Sometimes it needs a little water on it, and it
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: will grow. But that's really how my business got started.
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: It was all military. I said, hey, I came up
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: with a good idea. It sat on the shelf for
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: 20 years. And then we got it kicked off. And
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: so that's one thing I like to relate to people.
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: And then finally, and I'll ask you this because I
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: know you referenced it a little bit ago, faith was
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: a big component for you and something you said that
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: really drove a lot of feelings of humility. Obviously, that's
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: something taught quite a bit in my faith, the Catholic faith.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: And so I would like you to just address that
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: a little bit more than we did a few minutes ago,
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: how faith was such a.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Valuable component.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: To what you've done and how you've learned to lead
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: other people. Because it is, I think, the way you
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: describe it as, you know, an X factor sort of
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: thing in getting people across that finish line that more
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: people might underestimate the value of.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: Right. You know, you got to have a good foundation.
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: So the great thing, I was raised Catholic, went to
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: all boys Catholic school. And one thing that Catholics are
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: very good about doing is just like the military, they
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: we're trained in good foundation, a good foundation of what
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: we believe in. And I've got to admit, I've gone
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: through life where I got busy and I went in
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: and out of my faith. Not that I didn't believe.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: When you get successful, sometimes you lose sight of that.
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: You know, you forget to do your daily thanks, you know,
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: to our Lord. And you kind of get away from it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: And then that's what happens. And it's happened to me
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: not once, but multiple times in my life. But I
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: started to figure it out. Sometimes I was a little
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: bit slow, but it's like, wait, wait a minute. What
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: has changed? You know what? You're losing your humility. When
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: you lose your humility... you're losing it with Jesus. You're
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: losing it with our God. And once I start to
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: bring that back into focus to say, hey, look, I'm here.
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: I'm able to do this because God has given me
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: an opportunity. He's given me the tools, and I need
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: to make the best out of my tools. And I
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: always say this, and I believe this. I've heard this
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: saying before, and I truly believe it. There's no atheist
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: in a foxhole in an airplane that's in trouble. I've
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: had issues in a four-engine airplane. I flew P-3 Charlies.
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: And I'm going to tell you, Christmas night, 1990, we
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: lost an engine. We almost put an aircraft in the water.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: And I'm going to tell you, on that airplane, we
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: had 12 souls on that airplane. There was nobody on
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: that airplane. They were doing their jobs. But I want
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: to tell you something. Every single one of us, there
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: was no atheist on that airplane. That airplane had 12 people.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: On that airplane.
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: We had to go from the coast, off the coast
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: of Tunisia to Sigonella, Sicily. And it's not that far.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: It's only 73 miles. I want to tell you, for
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: 73 miles of that flight, trying to get that aircraft
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: to 4,000 feet, And there's every single one of us
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: on that airplane had our rosary beads in our mind,
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: and we were praying. Wow. So there's no atheists in
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: a crippled airplane, and there's no atheists in a foxhole.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, amen. I love that.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: We only have a couple minutes left, and I know
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: that your next book is not out yet.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: I think it's planned to be out in September of
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: next year.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: But part of the media kit that you sent me,
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: it does say the title of it, and I'm fascinated
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: by it. I can't help but at least ask you
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: one question about it. So you think you want to serve.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: will be the next book you're putting out, which I
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: imagine is a bunch of advice for young people who
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: are contemplating a military career. Can you give me a
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: little bit of a sense of how that's been going
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: for you, writing that book and focusing on that message
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: to that group of people?
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: Sure. Well, this one's going to be a little bit different.
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: It's not just going to be about military, and it's
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: not just going to be my story, you know?
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: In fact, last night I had dinner with a friend
• 51:49
  Speaker 7: of mine. He also served in the Navy. He was
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: actually a enlisted guy on submarines. And we were high
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: school buddies. And we were swapping stories. And I said, hey,
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  Speaker 7: you know what? I want your story. I want a
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  Speaker 7: good story for one of my chapters. And so what
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  Speaker 7: I'm taking is stories of people that I know. And
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to ask. I go on my website. I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to send out. I want people to send me
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  Speaker 7: a good story that I can share, that I can
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  Speaker 7: relate to the chapters. And all my books are under 150.
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  Speaker 7: I try and keep them under 150 pages because I
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  Speaker 7: like for them to be concise and easy to read.
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  Speaker 7: And just, you know, I don't want them to be difficult.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm also going to include something else. I'm also
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  Speaker 7: going to include the police, you know, firefighters. Because those
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  Speaker 7: people serve you know, they serve so well because we
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  Speaker 7: look over them. Police officers do such a great job,
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  Speaker 7: and we just overlook them. And they are in our lives,
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  Speaker 7: and they save us. We know if, you know, you
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  Speaker 7: cut back on police departments funding and the police departments,
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  Speaker 7: crime is going to go, we know that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 7: They are so underappreciated. So I'm going to include So
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  Speaker 7: those DEA and all those, you know, FBI, those are
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  Speaker 7: all service. That is service to our country. They're very,
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  Speaker 7: very important. And so I'm going to cover all of that.
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  Speaker 7: And I think it's going to be, you know, like
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  Speaker 7: I said, I'm trying to leave something on the table,
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  Speaker 7: and it's going to be stories from all different people.
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  Speaker 7: I have friends that I served with in the military
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  Speaker 7: who went to work for the FBI who's going to
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  Speaker 7: provide me a good story. So I'm working on that.
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  Speaker 7: And it's going to be in the same context the
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  Speaker 7: way I write my books. I write my books as
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  Speaker 7: an executive summary, a story that's related to the point
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  Speaker 7: I'm trying to get across, and then the takeaway. And
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  Speaker 7: I think it's a real clear and concise way for
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  Speaker 7: people to take away and learn something. If you learn
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  Speaker 7: one thing out of a book, that's great. And I
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  Speaker 7: tell this to my wife all the time. I say,
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  Speaker 7: if only one person reads my book, and take something
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  Speaker 7: away and learn something and it helps them in life, hey,
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  Speaker 7: that's great. I'm not writing this to be a millionaire.
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  Speaker 4: Or anything like that.
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  Speaker 7: God knows that. I'm doing it because I want to
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  Speaker 7: pass something on to other people. That's the right thing
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  Speaker 7: to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Daryl Centeni, D-A-R-R-Y-L-C-E-N-T-A-N-N-I. I'm going to spell it again, but
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  Speaker 5: that's the website, DarylCenteni.com.
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  Speaker 4: D-A-R-R-Y-L-C-E-N-T-A-N-N-I.
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  Speaker 5: You can send Daryl stories and things that he might
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  Speaker 5: be able to use in one of those books.
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  Speaker 4: Really, always a pleasure to talk to you. A retired U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Navy commander, Naval flight officer, incredible person.
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  Speaker 4: Daryl, thank you for making the time.
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  Speaker 7: Craig, thank you for having me on your show. I
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  Speaker 7: love talking to you, and this is an incredible segment,
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  Speaker 7: and I think it does the world really good for
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  Speaker 7: people to hear about this. I love for vets to...
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  Speaker 7: plug in there and love the way you relate to that.
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  Speaker 7: So thank you very much for what you're doing, sir. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: by the way, I love the fact that you're on
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  Speaker 7: at 830 in the morning. I didn't find that out
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  Speaker 7: until last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: But that's a great promotion.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. No, thank you. Thank you so much, man.
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  Speaker 5: It's probably because the veterans are listening to the show,
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  Speaker 5: which made it way more helpful.
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  Speaker 4: But thank you so much. I got to go. This
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  Speaker 4: is The Voice of Texas, KSEV, 700 a.m. Talk to
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  Speaker 4: you on Monday.