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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven six fifty five CARRICV Talk Stas. I'm very happy
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday. It's last Friday Eve to everybody. I am
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  Speaker 1: pleased as always to be able to welcome on the
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  Speaker 1: fifth to the fifty five Carsee Morning Show Congressman Warren
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  Speaker 1: david So, welcome back, sir. It's always great heaving on
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  Speaker 1: my program.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, same, Brian, always look forward to talking with you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Topic number one, there's an election next Tuesday. I understand
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  Speaker 1: you have a suggestion that people get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: Congresston Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, the election for Ohio is Tuesday, May fifth. Just
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  Speaker 2: to truss the line in Kentucky on May nineteenth to
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  Speaker 2: get primaries. Yeah, that's your chance to make your voice heard.
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  Speaker 2: The primaries are the way you shape the party that
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  Speaker 2: you get. Is it, you know, more conservative or less conservative?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to change the status quo or continue it?
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  Speaker 2: Those are the kinds of things that are on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot when you vote in the primary.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, and less of course, you know you're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a race where there's no challenger, and that of
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  Speaker 1: course is the case with Q a few of the races,
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  Speaker 1: and it always worries me Congressman Davidson, like with county
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  Speaker 1: races when there are open judicial spots and no Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will sign up to run for the bench. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand that there isn't a single Republican in
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  Speaker 1: the world that wants to be a judge. We let
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  Speaker 1: just the Democrats have the seat. I don't mean to
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  Speaker 1: pick on that just generally, but I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: scratched my head over that. Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a number of seats in Hamilton
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  Speaker 2: County where Republicans have become demoralized, as you know Democrats have,
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  Speaker 2: and say Butler or Warren Counties, They're just like, well,
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  Speaker 2: why are not going to elect people from this party? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, it takes money to run campaigns, and
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  Speaker 2: people look at it and say, why change it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And some other races people look at it and go, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I'm a Republican, I like the Republican judge.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really want to get rid of them or
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  Speaker 2: pick your position. If I'm a Democrat, you know, there
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  Speaker 2: may be a Democrat out there that says, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these are the things that I want Democrats to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy with this person in the role. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're increasingly looking at races that aren't as
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  Speaker 2: competitive in a lot of ways. I mean, in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: I think we probably have about thirty or forty seats
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  Speaker 2: that are truly competitive, and in general, they're they're more
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  Speaker 2: likely to be you know, the Republican seats go to
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and the Democrats seats go to the Democrats, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and each county's got their own demographics that way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we just we had a township trustee which is an
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  Speaker 2: officially a partisan race, but she was recognized as the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Act of the Year after she ran as a
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  Speaker 2: Republican and won a township trustee race, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: didn't have R or D on the name in a
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  Speaker 2: township trustee race. But really, shape shifting has kind of
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  Speaker 2: been one of the challenges, and it seems there are
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  Speaker 2: more Democrats that blend in with Republicans then the other way.
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  Speaker 2: But all the dynamics go and local Democrats are all
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  Speaker 2: politics local, as they say.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I know you're aware of the raging debate
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  Speaker 1: of a property taxes rolling in the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and I just like to use the opportunity to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the primary, to remind folks that there are seventy
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  Speaker 1: four school levees on the ballot depending in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio alone, and if you've got a problem with
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  Speaker 1: your property tax, build and there might be a reason
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  Speaker 1: to get up and go vote only I mean typically
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson. As you know, like ten percent the registered
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  Speaker 1: voters will even vote in a primary. Obviously, that gives
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of weight to any given a voter
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  Speaker 1: who shows up. But it's just kind of a sad
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  Speaker 1: state of affairs in a country that we have the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of voting, that we just turn our backs on
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean one of the things in Butler County
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  Speaker 2: there's a levee on the MRDD, you know, the Mental
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  Speaker 2: Health Developmental Disabilities Group. You know, they haven't had a
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  Speaker 2: levee since like two that are constrained. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's two different types of levees when you look at
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  Speaker 2: property tax. One is you know, a millage that moves
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  Speaker 2: with the value of the property. That's the one that's
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  Speaker 2: driving everybody nuts. And there's one that's fixed and so
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  Speaker 2: you know it doesn't matter whether this property is you know,
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  Speaker 2: you bought a house and it was two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars and now it's four hundred thousand dollars. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the school districts generally benefit from all that upside, so
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  Speaker 2: their budget increases. But sometimes they put a levee on
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  Speaker 2: the on the ballot that doesn't move, and that keeps
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  Speaker 2: it more structural. So that's why they do it that
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  Speaker 2: way in Butler County. That's why they're they're on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot this time is they had one that doesn't move
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  Speaker 2: with a changing property value, and so they haven't had
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  Speaker 2: an increase in their their budget since you know, go
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  Speaker 2: two three, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like a better path to do things.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, all right, feeling the pain we are with
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  Speaker 1: our tax bills. Also feeling a pain at the pump,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the five dollars gasoline that's anticipated here in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: at least according to the estimates from gas Buddy, we
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  Speaker 1: saw a significant jump yesterday. A lot of places around
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  Speaker 1: town four dollars and seventy nine cents were just a
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  Speaker 1: ticking time away from that five dollars. You know, psychological reality.
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  Speaker 1: We've been there before, back in two thousand or was
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  Speaker 1: it twenty twenty two? I suppose it was that high,
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  Speaker 1: so we survived that. Do you think the America, the
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  Speaker 1: American population will actually turn its back on the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: if the price of gasoline remains high in November? In
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  Speaker 1: other words, vote for a Democrat because the price of
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  Speaker 1: gasoline is high as a consequence of the war. Or
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  Speaker 1: can we struggle through because as I see things, and
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  Speaker 1: you give me your assessment, since you proudly served your
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  Speaker 1: country as a member the American military, I have been
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  Speaker 1: calling it a battle of attrition. The ports of Iran
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  Speaker 1: are closed, the Straight of Hormuz is closed. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the respective bargaining chips or struggle that we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: If we stay the status quo and don't put boots
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, don't resume bombing. The Iranian economy is
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  Speaker 1: literally falling apart real time. I mean it's collapsing before
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  Speaker 1: our very eyes. Will the Iranian economy collapse? Will they
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  Speaker 1: say uncle? Before November? If I had to put it
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  Speaker 1: in that way, Congressman Davidson, and do you think that
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  Speaker 1: the high price of gasoline actually will impact the election
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  Speaker 1: that profoundly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think both those things are true. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the stricty patients with the navy blockade is working a ranzone.
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  Speaker 2: Real revenue source is oil and when you pump oil
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  Speaker 2: every day, you got a ship oil every day. We've
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  Speaker 2: shut down that shipping lane and eventually they're running out
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  Speaker 2: of places to even put the oil. So those real
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  Speaker 2: problems they start having to shelf wells. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: problematic to revive them. And they have shown a willingness
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  Speaker 2: to engage in diplomacy, and you know, the hope is
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  Speaker 2: that that works and we get a peaceful resolution in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East and maybe some stability, something that's been
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  Speaker 2: missing for a long time throughout all of history frankly,
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  Speaker 2: in the Middle East. It would be an incredible achievement.
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  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, for the average average guy, they go out
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you're spending more than a dollar or
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  Speaker 2: a gallon more than what you were just a few
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  Speaker 2: months ago, and it's easy to go back and go, well,
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  Speaker 2: what changed, Well, that's the primary driver of what changed
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  Speaker 2: is a war, in frankly, a war that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people felt like when they voted they were committing
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  Speaker 2: to not have and so I do fear that if
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  Speaker 2: this is ongoing and gas prices are high and there's
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  Speaker 2: other signs in the economy that they're in softness, people
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  Speaker 2: will take that out on Republicans. I think we got
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  Speaker 2: to get the economy back and strength. We've passed housing
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  Speaker 2: affordability measure in the House with three hundred and ninety votes.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate's got one that's pretty partisan. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats seem to control the United States Senate despite Republicans
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  Speaker 2: is technically having a majority. They certainly don't act like
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  Speaker 2: they have one, so we can't get anything useful across
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  Speaker 2: the finish line in the Senate. So I think people
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  Speaker 2: are right to be very frustrated. But when you go vote,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, don't forget the Democrats are crazy, so they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to come up with a solution that's better
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't accidentally impose the Green New Deal and
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  Speaker 2: all these crazy ideas. They don't have solutions that are
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  Speaker 2: for our economy. But nevertheless a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: going to be frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's to me the shocking thing that there
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  Speaker 1: is a possibility that someone would vote for a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise would have vote a Republican because they're angry
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  Speaker 1: over five dollars gasoline. That sort of suggests to me
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  Speaker 1: that wait a second, the answer to the problem that
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  Speaker 1: we currently face high prices of gasoline and the ripple
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  Speaker 1: effective inflation is because of the block of the straight
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  Speaker 1: of horror moves. That means, are the Democrats if you
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  Speaker 1: vote for the Democrats, are they going to pull the
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  Speaker 1: plug on the entire conflict going over there right now?
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  Speaker 1: So that the Iranians then will open up the straight
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  Speaker 1: of horror moves and subject everyone to a tariff or attacks,
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  Speaker 1: continue to maintain the ability to shut down the straight
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  Speaker 1: of horror moves on a whim and also develop their
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  Speaker 1: nuclear program. I mean Iran wins because evil Orange Man
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  Speaker 1: started this. That sounds to me like what I'm concluding
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  Speaker 1: based on that.
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  Speaker 2: Vote that is in fact their proposal. They keep bringing
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  Speaker 2: these resolutions up and it's like, well, we need to
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  Speaker 2: get out of Iran, Like well, like, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think we're doing with the peace negotiations here that in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of a ceasefire they brought a resolution saying
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  Speaker 2: no leave now, Well, how do you think the diplomacy
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  Speaker 2: is going to resolve? If you just leave now. So
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  Speaker 2: they're root against everything Donald Trump wants to do, just reflexively.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that really has become the only thing in
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  Speaker 2: the campaign. And look, you know tragically, you know, last
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  Speaker 2: weekend there's another assassination attempt, and you read this guy's
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  Speaker 2: manifesto and it's really mainstream media talking points about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I've had tons of colleagues say the same things. They
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  Speaker 2: just didn't snap and go ready to start killing everybody,
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  Speaker 2: but they keep saying the kinds of things that incite
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  Speaker 2: that kind of mindset. And you know, TDS is real.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think people have just literally lost their
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  Speaker 2: minds on a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, collectively pause, We'll bring Congress, Moore and Davidson back,
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  Speaker 1: talk about maybe the the talk station seven twenty here
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  Speaker 1: I fifty five KRCD talk station at the Thursday Brian
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  Speaker 1: Timas with Congress and Warren Davidson. Hangreson Davidson, a shout
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  Speaker 1: out from one of my friends that used to be
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  Speaker 1: in your district and now is in one that's controlled
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  Speaker 1: by Greg Lansman. He wanted to know if you would
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  Speaker 1: comment on supporting Eric Conroy, who got President Trump's endorsement
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to defeat Greg Lansman's because he said
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  Speaker 1: he runs into people every day who have no clue
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  Speaker 1: that they're no longer in your district. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, Eric Conroy is going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the west side of Hamlet County. You know, Steve Steve
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  Speaker 2: was running against him, but Eric got Trump's endorsement, Steve
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  Speaker 2: dropped out of the race. I also endorsed Eric. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to be a strong candidate, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's the right guy to represent the first congressional district.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hopefully get a chance to serve with him after
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  Speaker 2: he defeats Greg in the fall. But he's got a
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  Speaker 2: nice path here in the primary, and I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Great, I appreciate you chiming in on that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pivoting over Section seven and two, one of Andrew Napolotana's
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  Speaker 1: favorite topics, Section seven and two, which he believes is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely outright violation of the Fourth Amendment. I tend to
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  Speaker 1: agree with him on that, but ignoring that the section
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  Speaker 1: seven to two expires, it's today, correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it expires at midnight to night yesterday the House
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  Speaker 2: passed some reform. It was so close to getting a
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  Speaker 2: real warrant requirement. We would have had to have three
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  Speaker 2: Republicans on the Rules Committee join with Democrats to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Two did and one took a walk. And it was
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  Speaker 2: very disappointing. And you know, it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: On the Rules Committee, that's where you shape the debate
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  Speaker 2: and which amendments do you even get a vote on. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think the will of the body is that you
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  Speaker 2: get a warrant. I think that's the will of the
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  Speaker 2: American people. But unfortunately we weren't able to vote on
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  Speaker 2: an amendment that would require a warrant when you search
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  Speaker 2: the seven zero database, and here's the thing. Seven oh
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  Speaker 2: two is targeting foreigners. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the
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  Speaker 2: foreign intelligence part of that is important. We should keep
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  Speaker 2: doing it. But whenever you collect on a foreign person
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  Speaker 2: with they communicate with an American, well, then inherently you
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  Speaker 2: also get some American data. The target is you know,
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  Speaker 2: bin Laden for example, but you know and if American
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  Speaker 2: calls or contacts, emails whatever been laden, well that data
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  Speaker 2: is there. The question is what do you do when
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  Speaker 2: you want to go look after an American data and
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  Speaker 2: the exigent circumstance was basically like, well, you can querry
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  Speaker 2: the American as long as you want to determine whether
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  Speaker 2: or it's an American, whether it's an exigent circumstance, but
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously not an indefinite period of time to know
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  Speaker 2: whether it's exigent. If you want to keep looking at somebody,
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  Speaker 2: then you need to get a warrant. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: way what was ins from Arizona. Hopefully the next governor
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  Speaker 2: of Arizona he's drafted that amendment. It's an excerpt from
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  Speaker 2: a bill that I've got with bipartisan in the House
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  Speaker 2: and Senate, and we can't get it across the finish line.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't get the big reform. We did get
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  Speaker 2: some other ones that are pretty substantive. So if you
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  Speaker 2: see somebody abusing it, it will be detected. And now
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  Speaker 2: there's criminal penalties. Cash Betel, director of the FBI, asked
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  Speaker 2: for those criminal penalties so if the somebody of using it,
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  Speaker 2: he could take action. And so I think the seven
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  Speaker 2: oh two portions in a way become a shiny object
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  Speaker 2: because the surveillance state's growing unovated in all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: other ways seven oh warrants in other sections, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a sunset, so we haven't reformed the regular warrant process.
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  Speaker 2: They're buying their way around it to get data that
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  Speaker 2: they would otherwise have to get a warrant. They're literally
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  Speaker 2: doing purchases you didn't incidentally collect the stuff that you
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  Speaker 2: intentionally bought. So there's all kinds of things going on
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  Speaker 2: with the government chalants, and I hope that we go
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  Speaker 2: bodily at some of the other things that are going on,
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  Speaker 2: especially as we go into AI and look at what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing with that. So you know, some incremental reform
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  Speaker 2: on FIZA, but it's not clear the Senate will even
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  Speaker 2: pass the House version because it bans central bank digital
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  Speaker 2: currency and that is the creepiest surveillance to a non demand.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they spy on every single transaction in your money.
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  Speaker 2: It's communist money, but digitized. So apparently that's a bridge
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  Speaker 2: too far for the Democrat controlled Senate.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a real shame. Yeah, I was glad to
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  Speaker 1: see the CBD see in there the ban on that,
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  Speaker 1: but also it included a measure of the Senate pass
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  Speaker 1: budget resolution funding Immigration enforcement, the procedure measure that was
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  Speaker 1: passed yesterday regarding the fives that there was some funding
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  Speaker 1: in there, because I guess the bigger question is the
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  Speaker 1: government is to certain degrees still shut down, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean DHS doesn't have real funding. Again, the
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  Speaker 2: Senate broke on that the House has passed this bill
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  Speaker 2: multiple times. Rather than nick floor and hold it, the
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  Speaker 2: leader of the Senate contend to let Democrats lead them
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  Speaker 2: around with a nosering or collar or whatever, and they
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  Speaker 2: do nothing. So they sent over a bill that explicitly
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  Speaker 2: zero's out funding for ice and border patrol. Thankfully, Mike
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  Speaker 2: Johnson said we're not going to do that. So they
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  Speaker 2: did go back to the drawing board and send over
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  Speaker 2: a budget to do reconciliation, which is one of the
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  Speaker 2: magic words that lets them break their sixty vote rule
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  Speaker 2: and just pass funding. So this puts a line item
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  Speaker 2: funding for the next three years for ice in border
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  Speaker 2: patrol that I'll get through the Trump administration and maybe
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  Speaker 2: after that we'll be able to have rational discussions with Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a bad way to solve the problem.
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  Speaker 2: I think we should just force the Senate to actually
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  Speaker 2: run the Senate. But nevertheless, we can't keep the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Homeland Security shut down, and we got to have
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  Speaker 2: money to fund them. So this is this is the
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  Speaker 2: mechanism we're using.
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  Speaker 1: Cots from Warren Davidson. It's got to be frustrating to
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  Speaker 1: be in your position, but I you appreciate it. I
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  Speaker 1: know my listeners appreciate your being their voice of reason
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  Speaker 1: and common sense. Keep up the great work. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: again next week, and I hope you have a great
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  Speaker 1: week between now and then.
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  Speaker 2: Sir,