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Florida's 2nd Congressional District GOP Candidate Luke Murphy · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Here we go, third hour. I am literally turning the
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  Speaker 1: page to the rundown. There it is. I just turned
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  Speaker 1: it around. It is a show fifty five eighty four
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  Speaker 1: of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's oseaia On Preston,
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  Speaker 1: and it is Thursday, and usually Thursdays are kind of
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  Speaker 1: busy around here, and I love it because, quite candidly,
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of gives me a day to just
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  Speaker 1: catch my breath and interact with others. And great guest
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  Speaker 1: today he is Luke Murphy. Luke is running for Congress.
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  Speaker 1: The website where you can find information about him. If
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  Speaker 1: what you learn in this next forty five minutes or
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  Speaker 1: so isn't enough, you can go to Luke Murphy for
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  Speaker 1: Congress and it's just spelled out as you would think.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Murphyfourcongress dot com. And joining us on the program
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  Speaker 1: is a man who actually called me out on What's
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  Speaker 1: the Beef last week.
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  Speaker 2: He is Luke Murphy. How are you, Bud? I'm great, brother, Preston.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, you said to me that we had met
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago, and it was when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the book, My god, we did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've met at Kevin's Guns, Dave's Pizza garage, Heinz Nursery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, studio, I know you are. You're a big fellow,
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  Speaker 1: easy to see, all right, So let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: book because the book kind of capsulates your military world
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  Speaker 1: to some degree. You served in the Army one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and first Airborne. I have to ask, do you get
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  Speaker 1: to pick that or does that get to pick you?
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  Speaker 1: I picked that, and that was actually one of the
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  Speaker 1: two times I felt called in my life. It was
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  Speaker 1: after nine to eleven. It was my Purple Heart. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: my Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, forty percent of our country volunteered after
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  Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor, one percent after nine to eleven and arguably
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  Speaker 2: killing three thousand Americans on American soil. I thought was
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  Speaker 2: a bigger deal, and I felt called to go. I
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  Speaker 2: chose the one hundred first Airborne because they're an assault
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  Speaker 2: division and I knew that they would be coming in
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  Speaker 2: on helicopter. I know their history. My dad's the United
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  Speaker 2: States Marine. I was raised on a dirt road. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: three brothers, tough as hell, but I ended up in
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  Speaker 2: the one hundred first. When I got there, they said,
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  Speaker 2: hope you don't go to the Rocaissans. It's the hardest unit.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth served in my exact unit,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the one I drove right to and asked.
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  Speaker 1: To be a member of. You knew its history absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: because the history of the one hundred and first is legendary. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You know Audi Murphy of sixteen million veterans, the most
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  Speaker 2: decorated Michael Murphy Murph, that was my nickname. You know,
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  Speaker 2: led the Sealed Team from Lone Survivor. It's not enough
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  Speaker 2: just to show up.
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  Speaker 1: It's the spirit that you bring to a fight that
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  Speaker 1: wins the day. How much of your decision to be
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  Speaker 1: in the military has brought you to where you are
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  Speaker 1: right now with the decision, because look, I'm not making
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  Speaker 1: light of this when I say it, this is a
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  Speaker 1: different form of combat. Being in politics in America, especially
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  Speaker 1: right now, is combat. It's just different kind. Absolutely, it's
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  Speaker 1: the same. I knew at ten years old I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to serve. I was watching Desert Storm on TV, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought I missed my opportunity. When I was seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: my dad signed for me. I was not old enough
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  Speaker 1: to sign. I got there as fast as I could.
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  Speaker 1: Serve two tours and we can get into that had
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  Speaker 1: forty one surgeries, but I've never stopped serving.
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  Speaker 2: My whole lifetrack record is service and bloodsport combat. You're
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  Speaker 2: talking to an infantry guy. I've kicked a lot of
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  Speaker 2: doors down. I trained men to kill, capture, or take
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  Speaker 2: the enemy's fight away. That's what we do. So I
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  Speaker 2: stepped out here in the open. Honey, if you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: I love you all my family and friends.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. Neil Dunn.
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  Speaker 2: You know I heard what's happening, and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you're still in the fight. I love you, I respect you.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Sutherland, I helped you.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. But yeah, I'm not afraid. I'm right
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  Speaker 1: out here. Take your shots. I fire back.
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  Speaker 2: I hope everybody that's in this race stays, isn't it
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  Speaker 2: look forward to seeing them on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you said we want to get into it. I
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  Speaker 1: want to do just that, and we will do that. Next.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk for just a brief moment of
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  Speaker 1: what happened. You lost a leg, you had badly injured
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  Speaker 1: a second leg. I want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what happened, and then the aftermath of that, because
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  Speaker 1: that's a part of your story. It's huge, but it's
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a foundational maybe part of your story.
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  Speaker 1: As you move forward, you're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, I'd like to say
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't define me. But you know, life's one percent
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  Speaker 1: what happens to you ninety nine percent how you react
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  Speaker 1: to it. I think I've done a pretty dang good
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  Speaker 1: overcoming a job overcoming it. Congressional candidate for the second
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  Speaker 1: Congressional District for the GOP Luke Murphy, My guest, what
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  Speaker 1: happened when when you hit the iad describe the mission
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  Speaker 1: and what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: So we were in Solder City, Bagdad. If you guys
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  Speaker 2: seen that movie American Sniper with Chris Kyle where his
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  Speaker 2: partner gets shot and killed on the rooftop, it was
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  Speaker 2: the same time, same same year, same everything. I was
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  Speaker 2: coming out of Solder City, been in the city fighting
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  Speaker 2: for over twenty something hours, and they had told us
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  Speaker 2: they were going to get us, and I got hit
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  Speaker 2: by an Iranian made bomb.
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  Speaker 1: It had a garage door laser on it. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see it.
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  Speaker 2: I was second truck in the movement, I was the
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  Speaker 2: truck commander in the front right seat. I always rode
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  Speaker 2: second truck because that's the one they tried to hit.
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  Speaker 1: They thought it.
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  Speaker 2: Would be the officer, so we'd put our officer up
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  Speaker 2: front and I would, you know, be bait. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: the bomb went off, not my first, second, or third
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  Speaker 2: time getting blown up, but this time it sucked all
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  Speaker 2: the wind out of my lungs. I felt a ton
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  Speaker 2: of pain. I looked down. My right leg was gone
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  Speaker 2: above the knee. My left leg had been blown in half,
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  Speaker 2: and I was looking at the bottom of my boot.
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  Speaker 2: My only fear was for my men. How do I
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  Speaker 2: get them out of this burning vehicle, you know? And
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  Speaker 2: I just started yelling. Driver crashed the truck, crashed the
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  Speaker 2: truck because he was pumping the brakes. Nothing was happening.
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  Speaker 2: The round that went through me was in the transmission
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  Speaker 2: and the back right seat, where I never rode anybody
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  Speaker 2: was a fireball, and so I was burning by my
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  Speaker 2: back and neck, and we were all on fire, and
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  Speaker 2: we had grenades in the vehicle, thousands of fifty col rounds.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I had to get him out of the truck.
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  Speaker 2: So he crashed the truck into a wall of Solder City,
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand bad guys on the inside of the wall
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  Speaker 2: and us out there on the outside. Well, the truck
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  Speaker 2: went halfway through the wall, and I looked around in
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  Speaker 2: the truck and everybody had saved themselves, so all I
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  Speaker 2: had to do was get out the way. The world
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  Speaker 2: was off of me, and the dang wall was up
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  Speaker 2: against my truck or the door, and I just started
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  Speaker 2: elbowing the door as hard as I could, and my
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  Speaker 2: elbow was exploding in blood every time. And I knocked
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  Speaker 2: that three hundred pound door off the hinge and knocked
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  Speaker 2: the wall over, and I crawled out, and I think
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  Speaker 2: God helped me do it.
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  Speaker 1: I was laying on the ground. I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: stay calm.
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  Speaker 2: It was the same day three years earlier a little
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  Speaker 2: girl had walked a grenade and killed my buddy Troy,
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  Speaker 2: which I wrote about in my book. And I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to stay calm. And when the medic got to me,
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  Speaker 2: I asked me if I needed morphine. I turned it down.
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  Speaker 2: I just held the pain in one spot in my
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  Speaker 2: head and I tried to get home. I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get home from my family, didn't want to ruin my
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  Speaker 2: mom's life, and you know, just had to fight like
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  Speaker 2: held to stay awake, and my men got me back
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  Speaker 2: to our base within eighteen minutes. You got a golden
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  Speaker 2: hours what we call it. I've had many Vietnam vets
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  Speaker 2: tell me they wouldn't even have evacuated me.
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  Speaker 1: I was dead. You know a lot of those guys
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  Speaker 1: lost limbs to gang green a traumatic injury like this
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  Speaker 1: traumatic amputation. You know you're bleeding out fast? Yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: did they get you out? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean over outnumbered is an understatement. We were always outnumbered.
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  Speaker 2: I've been out numbered my whole life. I'm not don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Brother.
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  Speaker 2: We would roll in the sad city with my ten men.
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  Speaker 2: I was a recon team leader against forty thousand, and
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  Speaker 2: we got lit up every time we went in and
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  Speaker 2: truthfully never scared. The only fear I had was that
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  Speaker 2: I'd make a bad decision that would get one of
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  Speaker 2: my guys hurt.
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  Speaker 1: How does that impact your trajectory moving forward? Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: we go through the recovery time, which you know that
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  Speaker 1: that probably has untold numbers of stories attached to it,
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  Speaker 1: but accelerate the trajectory that gets us to point B.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people have accused me of being
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  Speaker 2: in a hurry in my life. We're all running our
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  Speaker 2: own race. Sorry if my pace is a little faster
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  Speaker 2: than everyone else's. I'm just who I am. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've had hard jobs since I was eleven. To all
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  Speaker 2: the folks listening that are veterans, later veterans, you know
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  Speaker 2: I was working hard at eleven years old. I've worked
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  Speaker 2: in fields beside migrants.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I bought my first truck cash when I was fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I've had no help.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I've always looked at the world as hey, it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sorry, pull up your bootstraps. You know I've
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  Speaker 2: identified with the Framers, you know, personal responsibility, courage, you know,
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  Speaker 2: American values.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been this way.
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  Speaker 2: I voted for George Bush when I was eighteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I've voted Republican every time. I was in all of
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  Speaker 2: Steve Steve Sutheran's commercials. And you know I spoke at
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  Speaker 2: Governor Scott's second inauguration, Preston, I'm gonna go get her.
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  Speaker 2: I want to help. I love this country. I was
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  Speaker 2: taught to leave everything better than the way you found it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've never stopped wanting to serve and
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  Speaker 2: ask not what this country can do for me, but
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  Speaker 2: what I can do for it.
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  Speaker 1: He's Luke Murphy and he's a GOP candidate for the
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  Speaker 1: second congressional District. And that's us. For a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you listening on terrestrial radio, is that that's you? This
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  Speaker 1: is your contest. You got Jimmy Petronis on one side,
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  Speaker 1: You've got Kat Camick on the other. And this will
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  Speaker 1: be the seat that Neil Dunn is leaving. He's stepping down,
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  Speaker 1: and Luke wants the job. Before we talk about specific policies,
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  Speaker 1: was there a I kind of asked, is there a
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  Speaker 1: popeye moment? Was there something that has happened in the
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  Speaker 1: last year or two or five that you said, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: If the opportunity comes up, I'm getting in the race.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say no, But for the last twenty years since
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  Speaker 2: I was wounded, it's twenty years ago this month. I
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  Speaker 2: drove home this day on two thousand and seven, and
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  Speaker 2: when Virginia tech shooter did what he did, I was outraged.
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  Speaker 2: But Code Pink was at my gate at Walter Reed's
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  Speaker 2: screaming at me. President Obama said, you didn't build that.
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  Speaker 2: When Harry Reid was asked, do you regret lying about
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  Speaker 2: Mitt Romney's taxes, and he said he didn't win, did he?
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  Speaker 2: These people are about power, you know, they have no values.
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  Speaker 2: They're hypocrites. I'm tired of people going to Washington and
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  Speaker 2: riching themselves. When Congressman Neil Donn said he was stepping down,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the best time of my life to do this.
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  Speaker 2: But these folks go up there and they sit there
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  Speaker 2: for forty or fifty years. I want to stop that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to retire some of these dinosaurs. I want
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  Speaker 2: new blood in there constantly. I want to end insider trading.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much. I can't wait for you to ask
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  Speaker 2: me about. Shoot Preston.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and you're right, there is a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the big challenges. It's
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  Speaker 1: like when you're a kid and your mom says, clean
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  Speaker 1: up your room, and your room's a disaster, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't know where to start. It is such a dysfunctional
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  Speaker 1: system of government. But it's the best in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It is. We just lost our way with it. So
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  Speaker 1: where would you start? I mean, you tell me, what
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  Speaker 1: are the policy things that on the whiteboard or on
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  Speaker 1: the sticky notes. Are the ones that you see the
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  Speaker 1: most often and are the ones that have your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a big hunter fisherman. I've been to the
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  Speaker 2: southern border seventeen years in a row. I saw it
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  Speaker 2: turn into a disaster. Why Alexandro my Orcus said it
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  Speaker 2: was closed. I was on a ranch where a thousand
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  Speaker 2: men were rounded up in one day and there was
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  Speaker 2: three of us with bolt action rifles. Ridiculous. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing is the economy, our safety, security, our borders.
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  Speaker 2: You know we are a nation of loss. You know
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  Speaker 2: this is a sovereign nation. Look up the definition of it.
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  Speaker 2: We have a morality problem. You know, people don't know
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  Speaker 2: right from wrong. But truthfully, I want term limits.
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  Speaker 1: I want it. I want Jimmy to work with me.
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  Speaker 1: I want Cat to work with me. We got to
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  Speaker 1: have it. And President, I've got a lot of learning
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  Speaker 1: to do. I'm a little bit naive.
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  Speaker 2: I will learn the rules and I will develop relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I will reach across the aisle. I will work with
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  Speaker 2: these people, veterans. You know, we were willing to die
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  Speaker 2: for this country. We will put the country first. So
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  Speaker 2: term limits and insider trading. I'm an agriculture guy. I've
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  Speaker 2: sweat and bled for a paycheck, and I'm a veteran guy.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else I can learn it, you know, and we
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  Speaker 2: can we can use common sense. We don't need somebody
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  Speaker 2: that says they got all the answers or that they
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  Speaker 2: can hit the ground running. This is trench warfailre. Nobody's
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  Speaker 2: hitting the ground running. We've got enough lawyers in DC
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  Speaker 2: and enough fundraisers. We need veterans. I told you last
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  Speaker 2: week we had sixty eight percent combat veterans in Congress
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  Speaker 2: at one point. Now we have sixteen percent. And they
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  Speaker 2: don't put the country first.
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  Speaker 1: Putting the country first requires not just reaching across the aisle,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm not sure how effective that is anymore, because
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  Speaker 1: the difference between what the left thinks and what the
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  Speaker 1: right thinks is pretty vast. I mean, it just just is.
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  Speaker 1: But there are now even divisions within the right side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle. Is that I mean, do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you've got to almost start there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's like a family, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: could say that my mom's an illiberal Sorry to quote
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  Speaker 2: one of your words there.
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  Speaker 1: And don't be sorry. I love that you're quoting that
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  Speaker 1: one of my son's listen. He's gonna ask me what
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  Speaker 1: Clantifa is at the end of this. But anyway, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to a com Rismith and Jacksonville and
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  Speaker 1: he said, man, we spoke twenty minutes and he never
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  Speaker 1: bowed mounted any of the other opponents.
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  Speaker 2: You're a positive guy. We need more of that in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: We're always in fighting. So back to the family. Let's
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  Speaker 2: close the door. Let's knock heads around, but when we
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  Speaker 2: leave that door, let's leave it there. You know it's
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  Speaker 2: I love that we have the independent thinkers, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be a Ran Paul firebomb thrower who's
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  Speaker 2: on an island and can't get anything done. I've always
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  Speaker 2: been to the right. No one's going to move me
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  Speaker 2: to the center. But I will listen to everyone, and
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  Speaker 2: I will put the people of North Florida on these
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  Speaker 2: shoulders and do what's best for them. This is not
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  Speaker 2: about me, This isn't about ego, this isn't about enriching myself.
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  Speaker 2: This is about service, and I know all about that.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't wait for the people of North Florida
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  Speaker 2: to put aside all the billboards and endorsements and back
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  Speaker 2: the guy that's making the hair on their neck stand
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  Speaker 2: up right now because they've never heard a man speak
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  Speaker 2: like this and they're tired of politicians. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a politician, but I'm asking you to throw me in
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  Speaker 2: that brier, Pa, if you go to.
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  Speaker 1: The website, sorry three two, that's where my I tell everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so bad at what I do, but I'm authentically bad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just me. Welcome the Morning Show with President Scott.
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  Speaker 1: With me is Luke Murphy. He's a GOP candidate for
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  Speaker 1: Florida second Congressional District. And you just go to the
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  Speaker 1: website Luke Murphy for Congress dot com and there you
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  Speaker 1: will find information and if you like, support the campaign
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  Speaker 1: and the candidacy. We've been talking about a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things, the national debt. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things I love about President Trump. What I don't like
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  Speaker 1: is we're not talking about the debt enough.
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  Speaker 2: We got a problem, Yeah, we got a problem. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, Preston, I'd love the older generations. They paved
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  Speaker 2: the way. I want to respect them.
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  Speaker 1: I want tougher laws for people who abuse the elderly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't my generation. That started the longest war, but
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  Speaker 1: I did fight in it. It wasn't my generation that
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  Speaker 1: ran us up to forty trillion, but we got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with it. It's time to.
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  Speaker 2: Usher in a new type of politician that'll get this done.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna start with the entitlements, and I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough, but we're gonna have to have
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: some cuts.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to grow the economy. We're gonna have
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: to cut.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, but there are too many people
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: receiving benefits. And you know, only half this country is
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: paying taxes.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I'm one of them.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I always pay early. I know that sounds dumb to
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: some of you, but I get paid differently. You know,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I don't. It doesn't come out every week. It only
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: comes out when I earn it, and I have to
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: save it to the end of the year. And it's
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: always my biggest account. And I would love to have
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: that to invest in my business. I'm with you, I'd
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: like a flat tax to get rid of the irs.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: But actually I don't want a flat tax. I want
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I want I want the uh the tax that is
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: basically a consumption tax. I thought that fair tax Okay,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I thought that was the flat Well yeah, here's why
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I'm against the flat tax, because that's how we got
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: where we are. We started as a flat tax. Yeah.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I like the idea of consumption more, you know more
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you well, it's what Florida does. Yeah, it works for us. Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Well it's I hate to say it, but it's it's
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: got to start with the entitlements, it really does.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: That's where a lot of the money's going. Now, the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: waste fraud abuse, it's everywhere. Well and that's to me
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: where you have to start there. And we're trying to,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like and I suspect that that
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: President Trump got a little tired of not going after
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the waste and abuse and the people responsible for it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: And I think that's why the change was made at
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the Attorney General's office. That's my personal conviction. But you've
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: got to punish the people that are stealing money from
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: this country.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, look look at what Look at the
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Samali fraud. Look at everything Elon unveiled. It's it's disgusting.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, let's bring it back local.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I know people who took advantage of of the BP
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: oil disaster. I know people who were affected by the
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: hurricanes that got no help. I know people who are
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: affected by the hurricanes cleaned all their stuff up, then
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: got money, and now they're, you know, clearing land.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be used for that. You know.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are greedy and a lot
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: of them don't have integrity. And we've got to keep
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: somebody like Elon Musk and Doge going forever. The presidential
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: bench is strong, some of the senators are strong. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: want to make Congress stronger.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: That's the challenge though, and you've got and you absolutely
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: know this. I mean when I couldn't help. But think
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: about when you were talking about Okay, we were a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: nine man squad and we were going in there and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: fighting against forty thousand. It's not all that dissimilar to
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: what you're dealing with with Congress. You're one guy, and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you got to find a way to get enough like
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: minded people on the same page that then try to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: impact the rest of them. Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I had a multi millionaire in Tallasse tell me you're
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: only going to be one vote. Well, that guy's never
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: been to war. Because when you're a leader and you're
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: under fire and everyone's scared, and you crack a joke
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: or smile at your guys, or lead from the front
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: by example. You spring up and spring it. It only
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: takes one spark to start a fire. I will fight
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and I will die on that hill. I will get
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Cat and Jimmy to help me. We have got to
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: make tougher decisions. We've got to be more moral. We've
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: got to put our country first. We've got to stop
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: people like Elon Omar who are getting rich up there. Preston,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: it's a simultaneous attack. You know, you've got to be
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: able to walk and chew gum. We've got to do
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: so many different things, but it starts with common sense.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And you know I'm right in that aspect. It's the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott. I asked him about something
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: we just said, and it was extolling the virtues of
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, those which were at one hundred percent agreement
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on I love Doze and dose needs to happen in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: every community in every county and every city in America,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and then others. And you said Elon getting rich, you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: meant ill hand Omar. Yes, sir, Sorry, my southern accent,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: came over there, you say things like Jose says over there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And while we're at it, you should take a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: lot of detector tests to run for office. And the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: first question should be do you love your country? Because
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: we have people in Congress that don't love our country.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Illhan has given us grounds to denaturalize
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: her and throw her out of the country. Forget the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: illegal immigration that she engaged in, but the fact that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: she says I'm a Somalian first, that's a violation of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: her oath of allegiance to.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: This country one hundred percent. I mean we have Muslim
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you know, extremists and sympathizers. We have people who bastardize Christianity, right,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you know, they hate our country. They're open about it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It drives me nuts.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: If you thought I said Elon Musk, I love him.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: He's got more intelligence and is pinky. My brother is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: a well and builds all the space like launching pads
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: over there. He's very proud. His son's now a welder.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Got no problem with Elon, but ill Hand and some
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: of these others, Uh, they gotta they gotta go. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: if we get the term limits they'll only be their
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: eight years and they're out, and that'll keep new blood
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: constantly coming in. People can learn the system and help
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: this country not enrich themselves.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a topic that we've discussed this week
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: with Eric Swalwell stepping down and then and then and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: then Tony Gonzalez. I believe it is out of Texas
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: similar type issues of Swallwell earns a master's degree in womanizing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: It would appear, but it drawed. It drew me back
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to and kat Camick was one of the few Republicans
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that voted to let's let's publicize all of the settlements
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of congressmen over the years and uh and what taxpayers
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: are paying for for these sexual abuse claims being settled.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Let's publicize this. The Republicans didn't want to do it either. Yea,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: there are very few that we're willing to do it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Isn't that part of the morality that you think we
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: have to bring back one hundred percent in transparency? Yeah?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Now here I am saying this, What if I get
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: accused of something I didn't do it, you know, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: get it. But this guy clearly did it, and he
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: went after Kavanaugh and he went after President Trump and it,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, it disgusted me how anybody could be like that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: But when we're taking people's tax dollars to settle a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: sexual abuse claim, in my mind, at some point, the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: person that is innocent says, I didn't do anything. You
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: can do whatever you want. Let's go to court, but
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you don't settle. That's right, one hundred percent.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and millions has been paid out of that fund.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Yes, I am with kat I forget.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Is she married to a police officer, firefighter?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're a little bit alike because I'm
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: married to a nurse who's working at the hospital right now.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're normal people. But yeah, I agree
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: with her. I will get behind that. I will support
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: that one hundred percent.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: In the final moments here, I'm gonna go ahead and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: bring the low hanging fruit. All right, what do you
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: think about what we're doing in around.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I've actually been on board to do something like this
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: for twenty years, right as as a And it isn't
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: a war, you're right, you know, and it's not Iraq.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You know, everybody calmed down, you know, we have we
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: had to do what we did, and I know we
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: were dealing with it with the fuel prices when I
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: was a high schooler.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Diesel costs less than gas. Now it's way more.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: You know, Diesel preps the fields, It plants the fields,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It sprays the fields, It harvests the fields.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: It moves it. Diesel moves our country. You know, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: want to, you know, help agriculture, help energy, But we've
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: got to put up.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: With this staying folks. You know, people put up with
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: four years of World War two. We can deal with
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: this so our kids and our grandchildren don't get newked.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: We have a war on terror for twenty years, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: we never addressed the biggest guy in the fight. The
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Iranian bombs crushed us in Iraq, we crushed the Iraqis.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: The chech Gi and snipers were tough, but the hardest
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: enemy was to see in then and the left they
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: were four Hamas after October seventh. Therefore, Iran, now we
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: are doing the right thing. We need to stay the course.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: We have very intelligent leaders. Reagan proved Russia was a
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: paper tiger. Trump has proved Venezuela. Hey, look what happened Iran,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Look what happened. There will never be another hitler because
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: of what we just revealed. We can take you out anytime.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And I can tell you my wife's first cousin. He
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: fires the air refuelers. Okay, after that one was down.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: He knew that pilot and he said they got grounded.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: And then they asked for volunteers. Everyone volunteered to go back.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Our military is as sharp as it's ever been. It's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: stronger than it's ever been. You know, I don't always
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: like what Trump says, and I do admit he needs
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: a little help with humility, but.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He always puts us first.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: And I think he's the first president in my lifetime
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: since I was a little kid.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: A Reagan that did that last question. We got less
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: than a minute. All right, all right, I have made
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that we're going to have to create enough space, whether
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it's with Israel involved with boots on the ground, We're
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: going to have to create enough space to allow the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: reigning people to arm themselves and to have room to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: create a government. Do you see any other way. No,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that's the way. We have to train them. We have
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to arm them, and we have to we have to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: be willing to put up with chaos. But I've been
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: telling people for twenty years, including former secretaries of Defense
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that I've met because I was wounded. They've always been unstable.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Let's keep them on their back foot and not have
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to worry about it here. Yeah, one hundred percent. Good
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to have you in. Thank you, brother Preston. It's been
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: an honor. It's Luke Murphy for Congress dot com And
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: as I've said to anyone who is running for this seat,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: reach out. If you're a viable candidate, we'll make the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: time to talk, and as we get closer, we'll talk again. Thanks.
• 25:49
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