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"When Joe Biden Investigates You..." (Friday, May 8, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I got port.
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Speaker 2: They don't on your to do list. Putting the radio
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Speaker 2: on is the first thing today.
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Speaker 3: Your word said, steal me every day at least for work.
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Speaker 3: When the son comes up, drops a pet into scoop
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Speaker 3: the way Joe is everything, a dreamer, all the jost
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Speaker 3: and needs.
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Speaker 4: No one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 5: He only aims PG.
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Speaker 6: Let her be your Joe.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
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Speaker 7: So we gather on this pre Mother's Day Friday, and
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Speaker 7: don't forget public service message from Joe Thomas in the
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Speaker 7: morning is if she's the mother of your children, that
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Speaker 7: still represents okay, don't don't give me the and it's
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Speaker 7: a mistake. So many new husbands make well O my mother.
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Speaker 7: Oh come on, you know if you haven't said it,
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Speaker 7: you know someone who has four three four eight A
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Speaker 7: You can text message as well. They're at We were
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Speaker 7: talking about the Biden family and how they've come down.
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Speaker 7: Do we have the because I recorded a great piece
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Speaker 7: for Daily Signal and their YouTube channel. It's me and VDH,
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Speaker 7: JAT and VDH together on the interwebs there for you
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Speaker 7: at Daily Signals YouTube channel. But the raid on Louise
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Speaker 7: Lucas's office I just found delicious in the fact that
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Speaker 7: it was the Biden administration going after an elected official
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Speaker 7: for corrupting their office to make them money. I mean,
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Speaker 7: they ought to know if the Biden administration can't identify
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Speaker 7: someone who's working their side of the street. And that's
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Speaker 7: probably more of it than anything else, is that you
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Speaker 7: know there were Louise Lucas was muscling in on their act,
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Speaker 7: their scam. And one of the things, I mean, if
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Speaker 7: you if you're feathering your nest off of your political
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Speaker 7: office and you find out that someone else is, you
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Speaker 7: can't you know, quality control isn't there. You can't guarantee
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Speaker 7: that they're doing everything as carefully as Hunter was when
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Speaker 7: he was walking around with the azof Battalion at the
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Speaker 7: Barisma Holdings quarterly shareholders meeting. And believe me, nothing hurts more.
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Speaker 7: And I'm sure if there's anything that bothers Louise Lucas,
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Speaker 7: it's being compared or or being accused of being more
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Speaker 7: likely to screw up and get caught with their hand
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Speaker 7: in the cookie chart than Hunter. Biden four three four
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Speaker 7: eight A two four two one seven That's my story
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Speaker 7: and I'm sticking to it. This morning. Our first things,
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Speaker 7: Tennessee has new congressional maps, and now a call from
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Speaker 7: one black community leader to secede from the state of Tennessee,
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Speaker 7: presumed to join Arkansas. The map divides the Memphis district
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Speaker 7: two thousand and seven, leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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Speaker 7: was in court yesterday Brian Fair Federal Court, Montgomery, pacing
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Speaker 7: and false bank statements, pleading not guilty. President Trump used
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Speaker 7: the phrase love tap to talk about some retaliatory miss
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Speaker 7: strikes against Iranian targets. Iran's katam Al and Bia Central
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Speaker 7: US targeted an Iranian oil tanker traveling from Iran's coastal
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Speaker 7: The Washington Post reported in their weekly section on leaked
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Speaker 7: to documents that will put Americans in Grave danger Thursday
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Speaker 7: that a CIA assessment sent to them covertly probably from
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Speaker 21: you know, to your point, a lot of it just
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Speaker 21: is the experiences that a lot of people have.
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Speaker 7: Which means I have no intellectual backing for it. I've
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Speaker 7: Good morning, James, Happy Friday. How are you doing, sir.
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Speaker 7: I think that sounds like a pretty darn good Mother's
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Speaker 23: And see, this is one of the problems with American
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Speaker 23: conservatism is that conservative principles aren't a political party thing.
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Speaker 23: was it AOC said in an interview, you can't earn
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Speaker 23: a billion dollars something like that.
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Speaker 7: Where is it? Where's that clip?
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Speaker 24: I wanted to earn a billion dollars.
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Speaker 21: That's right, you just can't earn that.
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Speaker 9: That's exactly correct.
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Speaker 7: When you're in Congress, she should have said, because I mean,
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Speaker 7: Nancy Pelosi has made tens of millions, just not a
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Speaker 7: Her businesses were all government subsidized. She was providing transportation
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Speaker 7: God bless you, sir. I hope you had a wonderful
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Speaker 27: Well, thank you for having me on the show yesterday.
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Speaker 27: It was an incredible day praying over our nation, for
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Speaker 7: So talk about the the the gen Z. You know, anxiousness.
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Speaker 27: So when I get asked that question, I go to
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Speaker 7: So at Prayer at the Heart movement, you guys are
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Speaker 7: we found the answer. Come follow us there because I
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Speaker 7: worry about these kids that are feeling this way. There,
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Speaker 7: pray for the unscrupulous that unfortunately fester in the dark
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Speaker 7: crevices of the internet. There you talk about your outreach
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Speaker 7: through Prayer at the.
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Speaker 27: Heart absolutely, and you kind of mentioned it. It's what
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Speaker 27: the apostle says in the Bible. Follow me as I
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Speaker 27: follow Christ. So we believe that part the heart that
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Speaker 27: we have answer. However, we're not the only ones, but
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Speaker 27: we are certainly a tool and an outlet to find
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Speaker 27: the answer and that answer to fulfill the feelings of loneliness.
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Speaker 27: To bring the next generation out of this depressive whole
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Speaker 27: is Jesus Christ and through parerth the Heart, we are
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Speaker 27: encouraging and provoking, especially the next generation, to get outside
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Speaker 27: of their own minds, get outside of their own desires.
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Speaker 27: It gets outside of what they want and pray on
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Speaker 27: behalf of somebody that they know, whether it's a family
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Speaker 27: member or a friend, to pray for them that they
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Speaker 27: would come to know Jesus as well.
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Speaker 7: Talk about the you know, the moment when somebody feels
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Speaker 7: that energy plug in, because I've talked to folks who
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Speaker 7: have been through the baptism older, you know, later in life,
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Speaker 7: and they just say, there's there's an energy that the
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Speaker 7: you tap into that you almost feel like you're you're
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Speaker 7: hallucinating it. Garrett, is is that you've been your experience
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Speaker 7: at prayer at the heart as well?
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Speaker 27: Uh No, not necessarily, as far as I think.
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Speaker 7: Well, they felt like it was so such a weird
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Speaker 7: feeling of energy running through them that it was so
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Speaker 7: unusual to what they had been used to in their life.
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Speaker 7: That's all I meant is I was maybe inapt comparison there, gotcha.
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Speaker 27: Yeah, So personally speaking, when I received Jesus Christ, when
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Speaker 27: I heard about Jesus and I made.
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Speaker 20: The decision to deny myself and follow him according to
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Speaker 20: his instruction, then yes, there was an overwhelming sense of
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Speaker 20: love and compassion and grace that filled my heart.
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Speaker 27: And it was this from my experience, this warm feeling
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Speaker 27: that was, like you were suggesting, this moment ago overwhelming.
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Speaker 27: It was how in the world can I be loved?
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Speaker 27: Can I be cared for?
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Speaker 28: This?
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Speaker 6: Much?
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Speaker 7: Talk about the battle of the secularists, the ones in
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Speaker 7: our schools. I was talking to a group of years
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Speaker 7: ago called worth your Weight, and it was twenty somethings
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Speaker 7: like yourself going into high schools and trying to encourage me, well,
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Speaker 7: just in the world of being pro life, that you
50:03
Speaker 7: didn't have to take that step to, you know, engage
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Speaker 7: in the biological function of creating life just to find
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Speaker 7: popularity or to find a connection with somebody. And they
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Speaker 7: found that not only did it make the young people
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Speaker 7: feel better, but it actually increased their grade performance as well,
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Speaker 7: once they realized that they didn't have to perhaps do
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Speaker 7: something they weren't comfortable with, or put themselves in a
50:29
Speaker 7: bad position and create an unwanted pregnancy. Just in that
50:32
Speaker 7: one aspect of it, you can see its impact even
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Speaker 7: on you know, young people's grades when they feel self empowered, Garrett,
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Speaker 7: is that a common thing you found?
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Speaker 17: Yeah?
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Speaker 27: Absolutely, And kind of an anecdote or a little story
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Speaker 27: to that is, there was a young boy and his
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Speaker 27: family raised chickens, right, and one of the chickens was
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Speaker 27: a rooster. I'm going somewhere with the stories, to just
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Speaker 27: bear with me. One of the chickings was a rooster,
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Speaker 27: and every every time this little boy would go outside,
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Speaker 27: this rooster would come and attack him. You know, roosters
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Speaker 27: can be really mean, to have the spurs, and they
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Speaker 27: can kick and they can fight. And this boy became
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Speaker 27: so fearful of the rooster and he didn't even want
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Speaker 27: to go outside. And his dad recognized this. So his
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Speaker 27: dad told the young boy, hey, next time you go outside,
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Speaker 27: fight back against the rooster. Show it whose boss. So
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Speaker 27: that's exactly what the little boy did. He gained up
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Speaker 27: and mustered the courage to go outside and stand up
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Speaker 27: against this rooster. The what the point of the story is,
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Speaker 27: he overcame his fears, He overcame what he was dealing
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Speaker 27: with because he finally understood that he had permission to
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Speaker 27: do so. No before, he wasn't sure that he could
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Speaker 27: fight against the rooster. He wasn't sure what his permissions were.
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Speaker 27: He wasn't sure how to handle it. But his dad,
51:53
Speaker 27: an authoritative carrying figure in his life, told him, Hey,
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Speaker 27: some you can do this, you can overcome, you can
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Speaker 27: do something differently than what you've done before. So in
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Speaker 27: that same way, this next generation, like you're just saying,
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Speaker 27: maybe just needs the permission to do something that is counterculture,
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Speaker 27: to do something that the world isn't telling them to do.
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Speaker 7: Right, amen to that pun intended there. And I appreciate
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Speaker 7: Garrett Bryant is on with his prayer at the heart
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Speaker 7: of movement. And I'll ask you, and it's an uncomfortable question,
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Speaker 7: but it's one that is parents you always worry about
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Speaker 7: as well. But your movement endorsed by Franklin Graham and
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Speaker 7: so many notable faith leaders in the country already, you
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Speaker 7: know there is a I don't want to say warrantied
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Speaker 7: to it. But you know, one of the things that
52:46
Speaker 7: has been worrisome to me. I see Time magazine stories
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