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The United States In 2076 America's Golden Age From Newt Gingrich · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: believe in education. We both believe in learning. I was
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  Speaker 2: and did very, very well. In my case, over the years,
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot to say, so I find writing
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  Speaker 2: is a good way to get it out of me
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can't imagine what goes through your imagination when
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  Speaker 1: today's technology is really growing leaps and bounds, and yet
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  Speaker 1: we want to pull back a little bit to understand
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. What is it going through your mind, and
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  Speaker 1: how does it react to you in general?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I start with a premise that, um, the
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  Speaker 2: world is going to be better.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Historically, that historically nobody's made money betting against the
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  Speaker 2: United States and that the underlying patterns of, of the
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  Speaker 2: way we've been set up with basically entrepreneurial free enterprise
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  Speaker 2: and our continuing rejection of big government socialism, which I
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  Speaker 2: think will continue, uh, that you end up in a
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  Speaker 2: situation where we invent the future faster than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: And it compounds over time. So, you know, the country
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  Speaker 2: of the Wright brothers inventing flying or Henry Ford inventing
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  Speaker 2: mass production of automobiles or Edison inventing the electric light.
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  Speaker 2: All those things keep moving forward. And they create an
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  Speaker 2: underlying pattern of risk-taking and experimentation. You know, the six
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  Speaker 2: largest technology companies that dominate the world, five were founded
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  Speaker 2: by teenagers and one was founded by a guy who
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  Speaker 2: was 24. Now, that's an American openness to people with
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  Speaker 2: good ideas and guts. So I decided to write America's
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  Speaker 2: Golden Age to make the argument that we ought to
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  Speaker 2: have a lot more positive attitude. We ought to have
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  Speaker 2: a lot more sense of progress and that the very
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  Speaker 2: sickness of our news media and our politicians and our
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  Speaker 2: current campaign style. I mean, I get so tired of
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  Speaker 2: the negative commercials. And then the idea that somehow we
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  Speaker 2: have to destroy our opponent because we don't have any
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  Speaker 2: good ideas. We don't have anything that we believe in
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  Speaker 2: that we're willing to standard. It's the opposite of what
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  Speaker 2: I did with the contract with America in 1994, where
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  Speaker 2: we actually had 10 very specific things that every single
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  Speaker 2: Republican candidate signed on to. And we actually could have
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  Speaker 2: a conversation that was positive about about what we would
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  Speaker 2: do for America, not just how stupid our opponents were. Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: This has to be one of the very first books
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  Speaker 1: that I've seen in modern times. It actually gives me
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  Speaker 1: something to hold on to when it comes to that future.
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  Speaker 1: Because like you said, there's so much competition between our
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  Speaker 1: words that I'm going, I think I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: stay right here. But you give us that reason to
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  Speaker 1: have an outreach, to believe in that future, to have
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  Speaker 1: something to reach forward to inside the American golden age.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and hopefully... When people read the book, they'll realize
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  Speaker 2: each of these things is something you can develop and
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  Speaker 2: you can be part of. Yes, sir. I mean, when
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk's Starship starts operating regularly, it's the largest rocket
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  Speaker 2: ever built. It is entirely reusable. His goal is going
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  Speaker 2: to be to have at least one a day launching.
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  Speaker 2: It'll carry 100 passengers or 200 tons of cargo. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: we will have a village on the moon by about 2033.
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  Speaker 2: And we will have a village on Mars by about 2040. Wow. Wow. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that means I try to say to
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  Speaker 2: young people, you're going to have, there are going to
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  Speaker 2: be jobs involved. There are going to be opportunities. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be exciting and dynamic. You get the same
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  Speaker 2: thing in healthcare. You're going to get the same thing
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  Speaker 2: in area after area where there are Very positive things
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  Speaker 2: coming down the road. And people are going to live longer.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to live healthier. And they're going to have
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  Speaker 2: much greater control over their own health than they have
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  Speaker 2: had over the last half century.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the book, America's Golden Age. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back with Newt Gingrich. Hey, thanks for coming back
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  Speaker 1: to the conversation. We're speaking of the future. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one really worth looking into to invest in. America's
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  Speaker 1: golden age. We are back with the Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 1: Newt Gingrich. Your book is such an eye-opener in the
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  Speaker 1: way of that. It really did get me to where
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  Speaker 1: I start studying what they're doing with social media as
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  Speaker 1: well as advertising today. Because there was an advertisement yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that talked about John F. Kennedy, which I love, and
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  Speaker 1: it talked about FDR. It talked about all these presidents
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  Speaker 1: doing these great things. Never once did I see the
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  Speaker 1: guy that's in the office now mentioned in this and
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  Speaker 1: all the great things that he's been doing and what
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  Speaker 1: we're growing toward. And it's like, if this book does
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  Speaker 1: not inspire those people to go back in there and
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  Speaker 1: redo this commercial.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that's right. Unfortunately, we have
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  Speaker 2: a consulting class right now spending billions of dollars Focused
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  Speaker 2: on being negative.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really, you know, I think it's really bad
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  Speaker 2: for the country. You know, and that's why, obviously, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to say some negative things, but ideally, it ought
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  Speaker 2: to be like 80% positive and 20% negative, not 95% negative. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, though, I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: freaky inside the book when I read about the smaller
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  Speaker 1: modular nuclear power plants. I'm going, oh, my God, because
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  Speaker 1: we all fear one nation getting that kind of power today.
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  Speaker 1: But yet inside your book, you're giving us these modulars
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  Speaker 1: that it's almost like, oh, where are we going to
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  Speaker 1: put these at?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's because they're totally safe. A modular nuclear plant
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  Speaker 2: cannot melt down the way it's designed. It's essentially like
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  Speaker 2: you could place it next to your refrigerator. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: emit any radiation. And they're designed so that you don't–
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  Speaker 2: the original pioneering model is very big, very complicated, requires
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  Speaker 2: a pretty large staff. I filmed up at Three Mile
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  Speaker 2: Island and actually grew up near Three Mile Island, which
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  Speaker 2: is where we had the only major– nuclear event we've
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  Speaker 2: had in this country in a 75-year period. And it
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  Speaker 2: all worked out fine, and all the safety things worked.
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  Speaker 2: But it's really complicated and really expensive. These new modular things, literally,
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  Speaker 2: you could roll one in as though you were rolling
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  Speaker 2: in a bachelor-sized refrigerator, and it would generate enough electricity
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  Speaker 2: to be very useful. NASA's going to put one on
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  Speaker 2: the moon, so that as they begin to build this village,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have a constant stream of electricity, which
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to refuel. Most of these things you
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  Speaker 2: probably refuel about every 60 years. But otherwise, they just
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  Speaker 2: sit there and they work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, this is how effective that your writing is
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  Speaker 1: because it did get me to go do research because
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  Speaker 1: I want one of these little modules. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why is because I was doing research on what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing with fuel if there was a national crisis
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  Speaker 1: right now and we've all got these emergency generators. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to run out of fuel on that. And they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you just bury a tank in the ground? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin the earth. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I invested in this small module that you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Isn't that amazing? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can see the visionary in you inside
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  Speaker 1: this story, and I'm sitting there going, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: this guy really understands where we're growing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I never quite thought about it before, but you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the current generation of modulars are too expensive, but
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  Speaker 2: presently we'll have a cheap modular, and you'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to buy that instead of all that other stuff, having
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  Speaker 2: a generator, etc., You'll turn a switch. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: suspect what will happen is in a lot of places,
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  Speaker 2: the modulars will provide local electricity. And I've argued that
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  Speaker 2: for these data centers, what they ought to do is
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  Speaker 2: guarantee that everybody within 30 or 40 miles gets cheap
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  Speaker 2: subsidized electricity because they need the electricity for the data center.
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  Speaker 2: So they just ought to put in a surplus and
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  Speaker 2: take care of the whole neighborhood so people would be
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  Speaker 2: glad to have them around instead of resenting them.
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  Speaker 1: I laughed like a child inside your book when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about being 14 years old and seeing the Russians
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  Speaker 1: put a satellite in space. And just the other day
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  Speaker 1: when SpaceX flew over the Carolinas, everybody got all giddy
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  Speaker 1: and they became children again. I thought it's still alive.
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  Speaker 1: It's still here for us. And so I love to
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  Speaker 1: read that you were doing this at 14 and we're
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  Speaker 1: still doing it even today.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And then, you know, and you're going to see
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  Speaker 2: once it begins to work routinely, And once we go beyond,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, space has really been occupied largely
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  Speaker 2: by very sophisticated fighter pilots and comparable people. Presently, what
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see is everyday folks doing everyday jobs,
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  Speaker 2: but they happen to be in space. And that's going
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  Speaker 2: to lead to an awareness. I'm hoping it'll reach the
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  Speaker 2: younger people more. and give them a reason to learn
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  Speaker 2: because they have a chance to have an amazingly better future.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you, Speaker,
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  Speaker 1: in the way of learning more about this book and
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  Speaker 1: activating this book? We need activation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, first of all, I do podcasts called
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  Speaker 2: Newt's World that people can go to regularly, and I
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  Speaker 2: always encourage that. And I'm also... write regularly, and people
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  Speaker 2: can find me at gingrich.net. So I look forward to
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  Speaker 2: people coming and listening to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I look forward to it, and I'll try to
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  Speaker 2: keep having interesting ideas so it's worth your while.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, man. Be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.