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Wicked Radio 11-11: How We Can Really Thank Our Vets! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Just to think a vet because this is their day,
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  Speaker 1: It's Veterans Day, right, But that's the whole point. He
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be just today. You should thank a veteran for
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  Speaker 1: all they do and tackling a massive problem that affects
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  Speaker 1: all our veterans every single day. We'll talk about our
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  Speaker 1: ways to do that, and I gotta tell you it
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  Speaker 1: feels great. I talk to so many people I'm in
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  Speaker 1: this boat too, it's like, well, I'm not a veteran,
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  Speaker 1: you know who am I to speak out? But that's
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  Speaker 1: changed now and we'll talk about this all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: ways that that's changed, where we all help and honor
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  Speaker 1: and thank our veterans of every type because we're all
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  Speaker 1: in this together. We didn't serve like they did if
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  Speaker 1: you're not a VET, but there still lots of ways
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  Speaker 1: to thank them. And we'll wrap it up with there's
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  Speaker 1: actually some deals. I know. It's like, gee, I serve
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  Speaker 1: my country and all the good is like a free donut.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll still talk about that stuff a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on. Also, it looks like as far as we
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  Speaker 1: go into the news to Tom Holman, get to know
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  Speaker 1: him if you don't know him already, the former RICE
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  Speaker 1: director looks like he's Trump's guy to secure the border.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think this guy is messing around, you
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  Speaker 1: have to hear some of his testimony and will actually
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  Speaker 1: hear one of his sixty minutes interviews the part they
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  Speaker 1: didn't cut out before from a couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is dead serious about this issue. More infighting
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  Speaker 1: going on in the house, trying to find the Senate
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  Speaker 1: leader and all that other stuff. And we got a
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  Speaker 1: campaign debt update from Kamala Harris that came out that
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely shocking. And I guess in the world of
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  Speaker 1: politics they deal with this all the time. The amount
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  Speaker 1: of money they spend we all know is absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when they run out of money, even if
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  Speaker 1: they raised a billion bucks a billion dollars they raised
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  Speaker 1: and they're broke over there and the fallout, the knives
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  Speaker 1: are coming out left and right, and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: minutes will wrap it up with an awesome feel good story.
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  Speaker 1: I remember talking about this in Radio World. There's a
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  Speaker 1: Texas lady, a salon owner, who broke her lockdown rules
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  Speaker 1: in her city because her people, you know, her stylists,
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  Speaker 1: needed to get some work. Well, they threw her in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Now she's a state representative. All of that and more
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  Speaker 1: coming up. First of all, ipe be an awesome weekend,
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  Speaker 1: a wicked awesome weekend. Thanks for finding me on a Monday.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wicked Radio the audio podcast wherever you get them.
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  Speaker 1: And this will live as a replay on x and
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube a little bit later on. But let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the stuff. Veterans. Thank you, thank you for all
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  Speaker 1: you do each and every day. And I know this
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  Speaker 1: is Veterans Day, and I love that this is Veterans Day,
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  Speaker 1: federal holiday. By the way, So the banks, schools, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, they're closed, and we all think you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear a lot of this today. Thank you for your service, right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, as we should do. She'd all make it
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  Speaker 1: an effort to thank veterans every single day for what
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  Speaker 1: they do. You see somebody wearing a you know, you
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of these guys, especially where I am,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of retired guys wearing you know, Vietnam veteran
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  Speaker 1: had or the few and far between World War Two
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  Speaker 1: veterans who are still alive, and by the way, guys
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  Speaker 1: were losing a lot of them. Sometimes you see them honored,
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  Speaker 1: thank them, thank them for what they do. And we
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  Speaker 1: have to somehow, some way tackle this problem. And here's
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  Speaker 1: another thing to feel great about. I think it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: I think Trump ran out of time on the first administration,
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  Speaker 1: and I know for a fact this was a huge
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  Speaker 1: plan for the second administration had twenty twenty nine happened,
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  Speaker 1: where the VA was really going to get boosted up
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  Speaker 1: and get a lot of help. It got the attention
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  Speaker 1: it needs, but really really help it out. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's coming this time around. More importantly, yeah, even more
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  Speaker 1: important than that, I would say, the very serious issue
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  Speaker 1: of homeless veterans in our country. By the way, a
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  Speaker 1: little update as of it's anywhere between right now, thirty
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  Speaker 1: five and thirty seven thousand American veterans are homeless in
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  Speaker 1: our country. It's almost forty thousand vets homeless. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you compare that to this situation the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that immigrants to our country are getting, and fair
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  Speaker 1: or not, it's a ridiculous problem that needs to be fixed.
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  Speaker 1: And we all asked the question, well, you know what
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  Speaker 1: could we do here? I am on here today and
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  Speaker 1: this live stream blabbing about it, and I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it for years and now volunteered at veterans organizations before.
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  Speaker 1: I've done plenty of Memorial Day and Veterans Day events.
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  Speaker 1: What more all of us do? There's a lot, guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's a simple search and these are just I'm just
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  Speaker 1: cherry picking a couple of organizations right. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Tunnel to Towers amazing organization. And Frank Siller he lost
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  Speaker 1: his brother who was a first responder in nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable what they do for first responders. Yeah, Homeless vets,
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  Speaker 1: disabled vets helping them get into housing an incredible organization.
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  Speaker 1: What they do A simple search to find out what
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  Speaker 1: they do and a simple donation helps out. It's T
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  Speaker 1: two T dot org for Tunnel to Towers. Another organization
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  Speaker 1: you can find, National Coalition for Homeless Vets NCCHV dot org,
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  Speaker 1: which includes, by the way, not only monetary support and
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  Speaker 1: housing support, mental health support, which is so important. Is
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  Speaker 1: another one, National Alliance to End Homelessness End Homelessness dot org.
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  Speaker 1: And that one is not a great one though too.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a small business owner and you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: in that category as well, we all ask the question,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, well, what can I do. What can
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  Speaker 1: I do to help this problem. Here's an awesome idea
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  Speaker 1: that helps out all of us as well. Higher Heroes
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  Speaker 1: USA is an organization that helps veterans first of all,
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  Speaker 1: find placement work after they get out of the service.
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  Speaker 1: But the ones who need the extra special help helps
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  Speaker 1: them get those skills and gets them into the workplace,
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  Speaker 1: contributing to their economy, their lives, and possibly your business.
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  Speaker 1: That's an awesome organization. Higher Heroes dot Org is another
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  Speaker 1: great one. It's all kinds of stuff we can do, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you veteran, but every single day, that's how we
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  Speaker 1: can do it. Yeah, we will talk about those free
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  Speaker 1: deals a little bit later on. I think that's important too.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump into the news, shall we. Looks
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  Speaker 1: like Trump has this guy presented Trump well confirmed by
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  Speaker 1: him and others, is set to name, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: to be you know, certified, and he has to be
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  Speaker 1: sworn in and all this stuff. But the new Border
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  Speaker 1: director borders are whatever the hell you want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I think, by the way, can we move
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  Speaker 1: off the borders are title? Because I think Kamalok gotta
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  Speaker 1: ruin that one. Let's not call him a borders are
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  Speaker 1: let's call him border director or whatever it is. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Holman is a former police officer out of the state
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  Speaker 1: of New York. He's a former ice director. That's how
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  Speaker 1: mostly we knew him. It's been on stage at Trump
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  Speaker 1: rallies before talking about the importance. And also, this is
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  Speaker 1: really the guy, he truly is that came up with
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  Speaker 1: the stats and the numbers and the personal stories to
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  Speaker 1: explain why national security is at risk with a wide
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  Speaker 1: open border. And the guy is not messing around. He's
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  Speaker 1: probably the first. Yeah, this should tell us all how
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  Speaker 1: important the border issue is to all of us, but
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  Speaker 1: also how much the Trump administration incoming recognizes it. You
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  Speaker 1: think this guy's messing around? Tom Holman on a sixty
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  Speaker 1: minutes interview highly edited by the way, from a few
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  Speaker 1: months ago. Highly edited. This is the part that they
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  Speaker 1: actually kept in. You think this guy's messing around? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million.
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  Speaker 2: People a year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's accord or not.
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  Speaker 2: What American taxpayers should expect. What price do you put
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  Speaker 2: on a national security Is that worth it is there
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  Speaker 2: a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, is.
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  Speaker 3: Families can be deported together.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa sure deport them together, then we'll keep families together.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be the priority. I
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  Speaker 1: think President Trump has already said it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: obviously obviously to all, We're gonna get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: criminal gangs first of Venezuelan gangs, those most dangerous, and
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  Speaker 1: do the best they possibly can to keep families together.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not a question of if you can do this,
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  Speaker 1: you have to do this now because it is national security.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he was the first name, the first guy
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  Speaker 1: really to be confirmed for this very important job, and
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  Speaker 1: it looked like he was going to get the job
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. He was the guy that knows and
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  Speaker 1: can get it done. And as you're heard there in
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  Speaker 1: a combative sixty minutes interview, the guy that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to fold to the heat. He'll get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: support from theministration. But man, the arrow's coming out against
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  Speaker 1: this guy. You just wait, Oh, it's coming just as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they get to work on this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting in January, maybe even beforehand. The slings and arrows
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  Speaker 1: coming at Tom Holman and the entire administration for this.
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  Speaker 1: You've already seen it. There was a mass demonstration in
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan over the weekend on the streets of Manhattan. We're
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  Speaker 1: illegals and we will not go. Well, that's that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: and I get that. But the criminal element in this
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  Speaker 1: country that is here, you know, it's not three full
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  Speaker 1: three and a half full years. The previous administration was
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  Speaker 1: telling us that that's not a big deal. No, it's confirmed,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a big deal, and it is a fact.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen. But the backlash against this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be so severe and the propaganda against it.
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  Speaker 1: This guy may have, Tom Holman may have the toughest
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  Speaker 1: job in the entire incoming administration. Honest to God, No,
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  Speaker 1: he really will. I may. I don't know. He could.
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  Speaker 1: Hope to God, I think he's the right guy. I
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  Speaker 1: hope to God he can do it. Some support speaking
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  Speaker 1: of him in the meantime, It is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of motivation you didn't ask for. But I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you anyway to make you feel good about yourself, right,
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  Speaker 1: because you gotta feel good, especially on a Monday. If
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  Speaker 1: you ever find yourself, especially after a weekend and heading
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  Speaker 1: into the holidays, saying, jeez, you know, I just I
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  Speaker 1: spend too much money. I say, I'm gonna cut back
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  Speaker 1: and I gotta get better about finances, all right, true that,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're all in that boat. I think that
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  Speaker 1: counts for all of us. Well, this is the part
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  Speaker 1: that will make you feel better. At least you're not
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  Speaker 1: a political campaign that's spent overspent one billion dollars like
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Evil, a billion dollars. All the money, all the
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  Speaker 1: information is coming out right now about the Kamala Haaras campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it coming out because the knives are getting
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  Speaker 1: thrown because they're all turning on each other and everybody's leaking.
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  Speaker 1: The donors are pissed. The people in the Biden team
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  Speaker 1: and the Kamala Harras team are still fighting each other.
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  Speaker 1: They're all talking about it. And now get this, they
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  Speaker 1: raised a billion dollars, spend it. They spent a billion plus,
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  Speaker 1: they're in debt. Check this out. And this goes into
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  Speaker 1: this whole celebrity endorsement thing, which I'm on the record
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  Speaker 1: as saying I think it's done. I think that's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: over with. I really do why, Well, because us, the
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  Speaker 1: American people aren't paying attention to anymore. It didn't work
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  Speaker 1: despite all those celebrity endorsements. The second thing is, you
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  Speaker 1: know what'll really end it. The celebrities aren't getting the
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  Speaker 1: bang for their buck. If they put their necks on
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  Speaker 1: the line and they they don't get anything out of it,
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  Speaker 1: why would they do it. There's another question, why would
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  Speaker 1: they do it if they were set to be paid
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't get paid. Alanis Morris said, I know
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  Speaker 1: she's Canadian. I don't know why she was involved in
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing, but she's Canadian. She stopped her endorsement
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  Speaker 1: reportedly because the check bounced. Hand to god. This is
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  Speaker 1: an actual thing. Now it comes out as well well
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  Speaker 1: and confirmed by Oprah Winfrey's people. She was paid. Oprah
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  Speaker 1: was paid a million dollars for that interview that she
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  Speaker 1: did with Kamala Remember that a million bucks. This is
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  Speaker 1: where all this money went. Remember this was the start
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast wars. Trump went on all these podcasts
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  Speaker 1: and reached out to all the young dudes and basically
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  Speaker 1: was free advertising and it made him relatable to regular people.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't pay for those you know who did pay
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  Speaker 1: Kamala on that Barstool Call Me Daddy podcast. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have the official number, but they have confirmed it's six figures.
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  Speaker 1: She paid for that. None of it worked. So not
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  Speaker 1: only did they spend overspend a billion dollars, the checks
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  Speaker 1: are bouncing to these celebrities that supposedly were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: get her in over the top. Not only that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it is the most mad donors to her campaign. They
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  Speaker 1: are pissed and they're talking. This happened over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was early Saturday morning. Lyndy Lee is a name
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  Speaker 1: you may not be familiar with. I wasn't either. I
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  Speaker 1: guess she's chairperson of the DNC for Women. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she's a political activist. She was pretty tight with a
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  Speaker 1: Kamala campaign and the Bidens actually, but she's also a
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  Speaker 1: donor and that's why she's speaking out now. That's why
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  Speaker 1: she dared to go on Fox News over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: This this is actually pretty amazing. This is what she
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  Speaker 1: says about, first of all the infighting between the Biden
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  Speaker 1: and Harris campaigns, and also what happened to all the money.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is the.
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  Speaker 3: This is just an epic disaster. This is a one billion,
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  Speaker 3: one billion dollar disaster. Actually it was one billion, eighteen million.
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  Speaker 3: I think right there are twenty million or twenty million
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  Speaker 3: or eighteen million dollars in debt. It's incredible, and I
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  Speaker 3: raised millions of that. I have friends that I have
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  Speaker 3: to be accountable to and to explain what happened, because
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  Speaker 3: I told them it was a margin of error race.
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  Speaker 3: I was promised. General Mally Dillon promised all of us
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  Speaker 3: that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying
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  Speaker 3: that Harris would win. I believed her, My donors believed her,
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  Speaker 3: and so they wrote massive checks. I just I feel
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of us are in this led. And
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  Speaker 3: even on their night of election night, will I looked
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  Speaker 3: somebody in the eye and I said, are we gonna
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  Speaker 3: do this or are we gonna pull it off? She
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  Speaker 3: told me yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'd be mad too, I'd be looking for
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  Speaker 1: answers if I raised money, if I made promises to people.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not just from her. I'm sure she put
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  Speaker 1: in money. No, she has skin in the game personally,
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  Speaker 1: but she got her friends and other influencers and other
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  Speaker 1: people that put in money to this thing. Losing is
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  Speaker 1: one thing I think people understand that maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: poorly run, but then you overspent. So consider this And
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  Speaker 1: I just thought of this. Now, if you've got a
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  Speaker 1: campaign that can't that can't even keep their budget in
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  Speaker 1: line when they're trying to get the job, and they
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  Speaker 1: went over the top and they overspent. What Oh I
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  Speaker 1: shut her at the thought. But you have to consider it.
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  Speaker 1: What would that administration have been? Like, Oh my god, guys,
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  Speaker 1: you realize if you needed another reason to feel great
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday, you realize the disaster we just averted.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's talk about and we'll get out
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  Speaker 1: of news here in a second. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: other team for a second. You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the polar opposite. It's all about efficiency. Oh in that
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  Speaker 1: they'll criticize him in the media. How can you run
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  Speaker 1: a country with such a such a small government. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna find out because that's what's needed. So favik Ramaswami.
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  Speaker 1: And we still don't know where the big V is
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  Speaker 1: going to wind up in the administration or not. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's more effective outside off it's speaking for the administration
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  Speaker 1: or I heard this as well. He really wants to
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  Speaker 1: be governor of Ohio. I don't know. All I know
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  Speaker 1: is this guy is an animal. He understands it, he
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  Speaker 1: gets it. He understands efficient government and business because he
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  Speaker 1: is a businessman. And he posts this out about I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, eight hours ago, and he says, we won
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  Speaker 1: now of a once in a century opportunity to radically
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  Speaker 1: downsize scope and mission of the federal government. And the
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  Speaker 1: top obstacle to our success won't even be the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking about the infighting and in the and the
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  Speaker 1: Senate leadership race to make sure that the rhinos are
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. Well, who picks up on this,
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  Speaker 1: another guy who will be key to this entire thing
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  Speaker 1: of making government work for us. Elon picks it up,
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  Speaker 1: requotes vivex quote, and he says, indeed, the obstacles are
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  Speaker 1: overcoming the cough esque nature of the rules governing this
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  Speaker 1: vast bureaucracy, ensuring that maniacally dedicated small government revolutionaries join
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  Speaker 1: this administration. Let me let me just repeat that, maniacally
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  Speaker 1: dedicated small government revolutionaries. That's what we have. Oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: just so scary. You know who's scared. You know who's
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  Speaker 1: running not just the people pissed off at the Kamala
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  Speaker 1: campaign because they overspent their money and the checks bounced.
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  Speaker 1: These useless, bloated, unelected, bureaucratic blobs that have made life
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  Speaker 1: so difficult for you and me and everybody else. That's
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  Speaker 1: who's scared. And that's a great, great thing. Small government revolutionaries. God,
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  Speaker 1: I love that, all right. I love this too. We
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  Speaker 1: got a great feel good story, so you might remember this.
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  Speaker 1: I remember talking about this when it happened in the
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  Speaker 1: dark dark days of COVID radio World and then beyond.
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  Speaker 1: There was a story of a lady named Shelley Luther.
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  Speaker 1: She was a Texas area and Texas is a huge
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  Speaker 1: area salon owner, like a lot of small business people
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  Speaker 1: like us, she had her business shut down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny in Texas was a little bit different, as
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  Speaker 1: I understand it from my friends there, because it's like
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  Speaker 1: there's a common sense state government, but you still have
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  Speaker 1: cities like Houston and Texas and Dallas and Austin that
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  Speaker 1: are just we're just maniacal. And all this stuff got
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  Speaker 1: exposed during COVID. Who runs the government officially efficiently and
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't We saw it all and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those people are gone now. Well, she broke her rules because,
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  Speaker 1: as she explains, she had her stylusts that she employs
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: at her small business, at her salon. They were reaching
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  Speaker 1: out to her saying, we got to do something. We
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  Speaker 1: can't We're literally starving. I can't feed my kids. We
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  Speaker 1: have to do something. So she said, all right, screw it,
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  Speaker 1: we're breaking the rules. We're opening up. We're opening up
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  Speaker 1: our salon, and we're going to provide opportunity for these people.
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  Speaker 1: Punishment be danned. Well, the punishment came. They arrested her. Well,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: here's the update on it. First of all, here's her
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  Speaker 1: telling the story, because she can tell it better than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in twenty twenty, I owned a salon. I actually
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: still own the salon, but we shut down for about
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  Speaker 2: a month during COVID, and then after about a month,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: my hairstylists were calling me saying, I can't feed my kids.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. So we just made
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  Speaker 2: the decision to open back up, and I ended up
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  Speaker 2: in jail.
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  Speaker 1: She got arrested for opening up and trying to provide
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: an income for her employees. She got arrested, and maybe,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you're still of the opinion well,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it was important you needed to shut down for those
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: first few monthsment ok, I get that. Explain this to me.
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  Speaker 1: The other part of her story was in the shopping plaza,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you know, probably Stripmall kind of situation where her salon is,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: which she still has, the very next door business. The
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: next door neighbor was a dog grooming place that was
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: allowed to stay open the entire time, the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those shining examples, and I think
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: we all have a few of them, but nationally in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the news, this is one of those shining examples of
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: some of the stupidity that we all survived from COVID, right,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: But that's you know, but we did it. We did
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: survive that stuff, and common sense did still working on it,
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  Speaker 1: but did shine through, like with her. So not only
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: that did she have the guts to open up her business,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: she went to jail for it. She turns around and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: she runs for office, and now she is one of
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  Speaker 1: the newest members of the Texas State Legislature. Shelley Luther,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in my book, you're an American hero. And you really
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: have to look at this too. Stories like this, You
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: got to remember these ones. We all, like I have
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: PTSD burned into my head from some of the stupidity
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: just just even locally, from of the COVID lockdowns. And
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I know you do too, but stores like this you
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: got to hold in just as high regard because we
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: as a nation, as a people, we did it. We
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: actually did it and responded. Just saw that with a
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  Speaker 1: vote last week and people like her and more stuff
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that's coming out, people saying never again will we put
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: up with that. That has to make you feel good.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Remember that at the end of it. As bad as
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that was, and it's sorry if you lost your business,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: we all got hurt. We did win. Common sense did
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: win the day. And she's the shining example. That's amazing,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: from lockdown jail to the Texas State legislature. It's absolutely incredible. Again,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I promised you this. The important stuff is ending veteran homelessness,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: especially starting on Veterans Day and thanking a vet and
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• 20:36
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• 20:47
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• 20:57
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