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Michael Carbanara to Defeat Debbie Wasserman-Shutlz · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 1: It's 6 Eastern. It's 3 o'clock Pacific. We will draw
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Speaker 2: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
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Speaker 2: warmth of collectivism.
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Speaker 1: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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Speaker 2: Don't look now, but Congress is on a recess again.
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Speaker 2: The government is shut down. We have the SAVE Act
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Speaker 2: in the balance. And the Senate and the House of
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Speaker 2: Representatives have decided to close shop for a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: It makes you wonder, why would anybody actually want to
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Speaker 2: go and do that job? Other than, of course, they
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Speaker 2: all seem to get generational wealth from being there. I'm Booker,
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Speaker 2: and this is The Truth Be Told. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: joining us tonight. And if you found us on a
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Speaker 2: podcast later, thank you so much for doing that. I
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Speaker 2: really appreciate that extra effort. Let's have a conversation with
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Speaker 2: someone that wants to join that rat race that is Congress.
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Speaker 2: And his name is Michael Carbonaro, and he is in
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Speaker 2: South Florida. He wants to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who
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Speaker 2: used to be the head of the DNC. By the way,
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Speaker 2: Governor Ron DeSantis has called the legislature into session in
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Speaker 2: a special session in April, and the purpose of that
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Speaker 2: is to redraw the lines. And if that is done...
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Speaker 2: that could really help Michael Carbonaro. He's a young entrepreneur
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Speaker 2: with a young family, and I can't help but ask
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Speaker 2: the first question of Michael Carbonaro is why, why do
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Speaker 2: you want to go do this?
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Speaker 3: No, uh, I've been an entrepreneur most of my life and,
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Speaker 3: you know, I love creating businesses. I love solving problems. Um,
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Speaker 3: you know, I've built successful businesses and banking and cryptocurrency, uh,
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Speaker 3: fertility care. And, um, you know, I'm at a point
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Speaker 3: in my life where, you know, I see what's everything
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Speaker 3: that's going on. We have a lot of divisiveness in
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Speaker 3: this country. And, uh, frankly, I, a lot of it
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Speaker 3: is because there are people like Debbie Washman Schultz that
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Speaker 3: are created at divisiveness and tear the country apart. Um,
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Speaker 3: you know, she's been a career politician for over 20
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Speaker 3: years and all she does is vote to increase taxes.
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Speaker 4: Increase the size of government and everyone, our freedoms away.
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Speaker 3: And, um, I've, I've kidnapped, um, a three-year-old and a four-month-old.
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Speaker 4: And I think everybody, when they become a parent, they
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Speaker 4: start looking at things a little differently.
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Speaker 3: And we all want to have a better world, a
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Speaker 3: better country for our kids to grow up in. So
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Speaker 3: I just felt compelled. This is a time in my
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Speaker 3: life where I'm able to contribute and do my part
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Speaker 3: to help the country, to help the community. And that's
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Speaker 3: what I want to do. I want to restore the
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Speaker 3: freedoms and make America free for the next generation and
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Speaker 3: all Americans.
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Speaker 2: I talk to a lot of politicians, and it seems
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Speaker 2: like they have that idea as they go in, but
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Speaker 2: somewhere along the way, things get messed up for them
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Speaker 2: and their ideals and what they want to accomplish. You
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Speaker 2: mentioned Debbie Wasserman Schultz there. That would be who you
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Speaker 2: would run against should you make it through the primary.
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Speaker 2: This is Congressional District 25 down in the Miami, kind
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Speaker 2: of sandwiched between Fort Lauderdale and Miami, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct. That's about half of Broward County. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: she's been there for over 20 years. I haven't actually
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Speaker 3: met anybody that likes her there, but she's been there
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Speaker 3: for so long.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, why is that? Why does she continue to get elected?
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Speaker 2: Because I don't like her. I'm like you. I don't
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Speaker 2: know anybody that likes Debbie Wasserman Schultz. By the way,
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Speaker 2: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she was the one that had the
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Speaker 2: IT specialists that were trying to get out of the country,
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Speaker 2: and they brought them back. And by the way, Nancy
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Speaker 2: Pelosi and Wasserman Schultz, they paid them $ 800, 000. You can
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Speaker 2: look that up and find out about that story. Why
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Speaker 2: is it that the people there in the 25th Congressional
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Speaker 2: District in Florida continue to vote for her?
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Speaker 3: You know, that's a good question. You know, people... you know, they,
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Speaker 3: they like doing what's, what they know. And, um, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe that they just, things are changing and, you know,
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Speaker 3: they see the world changing. And, uh, I think that
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Speaker 3: what I'm bringing to the table here is a little
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Speaker 3: bit different. Uh, I'm not a, somebody that's been in politics.
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Speaker 3: Debbie Washington Schultz has never had a job in the
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Speaker 3: private sector. She only knows big government.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of problems.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: And, People like that, they can only solve problems by
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Speaker 3: creating more government. I want to go in there, fix things,
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Speaker 3: solve problems by what we know from the private sector,
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Speaker 3: which means efficiency, low cost, and giving things back to
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Speaker 3: the people rather than taking away.
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Speaker 2: Let's go back into your life. You are originally from
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Speaker 2: New York. Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 2: And your mom was a single mom. She raised you
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Speaker 2: in church. And then, I guess, what, 2010? 11, 12,
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Speaker 2: you move to Miami. You are married to a Cuban woman,
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Speaker 2: which in Miami, there is a big presence of Cubans there.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, they are huge Americans. They're huge
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Speaker 2: freedom and liberty people. When you meet a Cuban in
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Speaker 2: Miami or you meet a Cuban in America, you can
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Speaker 2: know that they love freedom and liberty. That's why they
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Speaker 2: are here. Talk about your journey from New York to Florida. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're right.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I came to Florida. I was, you know, younger.
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Speaker 3: I was, uh, you know, still trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: what I was doing with my life, uh, start my businesses.
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Speaker 3: And I came down here, uh, met my wife and, um,
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Speaker 3: actually we were pretty much as soon as I, I think.
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Speaker 4: The first week I was down here, we were, we
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Speaker 4: started dating.
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Speaker 2: How long have you been together?
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Speaker 3: Uh, 13 years now.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Met her on the first day down there and,
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Speaker 2: or first week and you're been together and you've been
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Speaker 2: together all these years. That's a, a great story. And
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Speaker 2: now you have two young children and your motivation for
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Speaker 2: doing this, I would assume would be for their future.
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Speaker 2: You see what is going on in this country. You
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Speaker 2: mentioned how divided we are as a country. And Debbie
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Speaker 2: Wasserman Schultz is one of those that with her rhetoric,
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Speaker 2: she continues to flame those fires to the point that
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Speaker 2: someone like Charlie Kirk takes a bullet last week. How
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Speaker 2: do you solve those problems? How can we work across
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Speaker 2: the aisle again? because this has been a long time,
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Speaker 2: probably 30 years.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've actually thought a lot about this, and without getting,
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Speaker 5: this can be a very long conversation, but I like
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Speaker 5: to think about Marks and McLuhan, and I don't know
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Speaker 5: who he is, but he was known as the godfather
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Speaker 5: of communications in the 20th century.
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Speaker 4: And he said that when people are reading media, whether.
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Speaker 3: It's print, radio, or TV, it's a constant communication self-identification
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Speaker 3: feedback loop. Now we take that forward.
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Speaker 4: To social media, which is just 24 seven propaganda.
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Speaker 6: And you get people who are probably good natured people
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Speaker 6: who want to do good for the country, want to
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Speaker 6: do good for the family, but they're fed this propaganda
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Speaker 6: to the point where they, you know, left is right,
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Speaker 6: up is down, good is bad, bad is good.
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Speaker 3: And we have to really just go back to fundamentals
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Speaker 3: of what freedom and our freedom of speech and expression is.
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Speaker 3: and have critical thinking, and return to our values. Because
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Speaker 3: if we have strong values, it doesn't matter what the
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Speaker 3: propaganda is if our moral compass is the right direction.
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Speaker 3: How do we do that?
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Speaker 2: How is that accomplished?
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Speaker 3: I think we need to take a hard position against
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Speaker 3: the people that are actually violent. There are actual bad people, leftists, Marxists,
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Speaker 3: that are wreaking this havoc. But there's good people in
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Speaker 3: the middle that are lost and in the direction to go.
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Speaker 3: And we have to hold the people accountable. First, we
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Speaker 3: need to make sure our country is safer. We need
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Speaker 3: to fix the problems. I'll give you an example. Debbie
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Speaker 3: Wasserman Schultz, she was a big proponent with open borders,
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Speaker 3: letting criminals, cartels, gangs in the country. And she led
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Speaker 3: the color revolution of the defund the police movement. And
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Speaker 3: what that's doing is bringing all this violence. You see
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Speaker 3: all the violence with Charlie Kirk, shootings all the time.
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Speaker 3: And this wasn't the America... 20, 30, 40 years ago,
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Speaker 3: where people felt safe. And I think we need to
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Speaker 3: restore order because if people can get along, restore order,
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Speaker 3: hold the criminals accountable, we can start having conversation and
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Speaker 3: really communicate with each other. If we can't communicate with
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Speaker 3: each other, where do we go?
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Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple of thoughts I have. Number one,
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Speaker 2: you were talking about, in essence, the echo chamber that
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Speaker 2: we live in on social media. We are fed the
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Speaker 2: information that we want to believe. And it becomes our truth.
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Speaker 2: There is only the truth. There's no their truth, my truth,
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Speaker 2: your truth. There is the truth. The problem is with
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Speaker 2: algorithms and artificial intelligence and social media, our news feeds
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Speaker 2: are feeding us what we want to believe. And that
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Speaker 2: goes to social media and also in news feeds. So
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Speaker 2: my question is, have you given any thought to maybe
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Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and safeguards that need to come along with
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Speaker 2: it to help with these echo chambers that we have?
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 3: No, we do need artificial intelligence. We need safe AI.
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Speaker 3: I think that's going to leapfrog us to have a
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Speaker 3: great economy, to have quality of life, and it's going
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Speaker 3: to make America a real competitor in the global markets.
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Speaker 3: So heading that direction is the right direction, but we
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Speaker 3: do need safe AI. We need to understand what the
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Speaker 3: AI is. It's a tool. But most people don't really
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Speaker 3: understand that it's just a tool. It's not the answer
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Speaker 3: to everything. And you have to be aware of what
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Speaker 3: that algorithm is. And I think that's something that needs
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Speaker 3: to be explained to new customers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm concerned about superintelligence and artificial general intelligence,
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Speaker 2: which the experts say is coming in the next five years.
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Speaker 2: I do agree with you that it is the new
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Speaker 2: Cold War that we have. And it is a race,
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Speaker 2: no doubt about it, that we have to get in.
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Speaker 2: We can't throw away the safeguards, the human agency part
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Speaker 2: of it that is being interrupted. But let's go back
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Speaker 2: to Charlie Kirk real quick and get your thoughts on
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, on the leftist that was indoctrinated to take
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Speaker 2: a bullet and kill him. Do you believe we are
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Speaker 2: seeing the full story? Is Kash Patel and the government
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Speaker 2: being transparent right now as he says he is?
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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's an active investigation. I think
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Speaker 3: a lot of things will come out over the next
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Speaker 3: few days. And these things never happen as instantly as
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Speaker 3: the Internet wants it to happen. And I know any
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Speaker 3: investigator doesn't want to jump to conclusions before they finish investigations.
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Speaker 3: The Trump administration has been the most transparent government probably
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Speaker 3: in our lifetime. And I trust that they'll get to
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Speaker 3: it and we'll find out everything that happened here.
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Speaker 2: And the problem is, will the people believe it?
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Speaker 1: Because.
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Speaker 2: of the things that are going on already with conspiracy
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Speaker 2: theories and this and that. And when that happens, when
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Speaker 2: the real truth comes out, a lot of people don't
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Speaker 2: believe it. And we've seen that so many times over
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Speaker 2: the last five to 10 years, it has become part
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Speaker 2: of our society and our culture. Unfortunately, let's talk about
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Speaker 2: things financially for you. Where do you come down financially
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Speaker 2: in your politics?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think there's a lot we can do there.
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Speaker 3: I mean, for me, I believe in the way our
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Speaker 3: country was established, that we have the federal government to
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Speaker 3: protect our rights, to protect our borders, to protect our currency.
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Speaker 3: And I believe that we should not have a bloated
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Speaker 3: bureaucracy that's overtaxing us. I think we need to lower
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Speaker 3: the tax burden on all Americans. You know, some people
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Speaker 3: say tax these people more, tax these people less. Why
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Speaker 3: tax everybody so much? Let people decide how they want
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Speaker 3: to spend their money. And I think that The economy
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Speaker 3: is the foundation for everything. If people are financially secure,
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Speaker 3: then they can have a better quality of life. They
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Speaker 3: can make better decisions and be aware of all the
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Speaker 3: other issues that they have to attend to. But we
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Speaker 3: have problems with basically the subsidies that we had in
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Speaker 3: the education system. We have now the consequences with our
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Speaker 3: college graduates can't even start their career without student loan
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Speaker 3: debt that they may never even be able to pay off.
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Speaker 3: We have health insurance costs that are just outlandish and
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Speaker 3: They're unaffordable. Credit card debt. I mean, we have to
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Speaker 3: fix a systemic problem. It's not that we have to
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Speaker 3: just do this or do that. We have to find
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Speaker 3: out why are people, you know, their buying power, their
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Speaker 3: purchasing power is bad as well, and they're being replaced
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Speaker 3: by debt. And we're going to a whole generation that
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Speaker 3: does not have the opportunity for the American dream because
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Speaker 3: all these things have been taken away from their opportunity.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned kids getting out of college with a bunch
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Speaker 2: of debt. Housing is another problem. They can't afford houses
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Speaker 2: between interest rates, which, by the way, I'd like to
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Speaker 2: throw this out. Interest rates historically are pretty good right now.
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Speaker 2: I can remember 15 years ago that we finally got
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Speaker 2: down to 6%. Everybody was refinancing because that was an
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Speaker 2: incredibly low rate. Today, we're at 6.5%, 6.75% on a
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Speaker 2: 30-year fixed mortgage, and people are complaining about it, wanting
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Speaker 2: it to go back to 3%, which was once-in-a-lifetime thing
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Speaker 2: back five or six years ago. So sometimes I think
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Speaker 2: we forget about that. That's beside the point. We have
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Speaker 2: kids coming out of college. They have a tough time
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Speaker 2: finding a job. They are saddled with a lot of
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Speaker 2: student loan debt. And they can't even buy a house.
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Speaker 2: Can they even rent an apartment? Those opportunities for that
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Speaker 2: generation right now is not available. And I think we
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Speaker 2: see a lot of frustration from that age group right now.
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Speaker 2: And we see that maybe in some of this violence
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Speaker 2: that we're seeing. How do we fix that?
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Speaker 3: Well, like I said, this is a systemic issue about
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Speaker 3: a lot of different variables. It's not just one thing.
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Speaker 3: But I can tell you right now, with the technology
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Speaker 3: that America has, there's never been a time to create
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Speaker 3: more wealth than ever in human history. But we have
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Speaker 3: a problem when you have so many illegals coming here,
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Speaker 3: replacing jobs, which also increases the housing cost. We need
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Speaker 3: legal immigration and people vetted before they come here. And
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Speaker 3: we need to have a control on that. When the
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Speaker 3: illegals are getting more favoritism than the native people, the Americans,
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Speaker 3: it's not right. We need to put the Americans first.
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Speaker 3: And the other thing, going back to the AI, this
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Speaker 3: is really important. The job market's going to change rapidly
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Speaker 3: over the next five years. We need to teach real skills,
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Speaker 3: vocational skills to address this. AI is going to really
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Speaker 3: help quality of life, but we need to understand what's
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Speaker 3: coming so we can have the training for that and
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Speaker 3: create the job market for that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we could lose 10 to 20 percent jobs in
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Speaker 2: some places. And these aren't just, you know, these are
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Speaker 2: white collar jobs that people don't understand that we're going
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Speaker 2: to lose. It's a part of artificial intelligence. You said it.
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Speaker 2: I think you said it wisely that it's coming and
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Speaker 2: it's going to be a great thing in most cases.
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Speaker 2: But there are some areas we have to consider and
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Speaker 2: have some concern about as well. I want to get
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Speaker 2: back to, again, the housing thing. How do you think
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Speaker 2: we solve this? Other than lower interest rates, that would help,
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Speaker 2: but prices are extremely high. Are there any programs, are
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Speaker 2: there any ways that we could help a 23-, 24-,
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Speaker 2: 25-year-old that is just out of college, got his first job,
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Speaker 2: he's making $ 50, 000 or $ 60, 000 a year? That person has
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Speaker 2: to live with their parents. How do we fix that?
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think there could be some government programs that
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Speaker 3: support first-time homebuyers. We've had those programs in the past.
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Speaker 3: I think we can look at that and make it
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Speaker 3: better for young professionals or people getting out of college,
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Speaker 3: people starting families. It's critically important. And that's another problem.
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Speaker 3: People aren't having families like they used to. And that's
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Speaker 3: part of the issue. They can't be independent. They need
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Speaker 3: to go have a home. They can't be living at
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Speaker 3: their parents' house in order to get married and have kids.
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Speaker 3: They need that house. And we have to, if we
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Speaker 3: deal with the student loan debt the home insurance costs,
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Speaker 3: which are skyrocketing, especially here in Florida. We have to
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Speaker 3: look at all these issues because then the housing becomes
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Speaker 3: more affordable if people have more cash to spend they
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Speaker 3: want on that. And the other thing is really just
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Speaker 3: giving people lower taxes. They have the ability to choose
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Speaker 3: the home they want. One thing that Governor DeSantis is
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Speaker 3: really pushing, which I think is a great idea here
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Speaker 3: in Florida, they're actually trying to get rid of property
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Speaker 3: taxes for homestead homeowners.
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Speaker 2: Well, one reason why they have to do that in
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Speaker 2: the state of Florida is because the insurance problem. So
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Speaker 2: many insurance companies have moved out of the state. The
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Speaker 2: state had some loopholes in their laws, and a result
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Speaker 2: of that is that 79% of the country's lawsuits against
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Speaker 2: property insurance has come in the state of Florida, while
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Speaker 2: the state of Florida only has 9% of the property
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Speaker 2: insurance claims. So I think that maybe getting rid of
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Speaker 2: the property tax in the state of Florida is would
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Speaker 2: compensate for the fact that everybody is paying three times,
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Speaker 2: four times as much as the national average on insurance.
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Speaker 2: How do you reach across the aisle? You mentioned being divided.
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Speaker 2: You're going to need help from Democrats from time to time.
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Speaker 2: I think in listening to you, that's the vision that
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Speaker 2: you have. You want to take it back to a
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Speaker 2: time when we could be respectful of each other's opinions
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Speaker 2: and have debate and come to some sort of solution
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Speaker 2: for people. How do you do that in this political environment? Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we're all Americans. We
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Speaker 3: all want best for our families. We all want to
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Speaker 3: protect our kids. We need to really root out the
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Speaker 3: people who are really promoting bad ideas that are ideas.
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Speaker 3: And we do this peacefully, of course, but have bad ideas.
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Speaker 3: And people like Debbie Washington Schultz, who represents everything the
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Speaker 3: opposite of what I'm saying. She wants Medicare for all,
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Speaker 3: which will drain the economy and make Medicare terrible for everyone.
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Speaker 3: She wants open borders. She wants to defund the police.
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Speaker 3: Everything that she voted for or that she promotes is
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Speaker 3: what's deteriorating in America. That's what's ripping the fabric of
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Speaker 3: our civilization, our society apart and creates divisiveness because everything
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Speaker 3: that America stood for, for liberty, for freedom, for self-determination,
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Speaker 3: for promoting business and innovation, he's creating a bloated bureaucracy
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Speaker 3: that damages all those things and takes away our freedoms.
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Speaker 2: Great points. More of this conversation is coming up in
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Speaker 2: just a minute. Don't go anywhere.
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20:59
Speaker 2: I'm Booker Scott. We are joined by someone that wants
21:02
Speaker 2: to join the rat race in Washington, D.C. tonight, Michael Carbonara.
21:08
Speaker 2: He is running in the 25th Congressional District in Florida. Michael,
21:12
Speaker 2: I haven't asked you yet how busy and how crowded
21:15
Speaker 2: is the Republican field in your primary?
21:20
Speaker 3: Well, actually, right now, I was the sole candidate until,
21:24
Speaker 3: I guess, a couple weeks ago. another candidate had jumped
21:27
Speaker 3: in the race.
21:28
Speaker 2: And when you are trying to get money, it takes
21:31
Speaker 2: a lot of money to win a race. How are
21:33
Speaker 2: you there? Are you going to be able to fight
21:35
Speaker 2: Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
21:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:39
Speaker 3: I mean, from resources, now I've been running businesses, so
21:43
Speaker 3: I understand how to raise money, how to run an organization,
21:47
Speaker 3: how to manage resources. Actually, up until this point, when
21:50
Speaker 3: I first filed back in April this year, I loaned
21:55
Speaker 3: myself the initial campaign funding and I put it all
21:58
Speaker 3: into Bitcoin. And I did that to demonstrate what our
22:02
Speaker 3: future economy is looking like and what cryptocurrency means to
22:05
Speaker 3: the world. Because I know in a couple more months,
22:09
Speaker 3: that'll actually spearhead me much further with resources from the
22:13
Speaker 3: Bitcoin value increase. So I did that kind of just
22:17
Speaker 3: to show the American people that this could be done
22:19
Speaker 3: with innovation and being smart about how you're raising funds.
22:22
Speaker 2: Let's talk about crypto. It's something that you have done
22:26
Speaker 2: in your past in business. I think a lot of us,
22:29
Speaker 2: myself included, we don't really understand crypto. I can tell
22:32
Speaker 2: you that years ago, probably 15 years ago, some guy says,
22:36
Speaker 2: you want to buy some Bitcoin. And I was like, well,
22:39
Speaker 2: what is it? He said, you can play a computer
22:42
Speaker 2: game with it. I don't play computer games. And he says, well,
22:46
Speaker 2: you can buy it. It's 50 cents. I don't need it.
22:49
Speaker 2: I don't play computer games. I think it's a stupid idea,
22:52
Speaker 2: even at 50 cents. So don't ever listen to me
22:55
Speaker 2: for financial advice is the story of that, Michael. But
23:00
Speaker 2: a little bit about crypto. Do you think the government
23:02
Speaker 2: needs to get into the crypto business? I know a
23:05
Speaker 2: lot of people are fearful that there will be a
23:08
Speaker 2: central bank digital currency. Where do you come in on that?
23:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a really good point. And that's something
23:17
Speaker 3: the Trump administration already came out and said, no central
23:19
Speaker 3: bank digital currency. And I wholeheartedly agree with that. We
23:24
Speaker 3: don't want the government overreaching and having too much control
23:26
Speaker 3: of our finances. But Bitcoin, and it's really not just
23:31
Speaker 3: about Bitcoin as an asset, but it's about blockchain technology
23:35
Speaker 3: because it makes... much more transparency. It reduces risks of fraud.
23:41
Speaker 3: It has more protections. And really what it represents is
23:45
Speaker 3: financial freedom where people can actually control and own their
23:48
Speaker 3: own assets. It's, uh, you know, they've referred to as
23:52
Speaker 3: decentralized finance because you actually control your own money. It's,
23:56
Speaker 3: it's financial freedom. It's, it's really, you know, I think
24:00
Speaker 3: it's emblematic of, of America of having liberties to control
24:03
Speaker 3: your own destiny.
24:05
Speaker 2: Michael, what do we do about what we are seeing
24:09
Speaker 2: with Charlie Kirk? We see the left and the trans
24:13
Speaker 2: movement that I guess they are after all of us.
24:17
Speaker 2: To me, I saw Charlie Kirk's death and assassination as
24:22
Speaker 2: symbolism of coming after Christians, coming after people that believe
24:27
Speaker 2: in God. They're coming after us. They are coming after us,
24:31
Speaker 2: and that's what Charlie Kirk's assassination was. And until we
24:35
Speaker 2: get bold and loud and get in people's faces that
24:39
Speaker 2: are doing this, we're going to have a problem. How
24:42
Speaker 2: do we fix this problem? Because to me, it's an ideology.
24:46
Speaker 2: We have half this country with an ideology that is
24:49
Speaker 2: not based on the Judeo-Christian principles that this country was
24:53
Speaker 2: founded on. How do we get it back there? Do
24:56
Speaker 2: you have any ideas? What are your thoughts there?
25:00
Speaker 7: I do.
25:00
Speaker 3: And I think Charlie Kirk was doing exactly that. And Unfortunately,
25:05
Speaker 3: he lost his life speaking his mind and promoting Christianity
25:09
Speaker 3: and freedom of speech and American values and freedom. I
25:13
Speaker 3: think that we have a serious mental illness problem in
25:17
Speaker 3: this country. As soon as we saw the shootings last week,
25:21
Speaker 3: Debbie Washman Schultz, her reaction was, let's take away more freedoms.
25:24
Speaker 3: Let's take your guns away. But the real issue is
25:28
Speaker 3: not guns. It's the mental illness. And we need to, well, first,
25:32
Speaker 3: help people that are sick and need that help. But
25:35
Speaker 3: when there are criminals, we also need to hold them accountable.
25:38
Speaker 3: We have cashless bail. We have judges and district attorneys
25:43
Speaker 3: letting murderers and rapists get out of jail the next day.
25:47
Speaker 3: And they're just creating and amplifying this problem. And by
25:50
Speaker 3: doing that, they're saying, it's okay for you to be
25:53
Speaker 3: a criminal. It's okay for you to hurt others. And
25:55
Speaker 3: it starts right there by holding those who are criminals accountable,
25:59
Speaker 3: holding judges and district attorneys accountable, Make sure we get
26:02
Speaker 3: the right people into those positions. And it all starts
26:06
Speaker 3: with your own family. Teach these values and lessons to
26:09
Speaker 3: your children. Make sure they're safe. Make sure they're educated
26:12
Speaker 3: and not indoctrinated. Because the family unit is the foundation
26:18
Speaker 3: for our whole country. And we need to start there.
26:21
Speaker 2: You know, you sound a lot like me in believing
26:24
Speaker 2: that this country is a republic. We should have very
26:28
Speaker 2: limited government from the federal side. that our government should
26:32
Speaker 2: be closest to our community where we live, and that
26:35
Speaker 2: would be in the county, the city, the state that
26:37
Speaker 2: we live in, all of those things. When you talk
26:41
Speaker 2: about cashless bail and the other things that you talked about,
26:44
Speaker 2: safety and security, how do you do that if you
26:48
Speaker 2: win and you beat Debbie Wasserman Schultz? What type of
26:51
Speaker 2: legislation do you do from a federal standpoint for states
26:56
Speaker 2: and our local government without creating barriers the larger federal
27:01
Speaker 2: government that you and I both are against.
27:05
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's a really good point because from a
27:08
Speaker 3: federal position, you can't control the local government. But what
27:11
Speaker 3: you can do is lead with good ideas and talk
27:14
Speaker 3: to people within your community and support local elections and
27:20
Speaker 3: show that you support those ideas from the federal level.
27:22
Speaker 3: Because I agree, the federal government should not be involved
27:25
Speaker 3: in everybody's life. It should be limited. And the whole
27:28
Speaker 3: purpose where the founding fathers, why they created this model,
27:31
Speaker 3: where the states and the local governments, they can have
27:34
Speaker 3: more authority, is actually to maximize freedom by creating competition.
27:39
Speaker 3: Because if your town or your state was too taxing
27:44
Speaker 3: or didn't have enough freedom, such as California, you could
27:47
Speaker 3: freely move to places like Florida. And that's the idea.
27:51
Speaker 3: By creating competition, you have more freedom. And I support that.
27:56
Speaker 2: And we saw a lot of that over the last
27:58
Speaker 2: several years. A lot of people from New York and
28:01
Speaker 2: New Jersey are moving down to Florida. People are moving
28:04
Speaker 2: out of California. They're moving into Idaho and Texas, Tennessee,
28:09
Speaker 2: other places like that. So your point is taken on that.
28:14
Speaker 2: You know, when you look at Florida, I don't know
28:15
Speaker 2: if you know this, but Florida leads the nation every
28:18
Speaker 2: year in the most people leaving a state. Did you
28:21
Speaker 2: know that? I, I, Brought that up to someone recently.
28:25
Speaker 2: They didn't believe me, but about a half a million
28:26
Speaker 2: people are leaving the state of Florida. But yet Florida
28:30
Speaker 2: does lead in the number of people that have come
28:34
Speaker 2: to the state every year by 150, 170,000 people. That's
28:38
Speaker 2: how many people are moving into the state of Florida
28:40
Speaker 2: every year. You would have your hands full should you
28:43
Speaker 2: win and beat Debbie Wasserman Schultz. What would you like
28:47
Speaker 2: to do mostly for your constituents in the area there
28:51
Speaker 2: of Miami, right between Fort Lauderdale and Miami? By the way,
28:55
Speaker 2: that district used to stretch all the way across to
28:58
Speaker 2: Collier County to Naples, Florida. Did you know that?
29:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. They did the redistricting just a few years ago.
29:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
29:06
Speaker 2: They've done a few redistricting in that district before. What
29:11
Speaker 2: would you like to see happen for your constituents? What
29:13
Speaker 2: could you do for them there? right off the bat,
29:16
Speaker 2: should you win?
29:17
Speaker 3: So, you know, we just talked about federal versus local,
29:22
Speaker 3: but even though federal, what the decisions that are made
29:26
Speaker 3: in the federal level in D.C. do have impacts here locally.
29:30
Speaker 3: You know, one thing I learned recently uh, from the
29:35
Speaker 3: open border situation and Debbie Watson, Charlton, the Biden administration,
29:40
Speaker 3: opening the borders to criminals and gang members right here
29:43
Speaker 3: in Broward County. Right now we have 47 confirmed gangs
29:47
Speaker 3: and there's violence happening every single day here. And that's
29:50
Speaker 3: a direct result of policy. That wasn't an accident. That
29:54
Speaker 3: was policy at the federal level. So I would do
29:57
Speaker 3: everything I can to bring, uh, support our law enforcement
30:01
Speaker 3: to hold criminals accountable, to make our community safe. People
30:05
Speaker 3: shouldn't have to worry about dropping their kids off at
30:07
Speaker 3: school and coming home safely in the afternoon. We need
30:11
Speaker 3: to address our increasing cost of living. Florida is experiencing
30:17
Speaker 3: the same increase in cost as everybody else. I mean,
30:19
Speaker 3: we do have sunshine. People do like to come here.
30:21
Speaker 3: We do have a nice life here. But things still
30:24
Speaker 3: cost money, just like the rest of the country. And
30:26
Speaker 3: we need to bring some economic prosperity to the people
30:28
Speaker 3: in this district.
30:30
Speaker 2: Great ideas. I hope you win. Obviously, I'm not a
30:33
Speaker 2: Debbie Wasserman Schultz fan at all. Let me ask you this.
30:40
Speaker 2: When you look at the Charlie Kirk death, I want
30:42
Speaker 2: to go back there. It's big in the news right now.
30:45
Speaker 2: We see Pam Bondi. She is talking about going after
30:48
Speaker 2: and targeting those for hate speech. The First Amendment is
30:53
Speaker 2: something that I think we all should take very seriously.
30:56
Speaker 2: I believe hate speech is protected in the First Amendment.
31:00
Speaker 2: I think you can cross the line if you threaten violence.
31:04
Speaker 2: But if it's only hate speech, where do you come
31:08
Speaker 2: down on that when you're looking at Pam Bondi and
31:11
Speaker 2: the things that she's saying, which bother me, honestly? They
31:15
Speaker 2: do bother me, the things that she has said about that.
31:18
Speaker 2: What do you say about that First Amendment?
31:22
Speaker 3: No, I've said this once before, and I wish I
31:23
Speaker 3: could take credit for it, but I saw a tweet
31:25
Speaker 3: from Kevin Sorbo years ago when he just put it
31:28
Speaker 3: very succinctly, the only speech worth protecting is a speech
31:32
Speaker 3: you disagree with. And we have to protect that. We
31:36
Speaker 3: need open debate. Now, what we see is going on
31:38
Speaker 3: in this country is a phenomenon, but this is not
31:43
Speaker 3: hate speech with people going after. These teachers, these people
31:47
Speaker 3: in the military, people that are being basically found out
31:51
Speaker 3: for promoting, I don't want to say hateful, but just disgusting,
31:54
Speaker 3: godless propaganda, they're also violating their code of conduct for
31:59
Speaker 3: their professions. And this is not just about is speech
32:03
Speaker 3: hateful or not. This is common sense morality. And a
32:06
Speaker 3: community has the right to know, or if somebody's teaching
32:09
Speaker 3: my kid and they're spilling out this hateful, godless rhetoric,
32:14
Speaker 3: I don't want that person teaching my kid. And so
32:16
Speaker 3: that community has every right to know what's going on
32:18
Speaker 3: and make those decisions.
32:20
Speaker 2: Michael, I have been a big proponent of school choice,
32:24
Speaker 2: and the words you're talking there kind of bring me
32:27
Speaker 2: into school choice. Where do you stand on school choice?
32:30
Speaker 2: Is that a good idea? I know in the state
32:33
Speaker 2: of Florida that they have it there. There are several
32:36
Speaker 2: states now that do have it. Is that something that
32:39
Speaker 2: the federal government should do in the Department of Education?
32:43
Speaker 3: I think it's been something that's worked out really well
32:46
Speaker 3: in Florida. Everybody here, I could say, Democrat or Republican,
32:50
Speaker 3: really likes to have the school choice. It's great to
32:53
Speaker 3: be able to say, this school doesn't work for my child.
32:55
Speaker 3: I want to bring my kid to this school because
32:57
Speaker 3: I like it better, for whatever reason they choose. And
33:01
Speaker 3: I think that from a federal level, having a universal
33:04
Speaker 3: school choice, I mean, even though it's a federal law,
33:08
Speaker 3: that gives the power back to the communities, back to
33:09
Speaker 3: the states, back to the parents, which is really what
33:12
Speaker 3: the issue is. And you can choose who wants to
33:15
Speaker 3: educate your children If you're worried about indoctrination, take your
33:18
Speaker 3: kid out of that school. Put them someplace else. And
33:22
Speaker 3: I think that's the best way.
33:23
Speaker 2: To go forward. It creates competition for public education where
33:28
Speaker 2: they may have to get better. And I've always thought that.
33:31
Speaker 2: And Sunday, as I was sitting and listening to the
33:33
Speaker 2: sermon that happened to be mostly about Charlie Kirk, thankfully,
33:37
Speaker 2: we have a pastor that is not afraid to stand
33:40
Speaker 2: up and talk about things because that really isn't politics,
33:44
Speaker 2: what happened with Charlie Kirk. You know, he was a
33:46
Speaker 2: symbol of Christians. And so it was much more than politics.
33:51
Speaker 2: And I think we have to see it that way.
33:53
Speaker 2: But my thought was, have we made a mistake in
33:57
Speaker 2: taking our children out of public schools, putting them in
34:00
Speaker 2: homeschooling and private schools? And my daughter goes to private school,
34:04
Speaker 2: private Christian school. Have we made a mistake by not
34:08
Speaker 2: encouraging young conservatives to to become teachers. Because as we
34:13
Speaker 2: have seen over the last week with everything that has
34:16
Speaker 2: happened online with social media, with Charlie Kirk, there are
34:20
Speaker 2: a lot of vile teachers. Our education system from kindergarten
34:24
Speaker 2: all the way through higher education is full of leftists
34:29
Speaker 2: that are indoctrinating our children from a very young age.
34:32
Speaker 2: And I'm not so sure that we have made a
34:35
Speaker 2: mistake here. Maybe we need to encourage more conservatives, a
34:39
Speaker 2: lot of conservatives, to get in there to protect our
34:42
Speaker 2: children in public education too. And that's just a thought
34:45
Speaker 2: I throw at you, but I don't know if you
34:48
Speaker 2: have any thoughts. I'll allow you to come back at me.
34:51
Speaker 3: I do. And that's a really good example of what's
34:54
Speaker 3: going right here in Broward County in the state of Florida.
34:57
Speaker 3: We had hundreds of thousands of students been pulled out
35:00
Speaker 3: and now homeschooled over the last five years. And Broward
35:05
Speaker 3: County specifically has been very, very liberal about and they've
35:09
Speaker 3: lost some of the most students. And we're actually right
35:11
Speaker 3: now being forced to close down schools because there's no
35:14
Speaker 3: attendance there anymore.
35:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done a story on that in Howard County before.
35:19
Speaker 2: I know exactly what you're talking about. These are schools
35:21
Speaker 2: that have been there for 50 and 60 years, and
35:24
Speaker 2: people in the community are upset because the schools are closing. Well,
35:27
Speaker 2: they're closing because they suck, and they're not doing a
35:30
Speaker 2: good job for the kids. I'm sorry I interrupted you.
35:33
Speaker 2: Please go ahead.
35:34
Speaker 3: No, no, it's fine. But what I was going to
35:36
Speaker 3: add to that, is that, um, every member, but one
35:40
Speaker 3: of the Broward County school board is, is Democrat.
35:43
Speaker 4: Very, very liberal.
35:44
Speaker 3: We only have one conservative on the school board and
35:47
Speaker 3: you're right. What's going on is we all Americans, we
35:51
Speaker 3: just have, we can do better. We need to engage
35:54
Speaker 3: in our kids' life. Um, parents are unfortunately, and it
35:59
Speaker 3: all goes back to the economy. They're working two, three jobs.
36:02
Speaker 3: Sometimes they don't have time. They put their kids in
36:04
Speaker 3: daycare way too early. And, uh, People are just trying
36:08
Speaker 3: to get by, and they don't want to do those things.
36:11
Speaker 3: But because of the economy, they don't have a choice.
36:14
Speaker 3: So when we start with the economy, we start with safety,
36:17
Speaker 3: everything else can fall in line. But we have to
36:20
Speaker 3: put the pieces together, build a foundation, so people are
36:23
Speaker 3: able to make the right choices to take care of
36:25
Speaker 3: their families and be prosperous here.
36:28
Speaker 2: I am moving to Broward County tomorrow. I will be
36:31
Speaker 2: able to vote for you in the primary. Why do
36:34
Speaker 2: I vote for you? Tell me why I should vote
36:36
Speaker 2: for you. from Michael Carbonara.
36:41
Speaker 3: Like I said, Debbie Washington Schultz, she's been a career politician.
36:45
Speaker 3: Her answer to everything is to increase taxes, bigger government,
36:49
Speaker 3: less freedoms for all of us. I'm running to restore
36:52
Speaker 3: the freedoms in Florida and America and defeat Debbie Washington
36:55
Speaker 3: Schultz and the democratic policies that have eroded the freedoms
36:58
Speaker 3: in America. And I want everybody to be safe, prosperous,
37:03
Speaker 3: and I'm going to use everything I've learned in building
37:06
Speaker 3: businesses and creativity and innovation to bring that to Washington
37:11
Speaker 3: to solve the problems rather than make them bigger.
37:13
Speaker 2: Michael, thank you so much for coming on the program.
37:15
Speaker 2: That was a fast 40 minutes there, wasn't it?
37:19
Speaker 4: It was.
37:21
Speaker 2: It goes by pretty fast. But thank you so much.
37:23
Speaker 2: I wish you so much good luck. If there's anything
37:25
Speaker 2: we can do to help you, please reach out. I'm
37:28
Speaker 2: here all the time, so please do that. Thank you
37:31
Speaker 2: so much for coming on the program tonight.
37:33
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.
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