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  Speaker 3: This is American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Farr with Louis R. Avalone.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe Gavin Newsom said the quiet part out loud,
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  Speaker 5: although he didn't know he was being recorded at the time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Someone was videoing him, asking him questions about the future
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  Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party. Okay. And he sees, now this
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  Speaker 5: might not be a shocker, but somewhat to me it is.
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  Speaker 5: He says the Democratic Socialists of America are going to
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  Speaker 5: be the mainstream force for the Democratic Party going forward.
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  Speaker 3: You say you're shocked by that. Why are you shocked
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  Speaker 3: by that?
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  Speaker 5: You know what? Because... I understand that a lot of
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  Speaker 5: this DSA movement, I believe, is being endorsed by more
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  Speaker 5: moderate Democrats, more rational, grown-up Democrats that, as crazy as
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  Speaker 5: they are to be Democrats in the first place, they're
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  Speaker 5: not all-out nutso.
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  Speaker 3: They're not communists.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think Gavin Newsom's a full communist.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that the folks that aren't nutso, they're
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  Speaker 5: endorsing the DSA because it's all part of this movement
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  Speaker 5: bigger campaign of hating donald trump.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah one of the things i'm not surprised by this
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  Speaker 3: because although there are many things i don't like about
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  Speaker 3: um about um gavin newsom i do think he is
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  Speaker 3: generally observant of political trends oh.
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  Speaker 5: My gosh maybe but he speaks out of both sides
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  Speaker 5: of his mouth depending on what audience he's speaking well.
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  Speaker 3: That's what i mean He absolutely speaks out of both sides.
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  Speaker 5: He just sticks his finger up in the air, and
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  Speaker 5: whichever way the wind is blowing, that's what his opinion
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  Speaker 5: or position is that day.
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  Speaker 3: But he's good at figuring out which way the wind
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  Speaker 3: is blowing in the moment.
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  Speaker 5: I would agree with you on that.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that's the highest compliment I can pay the man,
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  Speaker 3: is that he's willing to sacrifice his own principles in
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  Speaker 3: order to try and access political power, and he's good
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  Speaker 3: at figuring out how the political winds are blowing in
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  Speaker 3: the moment. That's not really a compliment, but it's probably
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  Speaker 3: the nicest thing I can say about Gavin Newsom.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so you're saying that his opinion here that the
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  Speaker 5: DSA is going to be the mainstream force in the
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  Speaker 5: Democratic Party going forward is not the result of some
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  Speaker 5: thoughtful analysis other than the fact that he thinks that's
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  Speaker 5: the popular opinion to give.
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  Speaker 3: It's the thoughtful analysis of where the politics are heading.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the thoughtful analysis of the policy ramifications of
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  Speaker 3: that political heading. I don't think he's necessarily in favor
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  Speaker 3: of the DSA, but he will absolutely try and use
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  Speaker 3: it so he can become president. That's his goal. It
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  Speaker 3: is power acquisition. It is not principle. It is not
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  Speaker 3: what's best for the American people. It is power acquisition
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  Speaker 3: for Gavin Newsom. And if he has to use the
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  Speaker 3: DSA to get there, by Job, he'll use the DSA
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  Speaker 3: to get there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's this interesting report kind of in the
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  Speaker 5: context of what we're talking about The Americans for Prosperity
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  Speaker 5: released a report on its conversations with voters in eight
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  Speaker 5: battleground states. And among the swing voters that they contacted,
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  Speaker 5: the unfavorable views of the Democratic Socialists of America outnumbered
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  Speaker 5: the favorable views roughly three to one. So that's not
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  Speaker 5: just a simple majority. I mean, I think that's overwhelming.
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  Speaker 5: But there's an important qualification. The American... Americans for Prosperity group,
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  Speaker 5: they say, look, this was not a scientific poll. They
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  Speaker 5: sent their staff and volunteers out to just have conversations
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  Speaker 5: with voters. And what they say is that nearly 45%
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  Speaker 5: of the swing voters that they talked to or that
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  Speaker 5: answered their poll trust Democrats more so than Republicans to
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  Speaker 5: lower living costs. 36% chose Republicans. That is.
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  Speaker 3: That's insane.
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  Speaker 5: Insane, absolutely. And that should get Republicans' attention because the
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  Speaker 5: dominant mainstream Democratic movement, according to Gavin Newsom, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we were just talking about, is completely... The DSA. The DSA.
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  Speaker 5: That is unpalatable to the American swing voters, and yet
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  Speaker 5: they are trusting a party... who Gavin Newsom says the
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  Speaker 5: future belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 3: Look, first of all, the Democratic Socialists of America is
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  Speaker 3: simply the logical conclusion of where the Democrat Party's been
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  Speaker 3: heading for decades. More government programs. Look, Ronald Reagan was
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  Speaker 3: warning about this in the 1964 presidential campaign. He was
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  Speaker 3: saying there the Democrat Party is inching towards communism. This
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  Speaker 3: is the logical conclusion of the Democrat Party's policies, frankly,
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  Speaker 3: since FDR. And the more government programs you do, the
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  Speaker 3: more government power government's going to want. And eventually you
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  Speaker 3: start thinking, well, government should provide everything for everybody. The
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  Speaker 3: problem is it doesn't work. It's never worked. It never
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  Speaker 3: can work. It takes away the incentives of human beings
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  Speaker 3: to better themselves. It takes away the incentives of human
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  Speaker 3: beings to actually serve other people as we start expecting
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  Speaker 3: everybody else to serve us. And nobody ends up doing
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  Speaker 3: anything worth any value.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no. And they don't explain. Like these candidates that
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  Speaker 5: are promoting socialism.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, these candidates who are getting elected
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  Speaker 5: based on socialism or based on their socialist ideology.
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  Speaker 3: Zoran Maldani, the lady in Seattle. Karen Bass, frankly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. But none of these candidates, you know, they're
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  Speaker 5: talking about all this expanded benefits, you know, rent control
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  Speaker 5: and what free groceries, or no, what the grocery stores
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  Speaker 5: in New York City, it's a fully.
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  Speaker 3: Government-run grocery store, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: One-third less than retail.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they say they're going to do, but you
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  Speaker 3: end up paying for it in taxes, and you also
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  Speaker 3: end up paying for it in other grocery stores going
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  Speaker 3: out of business, and then you not being able to
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  Speaker 3: buy any groceries.
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  Speaker 5: But don't you notice, I mean, if you folks that
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  Speaker 5: are listening right now, if there's anyone listening that go,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this socialism thing doesn't sound that bad, and
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  Speaker 5: what some of these candidates are promising... I could really
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  Speaker 5: get behind. Let me ask you something. Don't you notice
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  Speaker 5: none of these candidates are explaining the taxes or the
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  Speaker 5: borrowing or the spending reductions that are required in order
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  Speaker 5: to finance these proposals like free buses and free rent?
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  Speaker 3: Or the restrictions on your liberty in order to make
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  Speaker 3: it happen.
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  Speaker 5: That too. It's not just an economic cost.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's no socialist government that's ever existed that allowed
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  Speaker 3: you to have free speech. none they don't they don't
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  Speaker 3: allow it they can't allow it because free speech points
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  Speaker 3: out the flaws in the policy well no you can't
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  Speaker 3: have that we can't have you pointing out the flaws
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  Speaker 3: in the policies we've got to have everybody on board
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  Speaker 3: on the same thing there's just there's no example of
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  Speaker 3: a socialist economy that has free speech go look at
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  Speaker 3: china go look at the soviet union look at venezuela
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  Speaker 3: look at cuba just there's no example why would you
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  Speaker 3: think it would be any different.
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  Speaker 5: Here And you can go online and you can watch
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  Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom's response. He was, I think he was campaigning,
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  Speaker 5: I think, in New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's running for president.
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  Speaker 5: Earlier, well, last month, actually. No, no, mid-October. Mid-October, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And he was asked, and he said the DSA's energy
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  Speaker 5: and demand for sweeping change would become dominant. And he
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  Speaker 5: described them as a mainstream Democratic movement.
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  Speaker 3: They are the only ideological movement within the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 3: right now. They're the only ideological movement.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's the only identity right now that really
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  Speaker 5: the Democratic Party has.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you don't have what's the DSA's platform,
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  Speaker 3: then what does the Democrat Party actually stand for other
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  Speaker 3: than we hate Trump? Let's get to the top of
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  Speaker 3: the things you need to know. First thing you need
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  Speaker 3: to know, the FBI raided a California mansion owned by
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  Speaker 3: a friend of former Congressman Eric Swalwell. Swalwell was forced
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  Speaker 3: out of Congress in the race for governor of California
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  Speaker 3: earlier this year after a series of complaints from women
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  Speaker 3: who said he sexually harassed or assaulted them. Agents served
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  Speaker 3: the Beverly Hills home of campaign donor Stephen Klubeck on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Swalwell spent time at that home before he resigned his
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  Speaker 3: seat in Congress back in April. Klubeck is the founder
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  Speaker 3: of Diamond Resorts International Timeshares. He has donated more than
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  Speaker 3: $ 23, 000 to Swalwell's campaigns since 2017. Oh, Swalwell.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Swalwell. Yeah. Former gubernatorial hopeful in California.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think things are Swalwell, Swalwell. Second thing you
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  Speaker 3: need to know, 48 non-U.S. citizens have been charged by
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice with illegally voting in several elections.
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  Speaker 3: Those cases span from California to Florida, Nevada, New York,
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  Speaker 3: and Pennsylvania today. and include the election years 2020, 2022,
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  Speaker 3: and 2024. Only one of the 48 individuals charged is
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  Speaker 3: in the country illegally. The others have legal standing to
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  Speaker 3: be in the country, but are not citizens and did
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  Speaker 3: not have legal rights to vote in U.S. elections. The
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  Speaker 3: Justice Department says this is just the tip of the
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  Speaker 3: iceberg for illegal voting. DOJ also identified more than 400
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  Speaker 3: people who are illegally voting in Washington state this election cycle.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this information, it's kind of like it dribbles out.
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  Speaker 5: You know, 200 votes here, 300 votes here. And across
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  Speaker 5: this vast country, that adds up. It absolutely adds up.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it can change an election in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just what they're able to get to where
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  Speaker 3: they can prove for votes. They have more cooperation from
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  Speaker 3: states now. Look, they're saying there's 20,000 in California this year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the blue states are fighting them.
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  Speaker 3: And the third thing you need to know, the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a win in their
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  Speaker 3: fight against illegal immigration. The court rejected an appeal by
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  Speaker 3: three Democrat-run cities, Baltimore, Maryland, New Haven, Connecticut, and Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: The cities were appealing a decision by a lower court
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  Speaker 3: that allowed the Trump administration to ban immigration courts across
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  Speaker 3: the country from simply dismissing immigration cases. The rule was
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  Speaker 3: established first during President Trump's first administration. It was reversed
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  Speaker 3: during Biden's term in office. That allowed a form of
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  Speaker 3: backdoor amnesty for illegal immigrants. A lower court agreed to
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration restoring the rule banning the dismissal of
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  Speaker 3: immigration cases, and since the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal,
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  Speaker 3: that rule will now stand.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 3: It's a complicated way of getting to it, but basically
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  Speaker 3: you can't have an immigration judge go, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: take 300 cases and dismiss them, you guys go sprinkle
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  Speaker 3: around the country. That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to American Ground Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Avalone.
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  Speaker 5: Well, apparently those paper straws that we've been forced to
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  Speaker 5: endure in the name of saving the planet might not
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  Speaker 5: be saving the planet after all. And by the way,
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  Speaker 5: this is not a straw poll, by the way. It's
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  Speaker 5: a scientific study out of South Korea examining the environmental
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  Speaker 5: impact of different kinds of drinking straws. And I know
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  Speaker 5: we're going to talk about this a little bit later
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  Speaker 5: on in the show, but I mean, the climate alarmists
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  Speaker 5: have been wrong from the beginning on just about everything.
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  Speaker 5: What we were going to, the seas were going to rise.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and then of course, Barack Obama went and bought,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this huge estate on Martha's Vineyard. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if he really believed that, shouldn't, I mean, should he
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  Speaker 5: have ever bought that property? I mean, we were told
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  Speaker 5: that I mean, there's been so many alarmist theories over
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  Speaker 5: the many decades. You know, we're going to run out
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  Speaker 5: of food. We're going to run out of water. We're overpopulation,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as far as, you know, you get too
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  Speaker 5: many people on the planet. What was that? That was
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  Speaker 5: the Malthusian theory, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lord have mercy.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was more the Thanos theory, but, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But, I mean, you know what I'm saying? And I
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  Speaker 5: know climate change with you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have a lot of opinion on that or
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  Speaker 5: a lot of facts and figures.
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  Speaker 3: Look, all right, so here's the bottom line on the
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  Speaker 3: straw issue. The plastic straws turned out to be, of
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  Speaker 3: the four different types of straws they analyzed, plastic, paper,
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  Speaker 3: biodegradable plastic, and sugar cane. Of those four types of straws,
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  Speaker 3: plastic had the lowest environmental impact and had the least
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  Speaker 3: carcinogenic effect on humans. It was actually the best, and
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  Speaker 3: yet we've outlawed it in multiple Democrat states across the country, Washington,
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey, New York, California, Maine, just insane stuff. The
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  Speaker 3: Democrats screech all the time, follow the science, follow the science,
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  Speaker 3: follow the science. But they never follow the science, especially
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  Speaker 3: when the science actually proves their political position wrong. COVID,
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  Speaker 3: follow the science. Well, turns out those vaccines were killing children.
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  Speaker 3: More than the disease was. Okay, global warming. Well, it
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  Speaker 3: turns out the planet isn't warming in any of the
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  Speaker 3: ways that the climate models say it should, which means
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  Speaker 3: the climate models are wrong. Abortion. Oh, it's just a
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  Speaker 3: clump of cells. No, science says that is a human
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  Speaker 3: life from the moment of conception. Whenever the science points
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  Speaker 3: in a direction opposite of their political opinions, the Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: they'll scream, follow the science, but then they don't.
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  Speaker 5: You know, and kind of shifting gears, I know we'll
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  Speaker 5: talk about that a little bit later on. The attacks
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  Speaker 5: on Christians around the world, too. I want to talk
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  Speaker 5: about that a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 5: But 60 Christians murdered in Ethiopia. 20 homes burned to
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  Speaker 5: the ground. I mean, where is the international outrage?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a problem. We've got a question for American Mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Dear Mamas, what is a characteristic of people that you
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  Speaker 3: enjoy being around the most?
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  Speaker 5: Well, let's ask our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Mamas.
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  Speaker 5: Mamas.
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  Speaker 1: Mamas.
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  Speaker 5: Mamas.
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  Speaker 3: And joining us now are American Mamas, Taryn Ediville and
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  Speaker 3: Kimberly Burleson. So what's a characteristic of you guys? Because
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  Speaker 3: y'all love being around each other.
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  Speaker 6: I bet we all have the same kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: Humor. Somebody that's funny, no matter what they lean politically,
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  Speaker 6: no matter their upbringing or how they feel about really anything.
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  Speaker 6: If they're funny... If they are a non-judgmental, humorous person
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  Speaker 6: who can see the humor in life, because you have
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  Speaker 6: to be smart to actually see. That's why I think
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  Speaker 6: comedians are the smartest among us. But I love someone
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  Speaker 6: that has a good sense of humor with a good
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  Speaker 6: heart that doesn't have that place of judgment where they're
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  Speaker 6: mean about it. They might judge you, but they can
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  Speaker 6: make it funny.
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  Speaker 7: What's funny is funny people you just assume are like
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  Speaker 7: that too. Because there's something about funny people. I think
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  Speaker 7: funny people are the most intelligent. I think that you
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  Speaker 7: have to be super intelligent to be able to read
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  Speaker 7: a room, make everyone laugh on both sides that there's
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  Speaker 7: an intelligence factor. But there's also, there's that pushing the
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  Speaker 7: limits that I love. When I'm around people that are
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  Speaker 7: like super, super sweet, it feels so syrupy and fake
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  Speaker 7: to me. And it just, I am not like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, ew. but if you're like a super classy
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  Speaker 7: person and you cuss a little yeah i freaking love
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  Speaker 7: you there is just there's something about when somebody just
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  Speaker 7: like lets something slip that i'm like instantly yeah i
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  Speaker 7: like i like her.
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  Speaker 3: Because it reminds you of your sister.
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  Speaker 7: That irreverent is that kind of silly or do you
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  Speaker 7: i mean do you know.
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  Speaker 6: What i'm saying no i totally know what you're saying
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  Speaker 6: i i think that um That's why I think Leanne
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  Speaker 6: Morgan is so popular.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: She's funny in that way that she can say something
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  Speaker 6: that's kind of irreverent and that we can all relate
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  Speaker 6: to about her husband coming to a show and her thinking, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 6: he's going to expect things tonight. I didn't know he
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  Speaker 6: was going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And then you're all laughing. But I love it when
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  Speaker 6: you have somebody that's kind of like a Pollyanna and
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  Speaker 6: you're all talking and then they come out with something
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  Speaker 6: that's a little irreverent because I do love that humor.
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  Speaker 6: My grandmother, the preacher's wife, had that humor.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 6: And it is my favorite.
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  Speaker 7: 10 o'clock at night, Terry is.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: It's bad. It's bad. Yeah, I need to put the
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: phones away, the kids away. But I'm the same way.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: I love when you don't expect it, and they come
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: out with something, and everyone's.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Like, what?
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: I love that. Speaking of cussing, do you remember your
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: first cuss word?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Okay, y'all.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Terry and I, we're in high school.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: I'm a senior. She's a junior.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: We're driving through a neighborhood.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I'm driving.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: She's driving and it's a car.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: No, I'm driving. I was driving.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: We called it the turd because that's what it looked like.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: So I said, because we were the best, like we
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: did not cuss. We did everything right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: Didn't drink, didn't smoke. And I said, Terry, do you ever.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Just want to cuss?
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: And she went, oh, yeah. I went, you do? And
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: she went, yeah. And I said, if you could cuss,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: what would you say? Terry came out with the most
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: poetic string of cuss words ever. I've ever heard in
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: my entire... It was like.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: It's beautiful.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: You, mother.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Just like that. And I couldn't believe it. So I
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: drove up accidentally up on the sidewalk because it shook me.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Driving on the sidewalk.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: I went up on the sidewalk. I had to pull over.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: because I was dying. I couldn't believe she could do it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: She's laughing so hard. So it wasn't that long ago
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: that I got a cross stitch made for her with
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: that whole string of crosswords.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Now that's our thing. We say it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: We say it all the time.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Do you know that when we told, when Kimberly told
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: our kids that story, I didn't know that until the
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: season was over, but summer senior year when they would
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: all huddle up, remember? On three, they would say, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: you know, because it flows so easily. If you text me,
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what it is because it's like a beautiful,
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: like I had practiced it in my sleep. It's a
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: beautiful string of it. But they would say, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: they'd go, you know, da. And I was like, y'all
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: said that? Because it's such a funny thing, but it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: one of those things that when I was able to
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: release this phraseology of cuss words I was never allowed
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: to say, it felt amazing. It felt, like, amazing. And
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: then she died laughing, so that was, like, our thing.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: But I have the cross-stitch.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: And when did your parents find out?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, we were grown.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: They would have never, like that was a.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they were grown, but they thought it was hilarious.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: My favorite thing was to shock my mom.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Mom was the do-good.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: What was her worst word that she said?
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Devil.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Devil, devil, devil.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Devil, that was her D word.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Growing up, my dad would say, you dumb bunny.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that, that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: When he really wanted to cuss.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: And the kids were around. He would go, you dumb bunny.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's actually cute. My cuss word
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: on the tennis court was always sugar instead of the
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: other S-H. But I loved shocking my mom. So I
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: would say things as an adult to make her go,
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Terry Ann! Terry Ann! So we let her know about
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: a few things that we did in college.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: That's the kind of people you like. Funny and they're
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: fluent in cuss words. If you'd like to ask our
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com slash
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button. Terry Nettoville,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Kimberly Rillison, thank you so much. And coming up next
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: here on American Ground Radio, we are digging deep. Stick around.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
• 21:47
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• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Avalone and Stephen Parr. American Ground Radio. Planting Seeds. Growing Freedom.
• 22:04
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• 22:04
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• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to American Grand Radio. I'm Stephen Paul with
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Lewis R. Avalone.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: You know, I've got a question for you, and it's
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: one of those great theological questions that may have divided
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: more families than politics. And I say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: When exactly are you supposed to say the blessing before
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a meal? Now, some people say grace. Before a meal. No, no, no.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, though. Okay. But when you, like,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: you go into a Mexican restaurant.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: And they bring out the chips and salsa.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: And everybody just starts diving in.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: You know, do you stop everyone and you go, hold on,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: do you mind if I say the blessing? And, of course,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: it would be a Catholic blessing in my case. It
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: might be a different one, obviously, in yours.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I'll just make it up.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Okay. Well, that's fine.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: We just wing it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: But I'm just saying, at what point, like, I'm serious.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: You go in to a Mexican restaurant. They bring out
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: the chips and salsa. Everybody starts eating. Yeah. And then
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: they order. Then the food comes and you're like, hey,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: do you mind if I say grace or do you
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: mind if I say the blessing?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, you do it twice?
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: No, I'm saying when do you say it? Before everyone
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: starts eating, like the appetizers come, you say, hey, you
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: know what? Before we eat these fried calamari, which is
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: a great appetizer, by the way.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Kind of pricey, but I mean, it's nice. All right. Okay. Okay. But,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, if I had to choose an appetizer, beef
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: fried calamari. You know, it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Probably depends upon, you know, the conversation that's going on
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. But I would say certainly, probably
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: just before the meal. I mean, as the meal arrives,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: everybody's got their plate around them. That's probably when I
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: But you know what? I'll just say this.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's ever a wrong time to give thanks.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. You can do this anytime you want,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: and we're supposed to be praying without ceasing. We're supposed
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: to be constantly praying. So giving thanks, enter the gates
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: with thanksgiving. I'm fine with doing it anytime. And frankly, look,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: if somebody... Starts eating some chips and then goes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: We got to say grace before we eat the chips.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to be like, oh, well, you're a
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: blasphemer now.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: But you know what? When you really think about it,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: the greatest blessing at the dinner table, it's not really
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: what's on the table. It's who's around it. And how
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: often do we forget that? I mean, we're busy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: It depends on the Mexican food restaurant and the people
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: you're with. I'm just saying.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: It depends upon, I mean, sometimes like the company.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: How many margaritas you might have?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: No, like if you're at a really good Mexican restaurant
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: and you were some people that you're like, eh, they're okay.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I'm saying the best thing there is.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: You're going to dinner with.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Well, okay.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Sometimes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I know what you're thinking. But no, I'm just saying that,
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: you know, we're busy and we're distracted. We're constantly checking
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: our phones. And I know that's a big pet peeve
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: for a lot of folks, especially at dinner or breakfast
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: or whenever. We're thinking about tomorrow's problems. And, you know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: sometimes we just forget. I know I do, to appreciate
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: the extraordinary blessings... Inside our ordinary lives.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: No, I agree. Look, there's never a wrong time to
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: give thanks. And the more often you do it, the
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: happier you're going to be. Yes.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Whether there are margaritas involved or not.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Let's dig deep.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Working in a coal mine, going down, down, down.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Working in a coal mine. Well, on the ballot this
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: fall in several states are changes to local and state taxes.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And when you look at what kinds of changes are
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: up for votes in various states, you're going to see
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: a big difference in what the parties actually believe.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: So you got ballot initiatives where, you know, in some
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: states where you go, the constitutional amendment to do this.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And do you guys approve that? Gotcha. Right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: You got that. So I thought we'd go through because
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: there are several states that are proposing tax cuts.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: And they want the voters to pass these tax cuts.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Sure, sure.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And I thought maybe we'd look at some of these states, right?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Florida.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: In Florida, Amendment 3 asks the voters there to expand
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the homestead exemption up to $ 150, 000. So basically, if you've
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: got a house, let's say your house is worth $ 250, 000, right? Yes, yes.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: What this says is that you don't have to pay
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: property taxes on up to $ 150, 000 if this passes. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: that first $ 150, 000, you wouldn't have to pay any property
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: taxes on You'll only be paying property taxes on the
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: next $ 100, 000.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: But this is an increase in that homestead exemption?
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: In that exemption. The amount that you could.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Right, right, right.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: So it increased it now into 2027 and then up
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to $ 250, 000 in 2028. So a big time increase in
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the next two years in the property tax exemption.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: This is Texas?
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: This is Florida. Florida. So if you had a pretty
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: good size, small to moderate size house in Florida, you
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: might not pay any property tax on that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: So what's your takeaway there that Florida is trying to
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: attract more property owners.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And they're trying to cut down on the tax burden
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: on especially their low-income people.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: Okay. All right. Georgia.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Georgia will allow for bigger property tax exemptions for farmers, ranchers,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: and timberlands if that proposal gets passed.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Louisiana's got four different tax propositions that lowers taxes in
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: specific circumstances, some for, I believe, widows of armed forces
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and some other things like that. Oklahoma. They've got State
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Question 847. that would reduce the limits on how quickly
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: property values can increase. So say you've got property tax
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: and you've got an assessor, and people are moving to Oklahoma,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: so the value is going up. Well, this limits how
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: quickly the tax assessor can say your property is now
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: worth more, which would increase your taxes. So they're limiting
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: that tax increase. They're also putting an increased cap on
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the taxable assessments at 1.75% for farms and 4% for
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: other properties. North Carolina is proposing an income tax cut
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: from a cap of 7% down to a cap of 3.5%.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: You couldn't charge more than 3.5% income tax in North
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Carolina this past year.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Sure, sure. Well, it sounds like there's a movement afoot
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: here to let Americans keep more of their hard-earned money.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: In some places. Tennessee has a constitutional amendment preventing a
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: statewide property tax. Wyoming is proposing a cut to state
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: property taxes. So in many states, as you're talking about, again,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Wyoming down to Florida, you've got Oklahoma over to Tennessee.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You've got all across much of the country, we've got
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: places where we're saying, hey, we want to have lower taxes.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: We're going to let the voters decide whether you want
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: lower taxes or not.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: And that's one of the lower taxes is part of
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: economic freedom. Absolutely. That's one of the The main drivers,
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: in fact, that's the number one driver of why someone
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: will move, pack up all their belongings, move halfway across
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: the state or just across state lines is for economic freedom.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: So to the extent you can reduce that tax burden,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: it's a magnet.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: For people coming in. Now, on the other side, there
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: are a couple of states that are asking voters to
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: raise taxes. California wants the voters to take a temporary
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: income tax that was passed a couple of years ago
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and make that permanent.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: This is just for the rich.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: They're also proposing a one-time wealth tax on people with
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: a net worth over $ 1 billion. They're literally asking millions
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: of voters to punish 2%. 250 individuals for having too
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: much money. They want millions of people to say... These
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: 250 people have to pay more money.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Well, since they don't like them, I'm pretty sure many
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: of them will leave.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: They might, yeah. Colorado is asking— And have, by the way. True.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Some already have. Colorado is asking voters to increase taxes
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: on high-income earners in that state, too.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Okay. Now, I don't know if you— Sounds like socialism.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you followed all the details on this.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: All of the states that are asking people to raise
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: taxes this fall in ballot initiatives— Yeah. All of them
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: are run by Democrats. Democrat trifectas.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: They're all blue states.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Blue states. The Democrats have the governors. They've got the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: state Senate. They've got the state House. And they're asking
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: the people, we want you to vote for more taxes.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Almost all of the states proposing tax cuts are run
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: completely by Republicans, where the Republicans have the governor, the House,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and the Senate. The one state that's proposing tax cuts
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: that isn't all run Republican is North Carolina. North Carolina's
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: got split controls. The legislature, the House and the Senate,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: is run by Republicans in North Carolina, but the governor
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: is Democrats. But it was the legislature that proposed the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: ballot initiative to cut taxes. So it was the Republicans
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: who did that. Whether the Democrat governor won it or not,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: it was the legislature that proposed it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like it's hunting season on billionaires. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: I'm reminded of what Margaret Thatcher said. You know, the
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: other people's money. If you keep going after the rich...
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: and depleting or taxing them and keep confiscating their wealth,
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: eventually you're going to run out of their wealth. And
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: then what?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: But see, the Democrats are trying to raise taxes on
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: the rich while the Republicans are trying to cut taxes
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: for everybody. It's even the poor. I mean, that was
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: part of what Florida's doing is that it's the poor
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to middle class is going to pay less.
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• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I'm Stephen Paul with Lewis R.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Avalone. You know, we talked earlier, I mentioned earlier about
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: Christians being attacked all across the world. Sixty Christians murdered
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: in Ethiopia today. here just recently, 20 homes burned to
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: the ground, 14 killed on October 20th, another 46 slaughtered
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: just four days later. And here's what ought to trouble
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: every one of us. Church officials say they've already, you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: they had already warned authorities about the dangers facing Christian
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: communities in Africa. And they knew Christians were vulnerable. They
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: knew there were threats. And yet these families were left
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: exposed to this horrifying violence. You know, protecting Christians from
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: violence should not be a controversial proposition. If 60 people
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: were massacred inside an American shopping mall, I mean, we'd
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: have nonstop television coverage, presidential statements, congressional hearings, demands for accountability.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: And rightly so. But you have 60 Christians murdered in Ethiopia.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: And how many Americans have even heard about it? Why
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: does their suffering receive so little attention? Is it because
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: they're Christians? Is it because they're Africans? Have we simply
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: become so accustomed to religious persecution in certain parts of
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: the world that we're just not shocked by it? These
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: people were murdered because they were Christians. They were not
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: military soldiers. They were not engaged in protests. They were
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: going about their lives as Christians. And I just don't
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: understand why there is not more outrage. You know, religious
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: liberty isn't just a right to attend mass or church
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: services on Sunday. It's the right to live your faith
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: without fearing that someone will burn down your home or
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: murder your family. That is a fundamental human right. And
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: a government that cannot protect people from being murdered because
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: of their religious identity is failing at one of its
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: most basic human or governmental responsibilities.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a problem. And yeah, it makes us
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: want to look at bright spots.
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  Speaker 5: You like driving, right?
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: You like driving?
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: I do like driving. Yeah. I mean, I like getting
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: on the open road. I mean, I kind of got
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: burned out during law school driving back and forth from,
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: you know, the law school in New Orleans and my home.
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  Speaker 3: My idea of a good time is just getting on
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  Speaker 3: the road and going somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Just go. Just go.
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  Speaker 3: I love doing that.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't wear you out.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love it.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: My wife can't stand it, but I love doing it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: See, my wife loves to drive. Yeah. So I could
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: wind her up, put her in the driver's seat. We
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: could drive for hours, days.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: There's new data out that shows the safest way to
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: drive is to let Elon Musk do it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Now you're talking. Tesla. I can do this.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Tesla released data this week talking about the risk of
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: getting into a major collision while driving or riding in
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: their cars. Okay?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So what they're doing is they've measured the total number
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: of miles that you go and then how often you
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: get into a major accident. So miles per major collision.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: That's the data, right? How miles you go before there's
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: a major collision. The average U.S. driver, it's 660,000 miles, 164. 660,000,
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  Speaker 3: 164 miles before a major collision. All right?
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: I'm calculating in my head because I'm like, it ain't
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: going to be me.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Tesla's driven manually. So this is no active safety features.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: You're just driving the Tesla on your own. It's 845,915 miles.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: So just driving a Tesla somehow makes you a better driver,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: a safer driver than the average American. I think that's
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: pretty interesting. I wonder if there's some car brands where
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: people that are driving them are just safer drivers. Maybe
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Volvo's got a good stat there too. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, wait a minute. So if I'm driving the the
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Elon Musk car, is it being driven autonomously?
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  Speaker 3: No, this is just you doing the full driving, no
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: safety features on it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: So I'm sitting behind the wheel.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: You're sitting behind the wheel and already you can go,
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  Speaker 3: you know, another 200,000 miles before you get into a
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: major wreck than the average driver is doing in the US.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: So is it personality characteristics of someone that might buy
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: a Tesla? I don't know.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: But if now, if you go with the Tesla driven
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: manually with the active safety features on, so all the
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: bells and the whistles and the, oh, slow down.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: The seat vibrating when you change lanes.
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  Speaker 3: It's now 2,031,221 miles before a major collision.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: So you're able to drive about three and a half
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: times further with the active safety features engaged without getting
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: into a major collision. I think that's a bright spot.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, 100%.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: So the car's safer. It's telling you, hey, pay attention
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to this. But if you're doing the Tesla driven with
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: full driving, full SD.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Autonomous driving.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Full autonomous driving. Supervised. You have to be sitting in
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: the seat. You have to be watching and looking. Sure, sure.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: 6,006,200 miles before a major collision.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: I'm all about it. Let's go.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: It means you're more than nine times less likely to
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: get into a major wreck when Tesla's AI is driving
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: than when a human is driving another car. I think
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: that's incredible. And it is a real bright spot. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: it was the promise of full self-driving in the first place.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: It was the promise of AI. It was the promise
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: of automated driving in the cars that they would be,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: you know, back when they started doing this 20 years ago,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: that they would eventually be able to do a better
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: job of driving that distance than people would.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, they say it's even safer to fly.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: So once the cars... The autonomous driving cars start to fly,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: as we've already seen.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: As we've already seen.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Can you imagine?
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: The Elon Musk cars flying, flipping around, and doing stuff.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that would be pretty interesting. And by
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the way, there is a lot of autonomy in self-flying.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: In the planes, there's a lot of automation involved. in
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: flying and already.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: And I'm saying that.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: And even landing, though. But they've got now airplanes that
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: are landing on their own, too.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no. Full autopilot mode. No, I get it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Complete with parachutes. But, no, I know we're a long
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: ways from flying cars.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: But we're not that far away.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Not that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, Elon Musk just put one this week.
• 38:57
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• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Steve Pollard, Louis R.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Avalone.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: You know what really makes my blood boil? It's when
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: somebody in Washington looks at a successful American, somebody who's
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: worked hard, taken risks, sacrificed, created jobs, and essentially says,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: you know what? You didn't build that yourself. Are you
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: kidding me? You got this Congressman Ro Khanna, this loser.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. He is. And he is defending that wealth
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: tax you were talking about in California, that wealth tax
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: on billionaires, saying that, yeah, entrepreneurs, yeah, you worked hard. Yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: you're smart. But you know what? The government built the
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Internet for you. He says the government funded the Internet,
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: government funded AI, government funded universities so that you could
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: get an education. Well, congratulations, Congressman. You discovered that businesses
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: operate in a society. But here's what I'd like to know.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Who funded the government? Yeah. Where did that money come from,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Ro Khanna?
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: And look, the government did create some of the code
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: for the backbone of the internet, but it wasn't until
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: private companies like, oh, I don't know, Netscape, started putting
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: stuff on the internet that it actually became something that
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: was of any value to anyone else. It wasn't just
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: the government, it was the people doing it.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: It's just a shame that... You know, the American dream
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: was never supposed to mean that when you finally do succeed,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Washington gets to declare itself your silent partner. And that
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: it was because of them all along.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to say, whoa.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: When I say woe, I mean woe.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: There is a new memorial along the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: This week, the dedication ceremony was held for the new
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Desert Storm Desert Shield Memorial. The memorial is designed to
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: celebrate and honor the U.S. 's role in the liberation
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: of Kuwait in 1991 and the operations that followed to
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: protect the neighbors of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. National Park Service
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: describes the memorial as an oasis. set between two dune
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: forms rising out of the fabric of the surrounding National Mall.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Within the land formed two curving walls encircled a shaded grove.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: The sound of water bubbles from a source within these trees,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: unifying the space and creating a sanctuary. The wall features
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: a quote from President George H.W. Bush saying, We set
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: out to confront an enemy abroad and in the process
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: transformed a nation at home.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: You know what? He's absolutely right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.