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GOP’s risky midterm convention, fixing college sports, remembering 9/11 & an Emmys preview | Ep. 85 · Culture Brief - Christian perspectives on the week's biggest news, sports & pop-culture stories

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, I'm Connor Jones, now I'm Parker Jones, and this is Culture Reef, a Dinnison 4 and 5 cast where we navigate the constant stream of top stories and news, politics, sports, pop culture, technology, and so much more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We do it all from a crisp perspective as always, and Parker, I'm so glad to have you back on the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great, full to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great, uh, Parker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a loaded conversation today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot happening in culture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got political stuff happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got football stuff happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, you know, the return of the NFL is we're actually recording on Wednesday right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's there's a game tonight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oddly enough on a Wednesday, but then the whole weekend, man Thursday, Friday, if you go to Friday night lights Saturday, college football Monday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I skip the best day of all Sunday, go to church and then watch football all day on Sunday it's a great time to be alive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is I'm very grateful and when football is here that means hopefully soon enough cooler weather will go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not in Texas, you may not understand but we're still at 100 degrees on September 9th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which is crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What else are we going to be hit on today?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we've got a conversation about the mid-terms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Wild West of College Athletics right now There was a plane crash in Miami We need to talk about some anniversaries that are happening this week as well as The Emmys are coming up this weekend and like we already mentioned football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's jump into the brief
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we're only 54 days out from the midterm elections, which might feel kind of far away, but really, that's not that far away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the political world that is kind of an eternity, anything that happened every single day, every single hour in politics that could, you know, soar a candidate or take a candidate's chances, but one thing that is happening this week is what the Republican Party is calling a midterm convention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you're probably thinking what in the world is a midterm convention I think a lot of people are thinking that because it's never happened before we've never seen a midterm convention this is not a uh... we're not nominating a president there's no one getting nominated by either of the parties in the democrats are not actually doing convention just republicans um...
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[SPEAKER_00]: As you know, they're trying to capitalize on this moment where after Labor Day, a lot of people start to actually focus in on elections, summers over, you're going to see more ads, and more ads, just costs, especially as football kicks off, any game you tune into, there will be just political ads.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, galore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be local.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be governor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be senators.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a lot of ads coming your way or on your social media feeds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just get ready.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The next few weeks are going to be just a load of information on candidates, which is not a silly bad thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to learn about these candidates.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll hit on that in a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to capitalize just on this big moment of people finally maybe started to tune into what's going on and started to prep for who they might want to vote for here on November 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're Republican parties doing this convention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to see a parade of lawmakers, and candidates, and donors, and party officials from the Republican Party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: head here to Dallas actually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know why they chose Dallas when it's this hot outside, but nonetheless, they are on their way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Park, we were actually hanging out in the backyard at our parents, I'll say the day, and we saw one of the C 17's coming in that carries the presidential, just like motorcade and sacred service materials and equipment and preparation for presidential visit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's because Trump is coming in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually speaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both night to this convention, this convention is going to be on Wednesday, September 9th, which is what we're recording today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So by the time you're listening to this, that first night will absolutely have passed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trump will have spoken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know what he's going to talk about fully yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's supposed to be making a speech to support their public and party and candidates, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: but then thursday night will be another big night this will be uh... vice president bans will be speaking as the keynote address speaker as well as trump apparently doing another speech on thursday as well and closing this thing out uh... so that's kind of what's happening here they're doing this as a attempt to bring attention to a bunch of candidates who are running across the nation really for senate and congress
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[SPEAKER_00]: or really the House of Representatives there and they are running there and Trump is trying to take whatever weight he's got as the president and as just the central figure of the Republican Party and put it and boosts behind these people and the issues and policies they are facing Parker you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: we were talking about the sea that you were not even aware that this convention was happening right I think I had seen one or two headlines a while ago about the possibility of this but that the scheduling of it was kind of unique with the start of the NFL different things but that was that was it I didn't know the location I didn't know the purpose necessarily and so and I still don't feel like it's it's getting an immense amount of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I was reading some some reporting this morning from Politico and Axios and Wall Street Journal and stuff around this convention a lot of people were, uh, seeming to think that this is not hitting the mark the way that they were hoping it would.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, uh, this convention is kind of hastily put together in June.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when it was announced so that kind of already made them have to quickly schedule everything, try to find people to come speak, try to, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: organized this massive event at the American Airlines Center, which is the big arena in Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got a lack of awareness amongst voters just in general, and there's just frustrations within the Republican leadership that some people are actually opting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of these people who are running for
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, they're running their campaigns right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Racers are actually opting not to come to Dallas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, we don't want to be in this at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't need to be on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They need to be on the ground in their own states.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And or they're worried that being here is going to be a drag on them because of the unpopularity of leaders in their Republican Party, specifically Donald Trump himself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They would rather be at home campaigning and meeting with people in their own districts or states.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I totally get that too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One top Republican was quoted as saying,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and another one said my this is through Politico.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They reported this this morning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said or maybe she said my only hope is that no one watches it since it's competing versus NFL opening games and hopefully nobody notices this embarrassing show I don't think it will matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No one knows about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no enthusiasm and it's during football only DC people care
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a brutal assessment of what this is going to be if the ideas it's supposed to help in big rate voters and get them out the door, this is not a good prognosis ahead of time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they could be totally wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This could end up being a huge hit and a lot of people tune in or went up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as you made the point a second ago and as others have made the point, there's a bunch of other Republican operatives who according to Axios are privately incredulous that a convention designed to draw attention to the party's fall candidates was scheduled opposite of the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and they fear the party will struggle to persuade voters to choose politics over football, particularly men who powered President Trump's 2024 comeback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would tend to agree with that assessment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to guess more people will choose football or Netflix or YouTube over a political rally in the middle of September on a non-presidential election here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if I am the target voter that they're looking for, then yeah, I have other things to do Wednesday and Thursday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... yeah i agree partner you were gonna charge so you you'll be busy on a was a night but for many americans you know it will be a work or whatever it is or yeah they're gonna choose the c-hawks versus patriots or the rams versus forty-nineers over watching Donald Trump or jade events or some of these uh... cabinet secretaries are congressional candidates
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[SPEAKER_00]: do speeches like it's just it seems like a no-brainer there so I'm shocked that they plan it that way the it gets to a broader question though this whole convention is should the Republican party be worried or should maybe the Democrat party be worried they're not even hosting one of these do they have their own concerns uh
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[SPEAKER_00]: just to clarify, both parties are suffering from favorability ratings that are pretty poor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're neither one popular and now voters feel that Democrats, airbloggers are both just disconnected from their lived realities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you feel this way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't feel like you're being seen or heard by people in power in DC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't blame you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's always been a problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just in today's environment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People always felt that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That disconnect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, we've mentioned here on this podcast,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you're probably thinking it too that the primary concern of the majority of us and voter just American general is the economy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cost of living is so hard for so many people right now and that's a problem that many you know Republicans are recognizing and they're saying that the president and this White House are not really addressing well they're distracted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not focused on trying to solve the economic problems that Americans are feeling but maybe not
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[SPEAKER_00]: and they've had control the Republican Party has had control of the oval office, the house, and the Senate for the last year and a half plus, as well as really the Supreme Court.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, it doesn't feel like anybody is assessing that their economic situation has gotten better other than you could point to what a lot of people feel is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the tech bros are getting richer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Wall Street guys are getting richer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All of that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the average American is struggling as prices increase as groceries increase as gas increases.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All this stuff, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And some just feel that the president himself is a drag on the party ticket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His approval rating has hit an all-time low of 32%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just actually really low in 68% of voters say he's not focused enough on the problem's most American space, which is what we just talked about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel that way too, Parker?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's a, and this may not just be with Trump.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This could have been, you could feel this way about how Biden was as president or just, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, leaders in general and politics, they feel, Americans feel disconnected.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lack of awareness from politicians as to what people are actually in need of, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, I think a lot of times, and this is true in both parties and just politics in general, the things that are focused on in DC are vastly different than the things that people want the focus to be on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we see that with a variety of things, whether it's the changing names of bodies of water or whatever it might be, that doesn't help the average American.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't mean that thing in of itself is a bad thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it feels like a distraction from where the problem really lies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, and if you, if there are successes that the Republican Party has pulled off, they're not doing a great job of advertising that because there are so many distractions, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so just listen to this from Axios, they were kind of giving a summary of everything with polling that they're reading and research they're doing and quotes that came from operatives and DC.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, read the polls, watch economic indicators, and talk to President Trump's inner circle on private, and the verdict on his second term seems clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even some longtime insiders fear he's trapped by a war, and he shouldn't have waged.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Terriffs that he shouldn't have levied, and monuments that he shouldn't be obsessed with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So everything you just said they're part of that's that's kind of the Republican party concerns right now, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then the Democrats have their own concerns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are marred by the unpopularity of Biden still like that is still a drag on their ticket of what happened in those last few years Before Trump came in and everything with trying to pull together a lasting and primary and the just what felt like a cover-up of Biden's Mental Accuity all of that stuff, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're kind of why by that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're also marred by past statements that can be considered super woke
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, something that a lot of Democrats are having to kind of backtrack and find ways to, you know, say, well, I didn't really mean that when they said something that feels extreme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's also kind of a general lack of concern about immigration on the, the Democrat party side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that is the one factor that people who don't even find Trump to be popular or they, they may not agree with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They do agree that he has handled immigration well for the most part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not everything with ice and all that, but in terms of starting down the border.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, the Democrat party still needs kind of an answer to that, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they currently lack the Democrats a central figure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not something the Republicans have a problem with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trump is that central figure and seem to have a successor in either like a J.D.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bands or Marco Rubio.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's not this person and the Democrat party aside from you could say maybe like the Clinton's or Obama, which are just past presidents and wife there,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they're kind of out of the scene out there out of the picture, they're not really involved in politics the way they could be or used to be, but they are, you know, people looked at them for guidance for the party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they need somebody to step up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a problem that Democrats have currently, but maybe they will find an answer in the not too distant future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you as sure 2028, the presidential election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They will help them find the right type of figure, but they don't have that right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so that's just kind of an overview of what's going on with the two parties, but what do you need to know about the congressional majorities headed into this next month and a half right headed into these elections?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What does each party try to do here?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, as I said, there are Republicans host the majority in the Senate and the House.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They also have the White House, so they won't be losing the White House over the next years, but they are certainly at risk of losing both the House and the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and there are some very close
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[SPEAKER_00]: primaries that have happened there are some very close polling numbers showing that there's a good chance Republicans lose their majorities and maybe both legislative houses here but potentially at least one for sure more than likely the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now the Senate has 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats so the Democrats need to flip four seats there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a three is not enough that would just simply provide a 50 50 split down the middle of the Senate, but the tiebreaker is always going to be the vice president, which is JD Vance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the Republicans would have a 51 to 50 majority there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be very tight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be very close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you had any Republican string off and say, I'm not going to vote with that legislation, that would be a problem for their Republicans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To pull that off, the Democrats wouldn't need to flip seats in Republican-friendly states like Alaska or Maine or Ohio or Texas, but polling right now actually shows that the Democrat candidates in all four of those states have slight leads.
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[SPEAKER_00]: they have a chance there, and the House Republicans have a very slim majority and they have for the last two years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This part of why legislation continues to get just stalemated in Congress because it takes just a couple of Republicans either not able to vote or choosing not to vote with the majority of the party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to stall legislation there, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have 218 seats, Democrats currently have 2112, but there is one independent and there are four vacant seats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the Democrats need a net gain of three seats to get back that majority, which would then kick out Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, he would no longer be in power there, as the Speaker of the Democrats would come in power, probably Hakeen Jeffries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So should the Democrats gain the majority in both houses?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't expect them to probably do a few things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One, they're going to hold Trump's policies and his agenda hostage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not got to let anything go through that they can prevent, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that would make Trump basically a very lame duck president for the next two years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would not be able to get through as much as he's been able to push through the last couple years here with a Republican majority.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then they would honestly probably seek to beat him again potentially on like corruption charges over some of the private dealings he's done in the background of his presidency.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would have been sure to guess they would attempt that but we'll see that's also been unpopular in the past for them to on occasion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it would make Trump less powerful most likely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is what they are hoping for in the Democrats Republicans are obviously hoping to continue to keep them
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Christians, how should we approach these midterms?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just did kind of an information dump there, but now you're probably thinking,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, should I go vote?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's my part in this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What should I be anxious about this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Should I be worried, should I, what should I do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have to stick to biblical principles and truths and personal convictions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, also really, you got a remain kind of open-minded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy to be very close-minded when it comes to politics, but stay kind of open-minded here, arguments here, different,
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[SPEAKER_00]: conversations, maybe debates, and engaging conversation with your peers, your friends, your family, your coworkers, whatever it is, and try to understand different perspectives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there are topics, so where we've got hard-line senses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to fear away from our hard-line stance on abortion, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is very clear in scripture with that hard-line stance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there are others as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God's laid out some of those clear guidelines for us in scripture related to some of those
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[SPEAKER_00]: status, but not everything is extremely clear in the Bible, and the Bible is not talking about some of the things we discussed today, and we've talked about the AI data centers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not laid out in scripture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So how do you approach that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's like I'm saying, go, go try to engage in conversations through research, read what candidates are actually saying, don't just get a 30 second ad to tell you what a candidate thinks or wants you to know or an attack ad for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are always going to be
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[SPEAKER_00]: very skewed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They know that that's most likely what voters will see and that's all they're going to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage you to go check out policies, go read their websites, go online, go actually read articles that they've been a part of an interview or watch their interviews on YouTube or on podcast or whatever it is and learn what a candidate is actually all about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then that will help you determine, is this person in line with the way I see the world, my Christian worldview?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They may not be fully in line, especially if they don't have a faith,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, moral stances there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I, you know, I would encourage us all to go vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Parker, we've had this discussion like, personally, I believe it's such a beautiful right that we have to vote so much of the world does not get this right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're blessed to live in this democracy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you've got the opportunity to vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage you to educate yourself before you go vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then yeah, if you are able to,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go vote, go use your voice, Christians, we should use our voices.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is an opportunity for us to make an impact on our government, which is really cool that we've got that possibility and opportunity to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We live in a free country, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: But ultimately, we're
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[SPEAKER_00]: 5-1, remind us that our freedom is found in Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't forget that, first and foremost, that we will always point back to Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can't put our hope in politicians, we can't put our hopes in a Republican party, a Democrat party, an independent, a libertarian party, whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always in Jesus, but we do have the opportunity to be educated to understand the stakes of what's coming down the line and to understand what a candidate is going to want to do or not want to do and where that line is up with your personal convictions and with Scripture.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was just going to add to that that I think scripture gives us a command and Jeremiah 29-4-7 to seek the welfare of our community and the scripture kind of refers to believers to Christians as exiles in a foreign land and that's what
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Jeremiah 29.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what where Israel is there in Babylon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have been exile, but God commands them, even though they're only going to be there temporarily to build houses and plant gardens and seek the welfare of their community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we have that same command today and engaging in politics is one of the ways in which we can accomplish that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a really good point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Parker, great trip to reference there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh yeah just take that uh as you will and pray about your next few weeks here next few months as you start to get ready for midterms and as you start to see the anxiety bubble up in the American populist because that's just part of what comes with elections uh just pray for our country pray for our leadership and pray that um you know God would just lead us into the next generation of whatever it is with these politicians next generation of hopefully um joy and freedom
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[SPEAKER_00]: Prosperity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Parker.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's dive into some college fool talks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there there actually is a tie in here because we are going to talk about college football and college athletics, but very much in a way where the government is intervening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a political aspect to this too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: College football has just kicked off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just had our full first full weekend of college football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were a lot of great games and interesting things and confusing endings to games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: power outages at Florida State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Western Michigan one by the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they did, but regardless, I think some of the the bigger story lines and college football right now are off the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what's happening in the games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's what's happening behind the scenes and whether that is the protect college sports act, which is what we're going to talk about now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: or the confusion with NFL players, potentially heading back to college and everything that happened with LSU this week and it seems like maybe cooler heads are prevailing in that dispute, but even that is something that
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... probably would not have come about the the conflict between lsu and the southeastern conference and and and and the role of NFL players coming back to college would not come about if the protect college sports act was in place so what is the protect college sports act this is a bipartisan legislation that is being primarily the faces of it are uh... mary account well democratic sender from watching ten tech crews republican sender from taxes
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[SPEAKER_01]: from Missouri.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These are the three that have kind of been the face of this bill and the purpose of it is to restore college athletics to kind of a different era.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think for a lot of us, if you grew up watching college football or college basketball in particular, there was an authenticity that came with the college level, the amateur level that didn't
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[SPEAKER_01]: and still does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But at the college level, there was something to say for its authenticity, the fact that it felt attainable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that it was a place where hard work really would pay off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And guys, we're fighting for the next level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But now, college athletics doesn't feel all that different than professional sports in the way that money wins out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, in some sense, college athletics is actually worse because there's no guardrails.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no regulation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no collective bargaining.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's the rules and processes and systems that are in place at the professional level
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[SPEAKER_01]: do not exist at the collegiate level, but the money is still there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The money is flowing into the sport at rapid rates.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of it through private equity, but a lot of it is happening through TV deals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So especially in college football, Fox and ESPN are the networks that are in some sense controlling the future of the sport.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are responsible for
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[SPEAKER_01]: according teams, programs, universities to move conferences and they're responsible for the direction of the playoff and they are responsible for so much of the decision making that happens day to day because they're the ones that are funneling the money in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then alongside that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: is a huge factor that didn't exist just a few years ago, and I think on the surface in I.L.
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[SPEAKER_01]: is a good thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Players can be compensated for the value that they bring to a university.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're no longer going to go unpaid while also being responsible for ticket sales, merch sales, etc.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's been unregulated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we went from players get nothing in the pendulum swung to these college athletes are getting paid more than they would with a rookie contract at the professional level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's an extreme change.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the transfer portal is another unregulated area where guys will end up at five schools in five years rather than staying committed in loyal to a specific university.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that alongside chaos and coaching care cell, the most kind of popular or infamous name in college sports right now is Lane Kiffin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He left Ole Miss in the middle of the season last year in the midst of a playoff run to go take another job, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's chaos too, and there's a domino effect that follows it every time a major coach like that moves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the destruction of regionality is another thing as these conferences have kind of morphed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They no longer look like they used to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's no longer regional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure this is all of these are things that are noticeable to you as you engage my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of the country's noticing this, and I feel for that, some of these athletes too, the destruction of regionality is so prevalent when you see players at UCLA having travel across the country to play Ohio State, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that Rutgers Rutgers, and then they have to be in class the next day, like it's insane, and it also is tough for fans too, who would like to travel around to other games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nonetheless, it seems like some of the big problems here, Parker, or what you're noting, there's a lack of a single authority.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a, there's no, the NCAA used to be this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They can't enforce their rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They no longer have really the ability to enforce the rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's now just conferences that are doing their own thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're all making their own deals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're all trying to make their own rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's no central authority complex, which also means there's no central union for the players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is what you're saying about the
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[SPEAKER_00]: has the league that dictates everything that happened to it has the ability to punish players it has the ability to suspend it has the ability to find to create new rules to delete rules to punish referees, whatever it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not that in college sports and then the players just don't have a union.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have the ability to work together to find things that are fair for them and so then you've got these agents that are taking advantage of them and their families as they try to make a couple million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're also giving
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[SPEAKER_00]: there's always one thing when you give it to 22 year olds entering a professional league now 18 is insane a while they're in college and then you're you're also in an era where these kids are not choosing schools because they want to they want to go to that school which to your authenticity point that was a huge part of the authenticity you chose the University of Oklahoma because you wanted to play football for the sooners right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or for the longhorns at Texas like and it was ingrained in your blood and you grew up on it and go there and the coaches said we want you here and we're recruiting you straight out of high school and you're going to come play here for four years and you may be a starter by your second year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gone are those days now it's just who's going to pay me the most and I will jump between schools each year until I make as much money as I want and then maybe I'll go to the NFL but most will not but they'll still make a good amount of money and so that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: situation where you got players who were like, well, I didn't make a team in the NFL, so I think I could go back to college and play at LSU and make a lot of money there, more money than I'll make trying to make it, you know, trying to score a spot on a roster in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so all of this, all the tension is felt all across college athletics, and it feels like a bubble that's going to burst in a sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Congress is trying to step in, and government intervention is not something that most of the folks in college athletics ever desired, but many of them feel like now they need it, and the NCAA feels like they need it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the Protect College Sports Act,
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[SPEAKER_01]: is supposedly the solution and really this bill, the part of the goal of it is to give NCAA anti trust exemptions that would allow them to actually enforce their rules because a lot of times NCAA will create a rule and then
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[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody goes, somebody sue the NCAA, they go to court, they sue the NCAA, they win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They get an injunction at temporary injunction or whatever that allows them to circumvent that rule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen this happen several times this year already.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Congress was able to grant the NCAA an anti-trust exemption much like the professional leagues have, then NCAA would have more power, more central authority to govern the sport in a way where they can actually enforce their rules.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the bill would also enshrine permanently and legitimize name image and likeness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, it would provide
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[SPEAKER_01]: guardrails for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would ensure that it doesn't go away, but it would provide guardrails that would legitimize the money that's coming in rather than it being some of these kind of shady background deals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would actually protect players against agents, many of whom are taking advantage of players that are naive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there is an effective compensation cap or salary-like cap that
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[SPEAKER_01]: The transfer portal would be regulated at athletes would get one free transfer one penalty free transfer beyond that they would have to city year, which was the old rule that you have to always do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now you can transfer once without penalty, but a second transfer would you'd have to pay a penalty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there would be calendar adjustments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the biggest things for college football that's a problem is the coaching care cell and the transfer portal, all that stuff opens up before the season ends and that has a lot to do with the academic calendar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because college football, the season, the playoffs go deep into January and the next semesters already started and so this,
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[SPEAKER_01]: bill would adjust that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the bill, the purpose of it is to restore that trust and authenticity and bring about guardrails to the Wild West of college athletics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I would
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's interesting to point out some of the voices behind this Nick Saben, the greatest coach in college football history, is endorsing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: aspect of this what is the likelihood that this bill can pass well the Senate uh... is supposed to take this bill to a vote on the floor later this month that perhaps next week uh... but conveniently there's a problem conveniently the house has decided to take their extended recess starting next week and so basically the house is out of work
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[SPEAKER_00]: until after the midterm elections so they can go campaign which is bizarre that they just got off their one month recess their summer recess in August came back for like a week and a half and now they're back and or they're not back there they they all went back home so this bill is stuck other legislation stuck as well but a lot of people in waiting for this one well in in the Senate should have found a way to to
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[SPEAKER_01]: vote on this back in July, and they failed to do so before their recess.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so all that to say, the Senate may vote on this next week, but the House probably won't see it until least mid-November.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the president has expressed his desire to sign this bill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so because it's bipartisan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It does seem like there's a good chance, at least in the Senate, it will pass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the House, it's uncertain, especially since every mid-term election, there's a lot of turnover in the House.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't really know what a vote in the House would look like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted what the pushback would be, like why would anybody not want to vote for this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like it's going to clean up a big mess, other than it, some could say maybe it's government overreaches, isn't there space that Congress shouldn't be in
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, some would say that I think there's also some some voices such as former head football Auburn head football coach Tommy Tubberville.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That he would argue that he would argue that the bill is too far reaching in that maybe it goes beyond the scope of where the government should be involved or beyond the scope of what's actually enforceable and that the bill would
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[SPEAKER_01]: be at risk of in the courts, because it's so broad in that they should just take a narrower path.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there are some, everybody sees the need for the reform, but some would argue to take one thing at a time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just go after the NIL stuff, or let's just go after the transfer portal stuff, or the salary cap, but not do everything at once.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the bill is very loaded.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But here's what I would say is that this bill, I think, if it passed, it would push back against two of the things, two of the sins of our culture that have overtaken every facet of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One is greed, and I think greed would still certainly exist, but the access to unlimited money
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[SPEAKER_01]: would would be limited by this bill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The college sports would be still in a sense money driven.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but I think a lot of the greed that is making decisions now would would disappear because some of the decisions wouldn't even be allowed to be made anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the second is instant gratification.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is I think the great sin of our culture is the constant need for instant access to everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that leads to indulgence, that leads to greed, that leads to pride and selfishness, and it leads to disloyalty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is one of the items that we see now with the transfer portal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That instant gratification is, it's destroyed commitment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where instant gratification it persists, commitment loses its meaning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think of the story and the book of Genesis of Isaac's sons, Jacob and I saw, and I saw what does he do?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He falls to the sin of instant gratification and he throws away his blessings, his inheritance, his birthright for a bowl of soup because he's hungry in a moment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and that is a tendency in our culture today is to lose the blessings that come with virtue and commitment and selflessness.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's always a cost when we choose instant gratification over those things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so in our own lives, I believe we must choose the blessings and frankly, the internal satisfaction that comes with Christ over the temporary passions of greed and gratification.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's super true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our culture loves instant gratification.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm guilty of this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's part of what makes us addicted to our phones.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That scroll is an instant gratification.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a former fashion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's an example.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, everything you're saying about the college sports and just the landscape that's become, hopefully it does get cleaned up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully this bill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is the first step in a direction towards cleaning up because it is chaotic out there which is impacting a lot of students and families some of you may have student athletes who are impacted by this and maybe you disagree with some of what's in the bill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to hear that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell us what it is in the bill that you think is not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you don't like the idea of having a cap on salaries or on transfer portal information or like how often you can transfer right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be interested to hear the arguments against that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, let us know your thoughts on that bill, the perspective bill, Parker, thanks for that breakdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Parker also wrote an article on it, a couple of weeks ago for us here at Dynaston Form.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can find that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, a lot of what you just mentioned, but you added some additional context in there as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great, thanks, Parker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's check in real fast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is a cargo plane crash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Amazon cargo plane crash in Miami this past Sunday really unfortunate because it led to the deaths of five people which might sound odd if you haven't seen the images.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may be questioning like how a cargo plane could have killed that many people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're usually just two pilots and that was true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just two pilots on board and both pilots were okay but this plane was a Boeing 767 pretty large aircraft.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that over ran the runway at Miami's airport and then went through a fence and then into a road and took out a few vehicles including a van loaded with seven people in five of those people were killed unfortunately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also hit another car as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that driver was injured but
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[SPEAKER_00]: on his way to recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just really unfortunate and just another reminder, man, you just never know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about this before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a weird couple years in American aviation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've had several massive accidents in the last year and a half really since 2025.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always interesting to me because plane crashes are not common, but when they do happen, it makes extreme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know news and hits your social media hit your phone hits the news channels everything because it's like whoa this isn't supposed to happen and it always looks odd when you see a plane not in a place that's supposed to be not in a position that's supposed to be in it's on fire it's just a stark image that you don't forget so be praying for those families and always forget or always remember you just don't know what the last second could be and you got to be just always aware that
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[SPEAKER_00]: you need to be connected to the God every moment that you got and pushing people towards the gospel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of remembering, this week is the anniversary, well today, if you're listening to this on Thursday is the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, one year anniversary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we think back to that from a year ago and what a tragic event and
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[SPEAKER_01]: moment for our culture to kind of, everybody, everything stopped for for a couple of days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It felt like and it was just absolutely shocking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then of course, Friday is the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so 25 years, a quarter century since 9-11 took place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think for a lot of people that's going to feel like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: time has passed very quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, time has passed very quickly, but also you know I think a lot of people who
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[SPEAKER_00]: you've got a stark memory of that day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to forgive with that day felt like you're not going to forget what happened that day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, whether you were far away or you were on the ground, you don't forget obviously people on the ground there and you survived that have a whole different experience and a whole different set of memories and everything and I was I recently had a conversation with a 911 survivor and it's it's it's it's real it's raw but even for everybody else the majority of us who you know I was
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[SPEAKER_00]: five years old, and I still remember seeing the towers on fire on my TV before I had it off to school, because my parents just weren't sure what was going on yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously later on, learn that stuff, a part of you were a baby, and there's a whole generation of people who have grown up in a post-9 to 11-world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They may not even remember not just that day, but really what the world was like before that, and it's just shifted everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So over 25 years, the cultural shifts,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The wars that came about from this, the change in our entire society of security and paranoia, all of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very interesting to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, we continue to honor the families who lost their loved ones and obviously the heroes of that day who gave it all, gave everything to go save other lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the people who even survived who risked it all and are able to still tell their stories what a blessing that is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But man, so many incredible stories of courage
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's tune in a few things here, just so you all are aware, the Emmys are this, they're actually not this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're on Monday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, why are we, why are we putting things against NFL football?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna put the Emmys against NFL Monday night football seems like a bad idea.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would argue those two have very different audiences.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They probably do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is an overlap and you might be the only overlap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most people are picking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would watch the Emmys if there was no football on but I will choose football over the Emmys And I'll just catch who won the awards and some clips from the Emmys later on, but I'm always interested in it I'm a big you know, I love great television I really do obviously some of the Emmys are gonna go to like silly shows or documentaries or or Journalistic shows and all that too, but I did one point at the foremost nominated shows of this year are The pit from HBO Max hacks from HBO Max
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[SPEAKER_00]: Windows Bay from Apple TV and Pluribus from Apple TV Parker to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you seen any of those shows?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have seen some of the pit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I look, I've got a toddler in a baby and we don't get to sit down and watch much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I watch TV.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm watching, if I'm sitting down for TV, it's probably live sport.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Life's worth really a your Star Wars show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I got you know again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll watch and or Andor is great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will say the pit is still I think it's probably the best show until a vision So I'm not surprised that it's got this many many nominations and widows bay was like the shocker of the year came out of nowhere It seems like so much of the country watch that Great show just a fun kind of comical show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that So tune into the emis if you're interested or just catch who wins Parker I know there's a big college ball game you wanted to mention
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[SPEAKER_01]: yeah well week two of college football there's actually a lot of week one didn't have all the marquee matchups week two has a lot but the big one is Ohio State and Texas Ohio State is traveling too Austin they're the number one team in the country Texas is number four and so yeah to have a top five matchup and in
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... this early in the season is is abnormal uh... we did have it last year and oh i'll stay came out on top and in this game last year so just so uh... blockbuster game one of the the most important games of the entire seats couple guys on those seems to be that are heisman
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[SPEAKER_00]: favorites as well as potential in a first round draft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, certainly archmaning is the name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People are going to talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy Smith, the wide receiver to Ohio State is is maybe the most electric player in college football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both of those guys will probably be in the NFL next year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unless they decide to go to the NFL and then come back to college and try that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, it is NFL opening weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, as we previously mentioned by the time you're listening to this, we will know that the result of the seahawks and patriots, which is exciting, because they are playing Wednesday night, and this is told me off, Wednesday night, and then Rams are 49ers playing in Australia of all places.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Melbourne, Australia, they have traveled all the way across the world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they both took different strategies there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Rams went like a, know, the 49ers went a week ahead to just to the time there in Australia and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Rams were like, we're doing a different strategy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're flying in, going straight to the stadium, and we're right afterwards, flying back home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're not even spending time and I'll show you outside of the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to try sports science here, see which one gets the better, you know, situation for their bodies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be exciting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, full weekend of football excited for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I most pumped Parker for our Dallas Cowboys kicking us off on Sunday and I football against the Giants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go Cowboys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can do it this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't seem to believe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe when I see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will watch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I tend to agree, but I keep them at arm wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe this year, I feel much better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Monday night, you know, his appointment television got chiefs of Broncos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Parker, I just want to end us off with a question here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have a favorite NFL theme song?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Fox Fox Fox.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, when that kicks on and it's like Kevin Berkart and Tom Brady coming on, or it used to be Troy, I'm going to Joe Buck.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Fox is my favorite NBC is the nostalgic one for me, because that was like as a kid that met the weekend was over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was like you got three last hours of the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, oh, we're gonna have a great time Watching the Bengals play the Ravens on Sunday night football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, something I football is my favorite or Monday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just love them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're great And so just nostalgic thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So love to hear those songs everybody enjoy your week and weekend and you know We'll see what comes out of this Republican midterm convention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what comes out of college sports act and everything else going on in culture.
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