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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: It's 7.06 at 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas wishing
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Speaker 1: everyone a very happy Friday Eve and welcoming back to
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Speaker 1: the 55KRC Morning Show, Congressman Warren Davidson. We have a
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Speaker 1: handful of good ones. Of course, Congressman Davidson is in
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Speaker 1: that category. Welcome back, sir. It's always a pleasure speaking
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Speaker 1: with you here on the 55KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, likewise, Brian. Happy Friday Eve to you.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, the media bias in Ohio could not be more
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Speaker 1: profoundly illustrated than the gubernatorial race and Whether you want
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Speaker 1: to comment on that or not remains to be seen.
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Speaker 1: I'll let you do that. But how's your campaign going,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson? You are up for reelection, and I presume
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Speaker 1: that the voters will do the right thing and vote
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Speaker 1: you back in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always been an honor to represent Ohio's 8th District.
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Speaker 3: And the lines move, I think, as I'm out talking
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Speaker 3: to people. A lot of folks in Hamilton County don't
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Speaker 3: realize where the lines have moved, so in the new map,
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Speaker 3: when you go vote, people on the east side will
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Speaker 3: be able to vote for Warren Davidson for the first
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Speaker 3: time this cycle, except Sharonville. We've had Sharonville on the
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Speaker 3: current map, but it goes all the way down to
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Speaker 3: Blue Ash, part of Indian Hill, part of Madeira, part
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Speaker 3: of Marymount. Sadly, we're going to lose part of the
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Speaker 3: west side, but hopefully that helps their Conroy defeat Greg Lansman,
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Speaker 3: and so we're excited about the prospect of More Republicans.
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Speaker 3: We have, as I say, I asked for your vote
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Speaker 3: and some reinforcements. So if you can vote for me,
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Speaker 3: please vote for me. If you can't, please send reinforcements.
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Speaker 3: And so hopefully we'll get some.
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Speaker 1: Do you perceive this midterm race as consequential as I
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Speaker 1: think many people do? Sort of like the future of
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Speaker 1: America seems to be at stake here. We're either going
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Speaker 1: to go full on socialist, moving toward communism, or we're
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Speaker 1: going to keep the republic that we've got here. But
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Speaker 1: do you believe this race to be as critical as
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Speaker 1: it's being made out to be?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about, you know, when
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Speaker 3: I first went to Joe Dieter's office when he was
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Speaker 3: Hamilton County prosecutor, of course now Justice Joe Dieter's at
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Speaker 3: the Ohio Supreme Court, he had a big plaque on
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Speaker 3: the wall, and it was a quote from Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
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Speaker 3: He was a colonel, led the 20th Maine in a
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Speaker 3: famous battle, a little round top. It was part of
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Speaker 3: the Battle of Gettysburg. And on the second day of
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Speaker 3: the battle, it was a three-day battle at Gettysburg.
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Speaker 2: Because it wasn't a two-day battle.
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Speaker 3: And the reason a two-day battle didn't happen is Chamberlain said,
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Speaker 3: if we lose this piece of ground, the whole army.
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Speaker 2: Will be rolled up and all will be lost. You know,
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Speaker 2: we must defend it to the last. And they did.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they lost a lot of people there. They
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Speaker 3: fixed bayonets. They charged down the hill. They beat off
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Speaker 3: the challengers, the Confederates that wanted to defeat them. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, when I say keep calm and defend freedom,
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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean it's not going to it's going to
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Speaker 3: be easy.
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Speaker 2: These guys fought heroically.
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Speaker 3: In a real physical battle in a war. But because
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Speaker 3: they held the ground, I mean, ground you won't defend,
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Speaker 3: you can't hold. They held the ground that day. You
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Speaker 3: got to the third day and the Union Army defeated
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Speaker 3: the Confederates up the middle. And from that point on,
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Speaker 3: the Confederates really stayed on the run.
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Speaker 2: That was the turning point in the war.
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Speaker 3: And I really feel like in our country right now,
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Speaker 3: if we can stay on offense right now and continue
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Speaker 3: to do the things that are already underway with this president,
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Speaker 3: this administration, we can build on that and continue making
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Speaker 3: America great again. But if we lose ground, I mean,
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Speaker 3: just remember what happened. I mean, the Inflation Reduction Act
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Speaker 3: was passed to fuel inflation, not to reduce inflation. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it turbocharged inflation. Inflation was 9% under Joe Biden. It's
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Speaker 3: going the right direction under this administration. The border was open,
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Speaker 3: and now we have a secure border. We're still dealing
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Speaker 3: with a lot of consequences of that. Crimes down, overdoses
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Speaker 3: are down, our cities are getting cleaned up, things are
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Speaker 3: going in the right direction. So, man, I just... It's
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Speaker 3: incredibly consequential in this election. So I hope people get
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Speaker 3: out and vote.
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Speaker 1: And you're out on the campaign trail. What are you
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Speaker 1: hearing from constituents? What are they worried about? Because I
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Speaker 1: know the price of gasoline is high, but I keep
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Speaker 1: going to the fact that it was higher under Biden
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Speaker 1: because of, like your Inflation Reduction Act point, all these
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Speaker 1: Green New Deal, these green energy policies were intended to
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Speaker 1: drive it up. The policies were designed to make it
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Speaker 1: more expensive. And I don't know why people have lost
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Speaker 1: sight of that. They seem to be. It's evil orange
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Speaker 1: man in this ridiculous war that's going on.
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Speaker 2: I get all that.
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Speaker 1: But That's temporary war created circumstances, which, of course, will
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Speaker 1: end at some point. But that that's dominated everybody's or
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Speaker 1: blurred everybody's vision in terms of what the reality is
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Speaker 1: in terms of policy. The left wing policies are only
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Speaker 1: going to exacerbate inflationary pressures and problems, expand the size
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Speaker 1: of government, which has failed us regularly. I just don't
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Speaker 1: know how people have lost sight of that bigger picture.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, do you feel that that's what's going on
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Speaker 1: out there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean, they.
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Speaker 3: Call it the K-shaped economy. For a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: things are going fine. But for a lot of folks,
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Speaker 3: you know, an extra buck or two at the pump
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Speaker 3: is really going to change a lot of things in life.
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Speaker 3: I will say housing prices are finally starting to move down.
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Speaker 3: Part of that's when you pull out all the illegals
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Speaker 3: that flooded our country and you keep building houses. Things
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Speaker 3: are going in the right direction in that. But there's still,
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Speaker 3: you know, gas and groceries. If it's a gas and
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Speaker 3: groceries election right now, they're upset. And Of course, the
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Speaker 3: controlled media is out there saying it's all Trump's fault
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Speaker 3: or it's all Republicans fault because they are in the majority.
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Speaker 3: And a lot of times that's the case. But let's
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Speaker 3: look at these guys are the wreckers. They're the ones
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Speaker 3: driving all this. You can't build a refinery to process.
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Speaker 3: You can't build more American energy under Democrats. They call
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Speaker 3: this a feature under the Green New Deal.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: They were going to shut down the Miami Fort power
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Speaker 3: plant because it runs on clean, beautiful coal right now.
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Speaker 3: And they were like, that's fine. We can convert it
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Speaker 3: to natural gas. Like, no, no, that's dirty. Naturally, you
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Speaker 3: don't want natural gas either. We just want solar and wind.
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Speaker 3: You know, this is this is what the Democrats want
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Speaker 3: to do.
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Speaker 2: This is the kind of nonsense. Sure.
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Speaker 3: Brown went there and voted for Greg Lansman votes for
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Speaker 3: all this stuff. They go out and seem like they're normal, regular.
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Speaker 3: You know, most of the people in Ohio that are Democrats,
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Speaker 3: they're not for the stuff that the crazy elected officials
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Speaker 3: vote for. They show voter ID.
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Speaker 2: They go vote.
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Speaker 3: They don't believe men are women and they're birthing people
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Speaker 3: instead of Mother's Day. They don't believe all that nonsense.
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Speaker 3: It's not partisan in a lot of these cases until
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Speaker 3: you call the votes. And electing these people, they want,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I just can't believe that the public would
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Speaker 3: seriously consider it. I think it's going to be interesting
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Speaker 3: to see whether the polls are more right or Kaoshi
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Speaker 3: and the prediction markets, you know, polymarket, all these prediction markets. See,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a foregone conclusion. Everything's like 70
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Speaker 3: percent or better. This is who's going to win this race.
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Speaker 3: And the prediction markets have confidence that, you know, Amy
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Speaker 3: Acton is going to be our next governor and Sherrod
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Speaker 3: Brown is going to be, you know, our next senator.
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Speaker 3: And Greg Lanzman is going to win. I like their
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Speaker 3: prediction on my race. I like that they think I'm
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Speaker 3: going to win. But I think the question is, are
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Speaker 3: the people going to go vote and change that outcome?
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Speaker 2: Polls are far less clear than the prediction markets.
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Speaker 1: I understand they've got a poor track record polls and
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Speaker 1: the way the dynamics have changed in terms of how
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Speaker 1: polling is conducted and the Republicans open unwillingness to participate
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Speaker 1: in them really just makes it virtually impossible, I've learned,
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Speaker 1: to get an accurate poll. But you've got a lot
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Speaker 1: of Democrats running around now talking about the Republicans stealing
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Speaker 1: the election. And more and more of them have chimed
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Speaker 1: in on that. So are But assuming that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you have a perception that the polls are wrong and
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Speaker 1: that maybe this blue wave does not happen, they're going
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Speaker 1: to run around screaming in the streets claiming that Trump
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Speaker 1: or somebody stole the election from them. Look what the
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Speaker 1: polls said. How is it possible the Republicans showed up
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Speaker 1: in all these numbers and actually win?
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Speaker 2: Well, they have a contingency plan for sure.
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Speaker 3: And look, I'll say like up north, not only do
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Speaker 3: they have Al-Sayed as a candidate for Senate in Michigan,
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Speaker 3: they have this Alyssa Slotkin. I mean, I guess she
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Speaker 3: was a former CIA officer. She was on the dark side.
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Speaker 3: You got Eric Conroy right here in Cincinnati. He's one
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Speaker 3: of the good guys. Slotkin's up there talking all about,
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Speaker 3: you know, basically planning for a coup and targeting anybody
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Speaker 3: that would dare work for a Republican. We're going to
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Speaker 3: ruin your life, basically. If we can't put you in jail,
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Speaker 3: we're going to make you unemployable. And that's the kind
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Speaker 3: of tactics these Democrats are using. And I say, look,
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Speaker 3: that's not the same kind of way a lot of
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Speaker 3: our friends and family members and neighbors do. But in
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Speaker 3: the power system, in our government right now, that's why
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Speaker 3: this is such a critic.
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Speaker 2: It's like the second day of Gettysburg. You've got to
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Speaker 2: hold this ground.
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Speaker 1: No question about it. I mean, draw a parallel. Look
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Speaker 1: what happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil. He had to get
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Speaker 1: out of the country because within a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: of Da Silva being claimed the victor in the election,
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Speaker 1: the government ordered him to give up his passport. He
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Speaker 1: was going to be prosecuted and locked up, so he
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Speaker 1: had to flee the country. This is what they do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at history. Congressman Davidson, hold on. I
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Speaker 1: want to find out what's going on in the lame
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Speaker 1: duck session. Will anything be accomplished between now and when
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Speaker 1: the new people get sworn in? 715 right now, 55KRC,
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Speaker 1: the talk station. Let me give you a fine word
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Speaker 1: with Congressman Warren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, I saw you were
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Speaker 1: speaking with the Association of Mature American Citizens the other
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Speaker 1: day out in Fairfield. I understand you fielded questions about
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Speaker 1: Social Security, among other topics. We have all been forewarned.
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Speaker 1: There seems to be no partisanship in connection with the
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Speaker 1: reports that Social Security is kind of going to have
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Speaker 1: run into a real problem a couple of years from
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Speaker 1: now with people taking like a 22%, 25% cut on
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Speaker 1: the monthly Social Security payment because it's an upside-down sort
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Speaker 1: of Ponzi scheme-like design program. It's not on a sustainable track,
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Speaker 1: and I've been hearing about this my entire life. Congressman Davidson,
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Speaker 1: we're at a point where something must be done Were
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Speaker 1: the seniors you were speaking with worried about that? And
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Speaker 1: how do you address that as a topic? Do you
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Speaker 1: think anything's going to be done? I know that's a
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Speaker 1: compound question.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's a, there's a lot there, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, our whole life we've known the math doesn't
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Speaker 3: really work out the right way.
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Speaker 2: And the current law recognizes it too.
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Speaker 3: In current law, it says in 2032, when payroll taxes
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Speaker 3: stopped fully covering the cost of social security, that we're
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Speaker 3: just going to cut it 20%. Well, we're not going
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Speaker 3: to cut it 20%.
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Speaker 2: And so but.
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Speaker 3: They still model it that way. The question is, are
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Speaker 3: we going to do anything about it? What I'm doing
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Speaker 3: is I continually offer an amendment. So when we could
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Speaker 3: do these cuts, like in July, I offered an amendment
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Speaker 3: that offered $ 4 trillion worth of cuts that we didn't
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Speaker 3: get a vote on. Unfortunately, it'd be about $ 400 billion
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Speaker 3: a year in cuts. And all that money would go
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Speaker 3: towards saving Social Security. And part of the reason that
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Speaker 3: we don't ever cut anything, you're like, oh, well.
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Speaker 2: That's a good cause. oh, yeah, well, that's a good cause, too.
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Speaker 3: Well, this isn't the greatest program, but we can't really
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Speaker 3: turn it off, you know.
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Speaker 1: But let me guess, none of those you're alluding to
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Speaker 1: have anything to do with the third rail of politics,
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Speaker 1: do they? No one's going to lose an election or
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Speaker 1: otherwise die as a consequence of those programs being cut.
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Speaker 2: Well, right.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, all nice things, but they've done away
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Speaker 3: with the whole concept of scarcity, right? So sure, let's
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Speaker 3: just print money and send that out. Let's just print
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Speaker 3: more money and do that. And inflation is a real tax.
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Speaker 3: That's what we're talking about in the affordability. If you
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Speaker 3: think of the economy as a 30-gallon barrel of regular
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Speaker 3: economy and you pull $ 5 trillion out in taxes, but
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Speaker 3: you dump $ 7 trillion back in in spending, well, of course,
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Speaker 3: the level rises. I mean, by design, you're creating inflation.
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Speaker 3: You're distorting the economy with all this excessive government spending.
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Speaker 3: But people start becoming very dependent upon it. And you're like, well,
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Speaker 3: what are we going to do about it? Well, some
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Speaker 3: of that stuff is more optional than others. When you
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Speaker 3: look at seniors, they can't respond to this. This has
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Speaker 3: never been a means-tested program. They stole part of every
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Speaker 3: paycheck that you've gotten. And I think it's a complete
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Speaker 3: responsibility of the federal government to honor that. Now, if
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Speaker 3: they want to make a different deal to people that
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Speaker 3: aren't even yet on payroll, they're in high school right
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Speaker 3: now instead of listening to the radio. And, you know, great.
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Speaker 3: They're not yet on payroll. They haven't started being made
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Speaker 3: the promises. But everybody else, you made the promise that
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Speaker 3: you give us some money now. We're going to manage
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Speaker 3: this poorly run retirement plan. But in your senior years,
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Speaker 3: we're going to have money for you. You have to
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Speaker 3: deliver on that or it's fraud. So I think we
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Speaker 3: have to protect it. And that's the amendment I continually do.
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Speaker 3: Because when you say, well, this is an OK idea. Well,
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Speaker 3: but is it better than saving Social Security? And that's
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Speaker 3: the framework I really want to get to so that
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Speaker 3: we restore the whole concept of scarcity. And that may
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Speaker 3: help us towards the balanced budget that is undermining the
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Speaker 3: whole problem. I mean, that is undermining so many of
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Speaker 3: our systems and wrecking our way of life. People are
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Speaker 3: fighting over all kinds of things, and the reality is
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Speaker 3: we're destroying the money.
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Speaker 1: Well, are the Democrats, and I'll just accuse the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: and I know a lot of Republicans are to blame
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Speaker 1: for refusing to cut any program. I'm sure in the
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Speaker 1: $ 4 trillion you proposed, there was a lot of Republican
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Speaker 1: turf on there, like, oh, you're not touching that business
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Speaker 1: in my state kind of crap. So everybody's guilty of this.
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Speaker 1: But is it a foregone conclusion? Has somebody had a
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Speaker 1: meeting in the back room, unbeknownst to the American people,
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Speaker 1: where they just have realized that we are on an
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Speaker 1: unsustainable trajectory and there's no way we can right the ship?
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Speaker 1: Our fiat currency is ultimately going to tank because of
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Speaker 1: this runaway printing of the printing press, runaway inflation is expected.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we are on that trajectory, and yet no
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Speaker 1: one seems to have this existential perception of it like
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people do get it.
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Speaker 3: But the question is, you're just like you're on the train,
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Speaker 3: but you're powerless to change the course of the train
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Speaker 3: or powerless to hit the brakes or anything else. You know,
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Speaker 3: Scott Besson had a good interview question recently. I think
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Speaker 3: he was talking to Brian Kilmeade. And, you know, he's
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Speaker 3: posing the same kind of question. And he said, well,
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Speaker 3: so far, every presidential election, people said, well, that's not
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Speaker 3: on my watch. So they put it off. Well, bad
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Speaker 3: news doesn't get better with time. It would have been responsible.
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Speaker 3: to take action really our whole lifetime, Brian. As we've said,
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Speaker 3: we've talked about every president our whole lifetime has known
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Speaker 3: this problem's coming. But in 2028, everyone who's on the
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Speaker 3: debate stage to run for president in 28 is going.
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Speaker 2: To say, well, it is going to be on your watch.
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Speaker 2: It is out there.
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Speaker 3: So his hope is that it's going to get attention
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Speaker 3: in the 2028 cycle. Now what's left unsaid is it's
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Speaker 3: probably not going to get a lot of attention before then.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Besson didn't frame it that way, but that's basically saying, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we're probably not going to do much about that now. Uh,
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Speaker 3: but in 2028, it's going to have to be answered.
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Speaker 2: And that doesn't give you as much, uh, runway. You
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Speaker 2: don't have as.
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Speaker 3: Many options because you're closer, you know, closer to the mountain.
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Speaker 3: If you want to bypass a mountain, you can turn
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Speaker 3: slightly when you're, you know, uh, 50 miles away, but
14:51
Speaker 3: when you're, uh, you know, 500 feet away, well, you're
14:54
Speaker 3: going to have to go all the way around the
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Speaker 3: whole mountain. It's a lot harder, uh, you know, turn
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Speaker 3: that you're going to have to make. And that that's
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Speaker 3: going to be hard for us, but we are going
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Speaker 3: to have to confront that challenge. And I think why
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Speaker 3: not start now with responsible spending cuts.
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Speaker 1: So you don't have to just tear the bandaid off
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Speaker 1: and experience all the pain at once.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Crazy idea.
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Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of times, uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have a friend who became a Christian way later
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Speaker 3: in life. Uh, and he's like, I think God will
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Speaker 3: bring you the easiest way you'll go. He said, my
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Speaker 3: way was pretty hard. I think a lot of times
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Speaker 3: reality is you've got to suffer a little bit before
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Speaker 3: you realize, oh, yeah, don't touch the hot stove. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I appreciate your comment about the, quote, unquote,
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Speaker 1: powerless to do anything. But, no, that's a choice that
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Speaker 1: every elected official has made. They do have the power
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Speaker 1: to right the fiscal ship that we are currently sinking in.
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Speaker 1: They just chose not to do it. just couldn't suffer
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Speaker 1: the political consequences of cutting some stupid program in their state,
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Speaker 1: regardless of political affiliation. Congressman Davidson, I wish you all
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Speaker 1: the best. I just truly hope that my listeners will
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Speaker 1: get out and vote for you and, of course, bring
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Speaker 1: friends with them that can vote Republican. We are in
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Speaker 1: the middle of a huge, huge election cycle here, which
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Speaker 1: may determine the fate and the future of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America. Congressman Davidson, I know you do everything
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Speaker 1: you can to salvage what we've got left, and hopefully
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Speaker 1: my listeners will turn out in large numbers at least
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Speaker 1: on or before Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well said.
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Speaker 3: Crawl, walk, run, ride, drive, but get to the polls
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Speaker 3: and bring a friend. God bless you and all your listeners, Brian.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.