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One Leg Up With Richard V. Battle and Alex Garrett on the AmeriCANS vs AmeriCANTS 5-24-23 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, and welcome inside to this
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edition of the Alex Garrett Podcast. Network told you it's been a busy week,
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and right now during that busy week once again is Richard v. Battle.
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Richard, I've had you in a little a while ago already, but
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welcome back to the podcast. Alex. It's great to be with you again,
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and thanks for having me. You've got a new project that you're talking
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about, but let me catch up with you for a bit. Tell me
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what's going on with your life since we last talked. Well, I've been
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busy. I think I've put out two or three books, and all from
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the pandemic forward have been positive, motivational type books, trying to encourage people
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in this world that we're in now. Because the media and what's going on
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in Washington is so discouraging to everybody. I think it's critical to encourage people,
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help them see what they can and do despite these things that may depress
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them. Well, we last had John, I believe, for Navigating Life's
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Journey, which was just a few years ago. Right even now, you've
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got a new book out called Meet America. Meeting America by Americans, not
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Americans and give us a little intent into the book and something special going on
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this month. Well, thank you for asking. And So I was sick
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and tired a couple of years ago with people trashing the country, the political
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discourse, all the riots in the streets, people trying to erase history and
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pull down statues, and a lot of people have never been outside the country
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and they don't realize what a great country we live in. And so I
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wanted to inspire people. And the American do spirit started with the Pilgrims,
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and every generation up to this point has had that America can do spirit to
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overcome things and make things happen. Our political leaders on both sides of the
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aisle used to inspire people of what they could do and inspire people to pursue
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their dreams. John F. Kennedy ask not what the country can do for
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you, ask what you can do for your country. Ronald Reagan inspiring people.
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He always made me feel as if he was speaking directly to me.
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And so I have inspirational stories of people who have achieved a couple of hundred
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stories. It's a collection of essays there's can do and how to steps for
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people that can get involved and pursue their dreams. I tell people that none
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of us can do everything we want to improve what's going on around us,
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but all of us can do one thing. And so I encourage people find
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one thing you're interested in, school board, city, county, something,
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and get involved and help out on that. Enough of us do that in
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enough different things, and we will make major impacts from the country. Let's
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tell my parents, because I know you're passionate about that. And by the
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way, you did serve under Governor Rick Perry, and so you've had an
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experience down in Austin, the capital of Texas, and I'm sorry you can
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weigh in on how today's government is doing. We'll get to that in a
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bit. But but parents have the I think the most can do attitude.
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We're gonna stop the indoctor Nason. We're gonna stop even the gender reassignments that
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are going on behind their back. I mean, the craziness going on behind
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these parents back. They're done with it, aren't they. Well, I'm
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very encouraged by what I see. And let me drop back to your last
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question, because I forgot to mention that made in America by Americans, not
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Americans through May thirty. First, if you go to Richard Battle dot com,
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every copy there is always signed. But if you order a book there,
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then email me Richard at Richard Battle dot com for an inscription. There's
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a graduation promo because if you want to send your student to high school or
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to college or beyond college and give them a positive attitude and motivate and inspire
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them not to be depressed but encouraged. Made in America by Americans, not
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Americans, is a great gift, all right, and especially it's also and
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it's a fitting book from Memorial Day weekend to read as well. I mean,
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because what did we learn from our soldiers the American due attitude? They
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fought the war and the war is and they unfortunately died on the battlefield,
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but they had that can due attitude. Well, that's exactly correct. And
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no soldier ever died fighting for socialism. They may have been impressed in it,
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but every person that's ever put on a weapon and carried it into war
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from back in seventeen seventy in Boston before the American Revolution to today does it
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to defend the freedoms we have. And to me, it's so important that
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while we enjoy the upcoming weekend that on Monday, we take a minute and
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remember those who paid the ultimate price to give us our freedom, and we
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stand on their shoulders and our forefathers shoulders who gave us this gift of freedom,
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and it's up to us to broaden our shoulders so future generations can stand
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on them and have the same gift that we were given. Amen to that,
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And I think your book is kind of enhancing the need for even generations
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to come to know what was going on because of the education system. As
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I said, it's our of deteriorating, and they're deteriorating what our kids are
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learning. But here's Richard V. Battle coming in with the common sense and
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the upholding of the history of America. Well, yes, we talk about
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history, and I give an example in there that I discovered just recently.
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And I believe that every one of us will do things today that will affect
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others one hundred years from now and beyond. And I finally discovered a physical
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manifestation of that from my family. But I guar and tell you your listeners
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can think about their family and can identify similar situations. And I had inherited
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a table that was my great great grandmother's and my mother told me stories about
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how she served milk and cookies to my great grandmother, who lived until I
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was nine years old, on that table, and she told me about how
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they autographed the kids would come over and they have little autographed books when they
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visited. And after my mother passed, I discovered my great grandmother's picture as
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a teenager and the autograph book with autographs going back to the eighteen eighties.
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And what it made me realize is my great great grandmother was a social influencer
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across that table over a hundred years ago. She helped my great grandmother learned
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life lessons, who helped my grandmother mother me my daughter. So six generations
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have had life lessons on that table. And I guarantee you every one of
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your listeners can think of experiences similar. And when you start thinking about that
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influence on generations that we have, it makes us calculate our decisions each day
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differently because we realize our impact on the future. And I know that you've
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taken your experience of the last years as a public speaker, and even as
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I mentioned in Austin under Governor Rick Perry, to help us in the future.
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Right, so you've taken all your experience said hey, how can I
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help better our future? Because right now it does look a little oblique.
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Well, I believe it doesn't look as good as I would like it.
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But I look back, and our parents and grandparents and forebears before that had
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things much worse than we do. We have things we think are essential that
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our parents could only dream about, and our grandparents couldn't even conceive the things
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that we think are essential. So in that text, we have it pretty
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good. But that doesn't mean we lay back and relax and take it for
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granted that it will always be this way. It's up to us to preserve
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and extend it, even more so for future generations. One of the things
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I realize last year is no kid ever grew up wanting to be a socialist.
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And when I see little kids three four years old, I feel a
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responsibility to them giving them freedom going forward, because I've had it, and
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little kids want their own way. They want independence, they want to do
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what they want to do. They don't want to be told by government what
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they can or can't do, and so they want free enterprise and liberty and
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freedom. And it's up to us to make sure they get it when we
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pass the torch. Now, let me ask you about this because tell about
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the kids and the freedom. Well, now, Texas has been the gender
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reassignment surgeries and I don't know even get into this, but I feel like
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that's a big win for kids because why should they be subject to that.
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You know, they want to do something. Maybe later when they're adults,
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but no when they're kids. Now, when they're eight, nine, ten
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years old. I mean, why our activists so hungry to make them reassign
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so early. Well that's a great question, and of course the g word
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groomer applies, But it's really interesting to me that the same kids that a
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parent won't let set their own bedtime, they'll let them change their genders.
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The same kids who can't buy alcohol or a firearm or do other things,
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can't even rent a car, will want to go change their genders. And
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there's reasons that we restrict things until people get to certain ages, and it's
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because of maturity. And we've seen so many cases of people that have gone
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through a reassignment. The suicide rates are astronomical, but how many people regret
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it, even though the media tries to stifle that news. And so how
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do you feel like the governorship has been doing along those lines? I mean,
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you worked under Rick Perry. I don't know if you're still connect to
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Austin, But what are you hearing on the ground while you're there, you
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know, while you're in that city. Well, yes, and they passed
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the bills in the legislature this session restricting puberty blockers and other procedures for miners.
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And there's also been legislation to take care of the books in the school
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libraries as well. And to me, that's not book banning like the Nazis
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did, because it's only taking books out of a school for young children that
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should only be available to adults. And it's amazing to me that some of
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the people try to push books into elementary schools for kids that they won't let
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parents read aloud in the school board meeting because it's so offensive and the hypocrisy
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screams at us and the lack of a common sense screams at us that we
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need to protect our children's innocence as long as possible before they're forced into an
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adult world. True. Now, let me ask you about this because obviously,
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as a New Yorker. I'm a little frustrated that migrants are coming into
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the city and sort of across the border in general. But as far as
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the governorship is, God, do you applaud the move by Abbot to send
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these migrants away? I mean, do you feel like Texas is laughing at
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the liberal cities for having to deal with this or how serious is it that
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Governor Abbott felt we had to pick them up here in New York. Well,
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I think that's a great question, and I don't think laughing would be
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the right saying. But a lot of cities are unaware of what's going on
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and been going on the last two and a half years or so. And
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so first, just imagine, the Texas border with Mexico is twelve hundred and
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fifty four miles. That's about the equivalent of Miami to Boston. And so
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that's what we're defending right now. And the federal government is not only not
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defending the border, they are actually encouraging and helping people and I think paying
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for people in some cases to come across the border illegally. And the legal
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term and our law is they are illegal aliens, and to me, they're
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migrants before they cross into our country, but legally, once they come into
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our country, they are illegal aliens, not legal aliens who come in a
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legal process on our migration system. And we welcome about a million people legally
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a year, but we're getting two to three million people a year, and
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we're having to pay for those people health, clothing, food, schooling,
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hospitals, all kinds of different things out of our state budget. And I
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think the governor sent people to New York and some other places to give them
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a feeling of what it's like to have your cities and states overrun and having
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to provide these things for people. And the dirty little secret is the US
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government has transported more people across the country into various communities than Governor Abbot or
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de Santis has done combined. Let me ask you about have you any experience,
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maybe even a naturalization ceremony? Have you ever watched an immigrant become a
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citizen? And that's a great feeling to watch, that, isn't it.
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Well, I haven't seen a ceremony personally, but one of the things I've
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done for years, especially when this started coming up many many years ago,
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because with Texas, we've dealt with people crossing the border back and forth.
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Obviously, for years, I always like to ask naturalized citizens, what do
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you think about to illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, and to a person,
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no matter what part of the world they came from, what sex, creed,
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race, religion, every one of them always says they should come the
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same way I did legally, every one of them. You know. What's
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kind of sad to me is that I feel that And maybe I'm being too
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judge here, but I feel like it's the single male that really has taken
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advantage of this, and that's the one that scares me the most, because
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maybe there are a lot, but there are also guys crossing the border,
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and I don't know, I feel like the media sympathizes too much sit with
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them, because maybe they shouldn't be legalized here, you know. I feel
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like they get roped into the innocent women and children. No, well,
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yes, and let me back up and give you a number, and then
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I'll give you a couple of examples. They did a survey in South America
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last year how many people would want to come to the United States, and
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the extrapolated number was ninety three million. So the first thing we have to
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recognize is we can't take everybody that wants to come here because we have a
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welfare state and most of the people coming cannot take care of themselves. Now,
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single males historically have been treated differently for many reasons, including national security.
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And just this week I saw a room in El Paso, Texas that
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had six hundred single men in it and they were all military age. We
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had thirty three Chinese nationals crossing South Texas that were intercepted two days ago,
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all military age. That should be frightening. Now. One of the things
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that single men have done is they rent small children to come with them to
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make it look like they're a family unit. They crossed the border, and
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if they get away from authorities, they just let the child go. And
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every once in a while you'll see a video of a two year old child
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wandering around with nobody to help get or little children being dropped back across the
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Mexican border after they've used their certain useful purpose. And so that is one
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of the things that went on. And when President Trump was excoriated for separating
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families, if you'll remember that a couple of years ago, well, the
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reason he did that was he gave the adults and the children DNA tests to
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make sure they were related, because so much of the time the kids and
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the adults were not related, and we wanted to make sure that the adults
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weren't sent into the country and then they would let the kids go and die
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later. That is I remember the DNA testican. I was in favor of
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that. Now, you just mentioned purpose, right, And when I think
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of purpose, I think of God's purpose. So when it comes to the
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Americans and Americans, do you feel like those that want to be here are
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fulfilling God's purpose for them? That yes, they can be legalized and can
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they become Americans not just immigrants across the border? Well, I think they
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can if they come in legally. And of course Congress has the legislative authority
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to have or modify the immigration law. And the reason that it's not being
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modified right now is the Democrats are stuck on giving every illegal alien in the
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country right now amnesty. And if they had to provide their own way,
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that'd be one thing. But if they don't, then you're basically increasing the
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welfare roles by ten or twelve or twenty million people, which takes away resources
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from other Americans, and you and I have to pay for it. So
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if we let people come and give them work permits or they come legally,
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that's different. Historically in Texas you have people from Mexico that get work permits,
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come into the country, work and go back. You have people come
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in that become US citizens that send money back to relatives in Mexico. So
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we've had in amy like that for many many years. Now. It's being
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of the economy. Obviously there's a lot going on here. I guess my
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main question all of this is how can we as Americans, even despite an
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economic crisis which we're about to default, which is just crazy, How can
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we still be Americans? How can we be the ones that can do instead
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of sitting here and worrying about the inflation. What can we do to be
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Americans throughout all of these crises. Well, I think that's a great question,
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and so that's part of what I'm trying to do with my efforts is
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try to encourage people. One thing I say that everyone can do it doesn't
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cost any money. Is if you will encourage one person every day to pursue
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their dreams and give them encouragement, A positive attitude. It will change people's
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lives because the depression and discouragement that comes from the media and the government trying
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to tell us what we can't do, those are the things that discourage people
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from trying to be better than they are today. And if none of us
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try to be better than we are today, then the country will never be
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any better than it is today. But if we are encouraging others to be
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better, then we will have more inventions, will have people work more,
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There'll be more economic growth. The next generation will see the example of their
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parents, and it will fulfill the next generation's ambitions and dreams and goals as
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well. Talk with Richard V. Battle. I I like I don't know
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what the V stands for, but I like the way that sounds. Richard
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V. Battle Richard Battle dot com. And you've got this new book out
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which you can find on Amazon and your website right correct and free shipping in
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May and inscribe copies for graduates or anybody else. And I see on your
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website you're actually heard around the country, So give us some outlets where you
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know, if they're interested in hearing more from me, where can they hear
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from you? Well? I've been blessed. And on social media, I'm
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at Richard v Battle on Twitter and I'm on other social media as well.
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I do regular shows on Wednesdays in Minnesota on multiple cities and in Denver,
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Colorado, and then the rest of the time we appear on shows like this
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and other radio and TV networks. I love the title of book, again,
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made in America by Americans, not Americans, And we often buy made
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in China products, and I feel like the left, especially wants us to
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just keep getting imports from China. But but I feel like your book's proving
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that, no, we need to keep everything American made. And how vital
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is it? And is that an uphill struggle? Or can we can we
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get back to being made in America? Well, we can get there,
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and there's been attempts in the last several years. And here's one example of
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the critical nature to our national security in World War two. We were the
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arsenal of democracy before we got into the war, after Pearl Harbor in nineteen
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forty one. But our ability to manufacture weapons and produce food for the troops,
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ships to carry troops and supplies, and all the things that we made,
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we had Rosie the Riveter. A lot of ladies who had never worked
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outside the home went to work and built the different machines and things that we
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needed. But we had the capacity in the companies to do that then because
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they were American companies. And today with the globalist focus in US getting so
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much manufactured outside the country, if we were in a similar conflict, we
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would have capacity issues until we would ramp production up. And the problem is
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is if you can't produce quickly enough, you may lose before you can fully
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stand up to someone who wants to take us over. Do you feel like
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I feel like that impacts the car manufacturers as much because there's a lot more
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exports, and I feel like that's the industry we have to revive as well,
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especially with this ev push. That's just it seems to be draining us,
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doesn't it. Well? Absolutely, And during War War two there were
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no cars sold during World War Two. And I had a teacher in high
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school who was a child when her parents bought in nineteen forty six car,
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and when it was first delivered to him, it had a wooden bumper on
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it because steel was still in such short supply. The auto manufacturers converted into
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manufacturing military vehicles and tanks and other things during the war, and of course
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the airplane manufacturers were manufacturing military planes as well, and so we have to
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have that capability and the supply chain to feed it, not just the plants
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to manufacture everything. So yes, the technology and the service injuries industry is
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important, but if we don't know how to know how to make things,
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we won't have the capacity to supply the troops who can defend us. All
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right, I want to ask you this because obviously you mentioned a little while
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we're going to encourage someone, so you obviously I've seen this in practice.
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So give us one story, even in the book, of someone being encouraged
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and then seeing their life change just from that one push, that one encouragement.
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Well, one of the stories I like to tell, and I know
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your courage in your life as well. As a young lady named jim Bricker,
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and she was born without legs, and she was put up for adoption,
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and she was adopted by a family who had other children, and basically
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they told her the one word she could not say was camped, and she
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could do anything else. And at seven or her dad started teaching her how
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to jump on the trampoline. She ended up playing high school softball and basketball,
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and her dream was to become a gymnast and an acrobat, and she
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ended up doing that because of the way her family encouraged her to try everything
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she could and not use her situation and use the word can't. And to
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me, that's a terrific story of encouragement because too often those of us who
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don't have a physical handicap use other handicaps to stop our progress and efforts.
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And as Dabo Sweeney, this Clemson coach, says, the only disabilities a
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bad attitude. So if we have that positive attitude and have people encouraging us,
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we can accomplish more than we ever think we can. I feel like
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the work from home mentality is sort of becoming a handicap. I have to
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be honest that because now people don't anyone get out in the world. Again,
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what is that? Well? I agree, and I've worked in the
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corporate world for many years and I worked remotely for many many years as well.
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I think that you can't paint it with a single brush, the whole
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world. But there are benefits of interacting with people and people at work from
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home. When your competitors, your counterparts are working from the office, give
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up a lot of opportunities for learning, career advancement, interpersonal skills, so
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many other things you get by interacting with people personally that not only affect work,
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but help you in all your other areas of life. I was actually
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back in the office in August of twenty twenty because it's being from home was
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a little bit tiresome at that point. But it's just amazing that some continue
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richer view battle. Thank you so much for joining us. Any other wisdom
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you'd like to share. I had a Memorial Day weekend and why people should
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get this signed copy. I mean, it's a great opportunity you're giving people,
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especially because, as I say, you've been in the Texas political circle,
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you've been in Austin, you have this experience, you've been appointed by
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a governor. I mean, not many people can say that. Well,
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thank you, And I think one of the things I tell people is smart
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people learn from their experiences. Brilliant people learn from the experiences of others.
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And so if you get a book or any of the books I do,
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or other people who write motivational and inspirational type messages. It just takes one
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idea to change your life, and former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said
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a man's mind, once changed by a new idea, cannot return to its
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previous state. So when you learn a new idea, you're going to be
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a different person. And it just takes one to totally change your life.
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And I know you've been in the technological suspect sector and that's definitely changed everything,
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hasn't it. Well, yes, and it's going faster and faster.
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One of the things I do when I speak, I'll hold up, especially
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with college leadership groups, I'll hold up a slide rule and if you don't
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know what that is, look it up. And people ask me what it
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is, and I'll ask them if they know, and they don't, and
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I'll tell them it was my computer in college, and that was the instrument
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used for the astronauts and the Apollo programs, for example. And so it
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just goes to illustrate in one lifetime how fast technology can change. And if
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we you, me, others don't change to keep up with new technology,
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we sentence ourselves at whatever stage we're at and never growing beyond that stage.
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So in other words, we have to use the technology to become Americans again,
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right, Well, we can be better Americans with technology, but the
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attitude and the commitment and the desire and the persistence all help us to be
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Americans in the tradition of our forefathers. Aimen to that. And I want
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to have y'all more as we continue this discussion. And I'd love to get
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a copy of the book and take a look it as myself and have you
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back on when I have a fuller read of it. Well, we'd love
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to do that and love to be with you anytime we can, and we'd
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love to hear from any of your listeners'chard V. Battle thank you so
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much, Richard Battle dot com, following on social media, and he'll be
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back on the Alex Scaret podcast Network sooner than then, you know it,
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right, So thanks again, Richard, Thank you so much. Alex,
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God bless America. This has been one leg up with Alex Garrett and Richard
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V. Battle