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Talk-Line: 74th District State Representative Brad Fritts · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Friday, It's
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Speaker 1: September the twelfth. Year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of Tukline here at Wixent Radio.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Steve Manco. It is time for our
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Speaker 1: September twenty twenty five Springfield Legislative Update. And here to
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Speaker 1: handle the report today is our seventy fourth district state
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Speaker 1: representative out of Dixon. He is live with us at
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Speaker 1: the microphones. We're happy to have him aboard. Our good
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Speaker 1: friend Brad Fritz joins us this morning here at Wixent. Brad,
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Speaker 1: good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Steve. It's so great to be with you.
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Speaker 1: As always, it is nice to have you aboard, sir,
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Speaker 1: and we've got some very interesting news to share. At
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Speaker 1: the top of our program today with Brad here at Wixcent,
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Speaker 1: we are going to kick off our broadcast. Now, we
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Speaker 1: weren't planning on kicking off our broadcast this way, but
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Speaker 1: we have taken a turn in the country. Brad, we
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Speaker 1: have taken another turn in the country. This tragedy occurred
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Speaker 1: well less than forty eight hours ago. I believe in
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Speaker 1: the state of Utah. A conservative talk show host. I
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Speaker 1: shouldn't say talk show host, but a conservative representative who
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Speaker 1: made his way across college campuses to discuss issues. This
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Speaker 1: is this is what he did for a living. He
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Speaker 1: actually just discussed issues with college students. He made his
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Speaker 1: way to college campuses and offered his services as a speaker.
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Speaker 1: He was on campus at a university in Utah when
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Speaker 1: a tragedy occurred again a couple of days ago. Brad,
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Speaker 1: And this kind of lends to what we are going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about in our first portion of the
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Speaker 1: talk line today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know it was. I think it's it's
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Speaker 2: a heartbreaking thing for all of us seeing Jerre and
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Speaker 2: hearing the news of Charlie Kirk's assassination, and you know,
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Speaker 2: you spoke to it. He was an activist. He went
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Speaker 2: across the country and forwarded an open dialogue, a conversation.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think I was reading in his bio
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Speaker 2: this week some of the things and he had. Actually
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Speaker 2: he felt that there was politics was being portrayed very
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Speaker 2: one sided within college campuses, and he made it his
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Speaker 2: life's work to have an open dialogue on those campuses,
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Speaker 2: and ultimately was was killed as a result of that,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I think that's the most troubling thing
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Speaker 2: coming out of here, coming out of this news, is
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Speaker 2: you have someone who wanted to have an open dialogue.
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Speaker 2: Who It didn't matter what side of the aisle you
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Speaker 2: came from, what political persuasion you were, what your gender
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Speaker 2: identity didn't none of that mattered. He wanted you to
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Speaker 2: come to a microphone at one of his events and
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Speaker 2: ask questions and have open dialogue and feelings so that
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Speaker 2: everyone could learn. And that's, to me the troubling part
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Speaker 2: is and he's killed as a result of that. Where
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Speaker 2: did we go in this country where having an open dialogue,
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Speaker 2: an open discussion could get you killed. I mean, it's unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: It goes against the very foundational principles of our nation
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Speaker 2: that you can't have open dialogue, open discussion. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's not politically persuading per se. It's just about thinking
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Speaker 2: about multiple sides of particular issues. And that's what each
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Speaker 2: and every one of us should do. That's what I
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Speaker 2: do when I go to Springfield is try to think
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Speaker 2: about issues from every possible direction and make the best
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Speaker 2: decision possible. And to see this young man with who
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Speaker 2: leaves now behind a young will wife with what two
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Speaker 2: beautiful kids is just it's heartbreaking, Yeah, it really is.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a senseless tragedy that took place in Utah.
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Speaker 1: Uh and uh Well, according to ABC Now, and we're
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Speaker 1: getting news through ABC Today and the President's office, through
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Speaker 1: President Trump's office, that there has been a person of
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Speaker 1: interest taken into custody now in this particular case. Now,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to go any further than that as
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Speaker 1: far as that is concerned. But we're going to get
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Speaker 1: back to the issue that Brad had brought up, and
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Speaker 1: that is the fact that right now, Brad again, people
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Speaker 1: are on edge. That's just it makes people on edge.
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Speaker 1: I mean, like you just stated, you know, even expressing opinions,
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Speaker 1: and this was a gentleman that openly, you know, put
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Speaker 1: his tit up, you know at college campuses, sat under
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Speaker 1: the tent, invited people to microphones, discussed issues. Didn't matter,
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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, what side of the what what what?
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Speaker 1: It didn't matter if you just wanted to discuss an issue,
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Speaker 1: he was open to letting you express your opinions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was it. And if you thought
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Speaker 2: he was wrong, you could call him out. Multiple people
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Speaker 2: have sure, but this is this is again a straight
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Speaker 2: act of violence against discussion. Y.
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Speaker 1: This, this is the point. This is the point. This
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Speaker 1: is the main This is one of the main points. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: a senseless killing and like you mentioned, a tragedy in
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Speaker 1: that family, no doubt about it. But again it opens
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Speaker 1: the discussion and dialogue here. Uh and and and again. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I guess you know, Brad, you know getting you know
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Speaker 1: too well, you know, with with what the weapons were used.
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Speaker 1: The weapon was used, high powered rifle was found. Was
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Speaker 1: the weapon of of use in this tragedy. Uh, that's
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Speaker 1: a discussion of course that's going to take place as well, obviously.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it always does. Yeah, you know, I think it's
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Speaker 2: we anytime there's an act of violence somewhere that results
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Speaker 2: in loss of life at the hands of a weapon.
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Speaker 2: Of course, there's always there's always talk about gun control.
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Speaker 2: And I think that you know, Charlie Kirk was an
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Speaker 2: activist on the other side of this issue, and I
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Speaker 2: think again it's a conversation that we need to have
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Speaker 2: moving forward about what mental health in this country looks
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Speaker 2: like and you know what the upbringing looks like to
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Speaker 2: where of people. I mean, I can't tell you how
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Speaker 2: many posts I've seen that have made me sick about
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Speaker 2: people congratulating this guy, who are cheering this on, and
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Speaker 2: the fact that there are people in this country who
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Speaker 2: are going to cheer on acts of violence against somebody
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Speaker 2: because they disagree with their political beliefs. I mean, it
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Speaker 2: won't stop, and we continue to see it over and
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Speaker 2: over again, and it really makes me sick to my stomach.
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Speaker 2: And you know, again, this isn't a politician, This isn't
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Speaker 2: somebody running for office. This is somebody who wanted to
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Speaker 2: build an open dialogue to allow students who may have
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Speaker 2: different political persuasions than their professors even to have conversations
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Speaker 2: about policy and to get and to surround themselves by
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Speaker 2: others and to ask questions from both sides of the aisle.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, that's again the foundation of which America
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Speaker 2: is built. And to see that, to see them take
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Speaker 2: a bullet over it is absolutely sickening and utterly disgusting
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Speaker 2: for anybody who cheers on that kind of rhetoric.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and worse upon worse Braad was the situation in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: We saw that practically the same instance that the Utah situation.
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Speaker 1: Here is a youngster, a youngster in Colorado that took
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Speaker 1: a weapon in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, did damage. I mean, unfortunately, we see it over
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Speaker 2: and over again, and you know, I it was it
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Speaker 2: was a tough day.
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Speaker 1: I am was.
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Speaker 2: I talked today. I talked to my girlfriend on the phone,
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Speaker 2: and of course she's she's worried about me being in
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Speaker 2: a political position. I mean, and of course she's a
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Speaker 2: school teacher, and so I'm equally worried about her. And
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Speaker 2: it's a it's very unfortunate that and I think one
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Speaker 2: of the points that she made to me that I
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Speaker 2: think is probably, you know, one of the most unbelievable
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Speaker 2: things that I've seen in a while. She says to me,
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Speaker 2: she said, I just don't understand how so many people
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Speaker 2: can hold so much hate in their heart that they
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Speaker 2: would take away someone's child, someone's spouse, someone's parent. And
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Speaker 2: here here we go, over and over again, and these
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Speaker 2: conversations just seem to go in circles.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you do, and again it has revolved into this
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Speaker 1: again situation. It is a it is a serious situation,
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Speaker 1: needs to be addressed. Needs well. We're seeing some action
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Speaker 1: hopefully take place again. We're covering it through ABC this morning.
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Speaker 1: As far as the Utah situation is concerned. So again
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Speaker 1: we may have more on that, but Bred.
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Speaker 2: And Steve, I'll tell you, I'll call a spade a spade.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know me, don't. I don't hold back much.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you coming out of this, I had
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Speaker 2: talked about some of the things I've seen on Facebook,
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Speaker 2: but even coming out of the words of our own
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Speaker 2: Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker. You know, when he initially heard
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Speaker 2: about it, he began by saying thoughts and prayers and
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Speaker 2: I wish and I prayed he would have stopped there.
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Speaker 2: But he goes on to say that the political rhetoric
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Speaker 2: of the President of the United States is pushing this
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Speaker 2: political violence and blamed it on January sixth. Then, you know,
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Speaker 2: it just kills me that as a country, it seems
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Speaker 2: like in some ways we've lost our humanity. The fact
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Speaker 2: that a sitting governor of Illinois is going to use that,
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Speaker 2: is to use the death of someone as a political
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Speaker 2: stepping point in his mind to run for president of
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Speaker 2: the United States and to take shots at a sitting president,
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Speaker 2: rather than to just be a decent human being and
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Speaker 2: stop and take a minute to say, you know what,
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Speaker 2: this is terrible somebody was killed, somebody's growing up, two
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Speaker 2: individuals are growing up without father, somebody's growing up without
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Speaker 2: a spouse, And to turn that moment immediately into political
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Speaker 2: rhetoric again is just a godly disheartening for the direction
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Speaker 2: of our state, in the direction of our country when
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Speaker 2: we have conversations like that, and anybody and again talking
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Speaker 2: out of two sides of his mouth, this is this
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Speaker 2: is the same governor who just said, shoot, probably not
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Speaker 2: even six months ago, that Republicans should not know a
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Speaker 2: moment of peace in these next two years. So if
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Speaker 2: anybody is stirring up political rhetoric, it's him himself, and
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Speaker 2: it just infuriates, infuriates me and this whole, this whole thing,
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Speaker 2: And just to tie it back together here before we
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Speaker 2: have to go on break, you know, this is again
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Speaker 2: a senseless act of violence. It's it's an act of
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Speaker 2: violence against freedom of speech and dialogue that we hold
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Speaker 2: so dear here in the US. And again, anybody who
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Speaker 2: who says otherwise, you know, I really ask you to
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Speaker 2: take take a deep look into your own self and
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Speaker 2: think about what you want the direction of this country
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Speaker 2: to look like moving forward, because it's it's not in
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Speaker 2: a good light. Right now, our.
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Speaker 1: State representative, Brad Fritz of Dixon, our seventy fourth district
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Speaker 1: state representative, is live with us this morning. He is
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Speaker 1: giving us his thoughts on the situation in Utah and
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Speaker 1: across our nation now that has erupted because of this violence.
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Speaker 1: We are going to continue to talk about that again,
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Speaker 1: as Brad mentioned, after break, we're going to take a
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Speaker 1: short break for News First at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 1: But when we come back, we'll have to again continue
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Speaker 1: our conversation in this vein because there is some activity
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Speaker 1: going on here locally that Brad wants to tell you about,
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Speaker 1: and there are a couple of other issues that we
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Speaker 1: are going to discuss with our state representative. But we'll
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Speaker 1: take a short break for News First. Next with Charlie
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Speaker 1: b seventy fourth district State Representative out of Dixon, our
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Speaker 1: good friend Brad Fritz is lied with us that the
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Speaker 1: microphones for our Springfield Legislative Update for twenty twenty five. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, taking center stage well away from the regional
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Speaker 1: politics that Brad and I usually discuss on this session,
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Speaker 1: you know, was the seriousness of the situation that took
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Speaker 1: place rat and we're not finished discussing that because you
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Speaker 1: and some legislators planned an event.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there, you know, I'm so grateful that we have
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Speaker 2: such a strong community here, in a faith based community,
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Speaker 2: and so tonight there will be an event at five
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Speaker 2: o'clock on the Old Courthouse Lawn. It'll be a vigil
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Speaker 2: where we will have some discussions and just moren is
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Speaker 2: a community not only the loss of Charlie Kirk's life,
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Speaker 2: but again the the violence that we have against people
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Speaker 2: who who share different beliefs that's going through this country
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 1: Okay, now you will be a part of this. We
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Speaker 1: will have some words I understand some other legislative Senator Arilano.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Arilana will be there, it's my understanding. Our Dixon
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Speaker 2: Police Chief will be there and others. So again, five
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Speaker 2: o'clock tonight, September the twelfth, at five pm Old Courthouse Lawn.
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Speaker 2: A couple other things that we have coming up briefly
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Speaker 2: before we jump into another segment here is in our office,
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Speaker 2: we'll be hosting a state job employment fair at SOCC
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Speaker 2: Valley Community College. This is September eighteenth, from ten to
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Speaker 2: two in the Dylan Mall out there, step on out.
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Speaker 2: We have openings in every Department of State Employment. There
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Speaker 2: will be representatives there from multiple departments, and CMS who
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Speaker 2: actually does the HR portion for all of the departments,
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Speaker 2: will be there to actually go through hands on and
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Speaker 2: fill out employment applications. So if you are looking for
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Speaker 2: a career change and want to be a part of
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Speaker 2: state government, this is we'll have people from Department of
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Speaker 2: Transportation Corrections in a variety of other departments there. So
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Speaker 2: come on out September eighteenth, and then as we move
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Speaker 2: into the fall season hunting, hunting seasons right around the corner.
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Speaker 2: In preparation of that, if you were born after nineteen eighty,
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Speaker 2: you are required in order to go hunting, to have
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Speaker 2: a hunter's safety course, So we will be doing the
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Speaker 2: in person version of that Saturday, September twentieth and twenty first.
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Speaker 2: It's a two day event, eight to one. You have
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Speaker 2: to attend both days. So if you are looking forward
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Speaker 2: to the hunting season this year and you've not yet
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Speaker 2: completed your course, step out or step on out to
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Speaker 2: the Rochelle Conservation and Sportsman's Club and we can get
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Speaker 2: you taken care of registration for that's through our office.
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Speaker 2: More information can be found at Repfritz dot com.
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Speaker 1: Very good so, and these events are right away coming
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Speaker 1: up in about a week. These events are taking place
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Speaker 1: within the week to ten days across our northern Illinois area.
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Speaker 1: So we wanted to get word out about those events
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Speaker 1: through Brad Fritz's office right here on wix in to
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Speaker 1: kind of wrap up our conversation today, Brad has again
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Speaker 1: taken an interesting trip overseats. First of all, take us
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Speaker 1: from start to finish. How did this transpire and how
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Speaker 1: did you know you get to do the opperation?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is you know, you get some very interesting
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Speaker 2: opportunities in the legislature, and one of them this year
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Speaker 2: was I had the opportunity as an invite from the
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Speaker 2: Council General of Chicago to Israel to take an actual
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Speaker 2: legislative study trip over to Israel and experience what's going
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Speaker 2: on over there. And it was a heart wrenching trip
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Speaker 2: and it was an amazing trip to see the grid
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Speaker 2: of the Israelis. You know, the main purpose of the
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Speaker 2: trip was, you know, as we know, the Israelis are
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Speaker 2: fighting the war in Gaza right now, but also they're
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Speaker 2: fighting two wars. And one of the things that was
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Speaker 2: interesting we met with members of their government and on
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Speaker 2: both sides of the isle there, and one of the
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Speaker 2: things that was said over and over by both sides
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Speaker 2: is how appreciative they are for America and America's support.
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Speaker 2: And so the two wars that they're fighting are not
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Speaker 2: only the actual physical war, but the media war that
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Speaker 2: they're having back here at home. And unfortunately, they're spending
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Speaker 2: an awful lot of time as misinformation finds its way
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Speaker 2: out of Gaza and into American media, where the Israeli
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Speaker 2: government has to come back and push back on it.
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Speaker 2: You know, there was a report of the Israelis that
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Speaker 2: were are starving the guys and people, and the reality
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Speaker 2: is is the Israelis are the one providing a humanitarian
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Speaker 2: aid to the people while they're fighting against a mass.
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Speaker 2: And so now they've set up Originally they were passing
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Speaker 2: the food off and it was being supposed to be distributed,
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Speaker 2: well a maas was actually taking the humanitarian aid and
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Speaker 2: selling it for more weapons to utilize against Israel. And
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Speaker 2: so people really were starving, but not at the hands
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Speaker 2: of the Israelis, at the hands of a mass themselves.
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Speaker 2: So now they've set up locations within there where people
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Speaker 2: come to the Israeli defense force themselves and get the
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Speaker 2: food that they need. You know, it was amazing. We
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Speaker 2: went down and we toured the Nova Music Festival where
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Speaker 2: almost five hundred I say kids, but people my own
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Speaker 2: age were attending a weekend music festival and Hamas came
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Speaker 2: in that day on October seventh, twenty twenty three and
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Speaker 2: massacred everybody. We talked to a survivor there and heard
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Speaker 2: his story about running through the fields and hiding within farms.
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Speaker 2: We went on a little bit further to a smaller
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Speaker 2: village that's a very peaceful village. They live about a
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Speaker 2: mile and a half off the border to the Gaza Strip,
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Speaker 2: and Hamas came in there and there was It's really interesting.
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Speaker 2: They have a whole row of mailboxes there of everybody
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Speaker 2: who lives within the village, and on each mailbox it
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Speaker 2: was either red or black, designating whether the person was
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Speaker 2: captured or killed. And in the town of I think
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Speaker 2: it was about five hundred people. Over a quarter of
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Speaker 2: the population of the entire town was either captured or
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Speaker 2: killed by Hamas. You know, it's villages and homes that
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Speaker 2: were burned to the ground. Steve, I think one of
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Speaker 2: the most heart wrenching stories that I heard the whole trip,
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Speaker 2: and I'll share it, and it's a little bit graphic,
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Speaker 2: but you know, it just goes to show what's really
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Speaker 2: going on here. Is you know, the they came in
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Speaker 2: and there was a family of five, two parents and
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Speaker 2: three kids, and the youngest was nine months old and
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Speaker 2: the oldest was four or five. And Hamas came in.
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Speaker 2: They shot the parents and the legs, and they made
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Speaker 2: them they turned and made them sit and watch where
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Speaker 2: they individually snapped the arms and legs of their children
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Speaker 2: right in front of them, and then proceeded to execute
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Speaker 2: all of them. I mean, I was couldn't be more
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Speaker 2: taken back by that story. Is you know, not even
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Speaker 2: a parent, just an uncle. I can't amaze. I can't
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Speaker 2: imagine what that was like. And so, you know, to
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Speaker 2: hear the stories. We talked with a woman who was
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Speaker 2: in captivity and she was luckily traded early on and
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Speaker 2: was brought back, but her son was kept an entire
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Speaker 2: year after her. And so it's just it's story after
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Speaker 2: story of you know, really how sick and the worst
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Speaker 2: of the worst that humanity can be. And you know
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Speaker 2: the other part of it is the conversations that we had, well,
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Speaker 2: how do you, how do we how do you move
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Speaker 2: forward from this? And it becomes a very complex issue
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Speaker 2: because as the Israeli Defense forces moved through villages within
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Speaker 2: the Gaza Strip, they found the school books of the
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Speaker 2: kids and write in the school books they're teaching the
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Speaker 2: kids to hate Israel and that true salvation can only
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Speaker 2: be achieved by based on how many Jewish people you
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Speaker 2: can kill. And when you teach that from such a
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Speaker 2: small age, They captured video of young people who had
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Speaker 2: came into these villages and their facetiming back home, proud
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Speaker 2: to tell their parents that they killed two or three
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Speaker 2: Jewish people over in Israel. And I mean, it absolutely
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Speaker 2: makes you sick to your stomach, and you wonder, you know,
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Speaker 2: where do you go from there? How do you? How
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Speaker 2: do you rectify this just ingrown hate and that's been
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Speaker 2: pushed and built and I mean dysmorphed into being frankly,
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Speaker 2: the will of God, if you will, or whatever their
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Speaker 2: higher power is, I don't know, but I will tell
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Speaker 2: you it was. It was an eye opening experience to
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Speaker 2: see you. To say the least, I was just going
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Speaker 2: to say exact word.
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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say an I opening experience for
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Speaker 1: legislators to take parts in seeing the tragedy that is
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Speaker 1: happening in Israel and the trip that Brad made overseas
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Speaker 1: recently to again observe and bring back information uh into
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Speaker 1: our area from Israel, and well, hopefully you know, we'll
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Speaker 1: see some hopefully, you know, some type of you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: a solution absolutely what you know, what is happening not
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Speaker 1: only overseas, but as we just talked about here in
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Speaker 1: our own nation, we need some.
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Speaker 2: It reminds you how lucky we truly are, you know,
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Speaker 2: being there in Israel talking to people, you're hearing rocket
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Speaker 2: fire blowing up off in the distance, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm a little uneasy as a farm boy from rural Illinois.
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Speaker 2: And they're like, oh, don't worry, it's friendly fire. I'm like, well,
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Speaker 2: I sure hope these friendlies know how to shoot. But
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Speaker 2: the other thing is you're driving down the street and
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Speaker 2: they say, oh, you know you pass these cement bunkers
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Speaker 2: every couple miles. They say, well, if the air raid
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Speaker 2: sirens go off, will just pull over and you get
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Speaker 2: in a cement bunker. And it blows my mind that,
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Speaker 2: you know, as much as you hear people complain about
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Speaker 2: what's going on in our country, in the direction of
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Speaker 2: our country, there are people who live in a lot
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Speaker 2: worse off situations. You have to quite literally worry about
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Speaker 2: whether or not their homes are going to get rocketed.
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Speaker 2: And that's just a fear that luckily, by the grace
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Speaker 2: of God, we don't have to face here and so.
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Speaker 1: Well, like I said, hopefully solutions in the future. We'll
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Speaker 1: just have to wait and see how that all plays up.
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Speaker 1: And again, Brad again took the trip to Israel overseas
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Speaker 1: and reports to us this morning here at I wish
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Speaker 1: we had more time on our clock to discuss, but
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Speaker 1: again we'll leave it at that. And again, don't forget
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Speaker 2: Hey, so great to be with you, Steve. We'll look
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Speaker 2: forward to seeing you here when we get done with
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Speaker 2: veto session. We'll be back in November.
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Speaker 1: Five o'clock tonight. Though the visual at the old Lee
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