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AFP - One Small Step Campaign · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday listener lunch Anderson Pub and Grill. Someday maybe
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  Speaker 1: we'll see donalvan Meil from Americans for Prosperity and a
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  Speaker 1: listener lunch. I don't know that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: to day, and I'm not putting them on the spot,
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  Speaker 1: but welcome back Donald Meil from Americans for Prosperity talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Ohio Small One Small Step campaign. Could he
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  Speaker 1: have you back on the show as always, Welcome back, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be back, and I'd love to do one
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  Speaker 2: of those listener lunches. That would be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: First Wednesday I absent a holiday interruption or sickness or illness,
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  Speaker 1: but you can always count on the first Wednesday of
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  Speaker 1: the month for the listener lunch. We go all over
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  Speaker 1: town and the whole point of it was to support
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  Speaker 1: you know, local restaurants, mom and pop restaurants, but also
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  Speaker 1: just to get people out of whatever the rut they're in,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what I used to be in when I
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  Speaker 1: was working at Anthem, you know and cube Land, and
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  Speaker 1: every six weeks or so, we just like, let's just
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  Speaker 1: go out of the building and have lunch sometime and
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  Speaker 1: get the crew out and we'd always enjoy it was
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  Speaker 1: really lighthearted. We'd all, you know, joke around. You weren't
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  Speaker 1: in a business environment, so you could be a little
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  Speaker 1: looser with your language, and you know, it was just fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, we need to do that, so everybody's invited.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about me. It's about getting out of your
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  Speaker 1: rut and supporting a local restaurant that probably can't afford
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  Speaker 1: advertising dollars, but maybe going to a place you've never
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  Speaker 1: been to. And you know what, man, I've been I've
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  Speaker 1: been on radio twenty years in December, and we've been
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  Speaker 1: doing listener lunches here in the morning show for nineteen
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  Speaker 1: of those years. I have just been blessed with making
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  Speaker 1: so many friends, but also seeing friendships made. I walk
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  Speaker 1: into the room and there are tables filled with the
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  Speaker 1: same groups of people that they didn't know each other
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  Speaker 1: before listener Lunch came along, and now they're just like
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  Speaker 1: great friends. They make a point of meeting each other
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  Speaker 1: and everyone has smiles on their faces. It just is
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  Speaker 1: really it's one of the highlights of my day and
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  Speaker 1: month and year because it gives me a boost of
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, not confidence or anything, but it makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel better about life. So I can walk into
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  Speaker 1: one of those things feeling really blue and down about
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  Speaker 1: the state of affairs in the world. I come out
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  Speaker 1: feeling energized just because of the fellowship that goes on. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're always everybody's welcome at a listener lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Donovan. Oh that's awesome. I love it. Thanks man. Thanks great.
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  Speaker 1: That's the point of the concept. Has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with me. I can't imagine anybody driving anywhere to see me.
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  Speaker 1: But boy, you have a great meal and great fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's about. So maybe someday, Donovan, But you
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  Speaker 1: didn't call to talk about lunch. You called talk about
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  Speaker 1: the once a Small Step campaign. We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: last week. Got any updates from my listening audience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is you know, this is sort of what
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  Speaker 2: our team's focus on right now, because what's more important
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  Speaker 2: when we're it all boils down to it, other than
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  Speaker 2: listener lunch. What's more important than celebrating our nation's twent
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday. And as I mentioned last week to
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  Speaker 2: you and your listeners, our national tourists coming to Ohio
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  Speaker 2: June twenty second. We've actually locked in a few speakers.
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  Speaker 2: I was I wanted to debut them actually announcing them
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  Speaker 2: on your show. Here's on the final list, but the
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  Speaker 2: initial slate of folks includes moms on a mom on
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  Speaker 2: a mission, some Hispanic leaders here in the state of Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: a veteran, and a veteran who has sacrificed a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a big event, Brian, and we're
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  Speaker 2: just really excited to have folks be able to come
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  Speaker 2: out and join us.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have any musical acts, Donovan. Of course, my
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  Speaker 1: tongue is in my cheek thinking about the whole Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump effort to get musical acts together, and nobody's sort
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  Speaker 1: of pulling the plug on it. Although the musical acts
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  Speaker 1: that the plug was pulled on, I didn't realize those
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  Speaker 1: folks were still alive or even still artists. But whatever,
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  Speaker 1: we so.
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  Speaker 2: We even have been different in every state. Actually, in
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  Speaker 2: all seriousness, well, what we found is people are really
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  Speaker 2: there to celebrate America. In fact, you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things we find is some of the programming actually
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  Speaker 2: sort of slows down the overall vibe of the the
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  Speaker 2: the the experience, and so you know, there'll be some
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  Speaker 2: tunes of course playing there and I think the speakers
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  Speaker 2: we've got are going to do a great job of
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  Speaker 2: inspiring folks. But what we found, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: this will be the seventh event when it comes to Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: They've done so far this year. It's actually really just
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  Speaker 2: been about people showing up in patriotic garb, celebrating America,
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  Speaker 2: signing the Declaration of Independence that we have on display there.
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  Speaker 2: We have a booth set up where people talk about
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  Speaker 2: what it is that they love about America. You believe
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  Speaker 2: that Brian people actually going on camera testifying about what
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  Speaker 2: it is that they love about this great nation. And
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  Speaker 2: it just you get that and you get that energy,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you refill that cup that is you know, patriotism,
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  Speaker 2: and you leave there we're renewed with it, like a
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  Speaker 2: renewed commitment to go out and help, you know, either
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  Speaker 2: achieve your own American dream or help make it possible
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  Speaker 2: for others to achieve that. It's it's powerful stuff and
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  Speaker 2: we're I'm honored that our state's one of twelve that
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  Speaker 2: gets to have this happen.
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  Speaker 1: It just said just breaks my heart so much. Dominan,
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  Speaker 1: I know, see people just disparaging America and never ever
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  Speaker 1: focusing on all of the wonderful accomplishments that this the
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  Speaker 1: most wildly successful nation the planet has ever seen, has
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  Speaker 1: been able to bring to the world. Instead, we focus
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  Speaker 1: on the warts and the scabs, and and and the
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  Speaker 1: the ills and evils that, yes, we the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America, have engaged in. But I'd like to think
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  Speaker 1: we've a lot and that we are a better nation
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  Speaker 1: each and every day. And you can point to all
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  Speaker 1: of those improvements in our nation from its founding two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago to today. We're not the
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  Speaker 1: same place, but it was the founding principles that allowed
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  Speaker 1: us to achieve this level of greatness and evolve and
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  Speaker 1: become better. You know, people don't want to focus on
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we have corrected so many of the
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  Speaker 1: ills of the past. They just cling to them. And
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  Speaker 1: what is the nefarious reason for that? I mean, why
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  Speaker 1: do we want to dwell on something that happened so
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  Speaker 1: long ago when we have so much success and improvement
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  Speaker 1: that we can point to and say, see, we're better
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  Speaker 1: than we can point to a million countries around the
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  Speaker 1: world overstatement, I know, and talk about how they've never
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  Speaker 1: improved their situation and things are still miserable for their
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  Speaker 1: own populations. It's heartbreaking to me.
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  Speaker 2: Donovant, Well, you can't make everybody happy. I liken it
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  Speaker 2: to you know, I don't want to get confusing here
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  Speaker 2: with faith. And not all your listeners I know are
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  Speaker 2: probably people of faith, but to me, it's a faith element,
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  Speaker 2: right you. You know, if you're like me, I've had
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  Speaker 2: experiences where you get those of my faith and further
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  Speaker 2: from my faith right. But I think when you, for me,
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  Speaker 2: at least going to church, recommitting to my faith and
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  Speaker 2: reconnecting to some of those core tenets you know, has
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  Speaker 2: an impact on me in a positive way and moves
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  Speaker 2: me closer to where I think, not only do my
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  Speaker 2: does my mom want me to be, but probably where
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  Speaker 2: I know as a person, I need to be right,
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  Speaker 2: same thing with our same thing, with our country right,
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  Speaker 2: and that you can fall away from it. You can
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  Speaker 2: you feel this distance or you see something or hear
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  Speaker 2: something in the news, or God forbid to read something
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  Speaker 2: on social media and say, say, grasses greener on the
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  Speaker 2: other side, I just don't you know, maybe I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as proud as I think I am of the nation
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  Speaker 2: that I'm I'm blessed to be born in but you
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  Speaker 2: know when you come to again a plug in this event,
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  Speaker 2: you come to an event like this, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: you get involved like we see volunteers and activists do
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  Speaker 2: every day at AFP. They come out of that experience
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  Speaker 2: knocking doors, going to a rally, attending an event like
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  Speaker 2: this with that sort of renewed spirit for seef, duty,
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  Speaker 2: for being involve And so I would challenge folks to
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  Speaker 2: use this opportunity because they're feeling that way weeks out
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  Speaker 2: from our nation's birthday, to make that commitment drive an
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  Speaker 2: hour and a half north of In fact, we have
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  Speaker 2: a bus that we're put together for southwest Ohio that
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  Speaker 2: even bring you up if you can't drive up, but
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  Speaker 2: gives you that event, can give you that opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: feel that we're an in spirit for our nation, and
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  Speaker 2: we'd love to be the you know, be able to
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  Speaker 2: have many of your listeners join us up there. June
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  Speaker 2: twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: It's that shot of patriotism you get when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the honor fly tri State return Home celebration. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of those kind of things renewed sense of patriotism,
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  Speaker 1: and Lord knows we could all use it and it's
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  Speaker 1: something we should regularly try to find in our lives
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  Speaker 1: because we do have the best country the world has
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. Well, you talked about the what, which is
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  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth? What about the where and
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  Speaker 1: the when? Don it?
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  Speaker 2: Than and Neil? Yeah, it's going to be in Columbus
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  Speaker 2: at Scott's Miracle Grow Turf Field. That's the Columbus Crew
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  Speaker 2: Soccer Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, five o'clock Monday June twenty second,
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  Speaker 2: five pm Monday June twenty second. We'll have it a
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  Speaker 2: bent up there. We do have buses coming in. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: George Brunneman for more Store Liberty started promoting some of that.
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  Speaker 2: So if any of your listeners know George, reach out
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  Speaker 2: to George Bunnman, reach out to your friends at Restore Liberty,
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  Speaker 2: let them know you want to get on the bus
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  Speaker 2: to the AFP of America to fifty event. We're putting
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  Speaker 2: it together. We'll have about fifty five seats available for
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  Speaker 2: that for that group out of Southwest Ohio, so we
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  Speaker 2: can make it easy for you to get there.
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  Speaker 1: Even fantastic and I appreciate you doing that and shout
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  Speaker 1: out to George. He's an outstanding guy, and let us
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  Speaker 1: remind my listening audience Donovan, how important it is to
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  Speaker 1: rally the troops to get into the polls in November.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt. I mean that is so you
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  Speaker 2: know you renew that spirit for America and then do
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  Speaker 2: your American duty get out and vote better. Yet, we
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  Speaker 2: know your listeners are going to vote, Brian, they need
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  Speaker 2: to get involved in the campaign alongside AFP Action inside
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  Speaker 2: our team to make sure to remind people, their friends
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors in the community to go vote. It's this
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  Speaker 2: country is too important to let it slip through and
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  Speaker 2: not put an hour of your own time into your
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  Speaker 2: civic duty.
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  Speaker 1: Here, Lord knows it's worth getting off your bottom and
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  Speaker 1: get into the polls just to keep Amy Acting from
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  Speaker 1: being our next governor because I don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: through another lockdown. Donovan and the Americans for Prosperity, mister
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  Speaker 1: patriot himself get a renewed sense of patriotism June twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: Get the details at AFP Action, correct, Donovan.
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  Speaker 2: Actually a two fifty Ohio like America to fifty Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: a two fifty Ohio dot com.
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  Speaker 1: A two fifty Ohio dot com.
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  Speaker 2: But