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EXPOSED: David Hogg Caught in SHOCKING Project Veritas Video! (Ep.214) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of stories to get to today.
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  Speaker 1: David Hogg is caught admitting that Nancy Pelosi's stock trades
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  Speaker 1: look very, very corrupt. A gun control activist fabricates a
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  Speaker 1: school shooting story to manipulate people's emotions. Joe Rogan highlights
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  Speaker 1: the deadly consequences of reintroducing wolves in Colorado. The Washington
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  Speaker 1: Post absurdly claims that tax-free tips are somehow bad for workers.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Buttigieg now cares about border security and COVID insanity.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's CNN ratings plummet. Massachusetts Democrats want to limit
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  Speaker 1: how far people can drive to meet climate targets. And
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  Speaker 1: my dad officially introduces the Great American Road Trip Initiative.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongino Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Pelosi's actually very good at her job.
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  Speaker 3: I don't agree with the stock trading stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she gets better returns than almost every hedge fund in
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  Speaker 3: the city. Every year. Some of these members of Congress
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  Speaker 3: make trades that are way too well-timed to not have
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  Speaker 3: insider knowledge. They happen to be some of the best
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  Speaker 3: financial analysts in human history.
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  Speaker 1: That was David Hogg caught on a hidden camera by
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  Speaker 1: Project Veritas. slamming at Nancy Pelosi's two well-timed stock trades.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? I say, hell yeah, he's right.
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  Speaker 1: You mean to tell me it's just a coincidence that
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  Speaker 1: all these members of Congress, especially Nancy Pelosi and a
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  Speaker 1: whole host of others, just magically make perfectly timed stock
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  Speaker 1: trades year and year after year? Give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: These people aren't Wall Street prodigies.
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  Speaker 1: They're politicians. And yet somehow, they outperform hedge funds, beat
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  Speaker 1: the market. like it's rigged in their favor, which if
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  Speaker 1: we're being honest, it absolutely is. They're sitting in closed-door
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  Speaker 1: meetings drafting legislation that shifts entire industries, and then surprise, surprise,
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  Speaker 1: their portfolios shift too. The worst part, we see it,
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  Speaker 1: we know it, and nothing ever happens. No consequences, no shame.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a slap in the face to every working-class
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  Speaker 1: person who plays by the rules, to every voter who
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  Speaker 1: thought representative meant something more than just rich person with
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  Speaker 1: better tips. It's corruption dressed in a suit, walking the
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  Speaker 1: halls of Congress like it owns the place. And every
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  Speaker 1: shady trade chips away at what little trust we already
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  Speaker 1: have in the system. You want to know why people
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  Speaker 1: are cynical? Why they don't vote? Look no further than
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  Speaker 1: the stock ticker of the so-called People's House. And frankly,
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  Speaker 1: to AOC's credit, she and Matt Gaetz had tried to
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  Speaker 1: previously prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependents from
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  Speaker 1: owning and trading individual stocks. And that bill never made
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  Speaker 1: it to the House floor. Drop a comment.
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  Speaker 2: You guys let me know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it will ever make it to the
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  Speaker 1: House floor? I kind of doubt it. Now, David Hogg
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  Speaker 1: went on to admit something pretty interesting. He isn't interested
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  Speaker 1: in saying any of this out loud. He never has.
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  Speaker 1: This was a secret camera that caught him. Secret soundbite.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got other priorities that would inhibit him from
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  Speaker 1: calling out this kind of corruption that we're calling out
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  Speaker 1: right here on the show openly. We could just talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Take a listen to what David Hogg followed
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  Speaker 1: up with.
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  Speaker 3: Have you spoken against that? I've talked to him, but
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  Speaker 3: it's also like, I know that if I pick that fight,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be harder for us to get gun
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  Speaker 3: control passed. So I pick my battle. The hardest part
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  Speaker 3: about my job is I just want to burn everything
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  Speaker 3: down because it's all so corrupt. But you've got to
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  Speaker 3: pick your battles and slowly build your momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to get to that in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Michael wants me to note that we have done very
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  Speaker 1: well in the stock market mimicking Nancy Pelosi's trades.
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  Speaker 2: So take that as you will.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a Twitter account where they're following her
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  Speaker 1: trades just kind of incessantly, however, the best way that
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  Speaker 1: they can. So Some free advice from Michael on apparently
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing in the stock market. That's not my realm.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But she does make really good calls.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, just when we thought there was some common
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  Speaker 1: ground with David Hogg, he then admits that he can't
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  Speaker 1: speak out against congressional insider trading because he's just too
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  Speaker 1: busy doing his best to obliterate the Second Amendment. There's
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  Speaker 1: something deeply grating about... the smug moral certainty that David
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  Speaker 1: Hogg and his entire cohort project every time they take
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  Speaker 1: the mic to condemn the Second Amendment. This is constant
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  Speaker 1: finger wagging at millions of law-abiding citizens simply exercising their
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  Speaker 1: constitutional rights. He talks like Anyone who disagrees is complicit
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  Speaker 1: in murder, as if the founders were just a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of gun-obsessed lunatics rather than men who had stared down
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  Speaker 1: an empire and knew exactly what unchecked power looks like.
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  Speaker 2: The Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't written for sport or for show. It was written
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  Speaker 1: in blood as the last bulwark against tyranny when all
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  Speaker 1: other rights fail. The musket was the final vote when
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  Speaker 1: speech no longer mattered. True liberty means real responsibility, and
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  Speaker 1: the founders understood that sometimes preserving freedom doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: hashtags and applause lines. It looks like a free people
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  Speaker 1: with the power to just say no, not with words,
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  Speaker 1: but with actual force, if truly necessary. And you strip
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  Speaker 1: that away, and all the other rights start to look
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  Speaker 1: a lot more fragile. The Second Amendment is constantly under attack.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't always make it in the news. Not everyone cares,
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  Speaker 1: but it matters. Because in February, a left-wing activist, his
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  Speaker 1: name is Calvin Polachek, he spoke at a Moms Demand
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  Speaker 1: Action for Gun Sense in America rally. And Calvin delivered
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  Speaker 1: this harrowing account, truly harrowing, of surviving an active shooter
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  Speaker 1: situation at a Dallas high school. And apparently this situation
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  Speaker 1: killed his brother, best friend, and.
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  Speaker 2: Nine others in 2017.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is discussing this.
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  Speaker 2: This gruesome, horrifying event.
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  Speaker 1: Survivors like Calvin Polachek shared their own experiences. In 2017, Polachek.
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  Speaker 4: Was in a school shooting in Dallas, Pennsylvania, where he
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  Speaker 4: lost his best friend, his brother, and nine classmates.
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  Speaker 5: A week later, I had to go back to the school,
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  Speaker 5: and that was the worst part.
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  Speaker 1: You had to walk.
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  Speaker 5: Past that spot where I saw my best friend.
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  Speaker 6: Right? And pretend it was all normal.
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  Speaker 2: It was not normal.
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  Speaker 5: Folks, that's been eight years. And I've been talking about
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  Speaker 5: this every single day since then for eight years. Eight
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  Speaker 5: years of talking about this. And there's been nothing that's changed.
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  Speaker 1: My heart goes out to him. Truly, I feel horrible
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  Speaker 1: that he had to endure this horrific event, except for
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  Speaker 1: it didn't happen. It literally didn't happen. The Dallas School
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  Speaker 1: District issued a statement this week refuting... Politech's allegation saying,
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  Speaker 1: thankfully that never happened. The discussion on the clip about
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  Speaker 1: Dallas and school violence is factually not accurate. The Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Township Police Chief and the local county district attorney also
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  Speaker 1: weighed in. The police chief stated that the widespread sharing
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  Speaker 1: of a fabricated tragedy is not only reckless, it's harmful,
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  Speaker 1: it fuels unnecessary fear, disrespects the experiences of real victims
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  Speaker 1: of school violence, and misleads the public with a narrative
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  Speaker 1: that That has no basis in truth. The county district
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  Speaker 1: attorney has now launched an investigation to see if this
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  Speaker 1: man's comments constitute a crime. The funniest response has been
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  Speaker 1: from Calvin's classmates who on Facebook have been joking about
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  Speaker 1: how they just realized they survived this harrowing school shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, guys, I saw this.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like, I can't believe he lied about it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of psychopath does that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. But then I thought I reflected some more
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what? Actually, the kind of,
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  Speaker 1: emotional manipulation that we saw in that clip defines the
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  Speaker 1: modern anti-second amendment movement. Really, dishonesty, emotional manipulation, all designed
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  Speaker 1: to short circuit critical thinking. The strategy has always been
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  Speaker 1: on this issue to weaponize fear, bypass facts, and paint
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  Speaker 1: anyone who defends gun rights as heartless. And the worst
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  Speaker 1: part is that it works on a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: The Second Amendment is the firewall between the citizen and tyranny,
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  Speaker 1: the safeguard against a state that thinks your freedom is optional.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about violence. It is about a balancing of power.
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  Speaker 1: Disarming the public doesn't make us safer. It makes us subjects.
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  Speaker 1: This is the strategy. I really think that if the
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  Speaker 1: founders saw us today they would be horrified.
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  Speaker 2: Like now more.
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  Speaker 1: Than ever, we need to hold on to the Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just was, I was last night, I
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  Speaker 1: was putting this show together and I was just reflecting
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  Speaker 1: on what's happened in the last few years, just in
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  Speaker 1: my own lifetime. I mean, the way that we've just
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  Speaker 1: curtailed essential liberties post 9-11, which is this rise of
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  Speaker 1: the surveillance state, the IRS targeting conservative organizations under the
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  Speaker 1: Obama admin, intelligence officials falsely labeling the Hunter Biden laptop
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  Speaker 1: as Russian disinformation. and then directing social media companies to
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  Speaker 1: censor free speech. The FBI submitting a FISA application with
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  Speaker 1: falsified information to surveil the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that FISA Section 702 exists at all, that's
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  Speaker 1: warrantless surveillance on American citizens, the NSA's bulk collection of
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  Speaker 1: phone data, Biden's experimental vaccine mandate for private companies, the AFT, ATF,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my goodness, you guys, ATF, attempting to go
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  Speaker 1: after the legal definition of firearm in and circumvent the
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  Speaker 1: Second Amendment. The FBI spying on traditional Catholics in the
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  Speaker 1: last admin, throwing pro-lifers and J6ers behind bars, J6ers in
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  Speaker 1: solitary confinement, raiding the home with the president of the
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  Speaker 1: United States.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotten out of control. It feels like it's escalating.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a bit of reprieve right now under
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, but there's no doubt about it that people
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  Speaker 1: are out of control, especially in the executive, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that they've read the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why I was happy to learn yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump admin, this is brilliant, they have developed a
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  Speaker 1: new training course on the Constitution for government employees who
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  Speaker 1: want to join the senior executive service, the staff members
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  Speaker 1: at the top levels of government. So this includes 80
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  Speaker 1: hours of video-based training surrounding the founding ideals of our government,
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Constitution, plus a two-day in-person training in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: And the goal of this program is to, quote, ensure
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  Speaker 1: that SES officials uphold the Constitution and the rule of
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  Speaker 1: law and effectively serve the American people. Honestly, guys, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that most people serving in the federal government
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  Speaker 1: have ever read the Constitution before. This is a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: This is essential. I don't think that they know.
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  Speaker 2: Now, some of them, I mean, it's fully weaponized.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Barack Obama, some of
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  Speaker 1: these guys who have just completely circumvented the Constitution, they
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  Speaker 1: know the rules and they are just brazenly violating it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care.
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  Speaker 2: But there are a lot of people who I.
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  Speaker 1: Just think have no concept of checks and balances, have
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  Speaker 1: no concept of the rights of the American people. And
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  Speaker 1: they need to be reminded, they need to be taught
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  Speaker 1: what our Constitution actually says is within their purview and
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  Speaker 1: what is a right and a liberty of the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're not acting like they've read the document at all.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this is a really welcome initiative from
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  Speaker 1: the Biden, from the Biden, from the Trump admin in
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  Speaker 1: response to all of the corruption we've seen under the
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  Speaker 1: Biden admin.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to a story in a few.
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  Speaker 2: This was a photo that.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan shared last night, gory photo on Instagram. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about this more in just a second.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to our ads first, though. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I was going to give you a content warning here
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  Speaker 1: for this photo that Joe Rogan shared last night. But then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Michael just threw it up there beforehand. Michael
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  Speaker 1: says you guys needed to see it. So content warning
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  Speaker 1: for the photo you already saw. This is very gory.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan shared this on X yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It is a little calf that has the entire half
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  Speaker 1: of its body missing.
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  Speaker 2: It was eaten.
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  Speaker 1: It was torn apart by wolves.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys had any... Looks like
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  Speaker 2: steak to me.
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  Speaker 1: No, Michael, I'm not going to say that. Michael's in
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  Speaker 1: my ear saying some heinous stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I said that on the program. Oh, you did. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever actually spent any time around baby calves before?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. A little bit. They're like puppies. I have,
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  Speaker 1: because I had a friend who lived on a farm
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  Speaker 1: growing up, and I went there all the time. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: my parents were gone or whatever, I'd go and sleep
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  Speaker 1: over at my friend's house. They had a lot of animals,
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  Speaker 1: including baby calves, and they were so cute, and they
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  Speaker 1: were like puppies. Just the sweetest, most loving animals ever.
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  Speaker 1: So it breaks me hard to see that photo. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this little calf was eaten alive. And so Rogan explains
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  Speaker 1: in this post that these wolves have been released on
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  Speaker 1: his friend's ranch outside of Aspen, Colorado, and that on
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  Speaker 1: his neighbor's property, they've had seven calves and one cow
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  Speaker 1: killed by wolves so far, along with four calves and
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  Speaker 1: one cow wounded. And Joe Rogan went on to list
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  Speaker 1: other ranchers whose cows and calves have been killed or
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  Speaker 1: wounded in the area just over Memorial Day weekend. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: these ranchers have had to hire men to patrol throughout
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  Speaker 1: the night to try and scare off wolves, but even
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  Speaker 1: that is not enough to stop really, I mean, these creatures,
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  Speaker 1: these predatory creatures from killing the livestock. And this is
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  Speaker 1: happening because this area is very left wing and they
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  Speaker 1: voted actually to reintroduce gray wolves. So this is something
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  Speaker 1: that the people of Colorado in this part of Colorado
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  Speaker 1: chose to do. Here is Joe Rogan explaining more.
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  Speaker 4: So the United States had wolves all throughout the West,
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  Speaker 4: and then they eradicated them because they kill everything. Because
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  Speaker 4: they kill livestock, they kill horses, they pack up, they
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  Speaker 4: get big packs, and then they devastate livestock, sheep herders, cattle.
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  Speaker 4: So they all murdered all the wolves. So now these people,
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  Speaker 4: these greenies, these little cutie pies, decided to bring back
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  Speaker 4: the most intelligent, telepathic apex predator that operates in packs.
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  Speaker 4: And you decide to let them loose near a ski town. Like, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Why the f * * *?
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  Speaker 4: Because they're cute. Because these are people that grew up
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  Speaker 4: in cities and they don't understand. It's called ballot box biology.
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  Speaker 4: It's a bunch of people who grew up in the city.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know what the f * * * they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: And they don't know what a wolf really is. They
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  Speaker 4: just think, wildlife's amazing. And then so you've let loose
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  Speaker 4: apex predators in an area where nothing is prepared for them.
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  Speaker 4: These animals don't know to look for wolves. They've never
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  Speaker 4: experienced a wolf before. They don't have a natural instinct
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  Speaker 4: to run away when they see the wolves. They don't
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  Speaker 4: know what the fuck is going on. And then you've
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  Speaker 4: got cattle.
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  Speaker 3: You can't tell wolves what to kill either.
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  Speaker 4: Of course not. Well, here's even better. The first ones
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  Speaker 4: they got– so they had a mandate to get these.
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  Speaker 4: Colorado voted. They voted to release wolves. And so the
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  Speaker 4: governor had to get it done within a certain period
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  Speaker 4: of time. And so they got wolves from Oregon– that
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  Speaker 4: had been killing cattle. So these wolves, they captured them
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  Speaker 4: because they had been killing cattle and then they released
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  Speaker 4: them in Colorado where they, wait for it, started killing cattle.
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  Speaker 6: Duh.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on in Colorado? People from Colorado in
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  Speaker 1: the chat, like drop a comment. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in your state, but it's like they have
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  Speaker 1: Trendy Aragua, illegal immigrant criminal gang members taking over apartment complexes.
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  Speaker 1: And the people of Colorado, at least the law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: are like, yeah, it's no big deal. This is being
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  Speaker 1: misrepresented by the Trump bad men and radical Republicans. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the redirection of wolves. The people of
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  Speaker 1: Colorado voted for it. And the ranchers are sounding the alarms.
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  Speaker 1: Regular people from other states are like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy. Who would do this?
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  Speaker 2: And the people are like, no, this is totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, what is the mindset here of people
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado and the decisions that they make? And the
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  Speaker 1: downplaying of just very dangerous situations that they're putting their
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  Speaker 1: citizens in. I mean, very soon, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go on a hike in Colorado. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to let your dogs and
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  Speaker 1: your cats outside the house in Colorado if you've got
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  Speaker 1: a wolf problem. Joe Rogan went on to write in
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  Speaker 1: his post yesterday, For the record, I love wolves and
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  Speaker 1: all wildlife, but moving intelligent, ruthless predators into a community
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  Speaker 1: filled with cattle ranchers that have no experience with wolves
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  Speaker 1: is an insanely stupid thing to do. And they've spent
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  Speaker 1: over $ 4. 7 million of taxpayer money doing it. And some
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  Speaker 1: of you guys know my parents, they live in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: And New Jersey has a massive bear problem because similar story,
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  Speaker 1: people have suspended and restricted bear hunting multiple times in
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  Speaker 1: that state in recent years. And the problem with predator
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  Speaker 1: reintroduction or the prohibiting of very reasonable hunting is that
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  Speaker 1: It almost always is pushed by clueless idealists who live
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  Speaker 1: very far away in a safe.
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  Speaker 2: Distance from any of the consequences.
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  Speaker 1: These people who voted in Colorado for this to happen
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  Speaker 1: don't live next to the kill sites.
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  Speaker 2: They don't bury mauled calves.
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  Speaker 1: And they sure as hell don't patrol in the dark
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  Speaker 1: with a flashlight and a rifle, hoping a wolf doesn't
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  Speaker 1: lunge out from the bushes.
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  Speaker 2: They sit in.
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  Speaker 1: Comfort, romanticizing apex predators, voting for coexistence, probably had a
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  Speaker 1: little sticker on their car, while ranchers and rural families
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  Speaker 1: are left to foot the bill in blood, in stress,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in financial ruin. It's really arrogant. It's really elitist. Life
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on the land is brutal. It's beautiful, but it's unforgiving.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Every animal you raise is a life you're responsible for protecting,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: not from fairy tales, but from real predators with teeth
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and hunger.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I really think that a lot of Americans.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Especially liberal ones who kind of live in these city
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: enclaves where they've never traveled out into rural America, I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: don't think that they have a concept of this reality anymore.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: They live in curated bubbles of comfort, completely disconnected from
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the hard truths of survival and authentic stewardship. And increasingly,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I think that's the real divide in America. It's not
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: really even Democrat or Republican.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Although that's definitely a thing.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And I don't even know if it's rural versus urban,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but it's just like grounded reality versus fantasy in this country.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are living in fantasy land.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and they're making really bad decisions because of it. Speaking
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of divorce from reality, I can't even believe that this
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: article really ran. The Washington Post just published a piece.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: It's titled Exempting tips from taxes could hurt employees, critics say.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: And this piece argues that eliminating taxes on tips is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: actually bad for tip workers because letting tip workers keep
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: more of their money might reinforce the current wage system.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That's the current wage system. So it argues that taking
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: less money home is actually in the best interest of workers.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: In other words, if workers get too much financial relief,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: They might not demand the kind of structural reforms that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: progressives want to see. So I guess never mind the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: part where they get to actually pay their rent or
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: fix their damn car. We wouldn't want to lock in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: a system that waiters can feed their families, where waiters
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: can feed their families. And what really boils down to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: is that I think the left can't stand that this
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: idea came from President Trump, that Republicans worked bipartisanly to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: get this passed. And so instead of admitting that it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a win for working class people, the left is now
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: tying their knot to opposing it for some reason. The
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Post quotes tax and spend think tanks, whining that this
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: could lead to tax avoidance or deplete state budgets. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll just say like newsflash, the tipped workers
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: don't give a damn about state budgets. They care about
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: their budgets, which are always in crisis.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Telling a waitress who just.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Busted her ass. Deplete state budgets.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: That sounds great to me.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I know.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Deplete state budget sounds great to me, too. They don't
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: need any more money. But you have some waitress. She's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: worked her ass off 10 hours. She shouldn't get a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: tax break because it might upset a labor theory among progressives.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: It's just total delusion.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And I don't feel like they are able to really
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: connect with working class people anymore. I talked about this
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit with Savannah Hernandez yesterday. I'm going to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: have a conversation with Batia Ungar Sargon next week that
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I hope you all will tune into. But there's an
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: evolution with the Democratic Party where they used to be
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: for the working class people. They used to pretend like
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they cared about those who are just trying to get by.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And it's very obvious from the things they say and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: especially the things they do that really it's not true
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: at all. It's a grift.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It's a narrative.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's a brand.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And it's not real. It's always been fake.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: At this point, Is anyone surprised with the Democrats' horrific messaging?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Because I'm not. I'm just, I'm not surprised anymore. I just,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I accept it now. They just cannot get their shit together.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Their whole brand was, we care about the little guy,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and they've just said, F it, burn it all down,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: who cares, because we're Trump deranged. I guess some Democrats
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: have joined on this new grift, the C- we're cool
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and reasonable and we critique our own party grift, the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom grift, the I want to be president grift.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Someone else has joined this little movement among the Democratic elite.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Our friend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to what he says in response to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Tim Miller asking him on a podcast what Democrats should
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: have done back when the world was their oyster in 2020.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And Joe Biden has just been elected. I'm going to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be honest, guys. I didn't even recognize this response. It
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: is truly astounding.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: One, for the love of God, figure out a way
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: to get the schools open sooner. We got very knee
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: jerk about this and the costs were not just politically,
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: but but in a profound way, I think for the generation,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: the cost was profound. And I think anybody who was involved,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: who was, by the way, obviously doing their best to
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: deal with the crisis that killed a million Americans. But
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: I think most people involved would like to be able
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: to have found a way to safely get more schools
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: open more quickly.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Obviously.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: That was a great first answer. I had no idea
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: where you... I mean, there's so many ways you could
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: have gone with that. But that is a good... I mean,
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: from where I'm sitting. Obviously, pay more attention to the border.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Uh, that's real. And that's going to be, uh, something
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: that you can't just like take your time to, to,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: to deal with. These are all things, by the way,
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: that is super, you know, policy wise and politically, we
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: have the benefit of hindsight to quite a lot of this, right? Um, three,
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: even though you spent your entire political lifetime believing that
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: the economy and jobs are the same thing. And if
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: you have lots of jobs, it's a good economy. And
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: if you have a problem with jobs, it's a bad economy.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Remember that prices are, is just as big a part
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: of the economy. It just hasn't come up much in
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: the last 40 years, right? Those are some things I'd
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: be whispering.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: So what would you have done differently in prices then?
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: What could you have done differently?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Look, no country was able to save their economy from
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: COVID without getting into some inflation, some serious and painful inflation.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: But I do think that there were a lot of
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: moments where people kind of waved it away in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: first year or two, even just like the conversation about it,
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: the focus was.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Somebody, some of you were commenting about his beard and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Michael said he looks homeless. I don't know. I actually
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: think that the beard is a better look for Pete
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Buttigieg because he had just so, I think it was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: just like so low T that he had like no
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: jawline whatsoever before. He kind of just looked like, I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: don't know, kind of like a pubescent teen, but old.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It was very off-putting. So I think the beard is
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a good look for him. I think he does, maybe
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he looks a little scruffier, but It kind of masks
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the low-T vibe that his facial structure gives off. That aside,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that after four years, people are just
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in the Biden admin. This was somebody who never stepped
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: out of ideological line. He was never critical of anything. Suddenly, now,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: he's claiming to have cared about COVID lockdowns, school closures,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: border security, inflation. Really? Like, after the gaslighting that people
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: like him inflicted on the American people, now we're supposed
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to believe you cared about inflation?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: It's just, it's unbelievable.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But so many of these Democrat elite are jumping on
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this grift and pretending like they've always cared. Mayor Pete,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: plain and simple, is not someone you can trust.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It's really off-putting, I think.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Even grotesque, the way that so many ambitious Democrats have
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: contorted themselves to fit this moment, changing their opinions to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: stay relevant. But I think that people, not just us,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all know kind of instinctively what's going on,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but I think even regular people, middle of the road,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Democrat voters even, they recoil from people who lack conviction,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: who'll sell out yesterday's principles for today's headlines. There's no
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: soul in Gavin Newsom or Mayor Pete. No spine, just
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: pure calculated ambition wrapped up in fake moral urgency. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: deep down, everyone knows it. What you just saw wasn't accountability.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: It was marketing.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And it's gross.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Everyone recognizes it. But the grifters are going to grift.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And speaking of grifters, our friend Jake Tapper has made
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: an absolute fool out of himself again somehow. Here he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: was with Barry Weiss of the Free Press just yesterday.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: And I wish I'd known what I know now. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: would not say I was incurious. I would say that
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: I was one of the many people who was asking
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: about this and was lied to over and over and over.
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: And it wasn't just, you have to remember, the Biden
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: people were not only lying to the press and they
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: were not only lying to the public. They were lying
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: to donors. They were lying to their cabinet secretaries. They
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: were lying to Democratic members of Congress. A cover-up, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: like I said, this was almost a successful one, even
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: though we all saw him aging, we didn't know he was,
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: you know, he had these moments of non-functioning, suggests that
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: there's a lot of people in on something, and whether
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: they were doing it because they believed it or they
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: had been told it, I'd still, at the end of
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: the day, for all the criticism of the media that
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: I'm not pushing back on, that I agree with, at
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: the end of the day, the Democrats did this. At
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: the end of the day, the Biden family and the
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Politburo did this. And yes, there were those of us
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: who should have pushed back more.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: But if you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: Can't get any official to tell you it's really bad
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: behind the scenes, let me tell you how bad it is.
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: I don't know what more we could have done. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: I wish that those people had been more willing to
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: talk to the press.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Dave Smith had the best response to the soundbite. He said, Quote,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the same thing happened to me. The Chris Christie campaign
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: told me over and over again that he was skinny.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I asked, but I was lied to over and over again.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And so I had to report that he was thin
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and demonized those who called him fat.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: What else could I have done? Like the joke here.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Is the Biden admin just said, well, he's totally fine.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: He's like completely mentally there. And Jake Tapper was like, wow,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: what I got. I just had to believe them.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I just had to do it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's truly incredible. He's currently selling himself as an investigative journalist,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: exposing the Biden mental acuity cover-up. And then at the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: same time, he admits in this interview that he and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: his co-author were total victims of a very obvious lie
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that was coming from the White House.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: It's a total contradiction.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: If you're such a great investigative reporter, you would view
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: an observable lie as a lie and investigate years ago.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: But he didn't. And here's the most amazing part. Jake
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Tapper is going around the country promoting this book. He
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: has embarked on a nationwide book tour. He's going on
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: podcasts and talk shows and cable news. And the book
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: is getting relentlessly promoted all across CNN at the same time.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And yet Jake Tapper had his lowest rated month in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: nearly a decade in May. despite a whirlwind publicity tour.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: It's almost like the tour exposing a cover-up that he
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: engaged in and America already knew about four years ago
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: hasn't helped his reputation.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It's actually hurt it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And I hope that that happens to Gavin Newsom, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I hope it happens to Pete Buttigieg, because America sees
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: these people are total frauds, are total grifters, and inauthentic.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: All right, I want to turn to the issue of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: freedom of movement. We've talked about it a few times
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: on the show, but I saw this story and gosh,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: it just reminds me of what we're up against, not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: just here in America, but on a global scale. So
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: apparently Massachusetts Democrat Cynthia Cream, the leader of the state
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Senate in Massachusetts, wants to limit how far you can
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: drive and fine you if you go too far. She's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: introducing this bill that would create a government commission tasked
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: with coming up with ways to reduce the number of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: miles that residents drive in their personal vehicles to bring
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth into compliance with the net zero carbon mandate.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And guys, like I said, horrifying. I hope it doesn't pass.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: But this is part of a global push to limit
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: freedom of movement in the name of climate change.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: France.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: has already outlawed domestic flights less than two and a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: half hours long if a train can be taken instead.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a globalist climate organization
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: made up of nearly 100 cities across the globe, including
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: 14 American cities, has a 2030 target of limiting air
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: travel to one short-haul return flight every three years per person.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: It has to be less than 1,500 kilometers. By the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: year 2050, The UN wants to ban all flights that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: do not use sustainable aviation fuels. Sustainable aviation fuels are
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: wildly expensive and would effectively price most of the world
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: out of air travel, drive airlines out of business altogether.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: The UK has banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: after 2030. And places like California require that by 2035,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all new vehicles in the.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: State be run on electricity.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And of course, meanwhile, the climate activists that head C40 cities,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, continue to gallivant
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: across the globe in their own private jets amid this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: supposed climate crisis. They don't want to give up air
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: travel or their SUVs. They just want to price out
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: regular people from driving cars and flying commercially. And you
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: all know this, but climate policies really are never about
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the climate. They are always about power. I think that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they're is something so disturbing about limiting freedom of movement
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: in the world, in our country. You start to think
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: about the surveillance state rising alongside limits of freedom of movement.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So you can't move anywhere. And you're also being constantly watched.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: There's something deeply Orwellian about this vision of the future.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And it's very clearly not related to the climate at all,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: but about centralized control and power over human beings. And
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the worst part about it is that I think there's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: something profoundly un-American about this because we have a history of.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Movement in this country.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: We are explorers. And yesterday, my dad, Department of Transportation
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Secretary Sean Duffy, he introduced an initiative.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It is called the Great American Road Trip.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I am sure this is going to piss off Massachusetts Democrats,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Democrats across the country who want to stop people from
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: having freedom of movement. But it is going to launch
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: next summer officially, but he's introducing it now. And he's
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: actually going to go on a road trip of his own. Hopefully,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I'm able to join him across the country. More details
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to come. But I am going to bet, guys, that
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: this will piss off Cynthia Cream and everyone at the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: UN and at the WEF and the C40C' s climate leadership group.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: But here he is talking about the Great America Road Trip.
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: Welcome to the Great American Road Trip Expo. All the
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: vehicles that are over here, All American made. The president
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: has tasked everyone from every department to celebrate America 250.
• 34:57
  Speaker 10: The Department of Transportation has come up with the best idea.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: It is going to.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: Be the great American road trip.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: There's nothing more Americana than a road trip, right?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: How many of you guys have seen the Disney movie Cars?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I honestly think that this Disney.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Movie, it came out like 2006.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is the only modern Disney movie
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that Walt Disney might have actually enjoyed, like Walt Disney himself.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: It came out, like I said, years ago, but I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: have always loved this movie. I don't even know why
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I loved it as a kid, but I'm reflecting on
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: it now. And it's kind of a beautiful story. It's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: about cartoon race car, Lightning McQueen, and he's this hot shot.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: It's like a personified car. and he's self-centered, and he's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: obsessed with speed and with glory and the fast life.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: He's the guy. He's the man. Like I said, he's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a hotshot. But circumstances, events happen, and he gets stranded
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: in a Forgotten Route 66 town called Radiator Springs. And
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: so he's forced to slow down, literally and spiritually. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: what he finds is that this town isn't just a
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: pit stop, but a community, like a beautiful community rooted
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: in care and tradition and meaning. You know, these characters,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you had Doc Hudson and Mater and Sally, and they
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: kind of teach him that life isn't always about the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: fast lane, but about connection and humility and honoring what
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: comes before. And the film becomes kind of a quiet
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: ode to America's small towns and the bygone era of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: family-owned diners and quiet nights and real conversations. It's a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: love letter, to the American road, not just a destination,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: but the journey. It's like a modern Huck Finn story,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: a modern Travels with Charlie story. John Steinbeck's Travels with
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Charlie is just a great, great book, nonfiction, but it
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: follows a really similar arc about real life.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It takes place.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: 1960, and John Steinbeck is disillusioned with the noise and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the division in modern America. And so he sets out
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: with his French poodle Charlie in a custom camper and
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: he travels 10,000 miles across the country to rediscover the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: heart of America that he had actually written about a lot,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: but he actually wanted to encounter on his own. And
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: what he discovered were farms and drifters and Southern segregationists
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and Northern suburbanites. And his reflections were full of awe
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and sorrow and empathy. And it became kind of a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: portrait of our country at that time. And really, I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: think a call for all Americans to go and see
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  Speaker 1: this place full hand rather than just theorize about it
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  Speaker 1: from a distance. And I think it's even deeper than that.
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  Speaker 1: I think Americans were pioneers. Like we are descendants of
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  Speaker 1: people who packed up everything and took a chance in
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  Speaker 1: the new world. Like adventurers always looking west, tracing the
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  Speaker 1: spine of Route 66, exploring the corners of the country
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  Speaker 1: that don't always show up in the nightly news or
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  Speaker 1: on your TikTok feed. But it's a way to tap
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  Speaker 1: into the oldest American story, movement as renewal, the road
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  Speaker 1: as rebirth.
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  Speaker 2: It's not kitsch.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of myth. It's American myth. We went on
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  Speaker 1: a road trip when I was little. I talked about
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  Speaker 1: it on the show once before, but we traveled from Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: northern Wisconsin, like up by Lake Superior, all the way
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  Speaker 1: to Arizona to visit my grandparents. And it was long,
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  Speaker 1: It was very cramped and I got dry eye for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason and I was exhausted because my dad Was
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  Speaker 1: very cheap and he did not want to.
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  Speaker 2: Stop very often I think we stopped.
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  Speaker 1: On the whole trip like once for the night and
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  Speaker 1: otherwise we were just we're driving through the night so
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  Speaker 1: it was exhausting but it was just like majestic and
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  Speaker 1: amazing and beautiful and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to do it that way.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to drive through the night.
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  Speaker 1: You can make it a very enjoyable, fun, long, take
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  Speaker 1: your time road trip. But I do think that it's
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  Speaker 1: something a lot of Americans haven't done and really should do,
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  Speaker 1: like a ritual of self-discovery. And, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: it gives families an opportunity to really bond in a
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  Speaker 1: unique way. My parents told us stories while me and
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  Speaker 1: my siblings learned what the country feels like. As a family,
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  Speaker 1: we shared in that awe. and silence driving through the
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  Speaker 1: moments and quiet meals together, roadside diners. I think truly
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  Speaker 1: to drive across America is to move through living memory.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Ghost towns, neon signs, battlefields, forgotten songs comes away with
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  Speaker 1: something that really no screen and I don't think any
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  Speaker 1: kind of classroom can offer. A gut level understanding that
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  Speaker 1: this country is really worth knowing mile by mile. And
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: so there'll be more information about the Great America Road Trip.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be happening next summer, but I think it's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing initiative and something that, for whatever reason, people are
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  Speaker 1: working against. They don't want you to get in a
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  Speaker 1: car and drive across the country. Oh, it's bad for
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  Speaker 1: the environment.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 1: This is an American tradition. This is going to help
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  Speaker 1: you know your country and maybe even know yourself, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is truly beautiful. All right, that's all I
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