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  Speaker 4: too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I have a dream that one day.
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  Speaker 1: American Ground Radio with Lewis R. Avalone and Stephen Farr.
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  Speaker 2: This is American Ground Radio with Lewis R. Avalone.
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  Speaker 5: I have asked this question for time immemorial. Why do
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  Speaker 5: politicians lie to their constituents?
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  Speaker 2: Because it works. That's why. I mean, they get away
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  Speaker 2: with it. They get elected.
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  Speaker 4: And that's always your answer. Because that's the answer. Because
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  Speaker 4: that's the answer. I will change my answer when it
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  Speaker 4: stops being true. The reason why they do it is
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  Speaker 4: because it works. People fall for it.
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  Speaker 2: They get elected. They don't have any punishment for it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't get shamed. They don't get outed. They don't
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  Speaker 2: get They don't get put on Maury Povich. Maury Povich says,
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  Speaker 2: all right, you said you were not the father. We
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  Speaker 2: have the test. Turns out you are the father. We
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  Speaker 2: don't ever get that with the politicians.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong.
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  Speaker 5: There should be a better explanation. But I guess it's
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  Speaker 5: just a commentary on humanity. People will do, many people
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  Speaker 5: will do as much as you will allow them to
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  Speaker 5: get away with. People, if you tolerate bad behavior, then
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  Speaker 5: the person committing that bad behavior is going to push
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  Speaker 5: that as far as they possibly can until you have
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  Speaker 5: enough and you're like, I've had enough.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: But the problem is.
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  Speaker 5: Is that by the time a politician lies to you
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  Speaker 5: and you check the facts and the head, you know,
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  Speaker 5: The headlines already spread. The outrage has already taken hold.
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  Speaker 5: The political damage has already been done. You know, of course,
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  Speaker 5: there's an old saying that a lie can travel halfway
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  Speaker 5: around the world while the truth is still putting on
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  Speaker 5: its shoes. Well, in modern American politics, the lie already
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  Speaker 5: appeared on three, four different nationwide cable networks and all
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  Speaker 5: over social media.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it's already raised $ 2 million. It's launched a fundraising
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  Speaker 5: campaign before the truth has even found its shoes. And
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  Speaker 5: it's not just a Democratic problem. You know, Republicans do
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  Speaker 5: it too. But conservatives ought to be the first people
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  Speaker 5: willing to admit that. Because if we believe in personal
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  Speaker 5: responsibility and honesty and moral character, which we do, those
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  Speaker 5: principles cannot suddenly be optional when the politicians telling the
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  Speaker 5: lie happen to agree with us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And here you've got AOC campaigning in Michigan for Democratic
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  Speaker 5: Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 2: Who has lied about his family's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 5: And she is lying. I mean, she's lying about President
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  Speaker 5: Trump not wanting women to go to college. Take a
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  Speaker 5: listen to this clip, Ms.
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  Speaker 6: Producer. Clip number two.
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  Speaker 7: Social workers, they don't want women to go to college, y'all.
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  Speaker 7: And they're defunding the ability for people to become nurses, teachers,
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  Speaker 7: social workers. We have to understand what the deal is here,
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  Speaker 7: because then what happens is that the UP doesn't have doctors,
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  Speaker 7: and then if you do become a doctor, you're in
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  Speaker 7: so much debt, you have to go to a big
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  Speaker 7: city to get a really high-paying job just to pay.
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  Speaker 6: Off your loan.
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  Speaker 7: So once we address this issue, we're able to expand
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  Speaker 7: our ability to have health care for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she was going on to say that basically all
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  Speaker 5: public universities ought to be tuition free and we shouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: She called student debt indentured servitude.
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  Speaker 6: That's how she described it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's absolutely not what it is. What the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration has done is said we're going to stop giving
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  Speaker 2: college loans out to degrees where the cost of the
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  Speaker 2: college loan is higher than the expected revenue you can
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  Speaker 2: make from the degree. It's not about saying women can't
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  Speaker 2: go to college. It's about saying we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: put Americans into unsustainable debt just so they can say
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  Speaker 2: they have a degree. If that happens to be more
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  Speaker 2: women doing those degree plans than men, okay, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: But how is putting women into college debt acceptable when
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  Speaker 2: you're saying, well, at least women get to go to college? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they get to go to college, but they're saddled with
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  Speaker 2: debt for the rest of their lives.
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  Speaker 6: That's not good.
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  Speaker 2: That's not helping people.
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  Speaker 6: But just think about how dishonest this is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a big difference between saying, I disagree
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  Speaker 5: with the administration's student loan policies.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: And saying that the president of the United States doesn't
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  Speaker 5: want women to receive an education. Look at all the
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  Speaker 5: women in his administration who are all very highly educated.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the women in his family. His daughter, Tiffany,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps the least talked about Trump child, just got her
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  Speaker 2: law degree.
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 2: When he got back in office. She has a juris...
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  Speaker 2: Juris doctor. Juris doctor, right?
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  Speaker 6: Well, she probably has jurisprudence as well.
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  Speaker 2: Probably, yeah. So she goes and gets her law degree,
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  Speaker 2: and Donald Trump says, look what my daughter did. You
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  Speaker 2: think he really doesn't want women? Kai, his granddaughter Kai,
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  Speaker 2: going to university.
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  Speaker 6: Going to the university.
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  Speaker 2: So he absolutely wants the women in his family to
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  Speaker 2: go to college. He wants the women in your family
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  Speaker 2: to go to college as long as it makes economic
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  Speaker 2: sense for you and your family.
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  Speaker 5: But for the low information voter, and by that I'm
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  Speaker 5: not disparaging anyone who can't keep up with every single
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  Speaker 5: dollar in every budget or every person. possible amendment or
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  Speaker 5: law that is passed by their state legislature. Because look,
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  Speaker 5: we're all out here trying to earn a living, raise
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  Speaker 5: our families, provide for our families. It's tough to keep
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  Speaker 5: up with everything that is going on.
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  Speaker 6: I get that.
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  Speaker 5: What I mean by low information is more about the
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  Speaker 5: fact that you might be more susceptible to latch on
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  Speaker 5: to a false narrative.
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  Speaker 2: Can I call them the easily offended voter?
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  Speaker 6: Or easily influenced?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you are easily offended, it may be because
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  Speaker 2: you haven't actually bothered to check the details behind what
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  Speaker 2: was said. You're reacting off of emotion and not off
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  Speaker 2: of truth.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, if AOC, if she had done
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  Speaker 5: her homework, Which, by the way, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: she went to college or not.
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  Speaker 2: She did.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. But nevertheless.
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  Speaker 2: But then she had to go to, she was a bartender.
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  Speaker 2: She graduated college so she could work as a bartender.
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  Speaker 5: In 2024, women accounted for approximately 58% of adult college enrollment. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Men accounted for approximately 42%. So women are not, but see,
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  Speaker 5: this is the narrative because she's trying to stir up
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  Speaker 5: all of this division. Women are not some tiny minority
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  Speaker 5: struggling to get through the university gates. Women are the
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  Speaker 5: majority of college students.
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  Speaker 2: But look at what's happened to college since we've had
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  Speaker 2: the Department of Education has gone through and taken over
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  Speaker 2: college loans. The cost of college has gone up as fast—
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  Speaker 2: As Obamacare drove up the cost of health care, when
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  Speaker 2: the government gets involved in running the finances of an industry,
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  Speaker 2: that industry all of a sudden will become unsustainable. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to get government out of the college business and
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  Speaker 2: we've got to get it back into the state and
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  Speaker 2: local level so that the cost for college will come
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  Speaker 2: down and stop being propped up by federal debt.
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  Speaker 5: You know what else we have to do? Because, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when I ask the question, why do politicians lie? It's
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  Speaker 5: because we have to demand honesty as voters. We have
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  Speaker 5: to demand it consistently.
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  Speaker 6: And you know why?
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  Speaker 5: Because truth is not a political strategy. It is a
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  Speaker 5: moral obligation. There's a difference.
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  Speaker 2: And if we as voters continue to reward dishonesty at
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  Speaker 2: the ballot box, we will end up with more dishonesty
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  Speaker 2: In the campaigns.
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  Speaker 5: And the thing is, is there is a difference between
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  Speaker 5: being wrong and being dishonest.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 6: And AOC, she is absolutely both.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to the top three things. First thing you
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  Speaker 2: need to know, the federal government is suing the state
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  Speaker 2: of California over its voter rolls. Earlier in the week,
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  Speaker 2: the DOJ had asked California to check the veracity of
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  Speaker 2: voter registrations for 20,000 people who received official ballots in
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  Speaker 2: the mail. California is a process where individuals who get
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  Speaker 2: a driver's license are automatically registered to vote, and California
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  Speaker 2: allows non-citizens to get driver's licenses. Acting Deputy Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Trent McConner said California is facilitating unlawful voting by knowingly
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  Speaker 2: allowing non-citizens to vote. This needs to stop. California Secretary
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  Speaker 2: of State Shirley Weber denounced the lawsuit, saying California's election
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  Speaker 2: administration will continue to be governed by applicable federal institutions.
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  Speaker 2: state law, not by unsubstantiated claims and outrageous demands.
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  Speaker 6: Then why not cooperate?
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  Speaker 5: Why not cooperate with the Trump administration and make your
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  Speaker 5: records transparent?
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  Speaker 6: Just put them all out on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Or just check to make sure that people that are
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  Speaker 2: on your voter rolls aren't also illegal aliens. Just check.
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  Speaker 2: Second thing you need to know, Southern California was once
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  Speaker 2: again under threat from wildfires near Los Angeles. The Bryson
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  Speaker 2: Canyon fires burned up hundreds of acres already near Malibu.
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  Speaker 2: Schools in Malibu were canceled on Friday due to the threat.
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  Speaker 2: There have also been mandatory evacuations in the area. 70,000
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  Speaker 2: customers were without power as specific gas and electric shutoff
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  Speaker 2: power as a precaution to prevent more fires from sparking.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles still has not recovered from a 2025 fire
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  Speaker 2: that destroyed thousands of homes in the city. Only a
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  Speaker 2: handful of the people who lost their homes have been
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  Speaker 2: able to rebuild in the year and a half since
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  Speaker 2: those fires started.
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  Speaker 6: Now, legitimately, why is this such an issue?
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  Speaker 5: I know there are environmental conditions in California that make
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  Speaker 5: these brush fires more susceptible, right?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Can't they get a hold of what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Their environmental policy does not allow for the clearing out
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  Speaker 2: of brush and controlled burns within wildfire areas. And so
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  Speaker 2: they're storing up fuel for fires.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe that needs to change.
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  Speaker 2: And the third thing you need to know, President Trump's
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  Speaker 2: newest White House press secretary, Kate Zacharia, is out after
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  Speaker 2: just five days on the job. Zacharia was roasted in
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  Speaker 2: the media after she appeared nervous during her first press conference.
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  Speaker 2: She was also accused of inflating a resume when she
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  Speaker 2: referred to herself as an attorney but never passed the
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  Speaker 2: bar exam. President Trump told the media he asked Zachary
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  Speaker 2: if this role was for her after she became the
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  Speaker 2: center of the criticism. The administration says she will be
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  Speaker 2: transitioning to a new role that is yet to be announced.
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  Speaker 5: She was on The Apprentice, and she's a nice woman.
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  Speaker 5: But I think President Trump would basically say to her,
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  Speaker 5: you're fired.
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  Speaker 2: He's at least saying you're transferred. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Stephen Farr with Lewis R.
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  Speaker 4: Avalone.
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  Speaker 5: You know, sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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  Speaker 5: And then sometimes it rolls down the hill. You know,
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  Speaker 5: almost every family, you got that one relative. You know
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  Speaker 5: the one I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about apples.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know the one I'm talking about, the one
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  Speaker 5: that does, you know, does something a little outrageous, maybe
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  Speaker 5: lives a different lifestyle that everybody else.
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  Speaker 6: In the family starts, you know.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, well, before you say anything, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not my brother or I'm not my cousin or whatever
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  Speaker 5: it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's what most of the family says about me.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I love my sister, but I'm not responsible for
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  Speaker 5: what comes out of her mouth, right? Sometimes you don't
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  Speaker 5: have to say anything.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what my family says about me.
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  Speaker 5: Or you might say, well, we're not that close, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I understand that.
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  Speaker 5: But you can share the same last name without sharing
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  Speaker 5: the same judgment.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. All right.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. And President Obama apparently believes that as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't share the same last name.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no. But.
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  Speaker 5: He is campaigning for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. But Abdul El-Sayed has a sister.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Or a sister-in-law. Well, half-sister. Half-sister.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have the same mother.
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  Speaker 5: Well, nevertheless, she apparently was put on a federal terrorism
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  Speaker 5: watch list by President Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this may be a different story. I'm sorry. His
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  Speaker 2: half-sister is the one who says that they have connections
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  Speaker 2: to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, no. This is his sister-in-law.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: El-Sayed's sister-in-law.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just saying that President Obama is like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: your sister-in-law was on the terror watch list.
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  Speaker 6: I can't really come campaign for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But that didn't seem to bother him.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's able to go.
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  Speaker 5: Now, she was on the terror watch list. But the
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  Speaker 5: FBI is refusing to explain why she was on the
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  Speaker 5: terror watch list.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe because of her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of awkward, awkward. And then she actually sued the
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  Speaker 5: Obama administration because she was on the list.
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  Speaker 6: She didn't want to be on the list.
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  Speaker 2: Most terrorists don't.
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  Speaker 6: No, exactly. It's better to.
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  Speaker 5: It's better to be more anonymous in those cases. Just
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  Speaker 5: kind of be low-key.
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  Speaker 2: It's harder to be able to take flying lessons, for example,
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  Speaker 2: when you're on the terrorism watch list.
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  Speaker 5: So nevertheless, I say all of this because Obama is
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  Speaker 5: going to Michigan, and he is going to be campaigning
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  Speaker 5: for al-Sayed, despite the fact that his sister-in-law was on
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  Speaker 5: the terror watch list.
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  Speaker 6: On his... The Obama administration's terror watch list.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's very interesting because one of the demographics that
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  Speaker 2: El-Sayed is not doing well with is black Democrat voters.
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  Speaker 2: Black Democrats don't like El-Sayed all that much, so that
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  Speaker 2: may be why Obama's heading to Michigan.
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  Speaker 6: How's he doing with the terrorists?
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  Speaker 2: We have no connection. No connection whatsoever. We got a
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  Speaker 2: question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: of the guy who cosplayed as a Christian until he
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  Speaker 2: became one?
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's ask our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us now are American Mamas Terry Nedeville and
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Burleson. Okay, y'all are both tearing up because you
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  Speaker 2: just watched some of the videos of this. This is
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  Speaker 2: a guy named Brian Guan. And he was an atheist.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, you know what? I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: pretend as if God was real. And he says, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to do four things every day as part of
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  Speaker 2: this little experiment I'm doing to pretend and see if
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  Speaker 2: pretending that I'm a Christian makes me feel any better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to wake up and be grateful. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pray. I'm going to read the Bible. And then
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try and apply what I've learned in
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  Speaker 2: the Bible to my daily life. And by day 20
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  Speaker 2: of him doing this, atheist, by day 20 of it,
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  Speaker 2: he's in tears. He's crying. And he says, Jesus is real.
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving my life to Jesus. He's my Lord and Savior.
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  Speaker 2: I can't pretend anymore. He didn't get through his 30-day challenge.
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  Speaker 2: He got through day 20. What do you guys think?
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  Speaker 8: Well, you're right. We've been in tears over this because
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  Speaker 8: when you watch the video, if you go to his
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  Speaker 8: page on Instagram and you go through and watch some
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  Speaker 8: of those days and you get to day 20 and
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  Speaker 8: you see everything just fall off, all of the doubts
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  Speaker 8: fall away from him and he starts crying himself. and
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  Speaker 8: he's like, he's real, bro. He's real, dude. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 8: is my Lord and Savior. And you can feel it,
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  Speaker 8: just like I just got chills again, like I did
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  Speaker 8: the first time I watched it. To see somebody and
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  Speaker 8: be able to feel what they're feeling just by watching them,
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  Speaker 8: that is Christ. And if we're ever in need of
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  Speaker 8: a social contagion, this is the one.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting you mention that, because since day 20, there
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  Speaker 2: have been at least three other atheists that I've seen
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  Speaker 2: that have started posting on social media. Now, maybe they're
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: doing it for the clicks, because obviously this guy's following
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  Speaker 2: went way up once he started saying he was doing
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: this cosplaying as a Christian. His following went up tenfold.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: So maybe they were doing it for the clicks or whatever.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: But you've got other atheists doing the same thing. They're
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: practicing gratitude. They are praying. They are reading verses in
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Bible, and they are going to try and apply
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: what they read in the Bible to their daily lives.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: And they're recording themselves day by day going through this.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: This Brian Guan, he talked about how he had battled
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: nicotine for 19 years. And since he started this, the feeling,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the desire to have nicotine just faded.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Off of him.
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  Speaker 9: I think one thing I like about this particular thing
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: and this guy is it's almost like fake it till
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: you make it. So even though this was a cosplay,
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: this was like an experiment. It tells everyone else, experiment
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: the same way and see what happens. Most people think
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: I've got to ask Jesus to be in my life,
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: to take over my life. Like there's a certain, you
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: think there's a certain thing that you have to do
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: in order to have this. But he's basically saying, don't.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Just start reading the Bible. Just start, just pretend if
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: you have to. And then you see what happens. You
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: are infected by the love of Jesus and it will
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: overwhelm your life.
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  Speaker 2: Forever. But it's scriptural. Seek and you will find. He
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: may not have known that that's what he was doing,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: but he's saying, I'm going to pretend that God's real,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to do what I'm supposed to do
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  Speaker 2: as if I was actually pursuing him. He was seeking,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and by day 20, he found. Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: Think about in history.
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  Speaker 8: We've had so many brilliant-minded atheists who have sought to
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: go and decry God and decry that this is even
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: a real thing. They wanted to prove that it was
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: all fake.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: Only to be converted into the most outstanding Christians of
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: our time. c.s lewis right strobel.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Lee strobel so lee strobel is a reporter for the
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: chicago times he and his wife are an atheist and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: his wife started going to church and he was like
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: oh i've got to break this or it's going to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: ruin my marriage so he decided you know what i'm
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: going to prove that jesus wasn't real he thought it
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: would take him a weekend He spent months traveling all
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: around the country, talking to experts, talking to doctors, talking
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: to historians. And by the end of it, he was like, oh, no,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it is real. And his own pursuit, he was seeking.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And what he found was Jesus is real. He became
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: a Christian. And he wrote the book, The Case for Christ,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: which became the film, The Case for Christ. But yes, again,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: seek and you will find. I mean, give it a try. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: And just to see the difference on his face, on
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: his whole being from day one.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Cool, okay. My yoga instructor told me to take a
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: breath and I'm just going to try this. I'm going
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: to do it. To day 20 when he just lets
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: all the vulnerability inside of him shine.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: He is such proof of what God can do in
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: just a little bit amount of time. If you seek him,
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: if you trust, if you have that faithfulness to just
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: stick with it. And see what God can do in
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: your life.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: That's another scripture. God rewards those who diligently seek him.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: He did these four things every single day. And Christians,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: this shouldn't just be atheists doing this. Christians should do this.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: It should be a good reminder.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Practice gratitude.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Pray. Read the scriptures and apply the scriptures. You do
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: those four things. You are diligent in those four things.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: God's going to reward you for that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's a difference between showing somebody compassion and
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: just telling them whatever they want to hear. And I
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: think somewhere along the way we have started confusing the
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: two in this country. And that 19-year-old accused of plotting
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: that mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Illinois is
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: another example of that because... This is someone who has, well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: has been depressed, that has great anxiety disorder, that has
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: been receiving hormone treatments related to gender transition.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yep. But what the media wants to point out is, oh,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: this person says they're a white supremacist Nazi.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Ro Khanna.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Ro Khanna.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna.
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  Speaker 5: Said, as a Hindu American, I am angered by the
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: attempted mass shooting at a temple by a white supremacist.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Well, now, Ro, real quick, were you angered by the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: mass shooting at the elementary school in Bend, Oregon? Because
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: it wasn't targeted at Hindus? Or were you angered at
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the mass shootings at the Jewish temple in Minnesota, the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: attempted one in Houston? or are you only angered at
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: a mass shooting at people who somewhat look like you?
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  Speaker 5: But see, the problem here is, you know, on one
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: side you've got people who seem to believe that affirming
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: someone's gender identity, and let me back up, the reason
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: we're talking about this is that a number of mass
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: shooters in recent years have one thing in common, one
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: common thread, and that is they are transgender.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of them. For such a small
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: percentage of the population, they are a huge percentage of
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: mass shooters.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: But on one side, you've got people who seem to
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: believe that affirming someone's gender identity is the answer to
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: a very emotionally difficult situation. And on the other hand,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: there are people who seem to believe that someone's gender
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: identity is itself an explanation for everything wrong in their life.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: And I don't think either approach.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Does justice to the complexity of this, I'm going to
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: say it, mental illness.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: And they just, what I'm saying.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Is what we're doing now with respect to trans in
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: this country, where you're either saying, you know, oh, uh,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: you need puberty blockers or we need to, you know, whatever,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: fill in the blank in order for you to feel
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: like that you are the gender that you were born as, uh,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: By just excusing it all, that's not working.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: And at the same time, shaming them isn't working.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: But what we've got to do is we've got to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: treat this like we would treat other body dysmorphia problems.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: We do not go to anorexics and say, yep, you're right,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you're a fatty. You must be, oh my gosh, you've
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: got to stop eating. We do not say that to
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: anorexics because it's destructive to them physically and it's destructive
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to them mentally. We try and show them the truth
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: in love, and that's how you try and treat anorexic patients.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: We need to be doing the same thing with people
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: who have body dysmorphia that manifests as gender dysmorphia.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Right, because the measure of compassion isn't how loudly we
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: announce that we care. It's whether the people who are
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: actually suffering receive the help they need.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Are they getting better or are they becoming mass shooters
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: as a result of your so-called care? Let's dig deep.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: In America, are you more likely to become a millionaire
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: or are you more likely to become homeless? There are
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: lots of polls that say most Americans think they are
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: more likely to end up on the streets than to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: end up in a mansion. There's a poll out just
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: from August of this year, a left-wing group called Data
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: for Progress. They published a survey. New polling from Data
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: for Progress finds that voters think they are more likely
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to become homeless than a millionaire or billionaire. 59% said
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: they were more likely to become homeless than a millionaire,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and only 33% said they were more likely to become
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a millionaire than to become homeless. All right, you see
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Six out of 10 think Much more
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: likely that I'm going to end up on the streets
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: than I'm going to end up in a mansion.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Well, it's that old adage, your attitude determines your altitude.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, if you expect to lose, I don't know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: a lot of folks say, oh, you're so Pollyanna.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, if you expect to lose,
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: you know what?
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: There is a high probability that you will, in fact, lose.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Very well could. But the data says the exact opposite.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: There are currently 745,000 people who are homeless in America.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And that is up from back where we were before 2020.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: It's way too many. I agree with that. But it's
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: way fewer than the number of millionaires in America. Again,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: 745,000 homeless people in America. There are 23.8 million millionaires
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: in America. That means you are somewhere around 25 times
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: more likely to be a millionaire in the United States
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: than you are to be homeless in the United States.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: 25 times more likely.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: But yet, the narrative about poverty, and there's no doubt
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: there are people that are suffering with poverty, but the
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: narrative about how this capitalistic system only favors the rich,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: the rich get richer, and that's simply not true.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It's just not true. It's absolutely not true. Capitalism has
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: system since the history of man. And by the way,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: there are far more millionaires in the United States than
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: there are in any other country on earth. The United
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: States is 23.8 million millionaires. China is in second place.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: China has 6.3 million millionaires. China's population is three times
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: larger than the population of the United States of America.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And yet, if you look at their millionaire count, it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: four times lower. Now, we don't know how many homeless
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: people are in China because they won't publish those numbers.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: That suggests the number of homeless people in China is
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: much larger than the number of homeless people in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: United States. It's a real question as to whether there
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: are more homeless people in China than there are millionaires
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: in China.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: But why is it that folks are so susceptible to
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: believe that it's more likely that they will fail than succeed?
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: I can tell you why. Maybe I can answer that question.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: It's because succeeding often only comes after failing literally hundreds
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: or thousands of times where you're doing something and you
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: fail and you get back up on your feet.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: And you try again. You know what I'm saying?
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: A lot of folks don't have the discipline to stick
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: with something and then they quit right when they're on
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: the cusp of victory and they go, oh, nothing will
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: ever change for me.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: But I think there's also a missing of cause and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: effect on some of this. There is this idea that,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: especially amongst the left, that you're only a millionaire just
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: because you got lucky or you were privileged. And there's
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the people that say they're only homeless because you got unlucky.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: And so there's just this, oh, it's the universe, it's randomness. Look,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the data shows a lot of the people who are
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: homeless in America are homeless because they've been using drugs.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: That was a choice, right? It was a choice that
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: led them to become homeless. And the people who become
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: millionaires in this country, that's a choice too. It's because
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: of hard work.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: But there are folks that are more susceptible to addictions.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: And to obsessive compulsive behaviors.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. You need to know that about
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: yourself before you start using drugs. Now, there are definitely
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: nations where there are more homeless people than millionaires. For example, India.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: There are 1.1 million millionaires in India. There are 1.7
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: million homeless people in India. The truth is we don't
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: realize properly how good we have it in America. Maybe
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: if we would wrap our heads around the fact that
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: we have it really good in this country, especially when
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: you compare it to every other country currently in the
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: world and every other country that's ever existed in the world.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe if we were to wrap our heads around that fact,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: we'll stop voting for people who keep telling us how
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: bad everything is.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: That's why we say, only in America.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a state can have all of the resources
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: necessary to solve its problems.
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: But if the people do not have the political will
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: to actually solve them, what difference does it make? And
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: the reason I say this is gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, California.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Out of California.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Republican running for governor there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: And he says California, and I quote, is salvageable after
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: years of what he describes as damage from Democratic leadership.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: And I don't disagree with that necessarily. Right.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, if the Democrats who have
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: governed California for decades here and They obviously have the
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: ability to vote for different leadership and different policies.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: But they won't or they don't have the courage, the
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: political will to do it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Then is California salvageable? I think that's an overstatement.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: The state of California may be salvageable. Is the mind
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: of the voters in California salvageable? That's where it all
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: is going to have to start. The voters in California
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: need to stop voting for failures. Look, you got wildfires
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: again running through woods that have not been trimmed, that
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: have not been cleared. And it's right next to Malibu.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, no, our houses might burn down.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Who could have seen this coming? After 2025, everybody should
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: have seen this coming. The state still has not cleared
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the woods, the forest in California. And the reason they
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: won't do it is because of their environmental ideology, which
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: does not match reality. It's the mindset that's wrong.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: No, I get that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: And that's why I say you can't solve a problem
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: until you're willing to acknowledge what the problem actually is.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: That's right. But acknowledging a problem is.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Only the beginning. You've got to understand its causes. You
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: have to evaluate possible solutions. And you have to be
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: willing to accept some trade-offs. There's no magic wands in government.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: You don't eliminate a housing shortage in California just because
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: you give a speech. You don't fix homelessness in Los
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Angeles just because you're announcing another program.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: But every one of California's problems is man-made. Why are
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: you having so many people leave in the state right now? Well,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: because they can't find work. Why can't they find work?
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Because you raise the minimum wage to $ 20 an hour
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and they don't have the skills to do it. Why
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: is housing so expensive in California? Because you've let illegal
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: aliens come in and drive up the cost of housing.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: All of this is man-made.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, a governor serves for four years, but an
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: electorate that doesn't have the political courage or the will
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: or is a low-information electorate, Well, the damage from that
• 35:03
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  Speaker 2: All right, first one. Tesla invented a flying car. Real news,
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  Speaker 2: fake news, really fake news?
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  Speaker 6: That is real news.
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  Speaker 2: That's real news, yeah. Tiger Woods says he's not impressed
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  Speaker 2: with the new Tesla Roadster, saying he's flipped dozens of
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  Speaker 2: cars himself. Real news, fake news, really fake news?
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  Speaker 6: That's really fake news.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. DeLorean Motor Corps invented a flying car. Real news,
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  Speaker 2: fake news, really fake news?
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  Speaker 6: That's really fake news. In the movies?
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  Speaker 2: That's real news.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so DeLorean has now entered into the air speeder contest.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: They have a vertical takeoff and landing electric air racing
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  Speaker 2: car that they have built.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even think they're making the DeLorean anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They have an electric version of the DeLorean. They're trying
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to get out to market, but they've decided they're going
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: to go into this flying car thing. in the meantime.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Does Doc know about this?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. FBI Director Kash Patel was in Russia
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  Speaker 2: to meet with top Russian officials. Real news, fake news,
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  Speaker 2: really fake news?
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  Speaker 6: I'll go with real news.
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  Speaker 2: That's fake news. MS Now said he was in Russia.
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  Speaker 2: He was actually at that moment at an event at
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  Speaker 2: Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, which, by the way, Fox
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: News was broadcasting live.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, what's wrong with Kash Patel meeting with.
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  Speaker 2: They were trying to say it's more Russia collusion stuff.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't even in Russia.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats say President Trump has set a dangerous precedent by
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  Speaker 2: raiding the home of a political opponent. Real news, fake news,
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  Speaker 2: really fake news?
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  Speaker 6: That's fake news.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, they did say it, but it was fake news.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats did say that President Trump set a dangerous
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: precedent by raiding the home of a political opponent.
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  Speaker 6: So it's fake news.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's real news.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, the Democrats said it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but what they said was fake news because they
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: already set that precedent by raiding his home. Actor Denzel
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  Speaker 2: Washington said, I've worked with a lot of people in
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: my life. I've never met anyone braver, smarter, or who
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  Speaker 2: cares more about America than Donald Trump. Real news, fake news,
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  Speaker 2: really fake news.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go with real news on that.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: That one's fake news.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what's happening to me.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump posted that quote to his social media. It
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: was fake news. Denzel Washington never said that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: You know what? President Trump wouldn't lie.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: President Trump suggested changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean
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  Speaker 2: to Trump Ocean. Real news, fake news, really fake news.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, I don't know what to believe anymore.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to believe anymore. All right. I'm
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: going to go with fake news.
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  Speaker 2: That's real news. He may have been joking. He probably
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: was joking, but at a rally, he said we should
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: change the Atlantic Ocean to Trump Ocean. President Trump is
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: planning on firing Susie Willis and replacing her. Real news,
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  Speaker 2: fake news, really fake news?
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: Susie Willis?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Susie Wiles?
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, Susie Wiles, your TV staff.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know anymore. Fake news.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: That's fake news.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Political report of that. President Trump has selected Jessica Rabbit
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: to be the new White House press secretary. Real news,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: fake news, really fake news?
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: That's really fake news.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: That's really fake news. And how about this last one?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: The riots in France have continued for so long because
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the government can't figure out who they're supposed to surrender to.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Real news, fake news, really fake news.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, that's really fake news.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: That's really fake news. You finished strong. You finished strong.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Where's the Tylenol?
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: All right, go to our Facebook page, facebook.com slash American
• 38:49
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• 38:51
  Speaker 2: was a tough week. A lot of tough questions this week. Yes,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: indeed it was.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to American Ground Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Paul with
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Lewis R.
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  Speaker 5: Avalone. You know, we've got folks always joining the show and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, sometimes they'll leave and then they'll come back,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the same day during the show.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave.
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  Speaker 6: No, don't leave.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Don't leave.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: But sometimes, you know.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Anyway, you may not have heard, we talked earlier in
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: the show about... Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring
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  Speaker 5: Maryland apparently you know there's all kinds of problems they
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: say with kids going to the bathroom oh yeah and
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: these are high school students going to the bathroom they
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: say that they're hanging out there in the bathroom they're
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: showing up late for class they're vaping They're selling all
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: sorts of uncontrolled substances. They're conducting transactions. They're even rolling dice.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, it sounds like Las Vegas or Atlantic City.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: And sometimes they're even getting into fights. So the folks
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  Speaker 5: at Montgomery County High School or Montgomery Blair High School
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  Speaker 5: in Silver Spring, Maryland, you know what their solution was?
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you.
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  Speaker 6: Remove the mirrors. In the bathrooms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that way.
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  Speaker 6: Not the troublemakers. No. What were you going to say?
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that way you solve the whole, you know, nicotine problem.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. I mean, really? You're going to remove the mirrors.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: That's going to solve the problem.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: How about you actually patrol the school's halls and make
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: sure that the kids are where they're supposed to be
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and then punish them if they're not where they're supposed
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: to be when they're supposed to be there? How about
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a little discipline in your school? How about you enforce
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: your own rules?
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No? No.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, maybe you ought to walk in one day
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: into the bathroom and just say, hey, whoa.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: When I say.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Whoa, I mean whoa. We were talking earlier about telling
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: the truth. Here's some words of wisdom about truth. C.S. Lewis,
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  Speaker 2: if you look for truth, you may find comfort in
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  Speaker 2: the end. If you look for comfort, you will get
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: neither comfort nor truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: to begin and end despair. Dennis Diderot, we swallow greedily
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  Speaker 2: any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: by little at a truth we find bitter. Galileo Galilei,
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  Speaker 2: all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: The point is to discover them. And George Washington, truth
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  Speaker 2: will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it
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  Speaker 2: to light.
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  Speaker 6: The truth shall set you free.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: No other, no better truth than that.
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  Speaker 2: May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.