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Turning Point USA - Cincinnati · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: It'll five to fifty five carsitp Talxation Brian Thomas fishing
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Speaker 1: everyone a very happy Friday. I hope you have some
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Speaker 1: indoor plans for the weekend, and there are warming centers
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Speaker 1: in and around downtown Cincinnati in the greater Cincinnati area.
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Speaker 1: If you know of an elderly person, a senior person,
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Speaker 1: some with disabilities, please keep an eye on them out.
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Speaker 1: The heat can go out at any time, and of
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Speaker 1: course they are at risk. Cold can be deadly. So
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Speaker 1: a shout out for that and a welcome to the
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Speaker 1: fifty five CARSS Morning Show. Diana tell Us, who's with
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Speaker 1: Turning Point USA Cincinnati chapter. We've talked about this before.
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Speaker 1: You access it through empower Youamerica dot org. Power you
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Speaker 1: America dot org. My listeners are probably familiar with that.
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Speaker 1: The the regular seminars, class war, class work, and and
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Speaker 1: and learning opportunities. A great opportunity to learn there. But
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Speaker 1: pivoting over upper top of the screen at turn at
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Speaker 1: empower you America dot org, you'll see TP USA. Click
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Speaker 1: on that. It takes you right there to the chapter
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Speaker 1: of Turning Point USA here in Cincinnati. Thank you, Diana
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Speaker 1: tell Us for your involvement and getting that off the ground.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, good morning, Thanks for bringing me on to
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Speaker 2: talk about Turning Point. We're super excited. We have been
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Speaker 2: on once and we had our semester. We did our best,
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Speaker 2: we were brand new. We've ironed out some of the kinks.
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Speaker 2: But our first class is coming up on January the
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Speaker 2: twenty eight. So I want to say that we don't
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Speaker 2: have the web page for even for empower Used classes
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Speaker 2: for this coming spring semester or for Turning Point just
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Speaker 2: yet totally firmed up.
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Speaker 3: We're very very.
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Speaker 2: Close on both for both both organizations, for both pieces
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Speaker 2: of it, but so the web page will not be
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Speaker 2: as up to date. But I would say within the
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Speaker 2: next I don't know, ten days or so, we may
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Speaker 2: have something up there, especially for Turning Point and empower Use.
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Speaker 2: So kind of ironing things out, but we are on
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Speaker 2: our way here with Turning Point. January twenty eighth, the
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Speaker 2: big deal. I mean, I reach out to Joe to
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Speaker 2: see if he'll help me out and getting the work
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Speaker 2: it out, and he's always so generous. You're so generous
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Speaker 2: to have us on. We've got a new day for
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Speaker 2: Turning Point, a new time and a new location. So
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Speaker 2: three things that I think as we took a look
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Speaker 2: at how our last semester went, how we could better
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Speaker 2: serve our students and our families. Because we're our a
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Speaker 2: unique entity, right, We're not associated with the school. We're
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Speaker 2: actually considered an activism hub. We serve all high schoolers
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Speaker 2: in Greater Cincinnati. I'll take anybody. I'm not karting anybody.
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Speaker 2: We're not worried about addresses high schoolers. Mostly. We've even
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Speaker 2: got a few waish graders. And I know we're kind
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Speaker 2: of sneaking in. That's completely fine, It's worked out fine.
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Speaker 3: I just want to reach students and be that.
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Speaker 2: Place where they can learn about conservative values, about free markets,
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Speaker 2: about free speech, and be in a comfortable place. I
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Speaker 2: hate to use the term safe space, but a place
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Speaker 2: where they can kind of speak the way they want
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Speaker 2: to speak, right, and you know, we can say, yeah,
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Speaker 2: the police are good that using gender pronouns. And these
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Speaker 2: these are kids who've never lived like my son, he's sixteen.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't even remember a time when we.
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Speaker 3: Didn't talk like that.
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Speaker 2: And that's horrific because it wasn't that long ago. We
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Speaker 2: didn't have to do this right, So we can do
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Speaker 2: that in our group here, and it's a place where
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Speaker 2: we can be open well.
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Speaker 1: And I'm certain your chapter is going to grow, and
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Speaker 1: we'll get the details on the daytime and location changes
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Speaker 1: here in a minute and find out what's going on
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Speaker 1: in the twenty eighth. But I guess this is one
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Speaker 1: of those instances where you know, the Lord really does
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Speaker 1: work in mysterious ways. Charlie Kirk outspoken. He'd been doing
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Speaker 1: this for years. I mean, he spoke truth, the power,
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Speaker 1: he spoke his mind. He sprung from his religious faith,
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Speaker 1: but he held these American values and ideals dear to
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Speaker 1: his heart. He was wonderful at getting the message out
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Speaker 1: about conservative values. And then his life was taken from him.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the lemonade that was made from the
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Speaker 1: lemons of that. But the beautiful, you know, the mysterious reality,
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Speaker 1: the miracle that came from that is Turning Point USA
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Speaker 1: just blew up in terms of its people recognizing her
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Speaker 1: for what it is. People learn for the first time
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Speaker 1: what Turning Point USA is all about. And then next thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, all these new chapters started forming across the
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Speaker 1: whole United States. I mean, you know, maybe a martyr
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Speaker 1: to the cause, perhaps, but what a wonderful reality that
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Speaker 1: came out from that tragic, horrific.
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Speaker 2: Death for sure, for sure, and thank God for him.
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Speaker 2: And when you watch his videos, he was phenomenal at
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Speaker 2: what he did, particularly in these more recent years, which
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Speaker 2: I did notice as it was happening. I did notice that,
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Speaker 2: And I want to make a point of that. With
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Speaker 2: these kids that we're working with, I should say, are
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Speaker 2: students say young adults? Really they all struggle. We all struggled.
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Speaker 2: There was a time when if you use the term
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Speaker 2: GOP with somebody, you've already lost them because they don't
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Speaker 2: know all the jargon and the terminology.
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Speaker 3: I grew up with it.
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Speaker 2: I was forced to listen to Rush Limbo from when
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Speaker 2: I was like ten years old on.
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Speaker 3: I get it, but not everybody does, right, So.
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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk understood it. Was a patriot always probably, but
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Speaker 2: he also had to polish himself and learn and read
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Speaker 2: and educate himself. I think he did the coursework at Hillsdale,
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Speaker 2: for example, to learn the things he needed to learn.
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Speaker 2: And he knew how to debate and he practiced it.
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Speaker 2: And it takes hard work to be a Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 2: So I'd love to say we're turning out Charlie Kirk's
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Speaker 2: out of empower Use turning point chapter. But we can
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Speaker 2: certainly give them the tools so that when they go
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Speaker 2: off to college, even if they grew up in conservative household.
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Speaker 2: So it's the choir, right, These kids are part of
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Speaker 2: the choir.
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Speaker 3: They're us right.
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Speaker 2: But I know a couple of conservative families who sent
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Speaker 2: kids off to a college, a big one. I won't
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Speaker 2: say which of the big colleges.
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Speaker 3: It was that both.
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Speaker 2: Kids went there, came back, you know, unrecognizable, and in
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Speaker 2: debated their parents and badgerism for voting for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: They knew that their parents, They felt like their parents
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Speaker 2: were part of it, and how could they do that?
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Speaker 2: They were pramewashed. And we cannot let our young people.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to get at their schools. They've got
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Speaker 2: to get it somewhere. They've got to get through somewhere,
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Speaker 2: and that's what we're trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm glad you brought up that the
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Speaker 1: component of you know, some young I've had a year
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Speaker 1: of college. I know what I'm talking about. You don't
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Speaker 1: know what you're talking about, mom, dad, That badgering that
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Speaker 1: goes on, Well, Charlie Kirk took that kind of criticism
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Speaker 1: and that kind of badgering on headlong. Every opportunity that
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Speaker 1: was given to him where someone would come up and
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Speaker 1: criticize him and tell him he was wrong, he grabbed
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Speaker 1: a bull by the horns and met that statement, that argument,
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Speaker 1: if it was even an argument, that attack and criticism
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Speaker 1: with facts, with logic, with reason. And I would expect
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Speaker 1: any parent out there to be able to do that.
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Speaker 1: If their their nut job left winger came back from
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Speaker 1: a doctrination camp at college, you could take them on
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Speaker 1: if they start down that evil orange man road with
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Speaker 1: the knowledge and the skills that you all already have
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Speaker 1: or do more. Adults need to take the bull by
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Speaker 1: the horns, learn like Charlie Kirk did, and embrace the
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Speaker 1: idea of rejecting that and go at them full bore
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Speaker 1: with facts and information.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And Charlie Kirk taught us that he was coming from
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Speaker 2: a place of love. Yeah. And I don't know if
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Speaker 2: the Left thought that because they felt so bad they
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Speaker 2: took it personally.
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Speaker 3: It's not personal, it was it was a reality.
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Speaker 2: It was you know, his pro life chances was he
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Speaker 2: was unbelievably talented at being an apologist for life and
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Speaker 2: American values, you know, but he did it from a
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Speaker 2: place of love. He wasn't badgering, he wasn't raising his voice,
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Speaker 2: he wasn't being mean, and he probably was spit on
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Speaker 2: more time than he could count and then paid the
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Speaker 2: ultimate price. Yeah, he's a phenomenal example of how to
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Speaker 2: push back against this craziness.
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Speaker 3: And I was.
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Speaker 1: Gonna say, I think young people could benefit from this
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Speaker 1: beyond the political realm. The idea of being able to
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Speaker 1: confidently engage in debate. That's a skill that lots and
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Speaker 1: lots of young people lack. It's a sorely missing skill
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Speaker 1: for young people. They don't want to engage. You want
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Speaker 1: to hide isolated, curl up in a ball, or just
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Speaker 1: screen expletives at people, which is not debate and exchange
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Speaker 1: of ideas. It's just name calling. But that's where we
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Speaker 1: are at a fall positions. So I would think, yes,
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Speaker 1: this will this turning point USA empower you. Chapter will
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Speaker 1: encourage them and help them to engage in thoughtful discussion
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Speaker 1: along politics. But also you can extrapolate a life skill
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Speaker 1: that they'll bring with it. They'll take from these these
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Speaker 1: courses in this chapter's work and use it in other
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Speaker 1: areas of their life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, for sure, yes.
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Speaker 2: And it's been a joy to have empower use resources
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Speaker 2: to do that. Oh yeah, and Dan, and it's been
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Speaker 2: very helpful.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Dang. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Miss.
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Speaker 2: And you know, if these kids aren't going to get
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Speaker 2: this at their schools, then they have to be able
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Speaker 2: to get it somewhere.
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Speaker 3: And if we don't have our young people.
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Speaker 4: And we don't bring them along in in in patriotism
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Speaker 4: and in reason and like touching grass, then if they're
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Speaker 4: not going to do it in the schools, which they're
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Speaker 4: clearly not and I don't see that improving anytime soon,
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Speaker 4: then we can be out there for these students and
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Speaker 4: and can.
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Speaker 2: Help them meet you know, they can put them together
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Speaker 2: so they meet each other. That was one of banded
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Speaker 2: goals with so that students, you know, like minded students
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Speaker 2: could meet each other in a in a place like
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Speaker 2: this where they had something in common and they could
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Speaker 2: speak their minds without having to worry and in the
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Speaker 2: process our turning point chapter were because of the nature
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Speaker 2: of it kind of looks a little like empower you
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Speaker 2: where we bring in speakers and some of the adults
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Speaker 2: have stayed the parents, So that's another thing.
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Speaker 3: The parents have stuck around.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to tell parents they have to
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Speaker 2: go away and sit in the car, but I will
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Speaker 2: say that the students really do like to have some
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Speaker 2: autonomy in this in it and when they're meeting with us,
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Speaker 2: so we want them to talk, we want them to
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Speaker 2: have discussions, We want them to be comfortable, and if
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Speaker 2: that means we put the parents in kind of the
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Speaker 2: back room, then that's what we do. But they've also
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Speaker 2: been able to listen to Rep. Gross was then talking
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Speaker 2: to us, and I asked the parents to stay and
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Speaker 2: they really enjoyed that. So there is some family, you know,
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Speaker 2: togetherness at times with our meeting.
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Speaker 3: So it's good for everybody, really.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: I think it's an important question to ask. Now, Charlie
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Speaker 1: Kirk's message sprung and was born of his profound faith
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Speaker 1: in God, I mean a devout Christian, and of course
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Speaker 1: some of his messages sprung from that. And you can't
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Speaker 1: extrapolate a conservative political message, you know, based upon your
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Speaker 1: religious foundations. Is turning point usas chapter through empower you America?
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Speaker 1: Would you call it a religious organization? Will you be
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Speaker 1: teaching about you know, like things biblic or are you
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Speaker 1: just going to let the political message prevail or is
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Speaker 1: it a combination?
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Speaker 3: That good question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's a good question because faith is
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Speaker 2: definitely part of that message. And I will say this
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Speaker 2: Turning Point has a curriculum for the high schoolers that
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Speaker 2: they offer up, and it doesn't quite fit for what
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Speaker 2: we're doing because we're not in the school and like
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Speaker 2: parents and students both have to drive, you know, sometimes
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Speaker 2: across town to get to our meeting. So we do
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Speaker 2: it a little different.
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Speaker 3: It packs a different kind of punch, if that makes
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Speaker 3: any sense.
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Speaker 2: So the curriculum that you might do after when you
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Speaker 2: stay after school with you know, on every Tuesday, or
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Speaker 2: whatever they do with the high schools, probably not enough
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Speaker 2: high schools even.
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Speaker 3: Have a chapter. From the looks of the curriculum that's offered.
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Speaker 2: It's fine for that setting, but for ours, I needed
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Speaker 2: to have it a little more heavy heading. And as
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Speaker 2: far as faith, it will always bring faith into the conversation.
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Speaker 2: We had Donna Murphy from Heaven Dane came in last semester,
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Speaker 2: late last semester, right before Chris and talked about the
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Speaker 2: pro life message. And there's plenty of faith in that.
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Speaker 2: I've got a gentleman that I'm very good friends with,
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Speaker 2: John Kersey is his name, mas from Cleveland, and he's
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Speaker 2: a professor. He's coming down to talk to Turning Point
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Speaker 2: on the March eighteenth, actually, and he's a very faithful man.
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Speaker 3: And he's a.
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Speaker 2: Journalist and a professor and a conservative and he's just
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Speaker 2: phenomenal and he's a great speaker. And I asked him
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Speaker 2: to join us in Turning Point.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know what message he's going to.
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Speaker 2: Give yet, but you can be you can bet it
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Speaker 2: will be peppered with a message you know, of faith.
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Speaker 2: So and he could talk on any number of things,
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Speaker 2: but we'll always be bringing faith into the.
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Speaker 3: Conversation for sure. For sure.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, by the way, he'll be and empower you
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Speaker 2: the following day talking about Jesse Yellens.
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Speaker 1: The one time straight. That's good. I'm looking forward to seeing.
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Speaker 3: The semester bring him down. We're going to use them.
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Speaker 1: Uh my guess right now with this segment, Diana tell
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Speaker 1: Us from the Turning Point chapter via empower Youamerica dot org.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned early on daytime location. Sounded to me like
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Speaker 1: there's going to be a shift in when these were
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Speaker 1: going to take place. Not the where though. Is it
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Speaker 1: still at empower You Studios at Scarlet Oaks Campus, three
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Speaker 1: hundred Great Oaks Drive. Are you moving venue?
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Speaker 2: Not there yet? That is still empower You, that's still
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Speaker 2: empower You meeting space.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 2: We pivoted a little differently. We did new day, new time,
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Speaker 2: and new location. So I'm super excited about this. So
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Speaker 2: already Cafe on Reading Road and Sharonville is hosting us.
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Speaker 2: We generally will be meeting there on Wednesdays. I want
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Speaker 2: to say it's every other Wednesday, but we may have
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Speaker 2: some hops in the calendar where we're not quite following exactly,
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Speaker 2: but we are going to be meeting there on the
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Speaker 2: twenty eighth.
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Speaker 3: It's upstairs.
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Speaker 2: She's got an upstairs space there was very excited to
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Speaker 2: have us. Oh god, it's external like she's not open,
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Speaker 2: but it's also we'll make our way up there, and
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Speaker 2: there's a really nice, really nice space that's comfortable with couches.
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Speaker 2: It's very homeye and we'll be a great place for
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Speaker 2: the students to But we know what side, you know
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Speaker 2: what we need, and we didn't need that big studio
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Speaker 2: space that they.
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Speaker 3: Have over at Grade Oak.
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Speaker 2: So this is a more comfortable way of doing it,
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Speaker 2: I think, And there isn't an adult space that they
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Speaker 2: could sit. The adults could sit down the hall in
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Speaker 2: a smaller room kind of keep an eye on things
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Speaker 2: if they want to. But you know a lot of
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Speaker 2: them have driven around town to get to this meeting,
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Speaker 2: so there is room for them as well. So the
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Speaker 2: meeting will start at six point thirty, which is another
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Speaker 2: improvement over over what we were doing with Empower you
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Speaker 2: we were kind of piggybacking on the space we already had. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so this is going to be better. And then we
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Speaker 2: did all for Wednesday so that we could take advantage
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Speaker 2: of you know, if I ever needed Dan to come
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Speaker 2: over to work with us at Turning Point, Dan wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be the on Thursday, you know, on a Thursday, on
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Speaker 2: the same night. It just it just made it better.
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Speaker 2: We could get we could get help in different ways
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Speaker 2: by changing the day of the week.
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Speaker 1: I certainly under the understand the reasons for the logistical changes.
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Speaker 1: So it's going to be six thirty pm. It's taking
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Speaker 1: place at the already cafe, and the next Turning Point
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Speaker 1: USA meeting is on the twenty eighth of this month.
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Speaker 1: But I got all that right, You got that right.
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Speaker 1: And then the twenty eight who's going to be speaking
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Speaker 1: on the twenty eighth, Diana tell us, we.
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Speaker 2: Have got Dudi Khan, who's a local author who will
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Speaker 2: be talking about her experiences in communist Czechoslovakia and her family.
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Speaker 2: She was very young. She wrote a book called Like Swans.
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Speaker 2: She'll be bringing books with her and we will be
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Speaker 2: giving those away. We've got somebody, we're a lovely ladies
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Speaker 2: who Hardenberg is donating books for our students and we'll
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Speaker 2: be looking at that book. The kids will go home
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Speaker 2: with it, but she'll be talking about her experience. I
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Speaker 2: really really wanted to hit on early this year. I
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Speaker 2: wanted to talk about socialism and communism early on because
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Speaker 2: of New York City and the news and I'm hearing
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Speaker 2: it too too much that young people feel like, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's a difficult thing for me to understand that.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. The frustration is I understand that I could.
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Speaker 1: My show's built on that kind of frustration. Diana, Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, I thank you every day. Well, I thank you,
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Speaker 1: and we're out of time, but I want to wish
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Speaker 1: you and the Turning Point USA chapter again and power
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Speaker 1: Youoamerica dot org. Click on the link up at TPUSA
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Speaker 1: At the top, Diana tell us all the best of
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Speaker 1: luck in the world. I encourage my listeners if you've
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Speaker 1: got some young people out there that you know of
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Speaker 1: your own, perhaps your neighbors, you know, high school age roughly,
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Speaker 1: that's who we need engaged in this process. And Turning
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Speaker 1: Point ussays, empower you America chapters doing just that. Diana,
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Speaker 1: great work. You're welcome here in the morning show anytime
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Speaker 1: to spread the word about TPUSA here. God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Have a wonderful weekend and be safe. Eight twenty two.
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