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Empower U - Take 20 Eric Conroy for Congress · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: A six at fifty five GARACD Talk station Friday Eve,
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  Speaker 1: twenty which is a shorter little segment by my guest
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and I'm so pleased to have him on
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  Speaker 1: the morning show, Eric Conroy. He grew up on the
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  Speaker 1: West Side, went to Elder High School. I know that
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  Speaker 1: pleases my West Side friends. Apparently comes from a military family.
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  Speaker 1: His grandfather World War two veteran convincing was the right
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  Speaker 1: thing to serve his country and his community. He did so.
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  Speaker 1: After nine to eleven, he graduated from the US Air
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  Speaker 1: Force Academy near the top of his class a rose
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  Speaker 1: to the rank of captain in Special Operations Unit. Then
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  Speaker 1: he went on to this CIA as a case officer,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he's going to be talking about tonight
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  Speaker 1: for the Empower You America Seminar his time as a
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  Speaker 1: CIA case officer. Welcome to the program. It's a real
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on, and thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: service for our country. Eric Conroy, Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to a lot of my Westside friends are really
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  Speaker 1: excited about I hate you. A couple of people actually
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  Speaker 1: text me yesterday and say, are you going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking to Eric Conroy to Mark because he's doing an
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  Speaker 1: Empower You seminar tomorrow and I'm like, okay, I think
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  Speaker 1: we are, And of course Joe Strecker lined yup. First,
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple of questions for you before we
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  Speaker 1: get I want to deal a little bit with your campaign.
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  Speaker 1: You're running against Greg Landsman and all my listening audience,
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  Speaker 1: at least the vast majority of them are looking for
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  Speaker 1: an alternative. So I'm going to give them your campaign website.
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  Speaker 1: It's simple, Ericconroy dot com, boom right there, meet the man,
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  Speaker 1: meet the issues, learn all about him, and yes, you
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  Speaker 1: do have a better alternative to Greg Landsman. Moving over
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  Speaker 1: to your time with the CIA, I got a quest
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  Speaker 1: and you may take this the wrong way, Eric, I
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  Speaker 1: have to ask you during the shutdown which just ended
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  Speaker 1: last night, were the members in the CIA and the
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  Speaker 1: CIA operations were they being funded or did they have
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  Speaker 1: to take a pay freeze?
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  Speaker 2: It really depends on what part right. And you're you're dedicated.
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  Speaker 2: You're dedicated. People in the field are working and defending
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  Speaker 2: this country. So it's not much different than how the
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  Speaker 2: military operates in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: It's just more covert. And yeah, and while you were
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  Speaker 1: with the CIA, because I have I know people who
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  Speaker 1: worked for the CIA, I have current but I will
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  Speaker 1: call him a distant relative by marriage who walks around
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  Speaker 1: and says he's with the State Department, but he's actually
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  Speaker 1: with the CIA. Did you go around telling everybody with
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  Speaker 1: the State Department?
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  Speaker 2: Eric, Yeah, Bright, I did some very great work for
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  Speaker 2: our country overseas. I defended this country and it's been
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  Speaker 2: a terrific experience of work for the CIA to last well,
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  Speaker 2: god seven years, and then the Air Force for for
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  Speaker 2: seven years before that. So there are great dedicated men
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  Speaker 2: and women doing that work in the harms of way overseas,
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  Speaker 2: and I was really just proud and privileged to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of it. It was a tremendous experience.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough, as a litigation attorney, I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 1: move to strike, non responsive. I'm just giving you a
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  Speaker 1: hard time. Eric. I know, Eric, let's CIA again. I'm
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  Speaker 1: with the State Department. I had a college professor who
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  Speaker 1: literally worked for the CIA said that, here's somebody say,
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  Speaker 1: with the State Department, you can pretty much back on
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  Speaker 1: the fact of the CIA, all right, moving away. In
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  Speaker 1: your time as a CIA case off operator, what were
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  Speaker 1: your tasks? And I don't know how much detail you
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  Speaker 1: can get into and you're gonna be talking about this
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  Speaker 1: tonight the empower you, Sminar, But how much detail you
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  Speaker 1: can get into some of the type of operations you
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  Speaker 1: were involved in. But I think everyone views the job
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  Speaker 1: is filled with intrigue and you know, spying and all this.
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  Speaker 1: So what did the job entail? Eric?
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  Speaker 2: It is, well, Hey, what the CIA primarily does is
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  Speaker 2: this is old school espanage, right, this is meeting people.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of like being a special journalist, right. You
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  Speaker 2: need to go out and streets, meet people, understand who
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  Speaker 2: they are and what they might have, and that could
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  Speaker 2: be anyone from our foreign adversaries or tyrorist groups. And
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  Speaker 2: you need to build relationships with people to get information
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  Speaker 2: that will help protect this country. And I was able
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  Speaker 2: to do that overseas, both in Eastern Europe and in
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  Speaker 2: war zones. And it is very much different than maybe
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  Speaker 2: other ways that the intelligence community may gain information, such
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  Speaker 2: as pictures from satellite. So this is very old school. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's very romantic, and there are a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: movies on it as well. You might have seen Zero
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  Speaker 2: Doct thirty or maybe Bridge of Spies, of people going
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  Speaker 2: out and building relationships and trying to convince people to
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  Speaker 2: hopefully provide information. And I did that for about seven
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  Speaker 2: years and it was absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's that it's human versus sigan. You got signal intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: which is electronic gathering, electronic you know, scooping up of
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  Speaker 1: information doesn't involve human interaction. And that human intelligence component,
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  Speaker 1: which is the old school way you're talking about, that's
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  Speaker 1: where you were involved.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly right, and you know the link that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: It's human intelligence, which means they're using people as sources
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  Speaker 2: of information. It's really not much different than being a journalist.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of asking about, you know, Joe Burrow's toe, you
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  Speaker 2: might be asking someone about Irani and nuclear missiles. So
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  Speaker 2: when those are the topics that are involved, the dynamics
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  Speaker 2: become much different, and that's when you need to really
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  Speaker 2: start thinking about what you're doing and how you're meeting people,
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  Speaker 2: because you need to protect the safety of both yourself
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  Speaker 2: and whoever you're talking to as a source to get
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  Speaker 2: that information and keep everyone safe.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't this require the target of your efforts to develop
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  Speaker 1: these relationships for them to let their guard down, Because
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  Speaker 1: if I'm in your role, I'm going to be painfully
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  Speaker 1: aware of what I'm doing, which is I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get my foot into the door in this person's world
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  Speaker 1: so they trust me enough to hand off some information.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't they in that position aware of people like you
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  Speaker 1: out in the world trying to do that, and so
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  Speaker 1: their guard is perpetually up. Or is this easier than
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  Speaker 1: I might anticipate.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a people business, right, and it takes
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  Speaker 2: getting to know people and relating to people and understanding
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  Speaker 2: what their life is like and what they might need
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  Speaker 2: and where they're at with their personal journey. So it's
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  Speaker 2: no different than you know, pulling up to a bar
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  Speaker 2: and talking to your buddies or talking to your friends. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be a good guy to be able
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  Speaker 2: to talk to people like that, and people know, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's really not rocket science. If you can build friends
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  Speaker 2: as a salesman or as a really just a friend
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  Speaker 2: and being a good family member and a good person,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably actually going to be pretty decent at talking
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  Speaker 2: to people from the other side to find out what's
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 1: How do you hone an awareness skill that you like?
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  Speaker 1: For example, there's a double agent concept that person, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: becomes aware or new from the get go that you,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, were actually a CIA operative trying to get
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  Speaker 1: your foot in the going to get information that they
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  Speaker 1: don't feed you intentional wrong information or maybe give you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of accurate information which gives you some
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  Speaker 1: comfort that they're speaking truthfully, only this year in the
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  Speaker 1: wrong direction. That kind of thing goes on all the
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  Speaker 1: time as well, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the Intelli DI community as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Think of it as like building a jigsaw puzzle, right
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  Speaker 2: and maybe me meeting somebody and finding out one piece
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  Speaker 2: of information is going to go into a jigsaw puzzle
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  Speaker 2: combined with a bunch of other sources like you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: from singing or imagery, think a pile a picture on
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  Speaker 2: a topic. So that is the goal of the intelligence
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  Speaker 2: community is to gather information from a range of ways
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  Speaker 2: and sources to build that picture on a topic. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really never like a single point of failure. It
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be right. It should be building that nosaic, that
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  Speaker 2: jigsaw puzzle from a bunch of different angles to find
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  Speaker 2: out what's really going on.
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  Speaker 1: Well and to the extent you were able to, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're still bound by some secrets or confidential
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  Speaker 1: audit rules or correct me if I'm wrong, if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: But can you put an illustration together of how this
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  Speaker 1: works a particular operation maybe you were involved with, or
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  Speaker 1: how you got from point A to point B where
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  Speaker 1: you can say, yes, I was successful in achieving goal
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  Speaker 1: that I was assigned to. Is it possible for you
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  Speaker 1: to do that in a real context.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk about it in a round about way, and
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  Speaker 2: what what it is is, it's it's no different than
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  Speaker 2: really being a salesman. Right, you have a sales process.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say you have you have a lead for a
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  Speaker 2: maybe to make a particular sale, and you meet that
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  Speaker 2: person and you cultivate a relationship and you be friends
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  Speaker 2: with them, and you try to figure out if one
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  Speaker 2: you're you're going to be good friends, because that's first
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  Speaker 2: and foremost how anything else in life works. But also
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  Speaker 2: you figure out there's a good professional fit. So it's
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  Speaker 2: really not much different than a sales cycle in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to imagine a scenario how you would
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  Speaker 1: you would start this process. Are you placed in a
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  Speaker 1: particular business or industry where you're assigned to a role
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  Speaker 1: as oh, he's the director of you you know, HR
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  Speaker 1: or something which puts you in a position to interact
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  Speaker 1: with the folks you're trying to spy on. Is this
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  Speaker 1: just like running into someone at a bar kind of thing?
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  Speaker 1: You know where they're going to be and you show
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  Speaker 1: up and you're like, hey, can I buy you a beer?
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  Speaker 1: I guess contextually speaking, and wondering how this process begins.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm not going to talk about too
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  Speaker 2: many specifics because I can't go into too many details,
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  Speaker 2: but it can arise in a very varied, varied ways, right,
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  Speaker 2: there are many different ways, so you can hopefully build
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with someone and move it to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: This is I am thoroughly convinced, Eric, and I have
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  Speaker 1: a feeling you're not gonna be able to answer this
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  Speaker 1: one or all. But it seems so obvious to me.
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  Speaker 1: We keep spending billions of dollars to keep the UN open,
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  Speaker 1: and I keep wondering what we can show for the
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  Speaker 1: money that we've spent. And the only thing I can
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  Speaker 1: conclude is that it's a wonderful source, a resource for
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  Speaker 1: us to gather secrets and information from foreign nationals, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we pay the bill. It's a spy operation.
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  Speaker 1: Any truth that are you going to dodge that one?
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  Speaker 2: Eric, The UN is a radical leftist institution that we
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  Speaker 2: maybe consider cutting some funny for, so I'm in that camp.
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  Speaker 2: The UN has been particularly in f in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things over the years. You could probably use less
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  Speaker 2: funding as opposed to more funding.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So I'm going to go with a yes
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  Speaker 1: on that one as well, like this like the estate
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  Speaker 1: Department answer. And now moving over to your campaign, ericconroyd
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  Speaker 1: dot com. People get all the information and I hope Eric,
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  Speaker 1: you and I will be talking quite a few times
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  Speaker 1: before next year's election because my listening audience and I
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  Speaker 1: would like to unsee Greg Lansman and you may be
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  Speaker 1: demand for the job. So if you really had to
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  Speaker 1: pinpoint something that is near and dear to your heart,
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  Speaker 1: what's driving you to run for Congress? Among all these
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  Speaker 1: issues transportation, infrastructure, border security, neighborhoods, jobs, economy, what's Eric
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  Speaker 1: Conroy's main goal to at once elected to Congress?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Well, I have become concerned and passionate about the
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  Speaker 2: economic and social trajectory of this region for some time
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  Speaker 2: and believe we need the common sense representative to take
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  Speaker 2: it into the future. Right, we just saw our incumbent
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  Speaker 2: Democrat vote no to reopen the government along with this
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  Speaker 2: radical leftist Cronius to gain really very little if any
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  Speaker 2: political leverage in the process to appear their radical leftist base.
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  Speaker 2: To me, you just just demonstrates that Greg Landsman is
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  Speaker 2: not the moderate he claims. It's not the moderate Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: he claims, and he is unfit to lead. What we
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  Speaker 2: need here is we need a leader to make common
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  Speaker 2: sense decisions for this region and I hope to bring
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  Speaker 2: that next year. And this is not Great landsman.
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  Speaker 1: I agree completely with that. So as we move forward
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  Speaker 1: toward the election, hopefully get Eric on. You get to
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  Speaker 1: come on the program again. We'll talk about issues as
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  Speaker 1: we move forward toward next year.
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  Speaker 2: Eric, Yeah, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: That's yes, all right. Got an ask out of Eric
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