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Republican Turned Democrat Interview · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: Today. My guest is Dennis Crawford.
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Speaker 2: Dennis, good morning, Thanks Matt Merrick, thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 2: Well an honor to be with you in a pleasure Well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Dennis lives in Lincoln, so he made the trip from
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Speaker 3: Lincoln today. But it's going to be an interesting conversation.
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Speaker 3: Dennis is an attorney, he's a historian, he is an
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Speaker 3: author and and full disclosure, Dennis contacted me and ask
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Speaker 3: if he could be on this show. He listens to
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Speaker 3: this show. Apparently he heard our conversation with Mary Barrett
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Speaker 3: when Mary Barrett came on, and if you didn't hear
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Speaker 3: the story of Mary Barrett, it's Barrett's family from Barrett's
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Speaker 3: Barleycorn restaurant. But Mary wanted to come on and talk
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Speaker 3: about the results of the election, and she also wanted
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Speaker 3: to talk about being a lifelong Democrat and then she
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Speaker 3: became a Republican. Dennis contacted me and he said, I
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Speaker 3: was a Republican and changed to being a Democrat, and
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about that. And I thought, you know,
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Speaker 3: this is what this show is all about. We're saying
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Speaker 3: we want to hear your feedback, we want to hear
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Speaker 3: what you have on your mind. And so Dennis is
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Speaker 3: here with us today. So first of all, Dennis, just
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Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about you, and then we're
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Speaker 3: going to go into the reasons that we want to
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Speaker 3: have you on the show today and you wanted to
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Speaker 3: be on, and what we're going to talk about. But
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Speaker 3: just a little bit about you. You were an attorney.
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Speaker 3: Are you a retired attorney?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 2: I'm a retired attorney, Okay. I practiced law on the
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Speaker 2: Nebraska course between nineteen eighty six to twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 2: doing personal injury and workers compensation litigation. I represented people
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Speaker 2: injured in accents and obtained compensation for them for their injuries.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: And then you became a historian and an author. One
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Speaker 3: of the books that you wrote was about Robert F. Kennedy,
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Speaker 3: The Road Not Taken.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a book on the nineteen sixty eight Nebraska primary,
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Speaker 2: co authored by my daughter, doctor Lord J. Crawford, and
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Speaker 2: it's the first and only book on the nineteen sixty
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Speaker 2: eight Nebraska primary. A lot has been written about Senator
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Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy, but Nebraska has been complete and totally neglected,
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Speaker 2: and it was a very big deal here. Nebraska was
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Speaker 2: the center of the American political universe for a couple
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Speaker 2: months in the spring of nineteen sixty eight.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, and I did read a little bit
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Speaker 3: about your book, and there was comments about a.
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Speaker 1: Five star review.
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Speaker 2: There are five five star reviews on Amazon dot com
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Speaker 2: for our book has been very very well received. We
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Speaker 2: worked very hard on researching it and writing it, and
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Speaker 2: we're very proud of it. My next book will come
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Speaker 2: out early next year. On the nineteen eighty three Nebraska
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Speaker 2: football team, the team that went for two and fell
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Speaker 2: just short against Miami.
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, that o'd be interesting too many of us.
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Speaker 3: So let's get into the meat of this conversation here.
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Speaker 3: You were a lifelong Republican, you became a Democrat, win Well.
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Speaker 2: I switched to the Democratic Party officially in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and six. I signed on the dotted line in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and six to change my registration. But I've been
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Speaker 2: I began evolving to be a Democrat beginning in the
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Speaker 2: nineteen nineties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And we're going to get to everything.
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Speaker 3: We're going to get to We're going to get to
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Speaker 3: what's going on in Iran, and we're going to get
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Speaker 3: to the blue dot. But tell us basically why you well,
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Speaker 3: just tell us, not basically tell us why you made
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Speaker 3: that decision to do that, What made you feel like
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Speaker 3: that you were no longer a Republican and that the
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Speaker 3: Democrat Party and the tenants of their party fit your
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Speaker 3: philosophy better.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: I started out as what I would call an Eisenhower
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Speaker 2: Ford moderate Republican. Eisenhower and Ford believed in a strong
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Speaker 2: national defense, a strong social safety net, and fiscal conservatism,
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Speaker 2: and the Republicans have rejected all three of those core
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Speaker 2: tenants beginning in the nineteen nineties. The party began to
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Speaker 2: move to the extreme right in about nineteen ninety four,
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Speaker 2: and it's just gotten steadily worse over the years. Bush
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Speaker 2: forty three was a disaster as a president. He blew
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Speaker 2: a five trillion dollar surplus and mismanaged two wars. Trump
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Speaker 2: another disaster. He blew the pandemic in twenty twenty. The
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Speaker 2: British Medical Journey Journal of the landset Trump's negligence in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty caused an unnecessary one hundred and eighty thousand
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Speaker 2: deaths due to COVID, and his second term is complete catastrophe.
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Speaker 2: Everything is worse off now than it was when he
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Speaker 2: took office. But on the plus side, I thought Bill
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Speaker 2: Clinton was a very good president. We had eight years
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Speaker 2: of peace and prosperity. Wages for the middle class, adjusted
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Speaker 2: for inflation increased under Bill Clinton hit a five trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars surplus. Barack Obama was a very good president. Once again,
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Speaker 2: we had eight years of peace and prosperity. Obama reduced
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Speaker 2: the unemployment rate from ten percent to four point seven percent,
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Speaker 2: created twelve million new jobs. I think Joe Biden was
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Speaker 2: a good president. He's underrated right now, but I think
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Speaker 2: history will treat him well. Biden ended the pandemic and
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Speaker 2: sixteen million jobs are created on his watch.
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Speaker 3: Okay, now, again, this is a comment line, and I
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Speaker 3: could tell you that our listeners, there's plenty of them
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Speaker 3: whose blood pressure is going sky high now because of
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Speaker 3: what you are saying. And my job here is not
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Speaker 3: to to argue with you about what you are saying,
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Speaker 3: because this is your feeling and this is what you
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Speaker 3: want to talk about today. I will say that I
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Speaker 3: don't agree with you one hundred percent on what you
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Speaker 3: are saying. I don't agree with a lot of what
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Speaker 3: you're saying. I am a Republican obviously, and I believe
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Speaker 3: in the tenets of the Republican Party, and I think
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Speaker 3: that you know, whether you are Democrat, Republican, or independent,
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Speaker 3: it's up to you. It's what you feel like, and
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Speaker 3: it's what you are aware of, and it's what your
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Speaker 3: basic philosophy is. But I think you know, both parties,
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Speaker 3: in my opinion, have taken some of the Republicans have
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Speaker 3: taken a hard right, some of the Democrats. A lot
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Speaker 3: of the Democrats have taken such a hard left. I
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Speaker 3: just I mean, it's it seems like that that they
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Speaker 3: think that anybody that is a Republican is evil.
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Speaker 1: Now, and that shouldn't be that way either.
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Speaker 2: I believe in civility between people of goodwill who disagree
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Speaker 2: in good faith.
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Speaker 4: I respect.
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Speaker 2: I actually disagree with your theory that the Democratic Party
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Speaker 2: has gone hard left. Most of the Democratic members of
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Speaker 2: Congress tend to be moderates. Clinton, Obama, and Biden were
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Speaker 2: all moderates. Kamala Harris ran as a moderate for president
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. Sheran on she Rana being tough
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Speaker 2: on crime, tough on the border, for assistance for the
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Speaker 2: middle class. So I think it's a bit of a
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Speaker 2: straw man. The Democrats are too far left. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's a handful of Democratic members of Congress from deep
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Speaker 2: blue states like Massachusetts and California, you could say or
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Speaker 2: are left wing, but most Democratic members of Congress are
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Speaker 2: are moderates, and the three previous Democratic presidents have governed
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Speaker 2: as moderates.
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Speaker 1: So were you a supporter of Kamala Harris for president?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did. You were very proud supporter. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think everything she told us was true. She predicted
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Speaker 2: that a second Trump term would be a disaster, and
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Speaker 2: she was absolutely one hundred and ten percent correct.
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Speaker 3: Now, see, when I look at Donald Trump, I think
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of people that don't like the personality. However,
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Speaker 3: donald Trump, I will say, is doing exactly what he
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Speaker 3: said he was going to do when he ran for president,
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Speaker 3: and you don't get that too often. I would consider
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Speaker 3: myself a much more of a Reagan Republican. I think
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Speaker 3: Reagan talked about the tenets of the Republican Party why
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Speaker 3: he was a Republican, but he also was able to
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Speaker 3: work across the aisle. You know all the stories of
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Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil, for example, when he was speaker,
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Speaker 3: they fought all the time they thought about things, they
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Speaker 3: didn't agree with each other, but then they would go
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Speaker 3: out to lunch and they would have a civil conversation
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Speaker 3: with each other. I tell people a lot about when
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Speaker 3: I was Mayor of Omaha.
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Speaker 1: I'm a Republican.
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Speaker 3: Everybody knew it, But I was Republican in a Democrat city.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's about twenty four thousand more Democrats in
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Speaker 3: Omaha than Republicans. But I still got a lot of
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Speaker 3: Democrat votes, and I still got a lot of independent votes.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't be mayor if you didn't. And I felt
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Speaker 1: like I could walk work.
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Speaker 3: Across the aisle because I would tell people that I
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Speaker 3: don't care if you're Democrat or Republican or independent. I
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Speaker 3: don't care if you're black, brown or white. I don't
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Speaker 3: care if you're a male or female. I will represent
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Speaker 3: to And isn't that what elected officials should do?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely?
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Speaker 2: And I mean going back to Ronald Reagan, I disagreed
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Speaker 2: with his I now disagree with his domestic policies. I
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Speaker 2: said to motion, the inequality of today is supply side economics.
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Speaker 2: I think he handled the Soviet Union very well and
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Speaker 2: very skillfully. He had many admirable qualities that you just described.
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Speaker 2: He was civil, he was intelligent, he was friendly, he
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Speaker 2: worked well across party lines. And I voted for Reagan
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Speaker 2: twice and I voted for Bush forty one because they
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Speaker 2: shared those qualities that you just discussed. However, Trump is
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Speaker 2: much much different than Reagan and Bush forty one. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Trump has done the exact opposite of his promises. He
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Speaker 2: promised rapid and fast price cuts beginning on day one.
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Speaker 2: He promised to cut the price of energy in half
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Speaker 2: in twelve months. And he promised no new wars. He said,
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Speaker 2: when I'm your president, there will not be a war
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Speaker 2: with Iran. He's done the exact opposite his te tariffs
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Speaker 2: are the biggest tax increased since nineteen ninety three. They're
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Speaker 2: going to cost the average family seventeen hundred dollars per year.
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Speaker 2: So his tariffs have increased prices, and the Iran war
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Speaker 2: has increased prices. It's caused chaos and the energy markets
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Speaker 2: and caused the price of gas to soar. When Trump
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Speaker 2: took office and inflation was two point seven percent, now
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Speaker 2: it's four point two percent and it's going up. The
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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve says they're going to increase interest rates in
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Speaker 2: the future to control inflation. So Trump's done exactly the
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Speaker 2: opposite of what he promised, and that's why he's so unpopular.
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Speaker 2: And the non Magga Republicans from if you look at
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Speaker 2: polling in the case, the non Magga Republicans no longer
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Speaker 2: support Trump.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting this one out.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we have Dennis Crawford on here, and I could
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Speaker 3: tell a lot of our listeners right now their blood
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Speaker 3: pressure is going up. But that's why we are having
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Speaker 3: you here. I want everybody to be able to say
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Speaker 3: what they want to say. Dennis Crawford is a is
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Speaker 3: an attorney, he's a historian and an author, and he
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Speaker 3: asked to be on this show because he was a
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Speaker 3: Republican who became a Democrat. We want to hear your
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Speaker 3: feedback today. So I have asked this question on the
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Speaker 3: radio before, Dennis, and I'm just going to get your
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Speaker 3: answer to this. But I've asked, with our two hundred
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Speaker 3: and fiftieth anniversary coming up, who was, in your opinion,
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Speaker 3: the greatest president.
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Speaker 2: I think Abraham Lincoln was the greatest president. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he freed the slaves, he won the Civil War, but
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Speaker 2: what's forgotten about his legacy is he did the Homestead
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Speaker 2: Act of eighteen sixty two, the Land Grant College Act.
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Speaker 2: The University of Nebraska is the Land Grant College. And
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Speaker 2: the trans Continental Railroad. And the trans Continental Railroad began
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Speaker 2: in Omaha because Lincoln was in Council Bluffs in eighteen
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Speaker 2: fifty nine or sixty decided the terminus of the trans
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Speaker 2: Continental Railroad should be in Omaha, Nebraska. And he was
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Speaker 2: able to pass this amazing legislation in just one term.
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Speaker 2: And Nebraska wouldn't be a state but for Abraham Lincoln.
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Speaker 2: He's my favorite president, my hero. I had Lincoln, and
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Speaker 2: of course then I had George Washington too. Of course
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Speaker 2: Lincoln was our sixteenth president. As you said, he led
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Speaker 2: us through the Civil War, defeating the Confederates, and he
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Speaker 2: abolished slavery, and I think he has to be up
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Speaker 2: there at the top. I would have George Washington Lincoln,
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Speaker 2: and then I always have Reagan in there too.
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Speaker 3: But okay, let's go to this. Let me ask you
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Speaker 3: about this. The blue dot. Now you know when they
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Speaker 3: used to this started out. Now the blue dot means
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Speaker 3: winner takes all in Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: It's moved to that.
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Speaker 3: But the blue dot are being blue or red used
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Speaker 3: to indicate Number one, if you're blue, you're a Democrat.
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Speaker 1: If you're red, you're a Republican.
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Speaker 3: They used to say Nebraska is a red state because
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Speaker 3: it is mostly Republican and if you look at our
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Speaker 3: congressional districts, excuse me, one and three are definitely red.
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Speaker 3: And what it has evolved to is they used to
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Speaker 3: say Nebraska is a red state, but Omaha is blue.
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Speaker 3: It's not purple. It is blue, now that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: But now it has evolved to mean winter takes all.
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Speaker 3: So let's talk about that debate in Nebraska. We have
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Speaker 3: with the electoral college, we have five electoral votes. We
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Speaker 3: have one for each congressional district, and then we have
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Speaker 3: two that are awarded to the wide popular vote of
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Speaker 3: the state, the overall vote. So this has become debated
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Speaker 3: very very much within you know, not even national politics
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Speaker 3: because they focus on the Omaha area Congressional District two
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Speaker 3: and they're calling it that blue dot. And the national
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Speaker 3: politics they got their eye on Nebraska because they're thinking
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Speaker 3: this one electoral vote in this congressional District two could
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Speaker 3: change the outcome of a race, That could change the
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Speaker 3: outcome of a presidential race. But what I see happening
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Speaker 3: is what is happening now in the congressional District two
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Speaker 3: race when we have the blue dot here, and that
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Speaker 3: is Denise Pal now is taking on Brinker Harding, who
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Speaker 3: I know very well. I've asked Denie pal to be
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Speaker 3: on this show Crickets.
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Speaker 1: She's ignoring me. She doesn't want to bet.
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Speaker 3: I want to give her time to But the thing
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Speaker 3: what happens then is because it's on the national stage,
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Speaker 3: all of this out of state money comes in, comes
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Speaker 3: rolling in this what others would call dark money to
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Speaker 3: try to help that Democrat candidate win and maintain this
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Speaker 3: blue dot in Omaha, Nebraska. My position is, we don't
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Speaker 3: need out of town, out of state people putting money
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Speaker 3: into our state and to tell us who to vote for.
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Speaker 1: Talk about that in your opinion. I can't wait. You're
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Speaker 1: making my blood pressure go up a little. I gotta say,
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Speaker 1: I hope not if you're feeling well. I mean.
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Speaker 2: This dark money originated in the twenty ten decision by
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Speaker 2: the Republican controlled Supreme Court that ruled five to four
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Speaker 2: that opened up this flood of dark money for both sides.
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Speaker 2: It was a terrible decision. And I think I hope
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Speaker 2: it eventually gets overruled. I mean, the five Republicans in
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court ruled that money is speech and there's
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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing the First Amendment that says that there's no
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Speaker 2: mention of money in the First Amendment was a place
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Speaker 2: decision politically motivated by the five Republicans on the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 2: So I would like to see that decision overruled. I
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Speaker 2: object to. There'll be plenty of dark money for brinker Harding.
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Speaker 2: I'm the Republicans have access to unlimited funds for their
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Speaker 2: billionaire donor class, so there'll be a lot of dark
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Speaker 2: money rolling in. I would say to the voters on
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Speaker 2: both sides of the aisle, ignore the stupid negative ads
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Speaker 2: or a pack of lies. You know, go on the internet,
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Speaker 2: look at the platforms of the two candidates. Make a
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Speaker 2: well informed and wise decision. Ignore the thirty second stupid ads.
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Speaker 2: That's my advice to the voters for what it's worth.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to ask you this. We have Dennis
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Speaker 3: Crawford with us today, lives in Lincoln. He's an attorney, historian, author.
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Speaker 3: He is a Republican turned Democrat, and he is giving
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Speaker 3: all the reasons why there is a phrase. Now, of
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Speaker 3: course you've heard it TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
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Speaker 1: It is real. I know people who are love Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: Who have it. I know people who hat him that
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Speaker 3: have it. Do you have Trump derangement syndrome?
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Speaker 2: Now that's not a very nice question now I'm asking.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is I'm not deranged. I'm perfectly saying.
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Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome.
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Speaker 5: Though.
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Speaker 2: Think here's I think that's a really unfortunate thing for
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Speaker 2: when Republicans use that. I mean, they're calling names as
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Speaker 2: an epithet, and I just don't think that's the right
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Speaker 2: thing to do. I think you should listen to people,
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Speaker 2: see where they're at, and have a good faith discussion
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Speaker 2: and hash out your agreements to disagreements with them. So
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Speaker 2: I think it's part of the name calling that is
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Speaker 2: sullied politics, and I would certainly discourage the use of
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Speaker 2: that term by Republicans.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so let.
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Speaker 3: Me ask you this, since you disagreed with me on that. Though,
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Speaker 3: the term MEGA, which means make America great again, that's
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Speaker 3: where that term has been, that's where it came from.
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Speaker 3: And in my opinion, I would say, what who would
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Speaker 3: disagree with that would making America great again. I saw
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Speaker 3: that you wrote Mega means morons are governing governing America.
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Speaker 1: That offends me.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't mean to offend you. You're not governing America.
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Speaker 2: I think you did a good job as mayor. I
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Speaker 2: think Omah is a better place due to your contributions.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, I'll just give one example. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Trump does not do policy, he doesn't do his homework.
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Speaker 2: And a good example of morons or governing America is
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Speaker 2: this Iran surrender agreement that Trump signed yesterday at Versailles.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Iran's going to get immediate sanctions relief for
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Speaker 2: twenty four billion dollars and they don't have to do
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Speaker 2: anything to get this free twenty four billion dollars. And
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Speaker 2: then on top of that, Iran's going to get a
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Speaker 2: three hundred billion dollar reparations fund. So we're paying Iran
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Speaker 2: over three hundred billion dollars to end the war. Now,
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Speaker 2: that is totally incompetent, and numerous Republicans are objecting to
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Speaker 2: this surrender agreement.
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Speaker 3: Hold on, though you said we are giving them the
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Speaker 3: three hundred million dollars, you wrote that too. I saw
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Speaker 3: that you wrote it with that deal. I mean, all
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Speaker 3: they have right now is an MoU and you know,
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Speaker 3: an MoU is a non.
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Speaker 1: Legal binding agreement. That's what they have now.
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Speaker 3: But of what I have read about it, and it's
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Speaker 3: a two page deal, basically, is there not that the
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Speaker 3: three hundred million is no money. A three hundred billion
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Speaker 3: is no money from the United States. It is from
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Speaker 3: the Gulf States that want to rebuild Iran, and if
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Speaker 3: Iran screws around, they're not getting any money.
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Speaker 2: Well, US businesses are contributing to that fund. That's a reality,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sure Trump pressured them to contribute. Iran is
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Speaker 2: not a very good place to invest. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of other better places to invest in Iran. And the
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Speaker 2: defense of this three hundred billion dollars surrender fund is
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Speaker 2: no US tax dollars going to it. That's true, absolutely true.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we got to make sure that that point is made.
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Speaker 3: This is not US money.
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Speaker 2: US businesses are kicking in. But let me make a
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Speaker 2: related point. Republicans blasted Obama for returning to Obama one
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Speaker 2: point seven billion dollars of their own money. It was
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Speaker 2: Iran's money, it was not the United States money. But
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Speaker 2: now those same Republicans are defending this three hundred billion
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Speaker 2: dollars surrender fund by saying it's not US tax payer money.
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Speaker 2: So there's kind of a disconnected that I'm struggling with.
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Speaker 3: And you I read last night some of the things
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Speaker 3: that you were saying about excuse me, I missed my
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Speaker 3: cough button there, Sorry, that you were saying that you
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Speaker 3: wrote about this deal with Iran. And you know, under
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Speaker 3: international law, Iran can't they can't charge the tolls. It's
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Speaker 3: not free money that they're getting. That that they will
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Speaker 3: only lift the sanctions after the final deal is done.
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Speaker 3: The United States is not going to decrease their force
18:43
Speaker 3: of carriers until the final deal is done. And so
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Speaker 3: you know there's still it's like no dust, no money,
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Speaker 3: no penny, and so it's a performance based deal. Basically,
18:53
Speaker 3: tell me your feeling about that again, if you are
18:57
Speaker 3: all listening, This is Dennis Crawford. He's an attorney, author,
19:00
Speaker 3: he's a historian, and he is a Republican turned Democrat,
19:05
Speaker 3: and he is giving all of his reasons why so
19:08
Speaker 3: he is I'm letting him sound off on this station
19:10
Speaker 3: today and we want to hear your responses after this
19:14
Speaker 3: interview is over.
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Speaker 1: But talk about that, Dennis.
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Speaker 2: Well, the agreement allows iron to resume selling oh if
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Speaker 2: at any conditions whatsoever. That part is not performance based,
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Speaker 2: and that's worth approximately twenty four billion dollars for Iran. Yes,
19:26
Speaker 2: a three hundred billion dollar reparations fund is conditioned based.
19:30
Speaker 2: But I fully expect Iran to comply because three hundred
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Speaker 2: billion dollars is a lot of money, and it's quite
19:36
Speaker 2: a windfall for him. So I expect them to comply
19:39
Speaker 2: for that reason, to get access to that money. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a terrible deal. When the war began, Trump promises
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Speaker 2: regime change, unconditional surrender, and the end to the nuclear program.
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Speaker 2: None of those goals were achieved. I mean, yesterday Trump
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Speaker 2: defended Iran's missile program and he said the nuclear dusts
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Speaker 2: was never a big deal, and regime change was never
19:57
Speaker 2: a big deal.
19:57
Speaker 1: It's quite the one to eighty.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Iran's nuclear deal is done, don't you agree.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they have destroyed any capacity that they have
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Speaker 3: for uranium. Their stockpiles have been destroyed. Isn't that important
20:14
Speaker 3: to the United States when we have a country that
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Speaker 3: absolutely hates the United States?
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Speaker 2: Well, Trump said the Iranian regime are good people and
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Speaker 2: rational people to deal with. And there's no evidence right
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Speaker 2: now that Iran's nuclear arsenal or whatever it was program
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Speaker 2: is destroyed in this current war. The twenty fifteen Obama
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Speaker 2: Nuclear Deal locked down the Iran nuclear program for fifteen years,
20:39
Speaker 2: and Trump rejected the advice of his national security team
20:42
Speaker 2: during his first term and repudiated the deal, and Iran
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Speaker 2: accelerated its nuclear program starting in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 1: So that's on Trump.
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Speaker 3: And so because of this this MoU that was signed
20:56
Speaker 3: signed at dinner last night, I think at the G
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Speaker 3: seven summit in France. Oil is back down to seventy
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Speaker 3: dollars a barrel today. Gas prices they're dropping same as
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Speaker 3: before the war. The stock market is doing great today.
21:11
Speaker 3: Talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Well, the price of gas has a history of going
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Speaker 2: up like a rocket and coming down like a feather.
21:18
Speaker 2: It'll be a very long time until the price of
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Speaker 2: gas goes down to what it was before the war.
21:24
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. The American people are deeply unhappy
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Speaker 2: with the state of the economy before this war began.
21:29
Speaker 2: So returning to the pre war status quo is no
21:32
Speaker 2: safe harbor for the Republicans. There's going to be a
21:35
Speaker 2: blue wave this fall because the American people are pretty disenchanted.
21:39
Speaker 2: The stock market benefits are just limited to a handful
21:42
Speaker 2: of people. Ten percent of the ten percent of the
21:45
Speaker 2: American people own ninety percent of the stocks. Half the
21:48
Speaker 2: country owns no stocks at all, So the stock market's
21:51
Speaker 2: not going to help very many people. The reality is
21:53
Speaker 2: only maybe ten or twenty percent of the population is
21:56
Speaker 2: better off under the Trump economy. Eighty or ninety percent
22:00
Speaker 2: of the people in this country are worse off under
22:02
Speaker 2: Trump too. And ask you of your real problem for
22:05
Speaker 2: the Republicans during this election cycle.
22:07
Speaker 3: Dennis Crawford again is with us today. He lives in Lincoln, attorney, historian, author.
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Speaker 3: You know, Dennis the mayor of Lincoln. Mayor Baird is
22:18
Speaker 3: a good friend of mine, very good friend of mine.
22:20
Speaker 3: I mean, we go out and eat lunch together, we
22:22
Speaker 3: talk on the phone together. Politically we are as different
22:26
Speaker 3: as night and day. But that's okay because we felt
22:29
Speaker 3: like we are the mayors of the biggest city in Nebraska,
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Speaker 3: the second biggest city in Nebraska, and if her and
22:34
Speaker 3: I could work together on legislative issues and say we agree,
22:37
Speaker 3: we could get a lot done. For both of our
22:39
Speaker 3: cities in the Nebraska legislature, and to me, that's how
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Speaker 3: it should work. Our two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries coming up, Dennis,
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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of pride I am hearing
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Speaker 3: in the United States right now, and a lot in
22:53
Speaker 3: America when the World Cup is Forty three countries are
22:57
Speaker 3: here in the United States right now, And I said
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Speaker 3: this yesterday on the air. I love it because what
23:02
Speaker 3: I am hearing the vibe out there is my country's
23:05
Speaker 3: better than your country. I love my country. I want
23:07
Speaker 3: to win. Tell us your feeling about the two hundred
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Speaker 3: and fiftieth. Do you have a lot of pride in
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Speaker 3: the United States?
23:12
Speaker 6: I do.
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Speaker 2: We have done a lot of great things as a country.
23:14
Speaker 2: We saved the world from fascism in World War Two,
23:17
Speaker 2: as we discussed earlier, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm
23:22
Speaker 2: very proud of the accomplishings of the nineteen sixties, the
23:25
Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act of sixty four, the Road and Rights
23:27
Speaker 2: Act of sixty five, the Fair Housing Act of sixty eight.
23:30
Speaker 2: We've done a lot of great things, but we have
23:32
Speaker 2: not always lived up to our ideals. All men are
23:34
Speaker 2: created equal, the fourteenth Amendment requires the equal protection of
23:39
Speaker 2: the laws. The fifteenth Amendment protects the right to vote.
23:42
Speaker 2: So I'm going to say I'm proud of our accompfihence,
23:46
Speaker 2: but we're not done yet. We're not perfect because we're
23:48
Speaker 2: not done yet. There's a lot of unfinished business. And
23:51
Speaker 2: I'm going to say we're doing some good things, we're
23:54
Speaker 2: doing some things that aren't so good. But I want
23:56
Speaker 2: our country to live up to our lofty ideals in
23:59
Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, as Senator
24:03
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy said the University of Kansas on March
24:05
Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen sixty eight. We can do better.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Crawford, thank you for being with us today.
24:11
Speaker 3: I would assume we're getting a lot of comments about
24:14
Speaker 3: your comments, and that is okay. That's exactly what this
24:17
Speaker 3: show is all about. And we want to hear what
24:20
Speaker 3: you have to say about the show today. This podcast
24:24
Speaker 3: will be up on our podcast at about noon today
24:29
Speaker 3: or a little bit after. If you want to hear it,
24:31
Speaker 3: go over it again. I appreciate you being here. You know,
24:34
Speaker 3: I know we're going to get a lot of comments.
24:37
Speaker 3: I can't say that I agree with everything you say either,
24:40
Speaker 3: but nobody not everybody disagree or agrees with what I
24:43
Speaker 3: say too, So I appreciate your candor. I appreciate your
24:47
Speaker 3: your you sharing how you feel on this show today,
24:51
Speaker 3: And thanks for traveling up from Lincoln.
24:53
Speaker 1: Are you kind of come to the College World Series?
24:55
Speaker 2: I'm not much of a college baseball fan. Okay, I'm
24:58
Speaker 2: pretty cool. I went to a game if you years ago,
25:00
Speaker 2: had a really good time. I'm going to a World
25:02
Speaker 2: Cup game in Kansas City on June twenty five with
25:04
Speaker 2: my son.
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Speaker 1: So did you have to cash in your retirement to
25:06
Speaker 1: get tickets?
25:07
Speaker 2: My son is a very savvy ticket buyer. He got
25:10
Speaker 2: him for four hundred dollars apiece, so I guess that's
25:12
Speaker 2: a relative bargain compared to what they're painting in some
25:15
Speaker 2: other cities. But yeah, we're looking forward to that at
25:18
Speaker 2: Earrahead Stadium, one of the great stadiums that'll be in America.
25:21
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for having me on. It's been a pleasure.
25:23
Speaker 2: I think these cross the aisle conversations, I think we
25:27
Speaker 2: need to have them, and I think it's very valuable
25:29
Speaker 2: for us to keep the lines of communication open.
25:32
Speaker 1: I do too.
25:32
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Dennis Crawford for being with us today. Peyton,
25:35
Speaker 3: this girl is on fire right now. Let me tell you,
25:39
Speaker 3: Dennis Crawford was just with us. As I said many times,
25:42
Speaker 3: he has a Lincoln attorney, historian author. He is a
25:46
Speaker 3: Republican who became a democrat. He called me and asked
25:50
Speaker 3: me to be on this show. You know, I will
25:53
Speaker 3: just say this, I did not want to get into
25:55
Speaker 3: a debate with him. I didn't have the time to
25:58
Speaker 3: debate him here all the I would have loved to
26:01
Speaker 3: have debated him. There's a lot of questions and comments
26:04
Speaker 3: coming in for him. He is not in the studio anymore,
26:08
Speaker 3: so we wanted to get on with some other issues. However,
26:12
Speaker 3: I will say this, everybody is entitled to their own opinion.
26:16
Speaker 3: Not everybody is entitled. No one is entitled to their
26:20
Speaker 3: own facts. And I will say a lot of the
26:27
Speaker 3: issues that he was saying, the things that he was
26:29
Speaker 3: presenting as facts. In my opinion, here he was twisting
26:34
Speaker 3: the facts. He's a very smart man, but he had
26:37
Speaker 3: his talking points ready right there. Number one, Iran's nuclear
26:41
Speaker 3: program is dead, and I think that what we have
26:45
Speaker 3: done and accomplished over in Iran was very positive. When
26:49
Speaker 3: he said he was a big supporter of Biden and
26:52
Speaker 3: Harris and said they were moderates. Kind of lost me
26:56
Speaker 3: on that one. I really want to hear your opinion.
27:00
Speaker 3: And the one thing that really made my blood pressure
27:02
Speaker 3: go up again is the term mega. What it really
27:05
Speaker 3: means make America great again? Who could disagree with that?
27:10
Speaker 3: Make America great again? And he said, and he didn't
27:14
Speaker 3: say today, but I read that he wrote this. He said,
27:17
Speaker 3: Mega means morons are governing America. How offensive to me even?
27:24
Speaker 3: I mean, he said, well, you're not governing America. No,
27:27
Speaker 3: but I was governing Omaha, and I was a mayor
27:30
Speaker 3: of a major city, and so that, of course saying
27:34
Speaker 3: that meant morons are governing America was not funny in
27:37
Speaker 3: my opinion at all.
27:39
Speaker 7: Gene, I want to get into some callers here that
27:42
Speaker 7: have been very patient that we didn't quite have the
27:45
Speaker 7: time to get on the show. But I just want
27:47
Speaker 7: to bring this up to the essence of the KFAB
27:50
Speaker 7: comment line, questions, concerns.
27:52
Speaker 4: It's not just sunshine and rainbows. We don't want to be.
27:55
Speaker 1: Oh Jeans, the Jeans the greatest mayor of all time.
27:57
Speaker 8: We love Gene.
27:58
Speaker 4: No, we want this on hear.
28:00
Speaker 7: This conversation is back and forth, and even if it
28:02
Speaker 7: makes your head feel like it was going to explode,
28:05
Speaker 7: it's good conversations. And there's probably things that Jean says
28:07
Speaker 7: herself that makes your head want to explode, not mine, though,
28:09
Speaker 7: Jean's perfect. But I do have a call here from Adam.
28:13
Speaker 7: He was very patient. We didn't have the time to
28:14
Speaker 7: get him in. Adam, I'm giving you the floor here.
28:17
Speaker 7: Welcome to the KFAB comment line. You're live with Jeans
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Good morning, thanks for taking my call.
28:24
Speaker 5: I was just calling.
28:26
Speaker 9: When I hear people like this former guest that you
28:29
Speaker 9: just had on speak about politics, I always wonder if
28:34
Speaker 9: they could explain where they're coming from from it, you know,
28:38
Speaker 9: from their principal position. Never really hear democrats give a
28:42
Speaker 9: principal position. They always say they're against this or they're
28:45
Speaker 9: against that. As a conservative, I can tell you that
28:49
Speaker 9: my position comes from the Constitution. There's a lot of
28:53
Speaker 9: things that Republicans do that there's a lot of things
28:55
Speaker 9: that Republicans do that I think are unconstitutional, But at
28:58
Speaker 9: least as a servative, I can say this is my
29:01
Speaker 9: principal position.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I agree with you.
29:05
Speaker 9: I feel like when he said when he said that
29:09
Speaker 9: Bill Clinton was a moderate, a lot of Republicans would
29:12
Speaker 9: argue that, what's the big difference between Bill Clinton and
29:14
Speaker 9: Donald Trump? Honestly, with policies, not a big difference. But
29:19
Speaker 9: he he was sitting there saying how one was bad
29:22
Speaker 9: and one was good. And I would argue that, you know,
29:25
Speaker 9: on a lot of things, I don't agree with Clinton
29:28
Speaker 9: or Trump, but there's some things that I do agree
29:30
Speaker 9: with Clinton and Trump. Like one of the big things
29:34
Speaker 9: with Clinton was bringing China and the wt O. We
29:38
Speaker 9: saw what happened after that.
29:39
Speaker 1: So and he actually said that I have.
29:43
Speaker 5: A lot of other stuff.
29:43
Speaker 9: I have a lot of other stuff, Jean, but I
29:45
Speaker 9: just want to get that off my check. So I
29:46
Speaker 9: always want to hear what their principal position is.
29:49
Speaker 3: I do too, And that's why, you know, that's why
29:51
Speaker 3: I agreed to have him on, and I wanted him
29:54
Speaker 3: to be able to talk and to give his reasons.
29:58
Speaker 3: But I don't I didn't agree with a lot that
30:00
Speaker 3: he was saying. I mean, when he said Biden was
30:03
Speaker 3: a good president, he said he supported Kamala Harris, he
30:08
Speaker 3: said they are moderates.
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Speaker 7: It's kind of where do you draw the line with that.
30:12
Speaker 7: I'm going to get one more phone call in here. Mark,
30:14
Speaker 7: thank you for calling into eleven to ten kfa B.
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Speaker 9: Morning there.
30:21
Speaker 10: How are you?
30:22
Speaker 1: I am good? Thank you.
30:24
Speaker 10: I appreciate staking call. First off, thank you so much
30:27
Speaker 10: for all of these years of vacation to the community.
30:32
Speaker 10: I live across the river, my mother and her father,
30:37
Speaker 10: who was there of counsel Blush for quite a while.
30:39
Speaker 10: For Stodge Democrats, Uh, there's no doubt in my mind
30:44
Speaker 10: they are rolling in the grave with the way the
30:46
Speaker 10: Democratic Party is front today. Agree the gentleman that you
30:53
Speaker 10: just had on that is the economy of trunk derangement syndrome.
30:58
Speaker 3: Well, I asked him that question, you know, I asked
31:00
Speaker 3: him that question, and he said it was offensive that
31:03
Speaker 3: I use. He said, I'm not deranged, but I think
31:06
Speaker 3: that that that that syndrome that we talk about is real.
31:11
Speaker 3: I mean, it's absolutely real. And I could tell just
31:14
Speaker 3: by his body language that that made him very angry
31:17
Speaker 3: when I asked that. But at the same time, when
31:20
Speaker 3: he wrote down that Mega means morons are governing America,
31:24
Speaker 3: that made my blood pressure go.
31:26
Speaker 10: Up totally, totally and I remember that Scott's had a
31:32
Speaker 10: lady on that said, it is clinically, it is an
31:35
Speaker 10: actual disease, just true of it.
31:40
Speaker 1: Yes it is.
31:41
Speaker 3: And I said, and you know this is true too,
31:43
Speaker 3: I said, I know people that love the president that
31:46
Speaker 3: have Trump's arrangement syndrome.
31:48
Speaker 1: I know people that hate it. But I mean Donald
31:50
Speaker 1: Trump right.
31:51
Speaker 3: Now, for many Democrats, he could pave the street in
31:55
Speaker 3: gold and he could send everybody a million dollars and
31:58
Speaker 3: they would criticize. I mean, there isn't anything that he
32:01
Speaker 3: can do that is accepted now by those who I
32:06
Speaker 3: would consider have Trump Derangement syndrome.
32:08
Speaker 1: They just hate him.
32:10
Speaker 3: And you know, I brought this up the other night
32:12
Speaker 3: that when I'm down at the ballpark too, and you know,
32:15
Speaker 3: for all these college World Series games, and here is
32:19
Speaker 3: are these people that when they play the national anthem
32:21
Speaker 3: at a station full of or a stadium full of
32:24
Speaker 3: twenty four thousand people, and everybody's standing up with their
32:27
Speaker 3: hands on their hearts, and then there are a few
32:29
Speaker 3: that sit that are sitting there going boo, And you
32:32
Speaker 3: just think what is going through these people's mind right now?
32:35
Speaker 3: The other night, they actually they played another song during
32:39
Speaker 3: a break between the innings and played God Bless America.
32:42
Speaker 3: And when I hear that, it still sends chills up
32:44
Speaker 3: my back. And I just don't understand people that come
32:49
Speaker 3: out and act like they hate the United States of
32:52
Speaker 3: America so much and they hate what we are doing
32:55
Speaker 3: on the international stage to protect us and protect.
33:01
Speaker 1: Us from now and in the future.
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Speaker 11: Totally agree.
33:04
Speaker 10: Ab the old thing America like it, you love it
33:06
Speaker 10: or leave it?
33:07
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I know and I love appreciate it.
33:11
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you for coming on. Thank you very much,
33:14
Speaker 7: Thank you, Mark. And I do have a few more
33:16
Speaker 7: things that I want to get to. We need to
33:17
Speaker 7: get back on time here. Gene, your comments, questions and
33:20
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Speaker 7: Here we are back on the CAFA b comment line
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Speaker 7: on a Thursday. We had a great conversation this morning
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Speaker 7: with mister Crawford and I do have a talkback.
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Speaker 4: Here here we go.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, mayor.
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Speaker 15: Hey, even though I didn't agree with anything, mister Crawford said,
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Speaker 15: I do applaud you for letting him talk and not
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Speaker 15: talk over him. So many interviewers talk over the interviewee
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Speaker 15: that you really don't hear what they're saying. And like
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Speaker 15: I said, even though I don't agree with the guy,
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Speaker 15: I did like that you let him talk. Thank you
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Speaker 15: and have a great day.
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Speaker 4: But thank you, Todd.
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Speaker 7: That was the radio talkback Mike on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 7: You can leave a message there thirty seconds long and
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Speaker 7: we will get to it.
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Speaker 4: I have another one here, Geane as well, and this
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Speaker 4: one do not have a name. Here the radio talkback Mike.
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Speaker 6: Hello merre Strathard. I agree. We appreciate your character aside
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Speaker 6: from political you're a solid woman with good core values.
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Speaker 9: Love the show.
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Speaker 6: You ruffle so many feathers in Omaha, and that's wonderful.
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Speaker 6: Maybe Mirror Superman would come on, but he appears to
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Speaker 6: be soft and weak. It's called the comment line. You
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Speaker 6: do most of the commenting though. Could you address that?
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Speaker 7: The question was again, it's called the comment line, and
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Speaker 7: you do most of the commenting though.
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Speaker 4: Could you address that?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, yes, I mean the we invite people
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Speaker 3: to email, we invite people to call in and ask questions,
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Speaker 3: and then I answer them. I mean, that's what this
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Speaker 3: is all about. And I try to answer them. I'm
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Speaker 3: answering them, folks, off the top of my head. It's
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Speaker 3: things I remember. If I don't know it for sure,
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Speaker 3: if I'm guessing at it at all, I will say,
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Speaker 3: let me dig into this and I will get back
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Speaker 3: with you. And I always get back the next day.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's really funny. You say that.
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Speaker 7: I got this email last night, Gene, and it says,
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Speaker 7: please tell Gene to stop saying that. She will talk
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Speaker 7: about anything Gene invites and promotes to bring it on
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Speaker 7: when she can't daily accurately respond to the KFAB listeners.
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Speaker 7: She invites tough questions, but often says, let me look
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Speaker 7: into it and I'll get back to you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think Colin bs. Yeah, I don't think
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Speaker 3: that that's true at all. Just like what I said,
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Speaker 3: I told Peyton here the producer, to bring those comments
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Speaker 3: and calls on as they come, don't weed them out
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Speaker 3: and only give me the good ones. Take them as
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Speaker 3: they come, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and
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Speaker 3: I will answer them. That's what this show is all about.
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Speaker 3: But they are asking me a question and I will
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Speaker 3: answer to the best of my ability. If I don't know,
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Speaker 3: I'd want to get back with you with the facts.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to say something that is inaccurate. And
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Speaker 3: that's what we do every single day here.
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Speaker 4: Well, Geane, if you don't know it, then just make
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Speaker 4: it up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is not the Well, that's your typical
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Speaker 3: politician there that talks real loud and acts like they
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Speaker 3: know everything. And you know, for being in politics as
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Speaker 3: long as I have, for being in the mayor's seat
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Speaker 3: for twelve years, I don't think I ever was out
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Speaker 3: in public and said something absolutely wrong. I fact checked
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Speaker 3: myself all the time, and I will do this on
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Speaker 3: this radio show. But you make a comment, I will
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Speaker 3: let people comment. If you ask me a question, I
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Speaker 3: will answer the question. If I don't know the answer,
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Speaker 3: I will get back with you with the facts.
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Speaker 7: And that's just what we do this podcast today. This
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Speaker 7: whole episode is going to be uploaded at kfab dot
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Speaker 7: com or the iHeartRadio app under the cafab comment line
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Speaker 7: with Gene Stouthard. As we're wrapping up the show here, Gene,
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Speaker 7: you wanted to break down a little bit about the
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Speaker 7: College World Series.
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Speaker 3: Well, I just wanted to say, and then there are
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Speaker 3: two and so here we are North Carolina. The tar
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Speaker 3: Heels are in West Virginia. Was out as of yesterday
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Speaker 3: with a one o'clock game, and then in the evening
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Speaker 3: game the Oklahoma Sooners Schooners. Sooners are the champs. And
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Speaker 3: so you know the Sooners, the Oklahoma team they won
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Speaker 3: the first time the College World Series back in nineteen
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Speaker 3: fifty one. Now, remember the College World Series started in
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Speaker 3: nineteen forty seven in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They came to Omaha
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Speaker 3: since nineteen fifty the second year they were here in
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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty one, Oklahoma one. And then they were the
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Speaker 3: champs again in nineteen ninety four. Now, just so that
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Speaker 3: you all know that there is now no game the
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Speaker 3: finals have been decided. There's no game Thursday. There is
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Speaker 3: no game Friday, because Friday was a game was an
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Speaker 3: open day for rainouts if they had to play a
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Speaker 3: game there. And so the championship game will start Saturday
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Speaker 3: at seven pm. That's Game one. Then Game two is
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Speaker 3: Sunday at one thirty in the afternoon, and it could
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Speaker 3: be one on Sunday if necessary. There will be a
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Speaker 3: third game on Monday, and that would be at six pm.
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Speaker 3: So North Carolina versus Oklahoma. That's what we got for
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Speaker 3: the finals for the men's NCAA College World Series.
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Speaker 7: I have a quick question here from Philip. Philip, just
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Speaker 7: very briefly, you're live with Jean's author.
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Speaker 16: Good morning, Mayores out there, Good morning. Just a quick
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Speaker 16: comment on the point that you brought up attending the
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Speaker 16: College World Series games and people that you've noticed not
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Speaker 16: standing for the national anthems. As a Marine Corps veteran
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Speaker 16: who served during Vietnam, if those people sat around me,
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Speaker 16: I'm afraid I'd have to confront them.
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Speaker 3: I think I would be tempted to do the same thing.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'll be real quick with this because I
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Speaker 3: know we got to cut. But the other night we
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Speaker 3: came down, the game had already started, and the seats
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Speaker 3: that I have, and there were two guys sitting in
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Speaker 3: the seats, and that always happens.
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Speaker 1: You don't if you're not there at the beginning.
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Speaker 3: I said, hey, these are seats, and the guys got
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Speaker 3: up and well they argued with me, No, these are
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Speaker 3: my seats.
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Speaker 1: No they're not they're my seats.
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Speaker 3: So they finally got up, but the guy next to
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Speaker 3: me then when I sat down, I always say hi
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Speaker 3: to him, and he said, boy, I'm glad that you're
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Speaker 3: sitting here and those you made those two leave. He
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Speaker 3: said they would not stand for the national anthem and
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Speaker 3: they were saying boo, and he said I wanted to
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Speaker 3: punch him in the face. And I said, well, I'm
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Speaker 3: glad I'm sitting here then, because that does aggravate people
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Speaker 3: a big time. So anyway, thanks for the call. I
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Speaker 3: appreciate it.
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Speaker 7: Well, Matt, thank you Philip for the call. I really
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Speaker 7: appreciate it. As we wrapping up the show here, we
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Speaker 7: got about a minute left and I just wanted to
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Speaker 7: give a special shout out here to Max and Ramona.
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Speaker 7: Today is their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
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Speaker 3: Well, congratulations to both of you, Max and Ramona sixty years.
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Speaker 4: Wow, that's great, sixty years together.
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Speaker 7: Max has been listening to KFAB since nineteen sixty six
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Speaker 7: when he was a senior in high school.
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Speaker 3: Well, Max, I hope you keep on listening and congratulations
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Speaker 3: and enjoy your day. And that is it for us today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for spending this hour with us
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Speaker 3: and listening. We'd love for you to join us again tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I am Jean Stothard and this is eleven ten kfab