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Brian Thomas spends a full hour with Private Citizen Brad Wenstrup · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Seven oh six here a PET five KRCD talk station.
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Speaker 1: I'm very happy Friday, Extra Special Friday, at least from
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Speaker 1: my perspective, but I hope you share my perspective in studio,
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Speaker 1: Former Congressman brad Winstrip Citizen brand web Strip. You still
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Speaker 1: have your licensed practice medicine because I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about healthcare with you. Welcome back, Brad. It's always great
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Speaker 1: seeing you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Yes, I do, and I am.
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Speaker 1: I remind people it's doctor brad Winstrip, so.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know I'm still engaging here and there
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Speaker 3: academically and especially but.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and a consulting love is yes out in the world.
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Speaker 1: I understand you have new employment, new means of income,
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Speaker 1: but it involves the medical profession generally speaking, a lot
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Speaker 1: of it at national security and security which we're going
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Speaker 1: to get to as well because we're season venice well
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Speaker 1: and tankers. Now we're dropping bombs on Venezuela and drug dealers.
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Speaker 1: And some really good success with Trump's trade policies, our
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Speaker 1: trade deficit has narrowed substantially. More exports from our country,
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Speaker 1: fewer imports into our country. The tariffs in spite of
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Speaker 1: all the you know, the whaling and gnashing of teeth
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Speaker 1: about Teriff apparently is now starting to bear some fruit
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Speaker 1: for our benefits. So putting that aside for a moment.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that.
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Speaker 1: Yes we will if we have done as expected.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they had to vote on these various healthcare proposals,
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Speaker 1: you know, extending these subsidies under Obamacare or coming up
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Speaker 1: with an alternative solution. Both the Republicans and the Democrats
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Speaker 1: senate versions of these, you know, efforts both got shot down.
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Speaker 1: We all expected that to happen. So we're back to
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Speaker 1: square one. I guess at this point we only bought
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Speaker 1: until what the eighteenth of December in terms of keeping
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Speaker 1: the government open under the continuing resolution that exists. I
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Speaker 1: seem to recall that being the case they had to
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Speaker 1: work out. They're trying to hand out the balance of
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Speaker 1: the appropriations bills during this window of opportunity.
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Speaker 3: They're going to try to Yeah luck right, Yeah, well,
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Speaker 3: you know, they are moving. I will I will say
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Speaker 3: that the people on Appropriations are working hard.
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Speaker 2: I will tell you that.
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Speaker 3: But that's because it's under Republican control right now. But
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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that it won't still end up in
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Speaker 3: some kind of end of your bill an omnibus, well
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Speaker 3: an omnibus or another cr which we've gotten so used to.
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Speaker 3: I just don't know why we don't have a collection
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Speaker 3: of people on both sides of the aisle that feel
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Speaker 3: it's their obligation and duty to get this done one
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Speaker 3: way or another, even if you don't like everything that's
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Speaker 3: in it.
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Speaker 1: It's one of the core job functions of being a
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Speaker 1: US House Representatives member work on the twelve appropriations bills.
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Speaker 1: What other jobs do you really have by way of
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you had a list and do a
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Speaker 1: responsibility memo or something. Working on twelve appropriations bills and
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Speaker 1: getting done on a calendar year basis is like first
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Speaker 1: and foremost.
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Speaker 2: And I have seen it done.
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Speaker 3: But sometimes it's just on not all twelve, but a
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Speaker 3: lot of them, and.
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Speaker 2: We'll package those together.
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Speaker 3: And right now I do see that Republicans are working
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Speaker 3: hard to do that, because when we have the majority
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Speaker 3: like that, especially in the House, we get them done.
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Speaker 3: Now you get over the Senate, and that's another situation
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Speaker 3: a lot of times, but that's the way our government
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Speaker 3: was made up and we have to recognize that. But
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Speaker 3: onto healthcare, as you were talking about the situation is
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Speaker 3: such like the Affordable Care Act is not anything Republicans
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Speaker 3: ever supported, right, they didn't support.
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Speaker 2: It to begin with.
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Speaker 3: And the idea of these subsidies, as the Democrats promoted
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Speaker 3: it during COVID was this is just during COVID, this
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Speaker 3: is temporary.
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Speaker 2: They put the.
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Speaker 3: End date on that under the guys that after COVID,
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Speaker 3: we won't really need it. But the fact of the
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Speaker 3: matter is they do need it to carry out their
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Speaker 3: plan to keep it going. And you know it includes
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Speaker 3: things like increasing health premiums for the majority of the
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Speaker 3: consumers to subsidize the minority with expense of medical conditions,
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Speaker 3: et cetera. That's somewhat the nature of insurance anyway, I
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Speaker 3: get that. But the way this is set up, it's
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Speaker 3: just increasing the cost. It's only benefiting insurance companies for
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Speaker 3: them to want to take on the Affordable Care Act
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Speaker 3: as it exists. But the Democrats want these additional subsidies
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Speaker 3: rather than recognizing that the Affordable Care Act was a failure.
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Speaker 3: It's not affordable. It isn't It never was going to
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Speaker 3: be the way it was set up, and you could
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Speaker 3: see that. Yet you know it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: Well, they'll just call it affordable.
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Speaker 1: Lord knows how it might have worked out, But the
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Speaker 1: rug was pulled out from under when the Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: did its original analysis of the constitutionality of it in
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Speaker 1: the first place, right out of the gate. In spite
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Speaker 1: of the fact that they found that attacks wasn't attax
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Speaker 1: and they ultimately upheld it, they shot down the commerce
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Speaker 1: clause argument. Democrats are trying to use the commerce Clause
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Speaker 1: the United States Constitution to say that they could use
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Speaker 1: it to force you to buy something. Now they can
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Speaker 1: prevent you from doing something under the commerce clause engaging
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Speaker 1: in commercial activity, traveling across state lines, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: but they can't make you, was the pronouncement from the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And once we weren't mandated to buy it
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't force us to buy it, the house
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Speaker 1: of cards collapsed on itself.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is obviously what Republicans pursued too, was the
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Speaker 3: individual mandate, Yeah, because then you know, you're purchasing something
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Speaker 3: basically at gunpoint or threat with why with threat with
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Speaker 3: threat of going to jail basically And you know, but
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Speaker 3: but Donald Trump, his first action Donald Trump during his
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Speaker 3: first term, he in many ways solved a lot of
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Speaker 3: this by getting the so called short term health insurance.
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Speaker 3: The Trump's clarification needs to be a permanent law where
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Speaker 3: people have options to buy outside of the Affordable Care
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Speaker 3: Act and have them available, and so you can buy
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Speaker 3: something that allows you to say, get catastrophic insurance or
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Speaker 3: meet your needs and nuns don't have to buy insurance
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Speaker 3: for contraception.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you're outside of Obamacare and you're not obligated
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Speaker 1: to work with Obamacare, buy an Obamacare plan. You've got
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Speaker 1: two hundred plus medical insurance providers out in the world.
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Speaker 1: That's what I speak for. Cover Sincy. He's an insurance
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Speaker 1: broger for medical insurance. There are hundreds of companies out there.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to You can buy just a catastrophic
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Speaker 1: policy period.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to buy anything else. You might be
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Speaker 1: really in a gem if you have some other problems.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to have your day to day regular
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Speaker 1: checkups covered and your you know, maybe emergency visits won't
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Speaker 1: be covered. But you know, if you get clobbered with
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Speaker 1: a cancer diagnosis, whatever, you might have coverage for something
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Speaker 1: like that. But nobody can force you to buy something.
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Speaker 1: Nobody can force you to buy Obamacare airgo. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to buy this full plate of benefits that Obamacare
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Speaker 1: provides that cost so much damn money. I mean, there
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Speaker 1: is an open market out there, have a choice.
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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, the same people that are for decades
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Speaker 3: been screaming about choice are often trying to give people
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Speaker 3: no choice on other matters.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that there's not enough education out
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Speaker 1: there about how the insurance market works makes people think
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Speaker 1: that I'm only stuck with either what my employer provides me,
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Speaker 1: which if you've got an employer covered policy, then you
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Speaker 1: know you're a leg up on a lot of Americans.
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Speaker 1: That's a good thing, I guess for a lot of reasons.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it lets market a little bit. There's some
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Speaker 1: downsides for that, but whatever. But if you're not covered
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Speaker 1: by an employer policy, you're not stuck having to choose
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Speaker 1: an Obama care plan. You know, you can go to
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Speaker 1: a different medical insurance provider and buy only what you need.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that an ad for an insurance company.
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Speaker 1: It's an ad for cover sensing, And I'm happy to
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Speaker 1: give it to them for free just because that's what
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Speaker 1: they do. And there are other brokers out in the
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Speaker 1: world that may do the same thing as is my
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Speaker 1: friends that cover since you, but you know, they pay
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Speaker 1: to support the show, and I'm just explaining to you
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Speaker 1: what they do, which is a reflection of the fact
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Speaker 1: that there is a market out there that has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with Obamacare exactly.
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Speaker 3: And you can and you know, the federal courts agreed
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Speaker 3: the federal law allows for both to exist. Yeah, so
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Speaker 3: let's put that though, clarify it in law, and without
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Speaker 3: an agency trying to strike it down in the process
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are our own worst enemy when it comes
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Speaker 1: to this. I mean, let's let's reveal the elephant in
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Speaker 1: the room that I mentioned many times before. First off,
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Speaker 1: because that mandate that you must engage in commercial activity
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Speaker 1: that you didn't want to do, forcing you to buy
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Speaker 1: Obamacare shot down as unconstitutional. That blew up what the
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Speaker 1: ultimate goal here. The Democrats want to keep this alive.
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Speaker 1: It's on life support already. These supplements only make it
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Speaker 1: appealing as an option because the premiums disappear. It's magic,
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Speaker 1: it's free. You know, the American taxpayer is covering, and
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Speaker 1: all that money's going to the insurance companies. So it
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Speaker 1: just shattered their dream of what I call Medicaid for all,
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Speaker 1: which is what they wanted. They wanted every man wanting
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Speaker 1: child in the United States to be insured under one
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Speaker 1: single thing. That would be Obamacare. And it's going to
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Speaker 1: be a boiled down form of Medicare, i e. Medicaid,
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Speaker 1: less coverage, less service, and of course the one size
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Speaker 1: fits all get in line like a Soviet breadline. Reality
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Speaker 1: of medicine that would bring about.
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Speaker 3: Medicaid has at least success on health than any plan
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Speaker 3: because it's not readily accessible. Not everyone takes it. This
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Speaker 3: is what you would You would see it has the
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Speaker 3: highest mortality and morbidity. And you will see people argue
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Speaker 3: about medicaid and say, well, people are much healthier because
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Speaker 3: they have Medicaid. Well, you're saying they're healthier because they
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Speaker 3: have medicaid compared to nothing, Right, that's not what we're
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Speaker 3: talking about. We're not talking about having nothing available.
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Speaker 1: Talking about something that actually does what it's supposed to. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: will continue with citizen brad Winsterrip, Doctor brad Winsterrup in
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Speaker 1: a moment got a part company here, just mentioned twenty
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Speaker 1: two three on round forty two between Mason and eleven,
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Speaker 1: and he talks station Brian Timas here with well, he
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Speaker 1: served his country. He probably continued to serve his country
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Speaker 1: serving the American military. He's a doctor, he's Brad Winsor,
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Speaker 1: a former congressman and also someone who had his high
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Speaker 1: level security clearance. You're on the Security Council, right, and.
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Speaker 3: I was on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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Speaker 3: and now serving on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. I
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Speaker 3: don't speak for either as I sit here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. I was really impressed. I saw this
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Speaker 1: article just yesterday. Israel is unveiled and has used and
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Speaker 1: successfully deployed in combat this thing they call iron Beam.
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Speaker 1: It's a super high power laser that can lock on
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Speaker 1: targets and just a fraction of a second, and considering
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Speaker 1: laser's travel to speed of light, they can blow missiles
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Speaker 1: out of the sky with it. It's war and it
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Speaker 1: costs between a buck and two bucks in terms of
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Speaker 1: energy usage to operate it. This seems to me to
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Speaker 1: be a complete game changer, Like drones were a game
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Speaker 1: changer in warfare. We're not going to be making patriot
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Speaker 1: missiles pretty soon. Because if you can use this successfully
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Speaker 1: and deploy this successfully, this technology is a absolute total
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Speaker 1: game changer in war. Drones can be shot out of
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Speaker 1: the sky and I'm just kind of wondering, and you
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Speaker 1: may not have any information about I'm not pressing you
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Speaker 1: for that. If this stuff, this technology as developed, can
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Speaker 1: work on hypersonic missiles as well, which pose the greatest threat.
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Speaker 1: From my standpoint, you can chime in on that if
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Speaker 1: you choose to. But if you can shoot hypersonic missiles
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Speaker 1: out of the sky with this man, this is this
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Speaker 1: is revolutionary.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're always looking for point counterpoint, right, Yeah, no
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Speaker 3: matter what someone has, do we have it and can
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Speaker 3: we negate them? You know, that's a countermeasure, measures and countermeasures.
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Speaker 1: We develop this with the Israelis and they use one
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Speaker 1: point five billion dollars of our money to help develop this,
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Speaker 1: and they've shared this with us, according to the reporting.
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Speaker 3: Accorney to the reporting. And look, the idea of iron
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Speaker 3: Dome was in this same vein. It's always like, what
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Speaker 3: can we do that may be better and cheaper, especially right,
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Speaker 3: and so you want to pursue these types of measures.
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Speaker 3: I've always had this in the back of my mind
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Speaker 3: and sometimes I would I would express it that is
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Speaker 3: there a better way than just a significantly kinetic force
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Speaker 3: against this, but have the same result, if not better result.
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Speaker 1: Right, right, So and cheaper, unlimited. As long as you
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Speaker 1: have electricity, this will keep firing, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you also want to look, you know, what
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Speaker 3: is the cost, right, how many dollars are going out
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Speaker 3: compared to So they're spending dollars on a drone, but
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Speaker 3: it costs a whole lot more for us to shoot
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Speaker 3: it out of the sky with, like you said, patriot
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Speaker 3: missile or something.
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Speaker 1: Like a million dollars.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can break the bank, which is what
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Speaker 3: we did during the Cold War, right, We bostally basically
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Speaker 3: broke the Soviet Union's bank because we have technologies and
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Speaker 3: advancements that they just could not keep up with, right,
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Speaker 3: and so the Cold War basically came to an end.
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Speaker 2: So this would be a huge thing.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it developed overnight, so it was probably
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Speaker 3: the making for some time decades. But I give credit
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Speaker 3: if it is there and it's capable. They did a
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Speaker 3: good job of keeping it quiet because you certainly don't
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Speaker 3: want the enemy starting to work on it as well.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you can't deny that the enemy's working on
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Speaker 1: as laser beams have been around forever, and they've been
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Speaker 1: working on high powered lasers for a long time. The
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Speaker 1: problem was the size, the portability, the speed of target acquisition.
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Speaker 1: Guess what, we have modern computers that process data instantaneously now,
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Speaker 1: so with gradually over time, you've shrunk the size of
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Speaker 1: these you've made them more powerful, and you've allowed for
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Speaker 1: locking into for targets in great accuracy, at least as
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Speaker 1: demonstrated by the Israelis in this iron beam situation. And
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Speaker 1: one can only imagine it's going to get better and better.
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Speaker 1: I guess pivoting over and I know we're gonna need
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Speaker 1: aircraft for a long time. But if the iron beam
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Speaker 1: can shoot a high speed weapon out of the sky,
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Speaker 1: I imagine it could lock in on a old, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, jet plane going nine hundred miles an hour
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Speaker 1: F forty five. We got a huge appropriation for the
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Speaker 1: development of a new replacement for the F thirty five.
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Speaker 1: These things come in at a billion dollars or whatever.
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Speaker 1: A pop boom gone in a fraction of a second. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, we have adversaries that are always seeking nefarious ways
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Speaker 3: to take us out, and our job is to continually
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Speaker 3: try to counter that.
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Speaker 2: And now you're talking.
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Speaker 3: It's interesting you bring that out because now you're talking
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Speaker 3: about something that we control from land. It is the
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Speaker 3: Israeli army that has worked on the Iron Dome and
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Speaker 3: manipulates the Iron Dome. And I've gone to Israel and
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Speaker 3: seen what they were able to do. But that's very
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Speaker 3: expensive to shoot these things out of the skies. But
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Speaker 3: you may be seeing the videos, especially at night time,
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Speaker 3: as these missiles are coming in, it looks like fireworks.
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Speaker 3: It looks like or illustrated fireworks because it's.
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Speaker 2: Like boom, boom, boom.
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Speaker 3: They're just knocking them down out of the sky over
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Speaker 3: their own land, right. So pretty effective tool where maybe
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Speaker 3: two out of one hundred get through. Well, but there's
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Speaker 3: cost to that, and if you can reduce that cost
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Speaker 3: and have a more efficient system, that is a wonderful
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Speaker 3: thing for us to.
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Speaker 2: Be able to have.
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Speaker 3: And the Israelis are constantly on guard and they're a
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Speaker 3: good partner to have.
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Speaker 1: Apparently a favorite of a lot of countries around the world.
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Speaker 1: The eighth largest arms exporter in the world. The Israelis
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Speaker 1: are country the size of New Jersey.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's innovation nation there, that's what they call themselves.
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Speaker 3: And you know they do that, they probably have fewer
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Speaker 3: regulations on their innovations.
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Speaker 1: I imagine, and it does help when you got one
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Speaker 1: point five billion dollars in the United States capital going
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Speaker 1: into a program like this Iron Beam. But to the
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Speaker 1: extent it works the way it's been described, I'd say
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Speaker 1: it was well worth the investment. Seven twenty six. Right
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Speaker 1: now more with Brad Weinstrip, Citizen Brad Weinstrup. After I
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Speaker 1: mentioned my friends at four seven thirty here if you
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Speaker 1: about KRC Decox station, A very happy Friday to you,
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Speaker 1: Brad Winsterp. Citizen Brad WINSTERP, Doctor Brad Winsterp, a former
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Speaker 1: member of Congress, Brad Winsorp and studio talking to him,
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Speaker 1: and he's still got a security clearance, so he's got
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Speaker 1: all kinds of details that you and I aren't privy to.
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Speaker 1: But he is informed, and since he's been there and
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Speaker 1: done that, he's a perfect person to common on what's
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Speaker 1: going on in the world. I love, honestly, one can
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Speaker 1: like being correct. I kind of feel over the years
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Speaker 1: I might have gone out on a limb a little
16:34
Speaker 1: bit to make my opinions known about what I believe
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Speaker 1: in terms of this theory of global climate change. And
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Speaker 1: I have always always pointed out, I think, what is
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Speaker 1: a demonstrable objective fact that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
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Speaker 1: It is a naturally occurring thing. It's part of our atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: and it's plant food. Plants thrive and live on our exhalation.
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Speaker 1: Without it, plants would die. But they also give life
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Speaker 1: giving oxygen in return for the carbon dioxide that you
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Speaker 1: and I give them. Well, lo and behold we have
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Speaker 1: every single day, it seems more and more information. Now
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Speaker 1: we have this science journal Nate and Journal Nature retracting
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Speaker 1: what was described as a catastrophic climate change study. We're
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Speaker 1: all gonna die a la al gore greta Thunberg, Oh
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Speaker 1: my god. And it's like, well, wait a minute, we
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Speaker 1: were wrong. After so many organizations and these these Green
17:31
Speaker 1: New Deal type leeches and NGOs out in the world
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Speaker 1: sucking up our tax dollars relied on the study to
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Speaker 1: make the argument that they were worthy of receiving our dollars. Well,
17:42
Speaker 1: guess what, pull the plug on that one because it
17:44
Speaker 1: wasn't true. But there's a lot of articles like that
17:46
Speaker 1: have been retracted after already going out into the world.
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Speaker 1: You know, we can go back to the hockey stick,
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Speaker 1: and they've since retracted that, which seemed to be the
17:52
Speaker 1: genesis of this whole thing. So what's your take on
17:55
Speaker 1: this and the throat slitting that goes on. We were
17:57
Speaker 1: talking about war between Russia and Ukraine and the break
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Speaker 1: their brad and mentioned Germany's economy. I said, well, they
18:04
Speaker 1: cut their own throat. You had comment about Russia might
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Speaker 1: have been jealous because they had such a thriving, booming
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Speaker 1: economy in the European Union. Germany was the outlier, one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest economies in the world. Guess what, they
18:14
Speaker 1: can't keep the lights on anymore because they pursued these policies.
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Speaker 1: There's something really nefarious behind the scenes on this, and
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Speaker 1: I don't hear about it as much anymore.
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Speaker 3: How about you, Well, they know you don't. But they
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Speaker 3: also became dependent on Russian oil and things like that
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Speaker 3: because they put themselves in this situation. And then we
18:35
Speaker 3: under the Biden administration NATed and embedded that because we
18:38
Speaker 3: reduced our outputs so tremendously and the rest is basically history.
18:45
Speaker 3: But you know, you point to something there. You mentioned
18:48
Speaker 3: was it Nature magazine?
18:50
Speaker 1: One of the studies, and you.
18:53
Speaker 3: Know, there are so many things I am finding out
18:55
Speaker 3: and have found out, and especially during COVID because as
18:58
Speaker 3: I was chairing the Pandemic Committee, we did a hearing
19:02
Speaker 3: on scientific journals basically and what they were, what they
19:06
Speaker 3: were putting out, and what was their process. And you
19:10
Speaker 3: saw things being published that really weren't peer reviewed, that
19:14
Speaker 3: really weren't tried and tested. And there is a site
19:18
Speaker 3: you can go to that has retractions of scientific articles.
19:22
Speaker 2: And that's not just one or two here and there.
19:27
Speaker 3: I mean there are many. And of course so many
19:29
Speaker 3: people go on what ends up in a journal and
19:33
Speaker 3: in a magazine and take it as gospel. And so
19:37
Speaker 3: you can have situations where you know you're going to
19:40
Speaker 3: get published, even though you know this isn't even that
19:43
Speaker 3: great of a scientific process that you used, and therefore
19:47
Speaker 3: it sticks because it meets your agenda, and then later
19:51
Speaker 3: it's retracted. Well how much later, how much later? When
19:55
Speaker 3: was that Nature article put out? I don't know, maybe
19:58
Speaker 3: it's in that that piece that you're referring to, Brian, but.
20:01
Speaker 1: This s four research, so it's pretty red damn Institute
20:05
Speaker 1: of Climate Impact Research. And lord knows from the name
20:09
Speaker 1: of the entity that did the initial study. You know
20:12
Speaker 1: the outcome of the study before you read the study itself. Oh,
20:14
Speaker 1: if they're the Institute for Climate Impact Research, weley guess
20:18
Speaker 1: they believe that carbon dioxide is going to kill us.
20:21
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:21
Speaker 3: And I can remember too having a hearing on ways
20:23
Speaker 3: and Means, not when Republicans were running the committee, but
20:27
Speaker 3: as the effects of climate change on health, and so
20:31
Speaker 3: they were trying to say, you know, it's destroying our health.
20:33
Speaker 3: We're not healthy people because of all this terrible climate change.
20:38
Speaker 3: And and of course that is then addressing the evils
20:42
Speaker 3: of energy outside of solar panels and windmills. And I said,
20:46
Speaker 3: have you walked through a hospital and seen how reliant
20:50
Speaker 3: it is on energy? And do you know that when
20:53
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, for example, had two hurricanes and storms, they
20:58
Speaker 3: had to run on generators.
21:00
Speaker 2: To keep people alive.
21:02
Speaker 3: So are you you know how actually are you thinking
21:06
Speaker 3: about this?
21:07
Speaker 2: Energy saves lives.
21:09
Speaker 1: Plastics generally speaking, what would the world be if you've
21:12
Speaker 1: got rid of fossil fuels completely and eradicated them with
21:14
Speaker 1: a la Gretathonberg's wishes and desires? Hell, that boat she
21:17
Speaker 1: floats around and wouldn't even exist because it's made up
21:20
Speaker 1: a bunch of plastics.
21:21
Speaker 3: I was in Chicago years ago when they had a
21:25
Speaker 3: brown out.
21:26
Speaker 2: I mean it was so hot.
21:27
Speaker 3: I was up there for a Reds Cubs game, and
21:29
Speaker 3: it was so hot that there was a brown out
21:31
Speaker 3: across the city. Brian, do you know that five hundred
21:34
Speaker 3: people died in their homes and apartments from the heat.
21:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, we say annually more people die from heat than.
21:43
Speaker 3: Cold, and therefore they're dying from a lack of energy
21:47
Speaker 3: because they had air conditioners. But there was a brown out, right,
21:51
Speaker 3: it didn't work. Yeah, so you got to look at
21:54
Speaker 3: all sides of the issue, and not only that. As
21:57
Speaker 3: you said, what is wrong with photosynthesis?
22:00
Speaker 1: Nothing here? We learned about it in second grade or
22:02
Speaker 1: something like that. Didn't we the circle at the excellent.
22:05
Speaker 2: As it was a circle? Right? Yeah, see how it works.
22:08
Speaker 2: Look what God created for us.
22:10
Speaker 1: Into those so called experts who say that this climate
22:12
Speaker 1: change is having a detrimental impact on our health. Over
22:16
Speaker 1: this whole period of uh industrialization, since we became industrialized
22:21
Speaker 1: and turned to the nineteen hundreds, right the industrial revolution,
22:24
Speaker 1: we started using fossil fuels, has life expectancy increased or decreased? Well?
22:31
Speaker 3: Rhetorical question in many sectors, though it's decreased, and that's
22:33
Speaker 3: because of overdoses.
22:35
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that has nothing to do with climate change. Overall.
22:38
Speaker 1: We live a hell of a lot longer than we
22:40
Speaker 1: used to, so we do. And look, I'm part of
22:43
Speaker 1: carbon dioxide.
22:44
Speaker 2: And I'm for clean water, clean air.
22:46
Speaker 3: You know, especially as the doctor, my goodness, we all
22:49
Speaker 3: want that those are pollutant you're referring to.
22:51
Speaker 1: I don't want lead in the water, I don't bercury,
22:54
Speaker 1: I don't want you eating that stuff. But that has
22:56
Speaker 1: nothing to do with what they're trying to eradicate, which
22:58
Speaker 1: is again, I'm not a pollutant. We'll continue with Citizen
23:01
Speaker 1: Brad Winster for a little out of time in this
23:02
Speaker 1: segment seven thirty seven right now kr CE Talk Station,
23:10
Speaker 1: Very happy Friday to you, former Congressman, Citizen Brad winsterrip,
23:14
Speaker 1: Doctor brad winstermin Studio. Just kind of going through all
23:17
Speaker 1: the issues that we can get in during this hour.
23:18
Speaker 1: And you brought up but a rather unusual topic, but
23:21
Speaker 1: what an amazing tragedy, what a horrific fire, the fire
23:24
Speaker 1: in Hong Kong. You brought that up over the break.
23:27
Speaker 1: You said you wanted to hit a point or two
23:29
Speaker 1: to raise about that.
23:29
Speaker 3: Well, you know, obviously extremely tragic situation. I mean, it
23:34
Speaker 3: was a tremendous tragedy. If you've seen any of the
23:36
Speaker 3: pictures and you know that people were trapped inside.
23:38
Speaker 1: That fire, horrific.
23:40
Speaker 3: It really looks like the Twin Towers on nine to eleven. Yeah,
23:44
Speaker 3: and they may not have collapsed in the same way,
23:47
Speaker 3: but just a horrific situation.
23:49
Speaker 2: But what's amazing.
23:51
Speaker 3: And I was in Hong Kong before the actual ultimate
23:55
Speaker 3: takeover of.
23:55
Speaker 1: Hong Kong July ninety seven.
23:57
Speaker 3: Well that's when it was authorized that the fifty year Plan,
24:01
Speaker 3: if you recall, but I was there before they came
24:06
Speaker 3: in all the Chinese. The Chinese came in and said
24:10
Speaker 3: we're now taking this over. So they were still somewhat autonomous,
24:15
Speaker 3: but now they're not.
24:16
Speaker 1: What was a source of massive revenue for the Chinese
24:19
Speaker 1: Communist Party. They didn't want to touch it, but they
24:21
Speaker 1: had to because it was inconsistent with their business vlosity.
24:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the world is changing too. I mean
24:26
Speaker 3: you look at the world of finance. You know, you
24:28
Speaker 3: used to say New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, right,
24:32
Speaker 3: Hong Kong, Yeah, right, It was part of it. Now
24:34
Speaker 3: Hong Kong is just another Chinese city, and it's very
24:38
Speaker 3: clear when you see what happened here. They established the
24:42
Speaker 3: Office for Safeguarding National Security, which came out of the
24:45
Speaker 3: Hong Kong National Security Law, which was brought out in
24:49
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, which is just China saying we're in charge here,
24:53
Speaker 3: right and in this result of this fire, you know
24:58
Speaker 3: we're normally here, you're looking at who's respons sponsible right
25:01
Speaker 3: where we're going to go in and say and there'll
25:03
Speaker 3: be all kinds of accusations or at least questions asked.
25:06
Speaker 3: But there they officials accused international media organizations of spreading
25:11
Speaker 3: false information and telling them literally on their website, they
25:16
Speaker 3: warned for foreign correspondence, exercise self discipline, take care of yourselves,
25:21
Speaker 3: and do not touch the legal red lines. In other words,
25:25
Speaker 3: be careful what you say about anything that may indicate
25:28
Speaker 3: that the government was not prepared for something like this
25:31
Speaker 3: and had had some things wrong.
25:34
Speaker 2: And the other thing that is, you.
25:35
Speaker 1: Don't have free speech on the CCP exactly run the
25:39
Speaker 1: risk of getting arrested or maybe being disappeared. And I
25:42
Speaker 1: hate that word. If you don't do, if you don't
25:44
Speaker 1: follow the line.
25:45
Speaker 3: They were determined to eliminate any independent voices on this
25:48
Speaker 3: that might question the official narrative. The other thing, Brian
25:52
Speaker 3: is like NGOs and local community groups, normally they would
25:57
Speaker 3: have coordinated for displaced residents and things like this, But
26:02
Speaker 3: this Hong Kong is different now, and they're under one
26:06
Speaker 3: one party rule obviously, and they treat any kind of
26:12
Speaker 3: independent aid efforts with suspicion. So, you know, people in
26:17
Speaker 3: this country need to know that when government has that
26:20
Speaker 3: type of control, it's not a good thing. You think, well,
26:24
Speaker 3: government can take care of it.
26:26
Speaker 1: Well. FEMA has been criticized many times, but Joe Biden
26:29
Speaker 1: politicized FEMA denied resources to the red state fill in
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Speaker 1: the blank. But everybody got all the money when they
26:35
Speaker 1: lived in Blue states. FEMA's abuse. Thank you. You've got
26:38
Speaker 1: organizations like Matthew twenty five ministries who independently can take
26:42
Speaker 1: contributions and provide one hundred percent of those contributions where
26:45
Speaker 1: it is needed. How about that? Yeah?
26:48
Speaker 3: I love coexists. I love the work that they do.
26:51
Speaker 3: Go visit them in Blue Ash see what they do.
26:53
Speaker 3: It's a perfect example of what people can do on
26:57
Speaker 3: their own.
26:58
Speaker 2: Basically, exactly they and they do it.
27:01
Speaker 3: But in this case in Hong Kong, I mean any
27:04
Speaker 3: residents who took to social media to condemn either lax
27:09
Speaker 3: enforcement or mismanagement or corruption involving the building inspections they
27:16
Speaker 3: found themselves facing legal warnings or police visits, some things.
27:20
Speaker 1: Like that, Gee hold on, let's pause because we got
27:23
Speaker 1: to take a break. But that sounds remarkably like the
27:25
Speaker 1: European Union these days. Seven forty six will maybe get
27:29
Speaker 1: a word or two in from Brad winsterp on that
27:32
Speaker 1: after I mentioned Zimmer heating and air conditioning for and
27:34
Speaker 1: thank you for sponsoring the school. Seven fifty here if
27:44
Speaker 1: you have KCD talk station, Happy Friday. One more segment
27:47
Speaker 1: with citizen Brad Weinster tomorrow after the top of the
27:50
Speaker 1: own is Beverly Park Williams. She's a local author and
27:52
Speaker 1: it's a really fascinating book about her her mom and
27:55
Speaker 1: her mom's sister, Parallel and Separate, a tale of two
27:58
Speaker 1: sisters separate, like really really young age I didn't even
28:02
Speaker 1: know each other existed and grew up on opposite sides
28:04
Speaker 1: of the city of Cincinnati, and how their lives were
28:06
Speaker 1: impacted and the differences between the two should be fun, Brad,
28:10
Speaker 1: real quick here, we've got a sort of a decaying
28:12
Speaker 1: relationship with our NATO allies. I know Trump's made some
28:16
Speaker 1: comments about them. They are EU pretty much full on socialists,
28:22
Speaker 1: so they didn't even share our ideology at least what
28:24
Speaker 1: these left of our capitalist ideology. But what they have
28:28
Speaker 1: been proving day in and day out, Like the United Kingdom,
28:32
Speaker 1: they prosecute people for what we would call free speech,
28:35
Speaker 1: what I would say innocuous statements. Someone feels threatened, they
28:39
Speaker 1: get prosecuted for it. There is no free speech. There
28:43
Speaker 1: demonstrable difference between us and the freedoms we enjoy under
28:46
Speaker 1: our constitution and what I would call oppression, oppression by
28:51
Speaker 1: European governments against its own citizens.
28:54
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've seen some of those stories, Brian, and it's
28:56
Speaker 3: just really amazing to me that this is actually taking place.
29:00
Speaker 1: Only reason I bring it up, you.
29:01
Speaker 3: Know, within our allies, even within our Five Eyes partners,
29:07
Speaker 3: which would be Australia and New Zealand, But in the Brits,
29:13
Speaker 3: I don't get it. I just don't understand it. You
29:16
Speaker 3: know why people are so willing to accept this, those
29:21
Speaker 3: that are in authority, I understand why they like it,
29:24
Speaker 3: Oh sure, because this is their This goes to their elitism.
29:29
Speaker 1: If you will, only their answer is the correct one.
29:32
Speaker 1: You can't have an alternative, varying point of view. This
29:35
Speaker 1: happened to the Biden administration with agents in Facebook having
29:39
Speaker 1: offices established censoring what we were saying online. You know,
29:43
Speaker 1: we have a right to free speech in this country,
29:45
Speaker 1: and even negative offensive speech is protected.
29:50
Speaker 3: People need to really look at what our founders put
29:52
Speaker 3: in place and why they put it in place. It
29:56
Speaker 3: makes complete sense. And look, we were no taxation without representation.
30:03
Speaker 3: That was the thing, but it was even beyond that,
30:07
Speaker 3: and now it's I think we've gone even further beyond
30:10
Speaker 3: that in some instances. But to see it over in
30:13
Speaker 3: Europe is really interesting. And I think that what you're
30:17
Speaker 3: seeing from the Trump administration too, is a focus on
30:19
Speaker 3: our hemisphere as much as anything. If you look at
30:23
Speaker 3: where they are on defense posture, I think he's very
30:27
Speaker 3: concerned about what's taking place in our hemisphere, which goes
30:31
Speaker 3: back to Cuba having Russian missiles things like that. Right,
30:36
Speaker 3: But we still, I think, you know, we can't ignore
30:39
Speaker 3: the rest of the world, and the Trump has not
30:41
Speaker 3: been doing that either.
30:43
Speaker 1: I was pleased to see that. At least in so
30:44
Speaker 1: far as the seizure of the Venezuelan oil tanker. They
30:47
Speaker 1: got a warrant in court ahead of time, and they're
30:49
Speaker 1: going to go through the proper legal channels to confiscate
30:52
Speaker 1: the oil and keep it. They're going to have a
30:54
Speaker 1: legal process for that. And that's the only concern I have,
30:56
Speaker 1: And I know that anger a lot of listeners because
30:58
Speaker 1: I'm a constitutionalist. I believe in due process, and I'm
31:02
Speaker 1: worried and concerned about not only the legality of but
31:05
Speaker 1: the idea that a president might end up bringing us
31:07
Speaker 1: into a war by launching missiles and things. But at
31:10
Speaker 1: least in so far as the tanker is concerned, I
31:12
Speaker 1: understand it's sanctioned. It's an illegal tanker in the sense
31:17
Speaker 1: it was flying under a false flag. They got the
31:20
Speaker 1: approval for the warrant and the boarding of the ship,
31:21
Speaker 1: and they're going to go through that process. Now do
31:24
Speaker 1: you think it's an appropriate thing? Because this is going
31:27
Speaker 1: to regime change? This is the point of it. Oil
31:30
Speaker 1: is what funds the entire Venezuela and govern at least
31:33
Speaker 1: ninety percent of it. As I've read that one ship
31:35
Speaker 1: apparently five percent of these social outlays in a month
31:39
Speaker 1: with the money that we got from that ship, or
31:41
Speaker 1: at least the value of that ship, are you in
31:43
Speaker 1: agreement that we should engage in what is an obvious
31:46
Speaker 1: effort to change the regime in Venezuela.
31:49
Speaker 3: Well, there was an effort to change the regime in Venezuela.
31:52
Speaker 3: It was called an election, true, but what happened after
31:56
Speaker 3: the election It was stolen. It was stolen, it was
31:59
Speaker 3: completely taken away. So that's that's a good piece of
32:05
Speaker 3: the argument, because the people there made change by their vote.
32:11
Speaker 1: And there's people at the radio screaming right now, going
32:14
Speaker 1: our election was stolen back in right.
32:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure there are.
32:20
Speaker 3: Beware, right, beware of this type of process taking place
32:24
Speaker 3: anywhere anywhere where they're claiming to have free and fair elections.
32:28
Speaker 1: Well, going back to unilateral bombing, I always say, you
32:30
Speaker 1: know what if Canada decides that someone in our country
32:33
Speaker 1: is a terrorist and they drop a bomb on him
32:34
Speaker 1: and buys in a mall or whatever. If there were
32:38
Speaker 1: outside countries that believe the twenty twenty election was stolen
32:41
Speaker 1: or any other election, they're going to start engaging in
32:44
Speaker 1: regime change here huh, hey, hey, listen, what's good for
32:49
Speaker 1: the good for the gander.
32:49
Speaker 3: As well, at least getting to the truth, Brian is
32:52
Speaker 3: always the concern. And you know I always said, you know,
32:54
Speaker 3: I'm sitting in Congress when all this is going on, like,
32:57
Speaker 3: I really don't have a way to prove any of
33:00
Speaker 3: this because it's up to the states that run the
33:03
Speaker 3: elections to police their own and in Congress, you know,
33:09
Speaker 3: what can you do?
33:11
Speaker 2: It makes it very difficult.
33:12
Speaker 3: But I am always in favor of getting to the truth,
33:15
Speaker 3: no matter what the situation may be a good.
33:19
Speaker 2: Bad, or indifferent the truth.
33:21
Speaker 3: I mean, I went into the Russian collusion investigation. If
33:28
Speaker 3: Trump did something wrong, we need to know because what
33:30
Speaker 3: he didn't, they made it all up.
33:31
Speaker 1: See going back to it, well, we always point the
33:34
Speaker 1: finger at the evil doers in the Chinese Communist Party
33:37
Speaker 1: or in North Korea or in Iran, and we can
33:39
Speaker 1: look inwardly and see comparable, if not equally offensive conduct
33:44
Speaker 1: and behavior. So got to mind our own ship or store.
33:47
Speaker 1: We're gonna end up losing it. It's been great seeing you, man,
33:51
Speaker 1: hap Merry Christmas to you and your family with the
33:53
Speaker 1: little kids in the house. I bet it's a real
33:54
Speaker 1: exciting time over your house.
33:56
Speaker 2: It is.
33:56
Speaker 3: It is fun. I feel blessed that I have these
34:02
Speaker 3: two kids. They're just a joy and you know their kids.
34:07
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, but it's just a great thing.
34:10
Speaker 3: And then Christmas time is especially special.
34:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I miss those times. I'm happy with what I got,
34:15
Speaker 1: trust me, living my best life, but I really miss
34:17
Speaker 1: the little kid a company. Maybe someday I'll get a grandchild.
34:20
Speaker 1: Lauren Eric seven fifty seven, Brad, take care of my brother.
34:23
Speaker 1: It's great scene. You Merry Christmas and we'll talk again
34:26
Speaker 1: coming up with the next year, I hope.
34:27
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, we always have more. Matter of fact, we
34:29
Speaker 2: have more today, but.
34:30
Speaker 1: We are just dreams of it. Stick around. We're gonna
34:34
Speaker 1: hear from Beverly Park Williams with their new books. She's
34:36
Speaker 1: a local author. Parallel and Separate After the
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