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Wicked Radio 12-2: Christmas Is Back, Mark Kelly Jumps The Shark, & Metallica Scholars! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Oh, I got some good stories for you today. I
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Speaker 1: love these I love these days when I love all
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Speaker 1: the stories. It's not always the case, but I got well,
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Speaker 1: two really good stories sandwiching a not so good political
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Speaker 1: swampy kind of story in the middle. Now you know
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Speaker 1: what strike that reverse it. I think they're three good
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Speaker 1: stories because the political story, which is about Senator Mark Kelly,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna realize, is actually a great story in disguise
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Speaker 1: because the Editious Six remember those they put together that
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Speaker 1: video telling troops to ignore orders. Yeah, listen, it's not
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Speaker 1: going well for them at all. There's a reason why
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Speaker 1: Senator Mark Kelly is on TV every single day since
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Speaker 1: that thing came out. Anyway, we'll get to that as
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Speaker 1: well as this Christmas is back and you're thinking it
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Speaker 1: never ran away, dumb ass, Well, hold on a second. Now, Culturally,
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Speaker 1: there was a big effort not too long ago to
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Speaker 1: make it happy Holidays and not merry Christmas. Remember it's
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Speaker 1: officially back probably for and you probably notice that too.
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Speaker 1: And the greatest story of all today involves and I'm
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Speaker 1: got to try to work in a lot more of
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Speaker 1: these feel good stories throughout the holidays because we are
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Speaker 1: officially in the holiday season. There is a story, and
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Speaker 1: good for CBS News to cover this one. They got
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Speaker 1: it on CBS Sunday morning throughout the Thanksgiving holiday about
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Speaker 1: Metallica and their scholarship foundation and now they put ten
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Speaker 1: million dollars into this thing, and now it's starting to
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Speaker 1: pay off in what they're calling Metallica scholars for trade schools,
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Speaker 1: people that work with their hands scholarships. It's fantastic. It's
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Speaker 1: a great story. We'll talk about that as well, but
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Speaker 1: let's get right to it. All platforms wherever you are
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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Christmas is back at the
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Speaker 1: White House, but also in America. Why do I say that,
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Speaker 1: I wish sometimes we could go back in time and
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Speaker 1: you look at it culturally. A lot of things culturally
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Speaker 1: you see manifest themselves in retail, right. You see exactly
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Speaker 1: where things show up and what they're trying to sell
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Speaker 1: us in different things. Let's not forget how strong the
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Speaker 1: push was to make Christmas happy Holidays. Let's not forget.
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Speaker 1: It's not the biggest thing in the world at first,
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Speaker 1: but it was a definite effort. This we know now
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Speaker 1: to take Christmas out of Christmas. We know this now.
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Speaker 1: We also know this in the first Trump administration. You
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Speaker 1: remember Trump getting up there saying it's Merry Christmas again,
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Speaker 1: we say Merry Christmas in America. That's where it started.
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Speaker 1: That was where the seed got planted, and then it
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Speaker 1: grew from there. Took some time, took a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a hit in the previous administration, and now it's back.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to tell you that whoever the
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Speaker 1: president is or whoever's in the White House is the
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Speaker 1: guy that determines everything happening culturally, but it's sure important.
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Speaker 1: And I bet you this. Now you hear more people
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Speaker 1: saying Merry Christmas than ever before. If there was actually
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Speaker 1: a way to count, this would bet you in your
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Speaker 1: own personal like you hear more people saying Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I bet you take some time to get back and
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Speaker 1: claw back what we have in a culture, but it's
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Speaker 1: coming back. And you also see this in retail, just
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Speaker 1: as a little experiment just you know, walking around doing
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Speaker 1: your Christmas shopping whatever it is, when you go to Target, Walmart,
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Speaker 1: any Macy's, anything. Look how much I just saw it yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I was at a Macy's locally. Look how often you
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Speaker 1: see Merry Christmas everywhere? And not too long ago everything
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Speaker 1: was happy Holidays or the season. Is a massive difference there,
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Speaker 1: big part of that trickling down from the White House
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Speaker 1: just so happens at the White House, engineered by First
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Speaker 1: Lady Malania Trump, announced their Christmas theme just yesterday and
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Speaker 1: it is I think the theme actually is home for
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Speaker 1: the Holidays. Anyway. They're putting a massive effort into this
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Speaker 1: one and it is a patriotic theme this year. Here's
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Speaker 1: the story. Fox News did a good wrap up on
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Speaker 1: this and exactly how much they put in.
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Speaker 2: Room decoratedodically to celebrate the upcoming two hundred and fiftieth
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Speaker 2: anniversary of the birth of the nation, while the Red
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Speaker 2: Room's focus is fostering the future and the Green room
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Speaker 2: celebrates family fun. In all, the First Lady decking the
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Speaker 2: halls with over twenty five thousand feet of ribbon, more
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Speaker 2: than two thousand strands of lights, one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: pounds of gingerbread and over seven hundred feet of garland,
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Speaker 2: all to go along with fifty one Christmas trees and
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Speaker 2: seventy five threes. That's a lot of numbers, but basically
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Speaker 2: we can say huge effort and you get a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a glimpse here thanks to the first lady.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the stories today that'll come up,
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Speaker 1: because you know they're going to be there. Tax pay
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Speaker 1: They always go back to this taxpayer money wasted on
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Speaker 1: Malania Trump's ego driven Christmas. You wait, you know what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen. Of course they are. Do you remember
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Speaker 1: in the first administration. I think it was so it
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Speaker 1: was the first might have been the second Christmas celebration
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Speaker 1: at the White House that she was in charge of
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Speaker 1: in the first administration, and she had the red Christmas trees.
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Speaker 1: They actually had. These were real headlines Wall Street journal
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Speaker 1: I think I know that the New York Times had
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Speaker 1: it Melania's Red Christmas Trees of Death. We should have
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Speaker 1: known then what the attack was gonna be. Anyway, that's
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Speaker 1: what it is. I think it's important. I think it's
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Speaker 1: important to set the stage, and I think it's important
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Speaker 1: to set this and it does matter and bringing back
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Speaker 1: Christmas theme for what dominates the holiday season. It's Christmas,
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Speaker 1: not happy Holidays, not the season, it's Christmas. If you
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Speaker 1: have a problem with Christmas, maybe it just lay low
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Speaker 1: for thirty days? Is that so tough and instead of
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Speaker 1: trying to change everybody's mind about the thing. And here's
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Speaker 1: another thing, there weren't a lot of complaints about the
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Speaker 1: Christmas celebration. Now you go to that with the patriotic
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Speaker 1: theme and the gingerbread things, and yes there was a
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Speaker 1: picture of Trump. They're looking all serious, of course by
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Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. That's probably for a couple of laughs.
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Speaker 1: Let's not forget what the previous administration had there too.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember their video? Do you remember the Nutcracker
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Speaker 1: woke dancers dancing around to the theme? Remember that one? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I do right. Theme matters, It matters, and Christmas is back.
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Speaker 1: Take it as good news because personally I love it.
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Speaker 1: This is good news too. But I put this together.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was gonna be good news, but
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Speaker 1: it actually is. It's one of those sneaky stories that
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem good because he's on TV again and yet
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Speaker 1: he claims he's silenced. Mark Kelly has apparently, out of
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Speaker 1: all of the seditious six that made the video telling
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Speaker 1: troops to disobey orders, he's become the face of it.
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Speaker 1: And he's been on television every single day since that
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Speaker 1: video was released. Yeah, it seems like bad news. Oh
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Speaker 1: he's there again. Oh he's there again. He's getting all
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Speaker 1: kinds of media attention again. No, no, no, this is why
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Speaker 1: it's good news. There's a reason why he has to
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Speaker 1: turn to his media friends and now hold a separate
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Speaker 1: press conference inviting reporters in at the Capitol to explain
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Speaker 1: what they're doing. It's because it's going very very badly
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Speaker 1: for them and especially him now because a lot on
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Speaker 1: him is getting exposed. But there he was talking to
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Speaker 1: had a prepared speech, long winded speech and taking questions
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Speaker 1: from reporters yesterday, First and foremost, this is how ridiculous
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Speaker 1: it got. These are some of the themes he talked
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Speaker 1: about yesterday. Trump and Pete Hegsith the Pentagon. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to silence Mark Kelly. Silence this guy's been on television
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Speaker 1: for eight straight days and now, well we'll get to
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Speaker 1: it here. But he also says they're threatening him directly.
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Speaker 3: It's a dangerous moment for the United States of America
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Speaker 3: when the president and his loyalists use every lever of
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Speaker 3: power to silence United States senators for speaking.
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Speaker 1: Up silence outside of a president. Have you ever seen
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Speaker 1: a politician in your newsfeed, on television, in online publications,
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Speaker 1: get so much coverage in your life silenced? That's exact
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Speaker 1: opposite of silence. So again, it's a deflection. It's what
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Speaker 1: they do. And then, in a long winded kind of way,
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Speaker 1: this is the most important part. This is this is
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Speaker 1: the important part. It's long, but he admits right here
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Speaker 1: that what they tried to say is that Trump has
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Speaker 1: ordered the troops, has ordered federal employees, even unconstitutional orders.
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Speaker 1: This is admitting nothing of the sort happen.
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Speaker 4: The Flensy legality of the Bee offer during three days
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Speaker 4: were these sort of strikes that are now in the
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Speaker 4: US what you were making reference to when he posted
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Speaker 4: that video taling members of the military that they needed
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Speaker 4: to feel okay today, where have they.
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Speaker 3: Called based on who this president is and who this
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Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense is is, and specifically things that the
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Speaker 3: president has said in the past and things he was
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Speaker 3: talking about doing in the future. Let me give you
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Speaker 3: an example twenty six.
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Speaker 1: So there were no odd constitutional orders. But this is
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Speaker 1: just who he is. Things he's said in the past,
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Speaker 1: things he's he's intimated, things he's he's hinted at. See
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Speaker 1: where I'm going here. They know he's admitted it, but
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Speaker 1: it's still trying to deflect. They know you can tell
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Speaker 1: by the reporter's line of questioning. Trump has never given
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Speaker 1: out on constitutional orders to anybody in the military, or
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Speaker 1: any federal employee or anybody else, none of it. And
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Speaker 1: they know that, and he's caught red handed on it.
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Speaker 1: But it got worse somehow for this guy because now
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Speaker 1: you know the old television going back to happy days,
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Speaker 1: they jumped the shark. It's gone too far. You've tried
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Speaker 1: too much, and nobody buys it anymore, and you've lost credibility.
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Speaker 1: This is this guy jumping the shark.
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Speaker 3: President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill
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Speaker 3: me for saying what is true. And he sent his
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Speaker 3: secretary of Defense after me, and it's not going to work.
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Speaker 1: And let okay, let's just tear this apart. If Trump
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Speaker 1: had let's say that Trump sent Mark hilly U, Well
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Speaker 1: he doesn't text. He doesn't want that in digital form.
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Speaker 1: If he had said to him personally, let's say, let's say,
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Speaker 1: let's just pretend this scenario in this guy's overactive imagination.
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Speaker 1: If the President ever sat down with Mark Kelly and said, look,
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Speaker 1: you bold Garden, noom, if you ever put out a
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Speaker 1: video like that again, I will kill you myself. I'll
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Speaker 1: strangle you myself. Can you of course he would run
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Speaker 1: off with that directly. Of course he would. There's no
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Speaker 1: Trump is not threatening to kill anybody. Pete Hegsith is
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Speaker 1: not threatening to kill anybody. There's nobody in that room
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Speaker 1: or nobody that saw that press conference that believes that
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Speaker 1: this is truly a desperate person who got completely exposed,
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Speaker 1: who has gone overboard. Now again, it seems like one
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Speaker 1: of those stories where it's like, oh my god, he's
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Speaker 1: getting more airtime, Oh my god, he's holding press conferences.
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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna do another seditious video they're gonna do. No,
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Speaker 1: you have to see. This is why I try to
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Speaker 1: get you guys to see through the news of what
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Speaker 1: it actually means. It's never face value. You gotta look
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Speaker 1: beyond on the headline and look at what's actually happening.
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Speaker 1: The reason why that guy, Senator Mark Kelly had a
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Speaker 1: press conference is because he has to. He has to
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Speaker 1: do damage control. He's been on television in one form
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Speaker 1: or another, either in interviews, videos, press conferences, or you know,
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Speaker 1: direct messaging to the country every single day because it
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Speaker 1: fell flat on its face and it's not going well
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Speaker 1: for them. But I'll take it a step further. This
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Speaker 1: may be the real reason why. Now I want to
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Speaker 1: set this up by saying, none of this is proven yet.
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Speaker 1: This is something that all in something investigative independent investigative
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Speaker 1: reporters are looking into right now. It's not proven, But
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Speaker 1: wouldn't this make sense? Wouldn't this all tie in to
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Speaker 1: examt exactly what we're seeing here and why this guy
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Speaker 1: organized this, because now we know it's him to put
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Speaker 1: this together with the Seditious six to stop what's being exposed.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember not too long was it a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago? Do you remember the Chinese spy balloons?
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Speaker 1: Remember that story? Fascinating? It was unbelievable, actual proven Chinese
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Speaker 1: spy balloons flying across the country. Okay, we know that
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Speaker 1: that happened, we know where they were from, China, admitted it.
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Speaker 1: When Trump got back in the White House, he got
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Speaker 1: chijin thing to admit it. That was one of the
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Speaker 1: first things. Mark Kelly has a balloon company. He's an astronaut, right,
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Speaker 1: He's an Air Force guy. He was a pilot. Kind
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Speaker 1: of makes sense. He'd been aeronautics. That makes sense. We
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Speaker 1: know this. He took CCP linked investment for his stratospheric
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Speaker 1: balloon company, buried it in a blind trust before entering
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Speaker 1: the Senate. Interesting, you might have heard of Mark Kelly's Again,
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Speaker 1: these are all stories that are being worked on now.
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Speaker 1: I don't think anything's been proven yet. These are what
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Speaker 1: independent investigators are looking into now, including some from mainstream networks.
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Speaker 1: Also his brother, it is being investigated now for taking
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Speaker 1: Ukraine propagandatize and seditious money from Ukraine and involved in
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Speaker 1: the negotiations in that war his brother. If you took
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Speaker 1: either of those two situations and you looked into what
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Speaker 1: potentially could become exposed in this if they turn out
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Speaker 1: to be true, doesn't it make sense now that he
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Speaker 1: would be front and center and tried to take down
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Speaker 1: the president and tried to create all this chaos. Sure
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Speaker 1: does to me, But I don't know. We'll see if
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Speaker 1: that's all proven. Those are just stories that people are
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Speaker 1: working on. But what we know right now is take
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Speaker 1: it on. Look at what they're presenting every single day.
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Speaker 1: It's not going well. And there's another reason why he
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Speaker 1: was all alone in that press conference. Maggie Goodlander, Melissa Slotkin,
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Speaker 1: the other one, Jason Crowe, who's the other seditious sixth
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Speaker 1: member who was there? They weren't there at the press conference.
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Speaker 1: It was Mark Kelly because he looks the dirtiest in this.
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Speaker 1: He looks the most desperate and it looks like he's
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Speaker 1: the organizer. Could it be possible that all of his
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Speaker 1: five other cohorts in this didn't want to support them
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Speaker 1: on It could be, But again, take it as good
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Speaker 1: news that this guy won't stop talking, and every time
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Speaker 1: it does, it gets worse and worse and worse. You
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Speaker 1: can't come up with something dirtier than getting a group
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Speaker 1: of former military and CIA to do a video to
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Speaker 1: encourage troops to disobey orders. But here's the great news.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't look like anybody's following them, so good I want
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Speaker 1: I can't now I'm at the point where I want
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Speaker 1: the guy to talk. Keep on doing it. Holding another
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Speaker 1: press conference, Mark, that'd be fantastic, as every time you do,
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Speaker 1: you'll talk, you'll talk about more ridiculous things like Trump's
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Speaker 1: trying to kill me, trying to silence me, even though
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Speaker 1: right now I'm holding a press conference. Good, let it happen.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's your feel good story of the day.
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Speaker 1: And want to try to find more and more of these,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know if I'm going to be able
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Speaker 1: to find anything as awesome as this. We all know Metallica, right,
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Speaker 1: legendary band, They've sold tens of millions of albums. They've
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Speaker 1: been performing now for their into their fortieth year. Everybody
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Speaker 1: knows Metallica. May not know this, and I gotta give
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Speaker 1: even though I criticize the media all the time, I
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Speaker 1: have to give CBS and the CBS Sunday Morning Show
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Speaker 1: credit for finding this story. This is what they're good at,
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Speaker 1: things like this, feel good stories. This is what they
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Speaker 1: should focus on. Well, they had one that happened over
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Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving holiday that featured on what Metallica is doing
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Speaker 1: with their charitable efforts, and it's fantastic. They've had this
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Speaker 1: charitable organization for years now. They put ten million dollars
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Speaker 1: into it, but it kind of morphed and it changed
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Speaker 1: it to something else right around COVID time where they
15:33
Speaker 1: started to realize, you know what, the people that you'll
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Speaker 1: hear this in the video here in a piece of
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Speaker 1: the presentation, the people that are keeping the country going
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Speaker 1: are trades workers, tradesmen, trades people women too, truck drivers, plumbers, electricians,
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Speaker 1: people that work with their hands. They kept the country going.
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Speaker 1: They realized that, and they said, maybe we can start
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Speaker 1: to funnel some funds into that. They start off with
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Speaker 1: a girl in I think it's Maryland, who was one
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Speaker 1: of these Metalic scholars who to get her truck driver's
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Speaker 1: license commercial truck driver's license. She didn't even know it
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Speaker 1: was a Metallica foundation at first, but then she realized
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Speaker 1: is a little bit of her. But then the story
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Speaker 1: and CBS did a great job on this, gets into
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Speaker 1: it and they talk about exactly what they're doing. This
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Speaker 1: is one of the best stories I've seen all year.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know when I first signed up that it
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Speaker 2: was through Metallica. They just called it a scholarship.
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Speaker 5: A Metallica scholarship to be precise. Part of the over
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Speaker 5: ten million dollars that's right. Ten million. The band's charity,
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Speaker 5: All Within My Hands, has donated to workforce education, mostly
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Speaker 5: in the form of grants through trade schools and community colleges.
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Speaker 6: Not everyone is built for college, and not everyone needs college.
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Speaker 5: Metallica lead singer James Hetfield should know. He himself is
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Speaker 5: the son of a truck driver, something he hasn't forgotten.
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Speaker 6: It was very evident during COVID, you know, when we
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Speaker 6: weren't able to go out and do our thing, entertainment
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Speaker 6: service win. But the plumber, the electrician, the truck driver,
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Speaker 6: the people that needed to help keep America running were there,
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Speaker 6: and thank God for them. You know, my thought is
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Speaker 6: that the next millionaires will be the tradesman.
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Speaker 1: Awesome is that? And he's right too. As we look back,
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Speaker 1: and it changed so much, didn't it when we all
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Speaker 1: survived COVID, and you looked at who actually did well,
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Speaker 1: you look at actually who, as he said, there kept
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Speaker 1: the country running. Tradesmen and I mean women in that too.
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Speaker 1: Truck drivers thank god, delivery people, thank god, electricians, plumbers,
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Speaker 1: that's who kept the country going. So good for them
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Speaker 1: for morphing things, their charitable effort. And you want to
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Speaker 1: look it up a little bit. It's called all within
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Speaker 1: my hands. Great job, fantastic for those guys in Metallica
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Speaker 1: to do that. And you know what, again, good for
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Speaker 1: CBS and the CBS Sunday Morning Show for featuring them.
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Speaker 1: That's what they should be doing. Good from Metallica. Oh
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Speaker 1: and they can't the super Bowl huh. Okay, don't get
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Speaker 1: me don't get me started on that one. That's a
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Speaker 1: different story. The big takeaway, look beyond the headline, guys,
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Speaker 1: you know you're upset and you see this, this, this seditious.
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Speaker 1: Mark Kelly as a senator on TV and your news
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Speaker 1: feed on your phone every single day. It's good. It's good.
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Speaker 1: It's a good thing that you see him every day
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Speaker 1: because the more they're explaining, the more they're losing. That's
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Speaker 1: a good thing. That's the biggest takeaway. All Right, I
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Speaker 1: remember Christmas is back. Have a wicked awesome Tuesday. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with me. I appreciate you as always,
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Speaker 1: all platforms on a replay and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: also audio podcasts too. Have a wicked awesome Tuesday. Talk
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Speaker 1: to him orrow.