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Speaker 2: Happy Monday. Hope you out a fantastic weekend. I hope

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your day is going well. Thank you so much for

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being with us on this busy Monday. We're going to

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take some calls later this hour. Seven oh four, five

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seven oh one oh seven nine, seven oh four, five

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seven oh one oh seven nine. Again, I'm Tony Marino.

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Before we get further into that conversation about the Epstein files,

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I want to welcome in former White House Press Secretary,

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a guy that I like to say is my friend,

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Shawn Spicer. Shawn, great to talk to you again. Merry Christmas,

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Happy New Year, and all that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Tony, thanks for having me back. Merry Christmas

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to you.

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Speaker 2: So the last time that you and I spoke, because

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it's been a minute, as they say, And I was

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thinking about this. The last time you and I spoke,

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you had just played golf with then former President Donald

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Trump and we talked about his run to get back

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into the White House, and I remember you specifically said

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that if he wins reelection, you think that he would

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be able to get a lot more stuff done, because

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you know, he learned a lot in the first administration

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and he has, you know, a better grip on things

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that he would have a better grip on things now.

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And I would say you were absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Well, look the way I look at this

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is like for those people who have played sports before,

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if you play a team at the beginning of the season,

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you play him again later in the season, right, you know, Hey,

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I know where their weaknesses are. I know where we

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need to improve. I know the plays that work. And

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I think what President Trump did, I sum it into

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three things, tony, people, policy, and process. So he knows

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which people he wanted, you know, kind of more of

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meaning people who understood the agenda, the people who are

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committed to the America First agenda, and his policies. He

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knew what policies to promote, like immigration, border security, how

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to execute them, and then the process, how do I

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ensure that this time the deep states of bureaucracy, the

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opposition doesn't stop me. And in each one of those cases,

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you know, I just I think because of that, this

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is going to be the most consequential presidency in probably

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in history, but definitely in modern history. Because you know,

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if you're a consecutive which obviously every president except for

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one other has been in terms of their second term,

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you just keep going. So January twenty second to you know,

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the twenty first becomes the twenty second. The same chief

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of staff is there, the same people. You know, you

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keep moving down the field. When you actually go out

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of office and have time to stop and think, it

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makes a difference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And during and during the first administration, the president

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changed out a lot of pieces of the puzzle, right,

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including you and a lot of other people. But you know,

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there there there There have been rumors about Cash Patel.

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There's been rumors about Pam Bondy after she has said

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that she had the Epstein files on her desk, but

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then she didn't. And I'm I'm really happy regardless of

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what people might think of the job those people are doing.

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I'm happy that he hasn't changed up any of the cabinet.

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Speaker 3: Yet, well, look there's a big difference too. One of

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the things that the media loves to do is say, oh,

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he's surrounded himself with loyalists. Well, first of all, that's

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clearly not the case. But secondly, a dog can be loyal, right,

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it can just sit there in the corner and be

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loyal to you. What he's got is a bunch of disruptors.

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for example, And the first term, Jim Madis was his

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first choice for Defense secretary. He met Jim Madis for

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the first time I think at Bedminster and then I

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remember we traveled to North Carolina December fifth, twenty sixteenth.

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Madison's on the plane with us with one of his aids,

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and I was like, the first time they actually had

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a real discussion. And so you had a guy getting

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to know his secretary of Defense. In the second term,

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he's known Pete Hegxsath for probably fifteen years. Same thing

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with Pam Bondy, Like the President has known Pam for

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at least twenty twenty five years. And you go down

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the list and the number of people. Suz while it's

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the chief of staff, he's known him and been around

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him in his orbit for at least ten years. These

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are people that have the level of levels familiarity with

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him and he with them. But most importantly, they understand

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the job at hand, which is there there to implement

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the Resident's agenda, not their own, not to obfuscate it.

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You remember all those rumors the first term about Habinet

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members secretly meaning to invoke the twenty fifth Amendment, And

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you don't hear that now because these folks get it.

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being asked to.

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Speaker 2: Do, and like you said, they're loyalists and they're sticking

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to the plan. So one year in, for all intensive purposes,

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it's about a year, right. The President has accomplished an

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astonishing amount of things and has really really made a

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case for himself as the peace president with all the

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conflicts that he's been solving. We don't know what's going

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to happen yet with Ukraine and Russia. I was talking

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about that earlier. I, for one think Vladimir Putin is

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still kind of pulling everybody's chain I don't think he

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really wants to make a deal. I don't think that's

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going to happen so quickly. But most of what the

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president has done has been, you know, through executive orders

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and his presidential powers. Right one year in now we

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see that the Republican party in the House and the

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Senate is not they haven't really done anything yet, Like

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what's going on with the Republican Party, Sean.

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Speaker 3: Well, first, it passed the big beautiful bill, which was obviously, Yeah,

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that was it. That was it. Thank god they did that, right,

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And look to your larger point, here's the thing. You're right,

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the president has done a lot of this by executive

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order and action. Here's my thing. One, it did show

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us that that you know, Biden kept telling us that

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he couldn't do certain things because he needed a legislation.

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That that was completely not true. But secondly, I'm worried

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and I think this is what you're getting at, which

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is I want to codify a lot of the things

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the president's doing in law so that a new president

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at some point can't just undo because presidents have a

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habit of coming in and undoing the executive orders of

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the previous one and what I want to do is

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take a lot of the wins that the President has gotten,

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codify them and lost so we don't have to worry

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about this again. And if I were, if I were,

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and I've said this to the President himself personally, but

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there are certain things that I would make sure get

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done so that if we lose the House or the

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Senate or whatever, that these are things locked in that

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we don't have to worry about undoing or negotiating on

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in the future.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's what we all want to see happen.

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But but but is it going to happen. It appears,

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you know that once again the Republicans have no real

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plan on healthcare. This Epstein files thing, not that that's

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so important, but that has been a complete mess. You

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have Anna Paulina Luna pushing for, you know, to to

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stop congressional trading. There's a bunch of people for it,

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there's a bunch of people against it. Don't know where

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that's gonna go. There just seems to be which is

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always the case for the most part in Congress, but

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there seems to be a lot of stuff that that

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the Republicans that that have control of everything, right now

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are not really taking control of.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean yeah, I mean there's a lot a

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lot more they could be doing. And the one thing

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I will say, in sort of Speaker John's defense, when

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you've got like a two seat majority, it's it's hard

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to sort of, you know, to get one on the

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same page. That being said, you're right, when they're in

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the majority, people expect you to legislate and to get

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things done. So, as I said, I would look at

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like what I find upsetting about healthcare in particular is

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we've talked about this for ten years and we're still

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sitting here having the same conversation about what we should do.

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I don't think I think you know, some of the

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conversations that I've had. It's at least wrapping up the

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consensus piece of this, what everyone agrees on, should not

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be that difficult.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean apparently it is that difficult. But

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I mean healthcare is the one thing that affects every

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American in some way, shape or form, and I think,

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whether you know it's Republicans or Democrats, people want to

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see something, you know, getting done on that front at least.

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And you make a very valid point, right, I said,

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And you know, the lame stream media always says, well,

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they have control of everything. But yes, it's a very

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slim majority that the Republicans have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and plus, I mean, look, it's not just in

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the House that's one hundred percent true. In the Senate,

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it's not. You know, I know, we technically have a

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fifty two seat majority, but as you know, anyone who's

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really studied is knows you need sixty votes to get

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stuff done unless they're willing to repeal the silabuster, and

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so you don't have a real majority. You have a

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you know, a numerical majority. I'm with the President on this.

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I think that the syllabuster serves a purpose. But if

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we know the Democrats are going to undo it, which

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they've said they would they voted to, it's not theoretical

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that I think we need to We need to get

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one step ahead and stop playing checkers and start playing

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chess right right.

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Speaker 2: All right, real quick, because we're just about out of time.

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So what do you what do you see coming up

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in twenty twenty six? What's when when when the president

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in Congress gets back in January? We got the mid

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terms comeming up. What's what's one or two.

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Speaker 3: With the big major I mean, I mean, look, look

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there's two big things. One they have to figure out

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this healthcare thing. I mean, Speaker Johnson said it. I mean,

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to your point, it affects everybody, and and you shouldn't

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get punished, you know, so right now if you if

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you have to go through the exchanges. The Democrats took

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this away from the American people, forced Obamacare down our throats,

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subsidized it down our throats, lie to us about the program.

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I don't I feel bad for people who are now

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having to make, you know, major life decisions budget wise

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and how they're going to spend their money because they

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want to have health care. They're playing by the rules

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they had, you know, they they got jammed on the plans.

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So we got to deal with healthcare, and we got

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to fund the rest of government. There's eighty five percent

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that's still not funded. Remember we shut down the government.

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We had a deal with the Democrats to open it

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until January thirty, so right off the bat. And then,

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by the way, they're already them behind the eight ball

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as funding the next year's government. So we're we're behind

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the eight ball, you know. So just if they get

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those three things done, which is a healthcare be figuring

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out the last fiscally year twenty twenty six, and then

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actually doing their job in terms of twenty twenty seven.

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That in itself will be a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And based on what happened a month or two ago,

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when they get back in January and they start working

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on the budget, that healthcare is probably going to play

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into the budget and it's potentially another big mess right

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off the bat. As you mentioned, our former White House

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Press Secretary Sean Spicer, host of the Shawn Spicer Show.

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You're on YouTube with your actual show, right and then

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the podcast everywhere that you can get podcasts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just go to YouTube at Sean Spicer, Sean and

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Spicer at YouTube. Tonight we've got doctor Oz and Michael

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Schellenberg on, so we've got some great shows even as

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we head into the holidays. So please go to YouTube,

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subscriber anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you as always, Sean, appreciate the time,

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Have a merry Christmas, and we'll talk to you next year.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tony Marino in for PEED today. I'll be back

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on Newsmax. All right, so I've mentioned several times about Friday,

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the release of the Epstein files, right, and thanks again

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to former White House Press secretary. I didn't get to

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ask him about Caroline Levitt. You know, once you get

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the job that Caroline Levitt is doing seven oh four

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Caroline Levitt is doing or maybe not doing, or you

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want to talk about anything else, it's our three. If

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and Hope will open up the phone lines and take

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seven nine. All right, So you remember, Congress came up

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with the the Epstein Transparency Act, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Speaker 2: And this was all initiated by Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey

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you've heard President Trump talk about him before, and Representative

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Democratic Representative Rocanna, Right, they spearheaded the effort and then

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they came up with the Epstein Transparency Act, finally signed

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by Congress, went to the President's desk, the President signed it.

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Epstein Transparency Act was a deadline to get the rest

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of the information out to the public. Now, keep in mind,

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troves and troves of information have been released already. Right,

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the government, the FBI the DOJ. They released tons of

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evidence over the course of time. Then James Comer, chair

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of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, he petitioned the

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Epstein estate to get more evidence from them. That's where

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the supposed Wall Street Journal drawing, the little thing that

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Trump supposedly drew, photos, phone numbers, you know, all that stuff.

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There's still no diary, right, even though we heard about

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the diary for years, there's there's still no diary. But anyway,

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Friday was the deadline, and they released a whole trove

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more stuff on top of you know, all the thousands

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of documents that had already been released. Now Congress is

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on recess as of Friday. President went home to Palm Beach.

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Congress went home, but several members of Congress made it

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all of that. They made it onto the big news

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shows to talk about the Epstein files, complain about the

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release of the Epstein files. This is House Minority Leader

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Hakkeim Jeffries on ABC This Week.

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Speaker 4: There needs to be a full and complete explanation, and

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then a full and complete investigation as to why the

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document production has fallen short of what the law clearly required.

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Speaker 2: So that is the top Democrat in the House, Hakkeim Jeffries,

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exactly what we need another congressional investigation. Right, the House

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the Epstein files, which is what led to the Epstein

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Transparency Act. Now Hakim Jeffries wants an investigation into the

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response of the Epstein Transparency Act. I mean, where is

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it going to end? Right? And I mentioned Thomas Massey

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Epstein release by co sponsoring the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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lawmakers threatening a seldom used congressional sanction against the Department

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of Justice over what they say is the failure. And

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again keep in mind, Thomas Massey is a Republican. This

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is a partisan, a bipartisan issue. Failure to release all

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of the files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which

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as guilty in everything. As Jeffrey Epstein.

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of news here right, talked about a lot of politics,

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talked about healthcare, talked to Michael Wattley, North Carolina Senate candidate.

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there in Rocky Mount. Talked about the power Ball, which

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Pam and Brandon were just talking about. To clear any confusion,

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there was no power ball winner over the weekend was

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if you're including today or not today. A lot of

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people already traveling. According to Pam, things have been pretty

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good on the roads, but you know it's probably busy

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already at the airport, and it is going to get

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over the next couple days. So now and now that

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we took care of you know, a whole lot of

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serious business, right and it is the holidays. We need

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to have some fun talk about some things. I'm looking

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at this new study from lending Tree, and I don't know,

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you know, if you will actually admit this on the radio.

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I should say if you want to call with a

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fake name or fake voice, or you may not care

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and just say yeah, I've done that. But a study

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from lending Tree finds that more than one in four

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shoppers admits to stealing items while scanning their own items

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at the grocery store or other self checkout line. So

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more than one in four is more than twenty five percent, right,

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Let's say thirty percent or a third a third of

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people admit that yes, they've stolen stuff while scanning their

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groceries or scanning stuff at other checkout lines. It's a

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huge increase from back in twenty twenty three, when fifteen

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percent of shoppers said they never paid for items at

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the self checkout. So it's gone from fifteen percent to

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roughly thirty percent in two years. Some of those who

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took part in the survey, again this is from lending Tree,

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say they felt pressure. They felt pressure to shoplift because

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of the sky rocketing prices for everyday items. Food items

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mostly apples, bananas, coffee, beef, canned goods, you know, all

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of that stuff. The survey of roughly three thousand adults

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in the United States, this is kind of interesting, found

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forty one percent of the people most likely to steal

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while scanning items are millennials, thirty seven percent our gen Z.

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Only two percent are baby boomers. So you could see

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sort of how the decline of what would be the

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word morals I'm going to say, for lack of a

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better term, you can see you could see how the

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decline of society and morals has worked its way up

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to the or down to the younger and younger generation. Right,

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Only two percent of baby boomers or they're lying, say

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they stole from grocery stores while checking out their own

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items thirty seven percent gen Z, forty one percent millennials.

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And I'm not just picking on the millennials, but you know,

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there are those people, not necessarily millennials, but there are

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those people that think they're just so entitled, you know,

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the self entitled folks like why not steal it? Okay,

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now I will admit I do not like the self checkout.

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Some people love it. Right, you run in the store,

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you're only buying a couple of things, Boom boom, boom,

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you're out of there. And in some case, in that case,

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you know, I'm okay with it. But when you go

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to scan all this stuff, and inevitably there are always

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things that don't scan. I will go on record as saying,

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if I scan it three times, four times and it

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doesn't ring up, and it's like a can of soup,

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maybe I may have put it in my in my

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you know, basket or in my bag. Let's say, I mean,

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I'm not you know, the lady has to come over,

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put in the code, do the whole thing. Okay, I

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feel like I'm spending all that money. I'm their customer.

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They should be giving me customer service. If I have

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to scan it three, four or five times. On the

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fifth time, if it doesn't work, you know, okay, they lose.

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stop that by going back to traditional cashiers, which you

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may have noticed that more and more stores are going

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back to traditional cashiers. Psychologists say they're fascinated by the

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rise in theft at checkout lines that more often are

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being carried out by shoppers who would never dream of

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stealing an item while walking in the aisles. Also, it

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tends to be more men than women thirty eight percent.

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Are men more than twice as likely to steal as

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women sixteen percent. Sixteen percent of women admit that they

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have stole stuff at the self checkout line thirty eight

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percent of men. So either women are more honest or

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they're lying more. But anyway, it's you know, it's it's

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interestings are now putting cash registers and cashiers, you know,

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back in line to fend off or fight all of

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the shoplifting that's going on. And you know, past couple

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of weeks, if you've been in a store, how crazy

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and crowded it has been. Not just the grocery store,

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but you know, Walmart, Target, anywhere, South Park Mall. I mean,

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if people have an opportunity, it's probably gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know

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I try to keep up with all sorts of current events,

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and I know you do too, And you've probably heard

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me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, well,

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because it's how you detect media bias, which is why

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I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app,

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and it's a website, and it combines news from around

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the world in one place, so you can compare coverage

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and verify information. You could check it out at check

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dot ground, dot news slash Pete. I put the link

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in the podcast description too. I started using ground News

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a few months ago and more recently chose to work

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with them as an affiliate because it lets me see

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clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind

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spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the

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left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground,

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dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll

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get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage

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then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports

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ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent.

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Speaker 2: Tony Marino in for Pete. Pete on a much well

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deserved vacation, like a lot of the other WBT staff.

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Hopefully he's doing something fun, enjoying himself, and as I

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said at the beginning, I'm trying not to upset the

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Apple Car too much. Just bring you a lot of

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great information, as Pete often does. We talked about this

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a little bit earlier, but there hasn't been any There

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hasn't been much more information. Brandon has talked about it

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in the news as well. On the death of Greg Bill,

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his wife and children in that horrific plane crash last week.

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There was some information about a text message or text

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messages that were sent just prior to the crash, but

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no information as of yet on funeral arrangements or anything

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like that. But such a terrible, terrible tragedy. If you're

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a NASCAR fan, certainly remember Biffle as a fantastic driver.

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If you're you know, just a fan of good people,

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you remember all the good that he did, especially in

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western North Carolina after the hurricane and all of that.

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So we are into the home stretch our three Pete

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Callander Show on at WBT seven four five seven oh

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one o seven nine seven four five seven one seven nine.

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If you have a question, comment concern again. I am

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the host of the Newsma's daily podcast Everywhere and anywhere

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that you get your podcasts. If you're a fan of Newsmax,

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check that out. If you If you're a longtime WBT listener,

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you know that I used to be the morning news

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anchor with Bo and Beth. Pam Warner and I were

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talking off the air about the big Powerball lottery, as

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I mentioned several times, one point six billion tonight, I

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said that if I won, and you know, I mean,

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this is just such a ridiculous amount of money, but

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I mentioned that I would give a large sum of

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money to Samaritan's Perse, which is, you know, just a

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phenomenal organization. Not only are they so embedded in the

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Charlotte community, but they also do a lot of work

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with us at Newsmax, and you know, so it's an

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organization that I've followed and contributed to for a while. Pam,

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any idea, I mean, if you had more money than

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than you could possibly use, what's the first thing you

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would do?

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Speaker 3: Life?

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Speaker 5: Take care of, you know, the family that I need

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to take care of. But I've always said that I

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would definitely do some good with the money as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not putting you on the spot, like

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you know who you're going to donate to, but I mean,

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it's such a ridiculous amount of money that you literally

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could do anything, right, you really could. I mean, you

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could donate several million dollars, you know, to several of

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your favorite charities. Absolutely, you know it's not really going

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to make a difference. But I mentioned earlier, you know

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that I'd give money to Samaritan's Purse, and then I

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would buy a Corvette z O six, which is like

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two hundred thousand dollars. Maybe I'd buy two of them,

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or maybe i'd buy one for me and some for

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my kids. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I did always say that I would purchase a yacht

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just for a few years. Oh there, you get someone

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who's going to drive it, get a personal chef, get

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a tutor, and I just want to travel the world end,

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stay like a month or two in every country, learn

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the language, eat the food, see the sights, and just

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do that kind of learning with my son.

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Speaker 2: See. Now, that is awesome, right, that's so far beyond

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anything I was thinking that.

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Speaker 6: That's awesome. I mean, yeah, I would go to I

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would I would go to Italy for you know. I

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mean yeah, but I mean that is awesome. And that's

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the kind of money that you would need, you know,

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for something like that, right, I mean hundreds of millions

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of dollars to have a yacht at a crew to

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take you around pretty much.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to have to learn how to do anything.

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Let them do it, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, right, cook for you everything, everything, tutor my kid. Yeah, yeah,

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there you go. And how is your kid doing? God,

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he's what is he about to get married?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 2: Slowdown?

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Speaker 5: Slowed down?

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Speaker 2: Not yet.

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Speaker 5: I know he's thirteen. He's about to graduate the eighth

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grade and head into the ninth and he's thriving, he's

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getting great grades. We're going into another ib high school.

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Solish for the best for him.

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Speaker 2: All right, heading to high school. Yes, I remember when

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he was heading to middle school.

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Speaker 5: Right now he's graduating middle school. This this is last year.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well you tell him. I said, hello, good

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to spend some time with you today. I will be

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back tomorrow on the Pete Calendar show. I'm not sure

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when Pete will be back, but probably out for the

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next two weeks for the holidays. This is what seven

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nine WBT. Okay, I'm being told Pete will be back

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next Monday, the twenty ninth. So there you go. Thank

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you so much for listening today. Talk to you tomorrow.

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Enjoy the rest of you day.

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Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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so much for listening. I could not do the show

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without your support and the support of the businesses that

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can also become a patron at my Patreon page or

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go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Again, thank you so much

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for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.

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