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Speaker 2: The Peak Calendar radio show. Hoping that Pete is enjoying

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his time rebooting you know, Peak Calendar five point zero

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or whatever, getting his upgrades. That's all we do, is humans,

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isn't it. We gain experience through our mistakes. We gain

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experience from time. We pay for it with our mortality

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a little bit. And Pete's just done a stellar job.

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I mean, it's an honor know him. He's he's, uh,

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you know, just an incredible guy, very very very great guy.

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Wbt's a fantastic station. Now went, We spent the first

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hour really completely sidetracked by Tom tilli Is setting off

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a political hand grenade on CNN with Jake Tapper. There's

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so many aspects about this It's one of those when

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you know, if you were to see flying saucerers outside

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your window and they just kind of stuck around for

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a while, and you told your friends they look and

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it didn't make sense where they're from where they do,

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and I have no idea what's going on here. That's

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what it is. There's really no logical exploit. There is

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one logical explanation. But it would make Tillis look very petty.

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And I don't want to believe he's that petty, which

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is he just really hates Trump and so this is

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revenge in his mind. It would make his It would

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make him look small to say, oh, eh, well, I'm

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not running for re elections. Scrow y'all. Trump's terrible people

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around him are morons, and I'm gonna scortch the earth,

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and oh the hell with my background and everything I've accomplished.

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This is it. I'm going to set the record straight

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and let everybody listen to meet. Now, that would make

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some kind of warped sense.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like what color is the sky in

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your world? I don't know, I don't get it, but

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it makes no sense.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about the other the folks on

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the other side that are moonbat wackadoof you. Sandwich is

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short of a full picnic who's ors don't row in

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the same direction. There are plenty of those. Elevator doesn't

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go to the top floor. Pick your euphemism, whatever, your analogy.

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Analogy analogy much better. And so there's just a cacophony

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of voices from the left that are beyond reasonable and

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don't make sense. And one of them is Jasmine Crockett.

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I love Jasmine Crockett. Now it's not the kind of

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affection you would have for a family member, well unless

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the ones that you don't like the family reunion. But

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it's kind of the affection, you know, the term of

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endearment you reserve for people because you never know what

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the hell they're going to say. She is that person

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and what comes out is just unfathomably amazing. And so

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I want to play for you a little of miss

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Crockett's attempt to be rational and this is her, this

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is her every day, Jasmine Crockett, Texas. She's one of

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the new voices of the political left. You have concerns

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about the president's health and his nottal acuity, no.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I had none.

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Speaker 2: Now granted I didn't see Joe Biden every single day,

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but I did have an opportunity to interact with the president.

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I never had a concern.

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Speaker 3: If there's anyone that I am concerned about their mental acuity,

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it is the current occupant.

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Speaker 2: Helped you love her, she just and the rest of

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that interview she was unhinged. And so she had come

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out of a hearing where the former president's doctor, all

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five foot and nothing inches of him, comes out and

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after I think he took the he pled the fifth

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like forty one times, some ridiculous number of times. Now,

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what his lawyers tried to say is when he came

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out of the hearing, that the the president's the ex

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president's doctor was trying not to pierce the veil of

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doctor client privilege. And that's all well and good. If

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you said, hey, what kind of health conditions the president have? Sorry,

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can't discuss that. What did the president say to you? Sorry,

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can't discuss that. Those are all off limits?

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Speaker 3: You just can't.

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Speaker 2: I completely concur But that's not what he took the

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fifth on the questions like were you ever pressured to

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say things about the president from other people, and he

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pled the fifth. Did you ever lie about the president self?

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Did you ever lie about it? He pled the fifth?

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Those were easy. He could have just said no, I

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wasn't pressured, but he pled the fifth. Now, now I

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agree with people who say, hey, when you plead the fifth,

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that's not necessarily indicative of guilt. But it also adds

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no clarity and it does nothing to make people feel

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more confidence. So when Jasmine Crockett comes out of that

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hearing and says, oh, I never had any concerns. I

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got concerns about current guy in the White House. And

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again I just went through right before this, the president's clarity,

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the current president's clarity on issues, whether you agree with

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him or not, there's a clarity of vision here. So

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that's where it is. It is, you know, it's kind

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of a mic drop moment for it. That's his That's

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what it is. And now I'm getting text messages from

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folks who served with Tillis in the House saying he

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was I'm this is not a personal airing of grievances

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for me. This is not a festivus moment, for lack

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of a better phrase, it is it is just an

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observation about the way Tillis is conducting himself. Now, now

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the problem I would have with this if this is

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an expression of the real Tom Tillis kind of like,

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you know, the real slim shady please stand up? Is

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this the real Tom Tillis? And if it is, then

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he has shown a remarkable degree of pettiness. And what

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others have said behind the scenes, you heard the caller earlier.

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I've got people texting me he is that petty. I

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don't want to believe that. I don't want to believe it.

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That doesn't mean it's not true. You know, I love

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a great conspiracy, and the problem with a lot of

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conspiracies is, no matter what truth comes out about them,

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it doesn't add any it doesn't change the people's belief

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in the conspiracy. And no matter what truth comes out

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about Tillis, now it's he can't unring this bell. So

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I don't know why I did it. Now, before I

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went to the break, I was talking about where as

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you look toward the twenty twenty six elections, what will

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the Democrats? What will be? It can be your opinion too.

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I'm not pretending that I have some kind of magic formulare.

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We do know it appears more and more from fact

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after fact after fact that Roy Cooper will be running

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for that Senate seat. Now, my guess is that the

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people around Cooper have said it's a pretty easy win

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for him. I don't think that's true unless they know

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something or that they're ounting on the public turning against

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President Trump. Now, the problem with this is that the

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president has won three elections in a row in this state.

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The demographics of the state from a voter registration standpoint,

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are trending away from Democrats and towards Republicans. It's very

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strong on the unaffiliated, unaffiliated being the largest group of

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voters in the state. I think both parties should be

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concerned about that. What are you guys doing to get

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those Those folks are leaving you both, But the Republicans

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are still growing. So I don't know what facts Roy

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Cooper's looking at, and I don't know what the issue

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the issue he would because when he runs, what he's

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going to do is open himself up to the egregious

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imprisonment of North Carolina during COVID and the unbelievable policies

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that set back education that hurt our economy that were

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over the top and not necessarily protective. Now he may

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have answers for that. I don't know, but that will

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be front and center about Cooper should he choose to

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run for that Senate seat. I don't know that this

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is a good move for him. I don't know, but

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we'll see. I mean, it's a light year from now,

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so I think what the Democrats at this point are

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counting on is something about Trump's gonna inpload. It hasn't

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happened yet, but it's going to. I mean, maybe they're

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counting on another pandemic. I don't know, but right now

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the president's on a roll. I will say this. The

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one the one landmine that I think the president has

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absolutely in the midst of seeing it blow up in

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slow motion is the Jeffrey Epstein situation. We'll talk about

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more of that on the other side of the break.

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There's much much more to go, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, If you're listening to this show, you know I

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Speaker 2: Storms might be lurking, so be aware, say to now

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as we move forward. I'm not really entirely sure. I

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you know, I'm searching the depths of my gray matter

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to find out a way to introduce this next caller.

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But you have heard this call I don't know. Oh see,

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I didn't know whether to say, you know, hey, it's

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a fake Tillis, or you know, or but it's a

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caller that you would have been familiar with. Hopefully he

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will call back, because callers are always welcome seven oh four, five,

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seven oh eleven ten, the caller number, or the text

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be on the air, you can certainly text it and

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least you'll get a comment from me on it to

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acknowledge we received it, regardless of what it might say. Now,

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Tom Tillis because Tillis went all scorched earth. I mean,

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he he Adam Kinsingert himself. He just I don't know.

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At some point he'll probably add some levity to that.

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Maybe he'll have a I don't know, I don't know

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where he goes from here. It's kind of interesting. He's

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not that old, you know, he's he's got but he

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had so much political capital and he just threw it away.

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It's one of those things you just don't understand. Why,

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why did you do that? That didn't who did it

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endear you too? Did you get something out of it?

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I'm just being forth right.

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Speaker 3: No, you're not.

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Speaker 2: You had the opportunity to be forthright when Trump got

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reelected or before you got reelected, but you didn't. And

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now you're saying there are a bunch of rank amateurs

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up there because you're the guy that knows everything. I guess.

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But this still regardless till us, notwithstanding the issues for

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Democrats moving forward, they've got about a you know, depending

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on whose survey, their approval rating is terrible right now.

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They're on the wrong side of so many issues. But

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worse is that they don't have a vision. You know,

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they the acknowledgement that there's a problem at the border.

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They didn't. So when they say they want immigration reform,

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where have you been? You know, they would say, well,

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there was a there was a bill. There were Republicans

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that they had one and Trump killed it. Okay, we'll

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bring the b if you guys think it's a great bill,

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bring it back. Tell us, tell the American public. Here's

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what we think. Here's what we think of Medicaid and

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what needs to be done with it. Here's what we

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think about Social security and what needs to be done

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with Here's what needs to be done about entitlements, Here's

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what needs to be done about government spending. Because I'll

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guarantee you right now, the American public. You can yell

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screen cuts, global climate change, earth ending, all of that,

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but you guys are now we're at a point in

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American life where fiscal integrity apparently is an issue. It

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is an issue that the American public knows. There's not

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an infinite checkbook. The American public knows, the ATM machines

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out of funds. The American public knows. So when Democrats

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come forth with an issue, how are you going to

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pay for it? How are you going to pay for

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Because the Inflation Reduction Act was a dismal failure. It

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just printed money, ran inflation through the roof. It was

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a dismal failure. Obamacare, we can at least have a

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debate that it wasn't the gray it wasn't a great plan.

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It was it has survived because once a massive government

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program is put in place, you can't get rid of it.

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That's why it's lingered on and survived, not because it's great.

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Cost of medical care continues to escalate. It's a mess.

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So where Democrats gonna hang their hats now? James Carver

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will say, where are the worlds who solved race? We're

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the worldes who solved the crazy Cajun? He says, all

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sorts of things. We have a lot to be proud of.

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We have a lot to be proud of. What is

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it moving forward? I don't disagree. So we've got I've

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got to get this name right. I want to Bane Bain.

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Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Hello, got a question? Got a question? Do you think

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that Tillis is positioning himself to partner with Elon Musk?

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Speaker 2: You know, that would indicate that Tillis is really a

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team player, and I don't that would be interesting. I mean,

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he I doubt it though, I just don't. It didn't

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work out. The appeal didn't work out for Kinsinger, it

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didn't work out for Liz Cheney. I haven't seen those

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people jump in with the Musk. I still think the

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Musk Trump thing could possibly come back together. I think

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these are and I think it's more of a Musk

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problem than it is a Trump problem right now because

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Trump's words have been kind of measured. He didn't get

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rid of the Tesla. He kind of left the door open.

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And and this issue with Musk is more in line

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with Rand Paul. I haven't heard Musk just run President

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Trump over with his staff, and that's what Tillis did.

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So I don't know, and I didn't hear Musk opposed.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, wouldn't no, go ahead, I'm listening.

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Speaker 4: No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't say this right from the

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start because every story has a certain political life to it,

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and this would be way early to partner up with Musk.

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But if Musk said, listen, I need a guy on

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the inside and we're just going to slowly work this relationship.

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I'll tell you what I know from my Doge days.

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You tell me what you know from your days, and

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and let's see if we can put something together that

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will be significant. And then maybe even if it doesn't

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get together, they pull back together with Trump. I mean,

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even going with Jake Tapper might be let's just go

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see who's out there of the same mind.

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Speaker 2: You know, I appreciate the pragmatism.

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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Actually, you know, I like your pragmatism here. I think

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it's it's reasoned. I don't think you're you're out of

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your gord for saying these things. I would say. My

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take on Musk is he really is a loan writer

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kind of guy. He's that's the way is now. The

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other problem is, I haven't seen Tillis be an Elon

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Doze supporter that much. You know, Tillis kind of avoided that.

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He could have jumped on board and said these are great,

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we need to do these cuts. But Tillis is a

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Medicaid expansion champion. He was a Medicaid expansion champion for

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North Carolina. He's you know, in the Senate, he has

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been that way. His big concern right now is Medicaid.

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I think he's iometrically opposed. I think Tillis wants more

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spending while Musk wants less. But it would I don't know.

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I mean, I would never put anything past elon with

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respect to what the heck he's going to do politically,

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I just don't know, you know, that's he's gonna at

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some point. He's gonna have to have a base beyond

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just the people that are cheering him. He's gonna have

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to have legitimate political candidates that rise to the occasion,

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and Tillis would be one of them. But where's Tillis's

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base though in North Carolina? In your opinion?

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm like you tell me, I don't know either. That's

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all he kind of just he threw the Republicans and

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Trump supporters under the bus. The Democrats he didn't care for.

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I don't know, but I appreciate the call, and I

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appreciate the ideas. That's always a great thing to hear. Thanks,

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so thank you for the call you got it. Appreciate

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you listening. Man. I love these calls. And I've still

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got a form remember of the House say, you know, hey,

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Tillis is all about Tillis. He's a wounded beet slashing

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out because anyone dares not to bow down to it. Maybe,

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but why would you be one of fifty if you

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wanted to, or one of one hundred in the Senate.

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He's one of one hundred up there, and I don't know.

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It's gonna be interesting to see how how he works

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with people moving forward in the in the Senate. I

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don't know.

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Speaker 2: Just past the halfway point on the peak calendar radio

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show Chat Adams your guesto sitting in for Pete having

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a blast. As always, we spend a preponderance of time

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talking about tell us a little bit of the time

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talking about where do the Democrats go from here? And

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I will get the conspiracy, I will get to the

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pambante at Epstein situation, because that one the But let's

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just go to the Democrats first. And this is mainly

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for your edification, because as the Democrats come back that

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they're they've basically been in time out. They've been in

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the corner, or they've been writing I will not shame

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my party, you know, five hundred times on the blackboard

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before the class is dismissed. They're doing whatever it is

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they're doing it. They will They're not done. They do

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have a serious identity problem. They are removed from They

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really bet against make America great. They've tried to shame

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anybody that wants to make the country great, which is

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an odd place to be. If you want to run

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to be an American politician, you can't. How do you

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run against your own country? And I'm not saying that

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to be propaganda driven, it's a process. It's how do

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they find their way back from the defund the police,

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no voter ID, trans kids, sanctuary city, is, abolish ice,

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critical race theory, no cash bail men, and women's sports.

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How do they come back from that being their ticket?

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How do they come back because those questions have to

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come up in the course of vetting potential candidates or

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the party or whatever, especially on the heels of you know,

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that doesn't even include the Biden cover up. Do you

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think that was bad? They can't run because you can't

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run just on we're not Trump, we disagree with him.

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That's that's not a platform. That's that's just hatred. I mean,

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it's hard to run just on hatred. It's hard to

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sustain hatred. It's really you know, you can, but it's

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hard to bring people to Hey, come to my hate party.

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Everybody's invited because we all hate insert whatever, and that's

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just something to ponder, to cogitate, to think upon, to

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reflect upon. You know, we can be as persnickety as

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we want to about the very variety of ideas and

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ideologies in front of us. But let's look at what

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they're going to present next year. And that's where the

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team Trump is on a roll, except for the giant

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land mind that is the Epstein Files. Now, why do

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I think that the Epstein files could be problematic for Trump?

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Beyond the obvious? And it is because a conspiracy theory

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a cover up that It's not so much like with Nixon.

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It wasn't the Watergate situation that was a bungle burglary

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into the DNC at the Watergate hotel. It was the

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attempt to act like you didn't know about it and

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the cover up that ensued that made it far worse.

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So the situation with Epstein. There's a variety of things

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it could be that would make sense. The problem is

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you have a conspiracy theory. And the worst thing about

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a conspiracy theory, whether it's reptilians are running the government,

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or Roswell or the Antarctic is a giant wall and

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there's an advanced civilization on the other side of the wall.

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Whatever the conspiracy theory is, there's a couple of things

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that add to that complete the conspiracy theory that never

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allow it to be fully believed. And one, you can't

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disprove things. So whether it's you know, it's Roswell aliens,

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we can't disprove that there wasn't an alien spacecraft recovered

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in nineteen forty seven. We can't. You know, you and

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I from an anecdotal standpoint, can't disprove the flat Earth.

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We can, we can prove it scientifically, but it doesn't

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matter because believers are going to believe what they believe

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about the flat Earth or Antarctica or I don't know,

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any Gray's over in Area fifty one or whatever that

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the Nazis got on a U boat and set up

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camp in Antarctica. So whatever it is, only affirming evidence

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is going to be approved and believed. So if somebody

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finds an obscure mention of something that affirms their belief,

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that's what they're going to add to it. So if

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they say, oh, but if we found this thing about

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Epstein or Galley Maxwell or something else, that's going to

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affirm the building conspiracy. Now I'm placing the problem with

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this on the Trump administration right now. It is a problem.

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It's not going away. The other thing about a conspiracy

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is any facts to the contrary are dismissed. So if

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I were to give you a fact and say, okay,

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he did commit suicide, and here's the tape, Well there's

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one minute in the tape missing, Well it resets every

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night at that time. Well, I'm sorry, can't believe you. Well,

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then you have to believe that the guards at this

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prison somehow got together, colluded, killed the guy, and then

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we're able to keep this a secret moving forward. Okay,

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No that there's no way that these guys aren't paid enough. Well,

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we need to check their bank accounts. So maybe they

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got an island to the Caribbean. No matter what you say,

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it's going to be thrown out. No matter if he

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did kill himself, which I think it's all probability that

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he did. Otherwise you got to believe really high level conspiracy,

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which is, hey, the guards were told to go here,

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and CI operatives went in and took him out. Something

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of that nature. Randall, we're going to get to you.

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Just a second after the break, I promised to stick

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with us, okay. And the last one is that time

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always makes the conspiracy stronger. So the longer the Epstein

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situation goes on, the more difficult it's going to be

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to prove or disprove whatever it is. The last thing

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I'll say about it before we take a break we'll

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come back to that, is that the Trump administration, it's

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it's entirely possible that he was an asset. You have

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to wonder why things were dismissed in Florida unless there was. Oh,

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there's something more to this that has to do with

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intel and information on foreign adversaries. I don't know, but

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there's much more there.

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Speaker 2: Now, Well under the break, we actually a caller was

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ready to go, so I want I want to get

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to Randa. Randall's been waiting and I hope he held

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through the break. So Randall, are you there and welcome

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to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. How you doing today.

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Speaker 2: I'm fantastic, man. Welcome, Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard you saying, you know that they say

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some a couple of things about democrats and and and

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their flaws and all that stuff, which is probably true,

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and a lot of things that you said. But I

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tell you the truth, man, Trump has really, really, really

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messed the Republican Party up this coming up election cycle.

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But he's just allied to the lied to the constituents,

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lied to the Uh, the middle class, lied to the

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poor with this tax with no taxes over time, that's

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not true.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 3: People would thought people thought they were going to see

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more on their paychecks. But but they're saying now that

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that you know, you when you file your taxes at

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the end of the year, that's when your savings come in.

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But that's not what people are thinking. People are thinking

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that they're going to be getting more on that. We

506
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can go about weekly checked.

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Speaker 5: And that's just fact.

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Speaker 2: Well, a couple of things, Yeah, the first twenty five

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I don't you kind of hit a couple of topics there.

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I don't know that it's going to plan. And first

511
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of all, let me say I was questioning what the

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Democrats want to run on other than anti Trump. Okay,

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what I said was the topics I listed, they're known

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for those issues. They're going to have to come up

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with a vision to present to the American public. This

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more than just we hate Trump. They're going to have

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to have a vision for the debt and deficits. They're

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gonna have to have a vision for the government entitlement programs.

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They're gonna have to to tell the American public what

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is they believe, and they've been so tied up with

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Trump they haven't So I just wanted to correct that

522
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one thing. I didn't want to just take it old

523
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Chad hates Democrats, No, I want to see what their

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ideas are. Secondly, the interesting thing about overtime and stuff. Yeah,

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under the new tax law, workers can deduct up to

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twelve five hundred dollars in overtime pay and twenty five

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thousand dollars in reported tips. So yeah, everyone's supposed to

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fill out a tax return, but you don't pay taxes

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on tips until later on anyway, especially for cash, so

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they're going to get to deduct that. So you're right.

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A lot of it is, Hey, you need to file

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a return because you're but you're the amount of money

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you're going to pay to the government is less and

534
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will be less. So I don't know. I'm trying to

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figure out what the lie is because I think there

536
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are some issues that are gonna they could potentially hurt

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the Republicans, but they delayed those, like the cuts in

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Medicaid don't kick in until after the midterm elections, which

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would give the Republicans time to correct, fix alter things.

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But a lot of the other stuff kicks in, the

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good stuff like the thousand dollars savings for your kids

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and stuff that kicks in right away.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, but what I'm talking what I'm talking about

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is kitchen table politics. I'm talking about being able to

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have more on your check weekly through overtime with no

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taxes being taken out. That was a lie. That's not happening.

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And so and so Americans like myself and the rural

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Americans that overwhelming we voted for Donald Trump. That Trump

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drivers and factory workers and people like us that work overtime,

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and and we're expecting that money to be on our checks.

551
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But that was the lie that he tells. Groceries and

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stuff is still high. Inflation is still high.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait, wait, that's not your way, way wait.

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Inflation has dropped and continues to drop. And in fact,

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I talked about this yesterday. Not a one point six percent,

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which is almost negligible. Groceries have reduced wait wait wait, truth,

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groceries have come down in price, which is why it's

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contributing to inflation coming down, So those are facts. They

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are cheaper. I mean they're coming down in price. So

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that's good. Gases come down in price.

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Speaker 3: Listen, sir, I don't know if you shop.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you grow.

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Speaker 2: I shop every week.

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Speaker 3: But let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.

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You're getting less and you're.

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Speaker 5: Paying more now for what you used to be able

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to get. I don't know where you shop at, but

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I'm telling you there groceries are not as low as

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the whatever you're saying that they are. But the fact

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is the lie that was told. People are thinking that

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they are going to get money that they're working for

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on their checks via the no tax on overtime.

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Speaker 3: That was a lie, and people are.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, I'll

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let you speak. Now, let me speak. It wasn't a

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lie because right now, had that not gone into effect,

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your taxes would go up. It would be one of

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the largest tax increases, if not the largest ever. So

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it wasn't a lie. It's it figures into you must

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file a tax return. So the question for you, wait, wait, wait, wait,

581
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I'll let you speak. When you go to file your TEX,

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you can file it early next year, month of January.

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You can file it. You're gonna get more money back,

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and moving forward, you're gonna be able to keep more money.

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But you can't do it instantly. Companies don't do it.

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They'll have to do it on your tax returns, and

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it will make a difference. You will have more money.

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And when people file those tax returns next year, they're

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gonna see it. Now. It's not immediate, it's not I

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don't disagree with you on that, but it's not a lie.

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It actually does. It is a real policy. It has

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real consequences. Listen, every economist out there affirms that.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, sir, hold on.

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Speaker 5: Sir, you're talking about something at the end of the year.

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People are hurting throughout the year, throughout the year. That's

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what the common man is talking about throughout the year.

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And that's the lie that he said, no taxes own

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over time. I don't know how you take that register

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to the coming man, but to the coming man, that

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means that, Okay, if I work over time this week,

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then and I'm not gonna have any taxes on my

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paycheck or overtime taxes on my paycheck come the following week.

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That's the common man thinking he has lied to us

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about that.

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Speaker 3: Now you're talking.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wait wait, wait, wait, wait before you go on,

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go ahead, okay, go ahead. Do you want to keep going?

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I'll answer you when you give me a chance.

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Speaker 3: And so and so you're talking about.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, at the end of the year, you're gonna

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be able to do twelve thousand, five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 3: You know some people make over twelve thousand dollars in.

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Speaker 5: Overtime, right, so, so so therefore you're still lying because

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you're gonna have to pay some taxes on the overtime

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if you cap it a twelve five. So it's still

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a lie no matter the way you where you put it.

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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait for the show before the common So.

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Speaker 5: We were expecting to have more on our checks through

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no taxes on overtime weekly or bi weekly or how

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do we get paid?

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Speaker 3: And I'm telling you now, the Republican Party is gonna

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pay for Donald Trump's lies for back in that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So let me ask you a question, would you rather?

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Would you rather? Because there are two things that I

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want to deal with. I want to deal with what

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you call lie and the reality that's on the ground

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would you rather it have remained what it was?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much

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