Finding Your Voice with Danica Patrick
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Danica Patrick joins Jemele to discuss her new role as a surrogate for President Donald Trump and why she thinks women need to stand up for what they believe in in order to have a voice in politics. She also talks about why she decided to join Team Trump and what it was like supporting the president.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast.
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Today's guest is someone who I've admired for a long time being a NASCAR, you know, indie fan.
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I remember being a young kid watching these with my grandfather on Sundays, you know,
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So this is a woman who I mean, she's she's broken barriers.
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But this past year, she really I mean, just emerged in the political space.
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She was a really a top surrogate for President Donald Trump leading up to the election
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and certainly has been an advocate and a wonderful champion of President Trump and his cabinet picks
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If you haven't guessed who it is by now, of course, it is Danica Patrick.
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As a race car driver herself, like I said, breaking barriers.
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She's setting records with her her on track performance.
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But now with her her racing career behind her, she's looking at this next chapter.
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If you haven't seen this woman, she's like so fit and just beautiful.
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She has a passion for for wine, helping others to achieve their goals.
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Um, I could go on and on and on about her accolades again, uh, on the racetrack and beyond.
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Well, Danica, thank you so much for joining the Gains for Girls podcast.
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We were just talking, you know, before we started recording, I briefly, briefly got to
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to meet you at one of the inaugural balls surrounding President Trump being sworn into office,
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which was a very victorious feeling for both of us.
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But I wish I got to really spend time and just hug your neck and thank you for everything
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that you have done, not just over the past few months, but really how you have been the
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perfect role model for women over really your lifetime, certainly over your career and beyond.
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So I just kind of wanted to get right into it, starting with asking you about, you know,
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how your life really did change over the past few months.
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We saw celebrities who were endorsing Kamala Harris, speaking at her rallies, who were
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making millions of dollars, people like Beyonce and Cardi B, the list goes on.
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But it's in total contrast with, with you and people like you, people, other women, especially
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Uh, but I mentioned your career, you know, you risk facing cancel culture for supporting
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So, so pretty plainly, you know, what made you do it?
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And I am really, really sad that we didn't get a chance to like, uh, hug and say hello
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and learn more about each other in person, as opposed to afar from spectating as a, as a,
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as a consumer of, um, you know, sports and, uh, people that stand up for what they believe
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Uh, so I have no doubt we'll get that chance soon.
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Like, I don't, I mean, I don't, I'd love to hear some of your perspective too, uh, on,
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Cause I feel like also for you, it's been kind of a tidal wave of, uh, just a whole change
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in like what you do and how people see you and, you know, standing up for something is
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a powerful thing because, uh, it's when you're in your truth.
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And so when you're in your truth, you're quite magnetic and it's, and it also gains momentum
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really fast because when we're doing what's meant for us, the universe just lines things
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Uh, it was only a little over a year ago that I went to my first ever political event, which
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was AmFest here in Phoenix, um, Charlie Kirk's big event.
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And I mean, at that point in time, without, hopefully without people judging, I didn't know
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Like I had never paid attention to politics and in fact, quite specifically avoided the
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I just basically stopped watching the news and just watched YouTube and spiritual information
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and esoteric things and physics and all kinds of other interests I had, but not, not the
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And so after going to that event, I posted some photos in my, of my sister and I, and, uh,
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it just said that I love this country and it was a divisive comment to so many and grabbed
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And then I finally met Tucker Carlson when he was there because he was one of the speakers.
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And, uh, I quickly went on his show and went to Florida, the very beginning of January, right
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And then, uh, came back and Charlie reached out and then I went on Charlie's show and I
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Uh, and then one of the other people that I had reached out to that was quite a pivotal
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character and sort of my involvement within, uh, the campaign, especially was Tulsi Gabbard.
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And, uh, she spoke at AmFest back in the first time I went in the end of 2023.
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And I sent her a message, a DM afterwards and just said, you know, so impressed.
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And she, we just kind of had a little love fest for a second.
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And then she had her book come out for love of country.
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And so in the springtime I interviewed her and we had just become friends.
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And then it really just led into her asking if I'd moderate for her and Bobby at an event.
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And then that kind of got into the whole political realm.
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And then I moderated for JD and at a rally and then, you know, just things here and there
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and doing Maha things and doing events that were in town.
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And, uh, that led to basically, basically campaigning with Tulsi the whole last week.
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Which is Tulsi is one of the most authentic Tulsi and her husband, uh, bear in mind, what
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They are the most genuine, sincere, real people, uh, I think in the political sphere.
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And I saw you actually at her confirmation hearing.
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It was so cool to see like the, the girl gang that surrounded her.
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Megan McCain is another one of her, her friends and my good friends.
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Now, uh, I imagine that experience cheering her on at her confirmation hearing was probably
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I mean, of course it's, you never could have imagined yourself there, but it was probably
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And again, there almost feels like there's like, like some more depth to it than just having
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I feel this, um, you, I know that you're quite religious.
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I believe in all of it, but I would call myself a little bit more spiritual, but I feel like
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there's sort of this like uprising of like female camaraderie and cheering for each other
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And, and like this little, like less competitiveness and more like unification.
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Um, and so, I, I mean, it really feels like there's like almost like past life or some kind
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of level of depth to the relationships that are building in this sort of arena that, um,
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feel deeper, feel deeper than just knowing each other for the last year.
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Um, and, or more for some, but more on a deeper level in the last year.
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Uh, I don't know, I don't know how you feel about that, but I just feel like there's,
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there's just, um, maybe it's because I played in, uh, I, my sport was guys basically.
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And so maybe it's because I'm just like finally having this opportunity to build more of these
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I think there's a rise of like the, the, of women supporting each other again.
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Uh, and I, I totally agree with your sentiment.
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I don't know if it's because of course we have a lot in common beyond just like,
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the surface level things we enjoy, I mean, our principles and our morals, or I don't know
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if it's because there's so much at stake, uh, over this, this past year, certainly leading
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So I don't know if that was something that, that really drew us in.
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And of course, leading up to the confirmation hearings, but I totally agree with you.
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And to go back to your point of, you know, you never saw yourself here.
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I believe we have a lot of similarities there as well, uh, from a standpoint of, we were
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just doing what, what we prepared to do, like what we had done our whole lives.
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And then suddenly, I mean, we're on stages speaking at Trump rallies, like what a, what
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a mind blowing, surreal, but such a rewarding, uh, experience to be a part of.
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Uh, you revealed in a conversation with vice president, JD Vance, that you were a first
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I would have voted for Trump the first time as well.
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So, I mean, what really was it that changed for you was some of it like the backlash you
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were getting, which I tend to think has an, an opposite desired effect.
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The other side, they, you know, they're quick to, to the whole cancel culture thing, which
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And it oftentimes the people they want to shout down really their platform only grows.
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And I, I, I wonder if this is the case for a lot of people is that it just like felt
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And it was like, like, I look at especially conservatives as being a lot of people that
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are just like, kind of let me go about my life.
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There's not, there's not a big activist in me whatsoever.
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Like, um, but don't piss us off because as soon as you start taking things away from
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like the ability to live the life that you want to live and the way you want to live it
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now, you have no idea what you're dealing with.
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You just don't like the amount of, um, integrity and truth and drive that exists within that
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belief in a certain life that you should be able to live, I think created such a, such
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a huge momentum in this campaign with people that were just out there like myself saying
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We need to get the world back to the country, especially, but I, it has an effect on the
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Like it had to be so surreal for you to be standing on that podium next to a dude and
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So I just think this was a bunch of conservative rational, even if you're not conservative,
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because there's obviously plenty of Democrats that became either independent or Republican
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That was very public Tulsi included Bobby, um, that, you know, obviously came over, but it's
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just like, this is just about getting back to some reasonable way of living.
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And what you just described is the same sentiment that I don't know what percentage of Trump
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Of course, I know there are people who turned out to the polls to embrace Donald Trump, to
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embrace his America first agenda, to embrace his cabinet picks.
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But I truly believe more so people, people like you, they turned out to the polls to reject
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absurdity, which is exactly what the democratic party has become from top to bottom, at least in
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terms, maybe not amongst the general public, the, the everyday, you know, American Democrat,
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but definitely in terms of elected representation and definitely in terms of, of how the media
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left, left, left-leaning media is presenting and talking about these topics, such as keeping men
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out of women's sports, which you're passionate about.
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I mean, is this, do you think this is something that you feel passionate about?
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Do you think it's ironic that I'm passionate about that because I was a girl in a guy's sport?
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I was going to ask you, you know, it's, it's, which has been amazing to see what all you've
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There are just clear biological differences between the two.
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I mean, all you have to do is YouTube or Google some stories of people that took transition
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drugs and how, you know, different they felt taking testosterone, whether it be strength
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or, you know, libido or just like all the changes that end up happening.
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I mean, hormones to some, to a large degree, create your personality.
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So, uh, so there's just some clear differences.
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So when it comes to, um, strength and pure potential there, there's just no question that
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And I think there was probably a point in time that he was far more, you know, with it, but
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unfortunately these last year and four years, really, I'm not sure there was too much of
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that presidency where he, you know, was, uh, as sharp as he needed to be to run this country.
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And those stories only more emerged sort of late when the, uh, when the campaign was really
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fired up is that there was a lot of stories from much earlier on in, in, um, Biden's presidency
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And now you have people like Jake Tapper who are writing books about Biden's decline
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When you see all these clips of him being the coverup, really crazy stuff.
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Um, I love seeing those clips where people, there's like one that I saw maybe yesterday
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It was like a compilation of all of the different people within the democratic party that just
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were spewing propaganda by saying he's sharp as ever.
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And they were like, they weren't even like, he's doing great.
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They literally were like, he is the sharpest man in the room.
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But then again, you know, I feel like as a person, you kind of, you, you are one way
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And so like for some people, I think that we're able to tell those kinds of lies.
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It's probably the tip of the iceberg for the amount of lies told.
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Unfortunately, we had to have our eyes open and in the way that we did, but now we're seeing
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the results of their lies and us and us being able to decipher their lies.
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For example, Joy Reid's show has been canceled.
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It is solely because we've seen Rachel Maddow and different people blame it on racism and
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how MSNBC is just racist because they fired a black woman.
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And no, it's because, has she ever considered, it's because her viewership has tanked.
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It's because people don't want to watch someone who lies or someone who is constantly race
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fading or whatever it is that Joy Reid has spent her tenure doing.
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Like, I think that's just one of the other common denominators that you tend to find on
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the liberal side of things is instead of like a back and forth dialogue or a rational explanation
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or factual information, it's just, it's just anger and pointing the finger and being mad.
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And, and look, that's just not, that's not a magnetic kind of a personality that's going
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Like, shoot, when I think of laughter, I think of Tucker Carlson, like people love him.
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Like, he can say anything and then just have that giggle, you know?
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And so there's just, with so much of the time with the, I feel like on the liberal side
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of things, there's just so much anger in there and there's no likeness.
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That's definitely what my personal experience has been.
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Whether it's getting on college campuses, of course, on social media, but, but I'm referring
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I mean, I'm very curious about, cause I didn't go to college at all.
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So I have no understanding or experience for what a college campus is like.
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And I'm so curious because having seen, obviously, Charlie's fantastic clips of him going into
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schools and just asking the simple question, like, what is a woman there?
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And, you know, it's just, they're all, they're always quite entertaining.
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I mean, university and college is 99% democratic professors, which then lead to sort of a level
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of indoctrination into a certain kind of ideology.
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Well, of course it's, it would have looked very different from when you were in college,
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I imagine it would have looked very different, you know, 20, 30 years ago compared to now.
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And I imagine it will look even different in five years, but I believe in five years, we're
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going to start to see the shift again, back to normalcy because what we've seen, what people
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like Charlie Kirk have really been able to prove.
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And of course, what the numbers on November 5th, what they showed us about the younger demographic
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is we are making that shift back, both men and women.
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Of course, women even still typically tend to be more liberal, but the numbers are going
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And so I can tell you about my experience in college.
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That's when, you know, we were sent home for a few months, but when we came back to school,
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I was so shocked to see how our universities and our administrators and our professors were
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so easily able to control us and how easily we felt for it.
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And from that, what we saw in 2020, 2021, and then what we continue to see in 2022, I mean,
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you look at what happened surrounding, you know, after October 7th and how, I mean, there
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was just riots on these college campuses, universities like prestigious universities like Columbia,
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where professors and administrators were unwilling to dismantle these encampments.
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And of course, the trans rights activist community, what they were able to get away with.
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Again, in my own personal experience, Danica, I have been, I mean, physically assaulted and
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In San Francisco, I was literally a group of protesters, hundreds of them.
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They come in, they turn off the lights and they ambush me and I'm fully accosted.
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I'm being shoved again, punched in the face by these men wearing dresses.
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They ended up holding me in a classroom, barricading me in for, you know, four, almost five hours,
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demanding that if I wanted to make it back home to see my family safely again, I had to pay
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them money. The Dean of Students shows up. It's like the middle of the night about midnight and
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starts negotiating with these students, how much I owed each of them to be able to leave.
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All the while the police are being held for ransom with me. They're scared to do their job because
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they told me outright, we can't be seen as anything other than an ally to that community or else we'll
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lose our jobs. And then of course, eventually after almost five hours, I get out of this room
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only because police formed a diamond around me. We pushed out. But the next day,
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to continue to speak all of this, to, to speak to how progressive, I don't even like that word
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because progress means, you know, we're moving into, I would actually say regressive to speak
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to how regressive these universities have become. The next day, the vice president of student affairs
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at the university, uh, sent out a university wide email. So of course, all faculty, all staff,
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all professors, the entire student body. And in this email, she said, we are so proud of our brave
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students for handling Riley Gaines in the manner that they did, because we know how deeply traumatic
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her presence is on this campus. And so here's some counseling resources for you all, you know,
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take the day off of school. Wow. Well, God, no wonder why you have such passion for all of this to be put
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into those kinds of dangerous situations. But these are not on any level, rational ways of thinking.
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This is either driven by fear of losing something, perhaps a job, or how wildly effective propaganda
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and, um, and brainwashing can be. And, you know, you see so many things nowadays with, um, how, uh,
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Project Mockingbird and Mockingbird and how, you know, with only three networks back in the day,
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it was far easier to control the masses. And now, and they didn't think that there would be any
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influence with these little podcasts here and there. Um, but they realize now that of course it's,
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it, it does have its influence. And so that's, what's lost the grip on the media, but, um, but
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they've, they've obviously found other ways. I mean, I think we still have to be vigilant with our
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social and with our consuming of things because it's, uh, the algorithms are always driving our
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feed. So, but it's, uh, you know, it's a great time in the media because things like your show and
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Joe Rogan and all these other cool things where it's like, you know, people just speaking the truth,
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at least from their perspective. Look, I think truth is, there's, there's, there's a narrow,
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narrow window of objective, objective truth. There are a lot of sides to things, but for people
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to just be able to at least share their truth is, um, a huge, huge win.
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You can't hide reality anymore. I think, uh, had not been for really, I, I credit a lot of what we've
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seen in regards to free speech and the outcome again of the election to Elon Musk.
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Uh, and his, his purchase of X, which at the time was probably a dumb purchase, but looking back,
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uh, I would call it a worthy investment, but because of that, we're seeing amazing things that,
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that I think mainstream media wouldn't have showed us things like president Trump, uh, at Daytona and
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just being, the crowd is roaring. Everyone is so excited and applauding and so joyous. Like it really
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was explosive. And so what was your reaction? Yeah, I watched it. I was so excited. My,
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my sister-in-law, Jamie little got to interview him at the end of pit road before he got in. So
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that was really cool. Um, but, uh, it's, you know, for sure it's a, it's a good community for him. I
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um, is a very conservative, um, group of people. Um, so it's a very welcoming environment and I'm
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sure has been very supportive of him, supportive of him, uh, over the last couple, well, shoot,
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it's been, I mean, it's more than a decade now. Um, so it's a good place for him, but it also just
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shows to, uh, you know, what, how good it can feel when people get on the same team.
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And there was nothing controversial about anything that he did. It was like, you know,
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love the country, support the troops that stand up for our country and fight for our country,
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uh, support those who entertain the people of this country with their skillset, whether it be racing
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or, you know, I watched, I was watching the Stanley cup fine. Oh no, I was watching, um, the, uh, four,
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what was it called? The four nations championship in hockey and, uh, you know, watching him on the
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phone with the coach and he took the phone into the room with all the players and president Trump's
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on the phone telling all the players, good luck. Um, so whether it's him just supporting athletes
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and being, um, you know, the, the, the rare humans that they are, uh, it's just, he's just so human.
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I think that's kind of really what I feel like has to be so prevalent in everybody's mind now is like,
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you can't fake as much as he's shown you, right? Like even when you look at the, um, the cabinet
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meeting today, it was more like a press conference. It wasn't really like, I mean, I don't know what
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work they got done. Maybe the TV's left and reporters left and they had a conversation, but
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you know, there's, it just seems like no, no opportunity where he's going to get caught off
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guard or isn't prepared. And the only way you can do that is if you're real. And if you know your stuff,
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otherwise you need to be prepped. You need to be protected. You got to be careful who you talk to
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and where they get after you and what they say. Um, you don't want to get exposed and, and, and
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Trump just doesn't have to do that because he gets it. He knows it. He lives it, believes it. And
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he's, and he's, and he's very clear on his path. And, and you know, this, uh, he is the exact same
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person on camera as he is off camera. No facade. There is no, uh, you know, that that's, that's just who
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he is and being a human. I thought it was so awesome at that race to see his little
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granddaughter there. Right. How amazing was that? Um, of course he's, he's the president
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of this great country, but you know, to her, he's, he's just granddad. And I thought that
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was really, really sweet and made him really human. Yeah. Well, I think that, you know, if we're,
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if you, I think you can tell a lot about the, the adult by the children, you know, I think
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you see a lot of, uh, you can read into a lot of the character there and, um, his whole,
00:26:18.240
the whole family is so successful and so put together. And so, um, you know, just really
00:26:24.180
good human beings. And so I think that that should, that should speak volumes about who
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he is. And again, you compare that with, uh, previous president, not only his children,
00:26:35.340
but how, uh, I mean, his, his grandkids were alienated from him. So I, I think that is
00:26:42.380
an entirely accurate assessment. Yeah. It's an implied, it's an implied, uh, contrast.
00:26:49.000
Totally. Totally. Last thing I really want to ask you about, which is like, uh, I think
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it's the most amazing thing ever. I want to hear about your, your wine business and how
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you operate and what this looks like for you. Oh, goodness. Well, I have a wine dinner to go
00:27:06.100
to in a couple of hours. Um, so the, I started, um, uh, a line called Somnium. It means dream in
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Latin. And it was really just a trip I took to Napa Valley in 2006, just fell in love with the
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valley, fell in love with the process wine. And just remember standing on a knoll in the middle
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of Napa Valley with a glass of white wine at 10 AM thinking to myself, wow, it would be really cool
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to have something like this someday. And then that led to about two years later, going and looking
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at a property and buying it and starting the process. Um, so I finally had a bottle of 2014
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for sale in 2017 after the idea in 2006, finally buying at the beginning of 2009 and going through
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the whole process. You either need a lot of money to buy something established, or you need
00:27:56.780
to have a lot of time and some money, which is not quite as much. It's a, it is very expensive
00:28:03.720
process, but it is a passion. And, um, and so I love it. Yeah. We've, we've grown. We started off
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with just an estate Cabernet and then that spread into, um, a Rosé and a Sav Blanc. And now we make
00:28:15.860
a Cab Franc and we make another Cab Cabernet Sauvignon. Um, so we have five different wines that come out of
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Somnium. And then in 2020, which was the best year to launch anything, um, we launched Danico Rosé,
00:28:28.560
which is, uh, it's a Rosé made in Provence, France. So, um, so that's the, I guess, sixth wine,
00:28:34.500
but it's a, it's a separate label. So yeah, I just love wine. I just love the process. I love the,
00:28:41.060
you know, I, have you ever gone wine tasting before? So in Kentucky where I went to school,
00:28:45.740
uh, we have a lot of bourbon tasting, right? That's big over there. Yeah. So you kind of get
00:28:51.700
it like there's barrels and harvesting. Well, is there harvesting or is it's more like fermenting?
00:28:56.620
Do they just use green? Yeah. So, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a very similar process in its nature.
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It takes time, but you know, winemaking is just, you know, you, you really realize with how much goes
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into making that bottle of wine, you're drinking so much labor, you're drinking so much love.
00:29:16.480
And, um, so yeah, and it's a great way. I mean, at the end of the day, my, all of the companies that
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I start always have sort of like a deeper ceilingless mission, which Somnium for me is about
00:29:28.960
being really present with who you're with, um, sharing that wine with family, with friends,
00:29:35.100
making memories and connecting in that way that, um, that we all used to so easily at the dinner
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table, um, and, um, and, and gathered in community. Like I think that community is something that's
00:29:48.740
dissipated over time with families moving to separate parts of the country and less family
00:29:54.040
members and, and, um, and just like less community overall. And I think that, uh, my whole, my whole
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dream for Somnium is to really just let this be an anchor to creating great memories with people
00:30:06.680
that you love and care about. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. And I think that's a mission
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statement that majority of Americans can get behind. Uh, actually last thing for you, because I just
00:30:18.180
thought of it and I'm curious if you could get in a race car and drive around the track with three
00:30:25.880
people dead or alive, who are you picking? Oh, um, uh, well, so I'm assuming I'll be racing against
00:30:33.280
them and I can, I can write, I'm racing. They're not in my car, right? I'm racing against them. I'm
00:30:38.080
driving. Yeah. Yeah. Let's say, well, let's maybe let's do a hybrid. Let's see. Well, cause I think
00:30:42.820
I'd probably want to want to see how I stacked up against Dyer and Senna, which was, he was one of the
00:30:48.080
greats in formula one. Um, maybe, uh, maybe, maybe get out there and, um, you know, door bang with,
00:30:56.160
um, with Dale Earnhardt senior. Um, obviously no junior super well. I drove for him. He's a friend
00:31:02.340
and his wife, Amy's great. Um, but you know, he was always, he was known as the intimidator. So that
00:31:07.700
would be a fun person to like, see like, what was that? What did that feel like? Would I be intimidated?
00:31:12.220
Um, cause I have a real mean streak in me at times. Uh, and then man, maybe some, maybe who
00:31:18.840
like put, put someone in my car, who would I want to put in my car? I think I put Jesus in my car.
00:31:24.560
Um, I think that, uh, you know, in all of my spiritual practices and religious experiences,
00:31:30.160
you know, I've in, in connecting with the energy of, of Jesus, it always has felt like,
00:31:36.700
like a homie, like a, like, like just your best friend, like someone that's just super cool,
00:31:42.220
and on your level, but just all love. And, um, and so, yeah, I mean, that, there you go. That'd
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be my passenger. I love that. I love that. And he is, he's all love and he's, he's all truth at all
00:31:55.260
times, which is, I feel like the embodiment of our conversation. So, uh, thank you for, for everything
00:32:02.680
that you have done, uh, and for joining the podcast, um, to learn a little bit more about you
00:32:08.060
outside of, of the political arena that you have found yourself in over the past about year now.
00:32:14.920
Uh, just very grateful for you. So thank you. Thank you, Riley. You've, uh, again, like I said,
00:32:20.140
before we got on, we were, you know, you were saying sweet things to me and I'm like, look,
00:32:25.260
woman, I've got two decades on you. You're so young. You're so articulate. You're so put together.
00:32:30.420
You're such a hard worker. Um, you, uh, probably will have, I'm going to guess in decades to come,
00:32:38.680
you're going to, uh, you're going to even blow yourself away with all the things that you do
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and where you're at. So we'll see, we'll see. And just continuing to trust God in the process.
00:32:49.020
So yeah, well, that's the way to go. That's it. That's it. Well, you rock. Thank you.
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Thank you. How can you not just love her, uh, in person too? She's like teeny tiny. She's
00:32:59.980
short and she's so fit. She's beautiful. Uh, and really, like I said, in my intro,
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uh, she's a role model of mine. As always, we are grateful that you're here and listening
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