Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Frank Siller ｜ 9⧸12⧸22
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Summary
Visa, Mastercard, and Mastercard join forces to categorize gun sales at retail stores in a major victory for anti-gun control advocates. The move is a victory for gun control advocates who claim that the better tracking of gun sales may help prevent future mass shootings.
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hey pat yeah how was that for the show today oh are you kidding me yeah yeah what was your
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favorite part oh i'd be like asking me who's my favorite child i have asked you that yeah
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there's just too many choices oh i love them all yeah that's right that's what it is that's what
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it was uh today i am back from vacation and a lot to say um and we begin with this uh really
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dangerous stuff coming from visa american express and mastercard on guns nothing to see here no no
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well welcome to the uh program pat gray is joining me filling in for the vacationing now
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stewberg gear i think there's only like four weeks a year we're all in together
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seems that way yeah um i have been um on vacation my wife's 50th birthday was happening
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a couple of weeks ago and so i took her uh to italy and uh i i learned an awful lot while i was gone
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uh and i'll explain what matters to you coming up in about an hour from now this is a very important
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development that i want to talk to you about right now um and it is part of esg
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visa inc said over the weekend that it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops
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the move is considered to be a major victory for gun control advocates who claim that the better
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tracking of gun sales may help prevent future mass shootings other major payment processors including
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mastercard and american express have also said they plan to move forward with categorizing gun shop sales
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now this is really important that you listen visa said it would adopt the new international organization
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for standardization iso the new merchant code for gun sales until now gun store sales were considered
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general merchandise the code would show where an individual spends money but not what items were purchased
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mastercard said that following the iso's approval of the new merchant code we now turn our focus to how it
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will be implemented by merchants and their banks as we continue to support lawful purchases on our
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network while protecting the privacy and decisions of individual card holders merchant category codes
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currently exist for most type of purchases when you buy an airline ticket or pay for your groceries
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your credit card company has a special cold for those retailers it's just common sense that we have
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the same policies in place for gun and ammunition stores says the new york city mayor eric adams
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the industry's decision to create a firearm specific code is nothing more than a capitulation to anti-gun
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politicians and activists bent on eroding the rights of law abiding americans one transaction at a time
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this according to the spokesperson for the national rifle association so which is it no big deal or the furthering of
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the erosion of the erosion of your rights well let's go back to see if we can understand this story
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first let's trace trace this back a few months where was the pressure coming from quote from cbs news a group
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of congressional democrats is urging credit card companies to track this the the uh suspected firearm
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and ammunition purchases as a means to identify and stop gun crime the letter drafted by elizabeth warren
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and uh congresswoman dean of pennsylvania and signed by over a dozen other progressive colleagues
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urges the ceos of mastercard american express and visa to back the creation of a merchant category code for
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gun and ammunition retailers okay now this is really interesting so this didn't originate with the banks
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this originated with the progressive left in congress the creation of a new merchant category code for gun
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and ammunition retail stores will be the first step they always say this and nobody listens will be the first
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first step towards facilitating the collection of valuable financial data that could help law enforcement
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encountering the financing of terrorism efforts now i thought we had done all of this oh i don't know about
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20 years ago when we were looking into terrorists notice carefully what they say the creation of a new
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merchant category gun uh category code for gun and ammunition retail stores this according to the the congressman
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that signed this and the senator the first step towards facilitating the collection of valuable financial data
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now that's where the pressure came from but where did this originate
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let's trace it back a little further because there's no way elizabeth warren dreamt this up on her own
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this initiative was first pushed by the amalgamated bank now who's the amalgamated bank
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well if you really kind of pay attention to this show and you watch the specials you know who the
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amalgamated bank is they are the bank owned by the world the workers united
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slash seiu union so it's a labor union bank but not just any labor union bank this is the bank that
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brought the paris accord financial framework to the united states financial institutions as well
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they were the signers at the paris accords the meetings that happened before and other banks
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were like we're not going to get involved in that but it was the seiu labor union bank that brought it
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here to america and then got politicians to push and coerce and get all of the other banks to sign in
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on this it was a climate credit score idea it sounded insane back then but it's known as esg and
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it is the industry standard now this was the great reset before the great reset so it was all about using
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banks as a pressure point mechanism to bend everyone to their climate will
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this is what the amalgamated bank brought over here that pressure point system clearly worked because
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now all of the banks all of the credit cards all of the insurance companies are on board with it now
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so now this bank along with senator warren and other democratic congressmen are applying even more
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pressure pressure to go after our guns now they say that's just not going to happen
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let me give you this cbs news big scoop the industry that sets international standards for credit card
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companies has decided to create a new code for the purchase of guns and ammo ammo now notice this isn't
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the united states government this is an industry group meaning the financial sector that sets the
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international standards so now we are being forced to accept international standards and the rest of the
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country the rest of the world really doesn't care about guns and ammunition because they ain't got any
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we are unique in the world with our second amendment but now we have international standards so we just
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can't go i mean we can't defy these international standards now they say they're not going to identify the
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exact purpose purchase they will separate those items from the more generic category
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so merchant category codes made up of four digits used across all sorts of industries
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and it not supposed to reveal any individual product purchases credit card companies lump firearm
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retailers in with other outlets classifying them as five nine nine nine upside down
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it's a five that doesn't exist and then three sixes miscellaneous uh retail stores or five nine forty one
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sporting goods stores new code now for firearm merchants potentially suspicious purchasing powers
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could be flagged by law enforcement now wait a minute what is a suspicious purchase
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this part of the plan being pushed by democratic candidates and the amalgamated bank of new york a
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progressive bank um this is according to cbs news now the letter drafted by elizabeth warren and uh
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blah blah blah came out back in june so the congressional pressure worked the new code has been approved
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but visa is not happy about it hmm in a letter obtained by cbs news sent by visa last wednesday
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in response to congressional democrats who supported the plan the company said we believe asking payment
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networks to serve as a moral authority by deciding which legal goods can or cannot be purchased sets a
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very dangerous precedent now wait a minute wait a minute that's visa you have this all wrong
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wait a minute you're just categorizing it's just numbers you're not tracking you're not being asked to
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do anything except if their suspicious activity reported and how what are you turning this into let me read
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this again from visa we believe asking payment networks to serve as a moral authority by deciding which
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legal goods can or cannot be purchased such a dangerous precedent gee this is almost like well
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esg where visa mastercard and american express will be told by their peers and pressured you know guys we
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can't do business with you if you're accepting these payments uh you know from gun stores if you're actually
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doing business with gun stores we can't do business with you we can't do business with you so is it that
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they're creating a national database which i've heard or is it what i don't hear they're creating a separate
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category that way no matter where you go if you're buying guns and ammunition at walmart
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i'm sorry your credit card can't be used here for that so they make it impossible for you to use your credit card
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to buy any kinds of guns gee what would be next on the esg scale so let me go back to this letter from cbs news
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that was sent by visa last wednesday we believe that asking payment networks to serve as a moral
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authority by deciding which legal goods can or cannot be purchased sets a dangerous precedent we understood
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amalgamated banks request to be justified at least in part as by an interest in blocking transition
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transactions that would fall under such a new category and visa's rules expressly prohibit
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blocking of legal transactions under an mcc so they're saying they're having the balls to come out thank
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you visa having the balls to come out and call a spade a spade look this is what they want
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they're going to block the next step is to block all transactions for firearm or an or ammunition and it
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will all be tracked oh well i'll just pay for it in cash no now there's a new little special rule here
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that all transactions all transactions are going to be watched
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now the president and ceo of amalgamated union bank we all have to do our part to stop gun violence
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and sometimes it starts with illegal purchases of guns and ammunition right the new code will allow us
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to fully comply with our duty to report suspicious activity and illegal gun sales why are we do when
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you're going out and you're buying a gun as a drug dealer do you use your amex centurion card
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this action answers the call of millions of americans who want safety from gun violence
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and we are proud to have led the broad coalition of advocates shareholders and elected officials that
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achieve this historic outcome boy it doesn't seem like amalgamated bank thinks this is a small deal
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priscilla sims brown she's the ceo recently appeared on cnbc where she was asked about her efforts to
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push the new category code quote if we did have a merchant code for gun stores we could detect patterns
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that would indicate that there had been something unusual going on so now we're not looking for individuals
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we're looking for patterns hmm she says all the banks will do is file a suspicious activity report
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at which point it will be up to local or federal law enforcement to act on those reports huh so who's doing
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the follow-up where are you sending that exactly and if that's the case why is visa concerned about the
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attempt to block transactions using these codes this is more than just an official registration because
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that's what i hear people say oh you can't do that that's to be a that'd be a that'd be a federal
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registration no it's worse than that this is the great reset this is and they are openly
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a visa warning us they didn't want to go along with it and then suddenly they said oh no wait we
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misunderstand we're fine where's the pressure coming from is it the banking industry is it the government
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government or is it both esg and the great reset is the mob it's the mob uh you want some protection i
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don't know if i can i don't know if i can protect you you know yeah a lot of a lot of guys want to do
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you in uh you know you don't you don't want to come and be play on our side i don't i don't know i just
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ask you for this one small favor that's all i ask you and then we can protect you that is what's
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happening all right um hi pat hi glenn yeah that was i was happy yeah it's happy stuff well have you
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heard that every day though have you heard that explanation of it yet no yeah no have you even
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heard that visa was like uh i know warning warning warning no and then all of a sudden no i i don't
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know what you're talking about visa is fine i just left their house now they they've had a couple of
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broken legs they were in uh some sort of an accident one of them fell out of a window but uh they're fine
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now that's what happens in russia all the time all the time yeah oligarchs falling out windows yeah
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wow are they clumsy yeah wow it's weird it's weird really is yeah it's almost like stay away
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from the window you know what i mean right right yeah what was that movie the calls coming from inside
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the house yeah that's i think we should probably remember you're listening to the best of the glenn beck
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program this is the glenn beck program so welcome to the program and welcome back i've been gone if you
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didn't know i've been gone for about a week and i have a real clear perspective on uh the next chapter
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of of of our lives together um and it's good and we have to focus on that because i do believe
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we're running out of time and things are being set into place that are really dangerous very very
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dangerous um the visa just last wednesday said no we can't implement these things you know and make uh
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gun sales or ammunition sales a separate category because you know we can't be the moral authority
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that decides to ban things that's got to come from government well then they changed their mind now i
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don't know what happened i'm sure they just they went to sleep and nobody called nobody threatened nobody
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did anything they just mr visa i mean he puts his pants on just like you and he went to sleep in his
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enormous bed and then mr visa got up and said you know what i've completely changed my mind i know i
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read an open letter to the government saying that we can't do this but i've had a really good night's sleep
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and so now i'd like to reverse myself uh there's some things that are going on that are are really bad and we
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have two ways to that we could deal with it can we play the second clip from uh 2009 my fox show
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introducing the the 912 project i want you to listen to a specific part of this go ahead please
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meanwhile over four million friends and neighbors have lost their jobs in the last four months alone
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means that we always thought described american strength at stocks that are now worth less than a
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frappuccino and we're all told they're just too big to fail yet 70 percent of all jobs are created by
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the small businessman and nobody seems to even notice him what happened to the country that loved the
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underdog and stood up for the little guy what happened to the voice of the forgotten man the forgotten man
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is you the voice that no one seems to hear just quietly saying enforce the law take responsibility
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for yourself you can't have it all and anybody who promised you that was a liar current economic downturn
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worst economic crisis worst month of job loss but something is happening in america paradise about to
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change your friends and neighbors republicans democrats independents they're all beginning
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to wake up and wonder how did this happen to us
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september 11 2001 we came together and we promised ourselves that we would never forget
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on september 12th and for a short time after that we really promised ourselves that we would focus on
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the things that were important our family our friends the eternal principles
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that allowed america to become the world's beacon of freedom i can hear you the rest of the world
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and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon
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so once again america has a choice tonight we can choose to be the americans of september 10th with our
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heads buried in the sand we could be the americans of september 11th who were unprepared and then
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paralyzed by fear despair or anger or we could choose to renew the promise that we all made to
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ourselves by the end of this hour you will be asked once again choose so it's interesting to me this is
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this is right after 2008 when the economy collapsed and the the country went in a direction it had
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never gone in before and that was bail out the big guys they said these banks were just had grown to be
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too big then they were too big to fail well if that was true then why are there fewer smaller banks now
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and more these big banks have only gotten bigger that obviously isn't true that they thought that the
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that they were too big to fail they wanted the small guy to fail so they put all of their
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our tax money into the banking system into insurance companies into investment tools and businesses
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because they could not fail and we bought it but you can't play the same card twice
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so when 2020 came around they shut everything down and they didn't say it's too big to fail
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what they said was you're too small to be able to make a difference so we'll keep certain national
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businesses open but the result was the same what happened the little guy was crushed and the big guys
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who behind the scenes are playing all of the games that the government wants them to play they get saved again
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so you've had this game played on you twice i'm not sure what game is going to be played
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or what the presentation is going to be the next time but there will be another one and it will happen
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soon and it will be the same thing we're just trying to protect the system
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and uh so we have to do this and who will pay the price who will receive the punishment who will
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leave lose their rights you the little guy if you don't think it can happen then explain 2008 and 2020
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notice that i said back on that thing the same thing that we are saying today will someone enforce the law
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that was the first thing i led with isn't that weird will someone enforce the law you have to pay for your
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own mistakes you can't force me to do things and the government is growing out of control
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the last time we were here we tried to solve this politically and we saw how fast everything could
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become corrupt we we elected really good leaders we thought and then they went to washington and they
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betrayed us which led to donald trump who didn't betray was the only guy that is actually done
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what he said he would do during his first election he did it and that's why he had to be removed
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because he wouldn't play the game but who loses again you the little guy because we're playing
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i didn't know it at the time but the 912 project um i thought would play a big role
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and it did in some ways i think it tempered things i think it changed the course of a lot of people's life
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when we were doing it but i didn't lead it i didn't want to this had to be led by you and when i
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i just called on you to unite and bring back that feeling that is all but gone this september 12th today
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the 912 project the time where we didn't care who you voted for we didn't care what you believed
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we stopped people in the street and strangers and asked them are you okay
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that's our highest self but our highest self is not reached just because
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we're born that way we're not born that way natural man is the enemy of god natural man
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is about my stuff natural man is about protection and fear
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natural man is very unlike a child christ said come to me as a child
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well think about that you have to be taught to hate to be suspect to worry about somebody's
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color of their skin kids don't ever think that when you grow up you're taught that and we look for
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things that are different it's actually a life-saving mechanism we look for things that are out of place
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whether we know it or not things that are unlike what we know danger that's in us as a
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a species we are we're an animal animals do that
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see if these still ring true to you the nine principles
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america is good we may have made our own mistakes we may have gone bad but
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i have told you in the past that if we do not change this course we are going to make
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we will we will and it could be our side just as easily as the other side if we don't pay attention
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second principle is i believe in god and he's the center of my life do we believe that anymore
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third principle is i will try i must always try to be more honest than i was yesterday
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i put that in there because i knew honesty and integrity is a muscle that you have to exercise
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can you be more honest than you were yesterday the answer is yes
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my spouse and i are the ultimate authority not the government
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five if you break the law you pay the penalty justice is blind and no one is above it
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six i have a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness but there is no guarantee of equal results
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seven i work hard for what i have and i will share it with who i want to share it
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eight it's not an american for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion
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and nine the government works for me i don't work for them they answer to me
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those were the things that we said we really needed to center our life around those are the things
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that if we could as people who disagree on a lot of things could just come around
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these ideas we would be better off but it required us to have certain values to be able to actually
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execute those things you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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so i've had frank siller on the program i think a couple of times before i think it was
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uh november 11th uh in 21 that we last spoke on the air uh just full disclosure uh he runs the tunnel to for towers uh foundation
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tunnel to towers foundation and uh they are a sponsor on this program but that's not why i'm having uh frank on
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i i thought it was appropriate just to pause just for a second today and remember 9 11
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uh and let him do it because 9 11 changed his life and in that change he has changed so many people's
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lives welcome frank how are you uh glenn thanks for having me on again and i i appreciate it and you're
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right uh 9 11 uh did change my life and it changed the world like you said before in your introduction
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before and for someone to compare january 6 to 9 11 is just uh speaks volumes of how out of touch
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a lot of americans are um we lost 2977 souls on september 11th 2001 to change our way that we live every
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single day our security when you like you just said but as far as just flying uh is is different but
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there's so much more than that and um the truth of the matter is it changed the whole world and for
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not to teach it in schools is actually disgusting and we're not going to let it happen the tunnel to
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towers foundation you know we start the 9 11 institute where we have a full curriculum for students k through
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nine and you can download it you go to t2t.org you can download it you know different teachers can
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download it schools can download it but you know what most importantly parents can download it to
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make sure you're teaching it correctly in your own household because it up it is up to us as parents
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to make sure we tell the story so before we go any further on that could you just tell the story of
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of the beginnings what happened and how t2t tunnel to towers started and why your brother sure yes and
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thank you for asking that because anytime i get an opportunity to talk about my brother who was the
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youngest of seven kids and he was a lot younger than all of us uh is always an honor so steven new
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york city firefighter was just finished his night tour at squad one in brooklyn which is an elite squad
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uh that uh the elite firefighter squad anyway he was on his way home to play golf with me and my brothers
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and he heard on his radio scanner that the tower was hit and he turned his truck around went back
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to his firehouse his his company had already responded by the time he got back so he put his gear
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in his truck drove to the mouth of the brooklyn battery tunnel and for those listeners that don't
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know that tunnel connects brooklyn with downtown manhattan when you come out of that tunnel it's about
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a half a mile or so from ground zero steven uh drove to the mouth of the brooklyn battery tunnel it
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was closed for security reasons uh cars were abandoned people were running out away from the
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what what was they didn't even know the buildings hadn't even fallen yet but anyway steven strapped 60
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pounds of gear on his back and uh ran through that tunnel which is almost two miles long up west street
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into the south tower up the stairs and while saving others he gave up his life and when the his uh
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siblings myself my other there was six six of us that we said we had to do something to honor
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not just what he did but so many acts of her wisdom that day and that's why we started the tunnel to
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towers foundation you were one of the i think you are the best example of somebody who said
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this i'm never going to forget this changed my life and then you did it uh and you're still doing it and
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now tunnel to towers is a a monster organization that does so much good um and you've added now
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the 9 11 institute explain what you're going to be doing with this and what it is
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well you know we're we're blessed you know so glenn you you're correct we do a lot of things we're
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going to always take care of our country's most catastrophically injured service members
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we're going to build them you know smart homes mortgage-free if you're a gold star widow or
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foreign first responder widow and your husband or your loved one died in the line of duty and you
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leave behind a young family we're going to deliver you a mortgage-free home if you don't have it we're
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going to build it if you do have it we're going to pay off your mortgage but our first responsibility
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is to make sure that we never forget that's when we started the foundation we said
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first responsibility never forget and honor the sacrifice now we honor the sacrifice by doing good
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in the doing all this beautiful work that we're doing and the reason why we're successful glenn is
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because so many people are joining us on our mission because they see who we're helping the greatest
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of all americans those are willing to die for you and i but there's a whole generation that's not
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being taught you know what happened 21 years ago and you know i need my children to teach their
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children so their children could teach their children on what happened because number one
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it's a story that has to be told and number two we don't want it to happen again or maybe number
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two is number one we don't want it to happen again uh for sure so you gotta tell the whole truth and
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nothing but the whole truth that islamic terrorists killed 2977 americans they try to kill as many as
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as possible there's thousands have died since of 9 11 related cancers the people that were crawling in
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that rubble through bent steel looking for my brother their brothers still paying a price for it
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to this day dying of 9 11 illnesses many of which is rare forms of cancer and the 7 000 men and women
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who went to war to protect us so we didn't have another 9 11 here on our soil gave up their lives
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for our country we better take care of those families that are left behind and that's what we do with the
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tunnel to towers foundation we made a promise and so many people are joining us on that promise
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so you have an 83 foot tractor trailer uh that is an interactive exhibit you know the walls open up
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etc etc it's full of facts but also 9 11 artifacts what what is in the truck well 9 11 steel uh different
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clothing stories helmets uh different apparatuses that firefighters and police officers were using that
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day and but most importantly the stories that go along with it uh it's incredible and who's telling the
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stories is incredible because these are my firefighter buddies every one of them i basically know many
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of them at a very personal level that go around with this exhibit and they tell the story of 9 11
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and we have a speakers bureau that we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of volunteers firefighters
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and police officers who lived in the first battle on the war on terror down at ground zero were there that
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day who will tell the stories of 9 11 so if you're a school or in a community and you need somebody
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to come in and tell the story of 9 11 we have a speakers bureau all you have to do once again go to
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t2t.org you it's the information's there you can request somebody to do it in person or virtually and
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we're going to make sure we continually get the story out of 9 11 and all the hero stories and where is
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the where's the never forget mobile exhibit where is that going and or how do you get it to come to
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your town or once again go to t2t.org and request it and and so um where we have it uh it's all over
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the united states it's it's i think it's in arizona today as a matter of fact uh but it's all over uh the
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united states and uh we've been doing we've been having the mobile exhibit we've been using for years
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uh but we have not had the speakers bureau uh ever really before and now of course with the
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uh the tunnel to towers 9 11 institute we rolled out this week we've been playing it for years
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but we have uh we we really have put together a comprehensive uh curriculum but that we're really
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really proud of and it's also you rolled out the uh financial scholarships to children of the the
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program how how that you just outlined that uh this weekend did you not just well yeah those
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scholarships will go to the families that were helping um for that prepare preparing to go into
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college and it's named after my other brother not the brother that ran through the tunnel but my
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oldest brother russell died a couple years ago i had a battle with alzheimer's and um he was our
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spiritual leader at the foundation uh he brought many uh things to us that keeps us on the right
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spiritual road to make all the decisions uh that we have and he was the one because my my youngest
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brother steven the firefighter died 9 11 our parents died when he by the time he was 10 years old my brother
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russ uh really was like a second father to him i mean we all were we all played a major role
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in his upbringing and my sisters were like second mothers uh to to my to my brother um but my brother
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russ so we named the scholarship after uh my brother russell sulla frank siller a name that i think most
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americans don't know but should um he is the uh chairman and ceo uh of tunnel to towers foundation and i urge you
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to go to t2t.org see if you can help see if you can get involved but get the curriculum and start
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teaching it to your children get it into your private schools you know get it into your public
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school if you can um you know that would be a real blessing but i i you know good luck with that um
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frank thank you for everything that you do thank you very much and remember eleven dollars a month
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that's what you ask for eleven dollars a month they can really make a tremendous difference in
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all these great heroes families that are left behind who died for you and i so thanks for having