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We have some amazing stories of media malpractice, including one about a man who was edited to make someone in the Trump administration look bad. We also have some interesting information on UFOs and the government saying it's true.
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welcome to the podcast we have some amazing stories of media malpractice today including
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chuck todd who i mean it was so bad they actually had to apologize for it but you need to hear how
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bad the edit was that they made try to make someone in the trump administration look bad
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um we also have some interesting information on ufos and there's you know it's maybe the most
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interesting part of it is where it's coming from i mean it's the government saying it's true we'll
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get into that as well also um we're going to talk about the tara reid interview with megan kelly that
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happened over the weekend i think we have megan kelly on tomorrow's show uh to talk about it but
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uh there's more you know she came off as pretty credible what do you think about it and also
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carl manke he's the owner of a barber shop in michigan he is saying you know what i can't stay
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home anymore we've got to open up even though they're supposed to stay home no matter what
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he's facing uh a legal showdown as well over this trying to put food on the table for his family
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and uh and make ends meet and we'll get into that as well today uh the blaze tv.com slash glenn deal
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welcome to the program on friday i took a show we were doing uh lightly i happen to believe what
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carl sagan was true if we're alone in the universe it's a colossal waste of space um i don't believe
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we're alone in the universe but i'm also not somebody who's like we gotta go to area 51 and get
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those bodies and resuscitate them um i i don't know what i believe on ufos some of them i'm like i
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don't know could be something the governments are developing you know i don't know i'm not an expert
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in this well we had two experts on on friday's program on our television show the um glenn beck
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exclusive on blaze tv and it was hair raising first guy was with the intelligence uh community
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i think he was director of intelligence for um clinton and george w bush the other guy was the man
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appointed to the role to look into ufos by general petraeus and i asked them at the very beginning
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i said why is this all of a sudden coming out and why is the pentagon releasing stuff and they said
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well the pentagon actually hasn't really released uh the stuff until this week they have come out and
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they've said three pieces of film that you have seen uh are legitimate and they have no idea
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what they are um they are officially unidentified flying objects the reason why they're doing this
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is really important and i'll get to that here in a second let me show you one clip this is the one
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that came out early 2000s this was after 9-11 and uh one of our one of our ships caught this
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particular ufo and it doesn't look like anything here but what it does is remarkable it is something
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the first time that we had caught an unidentified flying object on awack uh on uh ship radar the the
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best radars we have it locked onto this both the ship and the plane the instrumentation
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on the fighter jets that were dispatched to it also locked onto this uh and you had i think eight
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eyewitnesses as well who were in the jet so this is the first time we had documented where the people
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and the instruments all said the same thing and the reason why this is so significant
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is because we were war gaming and this was uh engaging almost in a dogfight uh i had not heard this part
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of the story uh but i had heard that there are these coordinates when you know when they say we're
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going to dogfight they dogfight over an area and then there's like a safe zone it's outside of the
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war gaming area and i had heard that when we had locked onto it and started to really get close
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it went to the safe zone which to me would say um you know we don't want to fight we're just we're not
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here to fight we're not hostile that's not what happened what happened is it went to the exact
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coordinates of the center of the dogfight the the top secret coordinates that only the the fighters
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had been given in a briefing so and i said to him what are the odds that that was you know by chance
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and they said zero zero it was a message and the guy from the dia said it was a very clear message
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now in the interview i found out why it's very clear and why this is starting to happen now why are we
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starting to see more of this stuff and talk about it because they said things have changed not only can
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we verify now but um they are targeting and examining and dogfighting if you will in very aggressive
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manners our ships our military and we assume it's happening to others but it's definitely happened
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with the united states uh with our military and our nuclear missile silos they have been tracked
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this this one that i just showed you if you're watching blaze tv they tracked it for six days for six
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days here's another one this is can you go to the this one see this one over this is about 50 feet
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in diameter and it's flying just over the surface of the ocean they're going to try to capture it here
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now the reason why they're celebrating it is traveling at about 2 000 miles an hour
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and they're a 50 foot object moving that fast hard to grab onto but they got it now watch
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there's no system of propulsion it stops at one point dead stops and hovers and then it goes from zero
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so i said so why so why are we why are why is the pentagon telling us this they said because
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we don't know if it's a threat but it has to be thought of as a threat until we know what it is
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and they are convinced it does not come from earth because there's no technology that's even close to
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this we're the leader in this kind of technology but even if somebody else was surpassing us with
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secret research everything that they would be producing would be so radically different because
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of the advancement of this technology this is a hundred times more than what we could even
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imagine at this point and apparently we have pieces of some of these things and the alloy is not from
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and they think that we need to wake the american people up because we are being probed
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what do you think of that i got it makes me question i mean if they're that advanced
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they already know what they can do right why would they be probing us testing us they already know
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i mean so yeah i think it's a good thing that we've not been destroyed already
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he's right he he said that's the message that he thinks they're trying to send don't even
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don't don't mess with us they they were like there's no way they could get those coordinates
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those are the most sophisticated encryption uh devices we have there's no way somebody could get
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those coordinates and they had them and he said by the way they're dog fighting and he said it is
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happening every day all the time really and he said yeah and he said the way they are pursuing us
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is hostile in nature but trying to show us you don't have a chance you don't have a chance
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whatever maneuver you do we beat you huh which is again if they wanted to shoot down our planes
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they could have but they haven't so wouldn't that yeah i don't know wouldn't that tend to make you
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believe that their their intent is not hostile it would for me yeah i would hope that they've watched
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star trek and they're you know doing the the you know what is the united federation planets and
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yeah the prime directive prohibits them yeah interfering in our in our affairs and they
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and they're only gonna help us uh you know please suck all of our politicians up into the sky
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please yes it would be fantastic yes and suck the virus up in the sky while while you're at it
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suck that back up with you too that would be great yeah thank you so bizarre bizarre really weird but
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really fascinating going from zero to six thousand and you would think outside of the atmosphere and
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since they got here from somewhere else and there's nowhere in the neighborhood that's uh
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that's uh inhabited they must have better technology even than we're seeing here oh yeah
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i mean way better have to yeah have to but i mean there's nothing that there's no alloy there's
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no metal there's nothing let alone bags of water that can take that kind of g-force yeah nothing
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yes and he and they said that there's no i mean when you hear these guys talking you have just
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if you're not a member of the blaze subscribe to blaze tv there's a 10 minute clip on my youtube page
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um but uh but but watch this it is absolutely incredible tanya i said to her on friday i said
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just did a show on you we've got to watch it with the kids we got busy we didn't watch it and i said
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to uh i said to tanya she said oh it's like midnight 12 30 and she said we didn't watch that
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uh ufo thing i really wanted to see it and i said uh i'm just gonna watch it here as we fall asleep
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you you know watch she started watching it became wide awake and was like whoa whoa wait a minute
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what i think we should watch this with the kids uh it's it's phenomenal it's phenomenal really and so
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the pentagon must be somewhat concerned that they are in fact there might be hostile hostile intent
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there though right it sounds like it sounds like as they said as they said because i tried to get
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them to say a few things because it was clear what they were saying um you know that it wasn't from
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here and the way they were talking about the dog fights and everything else and i said so
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it how do we know if how do we know the intent and they kept saying we don't know how it even works
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we don't know what it is so we have to assume it's a tent as warriors and protectors we have to assume
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that it is hostile they said it's it's like if you locked your doors and windows put on all the alarms
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had guards around your house and in the morning you woke up and there were muddy footprints across your
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carpet and everything no one reported anything you would say okay guys what happened and you'd go
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that's weird but if it kept happening and muddy footprints you would say guys there's something
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in my house i don't know what it is i know it sounds crazy but i have to look at this as a threat to my
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children why is it here what is it yeah and what is it that's the way they're looking at him what is it
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that they have pieces of that they're analyzing and trying to figure out didn't say so you don't
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know if it's aircraft or the allies no they said they had the al they had pieces of the metal of the
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alloys and they said it's not it's got an extra neutron it's not from these parts wow and they don't
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they they said they don't even know how to reproduce it does that mean that something one of them has
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crashed here and don't i didn't they didn't say they wouldn't answer i said well wait wait what
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it was how is it and they they wouldn't say they weren't really they weren't intentionally they
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didn't seem like they were trying to throw anybody off or they just were very very good at not telling
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secrets you know yeah they're just good at this and i have to tell you it reminded me and tell me if
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this isn't exactly from the war of the worlds broadcast in 1939 in war of the worlds orson wells
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opened up that broadcast with this paragraph listen to this we now know that in the early years of the
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20th century this world was being watched closely by intelligences far greater than man's and yet as
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mortal as his own we now know that as human beings human beings busied themselves about their various
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concerns they were scrutinized and studied perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might
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scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water with infinite
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complacence people went to and fro the earth about their little affairs serene in the assurance of
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their dominion over this small spinning fragment this fragment of solar driftwood which by chance or
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design man has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space yet across an immense ethereal gulf
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minds that are to our minds as ours our to the beasts in the jungle intellects vast cool and
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unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us
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now i don't know about the last couple of lines but everything else is exactly what we're experiencing
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right now last week was a very big day uh or a very big week for ufo supporters uh and should have been
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front page news because for the first time pentagon verified yes they're out there and we have no idea what they are
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several years ago i uh talked about run from your church if your church church is teaching social
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justice run from your church uh social justice does not exist in god's world there is only two kinds of
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justice there's god's justice which is absolute permanent and fair and just then there's man's
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justice man's justice goes from anywhere from you know stalin and the red trials to
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honest people gathering together trying to really find the answer putting it through a court of law
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and come what may that's what happened okay but that's not perfect it's not perfect social justice
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is yeah well if he didn't do this he did something else it doesn't matter what we get him on he's a bad
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guy they're good no matter what they've done they're good because they've had problems in their lives
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and so we'll get this bad guy yeah i know he didn't do this but he's done something else that's where
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the mentality is with donald trump they don't care what he actually did they just got to get him on
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something that's what they did with michael flynn they didn't care what the truth was they just needed
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to discredit him and get him out because social justice demands it mike pence you know last week the
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story broke that uh he was delivering these empty boxes of ppe's no if you actually look at the
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videotape no he wasn't no he wasn't but the new york times and everybody else reported that those
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were empty boxes no they weren't you didn't even check because it doesn't matter empty box i don't
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know i heard it i didn't check i mean that's probably what they do anyway and if they didn't do that
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they're guilty of something else anyway this is dangerous this is why you do you know that um
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do you know that joe biden if he were in college he would be found guilty of rape under his title
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nine standard that he and obama put in his his life would be over because of the standards he said
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you have to uphold in colleges and universities he's his life would be over
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so why isn't anyone talking about wait a minute this is what he did in title nine
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and if we don't agree with him here what about all those poor kids that are in college that are being
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accused and convicted of rape socially with social justice yeah they don't go to jail oh well you don't
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but nobody's talking about that why because it's connected to politics
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do you know that the majority of americans still believe the now debunked dossier from steel and say
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that that that was real that real stuff in it about trump and russia no it didn't no it didn't
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but now 53 percent of americans believe that this discredited document had real stuff in it no that
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was real no no and you know why they believe it because they want to believe it and the media
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enables them the need media divides us let me give you another story there is a uh there's a story now
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and this is the headline comes from the daily mail shocking video shows white cop repeatedly beating
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a black man for not social distancing this is in jersey city the police officer who is white
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repeatedly hits the man who is african-american while he's pinned to the ground now activists are
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calling for the cops to be fired the film was the clip was filmed by a witness captured by a man trying
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to raise his arms to protect his face according to the activists who shared the activists who shared
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the details of the incident 20 cops showed up because they weren't social distancing well if you
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actually watch the whole video no it wasn't that they were not social distancing they were in a brawl
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the cops came in to break it up now i'm not defending this one cop but this isn't about white cop
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comes for social distancing and beats man half to death that's not what it is this is an out of
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control group of people cops are called they try to break it up one cop goes too far maybe maybe not
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you'd have to decide to me it looks pretty bad for the cop that's a totally different story
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but they have to keep us divided here's a here's one uh try this the the uh
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the opinion in the new york times how sweden is dealing with coronavirus
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swedes aren't battling coronavirus with broad lockdowns no president trump has described the
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pandemic as our war with the invisible enemy the coronavirus that war metaphor is wrong and
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misleading okay wait a minute so you're holding up sweden saying that they didn't put any of these
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draconian things they kept their businesses open that's the exact opposite of what you're saying that
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donald trump is doing which you're saying he's not doing enough of and by the way stew how sweden stack
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up next to us aren't we we do pretty well actually against them uh our our numbers and our results
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have i would say be been better uh in a in a pretty significant way yeah well let me just give you from
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johns hopkins university an authoritative voice the united states has stronger performance in preventing
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the deaths than sweden number one belgium span uh spain italy in the united kingdom france and the
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netherlands but 38 of americans think that we are doing far worse why is that because the media has
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one goal now a third of americans may refuse a coronavirus vaccine says a new poll well you don't
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think they're going to let you walk around without a virus do you and or without a vaccine and if you
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have a vaccine and you won't take it you're an immediate anti-vaxxer well why is it that people don't
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trust the vaccines because we don't trust the press when they're debunking things we don't trust the
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press to tell us the truth and we certainly don't trust the government
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it leaves us in a world where republicans don't care about this stuff so it's just a unilateral weapon
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that's used against democrats trump rides the bus with the bus with billy bush and we throw al franken
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under it i don't know if you've noticed but america's turned into a failed state that has done a worse
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job keeping its citizens alive during the pandemic than cambodia unbelievable to me that's a little more
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important than tara reeve tara reed achieving closure wow okay now why does this matter
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well because there's two ways when people in power have truth and it's different than the actual truth
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there's only a couple ways you can go you can do your part to try to convince people you can check
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your own credibility and say okay so what is it that we have done that makes people believe this about us
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but the media hasn't done that and neither has washington so okay uh social media have they
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checked themselves nope nope they've doubled down now they've got teams of people from the institutions
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we don't trust editing us the the head of product of youtube says that people in their basement they
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can't have opinions on smart stuff on news what do they know excuse me that you built your platform
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for those people you gave people a voice and now you're shutting them down because you don't like the
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truth because somebody that the rest of america doesn't trust says to you they've got to come to us
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for that news oh okay so they can check themselves but they're not doing that or they can start to
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become draconian on any other voice and silence those voices
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well they've already started but remember it's suggest shove shoot now we're already at the
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shove part they're now demonetizing they're now calling you all kinds of names they're making you into a
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pariah they're doing everything they can to shove you into silence the next one is well this story
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on april 24th natali lev uh levveda a chief emergency medical service uh service uh training base for
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russian astronauts fell out of a window at the hospital she was being treated for for covid 19
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infection and she died next the top doctor at a hospital in siberia fell out of a window during a
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conference call at her hospital and died may 1st the next day an ambulance doctor fell from a second
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story window in the hospital where he had work where he was given treatment for covid 19
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russian authorities are investigating all three incidences really are they are they they have a
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problem with the windows in russia the first doctor was on a conference call with the top russian health
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official about plans of turning one of the buildings of her medical facility into a coronavirus ward
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she vehemently disagreed with the idea and then fell out of the window
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the other one posted a video online the day he was admitted for the coronavirus care complaining that
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he had been forced to work despite contracting the disease he then later retracted his comments on video
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people for some reason just think these things don't happen they think that obama plotting
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with our former attorney general and heads of intelligence james clapper
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they they just think that there's no way he would ever do this but they'll believe that from any
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republican but no way he would do it they're people gang they're people who like power they're people who
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will do anything to run for president and become president they're not normal no normal human being
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says i'm willing to put my family through this you have to really believe in something and so what is it you believe in
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well barack obama believed that america was not a great place the way it was and he needed to be fundamentally
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transformed and he was the first president that was actually able to do something about it and he wasn't going to have
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somebody change all of the policies so when he left yes it makes sense that he would do that
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feeling justified because they all believe the same thing and they all believe the other people were stupid
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you need to find sources of truth you need to learn how to do your own homework you need to not accept
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things that people if you happen to agree with me like me do not accept them on face value do your own
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homework a i can and have gotten it wrong at times b i want you to call me out when we have it wrong because
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it keeps me honest no one is calling the media out that they care about
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that's the problem government and the media have become one they're not afraid of you
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welcome to the glenbeck program it is monday i can't wait to talk to this guy he is uh he's the
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owner of carl manke's barber and beauty shop he's in oasso uh michigan he has been told that he has to
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close his business uh he said and i want to quote him he said i'm not trying to be a scofflaw which is
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one of my favorite words from the prohibition era uh i'm just trying to make a living i tried for
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unemployment i was denied twice on unemployment i haven't seen any one of those other checks from
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the government so last week he opened up and he was told you have to close down don't come back
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here monday um i want to give you i want to give you what the court said or what the governor's office
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said mr manke has been given every opportunity to voluntarily comply with the governor's executive
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order in the order of michigan's department of health and services director as a result of his
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continued operation today his business was deemed an imminent danger an imminent danger to public
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health in order to be shut down by the dhs director if he refuses the department of attorney general will
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request an order from the uh county circuit court on monday to close his business mr manke's actions
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are not a display of harmless civil disobedience his actions are counterproductive to the collective
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effort businesses and communities everywhere have made to slow the spread of covid19 and by opening
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the doors to his business he's putting the lives of many more michiganers uh at risk
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he said to us on friday he was opening up he had no intention of keeping his doors closed let's talk to
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him now on this monday morning how are you sir very well carl uh it's great to talk to you uh did you open
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your business today i i most certainly did okay i did i hope my tell me i had uh six or eight
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troopers that came in here last friday i believe it was the days are kind of starting to kind of
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mull together but i believe it was friday they were kind of handpicked by the governor you know i don't
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think anybody wanted to do it but they had eight uh troopers that came in here and i'm a family shop
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you know i've got i had a mom in here with quadriplets and they're bouncing around playing
00:32:57.740
you know one thing and another the best they can and of course everybody you know else that's in
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here they're all family people and they had this show of force it was really kind of uh it was awkward
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in so many ways you know but uh i was respectful to them you know i i had a matter of fact i had a
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state policeman in my shop at that time waiting to get a haircut so you know he's kind of watching
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told me at that time so governor had to handpick those people he says nobody else would have wanted
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to do it so he says they were pretty well picked out who she wanted to to do that stuff so yeah it
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was kind of kind of comical so carl you said you're not trying to poke fun at the law you're not trying
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you're not trying to make light of this situation tell me about that no no no no listen i'm i've been
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a law-abiding citizen my entire life and when the legislative branch said that they had decided that
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she can't do this she's gone over her 28 days she defied them she broke their law then and decided
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that she was going to arbitrarily fall back on on a 1945 law that you know gave her eminent power
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you know and uh no you know i really i'm not uh i'm not here to to uh create a big ruckus i came
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in this barbershop a week ago on monday you know and uh i was a concern i was afraid i was fearful
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but you know i couldn't go another 30 days without an income you know i'd already gone from march 21st
00:34:38.100
until the first of may that six weeks i went you know and i could not i couldn't go another month
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you know i have bills to pay i have obligations you know and uh i just couldn't do it so i decided
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you know i'm i'm going to that that old serenity prayer you know god grant me to accept the things i
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cannot change and the courage courage to change those things that i can and the wisdom to know
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the difference and i've uh that prayer has been in my life for quite a few years and you know i i took
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that courage and opened my shop and uh i thought i'm going to twist in the wind here by myself you
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know i thought but i'm going to i'm going to stand my ground and i have had thousands thousands and
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thousands of people you know just supporting me it's unbelievable it's overwhelming the support that
00:35:31.280
i've gotten in this and i'm not a scufflaw no i'm not you know and i made the statement that i would
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uh i'd close my shop the day they they come in here with handcuffs or jesus comes one or the other
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whichever comes first you know i'd close my shop but until that time i'm open
00:35:47.440
so carl what do you expect they they said on friday that if you don't comply they will charge
00:35:58.880
you with contempt of court and uh they'll close you down today well you know i i had an attorney
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come forward he's uh he's pretty good you know and he's so far he's been able to hold them off so
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i'm not that's the legal end of it you know and that's i'm a i'm a barber by trade by profession
00:36:17.060
i'm not a lawyer i can't make those kind of decisions at all you know and i don't even know
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you know how the law stands i just have a sense a common sense that there is no way that a
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government you know i've been under 14 different presidents i'm 77 i was born in 1942 so i'll be 78
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pretty soon and you know i've never had this kind of oppression in my life not even during the 60s
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you know during those oppressive days back then and it was funny because the democrat party at that
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time they were the ones who were for uh equal rights and civil civil rights and freedom of speech
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and now it's completely turned around where we have this oppression coming from the left i i don't get
00:37:00.780
it i i mean they've just completely done a turnaround you know and it's uh it's not my uh it's hardly my
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country anymore in so many different ways you know it's going to have to be these younger people are
00:37:12.920
going to have to pick up the baton you've seen younger people um supporting you oh heaven yes i
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got them sitting right here i'm looking at them you know these guys are all yeah they're all younger
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than me i mean they're all younger than me but there i do i have some young guys here probably
00:37:31.460
in their 20s early 30s you know that there's one lad over here he looks like he might be in about
00:37:37.180
eighth grade you know so he's yeah i do i have a whole bunch of people here that are just uh
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real happy about it yeah there you go keep your distance carl keep your distance um so so carl um
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you uh uh you're talking about the right to that you feel trampled on yes she would say i would assume
00:38:03.740
she would say you're trampling on people's rights to be safe how would you respond to that
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yeah i believe if people feel that they if they're so fearful you know that they can't leave their
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homes then i suggest that they stay in their homes but as an adult as an american adult you know i
00:38:22.520
believe that people can make their own decisions we have guidelines here you know we have the social
00:38:26.800
distancing here we got the chairs separated i got hand sanitizers i've got a sanitizer i keep my
00:38:32.400
equipment in i was spraying the chair down after every person you know and it's just that people
00:38:37.540
can they come in with a mask i can't cut their hair with very well with a mask some only want to leave
00:38:42.220
it on some take it off so you know it's it's as americans you know i believe that we have as long as
00:38:49.000
we have those guidelines and we're following them you know if they can do it in the walmart stores they
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can do it the kmart stores they can do it in the grocery stores you know then i believe that i'm
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being discriminated against if they think that my clients are so immature that they can't handle this
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you know so i believe that as americans we have this right she's not my mother by any stretch by any
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stretch of the imagination i mean i'm sure her mother loves her and yesterday she probably celebrated
00:39:15.020
mother's day but i've been in business longer than she's been alive and there's no way that i'm going
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to close my business down you know for i i get this sense and i'm not sure i'm right or wrong but i get
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this sense that every time the the washington administration kind of chides her a little bit
00:39:32.820
she digs her heels in i believe she has and i can only assume this she wants to be a rock star
00:39:39.640
in the democrat party and she's going to show her base how tough she is and i'm just a little guy here
00:39:45.160
in a while from michigan but i'm going to hold my ground i don't care you know how is she
00:39:49.820
how is she perceived how is she perceived carl up um is your is your net wide enough to be able to
00:39:58.960
talk to all kinds of different people and and and how do you think people in michigan are reacting to
00:40:04.820
her i had a group out here yesterday or a day before yesterday that had signs democrats against
00:40:13.000
whitmer so that was the democrats against our governor and there was a whole group of them
00:40:20.080
out there so you know i don't believe that she's getting the support that she is hoping to get
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i think that they you know that the people in michigan uh you know we're we're pretty independent
00:40:30.960
bunch here you know we're we're uh there are people that are fearful enough to stay in their
00:40:36.880
homes and that kind of thing but um yeah so i'm not going to live my life in fear there's enough
00:40:43.060
landmines i can step on you know inadvertently just walking out of my house any given day
00:40:48.280
so i've been through the swine flu i bet matter of fact i went through the polio scare back in the day
00:40:54.600
and i'm not diminishing any of these any at all but i do think you know with the precautions that are
00:41:00.360
laid out for the walmarts the kmarts the big box stores i can also comply to the same same
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standards carl you remind me of my father it is good to talk to you sir well it's good to talk
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you so much carl yeah i've been following your career for years yeah i'm behind you oh well thank
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you very much thank you very much we're behind you carl manke uh owner of carl manke's barber and
00:41:27.420
beauty shop up in uh in michigan i love that uh you know i do too what he i've been looking forward
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to this all weekend uh what he just said uh i i want you to recognize the language that he just
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used and how it probably resonated with you he kept saying you know there's this sense that i have this
00:41:47.880
i don't know i just i'm just applying common sense there's this sense that i have that is the
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revolutionary phrase that rocked the world that is what thomas paine wrote about common sense there's
00:42:04.380
this common sense that just says this isn't right that i i have these rights and you can't as the king
00:42:13.780
tell me that i can't do business or i can't do it this way or i can't trade my goods or i can't live
00:42:20.820
over here and mind my own business you can tell me that i can't kill people but you can't you can't
00:42:26.860
come round me up because i disagree with the king or i won't play by some of his rules that don't make
00:42:32.940
any sense carl that uh message that he just delivered is a modern day common sense