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On this episode of the Glenn and Wenndy Beck Program, we discuss the recent boating accident that took place in the great state of Texas and the response to it. Also, we talk about a new bill that passed in the Texas House and Senate that could affect gun control and the Second Amendment.
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today was a fun podcast you know but it gets that way you know when you have to work three
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solid hours you just don't care people out there don't understand what we go through every day
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they don't you know you're talking about three and now of course we should there's commercials
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there's news right i mean we're not all we're working like probably 70 minutes a day yeah and
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not hard i mean you know some of those minutes we work hard talking you try talking 70 minutes
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every day okay can't be done it's different that's why we're special we're special that's why
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that's why like we know when everyone else was restricted on covid we were able to go to the
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theater yeah we were able to go to the finest restaurants because we're special people
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either that or we live in texas oh yeah that's right that's that's what yeah we live in texas
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uh great show um ron desantis is on uh with us really solid interview with him also we tell you
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about this tragedy that has happened over several counties here in texas and only one guy was brave
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enough in the texas legislature to stand up and alert people to this you don't want to miss it in fact
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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we have brian uh slayton on uh he is a uh representative here from the great state of texas
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uh and he uh informed uh everybody including the federal government of some accident that happened
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here in texas and i just wanted him to you know tell you himself because it is i've never heard of
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anything like this uh and it's tragic very tragic brian welcome hello glenn thank you for having me and
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let me um tell you and your audience about this so uh you know as uh president biden and the atf and
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others have uh talked about gun control you know gun bans yeah uh making access certain accessories
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illegal um uh as i talked to people in my district in my own personal beliefs i was uh pretty troubled by
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that and as we were discussing that more and more people began to tell me uh that they had just
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you know lost all their firearms ammunition and accessories and a boating accident oh my gosh
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and so so i decided to inform them that there was a series of alleged boating accidents and
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hopkins and vandak counties and possibly some others might be your county i'm not sure well i don't know
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about others in my county but i know i had a horrible boating accident i had man i had a collection of
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guns and ammunition and it all went down and i don't remember what lake i was in or what county i was in
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but uh well yeah and that's not important the important thing is that you were affected by it
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and the next thing is that the federal government you know if they decide to do any gun buyback
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confiscation or anything like that there's no need to do it in these counties because we don't have any
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for them to keep up with so okay so um so that's where we're at if this is how they're going to treat
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the second amendment this is how i will treat their yeah um thoughts yeah now you know did you actually
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file something with the guard did you just is this just is this just a reporting from a good citizen
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there on on boating accidents no this is house concurrent resolution number 54 if this passes the
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house and senate it will be printed on official state parchment paper and sent to the president
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the speaker of the house and the vice president president of the senate i love you i love
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well like i said i i come from the school of thought that how you interpret the second amendment
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shall not be infringed right that's where i come from and it's pretty simple and as they're doing this
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we we have options we can complain we can write letters we can even get upset and angry but you know
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they they have so much i would say disrespect towards the constitution and bill of riots
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that i feel like they deserve some of this and who knows with the president's current mental state
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he may believe it in this emergency relief money i mean oh my god oh my gosh wait a minute hang on
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just say what do you mean he may believe it i i mean i did lose mine in a boating accident are you
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saying there's a chance these boating accidents didn't happen oh i mean we got a great chance here
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glenn right we really do okay all right because i've been so traumatized by that i haven't been
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on a boat ever since has there been an investigation as to why so many people are taking their firearms
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onto boats police are busy you know that is a great question but no one really goes any further
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uh i don't know if i should say it but it's kind of like if someone tells you that they have
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explosive diarrhea you do not follow it up with more questions you know someone tells you i've lost all
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my weapons but you just kind of stop and you're just like man i'm sorry to hear that yeah the
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tragedy takes over there it does i'm still i mean i'm experiencing a little ptsd just from this
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this conversation really now yeah i mean i lost them all stew oh no i don't know i don't want to get
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all weepy over it but i was thinking about suing somebody i just don't know who to sue you know
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glenn you know the best way to get over the you know mourning of losing a gun is to probably just go
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buy another one that you also lose in another boating well that's weird because that's exactly
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what happened oh no yeah i mean yeah again well why did you bring them on the boat the second time
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though that doesn't make it because i i mean what are the odds they all go down with a boat right you
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know what i mean you figured you were due to be able to not have an accident way it's going to happen
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two times lightning doesn't strike twice lottery ticket don't go buy a lottery yeah i know well i'm not
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and if i if i do win that lottery ticket though i'll probably buy more guns but i will hesitate
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to get onto a boat with all those guns smart yeah i will hesitate unless you get attacked on a boat
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then you're gonna wish you had your weapons maybe you should bring them when you should be safe when
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you propose this what are the odds of this thing passing well um the speaker of the texas house made
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a democrat chairman of the resolutions committee so we got our work cut out for us oh geez why
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why why would they do that why would the republicans in texas give committee chairs to the democrats why
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uh you know it's a great question um i think it just shows how much control the democrats still
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have over this body even after 20 years um i i think they have a lot of control in picking who our
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speaker is and i you know i help lead this charge and it's still no matter what we do it's a problem
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it comes back and um and anyway but we do me a favor just tell the just tell the speaker of the
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house he should never go boating with me because i'll tell you okay just it could be bad could be
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bad all right right thank you so much thanks for bringing attention to this yeah tragedy yeah
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tragedy i'm here for you guys thank you i appreciate it right brian slay slayton a texas state representative
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this is the best of the glenbeck program this weekend i'm going to see uh governor ron desantis he's
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going to be at our studios we're taping a podcast uh that will uh air march 13th uh and i i hope to have
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uh my uh wristband uh ww uh rd what uh d what would ron desantis do um because i
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hmm that's a little disturbing yeah well i mean we shouldn't elevate our politicians to that
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particular level no i'm not elevating them to that i my bar is pretty darned yeah no it's true i just
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want to send them to all 50 governors because i think the florida blueprint i don't know why it's
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not being copied everywhere especially with the success and track record uh that he has he has
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a new book out uh it is called the courage to be free and governor ron desantis is with us now
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hello uh governor how are you sir i'm doing great thanks for having me good how's your wife and
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children excellent good thanks for asking good um all right i i uh i want to talk to you a little
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bit about your book which is is not really kind of angst driven there's there's it's not um personal
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reflections on you know your childhood and oh my gosh i had this this is really just about the
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blueprint and how you did the things that you did correct yeah i mean i mean look glenn i came into
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office in 2018 having won by 32 000 votes half a percentage point and people told me hey you're in
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the typical the perennial swing state you barely got in you don't make waves uh trim your sales a little
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bit you didn't have such a close election and and i rejected that advice and my view was i may have
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gotten 50 of the vote but i earned 100 of the executive power and i am going to use that to advance an
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agenda that's in the best interest of the state of florida and i talk about how i how i did in
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different ways but but the end result was four years later uh i won re-election by 1.5 million votes
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uh and we've now turned florida into really the leading red state in america and people don't talk
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about florida as a swing state so the lesson i think for for other other governors other states you
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know boldness is your friend if you lead and you're doing what the people want you to do it doesn't
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matter what the media says about you it doesn't matter what the left says about you people see
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the results and they respond and it wasn't just republicans that voted for us in 2022 uh we had
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independent democrats uh and built a huge coalition i think that's replicable in these other states
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well i personally just i do have to i have one complaint with you and that is you've wrecked the
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home prices uh in florida for everybody who's outside trying to buy one so um anyway uh the uh when you
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say you know i have institutional power i have power of uh of the ceo if you will of the state
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but the thing i like about you and i'd like you to talk about it i know you talk about it in the book
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you're not being a dictator you're getting these things passed so you're changing laws how did you get
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the uh the house and the senate to work with you instead of just being a cowboy just blazing a trail
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and no followers well i point out that you know i get into office i'm the youngest governor in the
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country 40 years old and you know i had military background but i was a junior officer it's not like
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i commanded a lot of a lot of sailors um but i've learned from that structure you know i was never
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like a business executive but i think what i brought to the table was i had an understanding
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of the pressure points in a constitutional system it's just things that i had studied i had written
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about and of course i had been in the legislative branch at the federal level uh so i knew there
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were certain things i could do myself i knew there were certain things that i may need legislative
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concurrence for but they likely would have to give it based on what i was doing and then there were
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things i'd have to get the legislature uh to really come on my team for also how do you relate to
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local government one of the first things i did in florida when i became governor uh changed the
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election supervisors in south florida got rid of the sheriff of broward county who who bungled the
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parkland and then later i fired a george soros back prosecutor in tampa and so you have a sense of
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kind of where you can go so there are things you can do to leverage your institutional power
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that make it easier to be able to work with the legislature just for example we in florida have a
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line item veto president of the united states does not have that when it's we're in a legislative
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session these guys may have some projects they want in the budget well look i mean you know i have
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discretion about whether i approve them or veto them and you're much more likely to get your projects
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approved uh if you've been on the team and you're helping us uh fulfill our agenda so that's just one
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example where you have some ability to shape the battlefield in your favor yeah your book is called the
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courage to be free and i remember when you started walking out on covid that had to be terrifying and
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had everybody had to be around you going don't do it you don't know how this is going to work out
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but you did it where does the courage come from and how can others learn to have that kind of courage
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because in a situation like covid i mean it was mass hysteria uh but i said look i am the decider
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uh they elected me they didn't they didn't elect some health bureaucrat to run the state of florida
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i've got to make these decisions and i had to familiarize myself with the data and i had do and
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it was clear to me pretty early on that you know what this fauciism is not right it's not working
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it's destructive and there's a better path and i did not know how it was going to work out for me
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politically glenn in fact a lot of my supporters were very concerned i would get phone calls about you
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why aren't you imposing mass or why aren't why are you letting people you know go to theme parks
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or all this other stuff uh but i just told myself look my job is to protect the jobs of the people
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that elected me not to look after my own and if it doesn't work out for me so be it but i will be able
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to look in that mirror and say you know what uh when when it was hot in the kitchen you know i stood
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in there and i did what was right for the people of florida now it turned out that people respected that
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i stood up for them because they didn't have a voice really anywhere else and they ended up rewarding
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me but certainly in those early weeks and months um you know i was getting filleted more than any
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governor in the country i i was very popular going into covid i mean i don't do polls but i but everyone
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said my my popularity plummeted um and that's just the way it is but you know the the when you're
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in these things the daily kind of back and forth there are ups there are downs but the question is
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where is true north and are you going to be able to get to true north and i have to just block all
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that out and do what i thought was right what is your true north well well i think in this case the
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true north was i could not allow our society in florida to collapse under the weight of fauciism i mean
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we have a tourism-based economy we had so many people who depended on this state being vibrant i also
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had a lot of elderly people that we really concerned about and we did a lot to target whatever
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support they needed such as treatments and the like uh to do that uh but we had to keep things
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going i understood that um instinctively and we had to navigate very treacherous waters uh to be able
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to get that done now beyond that i mean what is true north i mean when i talk about the courage to be
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free what i'm what i'm recognizing is are the threats to our freedom are not just from bad government
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policy yes at the state level we are doing good policy we're protecting your freedom from the
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government of florida and that's important we're fighting back against biden and we're dealing with
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local governments when they get out of control very important but there's a lot of power being
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exercised in an ideological way by corporate america by big tech by all these other institutions
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and so when you recognize that and you stand up to fight against it they are not going down without a
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fight they come at you uh leadership is not cost free so you just have to understand that when you're
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going in that these are not easy fights uh that you are going to face blowback you're going to face smears
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but if you stand in there uh and you don't give an inch and you just keep speaking the truth
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people will respond and they will have your back and that's what happened in the state of florida
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you know the media could say by the time i i came up for religion the media could say whatever
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they wanted about me and our supporters did not believe a word of it right they had my back and
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they made sure that we want a historic victory let me ask you you know you in politics people care
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much less about the individual than they do the giant corporations because it's easier to raise money
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uh and you need those guys on on board you have taken all of the sacred cows and gone after them
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and you have also just you have the best legislation i wish i wish every state in the union would pass
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your legislation on esg it is the best and uh you've taken this on you've taken disney on
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where do you get your support just from the people or do you have uh institutional support
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are there people inside these institutions that are saying oh thank god yeah look i mean i think that
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when when we're talking about things like esg we are also in this legislative session we're going
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to eliminate the dei bureaucracies and all of our state universities and there's a lot of democrats
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glenn they can't say it but they don't like some of this stuff that's coming down the pipe they don't
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want their kid to have to uh potentially suffer negative consequences based on the color of their
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skin so so there is some there is some quiet support but you know what i found in terms of like
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stand it up to the big interest is at the end of because some politicians are like oh man i need
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to raise money from them i need this they're going to come after me all this stuff at the end of the
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day doing the good policy exercising the leadership to deliver the results that is more important than
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any campaign of financial support or any of that uh you know sometimes these these elected officials
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they think like okay i get in office and i need to raise money so i stay in office you don't need to
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do that if you're doing a good job then when the money comes in against you it doesn't work because
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people see the results and oh by the way even though i came into office uh standing up against
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big sugar which is a massively powerful uh interest in florida we fought disney we fought the
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pharmaceuticals we fought across the board i still raise more money than any governor candidate in the
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history of florida part of it we have a lot of grassroots part of it we had a lot of wealth moving
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into florida who basically said i need to sanus to be governor because if i just left new york or
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illinois i don't want to see florida turn into that so there was a reason why they did it but then glenn
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what happened is i flipped it around we run the show we run the agenda some of these these businesses
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and stuff they just want to they want to help me out because you know they don't want to be the next
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disney and so i think we've got it going in a good direction that's the way it should be
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don't be subservient to the chamber of commerce they should be coming to you asking you how they
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can help you not the other way around um i'm not saying that you're running for president but i'm not
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not saying that either um if someone like you were to run for president could this be done on a national
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level so i think all the ideas uh that we talk about in the book and the successes we have i do think
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there's a majority of the american people uh that would support it i mean you think about it florida
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has been a microcosm of the country for a long time you know we're winning places like miami-dade
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county you know that's going to bode well for for other parts of the country now if you talk about at
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the federal level there are certain things that may be easier actually to do because i think that with
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the vast administrative state if you have a determined executive uh who knows how to use those levers of
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power i think you could do a complete upheaval of the deep state i think there's a lot of things you
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could do from executive and administratively that will really get our country on a good footing now
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dealing with the congress is a little bit different than dealing with a state legislature i mean most of
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the citizens of florida don't know their legislatures that much they know me so what they want the
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republican voters like you better be supporting the governor you know as you get into washington some of
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these guys you know have their own brands and all that and i'm not saying it can't be done
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but you got to go into that with a with the right frame of mind and okay you know how do you corral
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these guys to be able to land uh really important legislative but you got to do both you can't just
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be successful on executive action and ignore the legislative and if you're successful on legislative
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you can't be somebody that's not willing uh to really go in and upend this entrenched uh highly
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politicized bureaucracy that's developed governor ron de santis the name of the book it came out
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yesterday already number one the courage to be free authored and this is very rare authored by him
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every word authored by him uh and uh we will see you saturday sir i have a lot more to a lot more to
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talk to you about uh and we'll do that podcast on saturday we'll see you then okay godspeed thank you
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welcome to the uh glenn beck program we're uh glad you're here hey there's a couple of really
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exciting things happening in washington uh the fcc the federal communications commission which uh
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uh is responsible for for setting community standards and enforcing uh you know laws that
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keep me from saying certain things and certain words on uh a broadcast this does not cover cable or
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clearly podcast just radio and television uh programs um we're getting a a new uh nominee there
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for the fcc uh name is uh gg soan and uh i like her i like her i like her a lot really oh that's
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good that's positive you know during the george floyd riots uh she was on the radio and she was asked
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you know what do we have to do to elevate all of this and uh she said what do we need what do we need
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i'm quoting we need a truth and reconciliation commission and i thought to myself amen sister
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amen that's what we need we need we need to reconcile with the truth she said we need to do
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what they did in south africa you know i was lucky enough to be uh in south africa after apartheid
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broke and you know it was right when south african president nelson mandela was in charge and
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it was fascinating to see a city that had been torn asunder trying to come back together again
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i i think that's what we need i i think we need to come to a common understanding of what the truth
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is right end quote yes see this why i like her because we're on the same page we both think we
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need to reconcile with the truth she said you know we also you know we look mitch mcconnell said the way
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we atone for original sin was by electing barack obama huh that guy we got to get rid of that guy
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see another reason i like i mean i agree with barack obama and mitch mcconnell uh she said uh i mean we
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have to have a real conversation about you know about race relations in this country we haven't had
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enough oh we haven't had enough finally glenn yeah how long have we been needing to start a national
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conversation about race because we've never discussed it before we've never discussed no one
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has ever brought it up no amen and every time something happens in this country colin kaepernick
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well maybe you could count colin he brought it up but you know people just ignored him yeah no one
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would talk about his incident no no one would talk about him taking a knee no one would obsess
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about it constantly on every television show for months and months and months at a time right
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and what we need in this country is a not a conversation but a national conversation about
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race more time spent talking about it we need a real national conversation a real national
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conversation yeah why don't we spend more time talking about skin color i will tell you why because
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she she says but that's not going to happen because it won't because we've lost the meaning of truth
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yeah we've lost what is true in this country about everything i mean the fact that there are still
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people in significant numbers who won't wear a gd mask which said that uh you know it's in you're not
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wearing a mask in a public place it's it's just unbelievable but there's one party only one party
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that doesn't care about the truth and uh i think that's the first thing that joe biden if if he gets
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elected he needs to have a truth and reconciliation commission you know and have people come and
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speak and talk about you know their experience and what is true and what is not so she's going to uh
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be overseeing the fcc which i think is great oh that's true how many times have we heard people say
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that oh we need a national conversation i'm so sick of the national conversation we don't need a
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conversation everybody i don't care who you voted for 90 only about 10 of crackpots on either side
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okay those people are the ones currently in charge everybody else doesn't need a conversation we got
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it we got it we got it yeah it's so true like laurie lightfoot lost we haven't talked about that
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what yeah they did one of those things where you had to be in the top two she finished in third place
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she's out how could that possibly have happened again we've never had a national conversation
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about race right right so which is weird because i will ask you right now what she's blaming the
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loss on and and you will know the answer race even though we haven't had a national conversation
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about race how is that possible how would you know the answer to that speaking the truth oh that's
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right because she's speaking the truth we're liars so i immediately go well she's probably speaking
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the truth it's about white people yeah tubed her the houston texans nfl franchise of course you know
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all the details of this but let me bore the audience or let me go through the audience and
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bore you with the story on here because you'll remember up on the uh houston texans so they have
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a really terrible year they hire a black coach why what have what's the discourse in the nfl espn all
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these places oh well they of course they give that job to a black coach because it's a terrible team
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so they go okay right all right hiring a black coach now bad because they're a terrible team and
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you're screwing over the black coach now huh he goes through a year of coaching the team sucks
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he gets fired what's the discourse of course they fire the black coach because they're racist then
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they hire they hire a black coach right i thought and he goes through a year and they suck again and
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they fire the coach and guess what they say i can't believe they fire a black coach they're racists
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and then once again they hire a black coach this is a franchise that has hired three consecutive
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black coaches in a country where 12 of the population is black and yet they're racists
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but we just haven't had a national conversation about race that would solve all this glad you're
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finally getting it i'm glad you finally are getting by the way you're reading let me just take a quick
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moment for this uh public service announcement cut one please have you ever boarded a plane and
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thought to yourself i hope the pilot is a transgender refugee have you ever gone to the emergency room
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and said i hope my medical team is incredibly diverse have you ever moved to a new city and said
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i hope the police department hit its equity goals for the year if your answer to these questions was
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no if you just wanted the most qualified candidates for the job then you are normal but we have a lot
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of very not normal people running america these days left-wing politicians believe skin color or gender
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identity should determine who gets the job democrats used to care about the middle class now they just care
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about your race and your gender and as long as democrats stay in power it will just keep getting
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worse stop the bigotry stop the insanity paid for by citizens for sanity i love the fact that they say
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stop the bigotry yeah because that's what it is it is that is what we're talking about here yes it is
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you know in a way we do need a conversation about race it just needs to be totally different
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you know we need to let me give you a conversation about race that we do need this is from a few
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years ago uh actor morgan freeman you may identify him as black i don't know how he identifies
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himself but this is morgan freeman on 60 minutes talking about black history month history month you
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find ridiculous why you're going to relegate my history to a month oh come on what do you do with
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yours what which month is life history month well come on tell me well i'm jewish okay which month is
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jewish history month now there isn't one oh oh why not yeah do you want one no no no i i don't either
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i don't want a black history month black history is american history how are we going to get rid of
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racism and stop talking about it i'm going to stop calling you a white man yeah and i'm going to ask
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you to stop calling me a black man i know you as mike wallace you know me as morgan freeman you
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want to say i know this white guy named mike wallace you know i'm saying i mean god do we need a dose of
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that we need that put into the veins of every citizen in this country right now that attitude
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is exactly what solves this problem and we had gone such a long way to solving it until the left
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decided to rip rip us out of the jaws of victory and deliver us to the agony of defeat can we go
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through something real quick you and i did this earlier this morning uh before we were on the air
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can we just go through what is the cause of all of the strife of all of these problems what is the
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cause is it america is it american history let's let's just look at the most where the most turmoil
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comes from look at the last 10 years how many absolute crisis have we that seems like a ton over and
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over and over again it's a national embarrassment crisis whatever before 2010 it was 2008 the banking
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crisis before then it was 2001 the 9 11 9 11 before that it was gulf war gulf war the first gulf war
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1990 yeah and then it was probably before that the real crisis when we thought we'd be vaporized
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under reagan in cold war 82 or 80 81 or 82 and that was sort of right on the heels and right in the
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middle of the inflation uh debacle and the the after uh after effects of carter correct okay and that
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came on the heels of watergate which came on the heels of assassinations assassination of of three
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you know three major people in a decade think of from this time period then the next time period you
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find like this is in the 1960s everything's on fire everything is on fire 1950s it wasn't like that
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1940s we were putting the fire out the 1930s under fdr everything was on fire everything
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okay let's go before that then it was the roaring 20s had its scandals etc but wasn't bad until who
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the progressive which are wilson everything was on fire there is a pattern here when you put
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progressives in charge they are so damn crazy they set the country on fire every time every time
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i mean i just know and they don't seem to learn the lesson no i mean you know in the 1950s we had
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mccarthy horrible horrible part of it was true but what the what the uh committee of un-american
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activities did was horrible okay i know not to do that anymore to communists i don't want to do that
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i don't want to wear bring out your communists but they haven't learned that lesson it happened to them
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they haven't learned that lesson they learned a lesson from it yeah they learned how to apply it
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to their enemies exactly right which is exactly the opposite of what christ was taught would talk
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that would teach he would teach love thy neighbor as thyself vengeance is mine says the lord
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these guys vengeance belongs to them and the only way to heal is treat you the way you treated me