Finally, a candidate that says what you are thinking, meet Mark Davis

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Speaker 0: He comes down.
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Speaker 0: He says, Amber, the world's on fire, which it wasn't.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Immigration has been relatively flat over the past thirty years.
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Speaker 0: Crime has been relatively, no.
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Speaker 0: Crime is down, way down over the past twenty years.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: So it was all lies.
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Speaker 0: And, and he was just trying to get people motivated.
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Speaker 0: And and I'll go right to the fucking gut punch of this.
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Speaker 0: Okay?
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a candidate for the United States Congress running to represent
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Speaker 1: the people of Hillsborough and Manatee counties in Florida's sixteenth congressional
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Speaker 1: district.
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Speaker 1: He's a veteran, a husband, a a husband, a dad, and a small business
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Speaker 1: owner who spent his life working hard and standing up for what's right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Mark served eight years in the United States Air Force where he learned the
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Speaker 1: values of discipline, service, and putting others first.
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Speaker 1: After his military service, he spent sixteen years in corporate America.
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Speaker 1: I I my condolences.
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Speaker 1: Leading high stakes operations for one of the nation's largest retailers, solving
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Speaker 1: problems, building teams, and getting results.
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Speaker 1: Today, he lives in Parish, Florida with his wife, Sarah, his high school sweetheart,
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Speaker 1: and their two kids.
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Speaker 1: Like so many Florida families, Marcus felt the squeeze of rising prices and flat
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Speaker 1: wages first hand.
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Speaker 1: And like so many Americans, he grew tired of watching American politicians
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Speaker 1: score political points instead of solving real problems, so he decided to do something
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Speaker 1: about it.
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Speaker 1: In less than a year, Mark's campaign has grown from a simple message of
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Speaker 1: truth into a movement followed by more by more than two hundred thousand people
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Speaker 1: across the country.
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Speaker 1: I'm one of them.
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Speaker 1: What started as one voice refusing to stay quiet has become a community of
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Speaker 1: Americans, veterans, teachers, parents, and small business owners, and podcasters
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Speaker 1: who believe that courage, honesty, and compassion still belong in our politics.
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Speaker 1: Mark is running on a platform of protecting American freedom, fighting for working people,
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Speaker 1: and doing better for veterans, putting and putting truth over politics.
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Speaker 1: So he's not here to climb the political ladder, and if you follow his
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Speaker 1: Facebook, you will realize that quickly.
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Speaker 1: He's here to lift people up.
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Speaker 1: His campaign is leading with truth, courage, and love, and people are responding.
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Speaker 1: So please welcome to the show, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here.
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Speaker 0: Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 0: Appreciate you having me on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think, your content cracks me up.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm usually the most ridiculous person I know on Facebook, but you
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Speaker 1: have taken that title from me.
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Speaker 1: You grabbed it and ran down the field vicariously.
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Speaker 1: So, and I love that because I think that we're all just sick of
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Speaker 1: these non answers and people speaking in circles.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, we're all just screaming at the television half the time anybody
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Speaker 1: speaks.
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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, we're even seeing them say yes or no, and they
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Speaker 1: can't they can't even do that.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: So I I appreciate your forthrightness.
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Speaker 1: What was the moment?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Because, you know, I love your corporate background and I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people were like, oh, well, Trump could be good because of his business background,
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Speaker 1: but he's he was never really actually good at any business.
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Speaker 1: But being in corporate America, I think, is closer.
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Speaker 1: You know, surviving and succeeding, thriving in corporate America is probably a lot
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Speaker 1: like surviving and thriving in the government, to be honest.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of things that don't make sense.
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Speaker 1: So what was the moment for you that you were like, I can't I'm,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm gonna do this.
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Speaker 1: I'm running for com congress.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: I'm I'm not a I'm not a politician.
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Speaker 0: I'm just literally just a pissed off father in the middle of Red Florida.
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Speaker 0: And, you know, I've been down here for about four years, and I'm not
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Speaker 0: a, I'm a Democrat.
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Speaker 0: I've always voted Democrat, but I'm a registered NPA, no party affiliate.
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Speaker 0: So that's what I'm running as.
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Speaker 0: So I'm not gonna have to answer to democrats.
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Speaker 0: I'm not gonna have to answer to republicans.
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Speaker 0: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 0: I answer to the people, in my district, and that's it.
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Speaker 0: I don't take money from corporate packs or anything like that.
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Speaker 0: So,
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Speaker 0: but, but, yeah, back to your question, you know, what got me started,
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Speaker 0: I'll tell you, it was Trump two point o.
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Speaker 0: And I've been an anti Trumper since he came down
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Speaker 0: the escalator.
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Speaker 0: And like you mentioned, I've been in business,
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Speaker 0: manipulative it is.
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Speaker 0: And I recognized it because, I'll tell you the truth, in corporate America,
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Speaker 0: I
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Speaker 2: did some of the same shit he did.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 2: I would buy to vendors.
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Speaker 2: I would do
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Speaker 0: this, and, like, the same shit he did.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: You know, I would buy to vendors.
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Speaker 0: I would do this and that to try to, get an advantage.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And that may have been I and this is debatable,
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Speaker 0: but that may be the right way to run a company, but that's not
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Speaker 0: how you run country.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And, because as as a I I I worked for
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Speaker 0: Menards, and Menards was like it's like this huge home improvement
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Speaker 0: center.
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Speaker 0: It's like a Home Depot in the Midwest, and there's, like, three hundred stores.
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Speaker 0: And I worked for corporate, and I was in charge of, like, a one
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Speaker 0: point three billion dollar category.
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Speaker 0: So I didn't work in the stores.
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Speaker 0: I worked at at the corporate level and, sat across from the owner, John
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Speaker 0: Menard.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: So, I've been at the higher ranks of this all, and
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Speaker 0: I can see, you know, what happens behind those closed doors and what
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Speaker 0: people talk about behind those closed doors and what goes on in boardrooms,
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Speaker 0: and it's disgusting.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: I had to make a living.
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Speaker 0: I had to supply a house and food for my family,
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Speaker 0: you know, but I didn't love what I was doing.
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Speaker 0: But I saw the sickness in business, and that sickness came down
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Speaker 0: that escalator, like, ten, eleven years ago, and I could see the bullshit.
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Speaker 0: He started saying stuff about immigration being out of control and
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Speaker 0: that, violent crime was out of control, and it was all bullshit.
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Speaker 0: We we just came off of Obama where we were semi united.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: I'm not saying Obama was perfect, but, but we were semi united.
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Speaker 0: We were in the right trajectory.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: The Republicans like to say that the economy wasn't recovering fast enough or whatever
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Speaker 0: that bullshit was.
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Speaker 0: But we had record months of of economic growth.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: So so anyway, he comes down.
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Speaker 0: He says, the world's on fire, which it wasn't.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Immigration has been relatively flat over the past thirty years.
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Speaker 0: Crime has been relatively, no.
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Speaker 0: Crime is down, way down over the past twenty years.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: So it was all lots.
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Speaker 0: And, and he was just trying to get people motivated.
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Speaker 0: And and I'll go right to the fucking gut punch of this.
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Speaker 0: Okay?
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Speaker 0: I saw Hitler.
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Speaker 0: I saw Nazi Hitler when he was saying that crap.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: Because not or, Hitler was the same type of moron.
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Speaker 0: He didn't have anything to stand on.
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Speaker 0: All he did was hate Jews.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And he and he and he and he was able to get a whole
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Speaker 0: country around hating Jews because they just failed big time in
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Speaker 0: World War one.
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Speaker 0: That's the only reason that that that fucking mess happened.
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Speaker 0: And then he comes in when our country is doing well and then says
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Speaker 0: it's on fire and that we're supposed to, put all of our chips in
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Speaker 0: the hands of one man, you're out of your mind.
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Speaker 0: So ten years ago,
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Speaker 0: I knew this was a disaster to begin with.
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Speaker 0: But, you know, I I did my thing.
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Speaker 0: I raised my family.
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Speaker 0: And, I moved down to Florida about four years ago,
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Speaker 0: and that was right, before Trump two point o took office.
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Speaker 0: And, I never thought in my life that Trump was gonna win
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Speaker 0: again.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And I moved down here to be closer to my parents.
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Speaker 0: My parents are down here.
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Speaker 0: So my kids would be closer to their grandparents.
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Speaker 0: And, you know, they're full blown MAGA, but I never thought it'd be an
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Speaker 0: issue because Right.
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Speaker 0: Donald Trump ain't gonna win.
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Speaker 0: He he just tried to steal the election.
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Speaker 0: He's a thirty four time felon, and he got charged with, sexual assault.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Like, it's over.
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Speaker 0: The Republican party's never gonna win again.
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Speaker 0: They can't.
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Speaker 0: And then they freaking win again.
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Speaker 1: And then they did.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: And and I'm sitting here in the middle of Red Florida thinking, like, what
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Speaker 0: the hell just happened?
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Speaker 0: And and then you and you walk around this neighborhood and all these people
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Speaker 0: that, had MAGA flags all of a sudden feel like, you know, they were
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Speaker 0: on the right side of history.
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Speaker 0: And so they're walking around, you know, thinking that their agenda is being pushed
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Speaker 0: forward.
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Speaker 0: And I'm and I'm sitting here thinking, no.
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Speaker 0: This guy is wildly unpopular.
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Speaker 0: I felt I felt it when he got shot in the fucking ear or
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Speaker 0: whatever Yeah.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: That people I knew right then he was gonna win.
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Speaker 0: People he he's gonna pay play that fucking sympathy thing.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And I and I said it then.
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Speaker 0: When he got shot in the fucking ear, I said we were one inch
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Speaker 0: from fucking freedom on that day.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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Speaker 0: Inch from freedom.
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Speaker 0: But but, anyway, that guy fucking won.
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Speaker 0: And, so here we are.
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Speaker 0: And and like I said, I'm I'm just, pissed off that in the middle
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Speaker 0: of Florida.
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Speaker 0: And it the moment that I saw and and when
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Speaker 0: truck two point o won, I I gave it the benefit of the doubt.
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Speaker 0: My parents are MAGA.
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Speaker 0: You know, they said this it's gotta be great.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: So I I kinda just shut shut the hell up for a little bit
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Speaker 0: and just watch the news.
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Speaker 0: And then Donald Trump gets in the Oval Office with Zelensky
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Speaker 0: and,
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Speaker 0: weakly embarrasses him, tells him why aren't you wearing a suit when the guy
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Speaker 0: is fighting for fucking democracy against a tyrannical
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Speaker 0: leader like Putin?
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Speaker 0: Putin is our enemy, and this guy is fighting our enemy, and they're
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Speaker 0: making fun of him.
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Speaker 0: And I knew right then that that sickness was in our Oval Office, that
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Speaker 0: that Donald Trump was unleashed, that there was no adults in the room, that
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Speaker 0: this country was a joke from that minute period.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And I couldn't live under that fascism.
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Speaker 0: I can't like, I just wasn't born that way.
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Speaker 0: Like, none of us were born that way.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: To live under the rule of one person.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: We had presidents, but we always knew that the president was weak.
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Speaker 0: We and we wanted the president to be weak.
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Speaker 0: Right.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: We knew that we could cite whatever we wanted about that president, and we
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Speaker 0: would never get in trouble.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: Or we could have whatever opinion we wanted, and that's the beautiful thing that
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Speaker 0: the citizens hold all the fucking power.
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Speaker 0: What happened to that?
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Now we're now we're giving up power to one man?
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Speaker 0: That's what Nazi Germany did.
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Speaker 0: And that's how they fucking that's how they fucking destroyed their country.
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Speaker 0: So I stopped I, so I stood up right then, and I noticed the
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Speaker 0: patterns early that fascism was marching in.
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Speaker 0: And I said no.
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Speaker 0: And I said, I'm not gonna stay I'm not gonna put up with this
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Speaker 0: bullshit.
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Speaker 0: So I said, no.
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Speaker 0: I live right in the middle of red Florida.
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Speaker 0: I fucking hate Donald Trump.
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Speaker 0: I'll scream it in the back my backyard.
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Speaker 0: All my my neighbors pretend that they love MAGA.
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Speaker 0: They just don't understand that there has a different opinion out there because
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Speaker 0: everybody around here lives in this little dome.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And I'm inside this dome just fucking raising hell, and they can't
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Speaker 0: get
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Speaker 2: out of it.
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Speaker 0: They can't get out of my like, I turned their dome into my fucking
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Speaker 0: echo chamber.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 1: Love it.
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Speaker 0: I I'm all over the Internet.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 0: I'm all over, the the the the the county.
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Speaker 0: I'm talking to people all the time.
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Speaker 0: I have my own podcast now.
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Speaker 0: You know, like, I can start a new cycle at the beginning of the
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Speaker 0: day, and then I can catch it at the end of the day.
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Speaker 0: Like, I own the whole fucking message.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 0: And, now all these people, I'm just like, fucking I got them in my
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Speaker 0: cage, and I'm just fucking rattling the cake Yeah.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: Until they start fucking listening to me.
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Speaker 0: I don't care.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And I don't care if you like me.
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Speaker 0: You don't have to like me.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: I don't care if you're a democrat or a republican.
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Speaker 0: Just listen to what I'm saying.
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Speaker 0: I am a pissed off middle class father
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Speaker 0: that is getting screwed, that is seeing the country getting screwed, that
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Speaker 0: is seeing these large corporations get these tariff refunds when those should be going
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Speaker 0: to the people.
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Speaker 0: I mean, it goes on and on and on, and I'm not
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Speaker 0: political.
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Speaker 0: I am just normal, and I'm pissed.
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Speaker 0: Listen.
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Speaker 1: I could dig it.
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Speaker 1: I was supposed to be a stand up comedian.
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Speaker 1: Now I got a political podcast.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the universe directs us differently.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I wanna say thank you for acknowledging the corporate stuff because,
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Speaker 1: you know, my path was similar.
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Speaker 1: I was in real estate finance.
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Speaker 1: And, like, you don't know.
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Speaker 1: You know, you work your way up, and then you see how rotten it
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Speaker 1: is.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, we wouldn't have gotten in if we had known, but that's
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Speaker 1: how the system is built.
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Speaker 1: They get you so far deep in it that it's like to to walk
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Speaker 1: away from it.
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Speaker 1: Now you lose your income and your you know, it it it's all by
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Speaker 1: design.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: It's all by design.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Then
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Speaker 0: you have like a three hundred thousand dollar home and you gotta pay your
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Speaker 0: mortgage, you know, like maybe it's
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Speaker 1: And people are like, oh, poor baby, but you're like, no, like your whole
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Speaker 1: paycheck comes in, it goes right back out.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, like it's there's no, you know and so I I really
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Speaker 1: respected you acknowledge that because I think white people need to do more of
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Speaker 1: that, to be honest.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Like acknowledge what's really, really happening.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: And the MAGA thing is very similar to the corporate.
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Speaker 1: Like, they're so far deep into it.
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Speaker 1: It's like they, you know, they're in such a cult.
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Speaker 1: You know, my my dad's one of them.
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Speaker 1: He hasn't spoken to me in three months, You know?
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, you're really gonna lose your daughter over Fox News, over dudes
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Speaker 1: that wear makeup on fucking TV?
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Speaker 1: Like, I don't I'm so angry about the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: So, like, trust me.
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Speaker 1: I get it, man.
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Speaker 1: I get it.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Well and obviously, other people resonate because you've grown to two hundred thousand followers
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Speaker 1: in less than a year, and like, people can't figure that out.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Like, that's a hard thing to do, but like, you're just being really honest,
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Speaker 1: and I think like it's the the elephant.
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Speaker 1: I saw this reel this morning and said, why do we discredit the elephant
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Speaker 1: in the room?
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Speaker 1: You know how hard it was for that elephant to get in the room?
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Speaker 1: What door do they use?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, it's the same thing.
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Speaker 1: You're the the, you know, two hundred thousand followers is no joke and it's
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Speaker 1: growing daily.
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Speaker 1: I mean, your content reached me.
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Speaker 1: I'm in Costa Rica for crying out loud.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Like, how the hell did that happen?
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Speaker 1: So, and and let's talk a bit about your your
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Speaker 1: parents.
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Speaker 1: Have they started to shift a little bit with your campaign?
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Speaker 0: So I thought they did, but they had come to find out they actually
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Speaker 0: didn't.
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Speaker 2: They didn't.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: And, you know, I I
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Speaker 0: I I kicked them out of my life, you know, about about eleven months
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Speaker 0: ago.
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Speaker 0: And I said I said, listen.
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Speaker 0: Like, I'm I'm noticing patterns.
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Speaker 0: I'm concerned.
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Speaker 0: My mother even told my daughter, that she doesn't have to listen to me
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Speaker 0: about politics, but I didn't really even talk about politics.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And and and we're starting to see patterns that they're turning into fascist.
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Speaker 0: So so that just bothered me.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And and now the sickness is in my family.
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Speaker 0: So so I don't want my my kids to be influenced by
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Speaker 0: this MAGA bullshit.
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Speaker 0: Right.
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Speaker 0: Right.
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Speaker 0: I don't wanna be bothered by this MAGA bullshit.
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Speaker 0: I feel better now that they're not in my life, to be honest.
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Speaker 0: I'm sorry that they are so freaking confused right now that they,
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Speaker 0: like you said, would much rather watch all these makeup people on
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Speaker 0: Fox News that are millionaires.
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Speaker 0: Tell them about Lie
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Speaker 1: to the face.
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Speaker 0: Of the sidebar is?
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Like
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Speaker 1: It's weird.
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Speaker 1: Well, I I'm sorry because that's a special kind of pain that sucks, but
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Speaker 1: I know it's also fuel.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's fuel for for what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk a little bit about vets because you are a veteran
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Speaker 1: yourself, and I'm sure that you have a lot go you have a lot
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Speaker 1: of thoughts about how vets are being treated and what's happening.
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Speaker 1: What do you think congress is getting the most wrong right now when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the to vets?
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Speaker 0: Oh, I could talk about that all day.
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Speaker 0: But,
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Speaker 0: one of the big things that I'm running on is,
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Speaker 0: our our our veterans when they get home, that we don't take care of.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And, the big thing that that I struggle with in the military
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Speaker 0: specifically, and I saw this in the military, is mental health.
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Speaker 0: And, a lot of these military,
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Speaker 0: individuals, rightfully so, are proud people.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And,
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Speaker 0: in the locker rooms and in the showers or whatever, it's kinda looked
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Speaker 0: down upon, you know, if you need to get mental health in the military,
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Speaker 0: especially with,
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Speaker 0: like, fighter pilots or any type of pilot or any type of, like, high
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Speaker 0: stressful position.
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Speaker 0: Because if they get if they have to go see a mental health, then
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Speaker 0: that goes on the record, and then they may not even be able to
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Speaker 0: be a pilot anymore.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: So, like, we we need to get rid of that goal.
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Speaker 1: Crazy.
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Speaker 1: Like, they need it the most.
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Speaker 0: Right.
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Speaker 0: So Like
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Speaker 2: like at least.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: Like like, have you ever I like, it's first like, it's and I I'll
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Speaker 0: be I've been an open book on this campaign, and that's my whole thing.
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Speaker 0: Like like, I've struggled with mental health, and I've taken mental health drugs, and
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Speaker 0: I've talked to people, and it helped me.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And, like like like, we in my opinion, when our
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Speaker 0: servicemen and women come home from
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Speaker 0: overseas or a a a, an area that is,
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Speaker 0: you know, in war or some some sort of event, then they need to
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Speaker 0: go to see mental health.
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Speaker 0: They have to be like, it has to be it has to be like
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Speaker 0: like, it has to be part of the the process.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: Like, don't don't just wait for them to come see.
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Speaker 0: Like, force them to go see.
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Speaker 0: You just went to war.
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Speaker 0: You just saw people die.
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Speaker 0: You just saw the worst of the worst.
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Speaker 0: You're away from your family.
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Speaker 0: There's confusion, especially in Iran now, when a lot of
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Speaker 0: those servicemen and women don't even know why they're there.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And then they come back home, and and they're they get made fun of
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Speaker 0: if they go see somebody, and then they kill themselves.
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Speaker 0: Like, this whole this whole country just needs to reevaluate mental health
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Speaker 0: and start thinking of it as something that we need to champion.
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Speaker 0: And and get behind.
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Speaker 0: And make sure that there's there's funding there.
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Speaker 0: So in my opinion, you reduce the defense budget.
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Speaker 0: And I don't wanna say that off the the cuff.
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Speaker 0: Like, I wanna actually look into it.
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Speaker 0: But I cannot imagine that there's a reason to spend
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Speaker 0: a trillion dollars every single year on
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Speaker 0: our military.
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Speaker 0: I mean, I remember walking into,
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Speaker 0: and this is a small example.
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Speaker 0: And I was an enlisted individual in the air force.
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Speaker 0: But I remember walking in to these big buildings, you know, that had all
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Speaker 0: these boots and clothes and all that.
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Speaker 0: And and you would just go shopping.
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Speaker 0: Like, it's all free.
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Speaker 0: You know, I want I want five pairs of those boots.
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Speaker 0: I want three of those jackets.
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Speaker 0: I want those socks.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And then you take it home, you never wear it.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: Like, and it's yours.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: But I'm just saying, like, there's so much waste in the military, you
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Speaker 0: know, that we just really need to look at that, and we need to
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Speaker 0: pay our military folks better, and we need to make sure that we take
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Speaker 0: care of our veterans when they come home.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: I I don't think I don't think the military's ever passed an audit.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 2: The
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Speaker 0: fiscal I mean, we have no idea where that money is
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Speaker 0: going to that we're funneling into, and they go to defense contractors, you know,
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Speaker 0: and then these defense contractors get uber rich.
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Speaker 0: It's so, seriously look at the defense budget
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Speaker 0: and move some of that money to take care of our veterans when they
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Speaker 0: come home.
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Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: I mean, especially as a daughter of a two time two term Vietnam vet,
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Speaker 1: like, I could definitely say mental health matters impacted my family
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Speaker 1: greatly.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Like, not just the physical impacts of being exposed to nerve agents in
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Speaker 1: in my life, but, like, the impact that the lack of mental health
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Speaker 1: services you know, my father has spoken about Vietnam, like, five times,
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Speaker 1: and I was there for three of them.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Like, he doesn't talk about that stuff.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: In fact, when he left Vietnam, his first tour of being a swift boat
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Speaker 1: captain, he was at the admiral's club or whatever, and he
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Speaker 1: was gonna be leaving the next day.
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Speaker 1: And he was it was like planes, trains, and automobiles.
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Speaker 1: He was gonna have to go through Cambodia.
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Speaker 1: Like, it was gonna take, like, two days to get home.
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Speaker 1: And one of the guys said, hey.
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Speaker 1: There's a there's a a a plane going out with with the soldiers.
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Speaker 1: If you wanna get on that, you can be home in the morning, but
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Speaker 1: you gotta ride in the belly of the plane.
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Speaker 1: And my dad said, sure.
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Speaker 1: Well, the belly of the plane was full of caskets.
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Speaker 1: And my dad said he'll never forget the look on the face when they
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Speaker 1: opened up that big bay door and he came walking out because they, you
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Speaker 1: know, the guys on the ground didn't expect anybody to walk out of the
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Speaker 1: cabin full of caskets.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: So that was my so and then he came home and he had a
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Speaker 1: newborn baby.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, I mean, my family really kinda never stood a
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Speaker 1: chance.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: And there was never any you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: There was never any acknowledgment of that.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: There was never even acknowledgment of the issues that I was dealt with physically
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Speaker 1: because of it.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: But then we have all this money for, you know, drones and bombs
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Speaker 1: and things like that, but the people that are, like, actually doing it.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: And I have a lot of empathy for my dad, you know, a swift
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Speaker 1: boat captain.
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Speaker 1: You know how many men died on his watch in those little boats in
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Speaker 1: Vietnam?
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: My dad my dad was a young man.
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Speaker 1: He came home.
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Speaker 1: He was a completely different person.
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Speaker 1: His life his whole life was stolen from him.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: So as angry as I am at him sometimes, I also have a tremendous
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Speaker 1: amount of empathy because it's like, it's not his fault.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: It's not his fault.
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Speaker 0: Imagine if you're over there and, you know, and you're you're struggling.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: And and I I would almost say, like, we're all human.
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Speaker 0: We're all ninety nine percent the same.
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Speaker 0: Right?
00:20:33.415 --> 00:20:35.015
Speaker 0: We're all scope.
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Speaker 0: So things happen to us, and we all process it almost identically.
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Speaker 0: Some people might say that they don't process the same or whatever.
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Speaker 0: What what if it's mandatory?
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Speaker 0: When you come home, it's mandatory that you see somebody.
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Speaker 0: It takes that whole pressure, that whole stigma off of it.
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Speaker 0: Like, you have to see somebody.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: And it would be so comforting.
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Speaker 0: Like, it would put, like, a warm feeling in your soul.
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Speaker 0: You know?
00:21:01.655 --> 00:21:02.295
Speaker 0: That, yes.
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Speaker 0: When I get home, somebody's gonna listen to what I have to say.
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Speaker 0: I don't necessarily have to tell my parents, but I can tell somebody.
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Speaker 0: You know?
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Speaker 0: I don't know.
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Speaker 0: It just like, we're just so backwards, and then we wonder why all
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Speaker 0: these veterans are committing suicide and why they're not You know?
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Speaker 1: It's it's heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: And it's only gonna get worse because we have an an active war going
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Speaker 1: on right now.
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Speaker 1: These guys are gonna they're gonna come home from Iran all banged up.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Like, it's, it's it's just a matter of time.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about you have four pillars that your campaign is built around,
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Speaker 1: and that's protecting American freedom, fighting for working people, doing better for veterans,
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Speaker 1: and putting truth over politics.
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Speaker 1: So what does that look like in practice?
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Speaker 1: You know, aside we just talked about the veterans, but what what does that
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Speaker 1: actually look like?
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Speaker 2: What are you telling your constituents will happen if you get into office?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So
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Speaker 0: priorities is what I always tell people.
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Speaker 0: And these are these are my priorities, and this is what I think the
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Speaker 0: Democrat party priority should be.
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Speaker 0: I think it's what the the progressive priority should be.
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Speaker 0: But number one is accountability.
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Speaker 0: I don't want anybody in office that isn't willing to
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Speaker 0: impeach Donald Trump.
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Speaker 0: And I I don't care how silly that sounds.
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Speaker 0: I know he's already been impeached twice, but we gotta get him the hell
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Speaker 0: out of there.
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Speaker 0: We can't last two more years with this jerk in office.
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Speaker 0: So,
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Speaker 0: he has to be kicked out of office.
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Speaker 0: Like, that is number one priority.
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Speaker 0: It has to freaking happen.
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Speaker 0: So
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Speaker 0: impeachment.
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Speaker 0: Day one is accountability, and that means accountability for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 0: That means accountability for JD Vance.
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Speaker 0: That means accountability for the entire administration, and I would even throw Elon
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Speaker 0: Musk in there.
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Speaker 1: That Facts.
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Speaker 1: Facts.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 0: Like like, we can't ignore the atrocities that these people are
00:22:49.965 --> 00:22:51.725
Speaker 0: doing to our country.
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Speaker 0: These
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Speaker 1: are Thiel and the other guy too.
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Speaker 1: He can go the Palantir guy too.
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Speaker 1: All three of those guys are going the same.
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Speaker 0: Yep.
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Speaker 0: And then number two, is health care.
00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:05.330
Speaker 0: I'm a huge proponent of single payer health care.
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Speaker 0: It's gonna be on my yard sign, you know, but,
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Speaker 0: we need health care, and we need to show that to the American
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Speaker 0: people that we are there for the middle class.
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Speaker 0: Because this past ten years has been pointed all towards billionaires,
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Speaker 0: and we're fucking sick of it.
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Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: We
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Speaker 0: got our tariff money right now going to corporations instead of the people.
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Speaker 0: We have, Donald Trump that is suing the IRS for ten billion
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Speaker 0: dollars when he's already made ten billion dollars being president this
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Speaker 0: this firm.
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Speaker 0: So, I mean, we have to start pointing that needle back at the middle
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Speaker 0: class, and the only way that you're gonna get the respect of the people
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Speaker 0: in this country again is if you give them fucking health care.
00:23:46.255 --> 00:23:46.815
Speaker 0: Yep.
00:23:46.815 --> 00:23:48.095
Speaker 0: Gotta give them health care.
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Speaker 0: And then number three,
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Speaker 0: is lower prices.
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Speaker 0: And Donald Trump ran on lowering prices.
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Speaker 0: And I knew from day one that this idiot could not lower prices because
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Speaker 0: I'm a retail executive, and that's not how it fucking works.
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Speaker 1: Right.
00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:06.400
Speaker 1: You don't just tell them lower your prices.
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Speaker 0: And then and then you don't go go through and insert,
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Speaker 0: pricing pressure points into the system when you're trying to lower prices.
00:24:15.035 --> 00:24:16.635
Speaker 0: He put tariffs in place.
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Speaker 0: He he he he caused a whole trade war.
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Speaker 0: That's not lowering prices.
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Speaker 0: And then the the value of the dollar is plummeting at
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Speaker 0: the same time.
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Speaker 1: Daily.
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Speaker 0: So now our dollar is worth less.
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Speaker 0: Like, how do you look so what did he do?
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Speaker 0: He didn't only not lower prices.
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Speaker 0: He actually increased the rate of inflation.
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Speaker 0: So inflation was, like, around three percent when he came in the office,
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Speaker 0: and it's about five percent right now.
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Speaker 0: So he didn't only not lower prices, he increased prices
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Speaker 0: at a higher rate than what what Biden was doing.
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Speaker 0: I honestly honestly think that if we put some
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Speaker 0: common sense rules into place, that we can literally lower prices
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Speaker 0: after this mess.
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Speaker 0: Like, I mean, we start, removing these these stupid tariffs,
00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:10.055
Speaker 0: you know, that that that number one will help.
00:25:10.055 --> 00:25:14.055
Speaker 0: We start getting better trade, deal like, we start improving our
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Speaker 0: relationship around the world.
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Speaker 0: And, yes, you know, like, people don't understand, especially here in Florida, and
00:25:20.295 --> 00:25:23.400
Speaker 0: this is what's so frustrating about living right here in Florida.
00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:24.040
Speaker 0: Right?
00:25:24.040 --> 00:25:27.000
Speaker 0: That they're like MAGA, America first.
00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:29.160
Speaker 0: Like, fuck everybody else.
00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.960
Speaker 0: Florida relies
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Speaker 0: on tourism.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 0: You know?
00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:38.120
Speaker 0: If you fuck up your domestic policies, people don't wanna visit
00:25:38.555 --> 00:25:40.315
Speaker 0: your country.
00:25:40.315 --> 00:25:43.195
Speaker 0: And that's what's happening, especially Canada.
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Speaker 0: You know how many people used to come down from Canada to Florida
00:25:47.275 --> 00:25:48.395
Speaker 0: every year?
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Speaker 0: I mean, they they built what is that that, what's that Canadian,
00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:55.280
Speaker 0: coffee Tom Thornton's or something?
00:25:55.280 --> 00:25:59.280
Speaker 0: They built they built a Tom Thornton's here because so many freaking
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Speaker 0: Canadians come down here.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 0: They don't come.
00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:04.925
Speaker 0: They didn't they haven't come for the past two years.
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Speaker 0: There's so many houses for sale that are sitting there that Canadians are trying
00:26:08.845 --> 00:26:12.845
Speaker 0: to sell because Donald Trump said he wanted to take over Canada.
00:26:13.725 --> 00:26:13.965
Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 1: So they're not gonna come hang out with us.
00:26:16.125 --> 00:26:16.445
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean well, and I know because there's more Canadians in Costa Rica this
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Speaker 1: year.
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Speaker 1: They skipped right over Florida in this direct flight to Costa
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Speaker 1: Rica.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: Like
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:27.320
Speaker 0: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: People just don't understand that.
00:26:28.840 --> 00:26:32.600
Speaker 0: Like, you you love or hate it, but this we live in a world,
00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:33.960
Speaker 0: and it's connected.
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Speaker 0: And that that ain't going anywhere.
00:26:35.845 --> 00:26:36.165
Speaker 0: You know?
00:26:36.165 --> 00:26:40.165
Speaker 0: And and who has benefited the most from a connected world?
00:26:40.805 --> 00:26:41.845
Speaker 0: America.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 0: Right.
00:26:43.125 --> 00:26:44.325
Speaker 0: You know?
00:26:44.325 --> 00:26:48.325
Speaker 0: Now we we're we're forty trillion dollars in debt, and that's because
00:26:48.645 --> 00:26:52.020
Speaker 0: of all the loopholes with billionaires not paying their taxes.
00:26:52.020 --> 00:26:52.420
Speaker 0: You know?
00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:54.900
Speaker 0: But, so we're not doing it right.
00:26:54.900 --> 00:26:57.700
Speaker 0: But we were still able to bring in a shit ton of revenue because
00:26:57.700 --> 00:26:58.180
Speaker 0: of it.
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Speaker 0: You know?
00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:01.540
Speaker 0: We just started giving it all to billionaires is the problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:03.620
Speaker 1: And our, you know, our passport meant something.
00:27:03.620 --> 00:27:05.205
Speaker 1: Like, I didn't realize that as much.
00:27:05.205 --> 00:27:08.085
Speaker 1: You know, call me a privileged white person, but I never really thought about
00:27:08.085 --> 00:27:09.845
Speaker 1: it until I moved to Costa Rica.
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Speaker 1: But, like, the American passport and, like, our ability to travel around the
00:27:13.925 --> 00:27:17.445
Speaker 1: world freely, like, if you have a Costa Rican passport, you gotta get beat.
00:27:17.445 --> 00:27:20.005
Speaker 1: Like, it like, not all passports are viewed equally.
00:27:20.005 --> 00:27:20.610
Speaker 1: You know know what I mean?
00:27:20.610 --> 00:27:22.770
Speaker 1: Like, not everybody can move around the world freely.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea.
00:27:23.570 --> 00:27:23.970
Speaker 1: Right?
00:27:23.970 --> 00:27:24.930
Speaker 1: How would I know?
00:27:24.930 --> 00:27:28.530
Speaker 1: But I have TECO friends here that have to spend, like, a thousand dollars
00:27:28.530 --> 00:27:32.130
Speaker 1: and go to San Jose three times and submit for a visa and prove
00:27:32.130 --> 00:27:34.975
Speaker 1: and have people sponsor them just to go to just to go to the
00:27:34.975 --> 00:27:36.415
Speaker 1: United States for a vacation.
00:27:36.415 --> 00:27:36.655
Speaker 1: Right?
00:27:36.655 --> 00:27:40.655
Speaker 1: Like, we really, like, take for granted and, like, that's slipping away
00:27:40.815 --> 00:27:41.375
Speaker 1: very quickly.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who are like, yeah.
00:27:42.975 --> 00:27:43.215
Speaker 1: No.
00:27:43.215 --> 00:27:44.015
Speaker 1: Thanks, Americans.
00:27:44.015 --> 00:27:44.735
Speaker 1: Like, you idiots.
00:27:44.735 --> 00:27:45.375
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:27:45.375 --> 00:27:46.430
Speaker 1: Stay away from us.
00:27:46.430 --> 00:27:47.870
Speaker 1: And that's only gonna get worse.
00:27:47.870 --> 00:27:48.110
Speaker 1: Right?
00:27:48.110 --> 00:27:52.110
Speaker 1: Like, that American visa or passport or ability to roam freely is
00:27:52.430 --> 00:27:56.430
Speaker 1: is gonna, you know, disappear very quickly, and it's it's our
00:27:56.510 --> 00:27:57.230
Speaker 1: own fault.
00:27:57.230 --> 00:27:57.710
Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
00:27:58.350 --> 00:27:58.590
Speaker 0: Yeah.
00:27:58.590 --> 00:28:02.035
Speaker 0: It's scary because I don't know if you saw, but,
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Speaker 0: Canadian's prime minister, Mark Carney, he was he
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Speaker 0: did a it wasn't an interview.
00:28:08.035 --> 00:28:10.355
Speaker 0: I think it was just like an address to the nation.
00:28:10.355 --> 00:28:13.315
Speaker 0: And he's basically saying, like, Canada's done with the United States.
00:28:13.315 --> 00:28:13.795
Speaker 0: You know?
00:28:13.795 --> 00:28:16.080
Speaker 0: Like, we're moving on.
00:28:16.080 --> 00:28:19.040
Speaker 0: You know, he's like, it doesn't make sense just to wait it out and
00:28:19.040 --> 00:28:20.480
Speaker 0: see if they change their mind.
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.360
Speaker 0: Like, we're done.
00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:23.200
Speaker 0: And we're gonna get more with the EU.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.120
Speaker 0: We're gonna trade with the EU now.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 1: And why wouldn't they?
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Speaker 1: That's just good business.
00:28:27.865 --> 00:28:28.105
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:28:28.105 --> 00:28:28.425
Speaker 1: Right?
00:28:28.425 --> 00:28:29.945
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, business is business.
00:28:29.945 --> 00:28:30.185
Speaker 1: Right?
00:28:30.185 --> 00:28:30.825
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:28:30.825 --> 00:28:32.745
Speaker 1: Like, we just need ethical business.
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Speaker 1: So you're you're in a very, very, very, very red district.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: Do you think that this race is winnable?
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Speaker 1: Mhmm.
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Speaker 0: Yeah.
00:28:41.410 --> 00:28:43.570
Speaker 0: I just because,
00:28:43.570 --> 00:28:44.370
Speaker 0: I'm passionate.
00:28:44.370 --> 00:28:44.850
Speaker 0: Right?
00:28:44.850 --> 00:28:48.370
Speaker 0: And in in my opinion, I I look at it differently than everybody else.
00:28:48.370 --> 00:28:48.690
Speaker 0: You know?
00:28:48.690 --> 00:28:52.050
Speaker 0: Like, you would hate to be an adviser on my campaign because I probably
00:28:52.050 --> 00:28:52.930
Speaker 0: won't listen to you.
00:28:52.930 --> 00:28:53.250
Speaker 0: You know?
00:28:53.250 --> 00:28:56.565
Speaker 0: Like, I got this mindset that I'm doing, and I'm just doing it.
00:28:56.565 --> 00:28:57.205
Speaker 0: Right?
00:28:57.205 --> 00:28:58.725
Speaker 0: And you can call me stupid.
00:28:58.725 --> 00:29:01.205
Speaker 0: You can call me you can say I'm doing it wrong.
00:29:01.205 --> 00:29:02.565
Speaker 0: But the proof is in the pudding.
00:29:02.565 --> 00:29:06.565
Speaker 0: Like, I gotta I know it's not just followers online, but I'm doing
00:29:06.645 --> 00:29:10.645
Speaker 0: events, and people are coming out, and I'm getting and I'm getting money.
00:29:10.710 --> 00:29:11.510
Speaker 0: Right.
00:29:11.510 --> 00:29:14.630
Speaker 0: And we're doing this differently than anybody else in the country.
00:29:14.630 --> 00:29:15.190
Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 0: Right?
00:29:15.990 --> 00:29:19.990
Speaker 0: But what I'm doing is getting the people and I'm taking
00:29:20.070 --> 00:29:24.070
Speaker 0: a big bet, right, that I'm pretty freaking normal is is my bet.
00:29:24.465 --> 00:29:28.465
Speaker 0: And that what I think is probably pretty damn close
00:29:28.465 --> 00:29:30.545
Speaker 0: to what the general pop public is thinking.
00:29:30.545 --> 00:29:30.865
Speaker 0: Right?
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Speaker 1: I think so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 0: Maybe.
00:29:33.025 --> 00:29:34.145
Speaker 0: So I just say it.
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Speaker 0: Whatever I think, I just say it.
00:29:35.985 --> 00:29:36.545
Speaker 0: You know?
00:29:36.545 --> 00:29:38.060
Speaker 0: And,
00:29:38.060 --> 00:29:40.300
Speaker 0: it's relating, and people are grabbing on to it.
00:29:40.300 --> 00:29:44.300
Speaker 0: And my goal isn't necessarily to turn Republicans out
00:29:44.300 --> 00:29:45.500
Speaker 0: to vote for me.
00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:49.500
Speaker 0: My goal is to get people that are excited about my campaign
00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:51.500
Speaker 0: to come out and vote for me.
00:29:51.500 --> 00:29:55.500
Speaker 0: And and I'm guessing that the Republicans, if they don't like
00:29:55.625 --> 00:29:56.985
Speaker 0: me I'm sure some of them will.
00:29:56.985 --> 00:29:59.465
Speaker 0: I've already got a few of them to flip, but I'm sure some of
00:29:59.465 --> 00:29:59.785
Speaker 0: them will.
00:29:59.785 --> 00:30:03.625
Speaker 0: But if they don't like me, what do they have like, why do they
00:30:03.625 --> 00:30:06.905
Speaker 0: have an a reason to get off the couch?
00:30:06.905 --> 00:30:08.825
Speaker 0: Like, what are they gonna go vote for?
00:30:08.825 --> 00:30:09.190
Speaker 0: Right.
00:30:09.190 --> 00:30:09.670
Speaker 0: You know what I mean?
00:30:09.670 --> 00:30:11.590
Speaker 0: Like, I don't think they're gonna show up and vote.
00:30:11.590 --> 00:30:13.030
Speaker 0: Like, you're gonna go vote for
00:30:13.030 --> 00:30:14.310
Speaker 1: you or whatever.
00:30:14.310 --> 00:30:15.030
Speaker 1: Right.
00:30:15.030 --> 00:30:15.430
Speaker 0: Right.
00:30:15.430 --> 00:30:18.950
Speaker 0: Like, are you gonna go vote for a like, this isn't the presidential election.
00:30:18.950 --> 00:30:20.870
Speaker 0: A lot of people don't vote for midterms.
00:30:20.870 --> 00:30:21.190
Speaker 1: Right.
00:30:21.190 --> 00:30:21.495
Speaker 1: Right.
00:30:21.495 --> 00:30:21.695
Speaker 1: Right.
00:30:21.655 --> 00:30:24.695
Speaker 0: You know, like, you have to be motivated to get your butt up and
00:30:24.695 --> 00:30:26.215
Speaker 0: go vote for midterms.
00:30:26.215 --> 00:30:27.895
Speaker 0: How are Republicans gonna be motivated?
00:30:27.895 --> 00:30:30.135
Speaker 0: Are you gonna go vote for higher taxes?
00:30:30.135 --> 00:30:30.455
Speaker 0: You know?
00:30:30.455 --> 00:30:33.895
Speaker 0: Are you or, you know, are you gonna go vote for, inflation?
00:30:33.895 --> 00:30:35.629
Speaker 0: You You're gonna vote for war?
00:30:35.629 --> 00:30:37.267
Speaker 0: You're gonna vote for corruption?
00:30:37.267 --> 00:30:38.906
Speaker 0: You're gonna vote for pedophilia?
00:30:38.906 --> 00:30:42.906
Speaker 0: Like, what what what on your Republican agenda right now are you guys
00:30:43.166 --> 00:30:43.822
Speaker 0: excited about?
00:30:43.822 --> 00:30:47.822
Speaker 0: And the funny thing is in Florida, what they're trying to get the
00:30:48.082 --> 00:30:50.505
Speaker 0: Republicans excited about
00:30:50.505 --> 00:30:52.905
Speaker 0: is nature, is the environment.
00:30:52.905 --> 00:30:56.905
Speaker 0: So a lot of the Republicans now are switching over to, like, anti
00:30:57.865 --> 00:30:59.145
Speaker 0: environmental issues.
00:30:59.145 --> 00:31:03.145
Speaker 0: Like, you know, we don't want the ports to be built because that's gonna,
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:04.280
Speaker 0: hurt the environment.
00:31:04.280 --> 00:31:07.800
Speaker 0: So now they're starting to pretend that they care about the environment when when
00:31:07.800 --> 00:31:11.800
Speaker 0: for the past twenty five years in Florida, they have give two shits about
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:13.400
Speaker 0: the environment here.
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:13.960
Speaker 0: Okay?
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:17.960
Speaker 0: The Republicans do not care about the environment,
00:31:18.125 --> 00:31:21.805
Speaker 0: period, especially under this Trump regime.
00:31:21.805 --> 00:31:24.765
Speaker 0: So but that's interesting that they're starting to switch over to theirs.
00:31:24.765 --> 00:31:26.285
Speaker 0: So,
00:31:26.285 --> 00:31:29.645
Speaker 0: there are so in my opinion, they're already leaving the Trump train.
00:31:29.645 --> 00:31:30.750
Speaker 0: So
00:31:30.750 --> 00:31:31.070
Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
00:31:31.070 --> 00:31:32.910
Speaker 1: Because it's like, that's a safe topic.
00:31:32.910 --> 00:31:33.870
Speaker 1: They'll get more people.
00:31:33.870 --> 00:31:36.910
Speaker 1: They can avoid the difficult stuff if they just talk about you know what
00:31:36.910 --> 00:31:37.230
Speaker 1: I mean?
00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:38.190
Speaker 1: It's a it's a cop out.
00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:39.710
Speaker 1: It's an important cop out.
00:31:39.710 --> 00:31:40.510
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:31:40.510 --> 00:31:42.590
Speaker 1: So Yeah.
00:31:42.590 --> 00:31:44.985
Speaker 1: So let's let's
00:31:44.985 --> 00:31:48.985
Speaker 1: what is the most important thing that you want people to know
00:31:48.985 --> 00:31:50.185
Speaker 1: after listening to this?
00:31:50.185 --> 00:31:53.385
Speaker 1: How can they, like, support you in this movement?
00:31:53.385 --> 00:31:55.625
Speaker 1: Or what what do you want them to know even if it's not supporting
00:31:55.625 --> 00:31:55.825
Speaker 1: you?
00:31:55.705 --> 00:31:56.425
Speaker 1: What do you want them
00:31:56.425 --> 00:31:57.570
Speaker 2: to know?
00:31:57.570 --> 00:32:00.290
Speaker 0: Just know that this is it, you know, in my opinion.
00:32:00.290 --> 00:32:03.890
Speaker 0: That this is if we don't if we don't flip and it doesn't like
00:32:03.890 --> 00:32:04.930
Speaker 0: like, I wanna win.
00:32:04.930 --> 00:32:08.530
Speaker 0: I think I'm the I know I'm the right person, just because I'm amped
00:32:08.530 --> 00:32:12.415
Speaker 0: up and I'm passionate, and I think you should put passionate people into congress.
00:32:12.415 --> 00:32:16.335
Speaker 0: I don't think having twenty or thirty years of experience is necessarily a good
00:32:16.335 --> 00:32:16.895
Speaker 0: thing.
00:32:16.895 --> 00:32:19.855
Speaker 0: Because once you've been in congress for twenty or thirty years, you're kind of
00:32:19.855 --> 00:32:22.415
Speaker 0: guarded from the policies that you put in place.
00:32:22.415 --> 00:32:22.905
Speaker 1: You know?
00:32:22.905 --> 00:32:25.260
Speaker 1: You're Incorrected at that point.
00:32:25.260 --> 00:32:28.540
Speaker 0: Like I'm like me and you, we're the ones that are living the policies
00:32:28.540 --> 00:32:29.340
Speaker 0: that these people put
00:32:29.340 --> 00:32:29.980
Speaker 2: in place.
00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:33.340
Speaker 0: So we actually know their own policies better than they do.
00:32:33.340 --> 00:32:33.740
Speaker 0: Facts.
00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:34.460
Speaker 0: You know?
00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:35.020
Speaker 0: Right.
00:32:35.020 --> 00:32:38.595
Speaker 0: So so in my opinion, I have more experience because I've been through their
00:32:38.595 --> 00:32:40.835
Speaker 0: experience because I've been through their bullshit policies.
00:32:40.835 --> 00:32:43.955
Speaker 0: I know that it's gonna cost a fortune to put my kid through school.
00:32:43.955 --> 00:32:44.515
Speaker 0: You know?
00:32:44.515 --> 00:32:45.715
Speaker 0: I know these things.
00:32:45.715 --> 00:32:49.315
Speaker 0: I I know that when my kids have kids that it's gonna be almost
00:32:49.315 --> 00:32:53.080
Speaker 0: a tuition type, payment for them to have daycare.
00:32:53.080 --> 00:32:53.480
Speaker 0: You know?
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:57.480
Speaker 0: Like so, so anyway, get involved.
00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:59.880
Speaker 0: This is your time right now.
00:32:59.880 --> 00:33:00.680
Speaker 0: Just get out there.
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.120
Speaker 0: I've always said, just put it put that phone in front of your face
00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:08.120
Speaker 0: and make a make a five second video on Facebook and just keep
00:33:08.205 --> 00:33:08.765
Speaker 0: doing it.
00:33:08.765 --> 00:33:10.365
Speaker 0: And talk to and just talk.
00:33:10.365 --> 00:33:10.685
Speaker 0: You know?
00:33:10.685 --> 00:33:11.965
Speaker 0: And people will engage.
00:33:11.965 --> 00:33:13.245
Speaker 0: You'll find your friends.
00:33:13.245 --> 00:33:16.685
Speaker 0: You'll find a community.
00:33:16.685 --> 00:33:20.685
Speaker 0: Pop into your Facebook community page on Facebook every now and then, for
00:33:20.910 --> 00:33:23.310
Speaker 0: for your neighborhood or whatever and just say, hey.
00:33:23.310 --> 00:33:24.030
Speaker 0: I hate Trump.
00:33:24.030 --> 00:33:27.790
Speaker 0: And you'll be surprised by how many people come to your rescue.
00:33:27.790 --> 00:33:28.350
Speaker 0: Right?
00:33:28.350 --> 00:33:29.070
Speaker 0: And
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Speaker 2: Right.
00:33:29.470 --> 00:33:32.590
Speaker 0: That's the big thing that I'm right here in the middle of Red Florida.
00:33:32.590 --> 00:33:35.715
Speaker 0: I made a huge stink about how much I hate Trump.
00:33:35.715 --> 00:33:39.715
Speaker 0: I got eight six four seven on my on my my my front,
00:33:40.195 --> 00:33:40.595
Speaker 0: car.
00:33:40.595 --> 00:33:41.075
Speaker 0: You know?
00:33:41.075 --> 00:33:44.435
Speaker 0: Like, I don't like, I walk by people, and if they say they support
00:33:44.435 --> 00:33:46.195
Speaker 0: Trump, I call him a fucking Nazi.
00:33:46.195 --> 00:33:50.100
Speaker 0: I'm trying to people that they aren't gonna hit you.
00:33:50.100 --> 00:33:51.780
Speaker 0: These people are pathetic.
00:33:51.780 --> 00:33:52.180
Speaker 1: Right.
00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:54.820
Speaker 0: They are they are cowards.
00:33:54.820 --> 00:33:58.740
Speaker 0: They are point six percent of the world population.
00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:01.140
Speaker 0: Like, let's just fucking squeeze
00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:01.380
Speaker 2: them
00:34:01.380 --> 00:34:02.525
Speaker 0: and be done with it.
00:34:02.525 --> 00:34:05.565
Speaker 1: And we're being too we're being too nice to them, to be honest, like,
00:34:05.565 --> 00:34:07.085
Speaker 1: to this idea of civility.
00:34:07.085 --> 00:34:08.045
Speaker 1: It's like, no, man.
00:34:08.045 --> 00:34:10.285
Speaker 1: Civility is a lack of accountability.
00:34:10.285 --> 00:34:11.005
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:34:11.005 --> 00:34:13.805
Speaker 1: Like, somebody told me last week, he was like, you're not nice, but you're
00:34:13.805 --> 00:34:14.005
Speaker 1: kind.
00:34:13.965 --> 00:34:15.150
Speaker 1: And I was like, thank you.
00:34:15.150 --> 00:34:16.990
Speaker 1: I feel so seen because nice is bullshit.
00:34:16.990 --> 00:34:17.790
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:34:17.790 --> 00:34:20.510
Speaker 1: But I will have your back, and I will make sure you're okay.
00:34:20.510 --> 00:34:22.110
Speaker 1: But I'm not fake nice.
00:34:22.110 --> 00:34:23.630
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that with you.
00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:24.030
Speaker 1: You know?
00:34:24.030 --> 00:34:27.915
Speaker 1: And so if somebody's screaming MAGA, I'm gonna call him fucking Nazi too.
00:34:27.915 --> 00:34:28.155
Speaker 1: Right?
00:34:28.155 --> 00:34:30.715
Speaker 1: And that's not everybody's cup of tea, but whatever, man.
00:34:30.715 --> 00:34:31.515
Speaker 1: I don't really care.
00:34:31.515 --> 00:34:32.315
Speaker 1: I'm not a cup of tea.
00:34:32.315 --> 00:34:32.555
Speaker 2: You know
00:34:32.555 --> 00:34:32.955
Speaker 1: what I mean?
00:34:32.955 --> 00:34:33.915
Speaker 1: So it's fine.
00:34:33.915 --> 00:34:35.435
Speaker 1: It's I'm not a beverage.
00:34:35.435 --> 00:34:36.155
Speaker 0: Shot of this.
00:34:36.155 --> 00:34:37.515
Speaker 0: We got one shot of this.
00:34:37.515 --> 00:34:37.835
Speaker 0: Right?
00:34:37.835 --> 00:34:39.650
Speaker 1: Exactly.
00:34:39.650 --> 00:34:39.970
Speaker 0: Right?
00:34:39.970 --> 00:34:43.570
Speaker 0: So, and then the other thing is I'm really bad at asking for money,
00:34:43.570 --> 00:34:47.090
Speaker 0: but we are obviously need donations to make the campaign work.
00:34:47.090 --> 00:34:49.250
Speaker 0: Mark Davis for congress dot com.
00:34:49.250 --> 00:34:51.570
Speaker 0: Like I said, always say that we have a lot of followers.
00:34:51.570 --> 00:34:55.305
Speaker 0: So if we just get two dollar donations, you know, we'll win.
00:34:55.305 --> 00:34:57.945
Speaker 0: So just small dollar donations,
00:34:57.945 --> 00:35:01.785
Speaker 0: and then keep them reoccurring, you know, like a five dollar donation reoccurring every
00:35:01.785 --> 00:35:02.185
Speaker 0: month.
00:35:02.185 --> 00:35:02.505
Speaker 0: Right.
00:35:02.505 --> 00:35:02.825
Speaker 0: It goes
00:35:02.825 --> 00:35:03.945
Speaker 1: a long way.
00:35:03.945 --> 00:35:04.345
Speaker 1: Right on.
00:35:04.345 --> 00:35:05.465
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that.
00:35:05.465 --> 00:35:07.465
Speaker 1: And, you know, you made a post the other day, and I was like,
00:35:07.465 --> 00:35:08.345
Speaker 1: man, I'm so stoked.
00:35:08.345 --> 00:35:10.530
Speaker 1: I think this is actually when I, like, just DM'd you and I was
00:35:10.530 --> 00:35:12.370
Speaker 1: like, yo, Mark, come on my podcast.
00:35:12.370 --> 00:35:16.130
Speaker 1: But you made a post about, you're not going to take the if you
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:19.010
Speaker 1: get elected, you're not gonna take the salary and you're not gonna take the
00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:23.010
Speaker 1: health care because you wanna have the same struggles with those things as your
00:35:23.090 --> 00:35:26.145
Speaker 1: constituents and you don't wanna get a free pass with this cushy health care.
00:35:26.145 --> 00:35:28.665
Speaker 1: And I was like, fuck yeah, Mark.
00:35:28.665 --> 00:35:29.545
Speaker 1: That is
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Speaker 0: I'm done.
00:35:29.945 --> 00:35:30.825
Speaker 0: Awesome.
00:35:30.825 --> 00:35:31.385
Speaker 0: I am done.
00:35:31.385 --> 00:35:35.385
Speaker 0: And and, you know, my my point with this isn't, like I
00:35:35.385 --> 00:35:37.225
Speaker 0: said, move up on the political stage.
00:35:37.225 --> 00:35:41.110
Speaker 0: It's literally just to make a point, right, that you can be a pissed
00:35:41.110 --> 00:35:45.030
Speaker 0: off father in the middle of red Florida and say enough is enough, and
00:35:45.030 --> 00:35:46.230
Speaker 0: you can make a difference.
00:35:46.230 --> 00:35:46.870
Speaker 0: Right?
00:35:46.870 --> 00:35:49.190
Speaker 0: And I can do it on a shoestring budget.
00:35:49.190 --> 00:35:53.030
Speaker 0: So, and I don't care about being paid in congress.
00:35:53.030 --> 00:35:54.585
Speaker 0: I don't care about any of that shit.
00:35:54.585 --> 00:35:57.545
Speaker 0: I just want to get our country back on track so I can get
00:35:57.545 --> 00:35:59.785
Speaker 0: back just to being a father.
00:35:59.785 --> 00:36:01.305
Speaker 1: Unless pissed off dad.
00:36:01.305 --> 00:36:02.665
Speaker 0: Less pissed off dad.
00:36:02.665 --> 00:36:04.505
Speaker 0: Exactly.
00:36:04.505 --> 00:36:05.385
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, listen.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time today.
00:36:07.145 --> 00:36:08.025
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it.
00:36:08.025 --> 00:36:10.920
Speaker 1: We're gonna have all your links and everything in the show notes so people
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:13.640
Speaker 1: who are listening to this can, like, click the buttons and go right to
00:36:13.640 --> 00:36:16.200
Speaker 1: your website and make a donation.
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Speaker 1: And I love that you're not taking PAC money.
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Speaker 1: I assume you're not taking APAC money because of that.
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Speaker 1: And I do think that is, like, probably one of the number one most
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Speaker 1: important, like, points right now in people's campaigns
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Speaker 1: is, like, are you taking money from APAC?
00:36:30.735 --> 00:36:31.455
Speaker 1: And you're not.
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Speaker 1: And so for people who are listening, throw throw Mark two bucks, man.
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Speaker 1: Throw him five bucks.
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Speaker 1: Make that donation.
00:36:36.720 --> 00:36:38.880
Speaker 1: It go it really does go a long way.
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Speaker 1: And I've been talking a lot about money and politics this last week with
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Speaker 1: a lot of different guests, and we do need to get money out of
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Speaker 1: politics.
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Speaker 1: But the reality is that in order to get the right people into politics,
00:36:48.905 --> 00:36:51.625
Speaker 1: they need money to do that because things cost money.
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Speaker 1: Websites cost money.
00:36:52.825 --> 00:36:54.345
Speaker 1: Website hosting cost money.
00:36:54.345 --> 00:36:56.185
Speaker 1: Shit cost money and we all know that.
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Speaker 1: If if they could charge us to breathe, we'd all be like, give me
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Speaker 1: a dollar.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:02.200
Speaker 1: Like, everything costs money.
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Speaker 1: So, like, we have to support our candidates financially so that we can get
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Speaker 1: them in place to dismantle the money in politics.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: But it does take financial support from people, constituents or
00:37:14.205 --> 00:37:14.445
Speaker 1: not.
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Speaker 1: Right?
00:37:14.685 --> 00:37:14.925
Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm definitely motivated to go make a little donation because I I
00:37:18.605 --> 00:37:20.765
Speaker 1: know that, you know, small donations add up.
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Speaker 1: You know?
00:37:21.085 --> 00:37:24.285
Speaker 1: Some of my highest paying clients are people that have given me a little
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Speaker 1: bit amount of money for a really long time.
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Speaker 1: Those are my number one clients.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: So
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Speaker 0: Well, plus it's a plus it's a little bit of a numbers game too.
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Speaker 0: You know, if I can say you know, if my opponent let's say they
00:37:35.590 --> 00:37:39.350
Speaker 0: raised three hundred grand already, and,
00:37:39.350 --> 00:37:43.350
Speaker 0: they've had a hundred donations, but I've raised,
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Speaker 0: thirty grand and I've had three thousand donations, that still makes me look
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Speaker 0: good.
00:37:48.245 --> 00:37:48.485
Speaker 0: Right?
00:37:48.485 --> 00:37:52.485
Speaker 0: So just that number of don donations just kinda helps on the scoreboard.
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Speaker 0: So
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Speaker 1: It's the cosign.
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Speaker 1: It's the cosign.
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Speaker 1: So one one last thing.
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Speaker 1: Where do you see, you know, the movement or yourself, like, in five
00:38:01.080 --> 00:38:02.760
Speaker 1: years, win or lose this race?
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Speaker 1: What would be a perfect scenario for you?
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Speaker 0: Well, win, hopefully, in five years, I just I'm back here
00:38:09.080 --> 00:38:09.960
Speaker 0: just being a dad.
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Speaker 0: And I, you know, I I I honestly believe that you need passionate people
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Speaker 0: in congress.
00:38:15.005 --> 00:38:18.285
Speaker 0: And if you're in there for too long, it just human nature, your your
00:38:18.285 --> 00:38:19.565
Speaker 0: passion kinda leaves.
00:38:19.565 --> 00:38:23.005
Speaker 0: You have some, outliers like Bernie Sanders.
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Speaker 0: You know?
00:38:23.325 --> 00:38:26.340
Speaker 0: I think he's kind of passionate, his whole life.
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Speaker 1: He's a machine.
00:38:27.780 --> 00:38:31.620
Speaker 0: But in reality, you know, I just kinda wanna show up, lift people up,
00:38:31.620 --> 00:38:32.900
Speaker 0: and get the hell out.
00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:36.660
Speaker 0: And, you know, win, that's what I wanna do.
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Speaker 0: Lose, I might be in Canada.
00:38:39.075 --> 00:38:39.955
Speaker 0: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:40.595 --> 00:38:42.195
Speaker 1: Come come to Costa Rica with your family.
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Speaker 1: You'll get along just fine here.
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Speaker 1: Right on.
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Speaker 1: Well, Mark, thanks again for your time.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: I really, really do.
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Speaker 1: It's been, you know, fun chatting with you and hanging out with you.
00:38:53.155 --> 00:38:56.100
Speaker 1: And, know, feel free to come back anytime if you have updates for us
00:38:56.100 --> 00:38:57.060
Speaker 1: or whatever.
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Speaker 1: We'll make sure to share your content with everybody, and encourage them to follow
00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:02.580
Speaker 1: you and show some support.
00:39:02.580 --> 00:39:04.740
Speaker 1: If nothing else, it's a nice timeline cleanse.
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Speaker 1: Like, whenever I'm scrolling through and I see when your post, I always laugh
00:39:07.460 --> 00:39:08.740
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, who said that?
00:39:08.740 --> 00:39:09.932
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, of course, it was Mark.
00:39:09.932 --> 00:39:11.065
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:39:11.065 --> 00:39:14.585
Speaker 1: Something ridiculous, but it always makes me giggle and I we you know, giggles
00:39:14.585 --> 00:39:15.945
Speaker 1: are worth a lot of money these days.
00:39:15.945 --> 00:39:16.825
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: I'm trying I'm trying to keep it
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Speaker 0: a little entertaining too.
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Speaker 0: So
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Speaker 1: When it when it's just nothing but bad news, I will take a funny
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:26.760
Speaker 1: meme or a joke or, you know, just and just, you know, somebody
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:27.800
Speaker 1: being real.
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Speaker 1: Right?
00:39:28.040 --> 00:39:30.280
Speaker 1: I can't scream at my phone at the television anymore.
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:31.480
Speaker 1: I just want real people.
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:32.120
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
00:39:32.120 --> 00:39:34.280
Speaker 1: Just give me somebody real for crying out loud.
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Speaker 1: So You too.
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Speaker 1: So thank you for, for being on the show today.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody listening.
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Speaker 1: Please go follow Mark on social media.
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Speaker 1: It'll be the highlight of your day.
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Speaker 1: And if you have people in Florida, you know, definitely share the content with
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Speaker 1: And please consider making a donation.
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Speaker 1: I know it's annoying.
00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:54.540
Speaker 1: Everybody's always like, oh, we can change the world.
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Speaker 1: I just need five bucks.
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Speaker 1: But for real, send the five bucks.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Like, you've spent five bucks on worse things, like ringtones in the nineties.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: So like, you can do this.
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Speaker 1: So on that note, thank you all for tuning in.
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