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What a
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Weekend for american sports and olympic.
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We were debating whether or not the men's team
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Winning us gold.
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Gold for the us against canada was a top ten
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American sports moment. and i think it is.
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I kind of feel like it has to be.
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It's it's not as big as the miracle on ice
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For a few reasons, but it comes close
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And it it sort of captures the spirit of it.
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You think, i saw a good take that was in 19, 1980.
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We defeated soviet communism,
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And this time we defeated basically the 2026
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Version of soviet communism, which is basically
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Hyper gay, hyper wokeism canadian
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Wokeism i, i was what canada's got all in on being.
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I would venture to guess that canadian wokeism as it is
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As large and existential threat, if not bigger,
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To our way of life
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And to the survival of
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Western civilization as soviet communism
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Survival, quite literally,
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Given their love of, assisted suicide.
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Yes, euthanasia, the euthanasia country.
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But it was a beautiful moment.
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I would just let's just go through
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Some of these clips because we.
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A new star has been born, jack hughes.
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And this was the clip that when i was busy
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With family yesterday.
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So i was only like half checked in
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And this clip came across the wire immediately
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And i was just filled with patriotism
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At jack hughes and the way he handled this moment.
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235 this is all about our country now.
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I love the usa.
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I love my teammates.
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It's unbelievable.
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The u.s.
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Air hockey brotherhood is so strong
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And we had so much support from ex-players, players.
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And i'm so proud of you americans,
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So proud to be american today, he said.
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You know, that's a great canadian team over there.
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But this is american hockey.
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We did this for the country.
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And i mean, it was just like,
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We've seen so many bad clips and bad interviews
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From this olympics, from woke athletes, skaters
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That can't win gold and that fall,
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Sorry, rooting against you. i was happy you fell.
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Sorry just how i feel.
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But then we saw so many good stories, right?
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Like alyssa lou who made maybe a liberal, maybe woke.
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But she didn't disrespect us on the national stage.
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And for that we salute her. and she won gold.
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And then you get this moment. it was just.
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And by the way, we had more medals, more gold
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Medals than we'd had since 2002, i think.
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Salt lake city game, we had the most medals we'd ever had.
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I think before we move on to
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Anything else, we should actually get the
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Moment itself, which is this.
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Yeah, let's go score
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The golden goal, which is so just context
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For those who didn't watch the game.
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It was very tight the whole game.
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It was 1 to 1.
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I would say actually, clearly canada is the stronger team.
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They had more shots on goal but more shots on goal.
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We had some really great ones.
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There was a canadian player misses a wide open shot at,
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I don't know, five feet away of that.
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There was another one where it would have gone in
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And it just deflected off the goalie's stick,
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The goalie, which is why we and the goalie was amazing.
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And then i'm told, this is the clip.
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This is in overtime, sudden death.
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That's one of the best things about hockey.
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Pure sudden death.
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When you get into the finale and, i'm told, let's show
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It's only be it's only 244, it's only the other 243.
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But we only have that as b-roll, unfortunately.
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That's fine. throw it up. yeah, throw it up. we'll narrate.
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And he's taking it down.
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They have it three on three in overtime.
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Let's go to joe hughes back in the.
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It's great.
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I really love the, the canadian announcer.
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He's very crestfallen.
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Yeah. of course.
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Well, you know what's great, though, is that jack hughes
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Had actually got a high stick penalty against him, loses
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A couple teeth, so he's all bloody his mouth just.
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And then he goes on to to score the winning goal
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And his brother's on the team.
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And another little known fact here, his mom was actually
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A coach for the women's team that also won gold.
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Oh it's amazing.
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So so the hughes family won three gold medals
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From this olympics, which is just phenomenal.
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Several family affairs because i think
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We also had the chuck brothers, matthew and brady.
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I think they were on the team as well.
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So we have some great clips.
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In fact, speaking of the, him getting his teeth
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Mangled, jack hughes had that to say after the game. 239
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I'm lucky i'm from the best country in the world.
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We got great dentists there, too.
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So i'm lucky i'm american, and they're gonna fix me right up.
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It's just so good.
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Anyways, so this was just one of the proudest moments.
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And then i want to address because it's just so annoying.
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Well, actually, one other good note here first.
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So one of the players johnny gaudreau
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Had was killed in a drunk driving accident in 2024,
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And they welcomed his kids out for the group picture.
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And i'm just i'm going to be really honest.
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I got emotional watching this because they honored the widow,
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They honored the children, and my heart was instantly
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Thinking about erica and charlie and their kids.
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And it was a beauty.
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I think we have an image of this.
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If you guys can throw it up there.
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It was just i don't know what that happened.
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It actually kind of became a mainstream news story. i think,
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Jd vance said something about it at the time.
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It was during the election season.
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Yeah. super popular player.
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They called him mr. hockey.
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I think they called hockey johnny hockey,
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Huge ambassador for the game.
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And then just
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He and
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His brother killed by a drunk driver, which never should
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Have happened.
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But they honored his kids.
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They brought him out for the picture.
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It was actually his son johnny junior's birthday.
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It was the 298th birthday of george washington.
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And it's obviously america.
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250 so there was just i mean, we were going to win, guys.
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There was no chance.
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That's how i look at it.
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But honestly, just a beautiful, beautiful, touching moment.
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And then
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On to the annoying part.
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So cash button i don't know.
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Blake might feel differently than this i understand
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I understand both sides here, but kash patel is over there.
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Apparently on their official business doing opsec.
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He's got meetings planned
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Well in advance according to his team,
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But he's a hockey player and he's a huge hockey fan.
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They invite him down into the locker room afterwards
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And he's i mean, he's living it up.
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It's like the best moment.
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And by the way,
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We were all kash patel in that moment, i was feeling
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Complete, joy and pride for our nation.
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And so kash is back there.
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He's drinking a beer.
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And here's my thing.
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So people left.
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The left, especially, is outraged at this.
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Some people on the right are outraged about it.
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They don't think he's doing enough. good.
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Well, listen,
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Like the crime rate and the murder rate
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Is at the lowest it's been, there are wins on the board.
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I get it. you want more?
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We all want more.
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But cash in this moment was just like one of us.
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He was just an american celebrating
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An amazing, amazing victory.
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And here's my take.
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Those guys invited him to be with them.
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They loved it. look at him.
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They're all jumping up and down.
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They called him down.
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And if it was good enough for them, it's good enough for me.
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And i have no problem with it.
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Let him celebrate the the way they want to celebrate.
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Yeah.
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It's weird for an fbi director to be doing that.
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I agree, and but guess what?
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It's weird.
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You know, that president trump
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Sends out troops the way he does.
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It's weird. a lot of things are abnormal.
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It's weird
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That gavin newsom is trying to relate
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To black people by saying is low.
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All i would say is there's a lot of weird if
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James comey in 20,
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When he was fbi director or any or if merrick
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If merrick garland had been at an olympic game
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In 2022 and was jumping around like that,
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Had a hard past, hard, hard disagree.
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James comey is not a hockey player.
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Kash patel's a hockey player. big, huge hockey fan.
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He was there. he facetimed the president.
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They got invited to the state of the union.
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It was a beautiful moment, i think.
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Listen to all the haters out there.
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It must be a miserable
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Existence, like constantly being upset all the time.
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This is a beautiful win, beautiful for the country.
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Let him celebrate.
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The guys loved it.
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They're patriots.
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They're patriots.
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Charlie loved the olympics.
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Often when the olympics were on,
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We were just constantly talking about it.
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And we've tried to do him,
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Justice and and talk about the olympics
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That have been going on.
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This is a great clip through 27.
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The moment you put on the team usa jersey, it is about duty,
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Responsibility, obligation to the nation and victory.
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And he goes on to talk about, one clip that the
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Audio thinking was kind of off.
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So we didn't play it, but he was saying this is
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Peaceful geopolitical combat.
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That's why you have usa on your jersey.
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And i love that.
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It's a really great way to frame
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Everything that's going on. yeah.
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Although i really i want
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I wish we had him to get his take on like the eileen
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Gu thing for an example, peaceful
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Geopolitical combat between countries,
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All of whose athletes just grew up in the united states.
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Well, yeah.
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I mean,
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It's unfortunate because he's very talented
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And grew up skiing in tahoe.
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And she took the money $20 million
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For eileen gu every year. all right.
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There is more international news that we have to get to.
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And then we're going to bring in steve davis next segment.
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Lots to get to with him as well.
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Specifically this issue that happened at mar-a-lago,
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Which is really troubling,
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Another potential assassination attempt.
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And we want to get into that with steve davis.
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What's underlying that?
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But first we have to tell you about mexico,
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And we've got oscar ramirez, real america's voice
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Correspondent, border
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Correspondent, coming on
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In the top of the next hour to talk about it more.
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But basically, all hell broke loose in mexico, at least.
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And we'll find out what the current situation
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Is from oscar. ramirez.
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But here's the here's the deal.
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They killed a massive kingpin
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And of all the cartels, his name is el menchu.
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But of all the cartels, it was the cartel.
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Police go new generation or nuevo generacion or whatever.
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So the j.
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Ng cartel, which is a there's no feel like there's
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A new cartel over the cards.
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This cartel has existed with basic impunity
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In mexico for years.
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And i thought this was really important
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Because this morning, president trump is,
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You know, honoring the angel families.
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He's bringing up the mother of,
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He's bringing up the mother of, lincoln riley,
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Who was killed but at the hands of an illegal immigrant.
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And here meanwhile,
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We've got this whole fight going on in washington
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Where they're trying to defund dhs,
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Which is the agency that keeps us safe,
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That which under, you know, isis under.
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Listen, you can make an argument
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That dhs shouldn't have been consolidated into one agency,
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Which it's just
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They're trying
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To defund the organization that is on the frontline of
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Making it.
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So a u.s city does not look like puerto vallarta. yes.
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They are trying to defund the agency that keeps every
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One of those cartel members,
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Which if you watch those clips, they have assault weapons,
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They have armored vehicles, they have heavy explosives.
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That is what happens when you have a full blown
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Cartel narco state operating with impunity.
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And that is not there's nothing about destiny
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That keeps america from being like that.
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We are not like that because we have different
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People, different laws, different values.
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And if you change the situation,
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If we are just mexico, we'll have the same thing.
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Borders are where bad ideas, bad policy, bad
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Governance and and good ideas, good governance.
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And, good policy begins if we have the courage
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Of our own sovereignty,
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If we have the courage of our own convictions,
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And we are proud
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To be americans
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And say our ideas are better, our foundation is better.
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I'm not saying mexicans are bad people.
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Some, i suppose, are good people,
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As president trump once said.
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But the point is,
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Our country
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And our civilization is more successful for a reason,
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And we cannot allow those cartel factions and forces
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To cross over the border.
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And in fact, our country,
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Which they did under president joe biden.
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There are currently cartel members
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Existing in all 50 states.
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This isn't just like a border region thing.
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This is all across the country.
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And i have a theory on this why we saw this.
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Now el mencia was taken out by the,
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The mexican military, but it was done in coordination
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With u.s. intelligence.
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So we were providing intel about where this guy was.
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It was also very interesting that he died in transit.
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So they there was a shootout and him, along with two others.
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So three of them died in transit.
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I think they made a very
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I think they made a conscious decision
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To make sure that he was not able to exist alive,
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Because then he would have been
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A target for an assault on the prison.
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He was.
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I think they killed him in there. that's what i think.
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Or at least refused to resuscitate him.
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But whatever, that's speculation.
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I also think that they chose to do this
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After a year of president trump's deportation efforts,
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Getting some of these bad entrees out
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Because you got to get these cartel factions that exist
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Within the united states, at least cowed.
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You have to put them on the defense. right.
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So this is what's interesting.
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President trump's
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Policies are making their life a living hell.
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Let's go to 258.
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This was from september 2025.
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Cnn interviewed one of them and asked them this.
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258 think
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What president trump has been doing
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Has been making your job tougher.
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Oh yeah. oh yes.
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But it's becoming more difficult.
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You think? yeah.
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Trump is
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On record stating the case very plainly. 254
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We are going to start now hitting the land
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With regard to the cartels.
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The cartels are running mexico.
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It's very, very sad to watch
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And see what's happened to that country.
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But the cartels are running and they're killing 250,
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300,000 people in our country every single year.
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The drugs, it's horrible.
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It's devastated.
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Families generally lose a child or a parent.
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I mean, parents are dying too. it's drugs.
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They have armored vehicles.
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They have rocket launchers.
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I mean, this is a complete paramilitary organization.
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And they just decided, hey, you're going
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To kill our leader.
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We're going to make your life a living hell
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All over the country.
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They're famous for fentanyl, running cocaine.
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They're also famous for things like, fraud with timeshares.
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So actually, the treasury
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Department just sanctioned a mexican timeshare company
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That was part of which was run by this cartel.
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They're famous for ripping off senior citizens that are
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Vacationing there, american cedars, senior citizens.
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And then, of course, smuggling of
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Humans.
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So this is a really nasty cartel.
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That was a essentially,
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They lifted up this elemento as their preeminent leader.
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Right? it was a cult of personality.
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So for them to lose
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This guy would be extraordinarily destabilizing.
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So that's my theory.
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My theory is that the mexican government,
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That president trump has been putting the screws
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To the mexican government to get them to act.
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They finally did it after a year
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With our our help and involvement.
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So we'll see how this develops.
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Again, we're going to cover this more an hour or two.
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So stay tuned.
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Steve davis joins us next.
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Steve davis joins us next.
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Steve
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Davis, host of the steve davis show on blaze tv.
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Welcome back to the show, my friend.
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It's good to have you.
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Good to see you, too. how are you doing?
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I'm doing great.
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So, steve, you had this great tweet and you were talking.
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I mean, we can put it up on screen
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If you want a little bit long.
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313 so i just want to pull some, some threads from here.
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You're saying you're a child of the 80s.
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You detest iran, you cheer,
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You know, if you woke up this morning
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And assad, took them out, basically, however,
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We were told that they were taken care of,
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That this was already done, and now we're gearing up
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For another another invasion here, it looks like
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And you you start to.
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I felt like you were
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You were channeling your your inner
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Charlie were you're saying we don't
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We hate the brain rot of anti-semitism.
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But like for a moment, put yourself in their shoes
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And try and understand where they're coming from.
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Try and make sense of this.
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The, the, their counter theories in this, all of the.
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I thought you put it beautifully.
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So please check out this tweet from steve.
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He put it much more eloquently than i have just now.
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But break it down.
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Your big idea here, steve,
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And why you're trying, why
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You thought it was important that you put this out?
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Well, i mean, some of this is exactly
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What charlie and i texted each other the last june,
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The night that we bombed iran the first time.
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And generationally, i'm going to be way more
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Jingoistic about, let's make a run.
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The iranian regime assume room temperature.
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But i also understand the tension.
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I have a son in law that's enlisted right now.
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He was told by his unit, two years ago
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That if joe biden won, they were all just going
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To go over to syria for two years for reasons.
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And, and so i'm, i'm very
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I mean that that was basically it for reasons.
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Yeah.
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You know and so i'm, i'm sensitive to this in that
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What is the point of what we are doing here.
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And, and have we explained it.
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And hey, listen,
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I was the guy on the main stage that that you all put up
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Against the grippers.
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All right.
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So i mean,
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I think everybody knows where i stand on that entire debate.
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But i talked to a lot of those young men,
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Andrew and blake after that, after that, that talk
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And a lot of them, frankly, are just driven
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To the likes of fuentes on a couple of impulses.
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Number one,
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They don't want to be another generation of wimpy dudes.
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They don't want to grow up and be mike pence
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With the perpetual furrowed
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Brow and wearing sweater vest in july and hawaiian shirts
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In january. they don't want to be that guy.
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That's part of it, you know?
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And when we skipped kind of a generation of masculine
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Modeling and leadership, so they're kind of searching
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And somebody like fuentes kind of steps into that void
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And gives them an aberrant,
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I would say, demonic inversion of that.
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But the other is
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They have a lot of questions that i think we as the older
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Generation, have to answer questions like,
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Why is it harder than ever to find a wife?
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Why is it harder than ever when you have one
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To find a house and to buy one?
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We have the highest median age
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Home buyer in american history right now 41 years old.
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All right.
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Why, why why is why, you know, am i losing jobs
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In university universities?
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Even if i want to go become a gay race communist
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Or in the workplace to over 20 million foreigners
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That were imported over
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The last four years under joe biden and i.
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And i just think when we tell everybody
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Last june that we obliterated iran's nuclear capability,
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And then we're being told a mere eight months later
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That, nope, it's back.
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And now it requires the largest asset
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Deployment of our military since the invasion of iraq.
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I just think we need to step back and understand
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Some of the reasons why our young men are
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Contemplating going into some of the dark recesses
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Of the abyss that they are, because we have lacked
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Answers and substantive answers to some of these dilemmas.
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Why is it we're fighting harder for,
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We're fighting harder on the borders of iran,
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Right now than we are minneapolis.
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And i think that's a valid question.
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And if the older generation, such as myself and the boomers
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That are ahead of me,
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If we don't have good answers, then at that point
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It doesn't matter how many algorithms ban
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The likes of a fuentes people,
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Young men are going to go searching
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For people like that as sources that might come up
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With alternative theories like the tail wagging the dog.
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And it's really
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The jews and the israelis that are really in control
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Of the world.
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Well, when when we don't offer them
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Any prevailing theory of any common sense,
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Don't be surprised when they go looking for alternatives.
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Steve, throughout 329, this is,
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Apparently this austin tucker metcalf kid
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And tmz got this tweet of his or a text message exchange
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Said, i don't know if you've read up on the epstein files,
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But evil is real and unmistakable.
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The best people like you and i can do
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Is use what little influence we have.
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Tell other people
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About what you hear about the epstein files
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And what the government is doing about it.
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Raise awareness.
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So this is a guy that apparently is
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Like traditionally been a conservative.
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He's a he's been proud
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About his christian identity or his christian faith.
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And then he goes into mar-a-lago, seemingly
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To set fire to it, shoot somebody, maybe
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Assassinate the president.
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Thinking back to our
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Conversation in the last segment, how do you
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What are you thinking about this story?
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Steve?
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I think it
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First of all, it's
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It's brilliant to connect these two stories.
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And i and i listen as i get older.
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I'm getting that age.
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I have to hire my oldest daughter
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To run some of my social media, because i'm at the age
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Now where i just don't want to learn anything new.
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I'm good, i'm good, you know?
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And we all hit that age, right?
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And so next stop, gran torino, okay.
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And sour looks, all right. okay.
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And, you know, and i think the benefit that i have is i'm
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Launching a 19 year old son into manhood right now.
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All right? just graduated high school.
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Right.
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Has two job interviews today.
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He's got some some real talent, when it comes to
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To writing and content creation.
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But even when you're old, man's got connections.
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Those are some of the toughest businesses to break into.
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So, you know, he's
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Got to start at the bottom, you know, like, mr.
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Miyagi says send the flow kind of stuff, you know?
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And so it i that has been helpful to me
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To hold off some of my y'all are just lazy and soft
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Because i know at home he was raised in
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And being lazy and soft was not permitted in my home.
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So i so that helps me to not immediately
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Devolve to that sort of old man know
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It's a cloud default setting, because i now hear the other
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Side of the conversation.
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I hear what him in his peer group,
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A lot of these are kids from, you know,
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Good homes, christian home to
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To christian school, home schooled. right.
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And even they are feeling this tension,
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Let alone the young men that maybe didn't
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Have a good dad or any dad at all in the home
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To model anything to them at all.
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This idea that for the very first time it is very possible
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None of what we know as america
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Or the american dream will be there for them at all.
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And and then at the same token, what occupies their time?
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I mean, we had war, the jungle, when i was growing up,
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There were just certain things you could not say
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To another young man for fear that your parents
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Could not afford the orthodontist appointment.
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Okay.
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I mean, if you played football growing up as i did,
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You know what
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An oklahoma drill was, and that's where things came
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Correct real quick
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About the stuff you were maybe running your mouth
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About in school.
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Well, now, on these devices,
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I jump on snapchat, i jump on a reddit forum
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And i just say a gamer forum, and i just say things
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I'd never say to somebody else's face
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Because there's no instant recourse.
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And so the level of venom
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And toxicity is way higher at the exact same time.
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And so where does all that masculine energy go?
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We have a real, real crisis here.
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You know, to quote barack obama's former pastor,
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America's chickens are coming home to roost.
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We skipped a generation of masculine leadership
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In modeling in the home, in the pulpit,
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And in too much of our body
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Politic and cultural institutions.
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And so now the repercussions for that are here.
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And this is why i said,
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You know, and when i eulogized charlie
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At memphis, that for the for the mission,
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For his mission to reach the young men to
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To be confirmed and successful
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Is going to be determined now by the older men,
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The boomer men in their third act,
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The gen x men like me entering your third act,
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How you finish your race, how you model on the back end,
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What charlie was urging
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These young men to do on the front end.
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Because we should be the ones now that are living
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The best portion
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Of our lives,
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Living the blessing of getting married,
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Having children, staying with our wives,
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Making something of ourselves.
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We need to model that finish and finish well.
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Otherwise, i fear what's going to happen
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Collectively to this generation of young men for sure.
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Steve davis, thank you so much, my friend.
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It's always a pleasure having you. we'll see you again soon.
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Steve Deace: February 24, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

February 24, 2026 | 23:28

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