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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So what we were talking about. I brought this up.
I did my first CrossFit workout in seven or eight years.
I feel sore already. I'm sure the next couple days
are going to feel great. It is a lot harder
over a workout than I ever put myself through, which
is why I went there to the CrossFit gym to
get this kind of workout right, Because there's a coach
there and he's like, hey, keep going, Hey, you trying
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to shortcut your burpees? Stop it, you know, keeping me going.
And I was thinking to myself, just like, hmmm, quite
interesting that, you know, like if I can, if I
have somebody like there and really coaching me and pushing me,
that I could actually achieve quite a bit. Maybe I
needed more of that when I was younger. And it
got me to thinking because I know of European countries
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and other countries around the world that have mandatory military
service for young men, and this could be civil service as.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well and include women as well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm not trying to be sexist or anything, but it
just got me to thinking about this. The idea of
just having a little bit of structured and positive reinforcement
discipline that people could have as a program or as
a part of their lives while they're still young in
the school age, whether it's high school or college, and
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we don't have anything like that in our country. Is
that making our country more divided? Is that making our
country feel more I don't know behind the eight ball
when it comes to just our general feelings about the
other people who live and disagree with us politically. Well,
we're talking about it. Four two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number. And we got Mary on our
phone line. Mary, welcome to our show today. What do
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you think about this?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hi? Am Ray.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I went on a short term missions trip medical Missions
back in nineteen ninety one to Haiti. I had never
experienced real poverty before. I mean I grew up in
a poor family, but we had food and shelter. But
it so opened up my eyes and I literally bit
down and kissed the ground when we hit Miami. And
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then eight years later I went and worked in a
warren torny stricken country in Asia for over eleven years,
and I can tell you that it is so eye opening.
And these kids, because like what you said, a lot
of European and Asia countries, the kids do have to
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serve when they get out of high school. It would help,
I believe a lot for these kids to understand what
we live in here compared to the rest of the world,
and they might be a little more patriotic to this
country and very thankful that we are in America. So
I am totally for our government requiring some type of
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service humanitarian aid or military or whatever out of high
school so that these kids can really understand what blessing,
what Disneyland we truly do live in.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I think that's really powerful. Mary.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I really appreciate you calling in with that experience. Thank
you so much for listening.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Do you go to Miss Tip ever?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, but it was it was in the States, Okay,
So you didn't go to like a foreign, far away place.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Never have No.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
My sister did one to Cambodia right after high school
and she was there for like six months, which sounded
crazy to me at the time. She took a lot
of videos and pictures and stuff, and you know, I
was able to like watch that, you know, like kind
of vicariously through through her lens and I don't know,
like I feel like and you know, it was like
you know, church, church, going work and stuff. Like that,
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But I don't know, like there there is a level
of appreciation I think you probably get when you live
in a place like that, even for a very short time,
just even a few months. So the level of appreciation
for what our country is is one thing. But also
it's just our country has this, you know. And I looked,
I have all the countries, for whatever it's worth, I
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have every single country that has some type of military
like mandatory military service. This is not necessarily including civil service,
but just mandatory military service with civil service is an option.
And I'll get to some of these. But one thing
that I will tell you ahead of time is the
Western world. This is not a thing like like the
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Western hemisphere. Only Brazil and Cuba really have any sort
of mandatory military service for anybody. So it's not crazy
that the United States doesn't have this, because most countries
in our hemisphere don't even have this. But it's fascinating
some of the countries that do have this, And I'll
mention that in a second, and just you know why
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it's okay for them to do it and it seems
to work for them, and why, you know, a country
like ours, Yeah, it's just not something we've ever really
thought about post Vietnam. Tim's on our phone line of
four h two, five five, eight to eleven ten. Tim,
Welcome to the show today. What are you thinking about.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I was thinking that we kind of have that in
this country, but typically I have family members and the
way I grew up. You talk about people that kind
of grew up with a farm. Send kids that grew
up on the farm, and it seems like a lot
of kids that grow up that way tend to have
a little bit more selfish discipline in the way they
carry themselves in later in life. And I think it
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also pairs with a lot of what we do with
sports and athletics as well. There's a lot of self
discipline that's developed in that as well, for sure, and
the military, so we do have a lot of I
think in America we do have some avenues for that,
but I don't disagree that there are still some shortfall
in youth learning self discipline and the way they carry themselves.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's a good point, Tim, and there's a lot of
different ways that you can do that. And I don't know,
like I'm a big believer that I don't like it
when people tell me what to do. I'm kind of
one of those guys, and I know a lot of
people are like that. But there is something to be
said for what benefits there are when you expose yourself
to this kind of thing, right, Like whether it's being
a part of a team as a young person and
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having that type of accountability and understanding, like within social
circles how important your job is and how grateful you
are for the people around you. But also if you
did that on even a city basis, right, like, just
did some volunteer work within your own city, you can
feel some pride for trying to make your town or
city a better place, and that can go all the
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way up to military service. So I think there are
different ways to do that, But what my experience is
is I feel I always feel great when I have
the ability to feel like I've helped out in some way.
And maybe that's a feeling that more people would feel
if they were exposed to volunteering or in some cases,
you know, just being a part of a team that
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gives that level of self discipline like you mentioned, that
can help help grow a person, you know, because you know,
I'm not talking about twelve year olds here, I'm talking
about eighteen to twenty year olds or twenty four year olds, right,
But you can still instill a lot of these principles
in someone at age twelve or thirteen if you expose
them in the right ways to the right type of programs.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I agree with your earlier point as well that sometimes
I think we do need to be pushed a little
bit more, even in those age groups. We don't sometimes
have somebody there that's pushing us along, helping us realize
our real potential one.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Percent, one hundred percent. Thanks so much for the call man.
We really appreciate the time.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Ye thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
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Speaker 1 (07:23):
Or our conversation today we were talking about I just
threw this out here and we're just having a discussion
about it.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I did a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
CrossFit workout today. It's a first CrossFit workout in a while.
You have a coach standing there kind of telling you
and getting you to keep going. You're a part of
this group of people that are trying to achieve and
do the same things. And I don't know about a
lot of people out there, but mostly I was just
thinking to myself, like, if I would have had this
type of like if I would have been able to
normalize this type of accountability for myself when I was younger,
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I wouldn't need it now. I'd be able to push
myself because I had this moment where I was pushed
as a younger person. And maybe that's not one hundred
percent across the line, but I just I want everyone
to understand that this is just a conversation and not
me advocating for this directly. I don't know what kind
of hurdles mandatory military or civil service would even have
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to take to make this happen. I'm just saying that,
you know, maybe that level of discipline or maybe that
experience of having somebody, uh, you know, having to be
responsible and be helpful to your society, whether it's your city,
state or country that could be positive for some people.
I'm just throwing that out there and the conversation continues.
If you want to call in it. Four two five
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to five, eight eleven ten. Four two five to five,
eight eleven ten. Rod is on the line. Rod, welcome
to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Thank you Emory for taking the call. Yeah, I disagree
about mandatory service. I drove school bus for fourteen years
and they gave us a list of things the kids
should be accountable for, and neither the bus company nor
the school district would back up the drivers.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
And so it depends on the people in charge the.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Ten are You're going to brainwash everybody? Just think the
same thing anyway?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's yeah question.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I guess my only thing would be, uh, you
know that you can do a lot of different things
within military or civil service, right, you know, And I'm
not I don't think any of it has to be
overtly political. I just think that you know you're representing it.
You're wearing something that you know, uh, if you're putting
in a uniform, you know it has the United States
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flag on it or your state's flag on it, or
something that should that would instill, at least at a
certain point.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think Rod a bit of pride.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right, Well, I agree to.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
A point, but I lost high school classmates in Vietnam.
One got the Congressional Medal of Honor and kids today
we took them, me and another driver took him on
a field trip to a museum in Nebraska for national
regards and they actually got kicked out told never come back.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But I just want to reiterate Rod that I'm not
advocating for, like a people who don't actually have a
passion for being in the military, who might be doing,
you know, whatever it takes just to you know, fulfill
a mandatory idea. They don't have to be like in combat.
I'm not suggesting that. Just an idea of just going
through drill, having you know, the option to observe different
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types of jobs that are there and also be a
part of a unit and a team. I think that
could be positive, even if it isn't necessarily one you know,
uh like combat. And I'm not saying anybody who's doing
this should be just sent overseas, because I don't think
that's how a lot of these European countries do it.
I appreciate the call, Rod, thanks for listening to us.
I have a couple of Sean just sent another email
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and said the road was closed at Blair High and Rainwood.
Sorry forgot to mention that they also will have to
go up to Rainwood up Rainwood to get around it
for that, for that accident that we were talking about.
So that just something something there. We want to make
sure everybody has the latest information on that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I got some emails coming in Emory at kfab dot
com about this topic, and I don't want to I
can't read all this stuff, but only since this in
and said my wife and I always wonder why there
isn't some kind of program for the nonviolent community hours
needed for offenders that part of their time is to
go around with the proper authority and pick up trash
on the streets, the interstate exit rams throughout the city.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think I've seen something like that, like a program
where you know, like people do some community service hours
by you know, picking up trash. I don't know how
regular that is, but you know, that's a great idea.
I like the idea, and you want to talk about
again trying to provide some service to the place that
you're living in. I think that goes a long way
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to actually caring. You know, I don't know, there's just there,
there's something about caring that isn't overtly within us, Like
why should I care? That's a question a lot of
people in this day and age, especially young people, They
ask if it doesn't involve me, it doesn't include me,
or it's not something I'm interested in, why should I care?
And when you get to a point where we're talking
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about trying to aid or help your city, or aid
or help your state or even your country, you may
feel a bit differently about that. That's all I'm I
guess that's the that's more of my it's more of my.
My point here is if we had something like that,
would it insteadive asking like why should I care? I
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don't care, there's no reason for me to care. Well,
all of a sudden, now you feel a little bit
more of a feeling of pride and belonging to the
place that you're living in. And more than ever, more
people are moving around and taking jobs and you know,
you know, chasing dreams, going to different places, and that's
all fine and dandy, so I'm not here to condemn that.
I've done that too, but you know, trying to understand
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and and trying to make people feel like the country
as a whole is something that they can be proud
of instead of being combative with whoever's in charge, or
being combative with people who disagree with their political ideologies.
I just don't know how healthy that is, and maybe
something that like this that we're talking about could be
a bit of an answer for that. Pat is on
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the phone line at four two five five, eight eleven ten.
What it's on your mind today.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
Pat hi Emery, Hey, I just heard you talking about,
you know, just the personal discipline that you're dealing with
with doing the CrossFit, and I encourage you to do that.
But I about four years ago, I got involved in
a group in Omaha called F three. It's Fitness, Fellowship
and Faith and the mission of this group is to plant, grow,
and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of a
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male community leadership. And it's free, it's open to anyone.
It meets outside, which is probably the biggest challenge. But
the thing that I found is and I'm sixty six
years old, but I'm in the best shape I've been
since I was probably in college, and I've met just
some outstanding people that have encouraged me. And the third
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component is the faith component. And we just got done
here about a month ago where we had a big
gathering and we raised food for the Food Bank and
I don't know exactly how much we provided to them,
but it was a lot. There's I think about three
thousand guys that are part of this in Omaha, and
I just encourage you to check it out. I encourage
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your listeners to check it out because it's a life changer.
It's been a life changer for me, and I know
a lot of people that are involved in it as well.
There's also a lady's part of this too that the
ladies can meet and do the same thing.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
What's it called.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
It's called F three Omaha.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Interesting. Well, this is good stuff, Pat.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I know that certainly people are listening out there and say,
you know, that is something that I could use in
my life.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I really appreciate you calling in man.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Yeah, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, absolutely, this is my This is my plight in
life is try to be better every day. You know,
you want to wake up, you want to be better
every day, no matter what it is. You know, if
you got a hobby, or you want to get better
at playing guitar, or you want to be more physically fit,
or you just want to be, you know, like more
intrinsic with yourself and feel better about yourself, you want
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to be more faithful or anything like that. And man,
that kind of ambition to just be better every day
as a person in some way, like it's a powerful
thing if you can harness it. And I think that
that's more of what I've learned as the years have
gone on. And this has nothing to be at my
teachers when I was growing up, or my parents or
anybody like that, because I grew up a good kid
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and all that stuff. But there's something about just that
structure of discipline that can be instilled in you at
an earlier age than I started to understand it. And
it takes some misfires and sometimes you have to learn
as life is happening to you. But there's something also
about the health of not just you as a person,
but the people around you based on the person you're becoming,
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and that's an incredibly powerful thing as well. And when
you start noticing yourself feeling like you have better relationships
because of the person that you have become. That I
mean that takes the cake in terms of the euphoria
that I feel in my day to day life.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
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Speaker 1 (16:38):
I get home from this workout and I'm thinking to myself,
I have about forty five minutes a shower, eat lunch,
have like a protein shake, and like get to work right.
But I get home and my dogs are excited to
see us after us being gone for an hour. And
you know what, sometimes you just got to play with
the dog.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sometimes you gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You've you met my dogs, you know. My female especially
gets pretty when somebody comes in the house.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And I was playing a little tugg of war with
her and I stepped and I felt this thing like
come like a like a very sharp thing, kind of
like scratch my foot. I was like, ah, it's a
hardwood floor. Let me go ahead and see if I
can find the spot on the floor where that happened.
And I found this a little spot, and I pulled
the little tick of wood that I saw. But then
I was like, wow, my foot still hurts. And then
I looked at it. You know, you pick your foot
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up and you look at it and you're like, oh,
there's a giant shard of wood in my foot and
it was in there.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Ouch.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And my wife doesn't like feet very much, and my
feet kind of smell because I just got done working out,
So it's like, carry, can you help me deal with this?
And uh yeah, I had to get my foot wet
to soften the skin. She had to like dig in
there and eventually pull it out or hurt about as
bad coming out as it did going in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Uh not great. That's my day. That's the and I saw.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I didn't even get a chance to shower after I
got done because that took like twenty five minutes. This
is a twenty five minute ordeal to remove a splinter
from my foot for my own floor.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That can't be good.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Maybe you should have a pediatress on call, or maybe
I should just get it, you know, maybe I need
to get a new floor.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't carpet. Carpet would have saved all of that trouble.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, and I like carpet too, But this is a
battle I'm not gonna win, if you know what I mean.
Everybody nobody likes carpet anymore. It's hard to clean. I
get why my wife doesn't like it. I think the
dogs would like it better. I would like it better.
I think it'd be best for the house. I miss
a good carpet, I'm not I'm not gonna win that.
I miss a good carpet, watching a movie, just chilling
with some pillows and the floor carpet. Yeah, you tell
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you you do it on the on the carpet.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What I miss a good carpet? That's all?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Did you go with no furniture?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I had furniture, but I was in a family of six.
Not everybody got a spot on the couch.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Okay, all right, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pete Haig sith Pete Haig seth the trying to work
on being confirmed here right and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
from Alaska has said she cannot support him. She posted
on her x account. Given the global security environment where
operating in it is critical that we confirm a secretary
of Defense. However, I regret that I am unable to
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support mister Haigseth. So there's that there's going to need
to be more of this if this if he's not
going to be confirmed. But she continued by you know,
it's really long, but she basically said that she commends
him for his service to the nation. But here's the
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quote that kind of like stood out to me. Although
he has recently revised his statements on women in combat
since being nominated, I remain concerned about the message that
confirming mister Haggseth sends to women currently serving in those
aspiring to join. Women have served our nation with distinction,
overcoming immense obstacles to excel and combat and leadership roles,
and they deserve to know that their leader honors and
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values their commitment to our nation. While the allegations of
sexual assault and excessive drinking do nothing to quiet my concerns,
the past behaviors mister Haigseth has admitted to, including infidelity
on multiple occasions, demonstrate a lack of judgment that is
unbecoming of someone who would lead our armed forces. These
behaviors starkly contrast the values and discipline expected of service members.
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Men and women in uniform are held accountable for such actions,
and they deserve leaders who uphold those same standards. And
that's just part of the quote there from Lisa Murkowski.
What do you think there, buddy boy? Pretty well written
for somebody who knows, that knows the situation right from
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Jersey Shore.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The situation from Jersey Shore.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Now, I try to clarify when I can.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, there was a talk of how many other people
may do this, and the other person Susan Collins from Maine.
She is a Republican as well. And you have a
couple three people like you have a very small amount
of space that you have here. Well, Senator Susan Collins
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at about the same time an hour ago said this
on her ex After careful consideration, I have decided to
vote against Pete Hagsith's nomination for Secretary of Defense. While
I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment
to our service members and their families, I am concerned
that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary
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to succeed in the job. And this is among other things.
And again I don't it's too long to just read
the entire thing, but it's very similar in the tone
in the post. So I've had people email in, including
veteran named Ken, and I really appreciate Ken for sitting
in this email, but says, hey, you know, we need
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to tell these people that this is what we want.
We need to call these people, these Lisa Murkowski and
Susan Collins and let them know that we want them
to vote for Pete Haig sith the only thing that
I'm saying is appreciate this sentiment of like, let's reach out,
but these are not going to be people that you're
not changing their mind. And if you're in, how do
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I say this? Your voice matters And I'm never going
to tell you your voice doesn't matter. Thanks, But what would
the senator from Maine or Alaska really give a hoot
about If people from Nebraska and Iowa are calling in
and saying you need to change your mind. I think
there's going to be plenty of people from Alaska and
from Maine that also are calling right these anybody who's
a Republican supporter of Donald Trump is saying, why are
you getting in the way of what Donald Trump wants?
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And again, if they don't confirm him, which again we're
getting to a point here where I would be surprised
if he's not confirmed. But these are thoughtful enough statements
that these two senators specifically have cited his attitude toward
women in the military, his past transgressions that he is
admitted to throughout his life, and nobody's a perfect person,
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but this is being held against him in ways that
I don't think anyone in the Trump administration maybe would
have assumed that they would. And this goes back to
Matt Gates. I think he saw the writing on the
wall and earlier and he just got out of there
before they even had a chance to even really bring
this stuff up. So I wonder, you know, and if
it comes down to a tie and jad Vance, you know,
breaks the tie and uh he he is put forth
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to me, I just don't understand, like, like, we'll have
to see what the performance is on the job, but
he is going to be under a giant microscope. And
if he's not confirmed for whatever reason, if like there's
some momentum off of these two statements from Senator Susan
Collins of Maine and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska that
create you know, hey, if you're a third or a
fourth person and we can kind of get a little
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bit of a ball rolling and we decide not to
confirm him, well, we can make sure we get a
better person in their eyes for the job. While at
the same time, now you have completely set back the
timeline of trying to actually get somebody in the secretary
of the fence spot, which is incredibly important because of
what is happening around the world right now. So just
something to keep in mind if you've got thoughts on this,
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Speaker 1 (24:05):
I had Genus send an email and say the Republican
women in blue states are not Republicans. And this is
with the you know, this is with the subject line
saying rhinos right, And this is in response to Lisa
Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine kind of
leading the charge against Pete Haig Seth in the confirmation
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process for Secretary of the Fence. Now we have different
people like Susan who sends an email, so it's better
to stay on a timeline than actually to have an
individual that's qualified for the job. And Pete Haig Sith
is clearly not the guy. He's another sexual predator with
a raging alcohol problem who also does not have the
qualifications for this important position. These are the political differences
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in having these conversations that we just have different people, right, Like,
isn't that isn't that kind of crazy? Like at a
certain point, isn't it kind of crazy that in like
the same person, we have that many different viewpoints of
that ma any different approaches of Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Is that there are that many different opinions?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, It's just like I have two emails back to
back from two different people who listen to this show,
and one of them is just like Markowski and Collins
are rhinos, They're not really legitimate Republicans, and you know,
for voting against Hageseth. And then I have a person
immediately a couple of minutes later, so in an email
says straight up that Petere Haig seth is he's a
(25:24):
terrible guy and he shouldn't be serving as in a
position as high as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, again, he quoted hubas Tank when he said, I'm
not a perfect person.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, you know, he grew up in a new
metal arasol. Give him a pass on that. But I'm
just but like, like, in all honesty, it's just kind
of fascinating that we have such polarizing viewpoints.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Now, does he have military experience?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Does his military experience elevate to a point of him
being like a good secretary of Defense?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Who's to say?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
We've had people serving secretary of Defense that have you know,
a variety of different backgrounds. It's not that you have
to be like a five star general or even a
paper general like some people called Lloyd Austin. You know,
a guy who was high ranking, but was a guy
that just worked his way up through doing paperwork and
being in the right place with the entire ambition of
actually being the highest ranked. You know, there's different ways
(26:17):
to achieve ranking, right, you actually go and do stuff
and you get bestowed upon that rank or you're really
just trying to achieve a certain rank, and you do
everything that you possibly can't to move up those ranks
as quickly as you can. There's different ways to do
all this stuff, and then you know, when it comes
to actually doing the job, is any Democrat going to
actively say that any of Donald Trump's people are actually
going to like six to be successful. Well, they admit
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that they did good for any reason ever.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Maybe privately, but they've had a couple of Gin and tonics,
but that's unlikely.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Like you, like you, Let's say you and me go
and sit down with somebody that's very liberal and we're
just like, what do you think of the job that
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is doing, probably the least
controversial of any of the nominations. And let's say we've
gotten that war in Israel completely wrapped up, we got
that war in Ukraine completely wrapped up, China is playing
ball with US, North Korea is being pretty quiet, and
(27:09):
the cut that, like, we asked a question point blank,
how do you think Marco Ruby is doing a secretary
of State? What's the likelihood of them being like, yeah,
he's doing a great job. Like we're so blinded by
political affiliation that that is such a detriment to the
health of this nation. That's how I feel about it.
But it's hard to keep score because there is no scoreboard.
It's hard to keep score when there is no scoreboard.
(27:29):
You're already predisposed if you're a Republican to cheer on
these people, including hag Sith. You're predisposed, is a Democrat,
to hate all these guys, including hag Seth, and including
Marco Rubio. And you come up with every possible excuse
in the book or every possible you know, talking point
or bullet point to make either side correct. And that's
just what we live on when it comes to political conversation.
(27:49):
It's all about how you can twist your words. Is
that healthy at the end of the day, Look, that
would be my big question. And we'll never move off
of this because this has been going on since the
seventeen seventies, since we started talking about independence. I mean,
instead of political parties, it was pro loyalists, like the
loyalists to the crown and the people who wanted to
fight for American independence. From then on, there have been
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political factions on either side of an aisle in this country.
It's not going to change what I'm saying, though, is
the only thing that we can do to adjust that
is to notice that this is happening and maybe be
a little bit more objective in the way that we
talk about this stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I don't think that's too much to ask. Am I
asking for too much?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Maybe a little too much? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, if I'm asking too much, then I apologize. I
don't want to make anybody strain out there, strain their
brain stells or their ability to think critically about things
that are happening. But this is the problem because as
soon as I come to the table and say, look,
I think these Democrats actually did a really good job,
I'm going to have Republicans coming after me and saying,
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how can you say that? And then Democratic people won't reciprocate.
They won't be like, like, I'll tell you one Democratic
did a good job, and you tell me a Republican
who's doing a good job.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They don't want to play ball like that.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You're not going to find people who are willing to
admit that they were wrong about anything politically, regardless of
what the results are. It's unhealthy and I don't know
how we fix it, because it's just the way it's
always been either way, I'm just being an observationalist philosopher,
I guess. And we'll have more on the way on
news radio eleven teen KFAB
So what we were talking about. I brought this up.
I did my first CrossFit workout in seven or eight years.
I feel sore already. I'm sure the next couple days
are going to feel great. It is a lot harder
over a workout than I ever put myself through, which
is why I went there to the CrossFit gym to
get this kind of workout right, Because there's a coach
there and he's like, hey, keep going, Hey, you trying
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to shortcut your burpees? Stop it, you know, keeping me going.
And I was thinking to myself, just like, hmmm, quite
interesting that, you know, like if I can, if I
have somebody like there and really coaching me and pushing me,
that I could actually achieve quite a bit. Maybe I
needed more of that when I was younger. And it
got me to thinking because I know of European countries
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and other countries around the world that have mandatory military
service for young men, and this could be civil service as.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well and include women as well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I'm not trying to be sexist or anything, but it
just got me to thinking about this. The idea of
just having a little bit of structured and positive reinforcement
discipline that people could have as a program or as
a part of their lives while they're still young in
the school age, whether it's high school or college, and
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we don't have anything like that in our country. Is
that making our country more divided? Is that making our
country feel more I don't know behind the eight ball
when it comes to just our general feelings about the
other people who live and disagree with us politically. Well,
we're talking about it. Four two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number. And we got Mary on our
phone line. Mary, welcome to our show today. What do
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you think about this?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Hi? Am Ray.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I went on a short term missions trip medical Missions
back in nineteen ninety one to Haiti. I had never
experienced real poverty before. I mean I grew up in
a poor family, but we had food and shelter. But
it so opened up my eyes and I literally bit
down and kissed the ground when we hit Miami. And
(01:55):
then eight years later I went and worked in a
warren torny stricken country in Asia for over eleven years,
and I can tell you that it is so eye opening.
And these kids, because like what you said, a lot
of European and Asia countries, the kids do have to
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serve when they get out of high school. It would help,
I believe a lot for these kids to understand what
we live in here compared to the rest of the world,
and they might be a little more patriotic to this
country and very thankful that we are in America. So
I am totally for our government requiring some type of
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service humanitarian aid or military or whatever out of high
school so that these kids can really understand what blessing,
what Disneyland we truly do live in.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I think that's really powerful. Mary.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I really appreciate you calling in with that experience. Thank
you so much for listening.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Do you go to Miss Tip ever?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, but it was it was in the States, Okay,
So you didn't go to like a foreign, far away place.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Never have No.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
My sister did one to Cambodia right after high school
and she was there for like six months, which sounded
crazy to me at the time. She took a lot
of videos and pictures and stuff, and you know, I
was able to like watch that, you know, like kind
of vicariously through through her lens and I don't know,
like I feel like and you know, it was like
you know, church, church, going work and stuff. Like that,
(03:25):
But I don't know, like there there is a level
of appreciation I think you probably get when you live
in a place like that, even for a very short time,
just even a few months. So the level of appreciation
for what our country is is one thing. But also
it's just our country has this, you know. And I looked,
I have all the countries, for whatever it's worth, I
(03:46):
have every single country that has some type of military
like mandatory military service. This is not necessarily including civil service,
but just mandatory military service with civil service is an option.
And I'll get to some of these. But one thing
that I will tell you ahead of time is the
Western world. This is not a thing like like the
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Western hemisphere. Only Brazil and Cuba really have any sort
of mandatory military service for anybody. So it's not crazy
that the United States doesn't have this, because most countries
in our hemisphere don't even have this. But it's fascinating
some of the countries that do have this, And I'll
mention that in a second, and just you know why
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it's okay for them to do it and it seems
to work for them, and why, you know, a country
like ours, Yeah, it's just not something we've ever really
thought about post Vietnam. Tim's on our phone line of
four h two, five five, eight to eleven ten. Tim,
Welcome to the show today. What are you thinking about.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I was thinking that we kind of have that in
this country, but typically I have family members and the
way I grew up. You talk about people that kind
of grew up with a farm. Send kids that grew
up on the farm, and it seems like a lot
of kids that grow up that way tend to have
a little bit more selfish discipline in the way they
carry themselves in later in life. And I think it
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also pairs with a lot of what we do with
sports and athletics as well. There's a lot of self
discipline that's developed in that as well, for sure, and
the military, so we do have a lot of I
think in America we do have some avenues for that,
but I don't disagree that there are still some shortfall
in youth learning self discipline and the way they carry themselves.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's a good point, Tim, and there's a lot of
different ways that you can do that. And I don't know,
like I'm a big believer that I don't like it
when people tell me what to do. I'm kind of
one of those guys, and I know a lot of
people are like that. But there is something to be
said for what benefits there are when you expose yourself
to this kind of thing, right, Like whether it's being
a part of a team as a young person and
(05:43):
having that type of accountability and understanding, like within social
circles how important your job is and how grateful you
are for the people around you. But also if you
did that on even a city basis, right, like, just
did some volunteer work within your own city, you can
feel some pride for trying to make your town or
city a better place, and that can go all the
(06:04):
way up to military service. So I think there are
different ways to do that, But what my experience is
is I feel I always feel great when I have
the ability to feel like I've helped out in some way.
And maybe that's a feeling that more people would feel
if they were exposed to volunteering or in some cases,
you know, just being a part of a team that
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gives that level of self discipline like you mentioned, that
can help help grow a person, you know, because you know,
I'm not talking about twelve year olds here, I'm talking
about eighteen to twenty year olds or twenty four year olds, right,
But you can still instill a lot of these principles
in someone at age twelve or thirteen if you expose
them in the right ways to the right type of programs.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I agree with your earlier point as well that sometimes
I think we do need to be pushed a little
bit more, even in those age groups. We don't sometimes
have somebody there that's pushing us along, helping us realize
our real potential one.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Percent, one hundred percent. Thanks so much for the call man.
We really appreciate the time.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Ye thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Care all right, three fifteen. We'll take more calls coming
up next. This is a conversation I'm having a lot
of fun doing. I'm not going to stop if you
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Speaker 1 (07:23):
Or our conversation today we were talking about I just
threw this out here and we're just having a discussion
about it.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I did a.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
CrossFit workout today. It's a first CrossFit workout in a while.
You have a coach standing there kind of telling you
and getting you to keep going. You're a part of
this group of people that are trying to achieve and
do the same things. And I don't know about a
lot of people out there, but mostly I was just
thinking to myself, like, if I would have had this
type of like if I would have been able to
normalize this type of accountability for myself when I was younger,
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I wouldn't need it now. I'd be able to push
myself because I had this moment where I was pushed
as a younger person. And maybe that's not one hundred
percent across the line, but I just I want everyone
to understand that this is just a conversation and not
me advocating for this directly. I don't know what kind
of hurdles mandatory military or civil service would even have
(08:13):
to take to make this happen. I'm just saying that,
you know, maybe that level of discipline or maybe that
experience of having somebody, uh, you know, having to be
responsible and be helpful to your society, whether it's your city,
state or country that could be positive for some people.
I'm just throwing that out there and the conversation continues.
If you want to call in it. Four two five
(08:34):
to five, eight eleven ten. Four two five to five,
eight eleven ten. Rod is on the line. Rod, welcome
to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Thank you Emory for taking the call. Yeah, I disagree
about mandatory service. I drove school bus for fourteen years
and they gave us a list of things the kids
should be accountable for, and neither the bus company nor
the school district would back up the drivers.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
And so it depends on the people in charge the.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Ten are You're going to brainwash everybody? Just think the
same thing anyway?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's yeah question.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I guess my only thing would be, uh, you
know that you can do a lot of different things
within military or civil service, right, you know, And I'm
not I don't think any of it has to be
overtly political. I just think that you know you're representing it.
You're wearing something that you know, uh, if you're putting
in a uniform, you know it has the United States
(09:29):
flag on it or your state's flag on it, or
something that should that would instill, at least at a
certain point.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think Rod a bit of pride.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right, Well, I agree to.
Speaker 8 (09:41):
A point, but I lost high school classmates in Vietnam.
One got the Congressional Medal of Honor and kids today
we took them, me and another driver took him on
a field trip to a museum in Nebraska for national
regards and they actually got kicked out told never come back.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But I just want to reiterate Rod that I'm not
advocating for, like a people who don't actually have a
passion for being in the military, who might be doing,
you know, whatever it takes just to you know, fulfill
a mandatory idea. They don't have to be like in combat.
I'm not suggesting that. Just an idea of just going
through drill, having you know, the option to observe different
(10:26):
types of jobs that are there and also be a
part of a unit and a team. I think that
could be positive, even if it isn't necessarily one you know,
uh like combat. And I'm not saying anybody who's doing
this should be just sent overseas, because I don't think
that's how a lot of these European countries do it.
I appreciate the call, Rod, thanks for listening to us.
I have a couple of Sean just sent another email
(10:51):
and said the road was closed at Blair High and Rainwood.
Sorry forgot to mention that they also will have to
go up to Rainwood up Rainwood to get around it
for that, for that accident that we were talking about.
So that just something something there. We want to make
sure everybody has the latest information on that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I got some emails coming in Emory at kfab dot
com about this topic, and I don't want to I
can't read all this stuff, but only since this in
and said my wife and I always wonder why there
isn't some kind of program for the nonviolent community hours
needed for offenders that part of their time is to
go around with the proper authority and pick up trash
on the streets, the interstate exit rams throughout the city.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think I've seen something like that, like a program
where you know, like people do some community service hours
by you know, picking up trash. I don't know how
regular that is, but you know, that's a great idea.
I like the idea, and you want to talk about
again trying to provide some service to the place that
you're living in. I think that goes a long way
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to actually caring. You know, I don't know, there's just there,
there's something about caring that isn't overtly within us, Like
why should I care? That's a question a lot of
people in this day and age, especially young people, They
ask if it doesn't involve me, it doesn't include me,
or it's not something I'm interested in, why should I care?
And when you get to a point where we're talking
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about trying to aid or help your city, or aid
or help your state or even your country, you may
feel a bit differently about that. That's all I'm I
guess that's the that's more of my it's more of my.
My point here is if we had something like that,
would it insteadive asking like why should I care? I
(12:37):
don't care, there's no reason for me to care. Well,
all of a sudden, now you feel a little bit
more of a feeling of pride and belonging to the
place that you're living in. And more than ever, more
people are moving around and taking jobs and you know,
you know, chasing dreams, going to different places, and that's
all fine and dandy, so I'm not here to condemn that.
I've done that too, but you know, trying to understand
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and and trying to make people feel like the country
as a whole is something that they can be proud
of instead of being combative with whoever's in charge, or
being combative with people who disagree with their political ideologies.
I just don't know how healthy that is, and maybe
something that like this that we're talking about could be
a bit of an answer for that. Pat is on
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the phone line at four two five five, eight eleven ten.
What it's on your mind today.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
Pat hi Emery, Hey, I just heard you talking about,
you know, just the personal discipline that you're dealing with
with doing the CrossFit, and I encourage you to do that.
But I about four years ago, I got involved in
a group in Omaha called F three. It's Fitness, Fellowship
and Faith and the mission of this group is to plant, grow,
and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of a
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male community leadership. And it's free, it's open to anyone.
It meets outside, which is probably the biggest challenge. But
the thing that I found is and I'm sixty six
years old, but I'm in the best shape I've been
since I was probably in college, and I've met just
some outstanding people that have encouraged me. And the third
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component is the faith component. And we just got done
here about a month ago where we had a big
gathering and we raised food for the Food Bank and
I don't know exactly how much we provided to them,
but it was a lot. There's I think about three
thousand guys that are part of this in Omaha, and
I just encourage you to check it out. I encourage
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your listeners to check it out because it's a life changer.
It's been a life changer for me, and I know
a lot of people that are involved in it as well.
There's also a lady's part of this too that the
ladies can meet and do the same thing.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
What's it called.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
It's called F three Omaha.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Interesting. Well, this is good stuff, Pat.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I know that certainly people are listening out there and say,
you know, that is something that I could use in
my life.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I really appreciate you calling in man.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Yeah, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, absolutely, this is my This is my plight in
life is try to be better every day. You know,
you want to wake up, you want to be better
every day, no matter what it is. You know, if
you got a hobby, or you want to get better
at playing guitar, or you want to be more physically fit,
or you just want to be, you know, like more
intrinsic with yourself and feel better about yourself, you want
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to be more faithful or anything like that. And man,
that kind of ambition to just be better every day
as a person in some way, like it's a powerful
thing if you can harness it. And I think that
that's more of what I've learned as the years have
gone on. And this has nothing to be at my
teachers when I was growing up, or my parents or
anybody like that, because I grew up a good kid
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and all that stuff. But there's something about just that
structure of discipline that can be instilled in you at
an earlier age than I started to understand it. And
it takes some misfires and sometimes you have to learn
as life is happening to you. But there's something also
about the health of not just you as a person,
but the people around you based on the person you're becoming,
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and that's an incredibly powerful thing as well. And when
you start noticing yourself feeling like you have better relationships
because of the person that you have become. That I
mean that takes the cake in terms of the euphoria
that I feel in my day to day life.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
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Speaker 1 (16:38):
I get home from this workout and I'm thinking to myself,
I have about forty five minutes a shower, eat lunch,
have like a protein shake, and like get to work right.
But I get home and my dogs are excited to
see us after us being gone for an hour. And
you know what, sometimes you just got to play with
the dog.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Sometimes you gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You've you met my dogs, you know. My female especially
gets pretty when somebody comes in the house.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And I was playing a little tugg of war with
her and I stepped and I felt this thing like
come like a like a very sharp thing, kind of
like scratch my foot. I was like, ah, it's a
hardwood floor. Let me go ahead and see if I
can find the spot on the floor where that happened.
And I found this a little spot, and I pulled
the little tick of wood that I saw. But then
I was like, wow, my foot still hurts. And then
I looked at it. You know, you pick your foot
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up and you look at it and you're like, oh,
there's a giant shard of wood in my foot and
it was in there.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Ouch.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And my wife doesn't like feet very much, and my
feet kind of smell because I just got done working out,
So it's like, carry, can you help me deal with this?
And uh yeah, I had to get my foot wet
to soften the skin. She had to like dig in
there and eventually pull it out or hurt about as
bad coming out as it did going in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Uh not great. That's my day. That's the and I saw.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I didn't even get a chance to shower after I
got done because that took like twenty five minutes. This
is a twenty five minute ordeal to remove a splinter
from my foot for my own floor.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That can't be good.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Maybe you should have a pediatress on call, or maybe
I should just get it, you know, maybe I need
to get a new floor.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't carpet. Carpet would have saved all of that trouble.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, and I like carpet too, But this is a
battle I'm not gonna win, if you know what I mean.
Everybody nobody likes carpet anymore. It's hard to clean. I
get why my wife doesn't like it. I think the
dogs would like it better. I would like it better.
I think it'd be best for the house. I miss
a good carpet, I'm not I'm not gonna win that.
I miss a good carpet, watching a movie, just chilling
with some pillows and the floor carpet. Yeah, you tell
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you you do it on the on the carpet.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What I miss a good carpet? That's all?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Did you go with no furniture?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I had furniture, but I was in a family of six.
Not everybody got a spot on the couch.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Okay, all right, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pete Haig sith Pete Haig seth the trying to work
on being confirmed here right and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
from Alaska has said she cannot support him. She posted
on her x account. Given the global security environment where
operating in it is critical that we confirm a secretary
of Defense. However, I regret that I am unable to
(19:06):
support mister Haigseth. So there's that there's going to need
to be more of this if this if he's not
going to be confirmed. But she continued by you know,
it's really long, but she basically said that she commends
him for his service to the nation. But here's the
(19:29):
quote that kind of like stood out to me. Although
he has recently revised his statements on women in combat
since being nominated, I remain concerned about the message that
confirming mister Haggseth sends to women currently serving in those
aspiring to join. Women have served our nation with distinction,
overcoming immense obstacles to excel and combat and leadership roles,
and they deserve to know that their leader honors and
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values their commitment to our nation. While the allegations of
sexual assault and excessive drinking do nothing to quiet my concerns,
the past behaviors mister Haigseth has admitted to, including infidelity
on multiple occasions, demonstrate a lack of judgment that is
unbecoming of someone who would lead our armed forces. These
behaviors starkly contrast the values and discipline expected of service members.
(20:15):
Men and women in uniform are held accountable for such actions,
and they deserve leaders who uphold those same standards. And
that's just part of the quote there from Lisa Murkowski.
What do you think there, buddy boy? Pretty well written
for somebody who knows, that knows the situation right from
(20:36):
Jersey Shore.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
The situation from Jersey Shore.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Now, I try to clarify when I can.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, there was a talk of how many other people
may do this, and the other person Susan Collins from Maine.
She is a Republican as well. And you have a
couple three people like you have a very small amount
of space that you have here. Well, Senator Susan Collins
(21:05):
at about the same time an hour ago said this
on her ex After careful consideration, I have decided to
vote against Pete Hagsith's nomination for Secretary of Defense. While
I appreciate his courageous military service and his ongoing commitment
to our service members and their families, I am concerned
that he does not have the experience and perspective necessary
(21:26):
to succeed in the job. And this is among other things.
And again I don't it's too long to just read
the entire thing, but it's very similar in the tone
in the post. So I've had people email in, including
veteran named Ken, and I really appreciate Ken for sitting
in this email, but says, hey, you know, we need
(21:47):
to tell these people that this is what we want.
We need to call these people, these Lisa Murkowski and
Susan Collins and let them know that we want them
to vote for Pete Haig sith the only thing that
I'm saying is appreciate this sentiment of like, let's reach out,
but these are not going to be people that you're
not changing their mind. And if you're in, how do
(22:08):
I say this? Your voice matters And I'm never going
to tell you your voice doesn't matter. Thanks, But what would
the senator from Maine or Alaska really give a hoot
about If people from Nebraska and Iowa are calling in
and saying you need to change your mind. I think
there's going to be plenty of people from Alaska and
from Maine that also are calling right these anybody who's
a Republican supporter of Donald Trump is saying, why are
you getting in the way of what Donald Trump wants?
(22:29):
And again, if they don't confirm him, which again we're
getting to a point here where I would be surprised
if he's not confirmed. But these are thoughtful enough statements
that these two senators specifically have cited his attitude toward
women in the military, his past transgressions that he is
admitted to throughout his life, and nobody's a perfect person,
(22:49):
but this is being held against him in ways that
I don't think anyone in the Trump administration maybe would
have assumed that they would. And this goes back to
Matt Gates. I think he saw the writing on the
wall and earlier and he just got out of there
before they even had a chance to even really bring
this stuff up. So I wonder, you know, and if
it comes down to a tie and jad Vance, you know,
breaks the tie and uh he he is put forth
(23:12):
to me, I just don't understand, like, like, we'll have
to see what the performance is on the job, but
he is going to be under a giant microscope. And
if he's not confirmed for whatever reason, if like there's
some momentum off of these two statements from Senator Susan
Collins of Maine and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska that
create you know, hey, if you're a third or a
fourth person and we can kind of get a little
(23:33):
bit of a ball rolling and we decide not to
confirm him, well, we can make sure we get a
better person in their eyes for the job. While at
the same time, now you have completely set back the
timeline of trying to actually get somebody in the secretary
of the fence spot, which is incredibly important because of
what is happening around the world right now. So just
something to keep in mind if you've got thoughts on this,
(23:53):
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Speaker 7 (24:00):
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Speaker 1 (24:05):
I had Genus send an email and say the Republican
women in blue states are not Republicans. And this is
with the you know, this is with the subject line
saying rhinos right, And this is in response to Lisa
Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine kind of
leading the charge against Pete Haig Seth in the confirmation
(24:27):
process for Secretary of the Fence. Now we have different
people like Susan who sends an email, so it's better
to stay on a timeline than actually to have an
individual that's qualified for the job. And Pete Haig Sith
is clearly not the guy. He's another sexual predator with
a raging alcohol problem who also does not have the
qualifications for this important position. These are the political differences
(24:47):
in having these conversations that we just have different people, right, Like,
isn't that isn't that kind of crazy? Like at a
certain point, isn't it kind of crazy that in like
the same person, we have that many different viewpoints of
that ma any different approaches of Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Is that there are that many different opinions?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, It's just like I have two emails back to
back from two different people who listen to this show,
and one of them is just like Markowski and Collins
are rhinos, They're not really legitimate Republicans, and you know,
for voting against Hageseth. And then I have a person
immediately a couple of minutes later, so in an email
says straight up that Petere Haig seth is he's a
(25:24):
terrible guy and he shouldn't be serving as in a
position as high as Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, again, he quoted hubas Tank when he said, I'm
not a perfect person.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean, you know, he grew up in a new
metal arasol. Give him a pass on that. But I'm
just but like, like, in all honesty, it's just kind
of fascinating that we have such polarizing viewpoints.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Now, does he have military experience?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Does his military experience elevate to a point of him
being like a good secretary of Defense?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Who's to say?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
We've had people serving secretary of Defense that have you know,
a variety of different backgrounds. It's not that you have
to be like a five star general or even a
paper general like some people called Lloyd Austin. You know,
a guy who was high ranking, but was a guy
that just worked his way up through doing paperwork and
being in the right place with the entire ambition of
actually being the highest ranked. You know, there's different ways
(26:17):
to achieve ranking, right, you actually go and do stuff
and you get bestowed upon that rank or you're really
just trying to achieve a certain rank, and you do
everything that you possibly can't to move up those ranks
as quickly as you can. There's different ways to do
all this stuff, and then you know, when it comes
to actually doing the job, is any Democrat going to
actively say that any of Donald Trump's people are actually
going to like six to be successful. Well, they admit
(26:39):
that they did good for any reason ever.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Maybe privately, but they've had a couple of Gin and tonics,
but that's unlikely.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Like you, like you, Let's say you and me go
and sit down with somebody that's very liberal and we're
just like, what do you think of the job that
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is doing, probably the least
controversial of any of the nominations. And let's say we've
gotten that war in Israel completely wrapped up, we got
that war in Ukraine completely wrapped up, China is playing
ball with US, North Korea is being pretty quiet, and
(27:09):
the cut that, like, we asked a question point blank,
how do you think Marco Ruby is doing a secretary
of State? What's the likelihood of them being like, yeah,
he's doing a great job. Like we're so blinded by
political affiliation that that is such a detriment to the
health of this nation. That's how I feel about it.
But it's hard to keep score because there is no scoreboard.
It's hard to keep score when there is no scoreboard.
(27:29):
You're already predisposed if you're a Republican to cheer on
these people, including hag Sith. You're predisposed, is a Democrat,
to hate all these guys, including hag Seth, and including
Marco Rubio. And you come up with every possible excuse
in the book or every possible you know, talking point
or bullet point to make either side correct. And that's
just what we live on when it comes to political conversation.
(27:49):
It's all about how you can twist your words. Is
that healthy at the end of the day, Look, that
would be my big question. And we'll never move off
of this because this has been going on since the
seventeen seventies, since we started talking about independence. I mean,
instead of political parties, it was pro loyalists, like the
loyalists to the crown and the people who wanted to
fight for American independence. From then on, there have been
(28:11):
political factions on either side of an aisle in this country.
It's not going to change what I'm saying, though, is
the only thing that we can do to adjust that
is to notice that this is happening and maybe be
a little bit more objective in the way that we
talk about this stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I don't think that's too much to ask. Am I
asking for too much?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Maybe a little too much? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, if I'm asking too much, then I apologize. I
don't want to make anybody strain out there, strain their
brain stells or their ability to think critically about things
that are happening. But this is the problem because as
soon as I come to the table and say, look,
I think these Democrats actually did a really good job,
I'm going to have Republicans coming after me and saying,
(28:52):
how can you say that? And then Democratic people won't reciprocate.
They won't be like, like, I'll tell you one Democratic
did a good job, and you tell me a Republican
who's doing a good job.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They don't want to play ball like that.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You're not going to find people who are willing to
admit that they were wrong about anything politically, regardless of
what the results are. It's unhealthy and I don't know
how we fix it, because it's just the way it's
always been either way, I'm just being an observationalist philosopher,
I guess. And we'll have more on the way on
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