October 27, 2023 • 22 mins
After a mass shooting in Maine late wednesday night, we once again begin to hear the familiar calls for gun control. But is the gun really to blame? We will take a look at the root cause of mass shootings, and why gun control really wont fix the problem.
For years we have heard that young people are ruining the workplace with high expectations and poor work ethic. Today we will take a look at a young lady who has taken it upon herself to prove all those people right.
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For years we have heard that young people are ruining the workplace with high expectations and poor work ethic. Today we will take a look at a young lady who has taken it upon herself to prove all those people right.
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Alrighty ladies and gentlemen, welcome backinto the next day and before so obviously
the biggest news of the day Wednesday, Wednesday evening, a man killed eighteen
people. Eighteen people and he woundedthirteen more. This shooting was done at
actually two different locations, both ofthem were in Lewiston, Maine. Of
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course, as always, the storyis immediately gun controlled. Without a second
thought, people immediately jump to arguingover gun control, and honestly, it's
sick. Before we even had countedthe bodies, before we even knew how
many people had actually died in theshooting, there were people calling for gun
control. I mean, just likethey always do. We can't have even
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the smallest amount of time to actuallygrieve the tragedy that happened before we start
attacking each other and blaming everyone exceptthe shooter for what happened. And make
no mistake, this is just blameshifting. That's all that it is.
That's all that the gun control narrativeis is blame shifting. People always blame
the gun people always blame the NRA. People always blame Second Amendment supporters and
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gun owners across the country. Thoseare always the people that are at fault
for these shootings, and it's neverthe actual person who did the shooting that
catches the flag for it. Itcan't ever just be an evil person did
an evil thing. Everything always hasto just be turned into a political weapon
that we can wield against the otherside of the aisle. I mean,
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it's really truly disgusting the fact thatwe keep politicizing these tragedies rather than actually
trying to solve them. Instead,they just end up getting turned into political
tool. Now, of course,this is like the billionth time that we've
gone through this cycle, so bynow you don't need me to tell you
that this is a mental health problemand not a gun problem. We have
had guns in this country since beforethe country existed, and don't give me
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this garbage either about how it's becausewe haven't always had semi automatic AR fifteen
style weapons. The issue of massshootings didn't just magically appear the moment that
military technology finally caught up with evilpeople's desire to murder. That's not what
happened. Don't believe anyone who tellsyou that, because it's a lie.
The ArmaLite Model fifteen, which iswhat the r fifteen stands for It doesn't
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stand for assault rifle. It standsfor Armaalite rifle because that's a company that
made it. ArmaLite. It's thefifteenth model, which is why it's called
the AR fifteen. It was originallyinvented in nineteen fifty six. This didn't
immediately become a widespread issue in nineteenfifty six, which if the gun was
truly the problem, that's what wouldhave happened. We would have seen a
massive spike in mass shootings in nineteenfifty six, but we didn't. We
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really didn't see a huge spike inmass shootings until about two thousand. That's
when we started seeing five to sevenmass shootings a year, and then in
twenty fifteen we go from five toseven ish to like twelve. That's when
the real spike is. The ArmaLight fifteen rifle has been around for a
long time. Mass shootings are arelatively new problem, aren't they. But
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let's be honest, nineteen fifty sixand the Armor Light fifteen rifle wasn't even
the first high capacity rapid fire riflethat we've had in the United States.
The dirty little secret that nobody likesto tell you when talking about gun control
and mass shootings, is that wehave had rifles capable of carrying out mass
shootings exactly like this one since eighteensixty, since the Civil War. In
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eighteen sixty, the Henry rifle beganproduction. That rifle can crank out up
to thirty rounds in a single minute, which is more than enough for this
shooter in Maine to have gone inand done what he did. That original
model could carry fifteen rounds at once, and you can pump those lever action
rights out pretty quick. You canfire real fast with those things. Believe
me, I've done it. Thisguy killed eighteen people at two different locations,
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which means with a lever action riflethat has fifteen rounds in it,
that can shoot up to thirty aminute, depending on how quickly you can
put rounds back into the magazine,which isn't very hard. This guy easily
could have used a Henry lever actionrifle to do this mass shooting and would
have been just as effective. Andthis technology has been around since quite literally
the eighteen sixties, going on onehundred and sixty years, almost two hundred
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years we've had this technology, andyet this didn't become a problem until the
last thirty to twenty really more likethe last fifteen. So don't tell me
it's the guns. Don't tell meit's the high capacity magazines. So what
is it then? Yeah, it'smental health. But beyond that, what
is it? Well, it's afailure of law enforcement to be completely honest
with you, just like it wasthe last time and the time before that.
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The law enforcement here is just completelycrapped to the bed on this one.
Well, how so what do Imean by that? Well, for
starters, literally everyone should have seenthis coming. This isn't some nobody who
just randomly snapped one day and becausehe had a perfectly clean record, he
was able to go pick up anar in twenty minutes from the local pawnshop
and then he went and murdered people. Law enforcement knew about this guy.
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They knew his name, they knewhis address, and they knew his mental
health history, which spoiler alert isnot great. Well how did they know
all this, you might ask?He was in the army. That's how
they knew. They know everything abouthim. According to the Daily Wire,
this guy was trained as a firearmsinstructor in the US Army reserves, which
means he was in the National Guard. That's what that means. There was
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very little that the United States governmentdoes not know when it comes to their
soldiers. So they should have knownwhen he started reporting what sounds like the
symptoms of schizophrenia. Apparently this guywas hearing voices telling him to shoot up
the National Guard base, and itgot so bad that he ended up being
committed to a mental health facility fortwo weeks over this summer. This summer,
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for two weeks, he was ina mental health facility. This is
recent. So how did he endup back on the streets. Well,
apparently they just let him out.So then we say, okay, well
this makes the case for red flaglaws, right, people with a history
of mental health issues shouldn't be allowedguns. Guess what, we already have
red flag laws according to the ATF. That's the Bureau of Alcohol to back
on firearms, they're the people incharge of enforcing gun laws. On the
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federal level. Any person who hasbeen adjudicated as a mental defective or quote
unquote committed to a mental institution isprohibited under federal law from shipping, transporting,
receiving, or possessing any firearm orammunition. So under federal law,
this guy should not have been allowedto have the gun that he used to
carry out this mass shooting, buthe had it. Anyway, You mean
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to tell me that these red flaglaws and all these gun regulations don't work
because criminals don't care about the law. How could that be? Welcome to
reality. People. You can passall the laws you want, but guess
what, criminals are still going tocommit crimes. Evil people are still going
to do evil things. So despiteall the federal agencies and all the federal
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laws that we have that are supposedto stop things like this from happening,
this guy still had a gun andhe was still able to murder people with
it. So that tells us eitherone of two things happened. Either this
guy got out of the mental healthfacility that he should have never been released
from, and then everyone in chargeof enforcing these laws just decided to completely
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ignore them and completely ignore this guy. And despite the fact that he was
in the US Army reserves, sothe government knows he had these guns,
they just didn't bother to enforce thesered flag laws that are already on the
books. Or the other possibility,which I think is Honestly, the more
likely possibility is this guy got outof the mental health institution, they went
through all the procedures, they tookaway his guns, and then he got
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some illegally. That's what's more likelybecause breaking news. These people don't care
about the fact that they're not allowedto have guns. So more rules,
more regulations are clearly not the solutionof this problem, because we have all
the rules and regulations you could possiblywant, and this still happen. This
is an example of the failures oflaw enforcement. This is an example of
the failures of mental health and justthe culture in this country. I guarantee
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you if this man couldn't have gottenhis hands on a firearm, he would
have done this same mass murder witha knife, or a bomb or just
a truck. And you know howI know that because that's what we see
in Europe, where stabbings and peoplegetting ran over with trucks and bombings are
commonplace. So let's all be honestwith ourselves and recognize just this once,
that the guns are not the problem, and let's skip this stupid gun control
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debate and start asking the real questions, like how was this man able to
go do one shooting and then driveto the other side of town and do
another one. Because remember this happenedat two different locations. Those two locations
are on the opposite sides of town. One was at a bowling alley and
one was at a bar, againthe opposite side of town. This guy
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went and did one shooting and managedto make it the entire way to the
other side of town without getting stoppedby law enforcement, and then do the
same thing at another spot. Whyare we not talking about the fact that
we still haven't been able to findthis guy as of the time I'm recording
this. This shooting happened two daysago. They didn't bother checking his house
to see if they could find himthere until the night before. And they
know where he lives because he's inthe army. They have his address on
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file, and they didn't think togo check it until yesterday night, And
as of this morning, they stillhaven't found the guy. They sat in
there and were throwing flash bangs athis house for two hours yesterday. I
was watching it on the news,and then I wake up this morning and
they still haven't caught him. He'sstill on the run. He's still considered
armed and dangerous. They found histruck in the river, but they don't
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know where he is. Why aren'twe asking more questions about that? Why
aren't we trying to figure out whoat this mental health institution he was at
let this clearly unstable guy out.Why aren't we trying to figure out why,
despite the fact that we give theATF basically free reign to do whatever
the hell they want and all kindsof tax dollars, why didn't they enforce
any of the laws that they haveon the books when it comes to this
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guy. I mean, they're stilltoo busy going after January six ers to
make sure that not shootings like thisdon't happen. I mean, that's their
job to prevent gun crime. Andyet instead of them actually going out and
preventing gun crime, we just keepseeing ring doorbell videos posted on Twitter of
ATF agents showing up at people's houseswithout warrants, trying to ask them about
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their gun collection. How about theATF actually do their jobs? How about
that? But no, it's definitelythe guns that are the problem, and
not at all the fact that thegovernment that's supposed to be protecting its citizens
is completely failing at its job andat the same time actively pushing for you
to not be able to defend yourself. So, just this once, can
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we skip the politicking? Can weskip the disingenuous nonsense. We all know
what the problem is. We allknow what the problem is not. The
problem is not guns. The problemis mental health and law enforcement and competence.
When the authorities who are supposed tobe keeping American people safe completely fail,
they need to be called out onthat. So let's not do the
blame shifting. Let's solve the theactual problems here instead of arguing about gun
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control so that we can win morevotes from people who don't know any better.
All right, I want to giveyou a quick update on everything going
on in the Middle East, specificallywhat's going on with America and our resources
and our troops. So, ofcourse, we have bases all throughout the
Middle East. We have all typesof different assets and all types of different
places. But the one thing thatall of those assets share at this point
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is they're all being attacked by Iranianproxy groups. In just the last several
days, there's been a total offourteen different attacks on United States bases and
we've had I want to say,twenty one or twenty four people injured right
now, no deaths that I've seen, Like, we haven't had US service
members killed, but they have beeninjured because we've got drone strikes hitting our
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military bases. So of course theUnited States presence in the Middle East is
being ramped up. We've been sendingmore troops, we've been sending more planes.
I mentioned last week that two thousandtroops had been put on prepared to
deploy orders to go to the MiddleEast. As of right now. Last
time I checked, nine hundred ofthose total had actually been deployed. So
there's a very palpable feeling that we'reabout to get sucked into another war.
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A lot of people are talking aboutit, a lot of people are noticing
it, and it's a justified feeling. We're in a situation that we kind
of had become unfamiliar with because underDonald Trump, for four years, we
didn't have a situation like this.I don't think we've talked about enough the
fact that under Donald Trump we didnot have to enter into a new war
for the first time since God onlyknows when it used to be commonplace that
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every couple of years American soldiers wouldgear up and go into the Middle East
or go into wherever and fight awar. And then for four years under
Donald Trump, we didn't have that. And now all of a sudden it's
back. We're in that same situationagain. What changed people, Well,
i'll tell you what happened. Wewent from a leader who people were scared
of, who people were intimidated by, who actually led and demonstrated when he
had to that we had power andwe will use it. We went from
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that to somebody who literally doesn't evenknow what day it is. Biden is
asleep at the wheel, dreaming aboutice cream probably, and meanwhile you've got
the Secretary of Defense running the showand we're about to have another war.
Joe Biden hasn't even said anything aboutit. This is one of those times
where you need somebody like Donald Trumpwho's gonna do something like send a picture
to the leader of our enemy ofhis house and say, hey, we
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know exactly where you're at. Stoptouching our stuff, or we're gonna blow
you up. That's how you pacifythese situations. These people only respond to
strength. These terrorists in the MiddleEast only respond to strength. You cannot
be nice to these people. Itdoesn't work. The fact that we've been
trying this for three plus years andwe still haven't figured it out. That's
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why we're about to be involved inanother war. It's because Joe Biden is
weak, and he's projecting weakness toevery single enemy the United States has,
and it's gonna be American service membersand their families who end up paying the
price for this. We're gonna endup having to send our soldiers overseas because
the population here in America was toobusy worrying about other people's feelings to elect
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somebody who is actually competent to ourhighest office. A lot of the election
narrative lately has been talking about theeconomy then versus now. I think we
should be talking more about just theglobal situation with regards to whether or not
we're at war then versus now.Let's look at who we were at peace
with then versus who we're getting readyto start launching missiles at now. I
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think that's the biggest story of thetwenty twenty four election, or at least
it should be. I'll tell youwhat I could really go for some mean
tweets right now that's for sure.I'll take that over World War three any
day. All Right. So,there's been a lot of talk lately about
how millennials and just younger people ingeneral are just destroying the American workspace.
And then for a while I thought, you know, it can't really be
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that bad, can it. It'sgotta be just people exaggerating. Yeah,
sure, there's probably a few peoplethat are just problems in the workspace.
And of course there's been the infiltrationof the gender ideology and all that into
the workspace, and I'm sure that'smade things difficult and and things. But
it can't really be that bad,can It can't be millennials absolutely destroying the
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workspace. Well, after I sawthis video, actually changed my mind on
that young people are destroying the workplace, and I recant all of my previous
doubt on that. I apologize Iwas wrong. So I'm gonna play this
video for you guys so you canhear it, and then we're gonna talk
about it, because this is justa perfect example of everything wrong with the
modern work ethic, with people andtheir demand for things to be accommodated to
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them, the amount of entitled youngperson that just radiates off of this video
actually stresses me out, and Ithink it's causing me to lose my voice.
Right now, Jay, let's goahead and jump right into it.
So I got fired no cause,just vibes, And when I was like,
why, why is this happening,they were like, well, it
just seems like you're not really investedlong termly, it seems like you really
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don't like your job, all right, So first things first, just right
there, the fact that she openedthis video with the phrase no cause just
vibes tells me everything I need toknow about this person. This is immediately
someone that I don't want to haveanything to do with. If I was
a business owner and one of myemployees said that phrase to me, I
would fire them on the spot justfor that. Now, I'm not one
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hundred percent I'm actually proud to saythis. I am not hipped to this
lingo. I'm not one hundred percentsure what this means, but just putting
it in context, I'm assuming itmeans that she was not given any cause.
She was just fired, which isthen immediately refuted by her listing the
cause that her employer gave for firingher, which was she doesn't seem in
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vexted long term, and it doesn'tseem like she likes her job, which
is a perfectly valid reason to firesomebody. Like, first of all,
if you're hiring somebody, you don'twant to hire somebody that you're going to
have to replace again in six monthsto a year, because hiring people and
doing all that paperwork actually costs money. So why would I pay you for
six months just to go restart theprocess all over and have to pay somebody
else in six more months. Andif you're a wet paper towel of a
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person that's just sucking all the positiveenergy out of a work environment, which
is what this lady seems to be, just from the little bit of the
video that we've heard so far,why would I want you hanging around my
office just collecting a paycheck and bein a pain in the butt. So,
I mean, we're not even halfwayinto the video and I already want
to fire this check myself, Butlet's keep going. There's more. And
I was like, yeah, ofcourse I don't like my job. Since
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when are we sorry, Since whenare we supposed to like our jobs?
I thought, I thought you justbootstraps it and just muscle through the day.
Like my Republican dad told me,whoop, God, corporate America is
just getting it out of control.Yeah, you're right, it's totally Corporate
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America's definitely not you. You,you couldn't possibly be the problem. Okay.
First of all, if your employercan tell that you're just bootstrapsing it,
quote unquote, then you're doing abad job. Okay, even if
you don't like your job, youdon't have to constantly show it. If
people can visibly tell that you don'tlike your job, then you are the
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problem. Because even if you're inan employment situation that you don't necessarily want
to be in that you don't enjoy, you don't have to let everybody know
that you don't. You can justnot like your job and then continue to
do a good job anyway. Andif you're going out of your way to
make sure everybody knows that you don'tlike your job and you're having a bad
time, then yeah, they're gonnafire you, because, like I said,
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you're just a wet paper towel ofa person and you're sucking up all
the joy out of the entire building. And yeah, I submit to you
that you actually are supposed to likeyour job. I truly believe that you
should like your job. I happento love what I do. I have
a great time coming in and doingthis. I wish I could do it
more. I don't get enough ofit. I go home and I think
about the studio because I have sucha great time here, and I'm very
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blessed to be in that situation.But the reason I'm in that situation is
because I actually worked to get intoa job that I liked. I actually
thought to myself, you know,what do I want to be doing?
How do I achieve that for myself? And then once I figured out what
that thing was that I wanted todo, I went out and I worked
for it. That being said,there have been times in my life where
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I didn't enjoy what I was doingat all. But you know what I
didn't do. I didn't go aroundmaking it obvious to everyone that I didn't
enjoy what I was doing. Andbecause I didn't do that, I didn't
get fired for it either. Sohonestly, my question to this lady is,
if you really didn't like your jobthat much, why were you there
in the first place. They shouldnot have ever had an opportunity to fire
you. You should have realized Idon't like this job and then quit.
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That's what should have happened. Iwill say this for this chick, it
seems like she probably is a victimof that societal movement to just go to
college and then figure out what youwant to do later, which is a
terrible move, and if I hadto bet money on it, I would
say that's probably how she ended upin this situation. For so long in
society, going to college has justbeen what you'd and then maybe halfway through
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college you'll actually figure out what youeither want to do or have to do
in order to make up enough moneyto pay off your college loans. And
that's how people get stuck in thesecareers that they absolutely hate. It's because
they screwed themselves by going to collegewhen they didn't need to, or they
just wanted to because it looked likefun, and that's just what you do.
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And now they have to find somejob that maybe they hate, but
it pays them enough to pay theirstudent loans off. So if that's her
situation, then lady, I feelfor you, I really do. But
at the same time, you stilldon't have to make that your employer's problem.
Because you made poor decisions and endedup in college that you shouldn't have
been at with student debt that youcan't afford, that's not your employer's fault.
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Don't take that out on them.Don't have a bad attitude at work
just because you got you forced yourselfinto a job that you don't necessarily want.
We live in a world where youcan do essentially whatever you want for
a living. There is a wayto monetize almost anything. And we live
in a country and in a systemwhere if you have your site set on
a career path that you actually worktowards, you can achieve it nine times
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out of ten. So, yeah, everybody out there listening to this,
please, for the love of God, don't be this woman. Don't put
yourself in a career that you don'twant to be in. Don't put yourself
in a job that you don't wantto be in. Don't force yourself in
a situation to be there because youwent to college that you shouldn't have gone
to and got a degree that wascompletely worthless. And if you are this
woman right now, if you arein that situation, where you're at a
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job that you hate. Please don'tmake it your entire personality, because I
guarantee you you're aggravating everybody else atyour workspace. Guarantee it, all Righty,
that's going to do it for theshow today. Sorry if it sounds
like I'm losing my voice, Ikind of am kind of struggled through this
episode just because I can feel myvoice leaving my body right now as I'm
speaking. So I just real quickwant to thank you all very much for
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listening. As always, want toencourage you to offer me feedback in my
Instagram or on my Twitter. They'regoing to be linked in the description.
As always, I also want toencourage you real quick to be in prayer
for the victims of this shooting upin Maine. Keep your fingers crossed that
they catch this guy quickly before hehas a chance to hurt somebody else.
Hopefully by the Monday episode they willhave caught him and we'll be able to
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discuss that a little bit more.Once we catch this guy, maybe we'll
know a little bit more about him. So on Monday, if they've caught
him, I'll be bringing you allof that information. Once again. Thank
you all very much for listening,and I will see you on Monday for
more of the next Gen Report.
Alrighty ladies and gentlemen, welcome backinto the next day and before so obviously
the biggest news of the day Wednesday, Wednesday evening, a man killed eighteen
people. Eighteen people and he woundedthirteen more. This shooting was done at
actually two different locations, both ofthem were in Lewiston, Maine. Of
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course, as always, the storyis immediately gun controlled. Without a second
thought, people immediately jump to arguingover gun control, and honestly, it's
sick. Before we even had countedthe bodies, before we even knew how
many people had actually died in theshooting, there were people calling for gun
control. I mean, just likethey always do. We can't have even
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the smallest amount of time to actuallygrieve the tragedy that happened before we start
attacking each other and blaming everyone exceptthe shooter for what happened. And make
no mistake, this is just blameshifting. That's all that it is.
That's all that the gun control narrativeis is blame shifting. People always blame
the gun people always blame the NRA. People always blame Second Amendment supporters and
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gun owners across the country. Thoseare always the people that are at fault
for these shootings, and it's neverthe actual person who did the shooting that
catches the flag for it. Itcan't ever just be an evil person did
an evil thing. Everything always hasto just be turned into a political weapon
that we can wield against the otherside of the aisle. I mean,
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it's really truly disgusting the fact thatwe keep politicizing these tragedies rather than actually
trying to solve them. Instead,they just end up getting turned into political
tool. Now, of course,this is like the billionth time that we've
gone through this cycle, so bynow you don't need me to tell you
that this is a mental health problemand not a gun problem. We have
had guns in this country since beforethe country existed, and don't give me
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this garbage either about how it's becausewe haven't always had semi automatic AR fifteen
style weapons. The issue of massshootings didn't just magically appear the moment that
military technology finally caught up with evilpeople's desire to murder. That's not what
happened. Don't believe anyone who tellsyou that, because it's a lie.
The ArmaLite Model fifteen, which iswhat the r fifteen stands for It doesn't
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stand for assault rifle. It standsfor Armaalite rifle because that's a company that
made it. ArmaLite. It's thefifteenth model, which is why it's called
the AR fifteen. It was originallyinvented in nineteen fifty six. This didn't
immediately become a widespread issue in nineteenfifty six, which if the gun was
truly the problem, that's what wouldhave happened. We would have seen a
massive spike in mass shootings in nineteenfifty six, but we didn't. We
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really didn't see a huge spike inmass shootings until about two thousand. That's
when we started seeing five to sevenmass shootings a year, and then in
twenty fifteen we go from five toseven ish to like twelve. That's when
the real spike is. The ArmaLight fifteen rifle has been around for a
long time. Mass shootings are arelatively new problem, aren't they. But
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let's be honest, nineteen fifty sixand the Armor Light fifteen rifle wasn't even
the first high capacity rapid fire riflethat we've had in the United States.
The dirty little secret that nobody likesto tell you when talking about gun control
and mass shootings, is that wehave had rifles capable of carrying out mass
shootings exactly like this one since eighteensixty, since the Civil War. In
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eighteen sixty, the Henry rifle beganproduction. That rifle can crank out up
to thirty rounds in a single minute, which is more than enough for this
shooter in Maine to have gone inand done what he did. That original
model could carry fifteen rounds at once, and you can pump those lever action
rights out pretty quick. You canfire real fast with those things. Believe
me, I've done it. Thisguy killed eighteen people at two different locations,
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which means with a lever action riflethat has fifteen rounds in it,
that can shoot up to thirty aminute, depending on how quickly you can
put rounds back into the magazine,which isn't very hard. This guy easily
could have used a Henry lever actionrifle to do this mass shooting and would
have been just as effective. Andthis technology has been around since quite literally
the eighteen sixties, going on onehundred and sixty years, almost two hundred
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years we've had this technology, andyet this didn't become a problem until the
last thirty to twenty really more likethe last fifteen. So don't tell me
it's the guns. Don't tell meit's the high capacity magazines. So what
is it then? Yeah, it'smental health. But beyond that, what
is it? Well, it's afailure of law enforcement to be completely honest
with you, just like it wasthe last time and the time before that.
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The law enforcement here is just completelycrapped to the bed on this one.
Well, how so what do Imean by that? Well, for
starters, literally everyone should have seenthis coming. This isn't some nobody who
just randomly snapped one day and becausehe had a perfectly clean record, he
was able to go pick up anar in twenty minutes from the local pawnshop
and then he went and murdered people. Law enforcement knew about this guy.
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They knew his name, they knewhis address, and they knew his mental
health history, which spoiler alert isnot great. Well how did they know
all this, you might ask?He was in the army. That's how
they knew. They know everything abouthim. According to the Daily Wire,
this guy was trained as a firearmsinstructor in the US Army reserves, which
means he was in the National Guard. That's what that means. There was
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very little that the United States governmentdoes not know when it comes to their
soldiers. So they should have knownwhen he started reporting what sounds like the
symptoms of schizophrenia. Apparently this guywas hearing voices telling him to shoot up
the National Guard base, and itgot so bad that he ended up being
committed to a mental health facility fortwo weeks over this summer. This summer,
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for two weeks, he was ina mental health facility. This is
recent. So how did he endup back on the streets. Well,
apparently they just let him out.So then we say, okay, well
this makes the case for red flaglaws, right, people with a history
of mental health issues shouldn't be allowedguns. Guess what, we already have
red flag laws according to the ATF. That's the Bureau of Alcohol to back
on firearms, they're the people incharge of enforcing gun laws. On the
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federal level. Any person who hasbeen adjudicated as a mental defective or quote
unquote committed to a mental institution isprohibited under federal law from shipping, transporting,
receiving, or possessing any firearm orammunition. So under federal law,
this guy should not have been allowedto have the gun that he used to
carry out this mass shooting, buthe had it. Anyway, You mean
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to tell me that these red flaglaws and all these gun regulations don't work
because criminals don't care about the law. How could that be? Welcome to
reality. People. You can passall the laws you want, but guess
what, criminals are still going tocommit crimes. Evil people are still going
to do evil things. So despiteall the federal agencies and all the federal
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laws that we have that are supposedto stop things like this from happening,
this guy still had a gun andhe was still able to murder people with
it. So that tells us eitherone of two things happened. Either this
guy got out of the mental healthfacility that he should have never been released
from, and then everyone in chargeof enforcing these laws just decided to completely
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ignore them and completely ignore this guy. And despite the fact that he was
in the US Army reserves, sothe government knows he had these guns,
they just didn't bother to enforce thesered flag laws that are already on the
books. Or the other possibility,which I think is Honestly, the more
likely possibility is this guy got outof the mental health institution, they went
through all the procedures, they tookaway his guns, and then he got
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some illegally. That's what's more likelybecause breaking news. These people don't care
about the fact that they're not allowedto have guns. So more rules,
more regulations are clearly not the solutionof this problem, because we have all
the rules and regulations you could possiblywant, and this still happen. This
is an example of the failures oflaw enforcement. This is an example of
the failures of mental health and justthe culture in this country. I guarantee
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you if this man couldn't have gottenhis hands on a firearm, he would
have done this same mass murder witha knife, or a bomb or just
a truck. And you know howI know that because that's what we see
in Europe, where stabbings and peoplegetting ran over with trucks and bombings are
commonplace. So let's all be honestwith ourselves and recognize just this once,
that the guns are not the problem, and let's skip this stupid gun control
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debate and start asking the real questions, like how was this man able to
go do one shooting and then driveto the other side of town and do
another one. Because remember this happenedat two different locations. Those two locations
are on the opposite sides of town. One was at a bowling alley and
one was at a bar, againthe opposite side of town. This guy
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went and did one shooting and managedto make it the entire way to the
other side of town without getting stoppedby law enforcement, and then do the
same thing at another spot. Whyare we not talking about the fact that
we still haven't been able to findthis guy as of the time I'm recording
this. This shooting happened two daysago. They didn't bother checking his house
to see if they could find himthere until the night before. And they
know where he lives because he's inthe army. They have his address on
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file, and they didn't think togo check it until yesterday night, And
as of this morning, they stillhaven't found the guy. They sat in
there and were throwing flash bangs athis house for two hours yesterday. I
was watching it on the news,and then I wake up this morning and
they still haven't caught him. He'sstill on the run. He's still considered
armed and dangerous. They found histruck in the river, but they don't
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know where he is. Why aren'twe asking more questions about that? Why
aren't we trying to figure out whoat this mental health institution he was at
let this clearly unstable guy out.Why aren't we trying to figure out why,
despite the fact that we give theATF basically free reign to do whatever
the hell they want and all kindsof tax dollars, why didn't they enforce
any of the laws that they haveon the books when it comes to this
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guy. I mean, they're stilltoo busy going after January six ers to
make sure that not shootings like thisdon't happen. I mean, that's their
job to prevent gun crime. Andyet instead of them actually going out and
preventing gun crime, we just keepseeing ring doorbell videos posted on Twitter of
ATF agents showing up at people's houseswithout warrants, trying to ask them about
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their gun collection. How about theATF actually do their jobs? How about
that? But no, it's definitelythe guns that are the problem, and
not at all the fact that thegovernment that's supposed to be protecting its citizens
is completely failing at its job andat the same time actively pushing for you
to not be able to defend yourself. So, just this once, can
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we skip the politicking? Can weskip the disingenuous nonsense. We all know
what the problem is. We allknow what the problem is not. The
problem is not guns. The problemis mental health and law enforcement and competence.
When the authorities who are supposed tobe keeping American people safe completely fail,
they need to be called out onthat. So let's not do the
blame shifting. Let's solve the theactual problems here instead of arguing about gun
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control so that we can win morevotes from people who don't know any better.
All right, I want to giveyou a quick update on everything going
on in the Middle East, specificallywhat's going on with America and our resources
and our troops. So, ofcourse, we have bases all throughout the
Middle East. We have all typesof different assets and all types of different
places. But the one thing thatall of those assets share at this point
(11:24):
is they're all being attacked by Iranianproxy groups. In just the last several
days, there's been a total offourteen different attacks on United States bases and
we've had I want to say,twenty one or twenty four people injured right
now, no deaths that I've seen, Like, we haven't had US service
members killed, but they have beeninjured because we've got drone strikes hitting our
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military bases. So of course theUnited States presence in the Middle East is
being ramped up. We've been sendingmore troops, we've been sending more planes.
I mentioned last week that two thousandtroops had been put on prepared to
deploy orders to go to the MiddleEast. As of right now. Last
time I checked, nine hundred ofthose total had actually been deployed. So
there's a very palpable feeling that we'reabout to get sucked into another war.
(12:09):
A lot of people are talking aboutit, a lot of people are noticing
it, and it's a justified feeling. We're in a situation that we kind
of had become unfamiliar with because underDonald Trump, for four years, we
didn't have a situation like this.I don't think we've talked about enough the
fact that under Donald Trump we didnot have to enter into a new war
for the first time since God onlyknows when it used to be commonplace that
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every couple of years American soldiers wouldgear up and go into the Middle East
or go into wherever and fight awar. And then for four years under
Donald Trump, we didn't have that. And now all of a sudden it's
back. We're in that same situationagain. What changed people, Well,
i'll tell you what happened. Wewent from a leader who people were scared
of, who people were intimidated by, who actually led and demonstrated when he
had to that we had power andwe will use it. We went from
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that to somebody who literally doesn't evenknow what day it is. Biden is
asleep at the wheel, dreaming aboutice cream probably, and meanwhile you've got
the Secretary of Defense running the showand we're about to have another war.
Joe Biden hasn't even said anything aboutit. This is one of those times
where you need somebody like Donald Trumpwho's gonna do something like send a picture
to the leader of our enemy ofhis house and say, hey, we
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know exactly where you're at. Stoptouching our stuff, or we're gonna blow
you up. That's how you pacifythese situations. These people only respond to
strength. These terrorists in the MiddleEast only respond to strength. You cannot
be nice to these people. Itdoesn't work. The fact that we've been
trying this for three plus years andwe still haven't figured it out. That's
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why we're about to be involved inanother war. It's because Joe Biden is
weak, and he's projecting weakness toevery single enemy the United States has,
and it's gonna be American service membersand their families who end up paying the
price for this. We're gonna endup having to send our soldiers overseas because
the population here in America was toobusy worrying about other people's feelings to elect
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somebody who is actually competent to ourhighest office. A lot of the election
narrative lately has been talking about theeconomy then versus now. I think we
should be talking more about just theglobal situation with regards to whether or not
we're at war then versus now.Let's look at who we were at peace
with then versus who we're getting readyto start launching missiles at now. I
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think that's the biggest story of thetwenty twenty four election, or at least
it should be. I'll tell youwhat I could really go for some mean
tweets right now that's for sure.I'll take that over World War three any
day. All Right. So,there's been a lot of talk lately about
how millennials and just younger people ingeneral are just destroying the American workspace.
And then for a while I thought, you know, it can't really be
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that bad, can it. It'sgotta be just people exaggerating. Yeah,
sure, there's probably a few peoplethat are just problems in the workspace.
And of course there's been the infiltrationof the gender ideology and all that into
the workspace, and I'm sure that'smade things difficult and and things. But
it can't really be that bad,can It can't be millennials absolutely destroying the
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workspace. Well, after I sawthis video, actually changed my mind on
that young people are destroying the workplace, and I recant all of my previous
doubt on that. I apologize Iwas wrong. So I'm gonna play this
video for you guys so you canhear it, and then we're gonna talk
about it, because this is justa perfect example of everything wrong with the
modern work ethic, with people andtheir demand for things to be accommodated to
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them, the amount of entitled youngperson that just radiates off of this video
actually stresses me out, and Ithink it's causing me to lose my voice.
Right now, Jay, let's goahead and jump right into it.
So I got fired no cause,just vibes, And when I was like,
why, why is this happening,they were like, well, it
just seems like you're not really investedlong termly, it seems like you really
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don't like your job, all right, So first things first, just right
there, the fact that she openedthis video with the phrase no cause just
vibes tells me everything I need toknow about this person. This is immediately
someone that I don't want to haveanything to do with. If I was
a business owner and one of myemployees said that phrase to me, I
would fire them on the spot justfor that. Now, I'm not one
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hundred percent I'm actually proud to saythis. I am not hipped to this
lingo. I'm not one hundred percentsure what this means, but just putting
it in context, I'm assuming itmeans that she was not given any cause.
She was just fired, which isthen immediately refuted by her listing the
cause that her employer gave for firingher, which was she doesn't seem in
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vexted long term, and it doesn'tseem like she likes her job, which
is a perfectly valid reason to firesomebody. Like, first of all,
if you're hiring somebody, you don'twant to hire somebody that you're going to
have to replace again in six monthsto a year, because hiring people and
doing all that paperwork actually costs money. So why would I pay you for
six months just to go restart theprocess all over and have to pay somebody
else in six more months. Andif you're a wet paper towel of a
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person that's just sucking all the positiveenergy out of a work environment, which
is what this lady seems to be, just from the little bit of the
video that we've heard so far,why would I want you hanging around my
office just collecting a paycheck and bein a pain in the butt. So,
I mean, we're not even halfwayinto the video and I already want
to fire this check myself, Butlet's keep going. There's more. And
I was like, yeah, ofcourse I don't like my job. Since
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when are we sorry, Since whenare we supposed to like our jobs?
I thought, I thought you justbootstraps it and just muscle through the day.
Like my Republican dad told me,whoop, God, corporate America is
just getting it out of control.Yeah, you're right, it's totally Corporate
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America's definitely not you. You,you couldn't possibly be the problem. Okay.
First of all, if your employercan tell that you're just bootstrapsing it,
quote unquote, then you're doing abad job. Okay, even if
you don't like your job, youdon't have to constantly show it. If
people can visibly tell that you don'tlike your job, then you are the
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problem. Because even if you're inan employment situation that you don't necessarily want
to be in that you don't enjoy, you don't have to let everybody know
that you don't. You can justnot like your job and then continue to
do a good job anyway. Andif you're going out of your way to
make sure everybody knows that you don'tlike your job and you're having a bad
time, then yeah, they're gonnafire you, because, like I said,
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you're just a wet paper towel ofa person and you're sucking up all
the joy out of the entire building. And yeah, I submit to you
that you actually are supposed to likeyour job. I truly believe that you
should like your job. I happento love what I do. I have
a great time coming in and doingthis. I wish I could do it
more. I don't get enough ofit. I go home and I think
about the studio because I have sucha great time here, and I'm very
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blessed to be in that situation.But the reason I'm in that situation is
because I actually worked to get intoa job that I liked. I actually
thought to myself, you know,what do I want to be doing?
How do I achieve that for myself? And then once I figured out what
that thing was that I wanted todo, I went out and I worked
for it. That being said,there have been times in my life where
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I didn't enjoy what I was doingat all. But you know what I
didn't do. I didn't go aroundmaking it obvious to everyone that I didn't
enjoy what I was doing. Andbecause I didn't do that, I didn't
get fired for it either. Sohonestly, my question to this lady is,
if you really didn't like your jobthat much, why were you there
in the first place. They shouldnot have ever had an opportunity to fire
you. You should have realized Idon't like this job and then quit.
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That's what should have happened. Iwill say this for this chick, it
seems like she probably is a victimof that societal movement to just go to
college and then figure out what youwant to do later, which is a
terrible move, and if I hadto bet money on it, I would
say that's probably how she ended upin this situation. For so long in
society, going to college has justbeen what you'd and then maybe halfway through
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college you'll actually figure out what youeither want to do or have to do
in order to make up enough moneyto pay off your college loans. And
that's how people get stuck in thesecareers that they absolutely hate. It's because
they screwed themselves by going to collegewhen they didn't need to, or they
just wanted to because it looked likefun, and that's just what you do.
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And now they have to find somejob that maybe they hate, but
it pays them enough to pay theirstudent loans off. So if that's her
situation, then lady, I feelfor you, I really do. But
at the same time, you stilldon't have to make that your employer's problem.
Because you made poor decisions and endedup in college that you shouldn't have
been at with student debt that youcan't afford, that's not your employer's fault.
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Don't take that out on them.Don't have a bad attitude at work
just because you got you forced yourselfinto a job that you don't necessarily want.
We live in a world where youcan do essentially whatever you want for
a living. There is a wayto monetize almost anything. And we live
in a country and in a systemwhere if you have your site set on
a career path that you actually worktowards, you can achieve it nine times
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out of ten. So, yeah, everybody out there listening to this,
please, for the love of God, don't be this woman. Don't put
yourself in a career that you don'twant to be in. Don't put yourself
in a job that you don't wantto be in. Don't force yourself in
a situation to be there because youwent to college that you shouldn't have gone
to and got a degree that wascompletely worthless. And if you are this
woman right now, if you arein that situation, where you're at a
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job that you hate. Please don'tmake it your entire personality, because I
guarantee you you're aggravating everybody else atyour workspace. Guarantee it, all Righty,
that's going to do it for theshow today. Sorry if it sounds
like I'm losing my voice, Ikind of am kind of struggled through this
episode just because I can feel myvoice leaving my body right now as I'm
speaking. So I just real quickwant to thank you all very much for
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listening. As always, want toencourage you to offer me feedback in my
Instagram or on my Twitter. They'regoing to be linked in the description.
As always, I also want toencourage you real quick to be in prayer
for the victims of this shooting upin Maine. Keep your fingers crossed that
they catch this guy quickly before hehas a chance to hurt somebody else.
Hopefully by the Monday episode they willhave caught him and we'll be able to
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discuss that a little bit more.Once we catch this guy, maybe we'll
know a little bit more about him. So on Monday, if they've caught
him, I'll be bringing you allof that information. Once again. Thank
you all very much for listening,and I will see you on Monday for
more of the next Gen Report.
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