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 In this episode titled "Hype or Hope," we delve into President Donald Trump's recent inaugural address, delivered on January 20, 2025. Trump proclaimed the onset of a "golden age" for America, emphasizing a renewed focus on national sovereignty, safety, and prosperity. He outlined plans to reclaim national sovereignty, restore safety, and balance justice. The speech also highlighted a series of executive actions aimed at reversing policies from the previous administration, including withdrawing from the Paris Climate Treaty and pardoning individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol riot. 

 In this episode, we discuss the key themes of the speech, such as the emphasis on "America First" policies, the pledge to restore American manufacturing, and the commitment to energy independence through increased drilling. We also examine the implications of reinstating full-time office work for federal employees and the potential impact of ending government diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. 

 Join us as we explore whether this address signals genuine hope for the nation's future or if it is merely political hype. We'll provide insights into the potential effects of these proposed policies and what they mean for the American populace. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Team 1, stand by Copy .
Team 1, standing by Breach,breach, breach.
This is round two of trying toget this episode recorded.
Tried to get it recorded lastnight.
We were live for about threehours and it was entirely too

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late for me to be trying to formlogical thoughts, so went
through the podcast episode andthere at the end it kind of went
off the rails as I was gettingtired and realized I didn't like
it, so I deleted that recording.
I think I got it deleted fromevery platform, so if you

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weren't on the live last night,you didn't get to see it.
This is the one you get, sowe're going to try to get it
done again.
As the title suggests, we'retalking about hyper hope.
We're talking about hyper hopeand, most specifically, what

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we're talking about is over thepromises made from now.
President Trump during hisinauguration speech A lot of
mixed emotions.
Obviously, there are some verydistinct partisan lines drawn
off of what he says.
Even today this is the dayafter even today there's already
three lawsuits filed againstDoge, which is his Department of
Government Efficiency.

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So there's already a lot ofkickback.
There's already all of thetalking heads are already saying
all of the partisan stuff thatyou really expect, and it's on
both sides.
It's not just on one side orthe other, it's both sides.
Both sides are talking trashabout the other.
So you know you kind of expectit.
It's sad that that's what weexpect nowadays, but that's what

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we get.
If you watched or listened tothe last podcast, that's one of
the things I specifically talkedabout.
I'm not left, I'm not right.
I'm not going to fall left orright because that's the
political party that I'm with.
I'm going to go with where thevalues that mean most to me are

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who's going to do what I believeis best for America, best for
American citizens?
So that's where I lie.
It could be a Democrat, itcould be a Republican, it could
be independent, it could belibertarian.
That's where I am.
You know I don't care about theparty system, but a lot of

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people do, and it has caused, inmy opinion, a lot of
derangement in some of thesepeople, because they get so
wrapped up in what the party isthat they forget their common
sense.
They forget their ability tologically think about things.
Think about things.

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They start cherry picking stuffand intentionally altering
things to make it seem like onething or another.
Most specifically and this issomething I saw when I was
scrolling through TikTok todayis there is a ton of videos out
there now where Elon Musk hashis hand across his chest and
then throws his arm out, and ofcourse, everybody's.
Oh, I've seen this movie before.
It's from Germany and oh, thisis Germany.

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Oh, he just did that onnational television, and yada,
yada, yada.
And everybody's clipping thatone part.
They're clipping that one partwhere his hand's on his chest
and he's throwing his hand outand they stop there, because
that's the narrative that theywant you to believe.
They want you to see him doingwhat looks like the Nazi salute

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and not what he was actuallydoing.
Because if they let the clipplay, you hear him say my heart
goes out to you.
You hear him say my heart goesout to you.
He was saying thank you to thecrowd and did that motion and
said my heart goes out to you.
Now, as a logical, criticalthinking human being, my

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impression would be that that'swhat he was doing.
He was displaying that he wasputting his heart out to people.
Now, I may do it a littledifferently than other people,
just like other people may do itdifferently from me, but they
don't play the clip all the waythrough, they stop it right
there and then of course,everybody that believes the
exact same thing is justflooding everybody's comments.

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So every creator that's puttingstuff out there and clipping it
just like that, they're keepingtheir little echo chamber going
and their little hate thing isspiraling and they're just going
down the trail or down the path.
So you know it's alreadystarted and that's exactly what
I was talking about on that lastpodcast was, you know, people

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becoming too loyal to a partyand not really thinking
critically for themselves?
You know a lot of people don'twant to go do the research for
themselves.
I'm one of those people, Iwon't deny it.
I'm one of those people thatthere are plenty of times where
I'll see something and if itinterests me enough I'll go do

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the research.
If not, I'm like okay.
So I'm not excluding myselffrom that.
There's times when I don't wantto go do my own research on it.
But the problem that comes fromthat is I recognize that fault
in myself and I try to keep.
I try to keep pace of it and Itry to keep track of it and make

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sure that I don't let thatoverwhelm my logical thinking.
A lot of other people don't.
They get enraged by thesethings and they let that start
dominating their thoughts, whichstarts to dominate their
emotions, which starts todominate their emotions.
And then that's when we wind upstarting to see so much hate

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and vitriol being spread onsocial media, and that's not
just on TikTok.
A lot of people on TikTok got alot of hate because of that.
It's not just there, it wasacross to every social media
platform.
It wasn't just in the socialmedia platform, it was on
national news as well, becausethe partisan lines were drawn in
the media and you could cherrypick which news agency you

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wanted to watch and you wouldget exactly what you wanted to
hear.
If you wanted pro-Biden stuff,you would listen to this side.
Pro-kamala stuff, you wouldlisten to this side.
Pro-trump side, you wouldlisten to this side.
It was very, very partisan andeverybody with a logical mind
can see that.
So that brings us to.

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You know, here we are the dayafter the inauguration and I
went and listened to thepresident's speech.
The president's speech.
I wanted to hear what he had tosay and I'm not 100%.
You know woo-hoo for the speech.

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You know I said in the lastpodcast that I don't like
listening to the president givespeeches.
I don't like hearing him dointerviews.
He gives a lot of stuff that isirrelevant.
My brain works a very specificway, and when you start filling
it with crap that my braindoesn't need, then I think

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you're lying to me.
You're trying to get me tobelieve something that isn't
true.
So I don't need all that.
So I don't like to listen tothat.
But, unlike so many other people, one thing that I do, and I
wish everybody would do, is stopworrying about what's said and

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watching what is done.
Now, people that know me, I'vesaid probably a thousand times
words mean nothing withoutaction.
Words mean nothing if there'sno action.
It means nothing.
If I tell my wife a thousandtimes that I love her, it means

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nothing if I don't take actionto show her that I love her.
The same with my children.
If I tell my children that Ilove them and I support them and
I will always be there for them, their biggest cheerleader,
whatever.
If I tell them this and then Idon't follow up on it, my words

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meant nothing.
So when I hear these leadersand I use that term loosely when
I see these leaders sayingthese things.
When I hear these thingsthey're saying, I'll watch their
actions.
If your actions, if you'resaying that your actions are in
the best interest of theAmerican citizen, in the best

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interest of this country, thenI'm going to want to see that.
If I see that your actions arecontradictory to what you're
saying, then you're a liar.
You're 100% a liar.
You got up there and you spoutedwhat little news clip or what

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little media blurb that youwanted people to hear so that
you could help secure yourselffor the next election because
you want to be a careerpolitician.
How great would it be if,instead of seeing these lifelong
politicians, instead of seeingthese lifelong politicians
excuse me how great would it beif, instead of seeing these

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lifelong politicians, we sawpeople get up there, serve a
term or two and then bow outgracefully.
How great would that be.
How great would it be if we sawthese leaders get into these
positions and not becomemultimillionaires because they

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were in that position?
Now, an idea that a friend ofmine proposed was what if our
leaders, what if our leaders gotpaid the median household
income of their state that theyrepresented their district?

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What if they got the medianhousehold income for their state
while they were in office.
That's their pay Now.
For some that'd be great.
If you're in one of those bigareas, one of the very rich
states, it'd be great.

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If not, if you're one of thepoorest states in the country,
then yeah, your pay's probablygoing to suck a little bit.
But do you think thesepoliticians would want to stay
in office and make a career outof these things?
If that were the case, do youthink they would want to stay in

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office and make lifelongcareers if they couldn't
increase the median income fortheir state, their district or
whatever, and had to live off ofthat pay, they'd either be
trying to get something done fortheir constituents legitimately
or they would leave One or theother, because if you can get

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stuff done for your constituents, then your pay is going to
increase because your medianhousehold income is going to
increase, which gives them moremoney.
If they can't increase themedian household income and the
state continues to not flourish,the median household income
doesn't improve.
They're eventually going to getout, because it's my

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understanding and I could bewrong, but when they fly back
and forth to DC, that comes outof their pocket.
And I could be wrong,wholeheartedly admit it, but
it's my understanding that a lotof these flights and these
trips back and forth to DC comesout of their pockets.
If they choose to stay in DC,then it comes out of their

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pocket.
So I know some would argue well, that's why they get so much
money is because it's so muchmore expensive.
These people are going intooffice less than a million
dollars, maybe right out of amillion dollars.
Some are going in with a couplehundred thousand dollars in

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student loan debts and after aterm or two they're sitting high
on the hog with a couplemillion dollars in the bank, not
to mention all of the otherstuff.
Yeah, so maybe if we starteddoing something like that, we

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would actually start to see, inmy opinion, some real results
from the people that we elect torepresent us, the ones that we
call our leaders.
Maybe if they truly knew how tolead, we would actually have
some leaders.
Maybe our states and ourcountry as a whole would be

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exponentially better than it is.
Maybe we could stop relying onother countries and their
technological advances and startbringing all that and doing it
here at home, not sayinganything about other countries.

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If they're outpacing us intechnology, that's because
they're doing the work.
If they're outpacing us ineducation, that's because
they're doing the work.
If they're outpacing us ineducation, it's because they're
doing the work.
If they're outpacing us in allthese other areas, it's because
they're doing the work.
How great would it be if wecould do the same, but we're not

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getting that.
What we're getting is ourpoliticians backbiting each
other and wanting to fight eachother and the partisan line
growing stronger and stronger,thus moving out into their
constituents and furtherdividing those of us in this
country.

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Don't believe that people aredivided in this country.
Go on social media.
All you got to do is scrollthrough TikTok.
We got it back right now.
Flip through.
I'm sure you got a few minutesto spend while you're using the
restroom, a few minutes to spendwhile you're waiting for
something to cook.
Scroll through, guarantee.

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You will see people talkingtrash about other people that
align themselves with a partyopposite of theirs.
Guaranteed it.
And it's not just all right.
Well, this is what theRepublicans have said.
Let's analyze that and see ifwe something we can work with.
You're not going to find that,just like you're not going to

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find Republicans going.
Well, the Democrats have saidthis.
So let's analyze it and see ifthere's something that we can
work with.
Let's see if we can come upwith a bipartisan deal on this.
You're not going to hear it.
You're going to see fingersshaking.
You're going to see all thehateful comments, and it's

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because for no other reason thanthey were on that party.
It's been said plenty of timesbefore that before Donald Trump
decided to run for president,everybody that's talking crap
about him now.
They were his friends, theywere shaking hands with him, he
was giving them money.
I believe there was oneinterview where somebody even

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talked about him being presidentand he acknowledged and said I
don't know about that.
And they said, oh, I wouldsupport you.
But then, when he runs forpresident, all of a sudden all
of these people that hugged him,gave him a kiss, shook his hand
, welcomed him on their shows,all of a sudden they got nothing
but bad things to say about him.
That's where we are and I'm nottrying to focus this all on

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Trump and the Trumpadministration.
It's been going on much longerthan Trump.
It's been going on ever sincethe two-party system became the
dominant system and our leadersdecided to focus more on party
lines than they did thebetterment of this country as a

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whole.
That's why I got no problemadmitting that with the
president's inaugural speech.
I wasn't happy about all of it.
There was a lot of it that Ijust kind of shook my head at.
There's a lot of it that I justkind of shook my head at.

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Now, is it the promises he madethat I shook my head at?
Not necessarily Is it all thehyperbole that he put in there?
That's for damn sure.
That's for sure.
It's not that I didn't expectit.
Quite honestly, he did a lotless of it than what I'm usually

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accustomed to.
Like I said in that lastepisode.
You know, he's notorious forsaying that this is going to be
the greatest thing since thegreat things were great.
He's notorious for sayingthings like that it's going to
be so good, everybody loves it.
I have people calling me allthe time telling me how they
love it.
Okay, he did that a lot less.

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So let's kind of get into it alittle bit.
Let's get into his inauguralspeech, and I hate that I'm
going to have to pause, but Idid prep a document.
I did prep a document before Istarted recording.
So I kind of had somehighlights to kind of go off of,
so I will be pausingperiodically if I'm not fast
enough to talk and read at thesame time, but let's get into it

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.
So he got up for his inauguralspeech and he did what I was
hoping he wasn't going to do.
I expected to take one or twoshots at the previous
administration.
I expected him to include theDemocrat Party.

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I expected that that's classichim to take jabs whenever he can
and the mic was his.
Nobody could stop him, so itmade perfect sense that he was
going to do it.
But throughout the entire speech, he took the opportunity to
constantly say things, and I getit.

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You know those that I've seenonline through social medias or
the social media platforms, andpeople that I've spoken to his
base.
They were energized through allof it.
I mean, they were hell yeah,brother.

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They were fired up and theywere 100% okay with the constant
trash talk throughout theentire speech.
Me, on the other hand, I'm not.
I'm not, and it's not because,you know, for some, whatever
reason.
It's because you ran on aplatform that you want to make

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this country better.
You ran on a platform that youwanted this country to come back
to what it was.
You ran on a platform that itwas America first and all
Americans were going to beinvolved in it.
But then, when you got up thereand you had your time and it

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was a 30-plus minute speech hehad the time to get up there and
show that he wanted to be theunifying president, that he
wanted to include all Americansand I'm not saying that he
outright excluded Americans, buta lot of the things that he

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said were very divisive.
If you're trying to gaincooperation from another
political party and theirconstituents who hate you, from
people that aren't willing ontheir own, to step back away

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from that emotional edge and tryto start using some critical
thinking.
Now, I'm not so ideologicalthat I believe that you can
convince everybody, but, aswe've seen in the past, there
are people on the other side ofthe aisle that were willing to

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take a step back and look atwhat was going on and go you
know what maybe this isn't badBack during the campaign trail
whether it was this election, orwhether it was this election or
the 2019-2020 campaign cycleyou saw people from the Democrat

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Party going over to the Trumprallies because they wanted to
see for themselves what it wasall about.
They wanted to see and hear forthemselves.
And even if they walked awayfrom that rally feeling exactly
the same as they did when theyshowed up, I applaud the effort.
I applaud that effort becausethey at least pulled themselves

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away from the emotional edgeenough so that they could go
over and hear what the otherside had to say, hear how the
other side acted, hear how theother side treated people.
They took the effort.
So, even if they felt exactlythe same when they left, they

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made an attempt.
But what I saw more often thannot were individuals who decided
to make their own post onsocial media say it wasn't like
I thought it was.
I expected to go over and betreated poorly because I'm a
Democrat, I expected to betreated poorly because of X, y

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and Z, and that's not what I got.
I was welcomed in poorlybecause of X, y and Z, and
that's not what I got.
I was welcomed in.
I was told hey, come up hereand do this Now.
Is that to say that everybodyat that rally had that same
experience?
No, it's not a perfect world,but you saw a lot more of that

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than you did anything else.
President Trump had thatopportunity on that stage during
his speech to take his shotsand then show the American
people how he was willing to bea president of all people, not

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someone who was going to bedivisive, and throughout his
entire speech that's what hewound up doing was making
comments, negative comments,towards the other side.
That was.
That was just a letdown.

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It really was, because it was amissed opportunity, and the
people that were helping himprep for it either failed to
emphasize how important it wasto make sure everybody felt

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included, regardless if heagreed with their politics or
not, or he just ignored italtogether, and I don't know
which one it was, but it wasvery evident throughout the
speech that he was going to makesure that they knew exactly how
he felt about him.
And I get it.

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With everything that PresidentTrump had been through for the
last four years, I get it.
You go through stuff like that.
You're going to want to comeout and take some jabs at people
, but you know what the biggestjab of all was jabs at people
but you know what the biggestjab of all was.
The biggest jab of all iseverything he went through and

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that he had such a resoundingvictory the Electoral College,
the popular vote, the swingstates.
It wasn't some marginal win, itwas massive.
That's the biggest jab he couldhave taken at them.
But then everybody I'm doing aTrump thing here Then a lot of

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people pointed out the fact thatafter he won the election,
kamala Harris had to certify it.
She just lost the election tohim and she had to certify his
winning of the election.
That's a jab in and of itself.
How many other people have lostat a competition or some

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contest and then had to prop upthe individual they lost to?
I know none of the competitionsI ever lost.
I had to.
I don't want to talk to them.
You know, when I playedbaseball, yeah, we'd shake hands
good game, good game, good game.
But afterwards I didn't want totalk to them.

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I wasn't going to sit there andhand them trophies.
But that's what Kamala Harrishad to do.
She had to sit there andcertify that election to the man
she lost it to.
And then another jab is thesheer fact that on his

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inauguration, on the day of theinauguration, he stood there at
that podium with formerPresident Biden and former Vice
President Kamala Harris sittingright behind him, to where he
could just turn around and givea little smirk.

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Those are big jabs right there.
You don't have to come out andtalk about how bad, ugly and
evil you think somebody is.
When you won After electionnight, you had your victory lap

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and you passed on an opportunity.
In my opinion and I'm nopolitical scholar, I'm a Joe
Blow, nobody that works for aliving on every paycheck so he
missed an opportunity there.
Just my opinion.
Now, in terms of what he said,as far as his promises go, one

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of the big highlights that hesaid that I did like was pretty
much the same thing that he saidback when his first time was
around that he wanted to putAmerica first.
I'm sorry and this isn'tsnubbing, downplaying any other

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country on the planet but I willalways consider this country
first Before I consider anyother country.
I want to make sure, in whateverpart I can, that our home is
good.
You know it said charity startsat home.

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Can anybody say we don't havean abundance of our own problems
here at home?
I don't think you can.
We've got all kinds of problemshere on the home front
homelessness, mental health,obesity, the welfare state, just

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about anything you can think of.
We have a problem here at home.
So if I've got somebody who'sgoing to be my leader thing you
can think of.
We have a problem here at home.
So if I've got somebody who'sgoing to be my leader that says
I'm going to take care of youfirst, then we'll help everybody
else out.
I like it.
I like it.
That's my style of leadership.

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Ask anybody that's ever beensubordinate to me.
That's one of the things I sayI got you Do everything I can to
make sure you get home.
Do everything I can to thatyou're taking care of First,

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because that's what a leaderdoes.
So he wants to come out anddouble down on the same promise
that he made back in his firstterm, that he's going to put
America first.
I'm okay with that.
He wants to ensure America'ssovereignty I'm down with that.
I'm okay with that.
Wants to ensure America'ssovereignty I'm down with that,
I'm okay with it.
Do I think we should help othercountries and things like that?

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Sure, After we're good, afterwe've taken care of our problems
, then then let's look at takingcare of everybody else.
Then let's look at taking careof everybody else.
He talks about in his speechthat right now our government

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faces a problem of trust andthat he wants to reinstate the
trust in the government by theAmerican people.
I'd really like to see that Now.
He had his laundry list ofhyperbole as an example of what
he was talking about bringing upthe natural disasters and I'm

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not going to get into thosethings but he wants to build the
trust between the public andour government.
I would love to see that happenBecause, just like I said in
the last episode, I don't havethe trust in my government that
I once had.
I honestly miss the days whenmy head was in the sand.

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Miss the days when my head wasin the sand and that I didn't
actually I didn't have theability to actually see what
actually goes on, that I didn'thave the logical mind that could
decipher between bullcrap andreality.
I miss those days because atleast then my ignorance truly

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was bliss, and I don't got that.
Now I don't have that.
What I have is questioningeverything that my government
does.
What is their purpose for this?
When they start up some newagenda that they're going after,

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I'm looking elsewhere to seewhat they're trying to distract
us from.
That's where I am.
So if he could work as ourpresident to restore the trust
that I once had in ourgovernment, I'd be okay with
that Because, like I said, Icare about this country more

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than any other, don't likethings that are going on in
other countries, but this is ourproblem right now.
We have to take care of ourresponsibilities first, and if
he can get our government to getback to that, I'd be very
thankful.
I don't know that that'llhappen.

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I don't think it'll happen.
I'd love to see it, but I don'tthink that's going to happen.
In my time, he went on to talkabout the education system.
He went on to talk about theeducation system that he wanted
to get back to teachers who weretrying to educate our children
and, to use a term that he usedtoday, indoctrinate them.

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Get back to teaching themactual education and not trying
to force social agenda or socialagendas on them.
I'm sorry, and I may be alonein this, and if I am, that's

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okay, but I do not believe thatsome of our youngest minds need
to be torn with the socialagendas that have been pushed
over the last several years.
I don't, I care if our childrenknow how to add, write, spell,
if they know history.

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Man, I would love for them toknow history.
I'd love for them to knowhistory, because without knowing
history, you're doomed torepeat it.
I'd love for them to knowhistory, because without knowing
history, you're doomed torepeat it.
But instead we're seeing themwe're seeing examples of them
trying to force other socialagendas, and I'm not okay with
that.
I don't care for the youth ofour nation to be focusing on

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social agendas.
They shouldn't be worried aboutthat.
They should be worried aboutlearning an education, a true
education, and being kids, justbeing kids.
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with thesechildren just being children?

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And I'm not just talking aboutthe ones in elementary school,
I'm talking about the ones intheir middle school and high
school.
What's wrong with them justenjoying the time they have as a
child?
I can scroll through socialmedia any day of the week and
find at least one post wheresomebody says that they're done

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with their trial subscriptionfor adulthood and they'd like to
return it Because times weresimpler back then.
They were easier.
The amount of responsibility onus as children was a lot less.
In general, we don't get thatas adults.

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There's always bills to pay.
There's always someresponsibility to take.
Our children shouldn't have todeal with some of the crap that
they've been put in before them.
There are certain things thatthey don't need to learn about
right now.
There are certain topics thatthey're trying to teach these

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children that should wait untilthey have the ability to make
decisions on their own, truedecisions, when their prefrontal
cortex is already formed andthey can make logical decisions

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Now.
Is that to say that there's nochild that can make that?
No, but in general, ourchildren aren't built to
understand some of the complexthings that our own doctors and

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scientists can't agree on.
So why are we pushing that onour youth?
So why are we pushing that onour youth?
I'm okay with getting back toour scholastic system being
about educating our children onreal education and not social

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experiments and I don't meanthat disrespectful to anybody
that believes in that and is apart of it or anything like that
.
I mean no disrespect by thatbut they're complex.
They're complex enough foradults, and to think that a

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child is going to be able tosort through those complexities
better than adults is absurd.
So I'm okay with us going backand focusing on a real education
with our kids them learning howto read and write, do math,
learn science, history, socialstudies, learn about the world.

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This world's a big place.
There's a lot of culture in it.
It's important that they learnthose things.
Now, one of the classes I gotin college that I wish I would
have had while I was in schoolwas cultural diversity.
I use cultural diversity everyday in my life, every day in my

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job.
I use cultural diversity, andit wasn't taught to me until I
was in college.
I wish I would have gottensomething like that in school
when I was in high school, atleast in high school, at least
high school.
So yeah, we need to get back toa focus on a real education for

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our kids.
The president goes on to talkabout the border, the crisis
down at the border, and I don'tknow what the actual statistics
are, because every politicianfrom each side of the aisle has
their own number.
But if you believe even some ofwhat's getting said by not just

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politicians but citizens livingin those areas, citizens that
are impacted by this immigrationinflux, if you believe anything
of what they say, we do have acrisis.
We have a crisis at our border.
We're talking about how manytens of thousands of millions of
they're talking about how manytens of thousands of millions of

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illegal immigrants comingacross our border and being
bused or flown further into theinterior of this country.
Now, I don't know about thevetting.
I don't know if some of theseindividuals are gang members or
releases from mental healthhospitals or terrorists.

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I don't know any of that stuff.
That's the talking points thatthey use, but I don't know it
for a fact.
But I do know that our countryis already pretty tight with
things as far as what they claimthey can provide to American
citizens.
So giving out free stuff thatpeople that came here illegally
are not really okay with because, again, I'm always going to

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care about this country first,not saying that I think other
people in other countriesdeserve unfair treatment or
anything like that, but I careabout this one first.
So, yeah, if we have a bordercrisis, then we need to manage
it, and the way he says he'sgoing to manage it is he's

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declaring a state of emergencyand he intends to send troops to
the southern border to helpenforce our border laws, our
immigration laws, to assistCustoms and Border Patrol in
keeping our border safe.
If this is all factual, I'mokay with that.

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I don't need all the hyperbolethat goes along with it.
State the facts about whatthere is and how you're gonna
fix it.
He says that we've got anational emergency at our
southern border and he's got anidea and a plan on how he's
gonna fix it Now plan on howhe's going to fix it Now.
Whether or not he can actuallyinstitute it, I don't know, but

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he stated it, I've seen evidenceof it, or at least some part of
information that says, hey,there may be some truth to this.
So with that being the case,I'm okay with it to this.
So would that be in the case,I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with us trying tosecure our borders up.
I was just talking with a friendlast night and he was talking
about Poland.

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He said Poland has very strictimmigration laws.
Well, if other countries canhave very strict immigration
laws, then why can't we?
If other countries can sayyou're not coming to our country

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unless you do X, y and Z, thenwhy can't we?
I think it's only right, Ithink it's only fair that we
take the time to properly vetthe individuals coming into our
country and make sure that theydon't do ill will when they get
here.
So if everything is factual andI say if because I don't know,
because I can't get straightfactual numbers.
But if everything is as isbeing stated, then yeah, let's

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get the border secure.
Let's send some troops downthere.
I've always been a hugesupporter of sending our
military to our own borders andmaking sure that people that
wish ill will on our countrycan't.
I'm okay with that.
It's why these people werehired into those positions was

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to protect the interests of thiscountry.
I'm sorry our military are inplaces right now that don't
serve American interests.
I don't think they should bethere.
But if you're telling me we'regoing to put them here, whether
it's the National Guard orwhatever the case, I'm okay with
that.
Let's take care of us first andat least off of his speech.

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That's what he's saying.
But we'll know when he startsshowing some action, when we
start seeing results of hiswords.
Then we'll know.
We'll know then.
The next thing that thepresident went on to talk about

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was directing each member of hiscabinet to utilize whatever
power they had to help startfighting the inflation.
Turn inflation around, bringthe cost of things down Again.

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Something else I can get behind.
I can get behind some lowerprices.
Scrolling through TikTok today,I saw a bunch of people saying
that we get 63% of the oil thatwe use in this country, that we
get from Canada and what we getfrom China.
I think it was China.
I could be wrong, maybe it wasMexico.
Either way, according to theseindividuals, we import 63% of

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the fossil fuels that we use inour country.
I don't know why we would dothat, because we have our own,
but okay, they're saying that byputting these tariffs on the
importation of these goods oiland other goods that it's going
to do nothing but drive ourprices up at the pump.

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That it's going to do nothingbut drive our prices up at the
pump.
Well, one thing that people thatare commenting about that today
are forgetting is that one ofthe things Trump said during his
speech was that he planned onstarting to go and drill again.
Now, I don't know how feasiblethat is, because it's my
understanding that feasible thatis because it's my

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understanding that formerPresident Biden signed executive
orders preventing offshoredrilling in a whole bunch of
places.
Now, does that mean he's justsimply going to roll back
regulations?
That's preventing us fromproducing more oil?
Now, I don't know, butaccording to President Trump,
he's going to start increasingthe oil production of our

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country.
Well, if we increase the oilproduction from our country,
then we don't need to import oilfrom other places.
Now, if that's part of somekind of trade deal, maybe I
don't know.
But I do know that if we canproduce enough oil for our own

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country, fill up our reservesand produce enough oil for our
country, then we don't need toimport that.
At least the simple logic saysthat.
And if we don't need to importit, then the tariff on it isn't
really going to matter.
That and if we don't need toimport it, then the tariff on it
isn't really going to matter.
Is it possible that the pricesof things are going to go up

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because of his tariffs?
Sure, sure Companies trying tobring items in from other
countries import items to sellto the American people may have
to raise their prices becauseit's costing them more now.
But I don't know how all thatworks.
But he's saying in his speechagain remember, we're not trying

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to pay so much attention to thewords as we are the actions.
Today's day one.
Today's day one.
In his speech he says that he'sgoing to increase the energy
production of our country.
He wants to put a stop to theGreen New Deal and I apologize
ahead of time.
I should have done moreresearch into the Green New Deal

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, but I didn't, because where Ilive it's just not feasible to
have, you know, nothing but abunch of electric cars riding
around.
It's not feasible, we don'thave the infrastructure for it.
You know, 30 miles up the road,yeah, there's a lot of charging
stations and things like that,but where I live, the only way

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you get in a charging station isif you get it at your house.
Where I live, the only wayyou're getting a charging
station is if you get it at yourhouse, which means if you've
got a day full of running aroundour area, you may wind up
losing your ability to do thethings you want to do because
you've got to go back home tothe house and plug your car back
in for a little while.
So we don't have theinfrastructure for it here.

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And if you look at it furtherout in California, almost every
summer they go into a brownout.
Almost every summer their powerfails, their power grid fails
Because they can't meet thedemand of the state.
I don't know why I don't livein California.
I live in southeast Georgia.

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To my knowledge, the only timeour power goes out is when our
power lines go down Because oftrees or car crashes.
So I don't know nothing aboutbrownouts, I ain't got no clue
about it.
But if your infrastructurecan't handle normal everyday use

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during the summers, how is yourinfrastructure supposed to
support an entire state goinggreen?
Now, if it can, great.
You know.
I know at one point GovernorNewsom was saying that by was it
2030, 2035, something like thatthat no new vehicle sold in the

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state of California could be aninternal combustion engine.
Okay, okay, if that's what hewants and that's what the people
of California vote for, okay,okay, what he wants and that's
what the people of Californiavote for.
Okay, make sure you got theinfrastructure.

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There were anecdotal storiescoming out of California where
allegedly California residentswere being told hey, if you
don't have to charge a cartonight, how about?
Don't do that?
That's a problem.
If you're going for anall-green initiative, that's a
problem, because people got towork and you've put them in a

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position where they have to ownan electric car and then you're
telling them not to charge thecar.
Put them in a position wherethey have to own an electric car
and then you're telling themnot to charge the car.
So something ain't right.
Are they not supposed to go towork?
Are they supposed to look totheir state government and go
hey, where's my handout?
Because I couldn't go to workbecause of these regulations.

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So I need my handout so I cancontinue to live.
I don't know.
But I know if you ain't got theinfrastructure to support what
you're trying to do, youprobably shouldn't do it until
you do, and there's been thatbig push for everything to go
green, I'm okay with it.

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I'll be 100% honest.
When I went and saw my son nottoo long ago, my rental car was
a Tesla.
Now I'm not planning on owningone, but it was a fun little car
to drive.
I enjoyed it.
But I will say, after drivingaround for a couple hours, if
that, it was a pain in the buttto have to go find a charging

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station to plug the car in andthen sit there and wait for the
car to charge.
Now, those of you that haveTeslas or whatever you go, oh,
it's simple.
You find a coffee shop, go to awhatever.
Blah, blah, blah.
Well, that's great, but I don'tlike going in places if I'm not
going to buy something, and Idon't like going in places if
I'm not going to buy something,and I don't always want to buy

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something because I can't affordto always buy something.
So I don't want to go sit in acoffee shop while my car charges
.
I don't want to go walk arounda shopping mall or a shopping
center while my car charges.
Now, if it was my intent to goto the shopping mall or the
shopping center or whatever andI want to charge my car, that's
a different story.
But I don't want to have topull off on the side of the road

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and find a charging stationjust so I can continue running
my errands for the day.
But for the time that we werethere it was a fun little car,
it was quick, it was neat.
I like technology, so it wasneat.
I like technology, so it wasneat.
And while I waited on the carto charge, I sat there and
played Fallout on the bigentertainment center and took a
nap.
I was bored out of my mind,unless I was sitting there

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playing the games that comeinstalled on the car.
But then I got worried of howmuch of me playing the game on
the car was influencing thespeed at which the car was
charging.
I wouldn't know one, but it wasfun If we had the
infrastructure to supportsomething like that, maybe

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that's more feasible, but untilthen we probably want to keep
what we got going and make itmore cost efficient for
everybody until we can supportdoing something else.
Just a simple, dumb countryboy's logic on it.

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During his speech, presidentTrump went on to talk about the
trade system, and I'll be thefirst to tell you I don't know
much about the trade system.
Okay, you know that kind offalls into the whole tariffs
thing.
But most specifically, he wastalking about the Panama Canal,

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how America spent a bunch ofmoney building the Panama Canal
when it was released to thegovernment of Panama and
allegedly allegedly so.
President Trump is claimingChina is running the Panama
Canal and, in turn, americantrade routes, american ships

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whether it's the Navy or whetherit's our own ships carrying
cargo are getting charged highercosts to pass through the
Panama Canal, and I guess itwould cost more money, because I
don't really know much aboutthe Panama Canal, but I guess it
would cost more money to drivethe boat or sail the boat
whatever you want to call itaround to avoid the Panama Canal

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than it would to go through itand in turn, that's what's
happening.
On top of that, you get issueslike ships getting stuck inside
the gates in there Becomes anissue.
So he talks about wanting to goback and take control of the
Panama Canal.

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Again, that falls into one ofthose categories of I don't know
how feasible it is.
Don't know that it's somethingwe need to really worry about
doing.
I don't know.
Is it a good thing, is it a badthing, if America goes in and

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tries to take control of thePanama Canal, which we turned
over after it was built, to thegovernment of Panama?
What's that do for relationsbetween Panama and the United
States?
What does that do for relationsbetween America and the rest of
the world?
What does that?

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Do you know?
Have we considered these things?
And the rest of the world whatdoes that do?
Have we considered these things?
Is it just hyperbole right now,or is this something that he
can actually get done?
I don't know.
That falls into the category ofthings that maybe we should

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have waited to talk about.
Instead of giving the hyperbole, come out and tell us about
things that you know you can getdone, things that all of the
different avenues of attack havebeen considered and is still
manageable and in the bestinterest of this country.

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I think that one kind of fallsinto that category Goes on to
talk about the creation of theDepartment of Government
Efficiency.
Like I said at the verybeginning here, of the
Department of GovernmentEfficiency, like I said at the
very beginning here, day one ofhis administration.

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The Department of GovernmentEfficiency, or DOJ, has already
got three pending lawsuitsagainst him.
Now, listening to the talkingheads on Fox News, it's all
rhetoric.
It's all this, that and theother, because the president has
the right to do it.
Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but day one partisan lines

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continuing to do exactly whatthey do.
Because me personally, I supportholding our government more
accountable for the moneythey're spending.
Just like many of you, I pay mytaxes every year.
They did an audit on one of thegovernment agencies not too

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terribly long ago and theyfailed the audit.
Apparently, they always failthe audit because they couldn't
say where X number of millionsof dollars or X number of
thousands of dollars went.
They couldn't pull out theirsheet and say, oh well, right
here, line item, this is wherethis went.
Line item, this is where thiswent.

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They couldn't account for themoney they were given, which is
US tax dollars.
It's our money, it's the moneywe worked for.
That the government took from usbecause of our taxes and this
agency got some of it and thenthey can't account for where it
is.
On top of that, we've got howmany thousands, hundreds of

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thousands of federal employees.
Are all of their jobs necessary?
I'm not advocating for anyoneto lose their job.
That is not what I want to seehappen.
But if we have hired peoplerecklessly and created positions
and everything else recklesslybecause we just had unlimited

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funds Because what happens whenwe don't have the tax dollars to
cover it?
Oh, we raise our debt ceiling.
Or we do this or we do that wekick the can down the road
further and our debt is justcontinuing to mount more into
the trillions.
Our debt is just continuing tomount more into the trillions.
So I'm okay with us looking atour government offices and

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saying, hey, where's the money?
Where are you spending it?
Is this necessary?
Do our secretaries needsecretaries?
Do we need to purchase this?
Do we need to do that?
Do we need to purchase this?
Do we need to do that?
Do we need to have this?
I'm okay with that Because whenI'm doing my finances, I do it

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to myself Every morning.
My wife will tell you.
Every morning I wake up.
I account for every cent thatwe spend.
I account for every cent thatwe spend.
I know where every cent that wespend goes and I keep track of
it.
I'm not great at budgeting, butI try to keep us in a ballpark

(59:51):
area, which is better than somepeople, but I hold myself
responsible for knowing where myfinances are going.
Why should I expect less of ourgovernment than I'm sending
money to that they're requiringme by law to give them?

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Why should I hold them any lessaccountable?
Why shouldn't I hold them tothe same standard that I hold
myself, that I've told mychildren they need to hold
themselves?
Why would I hold a differentstandard?
As far as a Department ofGovernment Efficiency, yeah, I'm

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100% on board with that,because that's not a partisan
issue to me, because everyworking American who pays taxes,
that's their hard-earned moneythat's going to these government
agencies and if they can't holdthemselves accountable to the
American citizens on whatthey've done with that money,

(01:01:01):
then you've wasted it.
Mine, my wife's, my children'sand every other hard-working
American in this country thatpays their taxes have been
cheated.
If you can't tell me where ourhard-earned money is going, then

(01:01:24):
maybe you don't need to have it.
If you're that irresponsiblewith our money, then maybe you
don't need to have it, or maybeyou don't need that job.
I don't know about y'all, butif I don't do my job, there's
consequences.
If I don't do my job correctly,there's consequences.

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And yet we have governmentagencies that can't account for
the money the taxpayer moneythat they get.
That should infuriate everysingle one of taxpaying US
citizens.
That is not a partisan issue.
It should not be a partisanissue.
There shouldn't be a Democrat,republican, libertarian or

(01:02:08):
whatever other party it is thatare out there.
There shouldn't be a singleperson that disagrees with
holding the governmentaccountable for the dollars that
they take from us.
If I give you 10 cent, then Icare what you do with that 10
cent, because that was my 10cent.
It was 10 cent that I earned.
They're taking more than 10cents If you don't qualify for

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enough tax incentives.
They're taking thousands,thousands a year from the
American citizens are going toour government.
They should be held accountablefor it.
So a government efficiencyprogram should not be a partisan
issue.
It shouldn't be something thatwe're constantly arguing about.

(01:02:59):
It shouldn't be something thaton day one of the administration
there's already three pendinglawsuits for.
But again, hey, I'm just somedumb southerner, what do I know.

(01:03:22):
Okay, the president goes on totalk in his speech about
basically just bringing thecountry back to being fair and
impartial, both in ourgovernment and in our courts.
According to him, according toa lot of the supporters, there

(01:03:47):
was a big show that went on andit was aimed at him and it was
for a certain purpose.
Whether any of it is true, Idon't know.
I wasn't brought in on thatinvestigation.
I don't have access to theinvestigative files to show
whether any of these things havemerit.

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All I have is all the talkingheads on both sides of the party
or the party lines saying theirpart, and then they get their
base hyped up and their basesays the same thing.
So are the charges factual?
I don't know.

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I have my own opinions on itbased off of what I could glean
from listening to both sides.
But he wants to bring ourcountry back to being fair and
impartial.
He wants to take the socialissues out of it.

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Social issues out of it.
He even went so far as to saythat, from that day on his
administration would recognizethat there are only two genders
male and female.
I will tell you that when Iheard our president say that, my
jaw dropped.
My jaw dropped because he saidwhat a lot of people think out

(01:05:21):
loud, and that's not somethingthat we see a great deal of, at
least it being intentional.
And I'll say it this I believethat every person has the right
to feel, think and believe thatthey are whatever they say they

(01:05:43):
are, and I'm not making a jokeof it, I'm not making light of
it or anything like that.
If a man wants to believe he's awoman and a woman wants to
believe she's a man, whateverthe case may be, I don't care.
Believe whatever it is you like, it is your life.

(01:06:05):
Live it how you want to live it, because it does not affect me.
That being said, the respect Igive you should be also returned
.
Whether I believe what youbelieve is irrelevant, because

(01:06:26):
what I believe affects my lifeand it doesn't affect yours.
So we can both believe what wewant to believe and it doesn't
affect yours.
So we can both believe what wewant to believe and still
respect the other person's rightto believe it, and I do so.

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I don't care what gendersomebody wants to identify, as I
don't care what they want tocall themselves.
I just ask that you don't tryto persecute me or anybody else
who doesn't believe the samething, that we're not persecuted
if we don't say the right thing.

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Now, if somebody's going out oftheir way to be intentionally
cruel they're going out of theirway to be intentionally cruel.
They're going out of their wayto intentionally be divisive
then, yeah, maybe there's someaccountability that needs to be
held there.
But for every other person thatrespects you all the same,

(01:07:32):
regardless of what you want tobelieve, give us the same
respect in return.
Give us that same respect thatwe get to believe what we want
to believe as well.
Because, I'll be honest,there's a lot of the stuff
that's come out over the lastseveral years that I have a hard
time wrapping my brain around.

(01:07:53):
I wasn't brought up that way,so it's hard for me to wrap my
brain around some of thesesocial agendas that have gone on
, but I respect the people thathave them Got no problem.
Believe what you want tobelieve, Call yourself what you
want to call yourself, but giveme the same respect in return.

(01:08:15):
But give me the same respect inreturn.
Give people like me the samerespect in return and in that
regard, you know, I agree interms of what the president said
about these social issues notbeing a part of our government

(01:08:37):
and not being something that isforced upon our society.
Hope nobody feels disrespectedby that, because it's not
intended to be, but it's justhow I feel.
I will say that there was onething in the president's

(01:09:00):
inaugural speech that I wasreally excited about.
I was really excited about it.
I'm not even going to try todownplay it.
The president came out and said, beginning this week, the
president come out and said,beginning this week, he was

(01:09:20):
going to immediately begintrying to reinstate every member
of our military that wasdischarged because of their
refusal to get the COVID vaccineand then, on top of that, give
them back pay.
Give them back pay.
I really hope that that'ssomething, that I really hope
that that's something that hewants to, that he's going to
carry through all, because therewere a lot of service members

(01:09:44):
that had their own questions andtheir own doubts about things
and they were being forced totake the COVID vaccine and then,
in turn, they were being forcedto take the COVID vaccine and
then in turn they were beingtold that they could no longer
be in the military.
So if he truly plans to followthrough with that, I'm excited

(01:10:09):
for that.
I do know that I have heardseveral members of our military
that got out during that timebecause of that reason who said,
even if they were offered thechance to come back, they
wouldn't.
I understand I don't blame themfor it but I like the fact he's

(01:10:34):
given them the opportunity tocome back and he's given them
the opportunity to get back himfor it.
But I like the fact he's givenhim the opportunity to come back
and he's given him theopportunity to get back pay for
it.
I like that.
I wholeheartedly support thatBecause as a free American
citizen, I had the right tochoose whether or not I got the
vaccine and I believe everybodyhad that right.

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I know a lot of people thatwent and got the vaccine and
that's great.
That's what they wanted to do.
I support their decision.
They weighed the cost andbenefits, they looked at the
science and the information thatthey could get and they
determined that that was thebest course of action for their
life and I support it that thatwas the best course of action

(01:11:15):
for their life and I support it.
I do, regardless of what youbelieve about the virus,
regardless of what you believeabout the vaccine.
I support your decision to getit or not get it and I don't
judge you one way or the other.

(01:11:37):
I wish that was a sentiment thatwas expressed by everyone, but
it's not.
But that's how I feel.
I'm okay with it.
So I hope he follows throughwith that.
I hope he gives our servicemembers who were discharged
during those times theopportunity to come back and
serve their country like theywanted to, and I hope he gives
them back pay for it.

(01:11:57):
And you can say all you want.
Well, they don't deserve backpay because they're in the
military and if they're orderedto do something, they're
supposed to do it and they takeall kinds of shots all the time
and they're forced to do that.
They don't get a say.
And you're right.
You're 100% correct.
I won't argue that fact withyou.
I won't argue it one bit.
I 100% agree.

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They're in the military.
They were given an order.
They take shots all the time.
There was a lot of controversyoh, what vaccine was it?
What shot was it?
I can't remember it off the topof my head.
But there was one shot that itwas a big one that no service

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member wanted to get and it wasgoing around about the time that
I was in and nobody wanted toget it.
Fortunately I didn't have to.
But there were others thatdidn't have a choice and they

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were worried, their worries andconcerns when it came to the
COVID vaccine equally justified.
We were facing something thatnobody I know had faced.
We were being told researchthat none of us knew anything
about at least not the averagelayperson and we're being told

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by a government that we alreadyhave trust issues with that.
This is what's best for us?
Okay, but as a free Americancitizen, I was allowed to make a
decision.
That was what I thought bestfor me, and I think our service

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members deserve the same respect.
So I support that.
I support that decision.
If you don't, that's great.
I got no problem with that.
You don't have to support it.
I'll still respect you anyway.

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One thing he talked about duringhis inaugural speech and I
don't know if this doesn't fallinto his promises or anything
like that, but it goes back totalking about the strength of
our country and things of thatnature but he brought up the
hostages being released from theMiddle East because of the

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Israeli and you know what I'mtalking about.
But those hostages beingreleased, now I'll be honest
with you, I very much questionedhim having any involvement or

(01:14:55):
any influence whatsoever on thatdeal going through.
I highly, highly doubted it.
I highly doubted it.
So I did my own research it.
So I did my own research andfrom various sources across

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party lines and sources that arenot even US sources yeah, at
least in some part PresidentTrump had an influence on that.
I think that's cool.
Now, whether or not it was aresponse to his open-ended

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threat or whether it was amatter of respect, I don't know,
but from every bit of resourcesI could find when I did my
research on it, but from everybit of resources I could find
when I did my research on it, hehad some influence on it.
So I think that's cool, himhaving some kind of an influence

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on something like that.
That that says a lot about whatwe can expect from.
That says a lot about what wecan expect for the
administration and where that'scoming from.

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Excuse me, so there was, therewas a lot.
That was a very excuse me, thatwas a very cliff notes version
of the speech.
Like I said, the president'sthe president's inaugural speech

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was over 30 minutes long.
When I found a source thatactually had the transcript, I
copy and pasted it intoMicrosoft Word so I could go
through it myself and everythinglike that.
It was over 2,900 words.
It was over 30 minutes that hespoke.
He said a lot in there.
Now we've been going for alittle over an hour and a half

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now, and actually a little lessthan an hour and a half, and the
topics that I covered tooklonger than it did for him to
give the speech, and that'sbecause I'm giving my opinion on
it In general.

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If I was to just talk aboutthose topics alone, I could have
been probably done in about 10minutes if that.
But like I said, in just readingthrough the speech and looking
at everything that the presidenthad to say, there was a lot of
hyperbole, a lot of rhetoricthat I didn't care for.

(01:18:01):
There were jabs at the formeradministration that I wish he
would have left out.
Like I said, I'd be more thanhappy and willing to accept a
couple of jabs, you know, but tome, winning the election in the
way he did, having former VicePresident Harris certify the

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election and then standing atthat podium on Inauguration Day
with the former administrationstanding behind him.
You don't get any harder hitsthan that, especially if you
believe that there was some deepstate conspiracy that was
designed to keep you away.

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You don't get any bigger hitsthan that Because, no matter
what was tried, you won, and youwon in a big way.
And when January 20th rolledaround, it was you standing at
that podium and you had theopportunity to tell our country

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exactly what they can expect andhow you were going to unify
everyone.
I support a lot of things thatthe president said in his speech
.
As far as things he wants toget done, I don't support the
hyperbole, the rhetoric.

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I don't support taking the jabsat the outgoing administration,
because to me, that's not howyou bring people together.
It's not, and I wished he wouldhave handled that part a little
better.
Now I know if there are peoplethat are very staunch in his

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base that'll have criticismsabout this, and that's fine.
I'm okay with it.
I understand.
I understand where you'recoming from but, like I said, I
don't care about one party orthe other.
I care about this country.
I care about the people in thiscountry, whether they agree
with me or not, I care aboutthem.
I care about the people in thiscountry, whether they agree

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with me or not.
I care about them Because everyday that I go to work, me and a
lot of people like me putourselves at risk for people
that don't agree with us and wedo it anyway.
So, just like that, I don'tcare if people agree with me now
, because, regardless if theyagree with me, regardless if

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they like me, regardless if theylike what I have to say, I
respect them for their ownopinions.
I respect them for their ownthoughts and I'm going to let
them have that Because theydon't have to like me.
But at the end of the day,regardless of how they feel, I

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want all the best for them.
I want them to succeed in thisworld and succeed in this
country just as much as I wantanyone else.
I tell the people I work withthat I want them to succeed in
whatever it is they choose to doin our profession and that I
will help them in any way I canto get to that point and I stand

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by it.
I've stood by it the entiretime that I've been in a
position of leadership, and I'llcontinue to do it.
Time that I've been in aposition of leadership and I'll
continue to do it.
I look at our American citizensand I think the exact same
thing, regardless if they agreewith my opinion or not.
So, anyway, that's my littlethoughts on the inaugural speech

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.
Like I said, is it hype or is ithope?
Is the president going tocapitalize on his words and show
us that they weren't just words, they were actual actions he
was going to carry out?
We'll see.
He's got one day less than fouryears.

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It'll be interesting.
I hope that our leaders canstop fighting amongst themselves
and start working together toheal our country and bring our
parties back together and startworking toward a unified country
, because that's what we reallyneed.

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That's how we're really goingto prosper.
That's how we're really goingto reach that golden age that
President Trump says that we'reentering, because we're not
getting there the way we are now.
Not until we come together as acountry and all choose to want
to see what's best for thiscountry, not just what's best

(01:23:02):
for us individually, but what'sbest for us as a country first.
That's how we get to thatgolden age.
That's how we make that cometrue.
So appreciate y'all hanging out,appreciate y'all giving me the
time to voice my opinion.

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I welcome the feedback, Iwelcome the comments.
I will be going through thisand blasting it all over my
media accounts.
So I welcome the conversation.
Like I said in the last episode, I'm open to conversation.
I'm not going to argue becauseif both of us are yelling,
neither one of us is listening.
I'm not going to argue, but I'mopen to a conversation.

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I would love to have aconversation and if it's
something that you feel soinclined that you want to come
on the podcast and you want tohave a conversation about
together, I'm okay with.
The only thing I ask that youkeep in mind is you're probably
more educated about what you'retalking about than I am, but

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I'll still have a conversationabout it regardless, and we can
fact check each other at thesame time, because it's only
through conversation andcooperation that we're going to
get anywhere.
There's no place better for usto show our government that than
for us to do it ourselves.
So again, thank you.
Thank you for your time.

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I appreciate it and we'll catchyou on the next one.
Bye.