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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure to milky.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know, America firsters pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi
Germany rally.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
You said over the weekend referring to it, there's a
direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the
mid nineteen thirties, that Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating out there is his
supporters is.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
His demonizational scene is unconstable, and it's America.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorables.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You know, that's a little bit old, that shot that
sharts a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Of months old.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And if you want to really.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
See something that said, take a look at what happened.
We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
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one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons,
and they're all joining our cores and large numbers, larger
than anyone has ever seen in this country before, large
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than they've ever seen in any country. And the Republican
Party has really become the Party of inclusions.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
There is just a good news story I want to
share with you a ninety nine year old World War
Two veteran who finally received his purple heart eighty one
years after he was wounded. Better late than ever, I
say WLKYTV in Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Glenn Fisher, the weight is finally over. The ninety nine
year old World War Two veteran received the purple heart Wednesday,
eighty one years after he was wounded during combat in Germany.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I've been so excited that I him been able to
sleep at night thinking about what a wonderful thing has happened.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Fisher was just sixteen years old when he enlisted in
the army after changing his age so he could serve
during World War Two. Following in his father's footsteps, Glenn thought.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
The world is his dad, and he wanted to be just.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Like his dad.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
On March twenty fifth, nineteen forty five, if German artillery
exploded near Fisher's position. The blast killed two of his
friends and shrapnel hit Fisher in the face and leg.
He was treated and returned to finish the war, but
despite being wounded in action, the purple heart never came.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
He was told all the records have been burned in
a nineteen seventy three fire in Saint Louis, which is
what happened with most of the documents from World War II.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Without those military records, Fisher was told it would be
nearly impossible to prove his case, but his longtime friend
Jeff Tokey refused to let the story in there.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Through a lot of research, I found that the documents
his were there in Saint Louis. They'd been moved because
he was still in the service in nineteen seventy three.
He retired in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
After Army officials review the newly uncovered records, they agreed
Fisher deserved the Purple Heart.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I was very happy to report and please to have
that discussion with mister Togy to approve the purple Heart.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
For Fisher, the metal represents more than his own sacrifice.
It's a reminder of the men who never made it home.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The ones that we lost and are buried in.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Belgium, in the Netherlands, but they paid the supreme sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That we might be here today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I cannot get enough of these stories straight into my veins.
I cannot get enough of them. You know what else,
I can't get enough of them When veterans go off
to serve and they come home and they surprise their
kids at school and their kid is doing I get
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choked up even thinking about it because I visualize it,
and you know, they go into their kids' classroom or
whatever and their kid just, i mean just falls out
because daddy's home or in some cases mommy's home. Those
dose they get me every time. And I'll tell you
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the other one that's even worse than that. And ray
Hunt at the Houston Police Officers Union knows this because
we've had this conversation. When an officer dies and their
kid has a graduation or a sporting event, and the
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officers all go out there in lieu of mom or dad.
Whoa man, I cannot help it. It might be weak.
It gets me every darn time. There was a case here.
It was an HPD officer. His kid was pitching in
Paarland and the dad had been had been murdered several
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years before in the line of duty, and.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Here he was pitching.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Senior day or something. And there were like thirty HPD
officers lining the fences for this boy. And I thought, man,
he'd give it all up to have his daddy there
to see him. But think about this, every one of
those officers, our time is our most precious ascent. Every
one of those officers said, he doesn't know me, he's
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never going to know me, but I'm going to go there.
And maybe they said because maybe if something happened to me,
somebody else would be there for me. But those are,
in my opinion, just beautiful, glorious moments. And you know,
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I wonder how many people enter public service like that,
because if nothing else my life will matter. If I'm
killed in the line of duty, I don't know. You know,
it is something that they take very seriously. And I
think the reason they take it so seriously is because
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it is something that is ever present in the back
of your mind. You can't you can't be an officer
on patrol in constant fear. You can't be second guessing.
But there's no doubt you come to grips with your
own reality. Today may be the day that you arrest
the wrong guy and you don't know it, and when
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you walk up on him, he's got a gun trained
on you, and and you had no idea, and he
shoots you center mass, and you go. You just it happens,
and it happens sufficiently frequently that you do know. It's
a real risk. It's a greater risk than than the
average person's going to have in the course of their
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of their lives. And so maybe that's the other reason
that that officers will will do that. But that's just
one of those It's one of those things that gets
me every single time. And I think it's important as
a society. I think it should get us every time.
I think we should think about such things and we
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should give them the utmost respect. You know, we talk
a lot about paying teachers more, and that's always a
big political issue. I had the best teachers in the world.
If everybody had the great teachers I had. I think
it would be a much much better society, and there's
plenty of good ones out there. Just a matter of
days ago, Lindsey Graham won the Republican primary to be
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the nominee to the Senate in the November election from
the great state the Palmetto State, South Carolina, and he
did so convincingly almost sixty percent. He was he would
be serving out his fifth six year term, just like
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John Cornyn if he were to have won in November.
But of course, he passed away over the weekend at
seventy one from a heart attack. The man who challenged
him in that primary was our guest during the primary,
and he is our guest again. Today's name is Mark Lynch.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Welcome to the program, sir, Thank you sir for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Let me start with asking you, if the campaign is fresh,
why did you challenge the sitting senator who'd been there
for twenty four years?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Well, first, if I could, I would like to open
up with prayer. Sure, sure, all right, Our Father, who
are in heaven, HALLOWI be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us
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our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Amen. So why why did I base the Grand first run? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (10:08):
You know, I was asked to God put it on
our heart when people started calling, and from our reputation
as being a community leader and our business experience of
running a successful business the last forty years debt free
and we're now business My dad's are being married thirty
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eight years with two children and four grandchildren, and being
debt free personally, and being a deacon in our church
and leading a political activist group and our community in
the state, fighting bad bills and helping get good people
elected and getting rid of the bad ones, and just
doing a lot of activist work. We got asked to run,
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and I said, who would you have me run against?
And they said to Lindsay Graham. You know he's you know,
it's a tragic thing that this happened. With his death,
We've been praying for the Grand family and Darlene, I know,
got appointed as the interim senator. Yesterday, President Trump suggested
that to our governor and he graciously complied with that,
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and she's the interim senator.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So that's good. But you know, when we get back.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
To business of the US Senate, my focus is to
bring back God first.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You know, we're we're murdering sixty four million of our
children in the womb.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
We're we're okay with gay marriage, We're okay with LGBTQ plus,
we're okay with men and women's sports, and we're okay
with shutting down the country with a flu virus and
all these things. There's a lot of craziness going on
and the times we're in and people know my stance.
They know that I'm a guy that has integrity and
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courage and boldness and I want compromise. And so I
was asked to run to help fix some things that
are broken. But you know, I'm not going to fix anything.
God's the only answer. If we're going to make America
great again, we got to bring Jesus Christ back first,
front and center and let him guide our country and
our decisions. And that's what I'll do, is use God's
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word to make biblical decisions based on his truth and
that honors the Constitution, and I'm called to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So that's why it ran. And we're still doing those things.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Well he you know, so it's all about truth, and
I'm not trying to disparage things. But as his employee
of ours, we get to talk about him. And he
had a fifty seven percent lifetime average voting record. Constitutionally,
he claims to be pro life, but he was for
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murdering babies up to fifteen weeks in the roomb. He's
funneling money and as the head of the Budget Committee,
was sending money to the enemies of our country, to
Hamas and al Qaida through USAID. And he's putting our
tax dollars that we don't have and detained for illegal
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aliens at five point sixty seven billion in the last
quarter of twenty five in the first quarter of twenty six.
We're funding people that aren't supposed.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
To be here.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
We don't have the money. We're bankrupt as a country
at thirty nine threellion dollars in debt. So this's just,
you know, it's time to stop the stupid and do
the common sense right things. And that's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And that's why people have asked me to run.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I agree. We called him Lindsay Grahamnesty because he was
so wrong on the issue of illegal immigration. He was
no right in my opinion, he was no real conservative.
He was a guy that hung around for four terms
and the only thing he seemed to care about was
funding foreign governments and foreign wars. And I find that
very disturbing. I'm just curious. I mean, almost a third
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of the people of South of the Republicans of South
Carolina didn't want him as their senator. And to my knowledge,
I think you were a first time candidate. You didn't
have a lot of press, didn't you didn't have the
big name, And that tells me a lot about his
support or lack of it in the state of South Carolina,
much like John Cornyn was booted here in Texas. I
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think that I think that rank and file voters and
workers and parents and Christians are tired of these people
who are more focused on funneling money to foreign governments
than they are making America great again.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
That's correct, and I assume you'll be reading again. Yes,
so we announced our back, our campaigns turned back. We're
not jumping in the race you know, we have a
lot of people that are I'm a successful businessman, that
free businessman. I'm not a career politician. But some of
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these people who say they're for term limits and everything
have been in the House and they've run for governor
and they're now running for US Senate. They're just going
to They're looking for the next seat to further their
political career. That's not my goal. My goal is to
bring our nation back to God, and that's the fix.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What am I going to do.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
I'll bring him back and I'm bringing him back right now.
And I got called out by God this morning in prayer,
starting my day, feeling the pressure of this campaign again,
and He's like, you know, there's a Save Act. We've
all been talking about that and we can't get that pass.
And God told me this morning, you know, because people
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have suggested that we name the Save Act, that Lindsey
Graham Save Act, he co sponsored that, but it's been
sitting out there a couple of hundred days and we
can't get it passed. God told me this morning, I'm
the Save Act. My name is the Save Act. So
that's what I'm bringing in the name of the Save
Act is Jesus Christ, Mark Lina's thanks for making time
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for us.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, little son with the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
My George, I can't you excited?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So a lot of Americans, and many of you lost
a loved one in Vietnam. A lot of Americans lost
a loved one in America as a result of Vietnam.
In fact, I forget the number. David Mawsby will update
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me on occasion, because unfortunately the number continues to grow,
the number of people. I think it's two to one
the number of Vietnam veterans who committed suicide upon turning,
some of them four or five decades later. The number
of Americans who committed suicide is more than double those
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who died in theater. Why why does that happen? Why
so many people taking their own life. There is a
percentage in society of people who commit suicide in modern America,
and I don't know what that number is, a one
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percent or half of one percent, But the percentage of
Vietnam veterans upon returning is much higher. And the common
denominator being including it's in letters, it's in statements, it's
in it's in case files.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Created for them a framework within which they could no
longer see, and so you have to ask the question,
why did we do that to that generation? Were we
under attack? Now you had an internal civil war, an
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internal civil war that I don't think America quite understood
why it was happening or what was happening. There is
our involvement from the outside, and of course there was
Communist country involvement from the outside as well, but I
don't believe that that was the primary driver of it.
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There are a lot of people who have revised their
histories and their analysis of what happened in Vietnam and
why that war turned against and I'll use the phrase
that American historians against us because somehow it became our war,
the war of North and South Vietnam became somehow our war,
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and we fought the war, We staffed the war, We
gave our boys for the war, and a lot of
mothers never saw their son come home. A lot of
fathers had to bury their sons. And you think to yourself, well,
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what was the purpose. Is it fair in your grief
at that moment to be angry as at what we did?
Is it fair that a lot of lies were told
LBJ lied that we were having success when in fact
we weren't. Nixon wanted out in January of sixty nine,
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but he couldn't find his way to it. He thought
it make him look weak, And then with the seventy
two election pending, he told a lot of lies, including
the fact that he was bombing in other countries which
was outside the scope of authority. Was not a defensive maneuvers,
not an emergency maneuver. That's the imperial presidency we see today.
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I'm not trying to relitigate the war. I'm trying to
ask a question, at what point is there accountability for
these supposed leaders who are sending our sons into war
to be killed with seeming disregard for the value of
their lives. Support the troops, okay, I'll support the troops.
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Is there ever a war we don't support? Is there
ever a time we send our boys into war that
maybe fifty years later we step back and go, wait
a second, Why were we there? Originally we were sending
advisors that went back to JFK. Why were we there?
Why did we stay there? Why did we assume the
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mantle of the war. Oh, the domino theory and the
communist surge. Well did that happen because Vietnam did fall
and by the way, Afghanistan did fall. And I don't
think that Iraq is the example of American foreign policy success.
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What are the costs? What does the human toll?
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Do?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Human lives matter? We spend so much time talking about
the sanctity of life with regard to abortion. What about
the sanctity of Pat Tillman's life? What about the sanctity
of Operation Red Wing Lives? I mean, it seems like
these things should matter, and we haven't even begun to
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discuss the financial costs because the human cost is far
more important. So how is it that Lindsey Graham is
standing over there rooting for more war? Jim, do you
have the quote of him a few months ago saying
that you're gonna have to send your sons to the
Middle East? Yeah, go ahead, whenever you have it, just
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fire away. I called on you late. You know what,
Let's do Charlie Kirk first, and while you're doing that,
you can find it. This is Charlie Kirk talking about
Lindsey Graham and the neocons and they're push for regime
change in Iran.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
On one side is the Lindsey Graham John Bolton types
where they are actively calling for regime change. Here is
Lindsay Graham, and this is just lunacy. He's this kind
of analysis is not helpful, this kind of approach, this
kind of argument, it says nothing new with nuclear weapons
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at this point. This is now that we want to
go all in and take out the regime. It's time
for to close the chapter on the Iranian Ayatola and
his henchmen and start a new chapter in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And that sounds good, doesn't it.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
But what have we learned when it comes to wars,
and especially wars in the Middle East. What you draw
up on a whiteboard rarely happens. What you think theoretically
is going to occur. There might be unintended and unforeseen consequences,
especially when you're talking about a country two and a
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half times the.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Size of Texas.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
It has ninety million people and was an ancient and
great power with well over a dozen ethnic groups. You
have underground Christians, you don't really have many Jews left
in Persia, but also you have secular younger Persians who's
going to run the country exactly Lindsay Graham, this sounds
like Hillary Rodham Clinton in Libya. So I'm pointing to
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the first extreme right now, the neo conservative extreme. We
must go take off the head of the snake right now.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And here was Lindsey Graham just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I go back to South Carolina.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters over
to the Mid East.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
What I want you to do in the Mideast?
Speaker 12 (24:15):
To our friends and sorry Raven other places, step forward and.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Say this is my fight too. I join America.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down. If you don't,
you're making a great mistake, and you're going to cut
off the ability to have a better relationship with the
United States.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I say this as a friend.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's going to go back to South Carolina and tell
them to send there sons too the Middle East. Of
course he won't be sending his son a man. I
fear if people knew what was happening and why it's happening.
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I fear even more than anyone who questions why any
of this is happening is somehow anti American. I guess
it gets us. Effect is like calling people racist if
they start questioning, you know, fraud it it works. One of,
if not the preeminent breakout stars to emerge from the
World Cup has been Norway's Earling Holland, and now in
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the latest he's gone viral for returning to Norway holding
a stuffed raccoon, a taxi dermied raccoon, and the raccoon
is holding a bottle of whiskey. He picked this up
from Wild Bill's Western Store in Dallas and well, here
is the story from KVU TV out of Austin.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
And even though Norway didn't make it to the semifinals,
one of their most beloved players says, he's walking away
with good memories and it's a very interesting souvenir.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Take a look.
Speaker 13 (25:56):
Norway's Earling Holland was spotted walking up the plane also
hearing a seven hundred and fifteen dollars taxidermy raccoon.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Look at the Well, we'll see it in a little bit.
Speaker 13 (26:06):
The raccoon was drinking from a bottle.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
The raccoon was from.
Speaker 13 (26:09):
Wild Bills Western Store in Dallas, a family owned business
that Holland visited at.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The start of July.
Speaker 13 (26:15):
According to an Instagram post by the.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Store, why is she saying raccoon is she Paul McCartney
and Rocky raccoon? Isn't it a weird pronunciation? Raccoon? That
is so odd? The story about wild Beer Wild Bills,
Why can't I speak today? Wild Bill's Western Store in
Dallas From w FAA TV in Dallas.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
At Wild Bills in Dallas. Four decades of westernware and
plenty of stories, but Wednesday, owners Cody and Julie Newport
got one They'll never top.
Speaker 14 (26:50):
This is such an exciting moment for us.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
This was the customer who found his inner cowboy Shepe.
Norwegian soccer star Arlen Holland, fresh off scoring the goal
secured his country's first ever World Cup knockout match win.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
For him to score the winning goalie, let's the icing
on the cake.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
And then he kept the celebration going here. Right after
the match, He's like, come on, guys, we're gonna go shopping.
The team bus pulled up to the old red brick building.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Then all the buddies were.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here, and then it was just game on.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You have a shot.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Boots has snaps and a whole lot of Texas.
Speaker 14 (27:25):
He's just taken it all in the smell They had
like absolutely best time doing.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It like dress up for him.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Yeah, I don't think they all had boots and bolos
and hats.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And cards, even a little line dancing. And then there
was this post.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
When I got home, he had already posted like it
was already on for probably an hour, and it was
just like, sir, from.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
There, that iconic shirt, those boots and the staircase. A
viral post seen now by millions.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
These are the steps, These are the steps, Yes.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
And his look is won.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Everyone wants they see this, they want to look like that.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And that visit has swarked a fashion frenzy. The shirt
he wore has already sold out, his boots gone, and
the cowboy look is flying off the shelves.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
Some boots now.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Norway fans are making a pilgrimage of their own, replicating
Holland's cowboy look on the steps.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
Very proud as a store owner, but also as a Texan.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
No doubt, Holland left his mark on the store. This
is their trying, and he took a piece of Texas
with him too.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So We America has largely become, at least in the
big cities, but even in the suburban areas, and perhaps
even more so in the suburban areas and approaching the
rural areas. If all we ever are is a big
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box Walmart, or if you can't get a big box Walmart,
a Dollar General, in the same fast food chains, the
same big box stores, the same home depot instead of
the locally owned ace, you lose what makes people interesting.
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You know, they had the party on the Plaza in
DC for July fourth, and patriotism was on display. But
what was interesting was a demonstration, an exhibition of not
the things that bring us together, the things that make
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us different. That's what's interesting. Diversity is actually a good thing.
We don't need forced diversity. We don't need to We
don't need to hire a Chinese midget lesbian in a
wheelchair to be the quarterback of your football team. That's
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forced diversity. But the concept of being different and different,
being cool and interesting, you don't need government involved in that.
It's what makes us interesting. And stores like this as
a percentage of retail shopping experiences, stores like this, I
suspect I haven't seen the data, just anecdotally, and I
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think you would agree. You don't see those anymore. This
is why you get the old town spring antique shop
type places. This is why Republic Boot Company when they
started that yes, they are a show sponsor. When they started,
Chris Conrad had a vision, and that was that you
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would walk in and they would measure your feet for
a maid to order made to measure a pair of boots.
But not that they measured out on a piece of
paper and sent to Mexico. It would be made right
here in the good old USA, in the heights. And
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and what ended up happening was people would come in
and as he started to grow, people would come in
and they go, oh, there's cowboys that work here. He
got good looking guys and they know how to wear
their cowboy hat, and they got their custom boots on
that has cool stuff on it. And while you're deciding,
you know which upper you want and what what what
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skin you want, and how exotic you want to go
and what but you know what kind of toe you
want and how high the heel sort of thing. Hey,
let's let's get you a beer. Let's get you some whiskey.
And people started enjoying hanging out. So then that morphed
into well, let's have some let's have some country music live,
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let's have Junior Gordon come in. Let's have Jason Bolan
come in. Let's have some guys come in and sit
on the on the on a chair up there in
front while people are shopping and let them play. Well
that turned in to hey, I know it's weird to
your retail store, but could we have all our show
sponsors here, and maybe they'll buy boots. Maybe they want
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boots turned into hats, turned into custom western wear, turned
into jackets, I get all my blazers from there, turned
into all sorts of cool Western stuff. And people wanted
the experience, and even lifelong Texans couldn't find a place
to host an event like that, and so, oh wow,
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this is cool. We can rent this out for an event. Yeah,
and there's space out back. And so they teamed up
with Clint Richardson to bring in barbecue. So you got
the barbecue pits going in the back, and you got
the guys cutting the brisket up in the ribs, and
the chicken I like barbecue chicken gym, and the sausage
and now you got a real Texas experience. Well, you
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ain't getting that at Walmart. You ain't getting that at Marshers.
You ain't getting that at five below or whatever that is.
You ain't getting that all the little labeled. You know,
there's the brokers that go find in the space. There's
the big box stores and the strip center they make.
People are craving a return to this, not more screen time,
not more AI. Yeah that's gonna happen. But what people
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are going to crave, the way you crave an exotic
beach vacation is authenticity. And now they've opened a Republic
wine castle. They're making wine in Johnson City. They've they've
got a castle there. Of course, they've been hit by
these floods, knocked out. Some of the walls are finally
getting back up and running because those floods have been
bad on the hill country. Apparently, I was reading this
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morning there's there's gonna be some that's gonna happen. There's
gonna be some more of the flooding in the coach
and prayers floods with
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Floss's letter, Take it and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure to milky.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know, America firsters pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi
Germany rally.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
You said over the weekend referring to it, there's a
direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the
mid nineteen thirties, that Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 7 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating out there is his
supporters is.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
His demonizational scene is unconstable, and it's America.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorables.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You know, that's a little bit old, that shot that
sharts a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Of months old.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And if you want to really.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
See something that said, take a look at what happened.
We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
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one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons,
and they're all joining our cores and large numbers, larger
than anyone has ever seen in this country before, large
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than they've ever seen in any country. And the Republican
Party has really become the Party of inclusions.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
There is just a good news story I want to
share with you a ninety nine year old World War
Two veteran who finally received his purple heart eighty one
years after he was wounded. Better late than ever, I
say WLKYTV in Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Glenn Fisher, the weight is finally over. The ninety nine
year old World War Two veteran received the purple heart Wednesday,
eighty one years after he was wounded during combat in Germany.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
I've been so excited that I him been able to
sleep at night thinking about what a wonderful thing has happened.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
Fisher was just sixteen years old when he enlisted in
the army after changing his age so he could serve
during World War Two. Following in his father's footsteps, Glenn thought.
Speaker 9 (02:54):
The world is his dad, and he wanted to be just.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Like his dad.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
On March twenty fifth, nineteen forty five, if German artillery
exploded near Fisher's position. The blast killed two of his
friends and shrapnel hit Fisher in the face and leg.
He was treated and returned to finish the war, but
despite being wounded in action, the purple heart never came.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
He was told all the records have been burned in
a nineteen seventy three fire in Saint Louis, which is
what happened with most of the documents from World War II.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Without those military records, Fisher was told it would be
nearly impossible to prove his case, but his longtime friend
Jeff Tokey refused to let the story in there.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Through a lot of research, I found that the documents
his were there in Saint Louis. They'd been moved because
he was still in the service in nineteen seventy three.
He retired in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
After Army officials review the newly uncovered records, they agreed
Fisher deserved the Purple Heart.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
I was very happy to report and please to have
that discussion with mister Togy to approve the purple Heart.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
For Fisher, the metal represents more than his own sacrifice.
It's a reminder of the men who never made it home.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The ones that we lost and are buried in.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Belgium, in the Netherlands, but they paid the supreme sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That we might be here today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I cannot get enough of these stories straight into my veins.
I cannot get enough of them. You know what else,
I can't get enough of them When veterans go off
to serve and they come home and they surprise their
kids at school and their kid is doing I get
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choked up even thinking about it because I visualize it,
and you know, they go into their kids' classroom or
whatever and their kid just, i mean just falls out
because daddy's home or in some cases mommy's home. Those
dose they get me every time. And I'll tell you
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the other one that's even worse than that. And ray
Hunt at the Houston Police Officers Union knows this because
we've had this conversation. When an officer dies and their
kid has a graduation or a sporting event, and the
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officers all go out there in lieu of mom or dad.
Whoa man, I cannot help it. It might be weak.
It gets me every darn time. There was a case here.
It was an HPD officer. His kid was pitching in
Paarland and the dad had been had been murdered several
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years before in the line of duty, and.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Here he was pitching.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Senior day or something. And there were like thirty HPD
officers lining the fences for this boy. And I thought, man,
he'd give it all up to have his daddy there
to see him. But think about this, every one of
those officers, our time is our most precious ascent. Every
one of those officers said, he doesn't know me, he's
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never going to know me, but I'm going to go there.
And maybe they said because maybe if something happened to me,
somebody else would be there for me. But those are,
in my opinion, just beautiful, glorious moments. And you know,
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I wonder how many people enter public service like that,
because if nothing else my life will matter. If I'm
killed in the line of duty, I don't know. You know,
it is something that they take very seriously. And I
think the reason they take it so seriously is because
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it is something that is ever present in the back
of your mind. You can't you can't be an officer
on patrol in constant fear. You can't be second guessing.
But there's no doubt you come to grips with your
own reality. Today may be the day that you arrest
the wrong guy and you don't know it, and when
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you walk up on him, he's got a gun trained
on you, and and you had no idea, and he
shoots you center mass, and you go. You just it happens,
and it happens sufficiently frequently that you do know. It's
a real risk. It's a greater risk than than the
average person's going to have in the course of their
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of their lives. And so maybe that's the other reason
that that officers will will do that. But that's just
one of those It's one of those things that gets
me every single time. And I think it's important as
a society. I think it should get us every time.
I think we should think about such things and we
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should give them the utmost respect. You know, we talk
a lot about paying teachers more, and that's always a
big political issue. I had the best teachers in the world.
If everybody had the great teachers I had. I think
it would be a much much better society, and there's
plenty of good ones out there. Just a matter of
days ago, Lindsey Graham won the Republican primary to be
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the nominee to the Senate in the November election from
the great state the Palmetto State, South Carolina, and he
did so convincingly almost sixty percent. He was he would
be serving out his fifth six year term, just like
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John Cornyn if he were to have won in November.
But of course, he passed away over the weekend at
seventy one from a heart attack. The man who challenged
him in that primary was our guest during the primary,
and he is our guest again. Today's name is Mark Lynch.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Welcome to the program, sir, Thank you sir for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Let me start with asking you, if the campaign is fresh,
why did you challenge the sitting senator who'd been there
for twenty four years?
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Well, first, if I could, I would like to open
up with prayer. Sure, sure, all right, Our Father, who
are in heaven, HALLOWI be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us
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our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Amen. So why why did I base the Grand first run? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (10:08):
You know, I was asked to God put it on
our heart when people started calling, and from our reputation
as being a community leader and our business experience of
running a successful business the last forty years debt free
and we're now business My dad's are being married thirty
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eight years with two children and four grandchildren, and being
debt free personally, and being a deacon in our church
and leading a political activist group and our community in
the state, fighting bad bills and helping get good people
elected and getting rid of the bad ones, and just
doing a lot of activist work. We got asked to run,
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and I said, who would you have me run against?
And they said to Lindsay Graham. You know he's you know,
it's a tragic thing that this happened. With his death,
We've been praying for the Grand family and Darlene, I know,
got appointed as the interim senator. Yesterday, President Trump suggested
that to our governor and he graciously complied with that,
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and she's the interim senator.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
So that's good. But you know, when we get back.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
To business of the US Senate, my focus is to
bring back God first.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You know, we're we're murdering sixty four million of our
children in the womb.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
We're we're okay with gay marriage, We're okay with LGBTQ plus,
we're okay with men and women's sports, and we're okay
with shutting down the country with a flu virus and
all these things. There's a lot of craziness going on
and the times we're in and people know my stance.
They know that I'm a guy that has integrity and
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courage and boldness and I want compromise. And so I
was asked to run to help fix some things that
are broken. But you know, I'm not going to fix anything.
God's the only answer. If we're going to make America
great again, we got to bring Jesus Christ back first,
front and center and let him guide our country and
our decisions. And that's what I'll do, is use God's
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word to make biblical decisions based on his truth and
that honors the Constitution, and I'm called to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So that's why it ran. And we're still doing those things.
Speaker 10 (12:36):
Well he you know, so it's all about truth, and
I'm not trying to disparage things. But as his employee
of ours, we get to talk about him. And he
had a fifty seven percent lifetime average voting record. Constitutionally,
he claims to be pro life, but he was for
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murdering babies up to fifteen weeks in the roomb. He's
funneling money and as the head of the Budget Committee,
was sending money to the enemies of our country, to
Hamas and al Qaida through USAID. And he's putting our
tax dollars that we don't have and detained for illegal
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aliens at five point sixty seven billion in the last
quarter of twenty five in the first quarter of twenty six.
We're funding people that aren't supposed.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
To be here.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
We don't have the money. We're bankrupt as a country
at thirty nine threellion dollars in debt. So this's just,
you know, it's time to stop the stupid and do
the common sense right things. And that's what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And that's why people have asked me to run.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I agree. We called him Lindsay Grahamnesty because he was
so wrong on the issue of illegal immigration. He was
no right in my opinion, he was no real conservative.
He was a guy that hung around for four terms
and the only thing he seemed to care about was
funding foreign governments and foreign wars. And I find that
very disturbing. I'm just curious. I mean, almost a third
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of the people of South of the Republicans of South
Carolina didn't want him as their senator. And to my knowledge,
I think you were a first time candidate. You didn't
have a lot of press, didn't you didn't have the
big name, And that tells me a lot about his
support or lack of it in the state of South Carolina,
much like John Cornyn was booted here in Texas. I
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think that I think that rank and file voters and
workers and parents and Christians are tired of these people
who are more focused on funneling money to foreign governments
than they are making America great again.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
That's correct, and I assume you'll be reading again. Yes,
so we announced our back, our campaigns turned back. We're
not jumping in the race you know, we have a
lot of people that are I'm a successful businessman, that
free businessman. I'm not a career politician. But some of
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these people who say they're for term limits and everything
have been in the House and they've run for governor
and they're now running for US Senate. They're just going
to They're looking for the next seat to further their
political career. That's not my goal. My goal is to
bring our nation back to God, and that's the fix.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What am I going to do.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
I'll bring him back and I'm bringing him back right now.
And I got called out by God this morning in prayer,
starting my day, feeling the pressure of this campaign again,
and He's like, you know, there's a Save Act. We've
all been talking about that and we can't get that pass.
And God told me this morning, you know, because people
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have suggested that we name the Save Act, that Lindsey
Graham Save Act, he co sponsored that, but it's been
sitting out there a couple of hundred days and we
can't get it passed. God told me this morning, I'm
the Save Act. My name is the Save Act. So
that's what I'm bringing in the name of the Save
Act is Jesus Christ, Mark Lina's thanks for making time
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for us.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, little son with the Michael Berry's.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
My George, I can't you excited?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So a lot of Americans, and many of you lost
a loved one in Vietnam. A lot of Americans lost
a loved one in America as a result of Vietnam.
In fact, I forget the number. David Mawsby will update
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me on occasion, because unfortunately the number continues to grow,
the number of people. I think it's two to one
the number of Vietnam veterans who committed suicide upon turning,
some of them four or five decades later. The number
of Americans who committed suicide is more than double those
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who died in theater. Why why does that happen? Why
so many people taking their own life. There is a
percentage in society of people who commit suicide in modern America,
and I don't know what that number is, a one
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percent or half of one percent, But the percentage of
Vietnam veterans upon returning is much higher. And the common
denominator being including it's in letters, it's in statements, it's
in it's in case files.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Created for them a framework within which they could no
longer see, and so you have to ask the question,
why did we do that to that generation? Were we
under attack? Now you had an internal civil war, an
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internal civil war that I don't think America quite understood
why it was happening or what was happening. There is
our involvement from the outside, and of course there was
Communist country involvement from the outside as well, but I
don't believe that that was the primary driver of it.
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There are a lot of people who have revised their
histories and their analysis of what happened in Vietnam and
why that war turned against and I'll use the phrase
that American historians against us because somehow it became our war,
the war of North and South Vietnam became somehow our war,
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and we fought the war, We staffed the war, We
gave our boys for the war, and a lot of
mothers never saw their son come home. A lot of
fathers had to bury their sons. And you think to yourself, well,
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what was the purpose. Is it fair in your grief
at that moment to be angry as at what we did?
Is it fair that a lot of lies were told
LBJ lied that we were having success when in fact
we weren't. Nixon wanted out in January of sixty nine,
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but he couldn't find his way to it. He thought
it make him look weak, And then with the seventy
two election pending, he told a lot of lies, including
the fact that he was bombing in other countries which
was outside the scope of authority. Was not a defensive maneuvers,
not an emergency maneuver. That's the imperial presidency we see today.
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I'm not trying to relitigate the war. I'm trying to
ask a question, at what point is there accountability for
these supposed leaders who are sending our sons into war
to be killed with seeming disregard for the value of
their lives. Support the troops, okay, I'll support the troops.
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Is there ever a war we don't support? Is there
ever a time we send our boys into war that
maybe fifty years later we step back and go, wait
a second, Why were we there? Originally we were sending
advisors that went back to JFK. Why were we there?
Why did we stay there? Why did we assume the
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mantle of the war. Oh, the domino theory and the
communist surge. Well did that happen because Vietnam did fall
and by the way, Afghanistan did fall. And I don't
think that Iraq is the example of American foreign policy success.
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What are the costs? What does the human toll?
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Do?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Human lives matter? We spend so much time talking about
the sanctity of life with regard to abortion. What about
the sanctity of Pat Tillman's life? What about the sanctity
of Operation Red Wing Lives? I mean, it seems like
these things should matter, and we haven't even begun to
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discuss the financial costs because the human cost is far
more important. So how is it that Lindsey Graham is
standing over there rooting for more war? Jim, do you
have the quote of him a few months ago saying
that you're gonna have to send your sons to the
Middle East? Yeah, go ahead, whenever you have it, just
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fire away. I called on you late. You know what,
Let's do Charlie Kirk first, and while you're doing that,
you can find it. This is Charlie Kirk talking about
Lindsey Graham and the neocons and they're push for regime
change in Iran.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
On one side is the Lindsey Graham John Bolton types
where they are actively calling for regime change. Here is
Lindsay Graham, and this is just lunacy. He's this kind
of analysis is not helpful, this kind of approach, this
kind of argument, it says nothing new with nuclear weapons
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at this point. This is now that we want to
go all in and take out the regime. It's time
for to close the chapter on the Iranian Ayatola and
his henchmen and start a new chapter in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And that sounds good, doesn't it.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
But what have we learned when it comes to wars,
and especially wars in the Middle East. What you draw
up on a whiteboard rarely happens. What you think theoretically
is going to occur. There might be unintended and unforeseen consequences,
especially when you're talking about a country two and a
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half times the.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Size of Texas.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
It has ninety million people and was an ancient and
great power with well over a dozen ethnic groups. You
have underground Christians, you don't really have many Jews left
in Persia, but also you have secular younger Persians who's
going to run the country exactly Lindsay Graham, this sounds
like Hillary Rodham Clinton in Libya. So I'm pointing to
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the first extreme right now, the neo conservative extreme. We
must go take off the head of the snake right now.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And here was Lindsey Graham just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I go back to South Carolina.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters over
to the Mid East.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
What I want you to do in the Mideast?
Speaker 12 (24:15):
To our friends and sorry Raven other places, step forward and.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Say this is my fight too. I join America.
Speaker 12 (24:20):
I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down. If you don't,
you're making a great mistake, and you're going to cut
off the ability to have a better relationship with the
United States.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I say this as a friend.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's going to go back to South Carolina and tell
them to send there sons too the Middle East. Of
course he won't be sending his son a man. I
fear if people knew what was happening and why it's happening.
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I fear even more than anyone who questions why any
of this is happening is somehow anti American. I guess
it gets us. Effect is like calling people racist if
they start questioning, you know, fraud it it works. One of,
if not the preeminent breakout stars to emerge from the
World Cup has been Norway's Earling Holland, and now in
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the latest he's gone viral for returning to Norway holding
a stuffed raccoon, a taxi dermied raccoon, and the raccoon
is holding a bottle of whiskey. He picked this up
from Wild Bill's Western Store in Dallas and well, here
is the story from KVU TV out of Austin.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
And even though Norway didn't make it to the semifinals,
one of their most beloved players says, he's walking away
with good memories and it's a very interesting souvenir.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Take a look.
Speaker 13 (25:56):
Norway's Earling Holland was spotted walking up the plane also
hearing a seven hundred and fifteen dollars taxidermy raccoon.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Look at the Well, we'll see it in a little bit.
Speaker 13 (26:06):
The raccoon was drinking from a bottle.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
The raccoon was from.
Speaker 13 (26:09):
Wild Bills Western Store in Dallas, a family owned business
that Holland visited at.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The start of July.
Speaker 13 (26:15):
According to an Instagram post by the.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Store, why is she saying raccoon is she Paul McCartney
and Rocky raccoon? Isn't it a weird pronunciation? Raccoon? That
is so odd? The story about wild Beer Wild Bills,
Why can't I speak today? Wild Bill's Western Store in
Dallas From w FAA TV in Dallas.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
At Wild Bills in Dallas. Four decades of westernware and
plenty of stories, but Wednesday, owners Cody and Julie Newport
got one They'll never top.
Speaker 14 (26:50):
This is such an exciting moment for us.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
This was the customer who found his inner cowboy Shepe.
Norwegian soccer star Arlen Holland, fresh off scoring the goal
secured his country's first ever World Cup knockout match win.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
For him to score the winning goalie, let's the icing
on the cake.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
And then he kept the celebration going here. Right after
the match, He's like, come on, guys, we're gonna go shopping.
The team bus pulled up to the old red brick building.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Then all the buddies were.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here, and then it was just game on.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You have a shot.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Boots has snaps and a whole lot of Texas.
Speaker 14 (27:25):
He's just taken it all in the smell They had
like absolutely best time doing.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
It like dress up for him.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
Yeah, I don't think they all had boots and bolos
and hats.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And cards, even a little line dancing. And then there
was this post.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
When I got home, he had already posted like it
was already on for probably an hour, and it was
just like, sir, from.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
There, that iconic shirt, those boots and the staircase. A
viral post seen now by millions.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
These are the steps, These are the steps, Yes.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
And his look is won.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Everyone wants they see this, they want to look like that.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And that visit has swarked a fashion frenzy. The shirt
he wore has already sold out, his boots gone, and
the cowboy look is flying off the shelves.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
Some boots now.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Norway fans are making a pilgrimage of their own, replicating
Holland's cowboy look on the steps.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
Very proud as a store owner, but also as a Texan.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
No doubt, Holland left his mark on the store. This
is their trying, and he took a piece of Texas
with him too.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So We America has largely become, at least in the
big cities, but even in the suburban areas, and perhaps
even more so in the suburban areas and approaching the
rural areas. If all we ever are is a big
(28:53):
box Walmart, or if you can't get a big box Walmart,
a Dollar General, in the same fast food chains, the
same big box stores, the same home depot instead of
the locally owned ace, you lose what makes people interesting.
(29:15):
You know, they had the party on the Plaza in
DC for July fourth, and patriotism was on display. But
what was interesting was a demonstration, an exhibition of not
the things that bring us together, the things that make
(29:35):
us different. That's what's interesting. Diversity is actually a good thing.
We don't need forced diversity. We don't need to We
don't need to hire a Chinese midget lesbian in a
wheelchair to be the quarterback of your football team. That's
(29:55):
forced diversity. But the concept of being different and different,
being cool and interesting, you don't need government involved in that.
It's what makes us interesting. And stores like this as
a percentage of retail shopping experiences, stores like this, I
suspect I haven't seen the data, just anecdotally, and I
(30:18):
think you would agree. You don't see those anymore. This
is why you get the old town spring antique shop
type places. This is why Republic Boot Company when they
started that yes, they are a show sponsor. When they started,
Chris Conrad had a vision, and that was that you
(30:40):
would walk in and they would measure your feet for
a maid to order made to measure a pair of boots.
But not that they measured out on a piece of
paper and sent to Mexico. It would be made right
here in the good old USA, in the heights. And
(31:01):
and what ended up happening was people would come in
and as he started to grow, people would come in
and they go, oh, there's cowboys that work here. He
got good looking guys and they know how to wear
their cowboy hat, and they got their custom boots on
that has cool stuff on it. And while you're deciding,
you know which upper you want and what what what
(31:22):
skin you want, and how exotic you want to go
and what but you know what kind of toe you
want and how high the heel sort of thing. Hey,
let's let's get you a beer. Let's get you some whiskey.
And people started enjoying hanging out. So then that morphed
into well, let's have some let's have some country music live,
(31:46):
let's have Junior Gordon come in. Let's have Jason Bolan
come in. Let's have some guys come in and sit
on the on the on a chair up there in
front while people are shopping and let them play. Well
that turned in to hey, I know it's weird to
your retail store, but could we have all our show
sponsors here, and maybe they'll buy boots. Maybe they want
(32:09):
boots turned into hats, turned into custom western wear, turned
into jackets, I get all my blazers from there, turned
into all sorts of cool Western stuff. And people wanted
the experience, and even lifelong Texans couldn't find a place
to host an event like that, and so, oh wow,
(32:32):
this is cool. We can rent this out for an event. Yeah,
and there's space out back. And so they teamed up
with Clint Richardson to bring in barbecue. So you got
the barbecue pits going in the back, and you got
the guys cutting the brisket up in the ribs, and
the chicken I like barbecue chicken gym, and the sausage
and now you got a real Texas experience. Well, you
(32:53):
ain't getting that at Walmart. You ain't getting that at Marshers.
You ain't getting that at five below or whatever that is.
You ain't getting that all the little labeled. You know,
there's the brokers that go find in the space. There's
the big box stores and the strip center they make.
People are craving a return to this, not more screen time,
not more AI. Yeah that's gonna happen. But what people
(33:16):
are going to crave, the way you crave an exotic
beach vacation is authenticity. And now they've opened a Republic
wine castle. They're making wine in Johnson City. They've they've
got a castle there. Of course, they've been hit by
these floods, knocked out. Some of the walls are finally
getting back up and running because those floods have been
bad on the hill country. Apparently, I was reading this
(33:37):
morning there's there's gonna be some that's gonna happen. There's
gonna be some more of the flooding in the coach
and prayers floods with
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Floss's letter, Take it and good night.
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