Ep. 201 - The Debacle in Afghanistan

The Debacle in Afghanistan

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What's going on? Sir? Outstanding? And we also have Ashley ours all
they don't ask that good good andpotagain, welcome to that at joke.

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A lot has been going on,A lot has been going on, and
that we definitely need to talk aboutit. I don't even know where to
go. Um. Actually I wouldhave to say that the events of the
past few days. No, Iwon't say the events in the past few
days. I would say the eventssince November of twenty twenty the oh,

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I would say before then, Iwould say the summer of my country is
unrecognizable. And the absolute disgraceful collapsethat we have seen in Afghanistan in the
blitch greeg how quickly the fall ofasking of afghan was after twenty years of

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sacrifice of our men and women inarms. It's it's it's heartbreaking. Um,
what are your thoughts over what you'veseen taking place in Afghanistan over the
past few days. Um. Imean, I honestly, I think it

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boils down to we needed to beclear on what the goal was when we
went in there in the first place. Obviously that can't really be fit now
they you know, I think theassumption was, you know, we were
just attacked out of nowhere, likePearl Harbor. So let's assume this is
we're gonna fight this like World WarTwo, and you know, we'll go

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in and you know, take outsome governments and then that's the way to
do it. But I mean,obviously that wasn't really the strategy. I
mean, it made sense for uslast time we were attacked, you know,
just out of nowhere, and itwas obviously a huge like opening salvo,
like they had come after us.But fighting an ideology or like a

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you know, decentralized network is notthe same thing as fighting an army and
uniform. So I mean, firstof all, so we really blew it
there, like really, But onceyou are in the country, you need
to decide what the best outemy is, make it happen, and then leave

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and preferably like you know, assoon as possible. Don't just hang around
there for twenty years and try tofigure out what's going to work and then
just slink away like that's what wedidn't Vietnam. And I don't know.
Sorry, I'm just like trying toexplain something that's really complicated that I should
probably sit down spend a lot oftime researching. But you know that's my

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basic Okay, I appreciate that.Um, your thoughts, Uh, how
much time we got. You're theproducer. I'm gonna take it right,
I'm gonna take the liberty man becausethis take a breath, all right,
here we go, all right,all right, this was a disgrace.

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This was an unmitigated disaster, andthis was an embarrassment for the country.
Let's talk first of all about whywe went there in the first place.
The reason why we went to Afghanistanin the first place was because the Taliban

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was harboring al Qaya and we demanded, because people forget this part, we
did, demanded that the Taliban turnover al Qaida first. They chose not
to do so, and as aresult, we invaded Afghanistan. We invaded

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Afghanistan because the attacks of nine toeleven were plotted and in Afghanistan and the
Taliban was harboring al Qaeda. Thatwas why we went in there in the
first place. So the goal,the objective was to get al Qaida and

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to make sure that Afghanistan never againharbored terrorists. Okay, now that we've
established that, where we're at now. The reason why this was such a
problem with what happened, because thiswas completely and totally poorly thought out,

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and even worse, it was evenworse of an execution because you're in a
situation where you've been in this countryfor plenty years and they knew, they
knew, The United States knew goodand damn well that the Afghan Army was

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holding it together because we were there. So when I hear people today in
the White House insult the Afghan Armyand say they didn't want to fight,
when we were the ones giving themair power, we were the ones paying

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them, and for the most forthe last five or six years, they've
been the ones taking more casualties.Yeah they took they took more casualties,
or they took more casualties in asingle month then the United States has taken
in twenty years. So how dareyou stand up there and say that these

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people didn't want to fight from thecomfort of the Oval office. That's a
damn line. That's a damn line. The issue, this is where we
went wrong because everybody wants to say, and this really pisses me off.
Everybody wants to say, Oh,we shouldn't be nation building, we shouldn't
be worried about things going on inother countries. We should take care of

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we should take care of home.And people don't understand how damn selfish and
self centered you sound when you saythat we want the benefits. We want
the benefits of being the world's superpowerwithout any of the responsibilities. Do you
know why we're still in South Korea? Because if we left, North Korea

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would take South Korea over within amatter of weeks, if not days.
You know why this second of whatyou say is the only time usually when
the United States goes to war,they never leave. We're still in Germany,
We're still in South Korea. That'swhere I'm going. That's where I'm

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going. And the reason why we'rethere is because the cost of not being
there are worse than the cost ofus being there. I thought we learned
this lesson already with World War One, World War two, every other constlt

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every other major conflict that this thatthis world has been in. I thought
we learned that when we pulled back, as gets worse because everybody looks to
us, whether you like it ornot. So, no, we didn't
have to be at war in Afghanistanfor twenty years. Nobody saying that we

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should be in an endless war.But the fact of the matter is we
haven't been in a combat role inAfghanistan in five years. So what you
could have done was draw down,leave a residual force to keep the peace,

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to make sure that there was asolution between the government of Afghanistan and
the Taliban. What did we decideto do? We decided the first thing
we did was give up the airforce base that we had. How damn
stupid is that? Well, Iwant people out. I wanted to make
a distinction here. The Trump administrationdid go shape with the Taliban. We

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want to say that the Trump administrationwas looking to draw it out Afghanistan,
and that's one of the things thatthey mentioned. However, under this current
administration, talking about the Biden administration, there's a difference between a drift on
a pipe versus a full scale openingof the foss Well, the problems,

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the difference between the two, thedifference between the two. And we can
have debates, the disputes or whateverby whether whether the Trump administration should have
been negotiated with Taliban, but thedifference between his plan and what President Biden
decided to do. Even though hedoes, he tries to do this slight
of hand and try to make theissue about something else. The debate isn't

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over whether we were getting out ornot. The debate was over how the
hell you did it. But thedifference was the President Trump's plan was consent,
was conditions based. It was basedon the conditions on the ground.
If the conditions had have been theway that they were now, the way

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that President Biden was told. Hewas told this, he was told this
was gonna happen, and they didit anyway, They get it anyway.
And now he has the all audacity, he has the god to stand up
there when these people, how thehell are we gonna evacuate eighty eight thousand

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people when you gave up the airForce base and now you got the airport
and you're telling people get to theairport, so we can get you out
of here for the Talibana surrounding airport. Correct, So how the hell are
they getting to the airport. Theseare people that you promised. You promised
these people that if they worked withus, we would be there for them,

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and there is no way. Andnow you're sitting there telling them,
hey, if if you if youget if you can get to the airport,
we got to what they're supposed todo, catch a uber and Afghanistan
and anything. Is that these peopleare being called called when they hundred saved
my ass? Like, how isthis supposed to work? This is just
absolutely I'm just disgusted. I'm absolutelydisgusted. I'm and and let's talk about

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the people, not the soldiers,because the soldiers are the ones you fought
and died and lost limbs and everythingand for the mission that we told them
we had. But let's talk aboutthe politicians, the people who run the
military who've been lying to the Americanpeople for twenty years talking about the strengthen

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the resolve of the Afghan military,knowing couldn't damn well that they couldn't stand
up without us. Right, Yeah, this is ahead, I got,
I got more. But go ahead, and you know, and I appreciate
them and figure in which you areyou're making your statements, because I agree
a thousand percent. You know thisis a black eye both on both eyes

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to the United States and a kickin the groin because what has happened is
that you know this, this,this is indicative, This is indicative of
how how in the world can youtalk about spreading American values when most of
the people who are offered right nowgive lesson the damn about the country in
the first place, that they saythat this is a bad country, that

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this is not the place that youwant to be, that it was built
based and built on racism, that'sbased in build on all these other things,
and how bad horrible it is.And so now you want to send
more money to Afghanistan for sex changeoperations when you're talking to boat hurders that
that are probably ground from the courtgame and fifteen hundreds right in terms of
mentality, where they know that aman is a man and a woman is

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a woman, and that men don'tactate w you're trying to push those guys
by sending money over there, andat the end of the day, they're
pissed off by because you're dealing witha group of people who have religion at
their very core. And so ifyou try to infiltrate or send things which
are and which are totally against theirideology, you know what we're gonna come
into like a hornlessness. And ifyou're not prepared to defend yourself the air

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over gun, right, then theygot something for you behind. And this
is one the people hate this hatethis country. But you got people hanging
on wal wales of of airplanes tryingto get here, to get over here,
to trying to get here. Absolutelyin our country, our politicians lied

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to not only us, but theylie to the Afghan people. And so
when the person says that I'm president, stops here, Okay, all those
deaths are gonna be on your head. The bus stop here. But let
me blame my predecessor, let meblame the Afghan military stops here. But
I'm gonna blame everybody but myself,even though and let's let's talk about this.

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I'm sorry, Todd, but I'mjust I've been holding this this mess
in and I just gotta let itout. The black the fact that they
sit here and they go to theAmerican people, and they say, well,
our mission in Afghanistan was to getthe people who perpetrating the apps of
nine eleven, and we did that. We killed Osama. Bin lied the

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fact that they sit there and usethat as justification for leaving Afghanistan when Biden
was against Obama doing that. Doingthe mission to get been Laden in the
first place is rich to me.He opposed it. He was against it.
When Obama made the decision to goget Osama, been lyeding to kill

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him where they knew he was at. Biden did not support it. He
was opposed to it. There isa reason why Obama's own defense secretary,
Robert Gates, said that Joe Bidenhas been wrong on almost every single foreign
policy issue in the last forty years. And that's his entire career. This

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is Obama's. This is Obama's defensesecretary who said that it's it's just unbelievable
to me. How dare you standup there and uh, oh my god,
here's the thing. Here's my question. Here's my question. If Biden
has lied to the American people andhas left eighty eight thousand people, left

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them to the hands of people whowhen they find out who you are.
They will cut your head off,they will kill you. They're already there
reports that they're already going door todoor and they're going people now that women
who were going to school and allthat stuff. Is he going to be
responsible for all the rape of thosewomen as well? Just the buck stops

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here. But the point I wantto make exist if he lied in eighty
eight thousand, people are going tosuffer. What else has he lied about
to the American people? How canyou trust the man? How can you
trust how can you trust anything thatcomes out of his mouth? It is
amazing to me. And you know, you know Todd, you know Ashley.

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I I will hit anybody. Bothsides can get it with me.
But it is amazing to me thatthe people that we pay our tax dollars
to be smart are so damned stupid. They have been wrong on so many

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different issues. They were wrong onthe origins of COVID, they were wrong,
on the boarder, they were wrong, or Afghanistan, Like, how
many more times do you have tosee rank incompetence from the people who are
who tell us that they're the smartestones in the room. How often do

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you have to see this rank incompetencebefore you realize these people don't know what
the hell they're doing, and alsowho are they listening to? This is
not as if this administration was nottold They were told this. They were
told this what's gonna happen. Theyknew this was gonna happen. So either

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either you were malicious because you're knwthis was gonna happen and didn't give a
damn, or you are criminally incompetent. Are some who are calling for some
are calling for his impeachment? Getget asked me in here because I can,
I can, I can go offon this crap all day. Actually,

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there's someone calling for the impeachment forthe resignation of our current I won't
even call him a commander in chief. I know that as a president he's
quote unquote the commander in chief.But when you hear commander in chief,
you're expecting someone to be strong.No. I mean, I mean,
I feel like this is just anatural sign that the country is starting to

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go down the tubes. I mean, when do you do you do you
when you look at Biden? Doyou think of him as a strong get?
No? I think this is likea really bad turning point in America,
Like we just put up someone whois not controversial, like you know,
he's been around, like he's aboutto die. So I mean,

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all right, I don't want tosay like that, but like you know,
he's nearing the end of his life. So it's like at this point,
Yeah, this is when countries juststart falling apart. It's like all
all hell is going to break loosewhen well, the aging person who's like
the last uh, it's like thelast of the generation that actually was worth
the damn Now now like the newera is about to begin. So so

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let's so let's let's let's talk aboutthe the person in the bullpen. Let's
just talk about the vice president.Do you do you her as being any
stronger or even even able to havehandled a situation like this any different?
No? I mean I feel likesomething, Yeah, we're gonna have to

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come to a head. I'm youknow, like what kind of country you
want to have? I mean,I I feel like this is when there's
major changes that need to take placeright around Yeah, And I think that
I think that we see a levelof incompetence because Joe Biden hasn't mentioned the

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border. Yet yeah, and thisis what I'm talking about. This is
what I'm talking about. Like everythingthey say, everything, almost everything they
say, the exact opposite is true. He stood up there, he stood
up there on that podium a monthago and said that exactly what we saw

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happy this weekend was not going tohappen. It was You couldn't do that
worse if you planned it, Likehe specifically said, we're not. This
isn't gonna this isn't gonna look likewhat happened in Vietnam. It no,
you know what, He's right,it looks worse. It looks ye.

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God, oh my god, I'mlike, what is going on? And
the thing that irritates me the mostis these people ran on competence. They
ran on we're smarter than that buffoonover there. He's a rodeo clown.

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We're the adults in the room.You need to vote for us to put
the adults back in the room.And when they got in office, they
almost every major issue that they havehad in the seven months that he's been
in office, they've been wrong onalmost every single one of them. They

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said the border wasn't going to bea problem. It became a hell of
a problem. Then they said,oh, well it's seasonal. Well no,
Now, now even they admit behindclosed doors that it's bad because it's
the highest that it's been in overtwenty years. That's not seasonal. Then,
oh, we were told before thebefore the election, around the time

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of the election, if you thinkthat COVID leaked out of the Chinese lab
you are a conspiracy theorist, andwe're gonna kick you off of social media
and we're gonna shut your voices becausethere's no way that that happened. That
didn't happen at all. And nowwe look and say, oh, well,
you know, and not only notonly is it a reasonable option,

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it's the most likely one at thispoint. Right, So now they were
wrong about COVID. They're wrong aboutthe origins of COVID, they were wrong
about the border. They were wrongabout about inflation. There's no inflation.
Now it's oh, it's gonna goaway. They're wrong about they're wrong about
COVID, the wrong about the border, the wrong about inflation, they're wrong

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about Afghanistan. Everything that they saidwasn't going to happen happen, and everything
they said, what's gonna happen.Didn't you have to you have to try
to be this stupid. How inthe world are the people that we pay
to be smart this damn stupid.As I said before the question, I

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asked if and you put it,you pointed out all the instances where they've
been wrong. My question is whoare they listening to? Because certainly they
have two people, They have twopeople in their ear. They have one
of people in the ear saying,hey, this can happen. The collapse
could happen instantaneously, and then there'ssomebody else in there you're saying, well,

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no, this cannot happen. Sothey're they're listening to one group of
people as opposed to the other.Much like much like, much like you
know our fact checkers on Facebook andInstagram and all these other kind of places.
The problem, Todd, this isthe problem when you have a room

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full of egg kids who've never livedin a real world and they don't understand
the real world implications. Well,they're let's see, yeah, and you
and I talked about this when wedid the uh the Republican uh not the
primaries. When we're in Cleveland andwe were talking about at the RNC at
the Yeah, this is the problemwhen you have a room full of eggheads,

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because everything sounds great to them.It sounds like a great idea,
and they're getting this one big oldcircle jerk and everybody thinks that this is
what. Oh yeah, that's great, that's brilliant, until what it might
Tyson say. Everybody has a planuntil you get punched in the monet hit
the mouth. Yeah, so let'sgo to break time. I was just

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getting warm, all right. Isee how you roll man. You can
go on your ramp, but Ican't right to the time Alla show.
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media platforms. Um, I knowthat there were a couple more things that
you wanted to us. Yeah,yeah, that wasn't done. Um yeah,

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they're also saying, we can't spendall of this time and have all
of these uh these military members inanother country civil war. Then why the
hell are we still in South Korea? Because essentially, essentially that's a civil

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that was a civil war, andwe've been there. They talked about we've
been in Afghanistan for twenty years,We've been in Korea for over seventy not
in an act of combat for US, but we have a presence there to
hold the North back because as soonas we leave, if we were to

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leave South Korea, the North iswhipping that ass immediately. We're all Germany,
we're also in Germany. But notonly that, what about our relationship
with Taiwan China. China has madeit very clear that they plan to take

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Taiwan back. What you're gonna doabout it? That's technically they could make
the case that's a civil war.What you're gonna do about it? This
was just the most illogical, unplanned, poorly thought out piece of doodoo who
that you could ever do on theworld stage. This was a complete and

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total inexcusable embarrassment. This is ablackout on the country it's going to make
it harder for people to trust us, to work with us when the next
conflict happens, because we all knowthere's never going to be a time where

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we just live in peacetime. Forever. There will be another war, and
you will need people to continue towork with you. And it makes it
much harder to get people to workwith you if they can't trust you.
And a good way of making surethat people don't trust you is giving people

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their word, giving people your wordthat you will be there to protect them,
and in their time of need youturn tail and run and allow them
to get their heads cut off.Well, you know, and during the
break, I was asking, isBiden fiddling while the America burns? I

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think you have to know how tofiddle in order to do that. Well,
him not knowing how to fiddle?This Trump's fault. It's just I'm
just disgusting. I'm just disgusting.Actually, let me ask you this.
When the seemingly false words and falseprovado that this manament chief or this president

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is exhibiting, and that the absolutefailure on the on the international scale,
does this give people confidence as towhat he can do or what he is
doing at the domestic level. Idon't know. I mean, it's hard

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to I don't know. I'll justleave it up to you. I think
you're you're person to go to onthis. Um. Yeah again, I
leave it up to our listeners.I don't know. Um. You know
there's a saying says, how canyou know what a person line? And

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the answers every time their lips move. So yeah, I don't know what
this guy says. There's no inflation. We don't. We don't see that
to be true. Um, whenyou talk about other things such as you
know, medical let's say, othermedical things. I'm just gonna I'm gonna
tread lighting here because we don't wantto be cancel um when they come about

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medical things. And I think itwas a survey and that said that more
people trust Dr Pepper than they dodoctor Fauci. You you you you have
to you have to wonder are peopleor are we allowed to make our own
choices and decisions? Are we freemake our own choice or decisions or are

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we relegated to have to do whatpeople such as Joe Biden and other people
who they listen to when they trusthave to do what they said so so
asked the interview. I mean,are we as free as we were maybe
a year ago, even though wewere in a pandemic? Are we are

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we free? Are we a nationof freedoms? Um? No, I
mean I think that's becoming a veryarguable statement. I mean, myer was
growing up, it was very clear, like we're in America because we value
freedom, like that is our mainreason for being here, and it's our
common ideal. But I mean I'mnow starting to see like so many debates

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and Twitter threads, which is whyI just stay off Twitter, because it's
a good place to just get pissedoff. It's also total waste of time
people arguing that, like you know, maybe we shouldn't have a First Amendment
because you know clearly people can't betrusted with it. And I mean,

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obviously we're moving away from that.And I don't really see I see like
almost no, Like there's no convincinganyone, Like people have their minds made
up. I mean, we're justgonna have to see when a like what's
coming? Right are your thoughts?So I think, Um, we try

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to give our leaders the benefit ofthe doubt. We we trust the people
who say they're the smartest in theand it's because they say they're the smartest
in the rule. It's like,if you're not a doctor, if you're
not a lawyer, if you're nota foreign policy expert, your natural inclination

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is to trust the people who saythat they're the experts. So the problem
and there and there's there's not anissue with that per se, because you
do need leadership. But the problemis what happens when the leadership is incompetent,
because what's on the head falls onthe body. If there's no one

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to look for to get answers,then people start to panic and people start
to shut down. What the issuethat we have in America today is that
no one trusts any institution in Americaanymore. And the problem is that what

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defines a civilized sciety is our institutions. And if no one trusts our institutions
because no one trusts the people runningthose institutions, then no one has anywhere
to go to search for truth.No one knows where truth is. And

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this is the problem. Every liethat a politician tells, every lie that
a public official tells, is corrosiveto the fabric of the country because it
corrolls the faith and trust in ourinstitutions. People don't trust the government,

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people don't trust the media, peopledon't trust the education system. People don't
trust the scientists, people don't trustthe doctors. There we have a problem.
We have a problem. People don'ttrust the faith community. We have
a problem that is not good.You have people who believe that it's a

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good thing because they believe that allof these institutions ought to be burned down
to the ground anyway because their foundationsare rotten. But it's not a good
thing. If we don't have thepillars those institutions to be able to trust,
then our pillars rot and the wholehouse come comes down. And this

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is the problem that we have now. Now that you have major, major,
major situations where people in leadership aretrying to get regular folks to trust
them, you see now what happens. This is why it's a problem.
This is why it's a problem.When the president stands up and does a

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press conference and tell tells us theexact thing that happens a month later was
never going to happen. This iswhy it's a problem. When the leading
health professional in the country admits thathe lied about the use of mass at
the very beginning because he didn't wantedto be a run on masks and wanted

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to the medical profession to still havethem. When when when the lead,
When the leading medical profession admits thathe tailors what he says and what he
doesn't say based off of public opinionin an attempt to manipulate public opinion instead
of just telling the truth. Whenthese things happen, it is corrosive to

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the fabric of our society because ina free society, in a society that
is built on the consent of thegoverned, of the words yeah, in
other words, we give you thepower to rule us. The power comes

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from us. You are governing uswith our consent. In order for that
to work, we have to trustthat you know what the hell you're doing.
Part of the problem I believe inyou, and I've discussed this in
many instances, is that our politicalFirst of all, our political leadership is

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only there, there, there there. Their true design is to be elected.
So when they call themselves leaderships,they're not leading to in order to
truly get the results. The resultedthat one is that they want to get
re elected because for people like JoeBiden, for people like Nancy Belosi.
All their about life, they've beenpaid by the public, and so they're
they're real true work or their realtrue job is to get reelected, and

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the policies that they've set, they'veset in a bubble because they've not really
had the opportunity or maybe had theopportunity, but not actually kind of to
go out and see where the peoplereally live on what life is really all
about. You and I experienced thatfor a week when we were at the
RNC. And as you said thatwe were we were at the RNC,

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we were quashed away from the public. Uh and and Cleveland was burning to
the ground. All kind of activitywas happening outside of the walled area that
we were in. We were havinga good old time, uh, smoking
cigars and uh and brown liquor cigarsthat we need. And I haven't known
WoT riot, damn barral riot rightoutside. Had no idea. And so

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when certain events take place, whencommon folk rise up, you know,
the politicians, the career politicians areastounded, and they wanted and they want
to, uh, you know,say how bad this is and and and
all this other stuff but you haveonly career politicians, but you'll have you
also have a career people in government. Departments of government put the career department

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heads such as facts sorry, themireaucrats, the bureaucrats, and you have
you know at a career bureaucrats doctorPepper, I mean doctor Fauci included,
who say things in order to continueto be to suck on the public breast

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and to obtain resources. And sowhat happens over a period of time is
that these people ingrationate themselves at thepublic treasury, and so the things that
they do are to be able tocontinue to get wealthy, where common folks
lose out, get poor, losejobs, lose their livelihoods, lose their
freedoms, while these other while thesecareer politicians and miureacrats continue to maintain a

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lifestyle and elevate their lifestyles even inthe face of the worst financial turmoil in
generation, because of these lockdowners.There's a study that talks about ultra high
net worth individuals ulhind and ultra behindnet worth individuals are families and individuals that

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have networks of over thirty million dollarsin net worth assets during this plandemic.
They have increased their wealth by onepoint seven percent, increase their wealth by
almost two percent during this time period. What does that tell you when you

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have families such as the Biden family, who you know as a politician,
you're making less than one thousand dollarsa year. But when you look at
your net worth of the president,look at the net worth of Anti Pelosi,
and you look at the networth ofall on all sides multi republicated Democrats,
that these quote unquote leaders of ourcountry, they do not face the
same challenges that many of us regularfolks in the day to day face.

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But yet these are people that aremaking decisions about our lives. These are
people that are making decisions about ourfreedoms. And then you have people like
Luminator they're telling us to hell withyour freedoms. Really, we have to
take a look. We have wehave to take a look at what's important,

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especially during this time period that we'vejust come through and that we are
still going through, and that wecan we really trust the people information that
we get from the fact checkers andall these other people who are all interconnected
and they're all working together. Canwe really trust them to make the choice
and decisions that will that will maintainour freedoms and to help us live life

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with dignity and and and basically thedignity and the promises of our Constitution.
I for one question that I,for one, take a look at this
and say, I don't believe you, folks, you're listening to the time.
I'm sure we'll be right back.Do you feel like everyone is yelling
at each other, but no oneis listening to each other or themselves.

(42:02):
I'm Cura Davis, host of JustListen to Yourself, a weekly exercise and
critical thinking and drawing our talking pointsall the way out to their logical conclusions,
because I believe when we take thetime to examine our own talking points,
we can realize we're not always sayingwhat we think we're saying. Download
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you get your podcasts. The ToddAlan Show on the FCB Radio Network.
Welcome to folks for listening to theTodd Alan Show. Let's talk about so
many things that are taking place inand around our hometown of Cleveland. There

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is a marriage race going on andone of the things I wanted to talk
about in particular regarding the marriage race, not about particular Cannid that, but
FCB has been getting some interesting commentaryfrom people that say that their media,

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but you know, those they maybe sitting in their their their grandmother's basement
on the internet, because they certainlydon't show themselves when they make attacks from
the basement. And I want totalk a little bit about that argue because
this is this is a political seasonand the thing that people don't know about

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FCB is that you are the CEOof FCB, a first class broadcasting and
this is a lifelong dream of yoursto have a public service such as this.
Let's just talk very quickly about howthis has grown over the past five

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years, the reach that you have, some of the talent that you have
other than us here at the time, talent ship, and how seemunly is
attacks from quote unquote medium They answerthe question is why why are they attacking
you now? Because we're threat andbecause we're relevant, they're not. So

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basically to kind of get a contexton on my Sheld the Outlaws radio show,
which I can subscribe um on allpodcast platforms. We've been interviewing.
We've been interviewing all of them,as many of the candidates from mayor as
we can. And this is somethingthat we started in the last election,

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in the last mayoral election in twentyseventeen. UM. It just has even
more significance now because this is thefirst this is the first race in my
lifetime, in my adult life wherethere's no incumbent. So this is the
first wide open race that we've seenin my adult life and probably most of

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my life period. So that's whatkind of makes this a little more significant.
And a lot of candidates have beencoming on the show. The mayor,
the current mayor, came on theshow the day he announced his endorsement
and we were the first people thathe talked to, and we've always had
had a good relationship with the mayor, and that it was that interview in

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particular, because when that interview,when we did that interview, in that
interview came out, there was oneperson in particular who has some history and
traditional media apparently who decided he wasgoing to go out of his way to
insult us because he thought that itwas disrespectful that the mayor would not talk

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to the media that he that thisguy deems appropriate but according to what he
said in his tweet, but hegives an interview to these people like the
word disrespectful because that shows you thearrogance and the entitlement that comes from the
entitlement mentality that comes from people inthe quote unquote mainstream media that they feel

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like they're the ones you're supposed totalk to, that no one else can
be part of the conversation. Andthat's part of the issue that we have
in the city in general, isthat you have a handful of voices who
are dominating the conversation. And thesepeople who are dominating the conversation don't represent
the actual people. The reason whymayors and mayoral candidates come on my show

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is because we represent the voice ofthe actual people, and they come here
to make their case to the actualpeople. And some folks in the media
have a problem with that because theyfeel like they should be the gatekeepers,
and when they're no longer the gatekeepers, when they no longer have power,
they feel disrespected because it takes awaythey're legitimates. See, it takes away

(47:00):
their reason for even being there.Not if you're not a gatekeeper, then
what do we need you for?So that so that's why people have a
problem with us, because we're connectedto the people and the elected officials along
with other politicians and celebrities and stufflike that. They come here because they

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know that they can speak to thefolks without having a deal with the extra
filter and bs that comes from traditionalmedia. Because when you come on my
show, and generally speaking, theFCB shows in general work like this.
But when you come on my show, I'm going to ask you a question
and then I'm going to allow youto answer it. What a novel concept?

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Because I trust the intelligence of myaudience. I don't think that I
have to filter these answers for myaudience. I believe that it shows more
back from my audience for me toask the questions that I know my audience
wants to have the answers, tolet people answer them and let you decide

(48:08):
if they're full of crap or not. What a novel concept. One of
the things that that I respect,I've always respected about you as a producer
and you're you're chosen particular um,is that you're not afraid to ask the
tough question. There there there there'sreally I mean there are there's no such

(48:30):
thing as a softball question. Youdo ask questions that people in general want
want them to know. And unlikemainstream media, and the person that we're
talking about in particular, um hasno stated media original I'm sorry later,
okay, but it's not but itbut he is not sorry to come out
and said what media he's quote unquoterepresenting or who is right? Because he's

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not because he's not there anymore.So he probably he's not a lading out
of his operating out of this grandmother'sbase. It is probably one of those
people who got who got replaced byby a computer or by some young person
sounds like a Facebook fact checker anyway, well at least they have an actual

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job. But anyway, so supposedlyright, it couldn't be a let's talk
about some of the other if youdon't mind, because again, and and
I'm doing this on my show Gargabecause you know I always say that you're
you're a friend, and I dothis for my friends. Is that I

(49:37):
want to edify my friends because you'rea very humble guy. You don't edify
yourself, and so I want totake the opportunity here in the town.
I want to show to kind oflet people know when they're living listening to
FCB assets, who and what they'relistening to. Now talk about some of
the other assets that FCB has well. We definitely have obviously, um just

(50:02):
listen to Yourself hosted by the QueenKia Davis Um, which is a monster
monster, super big show. Umall right now, so make sure to
y'all check that out. Make surey'all subscribe to that if you haven't already.
Um. We also have not anotherpolitical podcast a k A. Nap

(50:24):
Um that is hosted by Colin Jacksonand Alex Harper Um. That show is
doing well taking off as well.Make sure to h'all subscribe to that.
We have Grown Patriots for Kids,so make sure that y'all those of you
who have young children and you wantthem to learn about American history, make
sure to ch'all subscribe to that now. Also, of course my show to

(50:52):
our Laws radio show, make surey'all y'all subscribe to that. But just
go to FCB radio dot com.We have a bunch of shows, a
ton of them, so it's gonnahave to be radio dot com and you
cover all forms of media in asense, I mean you also do fashion.
You also have our fashion yes,backstage passed with Victoria Victoria Henley,
who comes from America's Next Top Model, Right. So, I mean the

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thing is that you are the largestblack owned radio station or is that correct
black owned radio stations or should saymedia incluse we are. We are the
largest independently owned black radio and podcastnetwork and the city and one of the

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largest in the state, in ourwhole state of life. And this started
from humble beginnings of you going throughbroadcasting school and cutting your teeth, working
with other other groups of individuals andpeople. And it's been a labor of
been a labor of love, becauseI mean, in order for you to

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to have the kind of success thatyou have had. I mean, I'm
sure I know because I was withyou part of the way, when you
when you took grace to allow meto have my platform, when you're when
you're when you're when I started puttingin all that work to make you cool.
Yeah. And one of the things, one of the things that you

(52:24):
did was you helped us bring onAshley. So actually I'm appreciated because you
have helped to make me cool aswell. It's hard working. Yeah,
and another another puffert for the league. Believe's not here, he's on assignment,

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but uh, you know, butwe give a shout out to him
words oh boy. Um, it'sjust it's just a shame. It's just
a shame. Um. We allpeople more than to abandon them in that

(53:05):
time and need. I'm very consideredobviously about the people in Afghanistan, and
I'm very concerned about those those womenand those young girls who are who could
be subject to unspeakable horrors. Andwe just have to get better because at
the end of the day, ourleaders do the things that we allow them
to do. Yeah, did ofthat? And you know, I always

(53:30):
in the show, I say weare what we continually donat but a habit.
And so I think that we asa country, in our current leadership,
has lost the idea of being excellentin media, being mediocres, being
overrated. I think at this particularpoint, all of our leadership should be
questioned. Many of the people whohave failed the Afghan people, who have

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failed the American people in public policy, I think they need to resign.
I think that many people in theDemocratic Party and the Republican Party really need
to take a look at the reasoningfor why they wanted to run. And
at this particular point, I thinkas a nation, as a group,
as a people, we have thepower of the vote. We need to
question everything. And as a blackman, I look at this whole thing

(54:15):
and I said that here it isthat you want me, as a black
man to have a vaccine passport andto be able to move around town.
At the same time you say thatI don't have to have a voter iDeer
in order to vote. At theend of the day, I may not
be a politician, but I ain'tto focus this to God Ellen show until

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next time. The FCB Radio Networkfirst class broadcasting worldwide