April 30, 2026

Common Sense vs. Special Interests- Brian Rust’s Plan to Fix Jobs, Workforce & Glacial Government

Common Sense vs. Special Interests- Brian Rust’s Plan to Fix Jobs, Workforce & Glacial Government
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In this powerful episode of the Dave Carter Show, Dave sits down with Bay County Commissioner candidate Brian Rust to hear his common-sense vision for the county’s future. He details practical strategies for job creation and workforce development that put Bay County families first, while exposing the bureaucratic red tape that has slowed infrastructure projects to a glacial pace. Brian makes a compelling case for aggressive government reform designed to cut delays, reduce costs, and deliver results for taxpayers instead of special interests.

As a candidate who refuses to be bought, Brian is facing an all-too-familiar reality in local politics: monied elites, entrenched special interests, and county kingmakers are working behind the scenes to starve his campaign of resources. Unable to defeat his ideas in open debate, they’ve chosen financial suppression instead. Brian explains why this fight matters far beyond Bay County — because voters everywhere deserve to hear what genuine independence sounds like in today’s highly charged political environment.

Whether you live in Bay County or simply want to see what principled, voter-first leadership looks like, this episode delivers a refreshing dose of straight talk and actionable solutions. Tune in to hear why Brian Rust believes common sense still has a place in government — and why the establishment is so determined to silence it.

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the base to the basis that a way take.

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Dave Carter, a veteran of the fight Swamp dog tags

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for a mic, chasing stories in the night.

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Unloose Lousiana Swamps to the distant towards the duty. He's

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got a cranky humor with the touch of raw beauty,

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steering through the memories, both.

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The dark and bright, with laughter as his compass. He'll

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cut it through the day on the.

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Day Catta Show, where the.

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Story flow from battlefields allways, it's a long Roadio with

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the hard bull of coverage and a grin on his face, He'll.

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Think, you on a journey through time, and please, I

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am Dave Carter, your tour guide on our ongoing search

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for truth. A good laugh and some ideas that actually

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work would be nice for a change. And to that end,

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some of the most recent episodes of this program have

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featured conversations with a couple of gentlemen who are running

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for office. In contrast with Will Rogers' statement that in

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America we have the best politicians of money can buy.

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Brian Russ and Keith Gross are those exceptional candidates who

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simply are not for sale, Which is fabulous actually, but

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it begs the question are these guys actually politicians or

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are they just guys trying to do the right thing.

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We'll explore that and more as we check in with

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Brian Russ.

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Knock it out, Yeah, knock it out.

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Brian's on the case on a Policada.

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Cabinating budding boots him first, please running vocal mission in

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Bay County.

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He stays tall.

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Now that's the music that we created for our guests

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and my friend Brian Rust, who joins us on the

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heels of the latest episode of his program, The Brian

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Rush Shows, seen and heard on Rumble and a bunch

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of other places that I can't remember. I've been up

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all night and I'm lucky I know my name at

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this point, but that's not important. Brian, Good morning, bro.

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How you doing?

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Good morning Dave. I'm doing well. How are you. I'm

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just living the dream one hour at a time all night.

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So I know you've been busy on the campaign trail

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for Bay County Commissioner, and I'm curious what the response

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has been, like from the voters that you've been talking

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and listening to. I'm not going to ask you to

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outline all the stuff that we talked about last time.

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That you can talk about whatever you want, obviously, but

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what kind of things were you hearing from the voters

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of out their concerns and what they're looking for.

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You know, the response that I get is really good

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from the voters themselves. You know, the big thing that

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I have been pushing a lot. You know, obviously we

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we we pushed the standard stuff, but the big thing

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that I've pushed has been the job training and skilled

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building UH and bringing in UH smaller business or starting

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smaller businesses so that we can create more jobs. And

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the failures that we have seen at bringing in huge

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employers and bringing in the numbers. And that's the thing

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that that has actually touched a lot of people the

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most because they they realize that, you know, we we

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haven't trained our workforce and and we're at this point

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now where you know, there's there's so few decent jobs

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here in Bay County. You know, I recently left my

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main employer, which has put me on a search to

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replace that income. At some point here soon, and so

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I myself have actually been putting myself into into that

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role of trying to find some jobs. And I understand

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now even more what people are talking about when they

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say I can't find a decent job here in Bay County.

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And it's it's so true.

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It's so hard to find any good jobs in Bay

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County that that pay well, let alone find some jobs.

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So that that's been the thing that a lot of

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people have talked about. And uh, yeah, that's that's that's

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pretty much where we're.

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You know, I may I may be wrong. That has

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happened a couple of times, and sometimes I generalize. Matter

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of fact, I always eternalize anyway. But it seem to

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me many years ago, when I was living here in

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the early eighties, that Bay County was at that time

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a kind of a low low, low cost of living

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places comparatively speaking, but it was low income and everything

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kind of balanced out. Now it's sames that things have

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gotten to the point where it's a high cost of.

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Living place but the income has stayed low.

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It seemed to me that back then, at least it

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was the bases that were giving military base maybe in

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the in the in the Air Force base that were

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giving us a middle class mm hmm, yeah, I mean.

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And the other day I had a speech that I

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was giving and one of the things that I kind

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of reminded the crowd of is that you know, for

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so long Bay County and you know, going back to

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the eighties and everything else, when we had all the

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spring break and tourism was really the only thing outside

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of military that we had here. And we were literally

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from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and after Labor Day

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everybody went home and got high and you know employment, yeah,

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and then come back and Memorial Day and try and

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make as much money as you can so you can

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have the season off.

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And we've changed now.

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But one of the things that we've had an issue with,

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and this is why it's so important for me for

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the job training and skill thing and bringing in small businesses,

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because when you talk about how we don't have a

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lot of good paying careers here and the pay skill

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is very low. And it makes sense because if you

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don't have a skilled workforce, you don't pay them a

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lot of money. You know, It's the same thing as

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you know, Okay, what are you doing for a living?

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I'm flipping hamburgers at McDonald's and I want twenty five

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dollars an hour. No, because I can pay a monkey

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to do it for five dollars an hour. That's not

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a high skill thing. So with the the fewer skill

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levels that we have, it's not bringing that pay skill up.

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And I think that if we had a much better

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skill set for people, that level would come up, and

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that even brings it right down to service industry jobs.

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I talked about this the other day, and you remember

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I brought this up at my campaign kickoff that when

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you compare McDonald's to Chick fil A, you know, McDonald's,

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they're going to be like, hey, here's you damn food,

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throw it out you at the window. And at Chick

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fil A it's going to be one of those Hey,

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it's my pleasure if haank to you so much. Have

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a great day, Brian. You know, love to have you here,

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can't wait to see you again. And when you leave

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Chick fil A you feel better. Well, they pay the

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Chick fil A people better than they do McDonald's. So

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why because the skill set is bigger and higher. And

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I think that's one of the things that we're really

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missing here, and none of the politicians, none of them

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are addressing that issue. You know, they'll they'll give you

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some b a story about, oh, we've got to bring

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in all these big businesses. Well, the big businesses may

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may come in, but why would they pay you a

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lot of money if you're not a high skilled worker?

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So what what is it that that uh that these politicians, uh,

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local local officials need to do that they're not doing.

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Get their head out of their backside. I mean that

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that that's step number one. And the other problem that

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we do have is that too many of the politicians,

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not all of them, because there's a small handful of

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them that really truly are in there for the real

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good cause, but too many of them are tied up

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with the elitist king makers, the ones that want to

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control everything, want everything to benefit their business, uh, and

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then they don't think about the long term and the

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community as a whole.

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Uh.

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And that that is one of the big problems that

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we have here in Bay County is that they're they're

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not considering that, you know, and every thing has got

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to be based in the community, not you know, my

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friend who owns this company and we're gonna benefit this praak.

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It doesn't work out that way, and that's why we

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see the problems that we have.

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Here in b accounting.

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And when you're only dealing with those particular interests, I'll

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even call them a special interests in some cases, again,

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it's the folks that are trying to develop some skills

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that are left out in the cold. Just that's not

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even benign neglect at that point. That's purposeful neglect in

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my opinion.

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It is.

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It's very much so.

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And you know, we obviously we have a lot of

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people that still do go and get skills. We've got

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people that are leaving the area and they go to

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college and they gain a skill and a trading everything,

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but they don't stay here. You know, they leave because

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there are no jobs for them here. Because this and

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I hate to use good old boy network because I

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hate that phrase.

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That's in every single community in the country.

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More the elitist is a better term. They want such

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control over things and they don't want anybody else to

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give an opinion that is not theirs, and that's caused

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these problems.

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Yeah, okay, well that's not helpful.

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Now, never heard of observation that if there are politicians

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that if they learned that they were cannibals among their constituents,

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they would have promised a missionary for dinner.

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What what, whatever it takes, you.

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Know, just to keep that that that I'll call it

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a power trip, but that that power base going.

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And I know that.

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I'm pretty sure that's not even hypothetical. That Bay County

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is not an exception to that. I don't know any

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ninety community that is. Really these are the folks who

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look at a difficult issue and say, well, I'll double

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cross that bridge when I get to it. So so

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what do folks like that make of your candidacy? I mean,

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are they taking you on in an exchange of ideas

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or they just trying to pretend that common sense voices

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just don't exist?

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You know what?

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This this is one of the issues that I that

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I have had and I'm not going to name any names,

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but I'm sure people can figure them out for themselves.

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One of the big king makers, one of the bigg

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elitist who's always in the political realm and always tries

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to be in charge of everything, has kind of strong

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armed a lot of the people that don't want to

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support his candidate.

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Uh.

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And and I've actually had people say to me, listen,

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you've got my vote. My family's going to vote for you.

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I'm going to tell everybody to vote for you. But

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I can't contribute to your campaign because I can't have

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my name attached to it because he will cause problems

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for me.

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And that's an issue. Damn. I mean that that.

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That is a real issue for anybody, any business person

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in this town. Uh to have to live under that

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fear that you can't contribute to a candidate that is

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different than what the kingmaker wants or he will make

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your life miserable.

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Because they've got they've got payroll to make, they got

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bills to pay. They want to keep the DAC on

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and the pend the elasticity in their business. Yeah, and

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and and it shouldn't be that way.

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And you know, I want to I want to drop names,

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I really do, but I'm just I'm I'm going to

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be reserved on it and not do it so people

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can figure it out on their own. But that is

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one of the reasons for why we need to stand

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up to the elitist power system that we have of

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Bay County. And it makes it very difficult and it

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makes it unfair, not necessary for me, because I really, okay,

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I don't have to do this.

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I can go do whatever else I want to do.

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But it doesn't make it fair to the business owner

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who looks and says, Okay, the candidate that I want

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to support believes in what I need to make my

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business successful, and I can't support him because the power

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people tell me I have to support somebody else or

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they make my life miserable.

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Sure, I mean, I want to.

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Talk about dictorial authoritarianism, and these people call themselves Republicans. Well,

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if you're a Republican, you would understand that it's free

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and fair, and if you really didn't have any fears,

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and if you had a good candidate that could offer

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a good fight and good debate, you wouldn't have to

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strong arm people. But clearly that's not the case, which

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it's it's difficult, which brings me to my next question,

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how does it work here? I'm willfully uh uninformed on

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how the local political system works, but are there debates

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or some form of some sort in which people can

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trade ideas and flesh out the details some venue or something. Well,

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you know, after the qualification period ends, which is coming up,

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and and you know that's that's another whole other issue

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when it comes to how things are set up with

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our elections.

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Once you get qualified, which is coming up just a

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couple of weeks.

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After that, that's when a lot of groups will start

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doing debates. Right now, there's there's different candidate forums that

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are out there that that every candidate is going to,

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the different political organizations and you know, community groups and

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stuff like that. But once the the the actual qualification

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period ends, that's when we will actually see real debates

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go down, and there'll be there'll be a handful of

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them that will go down so the people actually see

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the difference between the candidates if they haven't already seen it.

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So that's kind of how that works. Are you able

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to challenge anybody to a debate? Yeah, you can.

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Challenge, but I mean it's also a matter of where

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you're going to do it and who's going to host it,

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and you know all that other stuff.

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So I mean, yeah, there you go. How you doing?

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So I mean there's that and and like I said,

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there's always at least four or five minor major debates

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that go down and exposure things that will happen, but

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again it's after the qualification period, which which you have

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to do.

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You've got to qualify. Yeah, and UH, a petition.

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It's it's either a petition or pay the fee. And

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the the amount of petitions and the fee are almost

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at an unreasonable level, and I think a lot of

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that is is undesigned to prevent a lot of people

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from getting involved into it. So, you know, at this

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point in time, and it's a two weeks away, I'm

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not even sure if I'm gonna be able to qualify

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because you know, it has been so hard to raise

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money because of the pressures that are put on people

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and to be able to get that money.

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So we'll have to see if it.

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If it ends up where I don't even qualify, well,

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at which point the establishment elitists will just get their

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way and nothing will change without having to answer for anything.

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Yeah, So I mean, and that's the type of stuff

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that that the the people of Bay County really should

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probably also be aware of, UH, and they should be

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angry about it.

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I agree, that's that's that's that's.

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So if people wanted to UH to send some funds

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your way and try to help out with this where

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would they go?

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Vote brianrust dot com or I trust rust dot com.

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One of the two. Okay, we'll come back to that.

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Vote Brian rest dot com or I trust like letter,

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I trust rust dot Com.

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Yeah, okay, all right, well good god, Well let me

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know if I can help to man. Yeah, it's a pain, Yeah, yeah,

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I get it. And you're and you obviously you can't

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be bald or you already would have been bought. Yeah,

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you know, so that right, that right, there's a testament, right,

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And you.

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Know the other thing that that kind of drives me

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crazy too is and I I had a conversation with

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my opponent and and you know, we both agree one

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hundred percent to not go nasty on the politics.

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And I don't want to do that, and I'm not

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going to be nasty about it.

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But the thing with him is that I don't know

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what he stands for really, like I I literally have

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no idea what his platform is. There there's nothing out

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there for you to really see unless you go to

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something that he's at or whatever.

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I have no idea. With me. You can go to my.

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Website, you can hear me and the speaks and you

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know what I'm standing for I mean, there's six main

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issues on my website. He doesn't even have a website.

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So this is what the establishment is doing. I mean

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they have somebody like me that is running that that

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I have actually got ideas, proven ideas that can work. Yeah,

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and their Canada's got nothing. And yet he is, you know,

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out fundraising me because the establishment puts it in and

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the establishment is pushing it forward. But the question that

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guess you got is what are you getting out of

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this guy? I mean, he seems like a nice guy,

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met him once, No, but other than that, what what

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are you getting out of him? I mean, what experience

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does he have? What ideas does he have? Absolutely nothing?

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And yet people are being bullied, literally bullied into funding

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this campaign for what.

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So basically it's vote for me. Well, why what are

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you going to do? What are your policies? Well I'm

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won't have it include what my policies are at this point. Yeah,

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hang on, let me check. No, Okay, that I've just told.

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I mean it's like what we get from the establishment

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all the time, and this is why Bay County keeps

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being held back and we need to change. And I

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think that the people need to get angry and start

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fighting about it.

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I agree. I agree.

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Uh, let's let's take on take on a couple of

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other issues. Sure, Just to see, we talked about spring

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break last time you were here. How do you think

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the most recent spring break went. It looked comparatively sedated

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to me, But I'm I'm pretty sedated myself a lot

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of time, so I may not know.

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Yeah, I mean, you're not gonna comment on that, are you?

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No?

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Next question?

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Now, the spring break, I mean there was there was

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obviously issues again this year, but in comparison to the

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past couple of years, uh, the the issues were very

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under control.

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I think Tommy Ford and j R. Telamandez, the police.

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Chief of Panama City Beach, they did a fantastic job

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at keeping that under control. One of the things that

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that worries me is that, you know, somebody who's on

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social media as much as I am, the amount of

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negative publicity that I have seen on social media talking

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about spring break. Where all you saw was I went

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down to spring Break in Panama City Beach and this

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is all I saw. And you see cop cars everywhere,

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you hear sirens everywhere, and that is the image that

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is getting out about Panama City Beach and you know,

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people are not and I hate to say this that

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people are not smart enough, but they really aren't sometimes

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to be able to go, Oh that was just during

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spring break, but during the summertime, it's not like that. Instead,

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I'm worried and concerned that this is going to be

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the reputation of what it's going to happen, and is

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it going to affect our future tourism. The thing about

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the thing about clickbait, and then it's the thing about

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of photojournalists journalism itself is the camera has tumbel vision. Yes,

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so that's going to it's just going to focus in

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on where the action is. Remember the old saying, if

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it bleeds, it leads, it's going to focus in on

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what's bleeding. And you've got a whole panorama of things

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out there, ninety eight percent of everything out there, it's fine,

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but all you see is that two percent. So you

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extrapolate that to me and that's the whole place. Yeah,

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So I think it's it's also going to be a

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situation where Griff Griffiths, our state representative, who's also now

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the the head of the TDC, I think he's gonna

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have his hands full now on being able to counter

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that with with social media, marketing and everything, uh, to

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get people to understand that Panama City Beach is a

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beautiful place to be during the summertime and it's a

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family friendly place and it's not a military police castopo

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with police cars everywhere and sirens everywhere that that's meant

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we are.

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I came from a place like that. It wasn't the issue.

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It was the locals gone nuts issue there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so I'm concerned about that. But I mean, overall,

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spring break wasn't bad. It wasn't financially as bad as

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as some of the people that I talked to thought

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it was going to be.

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But it could have been a lot better.

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It was a lot, a lot safer than it has

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been in the past couple of years, and we're getting there.

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But again, I'm just I'm concerned about the image that

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is being portrayed.

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Now, maybe maybe the elites can work on that problem

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as long as they're their hands and things.

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They don't care. Oh good point.

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Okay, this is a personal pet peeve for me, but

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it's my show, So.

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What the hell that's right?

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Is there any rhyme. You can already hear it in

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my voice, you know. But is there any rhyme or

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reason behind these seemingly random road projects There close various

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roads and constanpate traffic literally overnight. It's like it's like

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playing roadblock whack a mole, just trying to get from

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point A to point B every day.

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There's a different if.

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I mean, if you can survive the slow poke brigade

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in the left lane just to get to you, we

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need to go without the We should be able.

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To pit mean over them and pit them right out

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of the way.

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Those people slowed out of that left lane.

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That I'm gonna upgrade my bumper.

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But but my god, I mean, everywhere you go, you

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never know from one day to the next if you're

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gonna get there on time.

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Yeah, And I've talked about this a lot of my

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show too.

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Florida Texas two states that are absolutely atrocious when it

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comes to infrastructure projects, absolutely horrible, and that actually we're

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talking about this today on the show. It's not one

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of those things because everybody likes to blame the construction

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companies right away and be like, oh, I don't say

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the construction people doing anything. Well, there's a lot of

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reasons for it, and it's all government, you know, with

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the regulations that are being done on government, with the

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inspections and you know, all this other stuff that needs

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to be done that delays the projects.

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And then when you know you got a delay and.

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You got people that are moving while you move people

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over to another project to do something else, and then

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it delays construction even more. So there's a lot of

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regulatory issues that need to be fixed. And you know

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with Panama City Beach and actually for the most part,

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most of By County right now, all these major infrastructure

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projects that you see are not locally controlled. They're all

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states on state road. So it kind of boils down

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to the state of Florida doesn't know how to do

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infrastructure and somebody with a pair of steel toe boots

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needs to shove it up somebody's butt so hard that

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you can tickle them in their tonsils because it has

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to stop. And you know, somebody who studies infrastructre sure

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and doing these projects, and I see how they're done

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around the world and how you can see even here

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in America, there's different places where they can redo a

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five mile stretch of a road starting right after the

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morning commute and be done by the afternoon commute. And

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yet the projects that we see here, like the Panama

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City Beach projects, they're three to five year projects.

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Give me a break, they can double that.

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Yeah, and this is one of these, like you know,

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another example three ninety We heard three ninety that the

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sections they're on right now, right there by twenty third

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Street was supposed to be done by twenty twenty five.

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Remember we're now almost halfway through twenty twenty six, still

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not done. So yeah, what we really need is somebody

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with some cohon as to be able to look at

481
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the state, look at these things, look at the problems,

482
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and say enough is enough, get these things done, fix

483
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the problems.

484
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You know, I'm just just a shot in the dark hair,

485
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But you talked like someone who's got some experience with

486
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this kind of thing.

487
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I've studied enough of it, you know, and and I've

488
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looked and I know today I'm actually I sound a

489
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lot angrier than I've been since one o'clock in the morning.

490
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And you know, I just fished the show, and I'm

491
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all all riled up on all kinds of things, and

492
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and this some of the stuff has really taken me off.

493
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And you know, I think sometimes it's time to put

494
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the I'm a nice guy hat off and put the

495
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time to be aggressive hat on.

496
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And that's going to happen today.

497
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But I mean, yeah, I mean it's not that I

498
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have a lot of experience with it. I've just got

499
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a lot of knowledge of it because I've studied it,

500
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I looked at it, and I'm one of these people

501
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where I understand you can get it done by just

502
00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.960
getting it done, taking the effort and doing it and

503
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stop playing stupid little games and and pinpointing what is

504
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the problem. And I've gone to my construction friends, I've

505
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got a lot of them, and I said, hey, what

506
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the hell's taken so long? And they go, well, listen, here,

507
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there's this for for this regulation, and then there's this

508
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process and that process and and this is difficult, and

509
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that is difficult. And if all of this can be

510
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mean streamlined a little bit, and and the fees for

511
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this lesson, this is that we could do things so

512
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much faster, better and cheaper. And I'm like, why is

513
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somebody doing something about it? And nobody wants to. I

514
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don't know if people are afraid to stand up to

515
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the government, stand up to the the the the bureaucrats

516
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of it.

517
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I don't care, folks, are you hearing this? I mean this.

518
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This is a guy who's who knows how to get

519
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it done, wants to get it done, is chomping it

520
00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:29.079
the bit to get it done, and the others don't

521
00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:31.079
even know what the hell they want to do. So,

522
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you know, just seems like an easy, easy choice for me. Yeah,

523
00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:37.799
And I'm normally a nicer guy than I am today.

524
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:39.599
I know you are, but you've been up a lot.

525
00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:42.079
I've been up since yesterday, and you know it was

526
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about that. It's it's it's the it's the subject.

527
00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.720
Yeah, I'm just I'm tired of it, and and things

528
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.519
just need to get done.

529
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Like I always say, knock it off right exactly, get

530
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it done. Uh So, let's change subjects real quick.

531
00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:57.400
Butally not that bus says to go on the national scene,

532
00:24:57.400 --> 00:24:59.319
because that's many of I deal with. And I know

533
00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:01.799
that's your forte a lot of times too. So we've

534
00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:04.480
had what three attempts on the President's life here in

535
00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:09.599
the last ish fo Yeah. So, and the hysterics continue,

536
00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:12.359
and I refer to him as Hitler, fascist, dictator, et cetera.

537
00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:16.119
You know, when it happens something happens once, it's an outlier.

538
00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.480
When it happens twice, it's a coincidence three times as

539
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enemy action.

540
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Yeah that's my take. What's yours?

541
00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:25.839
Yeah, I mean, i mean, look, the left just they

542
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.559
they've got to stop one lying. I mean, don't give

543
00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.359
us this this rhetoric that you're doing over and over

544
00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.200
and over again, and then all of a sudden something

545
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:36.559
happens and you all come out and go, oh my god,

546
00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:39.160
we should really like tone down the rhetoric. It's like, yeah,

547
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you're the idiots that are doing it right.

548
00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:41.279
You know.

549
00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:43.960
It's like and I'm so sick and tired of hearing that.

550
00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:44.400
You know.

551
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.720
Oh well the conservatives and the MAGA people they're just

552
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as violent. It's like, give me an example, Well, January sixth,

553
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If I hear January sixth one more time, just to

554
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:58.759
the moon, Alice, January sixth was not that big of

555
00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:02.319
a deal. It was and uh, you know, burning down cities,

556
00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.759
it wasn't doing it. It was one small little incident a

557
00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.359
small group of people, and that is it. It's the

558
00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:09.880
only thing that the left has when it comes to

559
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.799
saying that, oh, it's it's the conservatives and the MAGA

560
00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:16.720
people that are being violent. It is all coming from

561
00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:19.440
the left. All the school mass shootings that are happening

562
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:21.880
all leftists. All three of the people that tried to

563
00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.680
shoot the president all leftists. It's like they're the ones

564
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.960
that are burning down their cities. They're the ones that

565
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:31.720
are protesting. They're the ones throwing rocks at ice agents. Uh,

566
00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:34.720
it's not us. So the next time that I hear

567
00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:36.880
a leftist politician say that we need to tone down

568
00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.559
the rhetoric, you better be talking to your own people.

569
00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:46.759
Yea true story. But other than that, everything the collar, drink,

570
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.720
the heat up. I'm drinking. I'm drinking decaf, you know.

571
00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:51.599
So I've got to drink. I haven't even had.

572
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:53.680
I won't I won't even get to sleep if I

573
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.240
don't have some dcaff. I've been But I like your job.

574
00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:01.480
So here we are, dude, Okay, all right, So again

575
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.359
the website for people who are hearing this and saying, God,

576
00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:05.720
I need I need to help this guy out.

577
00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.000
We need we need to get some common sense things done.

578
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:08.160
Here.

579
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:09.640
What's the web? The websites again?

580
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:14.160
Please, it's vote Brian rust dot com. It's briander than

581
00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.480
I or the letter I trust rust dot com.

582
00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:22.480
All right, Well, I'm anxious to see how this unfolds

583
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.440
and delighted that you're taking a stand here. Somebody's got

584
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.799
to and you appear to be the guy with the spine.

585
00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.880
So it's just something else you have in common with

586
00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:30.640
Keith Gross.

587
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:30.920
You know.

588
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.279
Now, we just got to get me on the ballot, right,

589
00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.240
and we've got we got less than a week, less

590
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.640
than a week to to raise the amount of money

591
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:42.599
that we need. Uh, otherwise I won't be on the ballot.

592
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:44.839
Where they where do people go if they're local, if

593
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:46.799
they want to get get their name on the petition?

594
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:50.039
Well, you know, we don't have time to get all

595
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.160
the petitions done, okay, there's there's too many of them

596
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:54.000
for that. And at this point we have to pay

597
00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.960
the fee, okay, and that's what we what we got

598
00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:59.799
to get done. Unfortunately, it's a lot more money than

599
00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:02.799
I'm like to spend on it. But you know, society

600
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:05.759
and people's lives have changed to a point where trying

601
00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:09.759
to get thirteen hundred ballads is a very difficult task

602
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:10.039
to do.

603
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.559
All right, Well, we will be checking in with you

604
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.799
again soon awesome and see what's going on. Thank you

605
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.799
for taking the time to talk with this anytime, Dave. Folks,

606
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.079
ask Brian rust my buddy on the Dave Carter programs.

607
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Give me a little bit of volumes, bold ideas, fearless voices.

608
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It's the Dave Carter Show.

609
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Dateline Panama City Beach, Florida, where the emerald waters meet

610
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the red lobster tan lines. As tourist season descends like

611
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a flock of seagulls on a dropped French fry, locals

612
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their annual plea, Please, for the love of all that

613
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.920
is holy, remember you are not in your natural habitat.

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Experts at the Institute for people Who've never seen the

615
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ocean before from this year's crop of visitors includes the

616
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usual suspects. Dad in the I'm with stupid tank time,

617
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my mom was an SPF nine thousand like it's a

618
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.400
full body hazmat suit, and Little Timmy building a sand

619
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empire built to collapse on someone's food. Traffic on Front

620
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Beach Road has reached why did we move here? Levels,

621
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with the average vacationers spending more time in gridlock than

622
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.599
actually on the sand pro tip from locals. That parking

623
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.720
spot you're circling it's been claimed by a guy selling

624
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:53.440
bootleg hermit crabs since nineteen. Meanwhile, each vendors have perfected

625
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:58.880
the art of the upsell umbrella chair, temporary tattoo of

626
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.880
a dolphin riding a show arc two for the price

627
00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:07.359
of one, Panama City tramp stamps. Start haggling over sunskipe.

628
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Do you have anything that says I regret this decision

629
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:16.119
in sps and let's not forget the sacred rituals, the

630
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:19.440
ceremonial application of baby oil by the guy who will

631
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:23.799
glow like a stoplight, by new a traditional selfie with

632
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.759
a wave that just stole your phone, and the alloy

633
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:31.720
complaining about the prices while paying them anyway. Now with

634
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.880
thirty percent more regret. In a bold move to rebrand,

635
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:40.599
local officials have declared PCB is no longer spring Break

636
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:45.279
Central translation, we still want your money. Just please don't

637
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:47.680
fight the police or leave your dignity in the parking

638
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:57.200
garage anyway, because nothing says family vacation like dodging rogue

639
00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:01.359
jet skis and mystery puddles. And as a final public

640
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:05.359
service announcement from the Dave Carter Bureau of Coastal Catastrophes

641
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also known as d C B C C E.

642
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I E I O A E I O U.

643
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And sometimes if you see a law sprinting from the water,

644
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:20.319
it's not a shark, it's just someone who stepped on

645
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:21.440
a buried beer can.

646
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.880
Pack the alo vera fots. You're gonna need it coming

647
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:26.839
up in our next war.

648
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Why your vacation photos will look better than the actual

649
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experience phot.

650
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All right, baby, yeah, that's you.

651
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:05.720
All right, let me talk to you about about what

652
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:06.680
I did with my notes.

653
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What we have here is to study and better living

654
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:15.160
through sleep deprivation. Larry, all right, Hey, aren't you grateful

655
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:19.039
that we provided a public service announcement about how to

656
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:20.960
survive and thrive during tourist season.

657
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:24.799
Just one of the many things that we do here

658
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for you, you know, at the day of Carter program.

659
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Now, be honest with me, because you've heard me talk

660
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:34.279
with Brian Brian Rust a million times before, and he

661
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.319
and I both get along. You both get fired up

662
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.640
over the juxtaposition of politics and good sense, and you

663
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:42.039
know they ought to be one of the same, but

664
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.680
too often they're not. And I know that on a

665
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:49.119
national level, which is what I've studied intensely and commented

666
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:55.480
on for nearly forty five years now. There are ideological

667
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.720
interest and money to interests that often fort doing anything

668
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:02.119
that actually solves a problem them. You know, at the

669
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:04.519
national level spend that way for a very long time.

670
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.000
It's getting worse, as we know. But to have that

671
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:12.880
kind of gamesmanship going on at the local level to

672
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.839
the point that we can't even have flesh out the ideas,

673
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.559
I don't know the candidate who has flushed with cash

674
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:24.480
but seriously short on ideas. I mean, apparently he gets

675
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.599
to coast. I'm gonna get that. That's foolishness. So look,

676
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.920
it's like what Brian said, Okay, he doesn't have to

677
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:36.599
do this. He truly has developed a love for this

678
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.279
community and he's willing to do the hard work for

679
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.680
this community. But he doesn't have to, but he wants to.

680
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So if you want to hear how his ideas stack

681
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:49.119
up against those of his opponent, and once he figures

682
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:54.119
out what his ideas are, you should seriously consider helping

683
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.039
Brian out so he can get over the threshold and

684
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.880
actually test those ideas in policy policies with that of

685
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:02.000
the opposition.

686
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:02.359
And you know who wins.

687
00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:06.279
You do because you get to cast your vote and

688
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:10.920
decide for yourself rather than some goofball want to be

689
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:13.320
kingmaker deciding who gets to be in the debate.

690
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.599
That's just BS. You know, Bruce Springsteen. That's right, it's

691
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:19.199
Bruce Springsteen. BS.

692
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The folks who are working multiple jobs, trying to take

693
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.000
care of their families here, they deserve a voice and

694
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:29.000
they won't get it. If mondayed interest can financially starve

695
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:33.320
candidates out of participating in the civic process, that's just dirty.

696
00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:35.880
We're better than that. They may not be, but we are.

697
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You are.

698
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So here's the deal. Have a look at vote brianrust

699
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dot com. That's vote brianorust dot com. It's Brian with

700
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an ie.

701
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Or go to I the letter.

702
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:55.760
I trust rust dot com. I trust rust dot com.

703
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.440
So this has been a little an illuminating episode, hadn't it.

704
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I've got some more good guests coming up, by the way,

705
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:03.400
and I've got some really reading some really good books

706
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:05.840
right now, and we'll be talking with those authors here

707
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.360
hopefully pretty soon. Also, if you're familiar with Professor Gad

708
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:13.679
sad fantastic books, it's got one now called I Think

709
00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:18.760
Suicidal Empathy. I've been in touch with him, we corresponded,

710
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:20.199
and we're going to get him on this show to

711
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:24.000
talk about his newest book, hopefully before much time time passes,

712
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:26.480
but he is interested in doing this show as well.

713
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In the meantime, check us out at Dave Carter Dave

714
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cartershow dot com. All the previous episodes are there Dave

715
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cartershow dot com. Interviews that I have I've had with

716
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Pat Sajack, Andrew Clavin, Victor Davis Hanson, you see on

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Fox Lot, Denis Jesusa, Peter Robinson, rob Log and many more,

718
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:45.679
and folks that are just you mean, I've even have

719
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read a lot of these folks or heard of them before,

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but they're just plain interesting people with interesting minds. We

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talk with them too. Now, when you go to the

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site Dave cartershow dot com, you'll see a pop up

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like a little pop tart coming out of the post,

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out of the toaster, and it's going to ask your email.

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It doesn't cost you a thing, but what it does

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do is it gets you a free subscription, put you

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on the list for newsletters, merchandise discounts, Behind the scenes looks,

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and a lot of other things that are coming down

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the pike now that my wife and I have finally

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moved into a preally pretty spacious home. Really, my studio

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and office here is dang near larger than my previous residence,

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so it's working out. We've got time now to devote

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to these things. The show is growing. We're now heard

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in over thirty countries around the world and all across

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this country. So follow us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Spreaker, Pandora, Podbean,

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and anything else you can think about there I want it,

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or just go to Dave cartershow dot com because you

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be gouts to check it out.

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All kinds of things there for you. Give it a

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look and see what you think.

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There's a place that you can leave us a review

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right there, or on Apple Podcast, leave us a review,

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and you can also communicate with us, write us or

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even leave a voicemail. We've got some collections of voicemails

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that we've already played some, but we're going to have

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the really entertaining ones on the show also so you

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can hear for yourself the metal of fun that this

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has just really turned out to be. So with my

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thanks to my friend Brian Rust for taking the time

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to talk with us, and as always always with my

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very special thanks to you the listener. I am Dave

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Carter and I'll see you next time