March 26, 2026

Unbuyable Conservative- Keith Gross Putting Voters First in Florida’s 2nd District

Unbuyable Conservative- Keith Gross Putting Voters First in Florida’s 2nd District
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In this hard-hitting episode of The Dave Carter Show, I sit down with Panama City native and successful businessman Keith Gross, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 2nd Congressional District. Keith grew up in a single-parent home in the Panhandle, put himself through school through sheer grit, and built a multiple highly successful businesses as an entrepreneur who creates real jobs right here at home.

What sets Keith apart from the typical Washington crowd is simple and refreshing: he’s self-funding his campaign and has pledged to donate his entire congressional salary to charity. With the financial puppet strings cut, he cannot be bought by special interests or the donor class. As I told him on the show—it’s about bloody time someone in office actually puts the interests of the voters over the whims of monied elites.

Keith’s platform is straightforward and desperately needed: Cut wasteful spending, fight inflation head-on, restore affordability for working families, and ensure government sticks to its essential role—protecting the lives, liberty, and freedoms of American citizens instead of subjecting them to the arbitrary rule of micromanaging bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. This is a conversation with a true outsider who understands the American Dream because he has lived it, and who refuses to sell out the people of the Florida Panhandle or this country.

Catch the full no-holds-barred interview now on davecartershow.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your shows. If you’re tired of politicians who talk a big game but answer to donors instead of voters, this episode is for you.

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we practice what I call joyous rebellion, which means that

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up anyway because they believe they can do some good.

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even as we take the ideas and the principles and

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the future of this country very seriously. Indeed, so whether

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Here today we're talking with mister Keith Gross, a Panama

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City native, veteran and a businessman and a candidate for

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Florida's Congressional second District.

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Let's get to it.

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This is where Razer sharpenalysis collides with twelve year old

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human verd discussion and lefter Rene Saprime on the Dave

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Wow.

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Mister Keith Gross grew up in the Florida Panhandle and

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is therefore intimately familiar with the issues facing the second

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Congressional District. He's a military veteran, worked his way through school.

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He's an attorney and a successful businessman, which means that

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he's well versed in the reality of life in the

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productive sector, which also means that's the place where one

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learns to live within the parameters of limited resources. So

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he's really not all that well disposed to just sit there,

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for example, and vote to take away more of other

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people's earnings to make up for governments lacks lack of

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fiscal discipline. And I'll start stop there before I start ranting,

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mister Cross, good morning, sir, Good morning.

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Good to be with you.

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Thank you, sir.

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How are you? I am doing well, and you're right.

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I definitely have a lot of experience figuring out how

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to balance a budget because we couldn't print money when

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I was running a business.

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I wish government couldn't print money either.

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That makes two of us. Yeah.

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A week ago I had our mutual friend Brian Rust

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on the program, and I asked him a question that

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I'm going to pose to you, with your permission in

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advance I know that you've outlined several main initiatives that

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you want to pursue an office, and we'll get to

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that in just a minute. But looking at your campaign

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from a macro perspective, from thirty thousand feet or choose

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your metaphor, that works. But if you had to distill

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your message into something concise enough to fit on a

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bumper sticker, for example, some sort of phrase, catchphrase that

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would summ it all up, what do you think that

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message would be.

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I'm running to get Washington out of our wallets. That's

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about as short as it can get. I love that

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government takes way too much of our money, it wastes

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most of it, and it shouldn't be doing most of

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the things it's doing, at least not at the federal level.

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We need to put most of those things back into

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the hands of states.

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I get it, and I gather that the overarching themes

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of your candidacy, or the outline around which your message

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revolves are one cutting spending, two fighting inflation, and three

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were restoring affordability. Can you talk to those three items

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for me, sir, please? Well, they really all work together.

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Affordability is a combination of factors you know, right now,

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things cost way too much because of inflation. You couple

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that with bad job growth over the last few decades,

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which is largely driven by offshoring some of our most

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important manufacturing jobs to other countries like China. If we

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can level the playing field so American businesses can compete

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fairly on the world stage instead of seeing themselves undercut

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by Common and its government backed companies in China, then

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we can start building things here in America again. That'll

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drive real wage growth. On the other side of the coin,

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we can stop inflation by stopping government spending. Government spending,

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especially excessive government spending, is what's driven most of the

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inflation we've experienced in the last several years. If we

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can cut that off, we'll see inflation halt. So it's

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just a combination of factors that all work together. By

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limiting the size of government, we stop government spending. By

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stopping government spending, we stop inflation. And by stopping inflation

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and bringing jobs back to America, we make life more

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affordable for hard working Americans.

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You know, okay, So hearing what you intend to do

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with respect to those items in Washington and reading your

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positions on your website as well Keithgross dot com. Folks,

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by the way, K E, I, T H, T R

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O S S dot coms great site. Here's what I'm seeing,

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and feel free to correct me if I'm misdiagnosing this.

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But from what I can tell, whether it's whether it's

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the economy or as as you talked about on your website, education,

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regulatory power, the second Man, etc. Your goal appears to

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be to claw back centralized power from the federal government

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and return that power back to the American citizens and

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local governments. Am I painting with too broad a brush?

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There?

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No, that is exactly it in a nutshell, because I

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believe in the Constitution, and it had a pretty simple

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outline for the things that our federal government was supposed

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to do. So many of the things currently happening at

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the federal level were never expected to exist at the

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federal level. As a quick example, you just listed education.

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We should not have a US Department of Education. We

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have a State of Florida Department of Education, and that's

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good enough. We shouldn't be sending our tax dollars to

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DC so that the swamp and the bureaucrats can waste

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a bunch of our money and then send the part

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that they didn't manage to squander back to us with

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a whole bunch of rules and strings attached. Now we've

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got people in DC, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats trying to tell

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teachers in Florida how our students need to be educated.

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And that's not the role of the federal government. Students'

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education should be driven by parents at the local level,

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working up to the state level. It should have nothing

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to do with Washington, d C.

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You know, it's amazing when you say that, and it

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makes perfect sense. It's the kind of good common sense

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that animated the Framers and the founders of this nation.

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But in so many places it's heresy to say something

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like that.

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Sure, most of those places are the swamp of DC.

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And you know, I'm really fortunate that I've had a

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fantastic business career, have been incredibly blessed, and I'm not

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going to be accountable to the swamp of DC or

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the lobbyists that work for them. I'm going to be

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accountable to the people here in the Florida Panhandle, the

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community that raised me. Because I believe in putting Florida

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first and America first, not special interests.

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In other words, if I may borrow a quote from

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Mortem Radler of the American philosopher, freedom is the emancipation

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from the arbitrary rule of other and not the tap

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dance on platitudes. But that's the foundation of American governance, right.

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It's government, absolutely, It's the government's charter to safeguard the

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lives and freedom of its sence period.

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Or as Reagan would have put it, the duty of

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government is to protect people, not run their lives.

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Good.

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Yeah, exactly right. Okay, so now beach to the part

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where the rubber meets the road on your website. You're right,

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and I'm going to quote you here. I won't be

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answering to special interests, corporate lobbyist, or DC powerbrokers. My

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only bosses will be the voters Florida Second District. And

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I'm proud to be the only one in this race

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that can say that, to which I say, bravo about

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bloody time. But experience shows that it can be a

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very difficult promise to keep. Why do you think other

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folks that go to Congress with the peerist of intentions

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have found it such a difficult promise to maintain well.

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I think it comes down to money. A lot of

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the people that go to Congress they do it because

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they need a paycheck. You know, Congress pays pretty well

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compared to the average paycheck in America. I think congressmen

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get paid just under two hundred thousand dollars a year, right.

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I know, I've already pledged that I'll be donating my

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entire paycheck to local charities. I'm not in this for

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the money. I'm self funding the bulk of my campaign

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as well. You know, We've got a lot of local

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donors and they've shown great support through their contributions. But

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the reality is I am willing to put my own

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savings account to running this campaign because I've been incredibly blessed,

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and I think when you are blessed, you have an

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obligation to pay that back in some form. I think

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going to DC and solving problems using my talent, experience,

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growing organizations and building coalitions, using my ability to solve

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problems is the most productive thing I can do with

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the rest of my life, and it's the biggest gift

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I can give to the community that's given me everything.

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In all honesty, I was not aware that this was

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a self funded initiative and you would be donating your salary.

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I was not aware of that.

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So no wonder you can make, you can maintain that

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promise right because it's people.

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Dave.

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Then, I grew up in a trailer. I grew up

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in a trailer in Southport, in North Florida. And you know,

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after that, I went through and put myself through college

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and I was able to build a co up of companies.

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You know, first I had a few businesses, small businesses

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that struggled along, didn't do that well, small restaurants and

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things like that. I did okay, but not fantastic. And

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then two thousand and nine comes around, I partnered in

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a small service business, a truck washing company, and over

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the next several years, built that truck washing company, of

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all things, into the second largest truck washing company in

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the nation. It was huge, and it was all with

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grit and dedication because nobody gave me anything, and I

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just took every dollar that we earned in that company

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and we reinvested it into the company. For nearly a decade,

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I lived frugally, didn't take anything really out of the company.

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For a decade, sold that company for what was, you know,

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tens of millions of dollars ultimately, and that was life

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changing money for me at the time. Like I said,

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I mean, I grew up with nothing, so seeing that

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much money is something I never thought i'd see in

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my entire life.

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Good heavens. And then go ahead, it.

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Got bigger, so you know, I thought, well, hell, I'll retire.

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This is more money than I thought i'd ever have.

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I'm great, this is wonderful, thank you, you know, And

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that lasted about a week and a half, two weeks

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before I realized I'm thirty five years old.

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At that time.

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It was twenty eighteen, and I couldn't retire at thirty five,

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so got back to work, and as fortune would have it,

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between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three, we built the

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largest insulation company in the United States. Kowala Insulation grew

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to four hundred and sixty eight locations, and we sold

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it to private equity for a nine figure exit in

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twenty twenty three. And at that point I knew that,

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you know, building more businesses isn't going to change anything

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about my life. So I set my sights on what

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can I do to actually make a difference in this world,

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because building another business won't change anything.

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So the puppet strings have effectually been cut.

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Then you don't owe anybody anything at this at this point,

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which is amazing. It kind of sounds like another leader

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in public office is currently his name escapes me. But

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he donates all of his salary too, right.

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He has, And you know, he's been a great inspiration

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ever since he's come down the escalator in twenty fifteen.

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I've been a strong supporter of President Trump, and I've

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seen that when people like that get involved. You know,

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he's put himself on the line. He doesn't have to.

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He's put his family in harm's way and he doesn't

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have to. He's doing it because he believes in America,

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and I believe in America. So if more of us

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step up and do the right thing, I think we

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can make real change over time.

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And he's been shot and he didn't have to be

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exactly It is a labor of love. And then I conclude,

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then that's that's the same in your case.

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Yes, one hundred percent. You know, I've made it clear

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that I'm gonna spend whatever it takes to win this election.

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This is my hometown seat. It's where I was born

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and raised here in Bay County, in Panama City, and

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I'm gonna do whatever it takes to win. I've committed

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to contributing at least five million dollars to the campaign.

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What we'll see here sneak peek coming out in a

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few days on the FEC reports, is that I've contributed

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over five and a half million dollars so far to

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this campaign, which is far more than it actually takes

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to run the race. And that's intended to send a signal.

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The signal is I won't be outspent. I already know

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I won't be out work and now I know I

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won't be outworked or outspent. It's why we're leading in

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the polls and we're working to expand our leader.

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That is fantastic. God, that's an inspiration. I didn't see

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that coming, but thank you. So what are your thoughts,

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speaking of money and the abuse thereof with other folks,

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what are your thoughts on the current government shut down?

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Is this as hideous an exercise and arbitrary rule as

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it seems to be to me?

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It is, you know, it's manipulation by the Democrats. They're

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looking to rewrite history. They want to make it seem

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as though what ICE agents are doing is wrong. ICE

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is enforcing the law under Democrats ten fifteen, we don't

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even know how many million people came into our nation

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illegally because Biden unconstitutionally refused to enforce the law. Now

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President Trump is following his oath, upholding the constitution and

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enforcing the law as he is required to do. ICE

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agents are arresting people, and Democrats want to make it

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seem as though ICE is doing something wrong just because

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there's occasional tension and resistance for those arrests. But it's

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not a surprise. You know, if you resist arrest, If

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you or I, Dave, we resist arrest, what's going to happen.

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The law enforcement officer is going to escalate force until

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they eventually accomplished that arrest. They're not going to say, well,

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you're pulling your hand away, so I'll just give up

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and walk away and let you go. They're going to

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do what it takes to accomplish that arrest. That is

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their job, that's their training, it's what they should do.

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And so what we're seeing repeatedly is illegal. Aliens encountered

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by law enforcement, and then they resist arrest, and then

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it's made even worse because leftist agitators get involved and

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they start screaming and attacking the ice officers, they start

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making threats, they surround them, they've tried to run over

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them with vehicles. They have in fact ran over some

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of them with vehicles. And that's what leads to the

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real violence that the leftists in Congress are now crying

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out about. So right now, they're causing TSA officers who

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are running security at airports to work for over forty

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days now with no paycheck. Many of them are going

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to be laid on their mortgages, laid on their rent,

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on their credit card bills, have their cars repossessed. Potentially,

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no one's going to be able to make that right.

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No one can undo that harm. Sure they will eventually

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get back pay, but the reality is there's permanent harm

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being done to these people day in and day out

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right now. And that comes back to a real theme.

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Government can't be trusted. Government isn't willing to keep its

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promises to its employees. We shouldn't be putting the federal

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government in charge of so many things, because it's really

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bad at doing most things.

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And when it comes to law enforcement, particularly the national

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security border security enforcement, that is a federal function and

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they want to hamper that. The thing that keeps coming

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back to my mind is that part of the State

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of the Union address when Trump asked those who believe

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that the first duty of government is to protect the

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lives and property and safety of American citizens before those

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that are here illegally, if you stand up, and that

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whole section, with perhaps the exception of John Federman, stayed seated.

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I've just I was blown away. This is an eighty no.

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This is a ninety ten issue where ninety percent of

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the people say, you know, we're paying the taxes we

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oft to come before the people who broke into the country,

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and yet they side with the wrong side of the equation.

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It's a collectivist mindset. It's an extension of communist thinking

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and the people on the left, which is what I

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call most of the Democrats now because it's not the

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Democrat Party of twenty years ago. This is activist leftists

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who are verging on communism at this point because they've

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taken a collective mindset. They think their duty is to

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provide fair and equal treatment to all people on earth.

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They've forgotten that their first duty is to put Americans first,

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and America first. That's why they think it's perfectly reasonable

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to allow as many people as they want into our nation,

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because after all, they're only coming here for a better life.

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You know, pay is better.

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And I guess they just can't do math because our

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education departments failed them. They don't understand that if we

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let billions of people into our country, we can't afford

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to feed that many mouths, educate that many children, or

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have that many hospitals. There's a real limit to our resources.

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We're already stretched thin here in America. We don't need

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more people.

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Yeah, otherwise the whole system implodes.

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And you aren't on your website against foreign wars, and

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you mentioned Ukraine specifically. At the moment, however, Aaron seems

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to be occupying our full attention on the national defense front.

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What is your assessment of the wisdom of that engagement

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and how things are going to this point?

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What are your thoughts on that?

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Well, when I talk about stopping funding for foreign wars,

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I really did mean Ukraine, because that's the type of

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foreign war where the United States is not involved in

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any respect and shouldn't be involved in any respect. That's

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a war between Ukraine and Russia. It's right on Europe's doorstep,

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and the United States has been funding most of NATO's

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defense for decades. We've been covering their costs while they

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give their citizens freebies like universal healthcare, all because they

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don't have to cover their defense costs because American taxpayers

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are covering it. So that massive unfairness is what makes

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me so interested in halting funding to foreign conflicts like Ukraine,

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because it's time for Europe to pick up the bill.

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With respect to Iran, you know, Iran has been the

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chief sponsor of terror in the Middle East for decades now,

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and I'm glad to see that President Trump is cleaning

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up what hasn't been fixed for the last forty seven

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forty eight years, because it needed to be cleaned up

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a long time ago. You know, one of the reasons

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I enlisted in the United States Army as a National

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Guard enlisty was because of Iran. I went in to

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become an intelligence analyst to help find the IEDs that

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were blowing up our people all over Afghanistan at the time,

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and that's what killed most of our people, and Iran

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was behind it. They started doing IEDs over there the Taliban,

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and it wasn't all that effective. We put in armored

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hum v's and armored vehicles and that stopped it. Then

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Iran got involved and they offered massive funding and engineering

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so that they could use shaped explosives and copper discs

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to pierce our armored items. So suddenly what was a

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safe convoy was now an incredibly unsafe convoy. They were

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killing our people. I thought it was worth getting involved

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to try to stop that because I think America is

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worth fighting for and the mission we were doing there

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was worth fighting for. Unfortunately, I did not end up

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deploying to Afghanistan. We pulled out of Afghanistan and started

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winding down before my deployment came up. The reality is,

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though Iran has not stopped what they were doing, they've

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been the key sponsor of terror for ages, and taking

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them out like this is a good idea. It's a

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good thing for America. Many people say they don't like

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that we're there because we're fighting Israel's war, and they

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seem to forget really fast that in the age of

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ICBMs and nuclear weapons, it's not Israel's war. This is

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a threat to America. That's why we're there.

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Yeah, it's enlightening to me at least that they have

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intermediate range missiles that go a lot further than what

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they were saying whenever they launched toward Diego Garcia, meaning

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that they could hit Paris, they could hit London, they

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could hit all kinds of capitals.

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And looking at the.

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Way that they've conducted themselves since the on, since the

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start of hostilities, Well, on our side of these, they've

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been launching hostilities for decades, but since the beginning of this,

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the way that they've lashed out against their neighbors, almost indiscriminately,

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just lashing out at anything around them. Can there be

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any doubt what they would have done if they had

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had nuclear weapons? They are to not not to use

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this word gratuitously, but they are Rabbid in that in

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that respect, you could never trust people like that with nuke.

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No, it's a it's a level of Rabbid evil that

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I don't think we can see clearly in any other

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part of the world. Their dedication to destroying anyone that

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they have an ideological difference with is unmatched, and we

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already live with one mad man with nukes. We've got

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North Korea. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's a huge

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threat that we have to expend a lot of our

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resources figuring out how to counter and being prepared for

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and watching them constantly. We couldn't allow that to happen

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in Iran because there's a big difference between North Korea

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and Iran. North Korea is a ter despot. They want

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to control their people and you know, keep them out

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of the Western hemisphere's influence. The difference is Iran has

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a theological, really evil perspective on the globe. They want

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to bring back the you know, the end time prophecies.

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They want to put all that into place. They want

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to delete other nations and other peoples from existence. They

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want to delete America's existence because they don't like that

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our freedoms conflict with their theological view of how the

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world should work. That's a terrifying perspective when you put

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a nuclear weapon in their hands.

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This is an ideology of conquest that says everyone else

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in the road has a perfect right to their opinion,

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not the opinion of those of those people. And in particular,

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exactly your website mentions your disenchantment into which I join.

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With respect to some of the Republican members of Congress

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who lack the spine to side with the eighty ninety

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percent of the American people on issues like voter idea,

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for example, how would you approach that issue? As a congressman?

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What can one guy do? Whenever there's such rampant, finless

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spinelessness in the ranks.

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One guy can't do much all by himself.

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But as a new person coming to Congress, I hope

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to build coalitions and work with other people who are

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there doing the right thing already. You know, we've got

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a Freedom Caucus that's on the right path with these

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issues already. I hope to join them and to get

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other people elected who will join our ranks. I intend

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to do a lot of active involvement in getting new

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people elected to Congress. I intend to establish a pack

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and divert a significant amount of resources to bringing in

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new people who have an America first perspective, who will

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honor our Constitution and who will vote alongside me to

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ensure we move the ball downfield.

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I had not intended to do this, but you got

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my vote.

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On this.

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I mean and whatever I can do from this platform

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to help you out last question, sir. And it's more

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of a personal level. But when I do these interviews,

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I try to put myself in the position of a

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normal listener, not that I'm normal, but just the average

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person kind of listening who leads a busy life, doesn't

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necessarily have the time to really geek out on policy

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issues because the kids are going bananas, the job is

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called consuming, the ability to be paid, et cetera. They

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have a normal life, and a listener can see that

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you're an accomplished businessman who appears to be doing the

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right thing, and they ask himselves why is he putting

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himself through this in the first place? I mean, running

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for office in this political climate. If you win, your

479
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troubles are only beginning, right, So a lot of people

480
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will look at you and say, are you nuts? But really,

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I mean, I know, I think I know where the

482
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answer is going to be, But why put yourself through this?

483
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Dude? You're in good shape, Dave.

484
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I've asked myself the same question on occasion when I

485
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look in the mirror in the mornings, what am I thinking?

486
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The reality is, you know, I've always worked hard, my

487
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whole life, and now that I'm in a position where

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I don't have to anymore, that doesn't mean the d

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goes away.

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And I need a purpose.

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I need something useful to do, and I want to

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know that I've left the world better than I found it.

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I want to know that I've done my duty to

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give back to my community. I feel like when God

495
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pours blessings on you, if you don't help others with that,

496
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it's kind of a rejection of that gift, and it's wrong.

497
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I think you have an obligation to turn around and

498
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help those who are still in the race. And that's

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what I intend to do, is help my community. You know,

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this community gave me everything being born and raised here.

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I've seen my own family struggle to make ends meet,

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and I see that so much of that struggle stems

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from a broken Washington d C. I do believe that

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there's literally no bigger gift that I can give my

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community than to dedicate my own time and my own

506
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resources to trying to solve those problems. Because I've seen

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for too long for my whole life, people that go

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to Washington and then they get more interested in fundraising

509
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and trying to figure out how to keep the job

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than in actually doing what the people need done. I

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know that I can be removed from that circus and

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that rat race. I know that I can simply stay

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in touch with the people here in the district, and

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as long as I do what helps them, I know

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they're going to send me back every two years for

516
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probably longer than I want to go and pass the torch.

517
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So I know doing the right thing is all you

518
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need to do to get reelected, you know.

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I I just just on a on another more of

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a personal level again, I guess back I identify with

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that I don't make not basically much at all from

522
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doing this show or from writing, but those are my muses.

523
00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:27.039
My friend, a friend of my son, said, your dad

524
00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:29.920
must really like writing and broadcasting, And my son said,

525
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:31.640
you know, that's like saying he likes breathing.

526
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It's what he does. It's part of him.

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So I do it no matter what before the love

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of it, and I want to leave it the place

529
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of better than I'm then they may otherwise be for

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my kids and grandkids growing up. So I totally get

531
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it and I respect it immensely.

532
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Well, thank you so much, and thanks for taking the

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time to chat with me this morning.

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As my pleasure. For folks, the website is Keith Gross

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dot com, K E I T H G R O

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S S dot com. Whether you live in Florida Second

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Congressional District or not, you folks are to yourself to

538
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.799
check out the website and see what plain good sense

539
00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:06.119
looks like. Mister Gross, thank you again for taking the

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time to talk with us. Thank you, and we're gonna

541
00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:09.799
check in every now and then with if you don't

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00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:11.119
mind to see how the campaign's going.

543
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:12.720
I'm looking forward to it.

544
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.799
Thanks again for so, sir. Folks asked mister Keith Gross

545
00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:18.880
on the Dave Carter Show we were talking with Pat Sajack.

546
00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:21.880
There's almost a vaudeville quality to that, to the humor

547
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at times, which I think is missing. Were you influenced

548
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by those folks?

549
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Oh?

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Sure, I mean that.

551
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You know, first of all, I'm old, so of course

552
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you know those are those are the people I grew

553
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up to school with.

554
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Yeah.

555
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Look, you know, look, I don't begrudge change.

556
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It happens. Humor changes, deliveries change.

557
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But I'm I'm not going to you know, I'm not

558
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going to try to adapt to that and be hip

559
00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:44.279
and all that stuff.

560
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I'm not hip.

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I mean, the only time you see the word hip

562
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associated with me if it's followed by the word replacement.

563
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If your speakers are making a funny sound.

564
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You're listening to the Dave Carter Show.

565
00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:55.960
Well, my friend, has been a pleasure as always and

566
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:57.759
in honor to have you on the show. Thank you

567
00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:58.400
so very.

568
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Much, Dave.

569
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Thank you, And don't ever asked me to do this again. Carter.

570
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:16.039
You've called the Dave Carter Show. You got something to say.

571
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:20.400
We're listening to your voiceman's going to play up today.

572
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.519
It's the voicemail bag.

573
00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:26.200
Yeah, the voicemail bag.

574
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:28.839
Let's hear what's on your mind?

575
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:39.400
Hey, Dave, it's Earl from Tulsa. Just wanted to say

576
00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:42.359
how much I love the bumper music, that same twelve

577
00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:46.440
bar blues loop you've been running since twenty seventeen. Ship's Kiss.

578
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:49.759
It really sets the mood for my forty five minute commute.

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00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.559
And when you come in with the have mercy every

580
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.319
single time, he's like wolfman Jack and he'd been sedating it. Actually, Hello,

581
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I just appreciated it.

582
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.319
Keep it up, guy.

583
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:05.920
The repetition is therapeutic. Anyway, love the show.

584
00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:12.160
This is Gary. I listen every week and I got

585
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:16.160
to tell you those health updates pure gold. The way

586
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:19.440
you spend ten minutes describing your latest knee click or

587
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:22.119
the new blood push bill that makes you dream about

588
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.000
rotary phones. Now the doctor said, hey, you're fine for

589
00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:29.160
a guy your age, So my time for that stuff.

590
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:31.319
It's the only part of the show where I know

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00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:34.559
exactly what's coming and still somehow feel better.

592
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:35.640
About my own life.

593
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:40.599
Please never stop. The more TMI, the better. You're basically

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00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:46.319
my free primary care podcast. Keep healing your fossil.

595
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:55.400
Hello Deve, this is Ralph from the couch. My wife

596
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:57.759
says they shouldn't care when I've had a couple more,

597
00:28:58.119 --> 00:29:02.480
but I figured, hey, you can talk about your help

598
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:07.680
all the time, right, So here's mine. Marriage is great,

599
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she's great.

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The car is also great, except.

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When I'm driving at home for the BFW and I

602
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:25.039
missed the driveway by four feet again. But you know what,

603
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:28.519
your show keeps me company while I sit here waiting

604
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:36.839
for her to stop Yelling'll have Mercy's day, Mercy.

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I love you man.

606
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.240
Dave, It's Jane quick question. Where do you get those

607
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:50.720
little Dave Carter Show jingles because I can't stop humming

608
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:56.279
the one that goes fun conversation, The Dave Carter Show.

609
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.839
It's like a commercial for nothing. Stuck in my head

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00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.519
worse than any migrain headache I've ever had.

611
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Then I find.

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Myself whistling it at work. My coworkers think I've lost it.

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Keep making them. They're not catchy, they're inescapable. That's the genius.

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Thanks for the brain damage.

615
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:33.200
Oh wow, just wow, Oh man, that was fun. You

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00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:38.000
folks are a tough crowd. Great calls. Great call is

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always interested to hear your thoughts. And we'll be playing

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some more of that stuff this time, goes. Man, know

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what a treasure trove that is? Ire we go. That's

620
00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:01.759
the good stuff there since old Earl from Tulsa mentioned it.

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Have mercy.

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As a matter of fact, have no mercy. I'd love

623
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to lose man. It's all over the place because the

624
00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:14.839
blues is everywhere. Yeah, oh sorry.

625
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.920
Someone's off his heads all right? Anyway, he wasn't Keith

626
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.920
gross great. I mean, if you want someone who can't

627
00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:26.960
be bought, first, you got to find some person, someone

628
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.160
who's beyond purchase, you know, And how many people can

629
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.680
say that.

630
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.119
That's a great combination.

631
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.960
Actually when it comes to public service, I mean people

632
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.920
call it, you know, a few money but instead of

633
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:42.720
saying that he's got his site set on public service

634
00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:49.440
so he can serve. I'm sorry, it's kind of unusual

635
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.160
what a concept people like that still exist. I mean,

636
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.039
who would have thunk it? Well, what do you think

637
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.400
about it? Give us a shout via message, send us

638
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.559
right away this review, or do a voicemail, and they

639
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:05.519
seem to be the thing right now, So jump on net.

640
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.720
Just go over to website and tell me what you

641
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:12.720
think about it. Now, when you go to the website

642
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:19.279
Dave Cartershow dot com, you're going to see some a

643
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.920
pop up menu, which I'm not a huge fan of

644
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.759
in the first place.

645
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.279
So it's not gonna do that to you every time.

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00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.640
First few times you can give you a pop up message,

647
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.440
and the purpose behind the pop up say that five

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00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.960
times fast is to give you a chance to get

649
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:40.359
a free subscription to the Dave Carter Show newsletter, which

650
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:45.480
is appropriately called Dave's Dispatches. I use I use that

651
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000
to write letters back home on I was stationed in

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00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.920
the Middle East and even in Korea and other places

653
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.720
that the military sent me. But back then I call

654
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.839
them desert dispatches went to friends and family, and so

655
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:03.160
the term is still endurers to this day is Dave's dispatches. Well,

656
00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:04.680
that pop up is going to ask you for an

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00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:08.920
email address, which is how we will send the newsletters out.

658
00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:12.160
We're gonna send one out any day. Now, get that

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thing going.

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00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:16.519
But it ain't gonna cost you a dime, okay, But

661
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:18.920
what it does do is it puts you in the

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00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.160
know with respect to all things about this show and

663
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:25.079
the website, uh, some blog posts and things of that nature.

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In fact, we'll be offering some discounts on merchandise over

665
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:34.839
at the Dave Carter Shop, some gear, coffee mugs, tumblers,

666
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:39.839
you know, travel mugs, shirts, a wall clock, wal art.

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00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:41.680
I mean you all kinds of different themes, some of

668
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:44.039
them hysterically funding, some of them were patriotic, some of

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it for veterans. I'm not gonna leave the vets behind

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because I'd be one of them. But it won't cost

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00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.440
you a thing, Okay, but you get all of that,

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plus are behind the scenes look at the show, including

673
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:56.599
some inevitable show bloopers.

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00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.440
I might as well you know share that too.

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00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.960
Just go to the Dave cartershow dot com Dave cartershow

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00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:07.079
dot com and be part of the fun. Speaking of fun,

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I hope you do enjoy I hope you have enjoyed

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00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:13.039
the program of the day. It's always an honor and

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00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.760
mad fun putting these shows together for you, and this

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00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:16.400
one was a treat.

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00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:18.159
I enjoyed every second of this. This is great.

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I look forward to your comments and voicemails, of course,

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00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.960
But my thanks to Keith Gross uh, that nice gentleman

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00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:27.280
for taking time out of his busy campaign schedule to

685
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:30.760
talk with us today about his run is fun run

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00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.400
and is very important run for Congress to represent Florida's

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second district here in the Panhandle. And as always, with

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my special thanks to you the listener, I am Dave

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Carter and I'll see you next time.

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Again.

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No room for a gross.

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Dave Carter show story.

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It's a wild rodeo.

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It's a hartful of coundress, the green.

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Of the space.

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He'll take you on a journey through.

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Time and space, stories of g time, through the stories

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we share. Today's hurt of laughter, let's all take a tear.

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Am a time of breathing gold.

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The Dave Carter Show a treasure trove of gold
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