Marcus Flowers is the Democrat running to defeat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th District. Flowers has spent his entire career defending the United States. First – he served as an active duty member of the US Army, followed by more than 20 years as a contractor or official for the State Department and Department of Defense.
Marcus has spent a decade in combat zones around the world and has worked on four continents. He has seen first hand the damage done by extremism and disinformation, and he WILL NOT let Marjorie Taylor Greene take us down the same path here in America.
Marcus Flowers is the Democrat running to defeat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th District. Flowers has spent his entire career defending the United States. First – he served as an active duty member of the US Army, followed by more than 20 years as a contractor or official for the State Department and Department of Defense.
Marcus has spent a decade in combat zones around the world and has worked on four continents. He has seen first hand the damage done by extremism and disinformation, and he WILL NOT let Marjorie Taylor Greene take us down the same path here in America.
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a very warm and convivial welcome to nick and russ don't know anything although as you'll soon discover they do
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apparently have an opinion about everything this is the podcast that believes that opinions are in fact facts
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and reality stars should certainly not be president this is also the podcast that features those two simple-minded
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guys who created the slogan spread your love but lawfully ladies and gentlemen
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it's time for nick and russ don't know anything the podcast
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well hello everybody i am nick and i'm russ and we are the nick and russ don't know
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anything podcast and we'd like to welcome gino as our little field correspondent thank you for coming back
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gino in the field and we have a great guest today we got marcus flowers from georgia who's gonna
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get rid of this marjorie taylor green person from kong george as well
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and georgia too hopefully do you think i don't think she's going to be leaving georgia though so anyway welcome marcus
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one could only hope yes yes she can move to mar-a-lago
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there you go i think that's where they should all seek refuge i think i think you know what we should just go ahead and create mar-a-lago make it a
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sovereign nation on its own little thing and make them you know and then just send all of the mega
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yeah the people there so yeah hey anyway welcome uh marcus uh thank you
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for coming on our show and uh we've got a lot of stuff to talk about first off i
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wanted to point out that nick last week we were at 797 in cities worldwide we
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just hit 805 the other day oh yeah yeah we broke that that's awesome and we're still at we're at 55 countries
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uh that's really amazing uh so we're adding cities almost every day uh actually we did we pretty much added a
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city a day for this past week yeah that's kind of cool wow yeah um anyway uh so in uh
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gino uh welcome we haven't had you on in a in a little spell this uh this you
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know new season that we've come on and so thank you for having me i i've missed you i missed you you know we've missed
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you too so um anyway so let's just you know kind of jump right into it uh
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the latest stuff you know we we've got this russia war on uh the ukraine i've been
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i've been watching the live tick tocks i've been watching the recorded stuff i've been paying attention the news
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it is it is gut-wrenching the the stuff that is happening to these people uh nick you're over in greece so you you
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kind of got a european feel for it you know um so yeah it's been a it's been interesting here
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um you don't really hear much about it well you do hear about it on the news i mean it's it's worldwide but but it's
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not as um i don't know for some reason the greeks just don't really care about as much
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about it it's weird so i don't know what it is yeah and uh the news cycles here are
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24 7 with it no i know it's weird that like nobody really talks about it here it's kind of odd so i mean it's on the
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news you know people see it right it's not like when you when i see people or even within my field we don't really
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talk about it at all whereas in the states it seems like we i i feel like i more my friends on
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facebook and stuff are talking about it than people here so it's really weird but so for for greece is it like you
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know russia's just their crazy cousin oh russia again yeah i guess yeah i don't
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know well plus we have a right-wing kind of person right now that's running the country that got elected so
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so maybe that's another reason who knows i don't know so maybe maybe that's another reason because they he's sort of
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controlling the media right now so it's a weird reason it's it's odd
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like right wing stuff has permeated throughout countries all over the world so
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so we're going to need brother brother flowers we're going to need you to save us
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you know save us from the right wing people now i guess a lot of people want
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to put their heads in the sand and kind of ignore you know the fact that russia russia or not
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russia but putin is you know threaten the post-cold war order right now by you
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know trying to take over a sovereign nation trying to end a democracy on his doorstep
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we can't allow it you know nope we have to you know here's one thing i'm happy to see
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america taking its rightful place in leadership in nato with with our nato
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allies again you know trump was silent on all this really really soft on putin
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agreed with him against our intelligence apparatus and you know these these things those days are over now you know
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and putin's uh he's uh something's wrong with him right now you know i think he's uh
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i think that uh covet really got to him he's been in his bunker for you know the last two years and i think there's
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there's something going on there but we cannot tolerate our allies in ukraine to be you know
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just rolled the way putin's trying to do and install you know a pro-communist pro-putin
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government right we need to be doing everything we can to you know
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arm the ukrainians in a way that they can fight back against uh putin
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[Music] because this is really just putin right right and there is
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that russia that not all russia is is with him but speaking of conservatives
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and trump how do you feel about these conservatives that actually support putin like like trump saying it was
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smart and a great idea to go in and then you know you got tucker carlson over there like why he's he's quoted and on
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his show saying why aren't we siding with russia like why are we taking the ukraine side like
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like in my opinion and i've said this plan times tucker carson is a foreign agent for russia as that's my opinion i
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i think but how do you feel about these conservatives that are backing putin interrupts that's uh
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that's a question i've been grappling with for quite a while now you know i recall
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a time i'm old enough to remember a republican president saying mr gorbachev tear down
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this wall yes i'm absolutely to remember
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when both parties or both major political parties in our
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country stood firmly against russian aggression so it's hard for me to wrap my head
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around where we are now or where one party is now praising putin and his
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thuggery and trying to end the democracy on his doorstep uh i just can't write my
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head around it guys i i for the life of me i don't understand it we know who putin is
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we know exactly who he is he's a kgb thug that's plain and temple that's who he is
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a strong man who trump admired uh and i guess he fashions himself after or
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fancies himself being something like putin but you know that won't be tolerated here in our country
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i noticed that um some of putin's language was
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very very reflective of trump's language when he said um uh
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if anyone tries to interfere you'll you'll see you know destruction like you've never seen before you know like
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uh in all time in history or something of that nature and i'm like that's very trumpish to say
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or vice versa you know when trump was in his in his putin training camp probably
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um one thing that is uh brother marcus that i i'm
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looking at is that you have this this line uh within uh right-wing conservatism of
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stopping socialism and and the democrats are are communists and and so on and now
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you have putin's embracing like racism like i'm i'm going back to the ussr uh
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type of you know mindset and and for them to embrace it i haven't
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seen one of them say i i don't want to get with this communist socialist type of thing
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they're just embracing it and it's so odd to me and um
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it it it reeks of hypocrisy you know uh absolutely yeah absolutely you know i uh
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in our ad our launch video you know we talk about you know my mission used to be
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you know pushing back against communism that was our mission you know
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on the doorstep of communism we talk about it you know i was i come from the intelligence electronics warfare
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uh world you know back in the 90s russia was the main mission you know
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stopping that aggression in the eastern bloc country or former eastern bloc countries
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so to see this wholesale embrace of putin um
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again guys i i really can't wrap my head around it i don't know what the end game is there with
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the radical right i can't even say republicans because it's the radical right that radical
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media with people like tucker carlson and laura ingram and you know newsmax
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and oan and who are you know spouting these pro-russian or pro-putin talking points
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you know we talk about pushing back on that misinformation and disinformation russia had a
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played a big part i keep saying russia but putin played a big part in putting out the
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misinformation and disinformation in the 2016 election he's doing it again now
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and they're eating it up they're pushing those talking points for him you know sometimes call
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fox news russian state tv because oh all day everything putin wants them to do
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they're pushing his message out there and you know those on the radical right are just eating it up that's that misinformation
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disinformation that we have to push back against it's a hard thing to do but a hard thing is what we must do and
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pushing back against that and calling it out at every turn i i i like the fact that you're pointing
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out it's not all of russia because uh over the weekend 1700 people russians
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protested against the war and were rounded up um because they made it illegal for you
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to do that also it's not been totally verified but the ambassador of ukraine
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to the united states stated that a russian platoon surrendered to the ukrainian forces because they were not
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told they were going into ukraine to kill ukrainians they were told to be different i hadn't heard that but i
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would definitely look into that oh and if you look sergey lavrov's daughter
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spoke out now that tweet that you put out was immediately deleted but
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not all russians feel that way you know they all stood out in uh saint petersburg and in moscow you know
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protesting and as you said 1700 people were arrested and you know
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no defense when it comes to the thing you can't decide yeah the thing we have to watch for is
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the fact that a lot of people were like oh he's just going to take those independent states that he's recognized oh he's never going to go against the
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capital well he's moved against the capital and other places so and then and some people are saying no he's not going
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to go all through the country no he's going to go through all through the country so we've gotta we gotta watch
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out for this like it's an all-out assault yeah it's not a lot of fault to take
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he's trying to take the capital he wants full control there you know yeah
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and yeah let's be honest here he'll take control of the country
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yeah but this is going to turn into and i hesitate to say a counterinsurgency but guerrilla warfare
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is probably a more accurate term and what is what it's going to look like there in ukraine uh they're going to
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have a hard time they're going to achieve their short-term goals but they're going to have a hard time holding
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yeah yeah and after 30 years like of being a democracy you just can't go back i mean you have a
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whole generation of people now that have been born free right they that they
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weren't under communist rule so there's just no way that it's going to be able to sustain a couple of generations now
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yeah yeah a couple generations now yeah but but i'm saying like full force i mean you have like one good solid
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generation in there right between the two that have been uh since you know since the the cold war
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ended um and
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met a lot of people there they're they're wonderful people they love democracy you know yeah
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they don't have a beef with russians per se but putin right they know he's a madman right they don't want to go back
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to they don't want to go yeah doesn't it feel like when um you know when trump became
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president and then you had putin and then you have you know uh xi jinping you know in uh in uh in china
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i feel like yeah those are the three right now they just want to like take over the world or
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something i feel like trump was like on this mission too at some point you know but in the end united dictatorship
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right it was like the weirdest thing right didn't it feel like a twilight zone that whole period and i don't know
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yeah i feel like well i still feel like we're in a twilight zone episode i feel like it hasn't ended yet so it's not odd
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the way it is before all of this began i was talking with a general officer or former general friend of mine
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and we were talking about russia and china and he explained it to me this way he said marcus
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you have to look at it put it in this frame
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russia under putin is you compare it to a hurricane he just wants to come in cause chaos
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but china under xi is more like climate change he's playing the wrong game
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yeah see he's being silent right now on russia but they're gonna you know that's that's the long game
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we have to get back to understanding who our true enemies are right now right
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and i mean and china in the long run you know mm-hmm
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dictators and that's what trump did we got to get back to our norms in this country
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and realize who our allies are and continue to try and spread democracy
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you can't ukraine is a democracy on russia's doorstep putin doesn't like that
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it won't stop there if we allow this to happen we have to use every tool available to us to keep that from
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happening and the fact that russia and china signed a pact together and they recognize each other like china
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recognize the fact that russia has the ability to go into ukraine and russia recognizes the fact that china should
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have the ability to go into taiwan exactly and so we got to watch out for that because those two like and china
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you're right is playing the long game they're buying up all the rights in in different countries to oil and minerals
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and and things like that and securing it and securing debt of other countries they're definitely playing the long game
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they they come from you know almost like a third world status year you know back in the 80s to now you know one of the top
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nations in the in countries and powers in the world and they're gonna be a force to be reckoned with if we don't watch out
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i have a question about all and not get distracted by you know
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silly little wedge issues that those on the radical right want to play to keep your eye off of what's really
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important you know we need leaders who can provide that oversight and guidance someone who's
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served this country for 30 years unlike marjory taylor greene who's right about white nationalism
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apparently since she was just at a white nationals rally yesterday so yeah speaking of you know which like so
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you're uh you know you're running against marger t green and i you caught my eye when you first came on to tick
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tock and you said i'm here to defeat marge taylor green it wasn't i'm running for georgia which you are but i was glad
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to hear you actually say that like most people who start running they don't specifically target their or
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specifically speak out against the people who you know is currently running and she is
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whatever in my opinion for america and for georgia except for i looked at her website that's all i could find was fire
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fouchy you know that was the only thing that she introduced mm-hmm what what they said
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yeah one thing that i noticed that i particularly see with her especially uh when um
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she had your your her security uh kind of remove you from the uh her
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her speaking engagement or her rally or whatever uh was that i think that she sees you as
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a very legitimate threat to her her place there and um
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she's thinking about you because because yeah because you you hadn't been to any of
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her her her things before you you relatively you shouldn't have been on
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her radar that large for her to send security to say you know
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april may of last year um yeah you know so i was going to
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put eyes on her myself and listen to the things that she was saying because i'd seen all of the things in the media i
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wanted to go see what this whole america first rally was about um i knew what it was about but i wanted to go see
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for myself my representative so i was going there to
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tell her look get serious about this job at that time now this is a long time ago get serious about the job if you don't
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want to do it resign and let someone who wants to serve the people of georgia do it that's what i was going there tell
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her wasn't going to interrupt her rally or anything like that i'd never been to a political rally before you know but
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of course we were on her radar then she had me promptly kicked out because they saw me
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as a threat quote unquote not a threat to her personally wasn't a threat to anyone there personally a
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threat to her job absolutely yeah threat to her job you have a threat to her well
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the job that she's not doing in congress i'll put it that way yeah the only other things i see her do is harassing other congressmen members
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and and then going on tour with matt gates that was yeah that was i think the big the thing biggest thing that she has
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done was well and get removed from her committees let's say that she got removed from her committees threatens and harasses other
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congressmen men and women sorry and then goes on tour matt gates and wants to fire power
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sheet that's the four things that i could see that she's done and trying to impeach the president also
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that's oh yeah that's right on his first day yeah
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it's it's like a it's definitely uh like you know circus uh politics um
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and i i really you really caught my eye uh my ear with uh her being at these
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white nationalist rallies and and that the america first kind of caucus and i
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immediately when they first start talking about that i went and got their america first uh caucus
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policy and it reads like a neo-nazi group you know
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and it's it's pitiful oh the language they use uniquely anglo-saxon
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views or something like that it was yeah you know just all right not even trying to hide it anymore you know
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it's in writing like it's not something like oh you misquoted me you know
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right and that's the video about that as well um yeah we're you know we celebrate
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diversity in this nation absolutely that's what makes us strong
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our diverse thought the diversity in you know our cultures here in america we are a melting pot
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that's how this nation was founded full stop you know archer taylor green
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we're not going back to whatever it is you think that we used to where america was great
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uh a great country but you know we still have a lot of work to do
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to be our best selves yes ever improving that's who we are you know now now now our perfect union
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absolutely stop striving for that absolutely now one thing i want to um
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it's on the topic but a little off the topic you and your hat you know
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very iconic for me and when i first saw um uh one of your uh commercials your
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advertisements and i saw the hat and the first thing came to my mind was one of my uh longtime heroes
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is uh bassreeves and i'm like this this guy is my modern
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day bass reeves he's he's he's coming in to um you know rick shopping
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and and right the wrongs here you know the original lone ranger y'all this is who the lone rangers legend is based off
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of and let me let me share a little something with you about where i got the hat from
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okay my grandfather who died when i was 11 years old he was a sheriff in rural alabama and a
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farmer and we're talking about 60s 70s and 80s my grandfather man i you know
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big man that i looked up to you know i'd see him wearing his black hat out on the farm i'd see
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him wearing his sheriff's hat out on you know around town in rural alabama rural pike county
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that's where i got it from you know i wear that to honor him
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that's what's happening i like that wonderful
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steps into the law but you know my uncles were you know police captains they followed in his footsteps my dad
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was a teacher you know well
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well russ and i are creatives so we're always thinking of that next um
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commercial or ad where you know you see you come in with your hat and your boots on and
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marcus flowers there's a new sheriff in town maybe we should do like a wild boaster
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taylor green up you could say new law man because congress passes laws
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so there's the legislative side exactly you gotta you gotta ride in on your horse and just
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you know i don't know do you right if you imagine you're probably riding right i do okay so yeah
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i've suffered some injuries so i don't ride as much as i used to but you know gotcha yeah so well you know
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four-wheeler works too it's like marjorie taylor green you're a bad person i'm gonna have to remove you
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office moving past marge we're gonna get you on
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our creative team there gino and we'll get that going hey gina gino is yeah gino and i we go
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way back and he he's got the creativeness so um and yeah i mean he's also a grand
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slam poet uh you know champion too so uh i didn't know that all right yeah
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many times over too right gino like a few a few uh championships there oh yeah yeah a few championships uh my new book
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is dropping tomorrow 101 breakup poems curated by gino and you know i'm just um
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sometimes they're little short poems like you know like my relationships
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you you you you created something you know you published something i like i told you the other night i have like
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five books still i haven't finished writing because i have adhd creativity i i'm a great non-writing writer so
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right now i'm striving to be a writing writer so yeah
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oh so brother flowers if you ever need any any creative copy for any of your things look us up we got you
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hopefully i won't be having any more breakups but uh you know hey we can you can look at other things
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this is just a little little gag thing like you know oh if you also need a historian on prince the artist oh my god
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you know is like everything prints so one stop shopping right there i like it yeah hey
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but let's let's let's move on to your your uh your platform you know
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we've talked about some of the world's so um also one of the things that we discussed
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um is the recent attacks on transgender right here in texas abbott passed into law
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that uh if your child is thinking of being transgender therapy any kind of
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anything that you're supplying to help them through this transition cps can be called on you and have your child
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removed and you could be arrested and because they say it's child abuse uh marger taylor green just recently uh
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in some statements said uh that we should go people should go violent against transgender people wow
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your thoughts sir on you know where we stand with these because texas
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if they you know they other states follow suit when texas does something stupid and so anyway i just
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i'm i'm worried about this and your your thoughts on all this you know the first thing
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that came to mind when i heard about all of this first of all is ridiculousness
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and i've seen you know the things the statements that she made about her husband beating someone up or something like that but
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the first thing that came to mind to me when i heard about that was
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we are all endowed with certain inalienal inalienable rights
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lgbtq plus rights are human rights full stop i am an ally always have been
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i have a daughter who's gay nieces and nephews who are gay
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we got to stop this nonsense we've got to full stop it's nonsense
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we're all americans we're all humans let's act like it but stop treating each other like
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enemies because we differ on political viewpoints
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it's a distraction it's always been a distraction a bright shiny object to take your mind
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off of what is really important and what's important here in georgia here in northwest georgia is our infrastructure
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housing veterans issues education those are the things that are
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important right now marjory taylor green and the radical right they're just coming up with things to try and
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distract you from the real issues and the fact that they don't have any policies who help with your bottom line
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issues those kitchen table issues common sense things that we all agree on
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because we agree on so much more than we disagree on here and they know that
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anything they can do to distract you in this these politics of grievance and this culture war bs that marjorie taylor
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green and the radical right perpetuate we gotta stop it it's nonsense
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definitely yeah yeah i absolutely agree we have more in
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common than than than not um i grew up in a small east texas town called greenville
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texas and uh okay so it's like um
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you know the folks i grew up with um you know white black and other we we
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just have a lot of things in common that culture that community and um but it seems that this political
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landscape is trying to divide divide us you know you know people i i played you
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know uh football within a field you know you know uh i rode horses with or or
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just hung out with you know you know uh like i said uh you know white white
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americans who we didn't have any any type of differences or are are our head-butting over these
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interesting political issues that are on the on the on the landscape today it's just
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amazing that's when when i talk to people about
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who people are here in northwest georgia and northeast alabama where i grew up it was the same thing
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we said we played soccer together we played football together we did all kinds of things together my
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neighbors here whether they're white black republican democrat independent
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you know there are kind generous and caring people here in this community you know and that's part of the thing
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that got me into this race you know i told you guys my granddaddy was a sheriff my uncles were police captains
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and uncles and family members who served this country in the military
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when i watched george floyd being murdered under the knee of a police officer
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you know that was a life-changing thing for me you know i was in government working as a government official at the
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time so i was bound by hatch act and i could never be too outward outwardly political i never have been
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i've always considered myself apolitical and nonpartisan but after seeing that i decided look i'm
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going to do something i'm going to start talking to people and finding out what people's thoughts are because i'd seen that misinformation and disinformation
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campaign growing louder and louder under the previous administration and after floyd's murder
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you know so i started talking to people i looked at you know how how can i get involved some type of activism to
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try and bridge that divide that i saw growing in our country
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it's because of that white-hot rhetoric in our political parties right now
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and i watched over the course of that summer after george floyd
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things were just getting way out of control and i i knew that a significant portion of our country was being
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radicalized and i've seen that type of radicalization overseas and i see how it
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leads to unnecessary violence and death so i had to do something
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but then on january 6 when i watched american police officers being beaten with an american flag and a
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confederate battle flag being paraded through our capital rotunda that was a bridge too far for me
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yeah the very next day i called my supervisor and resigned my post as a government official to run for congress
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against marjorie taylor green because i had watched her spouting lies and conspiracy theories
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and you know trying to divide people not representing the people of georgia not doing the job she was sent there to do
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betraying her oath which is important in the constitution of the united states note that i took at
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18 and it's been for the rest of my life reaffirmed it many times throughout my
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service to this country you know i just couldn't stand by and watch her and the radical right
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infect america with the same radicalization and disinformation and misinformation that i've seen overseas
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that got a lot of my friends and colleagues killed over there speaking of genuine here
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uh they did an interview a few months ago with a congressman i can't remember his name but uh they were asking him how did
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it feel to be uh sequestered uh away when they pulled you guys out of the chamber and hid you guys and and was
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writing protecting what was the feeling in the room with your fellow congressman and he said for the majority everybody
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was worried scared but there was one person he said one congress person who was giddy about it and happy about it
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and excited about what was happening and they said what can you tell us that name he goes i i'm not going to say the name
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but i'm going to say it rhymes with margaret taylor green and they said that she was excited about
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the fact that there was an insurrection happening right wow how can you be pro-america and
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be pro and and be for the insurrection
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that's amazing that people who are so anti-government are always trying to run for government
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i don't i don't that's so it's nihilism you know
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it's nihilism you know that that radical right they're not republicans they're not they want to
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burn it all down case in point
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i can't remember what it was that trump said that infuriated the proud boys and those
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white nationalists who were all um cheering him on uh
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that's a guy with the eye patch i forget his name but uh that's true with the oath keepers those roads yeah
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right you know how they were like oh trump's not going to do what he's supposed to do and pence is not going to do yeah
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that goes to show you that their right radical right talking points have found
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their way into mainstream society any anything that doesn't comport with their nihilistic
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view of things burning it all down you know they they liked out against uh so
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you know yeah that guy the uh the the oath keeper uh leader he lives about oh 10 or 15
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minutes from russ and i you know up street here yeah yeah um
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moving moving on a little bit more because we i don't want to run out of time here um
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so uh you've we've mentioned several times you've mentioned several times your veteran status um and uh your record and
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what you wanted you want to speak on how you want to help veterans um in your state and in the country
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absolutely you know i think i've gone through the process with the va getting
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you know my claims through you know i was hurt serving the country a few times
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and it took me a year and a half to go through the whole process
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you know i thought that was ridiculous but i now know that a lot of veterans have
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gone through this process and it's taking many many years to get their claims through and it's that's
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unacceptable veterans shouldn't be homeless right now
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veterans shouldn't be still trying to process claims for injuries that they sustained in vietnam i see this
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happening dan day in and day out georgia has a huge veterans community we
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have something like more than 640 000 veterans here in georgia and i talk to them every day and i hear about the
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issues they're going through and affording health care the travel times throughout rural georgia which we have
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you know we're having a health issue here with rural hospitals closing down
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in georgia anyway that affects our veterans we need to be doing everything that we
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can to support our disabled veterans getting their process is so much easier
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making sure that they get the care that they need we shouldn't have homeless veterans here in
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northwest georgia it just shouldn't be anywhere that's interesting
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it's interesting that you say that because i you know my father is part of the va you know that's his health
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insurance plan so you know i mean that's because he served the country as well and um
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he doesn't have that experience for some reason granted he has to wait you know six months for his appointment or
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whatever but he never complains about it he said you know they take a really good care of me once they see me so
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so i don't know it shouldn't take that long to get yeah i agree online
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but but the thing is that he does like he says his appointment like he already he sets his appointments up
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you know in advance you know the the regular checkups and whatever he needs to get done
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go ahead i'm sorry but when he needed like when he got covered and he had to go to the hospital and all of that i
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mean well he processed everything like right away so i don't know if that's like a government thing that they changed or
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maybe for his just his circumstance but my father's a veteran as well and when he caught he's like oh i've had an
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appointment for six months to see whatever you know where you know he and weight has to wait hours and hours in
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line and you know i worked in my 20s i worked in the va office it takes a long
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time for them to process plus they have to verify everything and you have to prove all these even though your injury
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is stated you know over and over again you've got to keep approving things
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like you just can't you don't get to hold on to your benefits it's just that's interesting and yeah my opinion
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is like i love what bernie sanders said back in uh 2016. he said if we can spend hundreds of millions and billions of
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dollars to send these men women overseas to fight for us we can spend at least a tenth of that to take care of them right
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absolutely or not and i in my opinion veterans
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should automatically be enrolled in veteran benefits they should be able to go to any anybody they want to see paid
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for by the taxpayers because they have done their service their duty to america
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and that's what i would like to see you know in va hospitals you know that's we don't have i think there's like two
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here you shouldn't have to drive two hours or an hour and a half away to get seen you should be able to go to your
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local hospital local provider and get things done exactly
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you shouldn't have to schedule yeah actually yeah the transportation thing is kind of a drag you're right you don't
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even know anything about it he's like oh i gotta i gotta go to the hospital you know or the va facility i should say
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over an hour and all of that yeah it's like he has to make a plan to
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go not only do you have to travel far but then when you get there you have to wait you know almost the entire day like my
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my dad will be like well i'm going to go to the va tomorrow so you won't be able to you may not even get seen when you've waited the entire day so yeah there
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could be a situation where you've traveled an hour and a half to two hours away then you're waiting an entire day
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and guess what at the end of the end of that time well we can't see you we're gonna have to reschedule then you're
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talking about another several months out yeah we're not rescheduling for you what happens if you have like an hourly job i
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mean it doesn't matter it doesn't matter you're screwed then wow yeah yeah my stepfather
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yeah my stepfather his experience with the va is in his friends um and it probably explains a little bit
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to how your dad is kind of like goes with the flow nick is that um i saw that they kind of got into a
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mindset that this is what it is and they kind of went with it after a while they couldn't it was like they felt
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helpless to change it so they kind of got in lockstep of how this is you know right they'd have conversations
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like playing cards like these are soldiers sailors airmen and marines
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they don't complain right they don't complain they embrace the suck that's what you were taught embrace the suck go with it
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this is what it is let's do it but we can do better by our veterans i agree all right all right let's make it better i'm yeah
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i'm all for it so so uh move moving forward and and uh in in i forgot to say
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this and i will say it again but marcus thank you for your service uh i do want to point that out there and and
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i will absolutely let me continue one of the ending topics that we could
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uh i want to focus on is the recent scotus nominee of judge brown uh by
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uh and your opinion on this hey
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about time it's about time you know black women have
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done so much for this country so much for this country it's time the supreme court reflects
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the contribution that black women have made to america yeah the supreme court needs to look like the country just like our
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government needs to look like the country hey about time congratulations
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judge katanji brown jackson on your historic nomination
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yeah and i hope it will be a smooth confirmation process i think it's gonna be i don't know why i
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don't know i feel like it is gonna be so it's fine
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it should be smooth but right you're going to have the two or three that are you know whatever
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but right so yeah well okay so we're going to be wrapping up here soon um and
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it is i have one question actually how is everything in georgia going right now like as far as like voter registrations
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and things like that especially in like your district i was actually going to go into that but yeah so
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oh yeah well you know one of the things i tell people when i'm out on the doors talking to make sure you're you're
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you're still registered check those voter registration polls make sure you haven't been purged you know
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we let people know the dates of the primary the date of the general election you know we get out and
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talk about the issues so it's still a little early now but we're still making sure that
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people know how to get registered where to go to get it done if they're not you know we're working working the
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problem as we say in the military did they decrease the facilities in your area too where people can go vote and
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here in this part of rural georgia um you know they're
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they're the same we have i'm pretty much the same spots my issue is with
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ballot drop boxes you know moving on inside of businesses that will close at a certain
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time you know making it harder for people who are a work or who work on shifts to get to those uh boxes that's
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one of the issues that i think we're going to push back on the number of ballot drop boxes and where they're located okay
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that's one of the things that's affecting uh georgia with sb 202 which is what i call a voter
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suppression law um you know moving those drop boxes inside of businesses that are going to
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close yeah a lot of people have worked here yeah so right yeah
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yes another effort to kind of uh keep people from the
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we're talking we're talking about people make a plan get a plan to vote know where everything is
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know where those drop boxes is you know if you're going to vote absentee make sure you've got all your
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eyes dotted and t's crossed uh because we got to vote in numbers so big
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that they can't can't deny it or deny your vote because they're
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working to do that they're not having the qualities run the election boards and commissions they're trying to do
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that we're talking to people about that making sure everybody's educated on you know what it is you need to do make sure you
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got a plan make sure you're still registered you know check and recheck you know know the laws know what is
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going on get involved as much as you can because i talk to people and a lot of people are feeling look they're trying
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to disenfranchise us we can't let it happen no
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good news i agree yeah every level is from school board to
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mayor to you know town council to all the levels are extremely important
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because i guarantee you the radical right and the right are doing it and if you know the county
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parties here the county parties here in northwest georgia they're doing a good job getting
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that message out and that's exactly what they're talking about i'm glad yeah yeah that's one
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getting educated so one last thing a positive thought about
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our government that's it so we can like sign off so
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a positive thought about our government you know nick i hate to disappoint here
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[Laughter] just let's be positive we need to come up with something positive in 2022
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democracy is on the ballot here's the good news we can hold the line
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we can hold the line by getting people out and voting yes we can all right because
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i firmly believe that if we don't hold the line in 2022
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if we don't hold the line 2022 is going to be a dry run for an authoritarian takeover in 2024. democracy is on the
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ballot this time yes we can get all of our issues sorted out if we vote
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and they will have the people in place to overturn what they're trying to do we can stop it
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though that's the good news there's a positive note we can stop there you go we could stop what's happening yes okay
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all right good job do you want to promote anything real quick that uh before we go no no i was thinking about
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the positive uh the positive aspect is uh when uh marcus flowers wins
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and um and then the day that day of we'll all have a very positive note to going
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forward yeah absolutely i wish i could move to your your area
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we'd love to have you man that's beautiful
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well okay uh marcus i'm a post up here but you want to tell everybody how you could they can get a hold of you or they
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can see more about you yeah please everybody go to marcus for georgia dot com that's www.marcus for
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georgia all spelled out dot com check out our events tab uh we do a town hall
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via zoom once a month you can go on our events tab under at marcus for georgia and sign up for that zoom uh we also
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have um you're on all the social media oh good marcus
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all right if you go there you'll see all of our social media sites laid out you know we've got hours worth of interviews
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there where we talk about the issues uh you can you know you can also volunteer
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for our campaign if you're here in northwest georgia please come out and knock doors with me you know our field
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organizers i'm so glad you're knocking doors that's the best part like when you are knocking on doors that's that's the
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key because people get to you know people get to experience you know what it's like so it's it's a it's a
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wonderful wonderful thing absolutely because i want people to know me and yes what better way to do it than at their
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door meeting people where they are that's what i like to do you know that's right conversation and in actuality i
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like to meet people where they are come out and knock doors with me if you're in northwest georgia we also do phone banking um you can volunteer to do that
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you can do that from anywhere in the world country yeah you're anywhere in the country actually all right so the
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whole world too yeah yeah that's true nick and grease
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thank you again for coming on our show we greatly appreciate it we look forward to you winning we'll have you back on
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when you do and yes yeah and so uh nick
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again and thank you for your service as well yes uh engineer thank you for coming on my blog thank you for having
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me and nick do you want to go ahead and all right so don't forget to spread the love
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lawfully that's our little thing that we do each time so just fyi anyway and
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yes because we don't want anybody going to jail for spreading love just fyi so and uh
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