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How will Big Beautiful Bill Benefit YOU plus Dems & Media Downplay Antisemitic Violence · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: The breaking news.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: The House of Representative erupts in cheers and a pause
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  Speaker 2: as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill officially passes. Congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to President Donald Trump. And what is in this bill
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  Speaker 2: is major things that is going to have a big
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  Speaker 2: impact on the economy. For example, no tax on tips,
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  Speaker 2: no tax on overtime, one hundred and seventy five billion
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  Speaker 2: for deportations, as well as to finish the wall construction,
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  Speaker 2: tax relief for seniors, and making his twenty seventeen tax
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  Speaker 2: cuts permanent. It was announced by the Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 2: and here's what he had to say. And you'll hear
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  Speaker 2: the applause from the members of the chamber on this vote,
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  Speaker 2: the yaser two hundred and fifteen, the Naser two hundred fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: with one answering present, the bill is passed.
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  Speaker 3: You will sire, you will fare.
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  Speaker 2: The chance of USA. Continue the clapping continue. The White
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  Speaker 2: House coming out with a statement saying this quote, the
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  Speaker 2: One Big Beautiful Bill has passed the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 2: This is arguably the most significant piece of legislation that
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  Speaker 2: will ever be signed in the history of the country,
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  Speaker 2: that coming from President Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He then put out a true social statement, saying this,
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  Speaker 2: the one big, beautiful bill is passed, and not only
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  Speaker 2: is arguably the most significant piece of legislation that will
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  Speaker 2: ever be signed in the history of our country, but
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  Speaker 2: the bill includes massive tax cuts, no tax on tips,
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  Speaker 2: no tax on overtime, the tax deductions when you purchase
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  Speaker 2: an American made vehicle, along with strong border security measures,
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  Speaker 2: pay raises for our ice and border patrol agents, funding
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  Speaker 2: for the Golden Dome, Trump's savings, accounts for newborn babies,
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  Speaker 2: and much more. Great job by Speaker Mike Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: the House leadership. Trump went on to say, and thank
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  Speaker 2: you to every Republican who voted yes on this historic bill.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's time for our friends in the United States
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  Speaker 2: Senate to get to work and send this bill to
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  Speaker 2: my desk as soon as possible. There's no time to waste.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats have lost control of themselves and are aimlessly
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  Speaker 2: wandering around showing no confidence, grit or determination. They have
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  Speaker 2: forgotten their landslide losses in the President's election and are
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  Speaker 2: warped in the past, hoping someday to revive open borders
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  Speaker 2: for the world's criminals to be able to pour into
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  Speaker 2: our country, men to be able to play in women's
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  Speaker 2: sports and transgender for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: They don't realize that.
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  Speaker 2: These things and so many more like them, will never
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  Speaker 2: happen again. That is the President's statement on all this. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's dive into some of the big things that are
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  Speaker 2: going to affect you the most and have a major
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  Speaker 2: impact on our economy. Number one is the no tax
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  Speaker 2: on tips in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: What is this going to do. It's going to increase
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  Speaker 1: take home pay.
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  Speaker 2: Workers in the service industries and hourly jobs are going
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  Speaker 2: to benefit immediately. Why Because they're going to be able
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  Speaker 2: to keep one hundred percent of their tips in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to boost income without increasing labor costs for
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  Speaker 2: the employers. So this is a win win for not
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  Speaker 2: only those that are hiring and the employers, but also
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  Speaker 2: for the employees.
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  Speaker 1: Another way of looking at it is this it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Great way to have an instant pay raise without it
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  Speaker 2: actually negatively hurting the economy or small businesses. They're also
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  Speaker 2: going to simplify the tax filings. This is huge because
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  Speaker 2: it allowed for more Americans to be able to just
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  Speaker 2: get their tax dollars back quickly, and it will reduce
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  Speaker 2: complexity for both employees and the irs, lowering the cost
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  Speaker 2: to run a business. Specifically for employers. There's also longer
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  Speaker 2: incentives for working extra hours or in another way of
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  Speaker 2: putting it, working extra hard to provide for yourself and
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  Speaker 2: your family. It's encouraging productivity and rewarding productivity is how
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  Speaker 2: the White House described it, and helping businesses meet demand
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  Speaker 2: with more willing to work in those overtime hours. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's move from there to the one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: five billion dollars for deportations as well as the border
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  Speaker 2: wall funding. You know that border security is one of
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  Speaker 2: the top priorities of President Donald Trump. Well, now we
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  Speaker 2: have the money needed, as Tom Homan describe it, to
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  Speaker 2: get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: And what the border security.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to do with this money is well, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to have.
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  Speaker 1: The issue of reinforcement.
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  Speaker 2: It will not only they say one, boost enforcement, but
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  Speaker 2: also technology and infrastructure at the southern border, which supporters
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  Speaker 2: are arguing will reduce illegal immigration even more. It's also
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  Speaker 2: going to help stop drug trafficking in the feedanal trade
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  Speaker 2: and the multi billion do industry of human smuggling, so
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  Speaker 2: that is again part of this bill. It will also
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  Speaker 2: have as they described it as a deterrent effect. A
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  Speaker 2: large scale investment is sitting a very strong signal that
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  Speaker 2: immigration laws are actually going to be enforced and strictly
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  Speaker 2: enforced at that.
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  Speaker 1: We know this from the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: There's also what they describe as job protection as well
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  Speaker 2: from this money that will be spent. Why, well, it
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  Speaker 2: is seen by the Trump administration as a way to
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  Speaker 2: quote protect low skilled American jobs from being undercut by
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  Speaker 2: undocumented labor and millions and millions of them with a
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  Speaker 2: race to the bottom that will help more Americans than
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  Speaker 2: ever before. And then let's talk about seniors for a second.
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  Speaker 2: This is something else that the President was really focused on.
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  Speaker 2: He wants there to be real tax relief for our
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  Speaker 2: seniors that are just trying to live a comfortable retirement
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  Speaker 2: without having to worry every single month. Well, higher disposable income.
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  Speaker 2: Why because it reduces the financial burden on retirees, especially
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  Speaker 2: those living unfixed incomes. There's also greater economic participation, the
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  Speaker 2: White House says, as seniors may have more freedom to spend,
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  Speaker 2: invest or support family members because of the tax relief
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  Speaker 2: that they're specifically putting in there for as senior citizens.
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  Speaker 2: And then There's also the healthcare costs buffer, which is
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  Speaker 2: the number one reason why seniors have financial problems later
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  Speaker 2: than life.
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  Speaker 1: It is easier, they say.
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  Speaker 2: Now, to manage out of pocket medical expenses or rising
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  Speaker 2: living costs. So they're trying to protect seniors in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Part of this bill, and the big part, which is
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  Speaker 2: going to be monumental, is making the twenty seventeen Trump
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  Speaker 2: tax cuts permanent. This is giving certainty for families and
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  Speaker 2: for businesses. The long term planning is easier when the
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  Speaker 2: tax rates are locked in, and what the President said
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  Speaker 2: is you're not going to be forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: These tax rates were important to lock in.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise we're going to have the largest taxing cut increase
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  Speaker 2: in our country's history. It was going to decimate the
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  Speaker 2: middle class, and it was going to be brutal on
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  Speaker 2: our not only on our economy, but also those at
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  Speaker 2: higher This is now going to be locked in with
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  Speaker 2: us twenty seventeen rates that you're used to. It's also
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  Speaker 2: going to lower the individual tax rates that have continued
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  Speaker 2: for middle class earners to keep more of their paycheck.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a middle class American, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: keep more of your money because of this big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 2: There's also major support for small businesses. Pass Through entities
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  Speaker 2: like LLCs and es corps are going to continue to benefit,
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  Speaker 2: the White House says, from deductions spurring entrepreneurship and growth.
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  Speaker 2: There's also investment and growth incentives as well. Lower tax as,
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  Speaker 2: the White House says on capital gains and corporate income
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  Speaker 2: are seen as pro business, potentially driving job creation and
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  Speaker 2: market performance to new levels. Now, the overall positives on
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  Speaker 2: this are this an economic boost.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be more money in consumers.
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  Speaker 2: Pockets that can lead to higher spending and economic activity.
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  Speaker 1: It is a pro worker bill.
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  Speaker 2: The bill positions itself as rewarding hard works, tips, overtime,
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  Speaker 2: and protecting American jobs. And then there's the long term
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  Speaker 2: structural changes. By locking in the tax policy and beefing
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  Speaker 2: up immigration enforcement, the White House views this is fulfilling
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  Speaker 2: their long promise reforms that put American workers first, American
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  Speaker 2: middle class workers first, and making sure they're not under
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  Speaker 2: being undercut by illegal immigrants. This is, in fact, a
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  Speaker 2: big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson just released a statement on the House passage
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  Speaker 2: of the one Big Beautiful Bill. You heard him earlier,
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  Speaker 2: but I want you to hear what he said quote.
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  Speaker 2: The media and the Democrats have consistently dismissed any possibility
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  Speaker 2: of House Republicans succeeding in our mission to an act
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  Speaker 2: President Trump's America First Agenda.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, they have been proven wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Today, the House has passed generational nation shaping legislation that
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  Speaker 2: reduces spending permanently, lowers taxes for families and job creators,
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  Speaker 2: secures the border, unleashes American energy dominance, restores peace through strength,
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  Speaker 2: and makes government work more efficient and effective for all Americans.
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  Speaker 2: House Democrats vote against all of it, which clearly proves
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  Speaker 2: they want tax hikes on their constituents, open borders, and
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  Speaker 2: medicaid for legal immigrants. We look forward to the Senate's
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  Speaker 2: timely consideration of this once in a generation legislation and
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  Speaker 2: stand ready to continue our work together to deliver the
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  Speaker 2: one big, beautiful bill to the President's desk that coming
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  Speaker 2: from Speaker Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there was some.
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  Speaker 2: Controversy, by the way, with this bill, with two Republicans
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  Speaker 2: that were holdouts. You had Congressman Massing and Congressman Davison.
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  Speaker 2: The White House Press Sancretary was asked about those two
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  Speaker 2: Republicans not voting in favor of the big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty clear that Donald Trump has a on
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  Speaker 2: these two congressmen. Now, and here's what the White House
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  Speaker 2: had to say about it.
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  Speaker 4: You had two Republicans last night that voted against this bill,
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  Speaker 4: Congressman Massey and Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: Does the President think that they should be primary?
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  Speaker 5: I believe he does, and I don't think he likes
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  Speaker 5: to see grandstanders in Congress.
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  Speaker 1: What's the alternative.
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  Speaker 5: I would ask those members of Congress did they want
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  Speaker 5: to see a tax hike? Did they want to see
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  Speaker 5: our country go bankrupt? That's the alternative by them trying
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  Speaker 5: to vote no. And the President believes the Republican Party
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  Speaker 5: needs to be unified, and the vast majority of Republicans
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  Speaker 5: clearly are and are listening to the President. They are
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: trusting in President Trump as they should because there's a
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: reason he's sitting in this oval office. It's because he's
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  Speaker 5: the unequivocal leader of the Republican Party, not just a
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  Speaker 5: president for Republicans, but all Americans. The President's approval rating
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  Speaker 5: is at an all time high right now. It's because
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  Speaker 5: he knows how to deliver in Republicans like Thomas Massey
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  Speaker 5: and others should take note.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: That was clearly the warning from the White House. Massey
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  Speaker 2: took to the floor of Congress and here is what
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  Speaker 2: Tom I had to say about his reason for voting no.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully, gentlemen from Kentucky's recognized for ninety seconds.
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  Speaker 6: We'd love to stand here and tell the American people,
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  Speaker 6: we can cut you our taxes and we can increase spending,
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  Speaker 6: and everything's going to be just fine. But I can't
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  Speaker 6: do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality.
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  Speaker 6: This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term, but
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  Speaker 6: promises our government will be fiscally responsible five years from now.
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  Speaker 1: Where have we heard that before?
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  Speaker 6: How do you bind a future Congress to these promises?
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  Speaker 6: This bill is a debt bomb ticking. Congress can do
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  Speaker 6: funny math, fantasy math if it wants, but bond investors don't.
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  Speaker 1: And this week they sent us a message.
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  Speaker 6: Moodies downgraded our credit rating, and the bond investors who
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  Speaker 6: buy our debt and finance our debt demanded higher interest
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  Speaker 6: rates on the ten year note, the twenty year note,
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  Speaker 6: and the thirty year note. What does this mean? Very
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  Speaker 6: soon the government will be paying sixteen thousand dollars of
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  Speaker 6: interest interest alone per us family.
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  Speaker 1: And what are we telling him?
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  Speaker 6: Instead of taking care of that problem, We're gonna give
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  Speaker 6: you a sixteen hundred dollars tax break. Under the taxing
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  Speaker 6: and spending levels in this bill, we're going to rack
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  Speaker 6: up the author say twenty trillion dollars of new debt
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  Speaker 6: over the next ten years. I'm telling you it's closer
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  Speaker 6: to thirty trillion. Dollars of new debt in the next
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  Speaker 6: ten years. Mister speaker, We're not rearranging deck chairs on
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  Speaker 6: the Titanic tonight. We're putting coal into boiler and setting
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  Speaker 6: a course for the iceberg.
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  Speaker 1: If something is.
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  Speaker 6: If something is beautiful, if something is beautiful, you don't
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  Speaker 6: do it after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: I pose this villain time has expired.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, those that are clapping were the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: on the Democratic side of the aisle, Thomas Massey saying
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  Speaker 2: I stand here and tell the American we can't cut
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  Speaker 2: your text and increased spinning and everything will be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Digging in White House making it clear we're more than
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  Speaker 2: happy to find somebody to primary you, and clearly the
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  Speaker 2: presidents willing to roll up his sleeves and get involved
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  Speaker 2: in the primary part of all of this.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I also want to play for you.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Moore, he's an economist, you know him for Fox
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  Speaker 2: News Channel.
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  Speaker 1: He had something very interesting to say on.
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  Speaker 2: Fox today about this bill and what it means not
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  Speaker 2: only for the president but for the country.
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  Speaker 7: All Right, the Houses passed Trump's big beautiful bill. It
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  Speaker 7: happened earlier today and now joining us with reaction. Steve
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  Speaker 7: Moore Unleash Prosperity co founder and Lou Bassanie, a Prairie
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  Speaker 7: operating company's executive vice president of Marcut Strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to you both.
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  Speaker 7: First, Steve, your reaction to that and where this goes next.
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  Speaker 8: Well, this was a huge, huge victory for Trump. I
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  Speaker 8: think there were really three heroes here. Obviously President Trump, who,
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  Speaker 8: as you know Sandra went over to the House and
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  Speaker 8: made the final pitch for this and got the final votes.
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  Speaker 8: And then Mike Johnson, who has almost impossible of course,
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  Speaker 8: he's the Speaker of the House. I don't know how
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  Speaker 8: he did it, but he somehow sits together two hundred
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  Speaker 8: and eighteen votes for this, and I think it was
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  Speaker 8: a one vote majority that they were able to get.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have happened without him.
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  Speaker 8: And then I have to say, Chip Roy, who you
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  Speaker 8: may recall Sandra raised some objections to the bill last
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  Speaker 8: week and I hapen to agree with some of those objections,
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  Speaker 8: and you know what, they made it into a better bill.
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  Speaker 1: And so now this goes to the Senate.
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  Speaker 8: I think the Senate will act sometime before fourth of July.
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  Speaker 8: And I agree, we got to get this thing on
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  Speaker 8: the desk of the President. As quickly as possible. I
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  Speaker 8: think it'll be very positive for the economy and the
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  Speaker 8: stock market.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Moore there in what he says, and he's absolutely right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to have a huge impact on our economy.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows it, that's involved in it.
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  Speaker 2: The President had a really tough job here keeping this
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  Speaker 2: together with a slim margin in the House. He said
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  Speaker 2: that the other day when he was on Capitol Hill
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  Speaker 2: meeting with members of Congress, and this was his warning,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, on a couple holdouts at the time.
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  Speaker 9: Look, the alternative is a sixty eight percent tax increase,
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  Speaker 9: and you can blame the.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats for that. Edward or two.
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  Speaker 9: Brin said, this really have Waterton, but we have not
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  Speaker 9: tremendous support. But you'll have a sixty eight percent tax increase,
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  Speaker 9: or you'll get a massive tax increase. You'll get a
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  Speaker 9: tax cut the likes of which we've never had to book.
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  Speaker 9: This is bigger than any Ronald Reagan tax cut. It's
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  Speaker 9: even bigger than the tax cut that.
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  Speaker 1: I gave, because as you know, that's being extended and increased.
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  Speaker 9: So this is the biggest tax cut in the history
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  Speaker 9: of our country or you'll get a sixty eight percent
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  Speaker 9: tax increase.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you think about the numbers the President just
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  Speaker 2: gave there, this was not only a huge success for
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  Speaker 2: the American people.
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  Speaker 1: But a moment where if it.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't happen, the taxes on everyday Americans were going to skyrocket.
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  Speaker 2: I also got to give a lot of credit here
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  Speaker 2: to Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson and what he did to
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  Speaker 2: get this across the finish line.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Hurting cats is the.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Best way I can describe it is incredible. He could
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: only lose a couple and sure enough he did, and
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: he was able to do it with the President's help.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: But if you want to know who the biggest bad
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a is in Washington right now, it is no doubt
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: that it's Speaker Johnson. Joe Kanca on Fox said this,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: take a listen.
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: And right now, the MVP right in Washington for Donald
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: Trump is Mike Johnson. Because he is hurting cats right
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: where he has almost no majority, and he's been able
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: to pass some things already. If he could get this
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: thing through, get it to the Senate, get it through reconciliation,
• 18:40
  Speaker 10: House and Senate kind of you know, go back and forth,
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: and it gets to the President's desk, and this thing passes,
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: this big, beautiful bill with all these.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Tax cuts that are in here.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: Democrats had nothing to run on in twenty twenty six.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: They can't run on foreign policy, they can't run on
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: the border, and they can't run on the economy. So
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: if that happens, trust me, Mike Johnson is your MVP.
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, well he sounds pretty confident.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: We'll see what he does.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He is the MVP he is, and he got this
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: thing done.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And for anyone that's been criticizing Mike Johnson, you're just wrong,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: all right, like you are just wrong.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson did one hell of a job here.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Steve Scalise also talking about this bill getting passed.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Here is what he had to say.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Track again, But we were never deterred when this bill
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: could have failed ten times over. We said we were
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: going to get this done and failure is not an option,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: and we meant it. We knew we were fighting for
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: the families who had been struggling for way too long
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: under the failed policies of Joe Biden and all the
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Democrats who did have control of Washington for too long.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: We watched higher interest rates and higher inflation and lower
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: wages and a demise of the American dream that we
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: knew should not be permanent, but was only going to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: turn around if we passed a bill to get.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: America back on track.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: We knew we had to prevent a massive tax increase,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: so we put it in the bill. We knew we
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: needed to secure America's border, as President Trump ran on
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: all across this country and won the election on and
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: we put it in this bill. We ran on and
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: said we would produce more American energy, and.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We put it in this bill. All the things that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: We knew we needed to do to root at waste,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: fraud and abuse, and government focus on those families who
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: were struggling.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: All of that is in this one big, beautiful bill.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And yes, now the House has come together and passed
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: this bill against all odds, but we're still working on
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: the rest of the process still goes to the Senate.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Senate has a lot of work to do too. That's
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: why we've been talking to the Senate for a long time.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: But it's their turn to take this bill and move forward.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: But I'll tell you, none of this would be possible
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: without the leadership for President Trump, who every step of
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: the way, not only laid out the vision, ran a
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: campaign on this vision, but every step of the way too,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: said whatever you need, let me know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Steve Salice, the House Majority leader, saying whatever you need,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: We're on board with this.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Backing the president.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: A major victory for America and American families. Well done
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: by the housekins done. Now it's going to move on
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to the Senate. I want to move to another story,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and this one is obviously a tragic story, a shooting
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: that occurred outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, d C.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I was literally in front of this building just a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: few days ago when I was in DC and had
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: been to Evince there as well, which is I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the most surreal and shocking part of this anti Semitic killing.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Clearly that's what it was.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: What's even more discussing is the fact that Democrats are
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: refusing to condemn the deaths of these two Israeli Embassy
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: staff members. The couple had just attended a young diplomat's
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee. They were leaving
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the event around nine h eight pm Eastern. The suspect,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a thirty year old from Chicago, approached a group of
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: four individuals and opened fire with a handgun, faintly wounding
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: two of those that he was targeting.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: The shooter was observed pacing outside the museum prior to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the attack, and after the shooting, he entered the museum
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: appearing distressed, leading bystanders to initially mistake him for a victim.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: He was even given water and comforted until he revealed
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: himself as the shooter, at which point he was attained
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: by security personnel. Now, during the arrests, the individual shouted, free,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: free Palestine.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I did this for Gaza, is what he said. Now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The victims were a couple in their late twenties. They
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: worked in the embassy's political department and in public diplomacy.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: They were actually planning to become engaged during an upcoming
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: trip days away in Jerusalem, and apparently he had already
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: bought the ring. Authorities are investigating the incident as a
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: targeted act of violence with potential hate crimes implications, as
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: it should. The FBI and local law enforcement are examining
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the man's background, including his online activities and any possible
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: connections to extremist group. Now, the attack has widely been
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: condemned by leaders in the United States and Israel. President
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Trump described the killings as based obviously on anti Semitism
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: quote unquote, and called for an end to such hatred.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Israel's Prime Minister.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Net Yahoo also denounced the act, linking it to the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: rise of anti Semitic sentiment and ordering increased security at
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide. Now, this incident has also heightened
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: concerns about the safety of Jewish communities and institutions in
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: this country, as we are witnessing anti Semitic rhetoric and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: violence that is spilling out. What's even I think more
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: damning to the Democratic Party and there should be no
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: place for this in the Democratic Party. Yet there is
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: is the fact that Elama Mar of the Democratic Party
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: refuse to condemn the killing of the Israeli diplomats. It
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: is despicable, is how the White House described it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: I do you or President tomp have a message to
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: politicians like Ilhan Omar who believe this morning explicitly avoided
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: condemning this active terror. It's despicable and frankly, we have
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: seen a rise in anti Semitic protests of pro Hamas
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: protests of terrorist sympathizers. We saw them on our college campuses,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: and we've seen the Democrat Party turn a blind eye
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: and in some cases actually embrace such anti Semitic illegal behavior.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: And that's why this administration has done more than any
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: administration in history to crack.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Down on anti Semitism.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: As you know, in January when the President took office,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: he signed a new executive order to combat anti Semitism.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: He created a commission focused on doing just that. The
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Justice Department announced their task force as well. The Secretary
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: of State Marco Rubio, has revoked thousands of student visas
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: from campuses where these pro palace pro Hamas, terrorist campus
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: agitators and violent protests took place. And we've also withheld
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: funding from those veried campuses as well in an effort
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: to combat anti Semitism. So the President's made it very
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: clear that such hatred will have no place.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: In our country. I love how clear the White House
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: is on this one.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I also want to play for you, and we now
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: have word the FBI's investigate in the DC shooting is
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: an act of targeted violence, is how they've described it
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: so far.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: After this young Jewish couple is brutally murdered.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: But I want you to year what was also said
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: on CNN.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: CNN apparently their main worry.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Isn't the safety of Jews, it's how the backlash might
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: affect anti Israel protesters. Yes, that's their actual angle on
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: this and the FBI investigation, as they had a witness
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that was there. They had them on TV this morning,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and again I want you to hear their narrative. It's
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: very clear their main worry is not the safety of Jews.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: After two Jewish individuals, this couple was brutally murdered, they're
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: worried how the backlash might affect anti Israel protesters, the
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: same ones calling for the death of Jewish people, the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: death of Israel from the river to the sea.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: We've seen this on college campuses.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: You cannot hide this level of anti semitism here, it
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: is in real life on CNN.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: As you go forward, as you go forward with what
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: you have seen, can you give us any sense because
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: you said you look the shooter in the eyes, can
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: you give us any sense of what you saw in
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: him as he was sort of getting help and people
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: were tending to him as if he too was a
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: victim of seeing this.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be clear.
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: I like heard about that part because we were in
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: the secure room when he initially walked in. I just
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: saw him screaming and then being handcuffed. But what I
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: saw in his eyes, I mean, I went to Columbia
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: for grads.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Go on.
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: I saw the same thing in his eyes as I
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: saw in the eyes of all the protesters at Columbia.
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: Nothing different between him and them.
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: But they did not create this horrific shooting. They did not,
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: you know, sort of, they didn't shoot.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: They created. They gave permission. They gave the permission.
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: They have called for this, They have called for it
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: to fought a revolution, which is the same thing he
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: yelled last night.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: Do you worry that there will be a come conslation though,
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: of the two, those people who are speaking their mind,
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: who really care about what is happening in Gaza, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: those people who are like this person who did this
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: horrific shooting, who intend to do harm a conflation.
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: I mean, they are calling for intifada at Columbia University.
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: They call for intifada constantly. Now they're not quietly, they're loud.
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: They're loud. You can hear it. They make recordings of themselves.
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: So what's the difference. Are you afraid? Yes, what We're
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: all afraid. Everyone should be afraid.
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: What are you doing to try to make yourself feel safer?
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: Well, can't you just go on and live your life?
• 28:37
  Speaker 12: I'm a New Yorker, I remember nine to eleven. You
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: can't let them make you be afraid.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You have to go on.
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: You have to live your life and hopefully your government
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: does things to protect you. Last night, our government failed us.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: Jonathan Epstein. I know that they are going forward with this.
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: There is expected to be charges in this case. We
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: will see what happens, but I know you'll be watching
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: and we'll talk to you again as this goes forward.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'm sorry that you have to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: witness what you did.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is shocking to hear CNN do this
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: interview this way where they're like, well, aren't you worried
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: about you know, what's going to happen to the protesters
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and their ability to like what world are you living in?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: And he's right. At Columbia University, they were calling for evatada.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: They were calling for the death of Jewish students in
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: pr This is what they had in their article, for example,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: and this is absolutely an excusable anti Semitic behavior by NPR.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: This is the reason why I'm in favor of defunding
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: NPR as soon as we possibly can. Their headline was,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: here's what we know about the two Israeli embassy staffers
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: killed in Washington, d C. Then in their second paragraph,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: it says, and more notably, as Israel ramps up it's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: offensive in Gaza, where the risk of famine looms for
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: a population ground down by a month's long blockade. That's
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: what they wrote in the second paragraph, right, like justifying
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: is what they're doing. They're justifying these types of attacks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: This is in PR in their own words, they're saying, yeah, well,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: you got to understand why this has happened, right, I mean,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: you look at defunding MPR. The American Jewish community is
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: not a pro Israel advocacy group is another way of
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: describing it. In this article, is an American Jewish community group.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: They know what they're doing with their lies. And here's
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: their headline to Israeli embassy aids are killed in a
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: shooting in DC. Officials say, okay, so then you move
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: the second part quote shortly after nine pm, as an
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: event by the Pro Israel Advocacy Group American Jewish Community
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: wrapped up at a local Jewish museum in downtown DC,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: A man was observed pacing back and forth outside of
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the building.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Metropolden police chief said, so, now, if.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: You're Jewish and you go to a Jewish event, you're
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: like a pro Israel advocacy group.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Are you insane?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: That's like, so if I'm an American and I go
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: to Fourth of July event, that what does that label
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: mean now? As it is insanity what we are witnessing
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: right now, it is total insanity. I got something really
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: fun that we get to do. And if you've got family, kids, grandkids,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: and you love going to a great movie, there is
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: one called The Last Rodeo. It is starring a phenomenal
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: actor Neil McDonough. It is in theaters tomorrow and The
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Last Rodeo celebrates the inspiring story of a veteran PBR
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: champion who returns to bull riding in his old age
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to save the life of his grandson. It features real
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: life PBR stars as well. Neil, I appreciate you coming on.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: A lot of people I know get excited because I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: see you in things like Yellowstone and Tulsa King you
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: just sort filming that today.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: But this movie Last, the Last Rodeo.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: We're gonna give away some tickets in the moment, so
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: stay tuned for that, everybody. But you're really excited about
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: this film coming out.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited about it, and Ben, thanks for having
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: me on your show first and foremost. But this is
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: one of those shows that's kind of the culmination of
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: everything I've worked towards in my whole career to be
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: able to finally be the hero in the film kiss
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the girl in the end. Of course, everyone knows that
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I won't kiss anybody else, but I get to kiss
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: my actual real life wife who plays my wife in
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: the film. So that alone for me is just I
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: finally have gotten to where I've always aspired and prayed
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: to be, and it feels so good to be in
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: this position.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: It's incredible, and we're gonna give away some tickets right now.
• 32:37
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• 32:41
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• 32:44
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• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to the last rodeo. Talk about this film, Neil and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: what the message is, what people can expect.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Well, it's you know, I think you just kind of
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: nailed it. There aren't many films out in the landscape
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: anymore where you can bring the whole family and not
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the saccer any sweet types of films, the films that
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: actually have a bite to it that the whole family
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: can go to, kids, grandparents, anyone and learn from and
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: know that that you know, I have to cover years
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: or eyes. You're gonna have some great films. You can
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: have great action with the bull riding, but you're gonna
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: have a story about families and broken families and how
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: are you men to fractured family? And for me, you
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: do it through faith. And when I went through all
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: my difficult things in life, it was always my faith
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: that got me through. Faith and my wife are may
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: those those two things have been my two greatest things
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: in my life. And now I get to write about
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: both of them, and starn and opposite my wife. So
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm so excited about this film it's hard
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: to even put it into words.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Then you talked about doing this with your wife, have
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: you guys ever gotten to act before in movies?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Or is this the first time? You're the leader?
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: And my wife's ever actually before? When I wrote the film,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: like okay, honey, so you know, I've always wanted to
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: be the John Wayne guy who you know is here
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: in the end who has to kiss the girl me
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: in She's like, yeah. I'm like, well, I'm finally gonna
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: do it. She's like, okay, but I need to do
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: it with you because I won't kiss anybody else. He goes,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not an actress. I'm like, well you are now.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And she did awesome. I'm so proud of her. You know,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: she was a runway model, she was a supermodel, so
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: she understands the pressure of being in front of people
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: and delivering. So for her in front of a camera,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: it was very natural and I'm just so happy. I'm
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: so happy for her now.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: When you wrote this, you also have real stars in
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: here as well that you that you mentioned a moment
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: ago PBR stars. What brought you the idea to even
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: write the script specifically with bull riding.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I've gone to a lot of different rodeos, eight Second Tour,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: et cetera. It is a brutal sport. What inspired you
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to use this as the backdrop?
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Ben?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I was doing another film at the time called The Warrants,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: another Western that Ravee and I are producing. And when
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: I'm not around Revenge, she was home at the time
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: with the kids. When I'm not around my family, I
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: get really just downright kind of depressed the times, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: it's really hard. I don't like being on the road.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: So but this one day, I was driving home from
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: set in Arizona, and I got gut punched with his
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: thoughts that what whatever happened to me, if something happened
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: to Rebee, And then I pulled over to the side
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: of the road just kind of buckled. And then this
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: other idea came in my head, which I it has
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: to be from God, because I didn't know a whole
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: lot about bull riding, and this idea came into my
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: head right rocking on a bowl, or a grandfather who
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: has to save his grandson because he's dying of the
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: same brain tunor they killed his wife. This came out
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know where that came from, but it
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: just did. And then I sat in the side of
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  Speaker 3: the ten freeway for two hours voice dictating into my
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  Speaker 3: phone because I'm dyslexic, so I'm not very good at writing,
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  Speaker 3: so I always do all my writing through voice dictations,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: And I sent it up to my writing partner and
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: within the week we had our first draft, and a
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: week later, Revey and I raised the financing and Angel
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Studios came on board, and here we are, almost two
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: years later, and it's just it's kind of miraculous, and
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  Speaker 3: there really is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned that there's a family friendly movie. You
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: don't have to worry. That's one of the reason why
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I wanted to have you on how tough is it
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to produce movies like this in the environment we're in now,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: because I know you had friends and people that you
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: could go to for financing, but saddling up to do
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: a pro bull riding movie and on top of having
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: all the pressure behind you of getting this out and
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: then getting it to the big screen, it's not an
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  Speaker 2: easy task, especially in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's you know, it's a minor miracle
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  Speaker 3: to pull any film off. But for this one, you know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: God led me the whole way. In this one. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: wanted John Abne to directed, and the amazing John Abnitt
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: and one incredible director, he is He killed it. I
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: wanted Michael T. Williamson and Christopher McDonald to play my
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: two guys in the film, and there two of my
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: best friends of life, and we went after you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: my one of my best friends back home, Lim Griffin
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: helped us with the film, and then these other financiers
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: came to me and said, hey, we know what you're doing.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: We really like what you're doing with your message and
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Angel Studios, we like to help finance your next film.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: So between those two parties, all of a sudden, we
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  Speaker 3: had our budget, we had distribution, and everything just kind
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: of went according to plan, which was kind of miraculous. Yeah,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: there's always pickups, there's there's always variables that you wouldn't
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: even think of, but we always knew that we weren't
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: doing something that was for his glory, not our own,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: and everyone bought into it. So when you say Hollywood
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: doesn't want that stuff, I think that in their heart
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: of hearts, they actually do. And I think that this
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: film was a whole lot easier to make than other
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: films because it did have a faith backdrop. It was
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: a film that the whole family can go too, you know.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: So I think I think the landscape is changing a
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: lot of it thanks to Angel Studios and you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: our partnership with Angel in the films that we've been doing.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: That you could make these smaller films and turn a profit,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: and that's great for everybody. And to be able to
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: put these movies out and have the support of all
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the fans who go to the films and buy ticket
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: and pay it forward anything we do with Angels, it's
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: just it's so humbling that it's again it's hard to
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: I get so choked up just thinking about how fortunate
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I am and blessed I am to be able to
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  Speaker 3: sit here on a show like this and talk about
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: this amazing film that we have coming out.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Last question for you, there's a rumor that you actually
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: got injured while bull riding.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Is this true?
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  Speaker 3: Which time?
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Okay? I I love when I get good intel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I got busted up a lot.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: We trained for months and months and months to make
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: sure I look as authentic as possible, and yeah, I
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: you know, busted up my wrists, my I busted a
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: few other things, but my shoulder popped out that hurt
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: like the Dickens, but I didn't tell anybody. I just
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: went around the corner and snapped it back in at
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: this barn, this door around the corner, and I popped
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: back in. I had like tears in my eyes, and
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: John's like yo, okay, I'm like yeah, I'm ready, let's roll.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: And I didn't tell him the story for three months
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: later because if I had told him, he would have
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: shut it down and every would have gone crazy, Like
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm a I'm a tough old dude, so
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I just look. I kept it to myself and a
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: couple other injuries that happened that hey, those are war
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: wounds that I consider as trophies and metals.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I love it well. The movie is out. Go see
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: it the Last Rodeo. It is in theaters. Help keep
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: it in theaters. Support great movies that have been green
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: light for your family. You can also get two free
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• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I tell you with this all the time, Neil. When
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: you see a movie that is made for your family,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: safe for your family, back it, support it, advocate for it,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: put it up on social media, because unfortunately we have
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: too much trash being made and not enough wholesome movies
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: like this. So I congrats on doing it, and I
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: hope everyone listening is gonna go check it out.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I hope.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: So I know your viewers who are you are kind
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: of people that you know if they're out there supporting
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: it by backing it financially, going to sin being there,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: not wait until it comes out on DVDs or anything else.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: It's telling Hollywood, it's exactly what you just said, Ben,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: we need more of this or less of the other.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: So thank you for putting that word up for me.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Hey man, be safe out there on the road. Always
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a pleasure. We'll talk to you in real soon.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: God bless you, pl thank you, thank you.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Go see the movie.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It is awesome, The Last Rodeo starring at Neil McDonald
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: in theaters. It opens at twenty third and you can
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• 40:29
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• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Put it up on social media.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Wherever you are, and we appreciate you listening every day.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: We'll see you back here tomorrow.