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Clay and Elsa Dissect the Week's Biggest Headlines and Controversies

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Clay and Elsa expose media manipulation tactics while addressing political violence, offering a balanced perspective on current events that challenge mainstream narratives.

• Debunking the falsely reported deportation of an MS-13 gang member with a valid deportation order from 2019
• Discussing the concerning rise in political violence from both sides, including the arson attack at Pennsylvania Governor's mansion 
• Presenting NTSB data showing aviation accidents have decreased, contrary to media portrayal
• Examining the Blue Origin all-female space mission and its inspirational potential despite celebrity focus
• Analyzing Megyn Kelly's criticism of Kristi Noem's appearance during ICE operations
• Breaking down Zelensky's unopposed 60 Minutes interview and its carefully crafted messaging
• Reviewing political accountability across military and government positions
• Celebrating achievements like Lt. Gabrielle White's historic completion of the Best Ranger Competition

For Clay's exciting announcement: The sequel to "Keep Moving, Keep Shooting" titled "Cross to Bear" will be released July 4th, with a second edition of his first novel coming in May.


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Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Hey friends, hey Clay, How's it going?

Speaker 3:

I'm good, I'm back from the Sunshine State, lovely Florida. Got to jump out of the plane again, so you know me, life's good, I'm a happy camper.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. Yeah, we're like kind of tapping out. You know we're just crossing paths here. You just got back. I leave tomorrow to go see my grandbabies. So yes, we both get a little Florida sunshine. Sorry for anybody who's not having a lovely spring right now. I'm not. I'm on the East Coast. Here Our spring is, you know, it's a New England spring.

Speaker 3:

It is what it is. Yeah, Midwest is holding weird sixties, but I think by Friday 80. So maybe maybe mother nature's coming around.

Speaker 2:

Come on now. She's got to do it for us. Let's go.

Speaker 3:

We got a lot to talk about, yeah.

Speaker 2:

So much, we're going to do it. We're going to get through it, all Right.

Speaker 3:

Okay, All right, Well, we'll roll through it. I think this will be a. This will be a great show for the audience. Lots, lots to talk about, Yep, and we'll get started right after this when we stay. Folks Clay Novak here, author of the novel keep shooting. So what I've got here is the boo-boo 2.0 basic first aid kit. This is the one that you throw in your glove box. Throw in. It's got band-aids, antiseptic wipes, those kinds of things for scrapes and cuts and some more significant. There is a tourniquet in here, but BooBoo 2.0, this is the kit that you need all the time. Again, refugemedicalcom you can find it there. Use the discount code KMKS at checkout. Get yourself 10% off. Refuge Medical. Not only buy their equipment, but get their training.

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Speaker 2:

Well then I mean, I just got caught looking at my phone here, can you see? No, no. So I just tattletaled on myself. I'm looking because, like one of those breaking news things came up. And you know, anytime that happens I'm like a trained, I'm like pavlov's dog, you know, I see breaking news, I'm like I have to look at it. They need to stop, because it's not always breaking news, but they do it because they know people like me are gonna be like what, um, I will, and nothing too dramatic okay yeah, nah but no, that's a good prompt.

Speaker 3:

Tuesday yeah, 4.30 on the East Coast. Tuesday is when we're recording this week. Again, elsa's traveling tomorrow, so we're recording a little bit early, but it's Tuesday.

Speaker 2:

And we are well aware so much could happen between this moment and Thursday evening when you guys watch the show. So please don't come yelling at us in the comments. Come on now, be kind, be kind, be kind. We've got stuff to do, but we want to also hang out with you guys and share what's going on during the past week. So that's right. I mean, that's kind of what it is. We're kind of doing the review so you don't have to watch all of the news and read all of the things, like we're just wrapping it all up in a clay and Elsa bow for you. He's knocking it out. That's right. That's right. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2:

Well, we could start right off the bat with this one. This was a. This one, boy, oh boy. This one makes my blood boil.

Speaker 2:

I mean, what doesn't make my blood boil when it comes to reading and watching mainstream media? The alphabet stew of media organizations that just take a big fat lie and run with it. And this is kind of woven in throughout probably almost every topic, right? I mean, I'm looking at the side here with all our topics listed and it's kind of a theme all around. So if you haven't heard and depending, of course, where you're hearing things from. So, if you haven't heard, and depending, of course, where you're hearing things from, there was a false claim of a Salvadorian migrant illegal alien mistakenly deported, which has been loudly, clearly, emphatically debunked by the Trump administration. And I know that there are people who go oh well, the Trump administration debunked it. No, don't believe it. I mean, we don't care what you believe or not, there is truth and then there's your feelings. This is the truth, right, and we can have it right from what's his name? Stephen Miller, stephen Miller's mouth, right here.

Speaker 1:

Importation order that was valid, which meant that under our law he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation. This issue was then by a district court judge, completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither secretary of state nor the president could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of MS-13.

Speaker 2:

So now, at the beginning of that, president Trump was very President Trump and calling out CNN and basically, you know, I forget exactly what he said, but the nutshell of it is, oh, you're a bunch of big fat liars and you make stuff up, but you know, here's the truth for you. And, um, yeah, and there was a lot more to that.

Speaker 3:

Actually, if you need to see the whole clip, you can find it very easily and he, you know, really spelled out the whole progression of of what happened, right, yeah, and and we talked about this very briefly last week, but I mean, that was a great, very, very clear explanation and was a little bit hard at the beginning to understand is that guy has had a deportation order since 2019.

Speaker 3:

Right, this is not like something that just happened three months ago or just since President Trump was elected. That order has been in place through the entire Biden administration until now, so it finally got enforced. And was he here on a green card? Yes, or a visa? Yes, he was here for at least a portion of the time, but he's been on since 2019. He has been on that deportation order, which invalidates any visa or any green card that he had at the time. So he's been here illegally for six years and now it's time to go and he's gone. And you know this district court and again, this is a trend that's going on is these guys you know they pretend they're playing checks and balances as a judiciary, which they're not and and stepping in and saying, oh no, we got to bring this guy back, we have to bring him back to running through the judicial system here? No, absolutely not.

Speaker 2:

Right and you know. So the part that that really yanks my chain is when I look at I go against my rules and I look in the comments section. So I posted this video, along with my own little commentary, on my social media platforms and, as expected, there were people you know, illegal alien sympathizers jumping in the commentators. Well, you're completely wrong and that's not true at all and you know the Trump administration is lying and that whole thing is a lie. So here's the thing this, the, the, the president of El Salvador, el Salvador, was sitting there confirming all of this. You're going to tell me? You're going to tell me he's wrong, like you know better. You sitting on your couch with your Cheetos I mean, I don't know what you're doing really, but like, come on now, let's just stop being stupid. If you want a MS-13, these are rapist murderers. They are truly evil, bad people. If you want them to stay here, so bad, have them stay at your house. Not going to be my problem, come on now.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean designated as a terrorist organization, right. Right, because of the, the violent criminal activity. You know that's involved in what they do and this guy was clearly a part of it, and you know you're right. There are people that will say that this is, you know, this is wrong and this is this and this is that. My bigger question on top of all of this is this you know, lower level judge, when you're overturned by the Supreme Court 9-0, not a single one of those judges dissented not one. When you're overturned 9-0, there's a problem with that judge. Right, there should be some sort of judicial review process for that individual that says you're clearly misinterpreting the law. When the entire Supreme Court of the United States looks at you and says it's not a 6-3, it's not even a 7-2 or even an 8-1, a 9-0, that guy, that judge, is a problem and there should be some review process for this because clearly, he or she and I'm fairly confident it's a he is not interpreting the law, the we would all expect a judge to do, right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and, by the way, the so Stephen Miller said that the DOJ saboteur as he called them, that is essentially like leaked this false information to the media. He's a Democrat aligned DOJ lawyer. He is now fired, he is gone, he's done. Yeah, so they got rid of him and that's what needs to happen. And I want to see if there's a criminal act, obviously if there was something criminal. But I'm tired of them just getting a little bit of a spank and sent on their way. I'm really done with that and I think everybody is really done with that. We're really ready to see some more consequence to the actions of these people, and that goes high up on that chain as well as low down. Talking about these judges. Enough already, enough, we're done. We're done with the BS. It's time to have some serious accountability here on these things.

Speaker 3:

Well, and Pam Bondi said it a couple of weeks ago Listen, if you're an attorney general and you are not fully in support of the government of the United States, you work for the Department of Justice, the Attorney General's office you're going to get fired. That's all there is to it. And for those of you that aren't tracking, this goes beyond just DOJ and Secretary of State and those kinds of things. So the uh, the commander of the U S base in Greenland, female Colonel from the space force, um yeah. So she refused to.

Speaker 3:

In every you know military unit in the country and around the world U S military unit, it has a board on the wall that has the chain of command starts with the president, goes to the SEC, goes to the service secretary, goes to the you know the chief of staff of that service probably has a chairman on there, and then all the way down to whatever local level you've got the commander refused to put the president on the chain of command board, refused to put the secretary of defense on the chain of command board, their photos and then, in the wake of Vice President Vance's visit to Greenland, she was sending out emails to local partners, to people, I think, within the NATO chain of command and specifically, you know, local politicians or national level politicians in Greenland saying don't worry about anything that he says, you know, basically usurping everything about it.

Speaker 3:

They fired her. She has been relieved of command, which is good and that's the way that it should be One. You know military officers should be apolitical apolitical a hundred percent because you have a chain of command that changes every few years.

Speaker 3:

So you remain apolitical, purposefully. But two, that's treason. Oh, by the way, when you're insubordinate to the president of the United States and the vice president of the United States and the secretary of defense, you cannot expect anybody who serves under you to not also be insubordinate to you. There's no way that you can enforce that level of discipline. So they fired her appropriately. So so these kinds of things are spanning beyond, just, you know, the civilian side of the military or the civilian side of the government, right? So, um, you know, like you said that, uh, whoever that saboteur I love that word.

Speaker 2:

I love that word too.

Speaker 3:

Whoever that was got fired appropriately, so. But you're starting to see those things around the, you know, across all, all facets of the government, which is a good thing.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it is Just out of curiosity, randomly, what happens when somebody is relieved of their duties like that. If you're on your job, I guess you can contest it. Does that ever happen? Or they just generally? Is there a resource for them?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, there's a series of review boards. So usually what happens is there's a suspension, there's an investigation and then there's a series of review boards. So usually what happens is there's a suspension, there's an investigation and then there's, you know, a relief for cause and then your evaluation basically says you have been relieved for whatever reason. They determine it is through the investigation. But at that point, especially at a senior level, they will actually go through a review of your conduct of service. So if they think it's severe enough, like her conduct was severe enough, they could go back and actually prosecute her under Uniform Code of Military Justice, reduce her in rank. Potentially there's a lot of recourse that could happen in there for her. Probably what will happen is she was fired, she will get you know, retired immediately and be sent away and she'll be done. Her career is over with one way or the other. But she may just, you know, be packing her bags and really on her way home from Greenland, you know, probably stop by Washington DC to sign out and then go into her civilian life.

Speaker 2:

Washington DC to sign out and then go into her civilian life. Wow, well, it is great across the board to see the consequences to the actions. I mean you're seeing it with. You know everything from college universities that are refusing to, you know, change their DEI policies and all of those things. You're seeing the consequences. You know funding being withheld and these, of course, all of those things. You're seeing the consequences. You know funding being withheld and these, of course, these judges and military leaders that are not toeing the line and doing their damn job.

Speaker 3:

I mean, there's another one yeah, I'm guilty of looking at my phone too. Top advisor to Secretary Hags at Dan Caldwell, placed on administrative leave by Department of Defense for unauthorized disclosure of information amid an investigation into pentagon leaks oh, so again same thing.

Speaker 3:

So he leaked information and I don't know exactly what it is looks like he, you know he let some people know some things they weren't supposed to know and now he's been put on administrative leave and he will probably be. Um, yeah, national security information, you know, know, blah, blah, blah. So listen they're. They're holding folks accountable pretty quick, like yes.

Speaker 2:

And with this administration in particular, because there are so many bad actors who try and sneak their way in or have already snuck their way in, that they have to be rooted out. You know, essentially immediately, because they, you know, are that word that we like again, so many saboteurs that want this administration to fail. And you know what a disgrace that, at the sake of your country. It's just mind blowing to me and disgusting, and I'd love to see them all locked up for it. It's treason, it's traitorous, it's disgusting and unacceptable.

Speaker 3:

And so we've got, unfortunately, on both sides of the aisle. Shifting to a new topic, we've got some political violence going on and again, you and I have talked about this multiple times there's no excuse for this in any way, shape or form. Whether you look at the Tesla stuff with Musk, no matter what it is, there's an uptick in political violence and we had a bit of it the other night in Pennsylvania. Yeah, for those of you that haven't seen this, the man arrested his name is Cody Balmer. He's 38 years old, from Harrisburg, pa, but he jumped the fence to the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania, made some homemade incendiary devices and while governor Shapiro and his family were in the residence, he lit the place on fire and there is some serious damage to the dining room. There's a piano, the section of the house. Thankfully, the Harrisburg Fire Department was spot on and they had it together. They saved the rest of the mansion, but millions of dollars of damage and they arrested this guy. They don't quote, unquote, they don't know his motivation, but listen, you jump in.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, his motivation was. He said I hate the guy.

Speaker 3:

Now the fear, though, is Governor Shapiro is Jewish, and it was the first night of a holiday, right, so it could be a hate crime. In that sense, they think it's more politically motivated, but it could be either or or, it could be both, but regardless, folks, we've been talking about this for months now. This kind of stuff, the rhetoric from all of our leadership's got to stop, because that's what motivates this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and again, disgraceful to me and such a sad reflection of the times in the world that we're in the assassination attempt of President Trump well, he wasn't president yet at that time. Two, two attempts that should have been. We talk about this often on the podcast because it is such a prevalent issue the mental health, a decline of mental health in people that is fueled by media, by the politicians, all of these things and that are leading these people to believe that it's okay to do these things, because they kind of believe they have this free reign to go buck wild, because that's what they've been doing for so long now. But still, really, shame on them, shame on the media and that's such a weak term. I mean it's more than shame on there. It's so bad, it's criminal what they're doing and they're inciting in people. And, yeah, it's.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, listen, folks, this is most likely. If it's not a crime related to Governor Shapiro being Jewish, then this is a political crime, conservative against a liberal. He's a democratic governor, so it is a politically motivated crime, right? You know, this is not Elsa and I bashing this is, you know, one side. This is a conservative. Right? This is wrong. I don't care what color it is, red or blue, I don't care if you're an elephant or a donkey. It's wrong. Right, but it's the. It's the narratives that are out there. And there was a young man too name not released, I don't think, because he's 17, who, I don't know, if you saw this, killed his parents. Yes, part of a potential assassin, and I don't know how it's all interwoven, but a potential assassination plot against President Trump.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Listen, people don't, you know. Some people do come up with these ideas just out of some craziness, but you know everything that's out there, whether it's by political leadership or whether it's by the, you know, the media.

Speaker 2:

this stuff's got to stop, I mean just the narratives, that all of the rhetoric has just got to come to an end. Yeah, yeah, and it's so orchestrated. You know the, the phrasing, the terms that they use. And you know some people people with you know the phrasing, the terms that they use. You know, some people with you know much more ability and time on their hands than we have have made these compilations of these videos of these leaders and media personalities repeating the same mantras over and over again, which is, you know, fight, we don't let them rest. You know, don't, don't back down. We have to fight, we have to fight, and it's, it's this.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, interrupt their dinners, you know, stop them in the street, all of these things, and they are literally calling for violence. They are. It's their dog whistle for mental, mentally ill people who are, who perk right up at that and think they're being spoken directly to like, oh, you want me to go, do that? Okay, and there they go, and there's a lot more under. That's such a bland way of really saying what's going on. We know that actually runs a lot deeper than that.

Speaker 2:

We've loosely talked about the CIA and some of the things they've done with the past assassination attempts and it's a ugly, scary, underbelly for sure, and we're all suffering for it, like we're all paying the price of that. You know, and this is, of course, just another example and I'm so glad, clay, that you, you know, pointed that out, because a lot of times, because we are a conservative show people will make people on the left in particular, will make the assumption that we don't hold the right to the same standard, to which we'd say BS. We absolutely do. It's, it's unacceptable, no matter what side of the aisle you're on. Um, resorting to violence is never, never, okay at all.

Speaker 3:

No, that's not how our process works and, yes, it's become way too commonplace in a number of ways and for a number of reasons, incited by a number of people, and it's all got to stop because we're probably we are approaching a tipping point where it's going to escalate to the point where we can't stop it or won't stop it, and that's, you know, that'll be the downfall of this whole thing. I don't know how far away that is, but we've got to get things under control now, before it gets high end.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Speaking of things that seem to be out of control, clay.

Speaker 3:

Listen, I owe you on this one, I do so. Folks, I fell victim to all the stuff that we're talking about Right. Everything in the in the mainstream media has painted this awful picture about aircraft accidents, you know in the United States, and how they're out of control, and you know there's massive numbers and it just feels that way. Right, we had a helicopter crash in Hudson, you know, and et cetera, et cetera, and I was like man, what is going on with all of this? My girl saved me, right?

Speaker 2:

Elsa posted just yesterday or yeah, let me take the banner off of there. There we go.

Speaker 3:

These are the numbers of aircraft plane accidents by calendar year from the NTSB. We're not making this up. This is the National Transportation Safety Board. Right, look at the number we are down. I don't know how everybody. You felt the same way too, though, didn't you Like?

Speaker 2:

absolutely, absolutely. It felt like. It feels like every time you turn around, a plane or a helicopter is crashing or there's some critical, scary, dangerous, terrifying incident that happens and crisis real crisis is averted. But yeah, I have felt like every time you turn on the news, there is a new accident and something is going on right, like that's what they keep, that's the line they get. Something's going on. You know what is it? No, it's the fact that there are. You know? I don't know that. I wish I did know the number of how many flights collectively there are in a day's time, you know? So you have these like statistical probabilities of what's going to happen. And, no matter what, at the end of the day it's always that automobile access.

Speaker 2:

Not that we want to make anyone scared of anything. I mean, life is just life. Human error is just human error. Weather is just weather. Things can happen because life is life right, happen because life is life Right. But, yeah, but the perception has been that this has been something that is out of control and something must be done. Like what are you going to ground all the flights we all got to? You know? Walk, because everything is dangerous. No, here is, you know. Here's some proof that it's. It is no worse, certainly, and it's obviously less bad than it's been so crazy right.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and so I again. You know, don't believe everything you hear. That's a great right, All the proofs right there. Don't believe what you hear. Do your research, do your homework. I fell victim to it, but that picture was definitely painted across all of the media outlets and social media to make you feel like there's been this massive uptick in aviation accidents since President Trump took over. Truthfully and really there's been a fairly significant downturn, which is good to know.

Speaker 3:

But yeah statistically, it's still much more dangerous to drive a car than it is to get in an airplane Right.

Speaker 2:

And that's not to downplay the, the incident and the loss of life. I mean really really tragic, crazy accidents, the, the the Hudson River helicopter crash, that one that went to me watching that video was so shocking in that like it fell apart like a toy right, like the tail fell off, the back end fell off, the rotor came flying off, like it just broke apart like a child's toy and that, to me, was so horrifying to even imagine.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, um, you know, having spent, having spent hundreds of hours riding around in helicopters and not and not a pilot at all. I'm just spent a lot of time being a passenger, you know, and having a lot of good friends who are pilots, you know they're. They're a freak of nature Like you. You can, you can show me all the physics and all the math and everything else, and I love riding in them.

Speaker 3:

But you know, the thing about a helicopter is, while it's in the air, if something goes wrong with those two moving rotors, the top and then the tail, you know, if something goes wrong with one of those two, the potential for a rotor to hit another part of the aircraft is fairly significant. So that's when you start having things like what you said, which is, you know, when it strikes the other, the tail of the aircraft, and then the aircraft breaks apart, like those kinds of things. Yeah, it's not like a jet, you know airliner, where an engine is enclosed and you know, maybe it's on fire, but generally, you know you don't have parts flying out, kind of thing. So but anyway it's, it's better than it seems. Folks Don't be swayed by the media. It is better than it seems, for sure.

Speaker 2:

Let me tell you, yeah, and you know, of course, the it it did. I don't want to say it freaked me out, because it feels kind of absurd to freak out over anything really at this point, right, but yeah, I mean, I can definitely admit, you know, getting ready to fly out tomorrow, and you know I travel every month to go see the grandkids and you know, yes, the more you travel, the more you're the right, the the odds start to stack against you, you know. So, yeah, it does get in your head a bit, but then the flip side of it is they just have to, you have to live, you have to do the things that you do, and, and you can't, you can't um function in fear of everything. You can acknowledge it, that it's there and that that it's real, um, but don't, don't let it stop you. And, and I and I think really like the biggest lesson really is is the one you said, clay, like, don't believe everything. You requestion everything. Do your own research, and that includes when you listen to us. Don't take everything we have to say as the letter of the law. Go look it up, question it, doubt it and then come back and tell us that we were right. Make sure you do that, Okay. But yeah, you know, you just you have to.

Speaker 2:

And now with Clay and I talked it off air a little bit and I think we mentioned it even last week, talked a little bit about AI chat. For me, chat GPT especially, in particular, that's. That's kind of the one I go to for stuff. But you know, learn how to use it, learn how to input prompts and questions and get the answers. It can find them in seconds, seconds, mere seconds. You can get the answers to your questions and you know, and a little segue, you can also do really fun things with with chat GPT, like this I mean, come on, how cute is that?

Speaker 2:

And yes, you guys are going to ask I know in the comments you're going to say why is there a dog there? You guys don't have a dog on this show. It's because I think my chat GPT got so sick and tired of me repeatedly asking it for refinements, like number one. I wanted that sucker to make my face a little thinner. I mean rude, but it got tired of me and it put this dog in. So now we have a dog mascot, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

So, yes, so you can. Actually, you know you can use it for really useful things, Um, or you can just have some fun with it. I, I can promise you I use it for incredibly useful thing. I have a million in one questions a day that I must have the answer to, and so you know, if I ever showed you the like, a screenshot of my, I actually have a, a folder, a prompt folder, called random questions, and I asked chat GPT a million random questions a day and I need it all explained. I tell it to bullet point the answer for me, you know. So, just in case one person ever asks me, I will have all of this information. So, yes, long winded way of saying. Oh, don't believe everything. You read just or hear, or read or see. Find out for yourself, right?

Speaker 3:

But is it? But is it safe to travel 11 minutes into space?

Speaker 2:

And oh, my goodness, oh, I have so many feelings about this Clay, so many feelings. So I mean, first, right off the bat, I know I have the picture, here we go. We got the picture. Here is the crew of Blue Origin, the all-female crew of Blue Origin origin, um Gail King, uh, what's her name? Lauren Sanchez, Katie Perry and, um, I don't know who everybody else is at, the two people or who is that other person? I know? Two people on there are the actual rock stars of this whole thing operated the space.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, the actual people with the actual qualifications which are really, really impressive. I'll find them and and, um, I'll tell you what they are. But, um, the whole thing is is okay. Again, mixed feelings on this. So some cool things about it. Um, it is the first of its kind since Valentina Tereshkova's I think I just got that right Tereshkova's solo mission in 1963. For that alone very exciting, very cool and it's right. Let's see what else. So the crew members let me just talk about the crew members. Aisha Bowe she's a Bahamian American aerospace engineer and former NASA rocket scientist.

Speaker 3:

She's awesome, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2:

Come on. She's the founder and CEO of STEM Board. It's a tech company focused on STEM education. She's received multiple awards for her contributions to aerospace engineering and her advocacy for underrepresented communities in STEM. So hello right.

Speaker 3:

Thank you.

Speaker 2:

She's a civil rights activist, nobel Peace Prize nominee, founder of RISE, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights of sexual assault survivors. She has passed, or she was a significant part in the passage of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act. Um, these are very accomplished, amazing, fascinating women who, in my opinion, should have really been put front of stage for this. You know, um, that would have been nice. Now the flip side, and I think I'm going to take a spin that maybe, maybe wouldn't expect, or maybe people watching wouldn't expect I at first was rolling my eyes in contempt and annoyance about the celebrity factor, in particular Katy Perry. Um, and really, just like, come on, you know, we're going to like glam this all up and make this some you know, kind of silly thing that you're doing.

Speaker 2:

And then I really I paused and I gave it some more thought and I was like you know what the reality in this world is? That young girls are not watching women like Aisha Bowe on television and buying her books and doing that. They are watching people like Katy Perry and they are admiring them and looking up to them. And you know, you're I mean, I don't know so much about Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez. But they have celebrity young people. Young girls like celebrity. So if they're going into space and doing this whole thing gets a young girl to say you know what? I would like to go into space, let me figure, let me find out how I could get, take the steps to beance by the theatrics and the show, you know. So we talked before about Katy Perry. What'd she do? Again, she did something obnoxious.

Speaker 2:

You said something about her with like a daisy or something Like a daisy holding up to the sky 11 minutes of suborbital flight.

Speaker 3:

You know she came out and she kissed Mother Earth. You know when she got back on the ground. Listen.

Speaker 3:

I'm, you know, for all of those folks out there, the thing that irritates me is that, with all of the you know, attention that this thing has gotten, what was lost in the media was an amazing accomplishment by an amazing young woman. This past weekend was something called the Best Ranger Competition, held down at Fort Benning, georgia. I think this is like the 41st or 42nd year they've been doing this and, for those that aren't familiar, this is a competition for two-person teams that goes for about 72 hours and it is absolutely grueling. This is like ultimate race, you know, like super ultra marathon kind of stuff over three days. It is obstacle courses, it's jumping out of planes, it's swimming, it's running, it's carrying a heavy pack, it's, you know, navigating at night, it's shooting, it's all of these amazing things and it's nonstop. Very few breaks over 72 hours. Ok, 52 two person teams started this 52. When Sunday morning rolled around between teams that had quit or teams that had fallen so far out of competition, they cut it down to 16. Okay, and 16, 16 teams made it through Sunday morning. It's kind of like golf, right, but you know, 16 teams finished the 14th plate. And listen, finishing alone is an incredible achievement. The 14th place team had the very first female competitor to ever compete and she finished.

Speaker 3:

And her name is Lieutenant Gabrielle white. She's stationed at Fort Benning, georgia, and that, right there. The fact that she finished not that she even started or competed is amazing. Her level of physical fitness she could take and everybody's talking about Hegseth and SecDef and doing PT with units she would drag him through the mud Like she. He couldn't keep up with her if he tried. Right so that, that, right there. That's the story that should be in the news. Truth, sorry. If you want a great accomplishment by a great female, that's the one. Uh, gabrielle white best ranger competition 2025, fort Benning, georgia. Look it up. Um, she is an amazing human being. My hat's off to her.

Speaker 2:

That's awesome. That's so cool. Yeah, and if, if you know anybody's like me, I know plenty of you've been out there and you did that warrior dash or I think there's like a couple. There's a whole bunch of other ones. That's the one. I did many years, yeah, all of those things.

Speaker 2:

Take that, put it on steroids, multiply it by a thousand and maybe you know so, yeah, so, comparing those things is crazy, crazy, crazy. Yeah, there, you know, I mean again, super cool for them. Uh, you know what a wonderful experience that they got to have. Um, you know, happy for them, happy that they yeah, oh, my goodness, you weren't kidding.

Speaker 2:

Um you know, yeah, yeah, I mean happy that, um, that, something like this, you know, even done, very cool and all that. Just, I don't know Certain aspects, I just kind of wish they were different. But if we were in a different world maybe they would be different and the focus would have been put otherwise. But because we are a superficial society myself included, by the way, I'm not knocking anybody. I mean, I don't come on this show or make my videos without you know, without my hair done and some makeup on all those things. So I totally get you know, cause I know there was a lot of criticism over the, the, the very tailored, styled space suits, to make sure, everybody in the glam picture there we saw the glam picture, we'll look at it again you know, know, everybody's got full makeup airbrushed. You know, form-fitting suits posed perfectly all that stuff. But again, the flip side of that is well, what do you want them to do? Everybody just sit back, you know, and kind of like slouch back in the baggy.

Speaker 3:

You know, whatever it is what it is, I mean, evidently you can take it too far and and what you can do is you can piss off megan ke and she can turn all girls on Kristi Noem, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, my girl Meg, our girl Meg you love her too, right. Yeah, I am a fan, I am a huge fan and I actually it kind of like it made me like break out in a little bit of sweat to criticize her really, but it really didn't sit right. So we do have it.

Speaker 6:

So here's what she said Ice agent, and she, of course, is doing it with like 25 pounds of hair, only to be outdone by her 30 pounds of makeup and false eyelashes. There's no false eyelashes on an ice raid. Stop trying to glamorize the mission and put yourself in the middle of it as you cosplay ice agent, which you're not. I can't stand these photo ops, you guys. I think they diminish ICE. They diminish DHS CPB. She's not an agent. She is an administrative policy person appointed by Trump because she was very loyal to him. Fine, but stop with the glam. I mean, she looks like I look right now, but she's out in the field with her gun, being like we're going to go kick some ass. No one wants you there.

Speaker 2:

So I mean, you know. So, in in the full clip, Megan acknowledged, agreed and seemed to believe that Kristi Noem is doing a great job at her job. What she took offense to was the glam, the full makeup, the hair, the, this, the that, the all of the things. And that was the part that I and apparently a lot of other people were like hang on, hold up, is this what we're doing? Is this what we're doing? We're going after each other's looks, now Like come on, come on, why do you care if she's in full makeup, why do you care if she's got extensions, if she's got lashes on all of those things? I am personally against attacking women, attacking other women for their appearances, and I know somebody's going to jump in and say hang on, you make fun of Kamala Harris all the time. That was like part of your big shtick.

Speaker 2:

For as long as she was in office, I made fun of her job performance. I didn't make fun of her laugh. I made fun of the fact that she laughed inappropriately at things. Just because I can copy the way that she laughs. I don't know what you want from me. I apparently I laugh like that anyhow, according to other people. So you know it's the whole. It didn't make sense, right, clay it, it's so you're okay with her. Your your job performance right, clay it, it's so you're okay with her. Your your job performance check you're doing great, but I don't. I'm gonna go after you because I don't like the way you look is kind of what it came down to. You know she's mad about the photo ops how do you feel about?

Speaker 3:

it. It was very. You know you, I said this before and you kind of laughed at me. It was very. You know, on wednesday you're pink, oh it's okay, coolness, so we'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 5:

On wednesdays, we wear pink. It was very. You know, on Wednesdays we wear pink. Oh, it's okay, coolness, so we'll see you tomorrow. On Wednesdays, we wear pink.

Speaker 3:

It was very mean girls. I love that. You said that I have a couple of daughters. Yeah, you know it's like that. I did that. But you know, the reality is some of the things that Megan said were true.

Speaker 3:

Okay, and, as somebody who's been both a commander and you know, and at that level of execution, a boss at the wrong place, the wrong time can be very disruptive to an operation. Ok, you know, anytime she shows up that there is a level of distraction that comes with it because, because she is the boss, right, the photo op is there. You know, you know those those kinds of things can be disruptive. But I'm willing to bet that whatever she did, whenever that was taken, whenever that was filmed it was either well before or well after an operation was complete she was not standing outside of a house that they were about to kick the door in and filming that thing. That's not how that happened.

Speaker 3:

I know a lot of people went after Kristi Noem because she was standing there, kind of a port arms kind of a thing, and people are like, oh well, she's pointing the barrel at the guy next to her. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, anybody who's been in the military and stood in formation with weapons. We do that stuff all the time. If the chamber's clear and we do all the normal safety stuff, it is what it is. But so people are going to find reasons to pick at her. Here's reality. She's there like she's actually there. She's on the scene, she is. Is she providing tactical oversight? No, but her being there makes it important, makes it important to the agents. It makes them feel supported. Right, yeah, hey, we, hey, we're about. You know, we, we just ran an operation or we're about to run an operation, and the boss is here Like that's a big deal, and sure Is there a level of like man, I wish you know if some agent was, if this is like the fourth time that some guy or gal has been on an operation and like, oh, christy Noem's here again. They're like, oh, my God, would she just go back to the office. But for most folks it's a good thing.

Speaker 3:

Commanders have a responsibility to advocate for their organization, which is exactly what she's doing. She's advocating for all of those agents. She is standing up there and talking about what a great job they're doing, how dangerous it is and what they're doing on behalf of the nation. So, megyn Kelly being the mean girl that she can be and this is clearly a case and again, I'm normally a fan. She's wrong on this. You know she to go after, you know Kristi Noem for her looks is bad enough, but to not understand what Kristi Noem's role is in all of this and how she's doing that. Understand what Kristi Noem's role is in all of this and how she's doing that For somebody who's been in the media as long as Megyn Kelly has been. She really, really blew the analysis on this, because she should know that that's what an administrator at that level does you advocate for your organization and that's what she's doing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah and by all accounts, that I have ever heard about Kristi Noem that she is, that she is an incredibly hard worker, full, all in in everything that she does. She is hands on. You know I have. There are comments in the video I posted about about this whole thing, with my own little commentary on it. There are numerous comments in there of people from her state saying, listen, Kristi Noem is the real deal, that girl, she knows how to handle a gun, no problem, she's a rancher. Was she a rancher? I think she's a rancher.

Speaker 3:

Yeah Horses, yeah Horses. Back all that, yes.

Speaker 2:

So she is in in many ways, in her element. She is doing exactly what she's always done. This isn't new. She's not just trying to, you know, get some screen time. But yes, I mean absolutely, if you look at it, you know, with a different lens. These photo ops as they are, I mean they are photo ops and that's okay, because we, as the public, actually need to see, see, we want to see that you're out there, that you're that there, things are happening. This is a way to do it. Are you glossing it up and making it look really really good? Yes, and I'm fine with that.

Speaker 2:

Kristi Noem is a beautiful woman and she's an absolute badass and legitimately she earned that title. It's not just because she's standing in a picture, you know, holding a gun and, um, you know hanging out with, with ice and with border patrol and doing those things. It's because she's a legitimate badass in her own right. I will always have, you know that, that, that twinge, that Twitch, um, when I think about her book, with the whole dog thing. I know people have held that against her.

Speaker 2:

From that moment on Um Never really going to be fully okay with that. It's a different life, a different world, one that I certainly don't understand. That is what it is. But if we're playing fair, the way we should be, the only question should be is she doing her job well? And if the answer is yes, nothing else matters. She can wear all the makeup she wants, or none of the makeup, I don't care. Same thing we can say about Trump. I don't care if he doesn't have the most charming personality or say things in the right way. Is he doing his job? Yes, don't care.

Speaker 3:

You know, yeah and and oh. By the way, if you haven't seen the um, bill Maher, do his wrap up of his visit to the white house, he talked how the person that we see in public and you and I have said this multiple times the person we see in public out of president Trump is not the person that he had dinner with. And we all know that a lot of it is an act, we all know that it is purposeful in what he does and what he says. This is very much, very much the same thing, right, and we just had another example of it 60 minutes on Sunday night, right, 60 minutes stuck a microphone in front of Zelinsky, you know, and they had him on for a good. A good, it was probably a good 10 minute interview, a good, it was probably a good 10 minute interview, um. And so it was unopposed, it was uncontested Um, and it allowed him, you know, in his combat t-shirt right.

Speaker 2:

Right Another image guy Right Um. You know why aren't we going after him for that?

Speaker 3:

Well, I'm pretty sure she probably has gone after him. But yeah, but you know, he same thing, right, he's there and he's getting interviewed by 60 minutes and it was his opportunity to change or at least be uninterrupted in his messaging for the narrative on behalf of, you know, his effort within the Ukraine. You know he did put some doubt in there on whether or not the U? S, you know, does support him and will continue to support Ukraine. He said, oh, I think the people of the United States support Ukraine. I'm not sure about the president or I'm not sure about the administration. He did say that the chances of Ukraine winning the war against Russia without United States support is pretty much gone. But there are some idiosyncrasies into what he said that are definitely messaging on behalf of Ukraine.

Speaker 3:

And so we've talked about, you know, that Putin wants a buffer, right, he wants a buffer between Russia and NATO. That's the whole reason this stuff is going on. The way Zelensky played, that was, you know, putin attacked in the Ukraine so that he could push the border of Russia right up on NATO's doorstep, right Again, it's very different perspective on the same problem, you know right, you know it's not. He's not trying to. You know you could argue he's not trying to make Ukraine part of Russia, he's trying to put Ukraine under the control of Russia, just as a buffer. But but again, zelensky plays it as, oh, he's trying to expand Russia right up to NATO's doorstep.

Speaker 3:

And 60 Minutes being CBS product, they played into everything and made President Trump and Vice President Vance, they played clips from the White House visit and those sorts of things, and Zelensky made comments about oh well, you can't trust Putin. Remember, we've had all these conditional ceasefires and blah, blah, blah, blah, and Putin hasn't bided by any of them. Well, there's only been one, and it was on energy infrastructure, and other than the strike that happened within hours, I don't think there's been any more strikes on energy infrastructure, so don't quote me on that. I couldn't be wrong. But again, you know, this was all about Zelensky having a microphone in his face and being able to say whatever he wanted to a media outlet that was going to do nothing. But you know, kiss his ass.

Speaker 2:

Right, right, oh yeah, no question about it and no surprise based on, you know, everything we've seen from from the media. I just I feel like we could just do like a month long episode of nonstop talking about all of the things that the the media does to manipulate people. It's just so crazy. And, of course, uh, trump responded to it. Uh, you know, basically accused CBS of spreading fake news and, uh, threatening to revoke its license, which really sent everyone into a tizzy. Of course, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, what's her name that's on 60 Minutes is guilty. She should have had her license revoked anyway. Yeah, she's. I mean, they're, they're, they're as guilty as anybody, that network specifically. So yeah, no big surprise there, I'm waiting though. So, yeah, no big surprise there, I'm waiting though. You know, we've got, we've got our President Trump just had his, he just had his physical, and I'm waiting for that. Yes, I'm waiting for the media spin on this. I'm waiting for it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they don't. I mean there's like there's like nothing to say about it. Really, I mean they would have to make something up. I mean not that they would ever make anything up, because you know they're so honest they would never. Yeah, no, you know, very clean better than clean bill of health. He talked about himself looking great. By the way, I think he looks. I think he looks great right now he's. He's looks like he lost a little bit of weight.

Speaker 3:

Am I? Am I making things up? Do you think he looked like he lost a little weight? I think he does, but I think that's, you know, part of the job, as you, everyone, everybody gets engaged in that job, Um and and. So for him, I think it's weight loss will be part of the. You know the stress and the pace of the job. We all know he doesn't sleep anyway, but I think there's probably more physical activity than he's used to. I think there's probably, you know, probably a better diet.

Speaker 2:

Sure, Truthfully, and his McDonald's. Come on, Let the man have his McDonald's. Isn't Bobby Kennedy going to clean that all up? Get rid of the, get rid of the seed oils and give everybody back their beef tallow. So our fries are delicious again.

Speaker 3:

But you know what I'm waiting for? Truth, truthfully, is the, you know, the media with the absolute massive hypocrisy. Right Democrats with the massive hypocrisy to go. Well, you know, they said Biden was in perfect health too.

Speaker 2:

Right, yeah, that you're. You know. I bet you're right that if they're going to take an angle on this, that would be the one. Oh, oh, you accuse us of saying you know we lied about Biden, but how do we know that you're not lying? Yeah, well, because our president is out there every single day in front of cameras, traveling from state to state, golfing the next day, sleeping three hours, jumping on a plane, like the man never stops, and he does it all in the public eye. Right, he's a machine every single bit.

Speaker 2:

So, uh, one thing that there is a lot of speculation over and I don't think, uh, steve bannon helped at all with that is that he's going to try and run for a third term. Like this. They're like some people are buzzing, like this is setting the stage for him for a, a, you know, a possible potential candidacy run, you know, know, and all that is I. I mean, I didn't want to give it any, any, any attention, but here we are. I'm giving it attention because people are talking about it. It's, it's a thing that people are saying. People, prominent people, are saying things like this, suggesting it and everything. What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think president Trump has already used it to spin people, like as he always does. Like here's a distraction over here. Yes, yeah, don't pay attention to what I'm doing over here. Right, look at this. So even he said it. This was probably a month ago. Somebody asked him a question why? In my head it's like they asked him on air force one, you know what I mean Like it was one of those, and he said well, you know, what it says is you can't be elected to a third term. And he just kind of left it open like that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so just gave him something to foam at the mouth over, basically.

Speaker 3:

So the speculation became that Vance runs for president. He gets elected, he's got Trump as vice president and he immediately steps down. He wasn't elected president, you know, oh my goodness. And so people started spinning that, you know. And then, and then I even heard that Vance would run again four years later with Trump as his vice president again president again.

Speaker 2:

Can that even happen? Can a former president?

Speaker 3:

who served as much time as he can as a president. Can they be a vice president? There's nothing in the constitution or any legal documents that says no.

Speaker 2:

That's actually fascinating yeah.

Speaker 3:

Fascinating. So those are the loopholes that people are grasping onto, and President Trump is just letting him do it. He's enjoying it, he's laughing his ass off.

Speaker 2:

As he always does, right, as he always does, and it is literally, it is absolutely true that he does that. He he drops a little something here, you know, and all the pigeons go running to peck at it, and then he's like, ok, now we can go do it, we're you know what we're planning on doing here and get back to work.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, oh my goodness, dude, did we hit every single? Did we get? We got one more, we got one more. We do what we missed.

Speaker 3:

So yesterday, uh, monday, uh two, sorry, sunday, um great finish to the masters oh, there you go, yes, you know, and and for those of you that don't follow golf, you know it went to uh, 18, you know, went to 72 holes and then it went to a one hole playoff and Roy McIlroy, uh, won the masters, completing a career grand slam. Um, there haven't been a whole lot of folks who have done that, um, but he did that. And so he's taken a lot of flack because he was paired as they are. He was paired with a guy in second place who is a, who is a. What's his name?

Speaker 3:

D Shambo, who I call Ro Shambo, anyway. So it was very much a. If you're a Happy Gilmore fan, like D Shambo is very much a Happy Gilmore. And Roy McIlroy is very much a Shooter McGavin kind of personality, shooter McGavin kind of personality. And, by all accounts, rory McIlroy did not speak a single word to DeChambeau all day long, through 18 goals, not a single word. And golf is a very, although people are very focused, it is a very social sport and guys are generally very cordial to each other, even to the point where they give each other a hard time.

Speaker 2:

But McElroy said nothing. Wow, okay. So I have to be honest with you, clay. I absolutely had zero interest in this topic until you started saying all of that. I'm like, oh, now I must investigate.

Speaker 3:

So he won. He won the playoff. And then you know, when the green jacket was put on him, there was maybe some like maybe there weren't some handshakes that were given the way they were supposed to. There's a. There's a lot of girl drama kind of stuff.

Speaker 3:

That's disappointing going on at the master, but it was a great. It was a great tournament. It was fun to watch. The other very side note to this is it probably marked what is the end of Tiger Woods playing career? Um, he is. Uh, I think he went underwent surgery. He is unable to walk right now. Did not attend the former champions dinner on Wednesday night, uh, which all the former winners show up. They all wear their green jackets, they all eat dinner together. Um, and he was not there and he also did not attend the tournament at all.

Speaker 2:

I was just going to ask you wait, did he play at all? He did not play at all, Didn't?

Speaker 3:

even show up, wasn't even there. So a lot of folks are speculating that it is the end of his playing career.

Speaker 2:

Yes, but I don't think it's the end of him being in the spotlight now. Oh, never Dating a Trump right or a former Trump. Former Trump, yes, Former Trump.

Speaker 3:

And, most importantly, I think he does love to play with his son, charlie, and if you've ever seen him play, it's a lot of fun. So, yeah, tiger's not going away, but I think his professional playing days are officially at this point, over with. That's the speculation, wow.

Speaker 2:

Look at that. We closed on a, on a. I mean. I know closing on tiger woods, retiring or whatever is necessarily a good thing, but it's a nice peaceful ending to the show, right? None of this was technically something of a peaceful show, right, like we had a light, a lot of uh levity here today. I will.

Speaker 3:

I will let me one more thing about the masters, and you will go for it. They do not allow any spectator, none, zero. You are not allowed to have your phone on the course. Oh you cannot. There's no selfies, there's no filming, there's no nothing. You are supposed to go and watch golf and talk to people? Augusta says no phones period. So when you watch, when you see that the galleries and all the crowd no phones, it's actually watching, but it's really cool yeah.

Speaker 2:

That is actually pretty neat because you know, we've all seen the pictures and the videos all the time of you know people at concerts or any event, and all you see is cell phones everywhere and people aren't just taking it in Like they're taking it in so that they can post it for other people to see and that is the thing. So that's actually really cool that they, that they do that. I think it's. I think it's a great idea. Be cool if more sporting or more events in general could do it, although I think it's like probably next to impossible, generally right, but what do you think we did it, we got them all. We hit them all.

Speaker 3:

that all that was probably a record, but I think that might've been eight.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, that was that definitely, and we even, like, kind of had some little offshoots there. We kind of bounced around a little bit, yay. Well, guys, I hope that you enjoyed this as much as we did this was a really fun show and tell us how much you loved our, our little action figures. I would love to hear your thoughts on that. And you know what? Here's a better idea. If you can I don't know if you can in the comments section. If you are so inclined, go ahead and post yours in the comments, because I know some of you are going to go and do it right. There's other people. Somebody commented.

Speaker 2:

I posted one I did of just myself on my page, and some meanie commented with one of those marked safe things, and it was marked safe for making a action figure of myself. I was like ha ha ha, you're so funny, it's all good, I don't care, can't hurt my feelings. Oh, guys, it's been a lot of fun. We look forward to coming back at you next week again with more topics, more fun, more stuff and thanks. Listen, if you've got suggestions, ideas, things you want us to talk about, throw them in the comment section too. We would. We would love to. We would love to, we would love to right. Yeah, absolutely Give us, give us your thoughts, throw some input at us, and yeah, that'd be really fun. So that's all I got Clay you, you send them off into the.

Speaker 3:

Hey folks, I don't know if everybody saw, but I made a big announcement on Saturday For those of you that are fans of my first novel, keep Moving, keep Shooting. I have one transitioned to a new publisher. Two there will be a second edition of Keep Moving, keep Shooting, with a brand new cover coming out by the end of May. But more importantly, and what I think everybody who is a fan of the books is waiting for, is the sequel, the second book in the Terry Davis series, the sequel to Keep Moving, keep Shooting will be out this 4th of July and the title of the book is Cross to Bear. If you love a good action fiction novel, check it out. But that's the big announcement. 4th of July, cross to Bear. Keep Moving, keep Shooting sequel, second in the Terry Davis series, coming out this summer. So very, very excited about that. And with that, as I always tell you, keep moving, keep shooting.

Speaker 2:

Outstanding. Everyone wish Clay congratulations in the comments section. Please. Congratulations, clay. That is awesome. I am so excited for the series to come out and I'm so excited to share it with everybody on here. We'll designate a good chunk of time when they're all out just to sit and talk about the books, because that's one of my absolute favorite things to do. I love book talk. So everybody can look forward to that, and we will see you guys next week. Take care.

Speaker 5:

Warrior, leader, author, patriot. From ranger school to the battlefield, from the front lines of combat to the front lines of culture. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Clay Novak isn't done fighting for truth. Catch him on the Elsa Kurt Show and read his no-holds-barred blog at claynovakauthorcom. Keep moving, keep shooting.

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