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"Bombs" (FTTxJT Tue 082526 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections
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  Speaker 1: around the globe.
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  Speaker 2: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 3: he needs.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 5: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 6: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Or as Scott, who listens to us in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on WTAR down in Virginia Beach and then hits us
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  Speaker 1: up on the web stream after that, we are not
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  Speaker 1: just hanging out with you. We're hanging out with Clark, Joel, Moscow, Bob, Kareem,
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  Speaker 1: and all of your guests today. Like one big dysfunctional family.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the thing. And that's what radio has been
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  Speaker 1: able to do really since the onset. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that when we were doing the serials and the comedies
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that television started doing after its invention,
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a coldness to it. And when
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  Speaker 1: all of those shows left and radio was left trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out, okay, now what do we do? People realized, well,
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  Speaker 1: they tuned in a lot to hear the news. Edward R.
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  Speaker 1: Murrow and all those folks and CBS. So let's keep
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  Speaker 1: doing the news. We can do the news. And they
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  Speaker 1: decided we can do the news more frequently now that
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to get Jack Benny on the set.
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  Speaker 1: And then they started talking to people and then they
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  Speaker 1: started playing music. And the record companies really liked that
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  Speaker 1: because it was exposing people to new music and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. And then frequency modulation came along and we're like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's even cleaner. It doesn't go as far, but it's cleaner.
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  Speaker 1: And HD was kind of that, the digital radio thing.
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  Speaker 1: AM didn't like digital because it really limited how far
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  Speaker 1: the AM transmitter goes. But there's a reason radio is
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  Speaker 1: the cucaracha of media. Because every time they invent something new,
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  Speaker 1: you know what we do? We figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: make it part of what we do. Whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: social media account or a telephone. We incorporate all the
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  Speaker 1: new ways to communicate into our way. And we just
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  Speaker 1: keep chugging along. And I don't understand why people don't
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  Speaker 1: get the adaptability of radio. I guess it's too easy
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  Speaker 1: for the smart people in the think tanks to say,
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  Speaker 1: here's what I've thought, and now I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: think anymore. I'm going to go sit by a beach
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  Speaker 1: with a Mai Dai. Our first things this morning, this
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  Speaker 1: is what we're here to do, is tell you what
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  Speaker 1: went on. Scott Besant, you heard the clip there explaining
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  Speaker 1: what an economic D-Day looks like. Every country that does
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  Speaker 1: business with the Islamic Republic would sever those financial ties
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  Speaker 1: or face economic retaliation from the United States. He was
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  Speaker 1: asked why the U.S. is not imposing sanctions right off
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  Speaker 1: the bat, and Besson told reporters that he wants countries
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  Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to decide to shift away before
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  Speaker 1: it's forcing them to. Meanwhile, Iran's finance minister, Syed Ali Madanzaneh,
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  Speaker 1: said that Tehran is already prepared with a two-year plan
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  Speaker 1: to cover their country's costs while it waits us out.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly 50 House Democrats have demanded that the President and
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth provide detailed accounting of the
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  Speaker 1: cost of U.S. war with Iran. Meanwhile, a radio program
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  Speaker 1: on the Talk Media Network, would like the members of
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  Speaker 1: Congress to provide a detailed cost of the war on poverty.
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  Speaker 1: With deadline, what? Yeah, I guess I didn't shut the
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  Speaker 1: mic off during that segment, did I? Deadlines to apply
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  Speaker 1: for mail-in absentee ballots looming for the November midterms. The
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court gave way for the president's administration to continue
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  Speaker 1: to restrict access to the U.S. Postal Service. for states
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  Speaker 1: where they haven't verified their voter registration data against the
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  Speaker 1: federal databases to check for citizenship and registration in multiple jurisdictions.
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  Speaker 1: Crews have started to contain that wildfire near Reno, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: The Hawk Fire is now 27% contained, according to officials.
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  Speaker 1: 30 homes have been destroyed and 100,000 people have been
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  Speaker 1: evacuated from the area. Stocks drifted downwards a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: S & P slipped 0.3% and pulled a bit further
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  Speaker 1: from its all-time high. Dow Jones Industrial went down 0.3%.
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  Speaker 1: Tech stocks were the ones dragging it downward. Big swings
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  Speaker 1: through the summer on worries that the frenzy around artificial
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  Speaker 1: intelligence technology had set prices too high. If you're hearing
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  Speaker 1: the word bubble anywhere, You're probably not too far from right.
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  Speaker 1: Tax-exempt organizations spent $ 639 million in the 2024 election cycle,
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  Speaker 1: according to research from the Capital Research Center in a
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  Speaker 1: report called Charities Influencing Elections. You can find that online
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  Speaker 1: at the Capital Research Center's website. We may get into
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  Speaker 1: that just a little bit coming up.
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  Speaker 9: Crime across the country is at an all-time high. It
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  Speaker 10: You were strolling along in goodwill. When just past that
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  Speaker 10: mid-century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them, nestled
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  Speaker 10: in their display case. Miniature donut earrings.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes!
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  Speaker 11: Yes!
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  Speaker 10: Your favorite half-breakfast pastry, half-all-day dessert food, made into your
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  Speaker 10: favorite form of ear candy.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 10: Those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
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  Speaker 13: Shh.
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  Speaker 1: Do you smell that?
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  Speaker 14: Shh.
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  Speaker 10: That's the sugary scent of shopping success.
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  Speaker 15: You buy, you fund local job training and more.
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  Speaker 6: So go forth.
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  Speaker 10: Bring home those donut earrings. And bring home so much
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  Speaker 10: Bring good home.
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  Speaker 16: heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
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  Speaker 16: Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
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  Speaker 16: few lifestyle changes, including regular activity, healthier eating, and not smoking.
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  Speaker 16: Talk to your doctor about your risk for type 2
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  Speaker 16: diabetes and heart disease. And if your doctor recommends lifestyle
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  Speaker 16: changes or medication, listen. The reason so many die is
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  Speaker 16: because not enough are willing to change. You can stop it,
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  Speaker 16: starting right now. It's your life. Listen to your doctor.
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  Speaker 17: Eat better.
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  Speaker 18: Get moving.
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  Speaker 16: Visit checkupamerica.org or call 1-800-DIABETES, a message from the American
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  Speaker 16: Diabetes Association.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran, and I lost
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  Speaker 2: both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that disability
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  Speaker 2: is not a limitation. I'm Julius. I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 15: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 14: At DAV, we're on a mission, helping veterans of all
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  Speaker 14: generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 19: I'm CeCe.
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  Speaker 16: My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 14: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 14: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV.org.
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  Speaker 15: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 18: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 11: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 6: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 15: Freedom to petition the government. Only the United States has
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  Speaker 15: these five freedoms so simply bound together and guaranteed. Think first.
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  Speaker 15: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 11: No word in the English language is less convincing.
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  Speaker 1: Then probably.
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  Speaker 19: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos.
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  Speaker 18: On our first date?
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 18: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 20: Probably?
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  Speaker 11: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 15: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 6: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 4: Cramp!
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  Speaker 6: I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 15: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 6: Probably..
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  Speaker 19: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 2: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 11: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 11: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 11: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 11: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 19: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
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  Speaker 19: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
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  Speaker 19: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
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  Speaker 19: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today. From the home of the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today.
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  Speaker 21: Hey, hey.
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  Speaker 6: You mean YouTube and Substack?
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  Speaker 1: The names have been changed. A bunch of texts and
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  Speaker 1: emails I want to get to hear your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: anything we've shared to this point at 434-882-4217. And you
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  Speaker 1: can make it in text message form like so many
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  Speaker 1: have because it's just it's quicker. open up voice to text,
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  Speaker 1: holler something at me and hit send. And you're on
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  Speaker 1: your way. Or you can call us. I like the chat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm, I am a humanist. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons I'm good at what I do is I
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  Speaker 1: like talking to you and it's not in some sort
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  Speaker 1: of commerce way. It works because you listen and then
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  Speaker 1: you go into our sponsors, but I don't do it
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  Speaker 1: because it makes me money. I do it because I
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  Speaker 1: like talking to people. Because you're all different. You've been
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  Speaker 1: to different places, like Ron in Salem, and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a veteran, and he's dealing with health issues, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he's not, woe is me. He's obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: shouldering the burden of it, but he's not sitting there saying,
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  Speaker 1: and it brings up this email that came into JTInTheMorningRadio,
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  Speaker 1: at gmail.com. Frank listening to us in Redlands, the Inland Empire,
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  Speaker 1: came at 1490. He said, listening to Ron talk to you,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about your earlier conversation about Hayden Panettiere
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  Speaker 1: and what may have happened to her and how all
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  Speaker 1: these actresses are coming out against the Hollywood industry, saying
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  Speaker 1: that they should be held to account for what they've
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  Speaker 1: done to these young people who they exploit. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who has every reason in the world to feel
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  Speaker 1: like the world is marshaled against him, yet he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to fix things. Where's the message lost, Joe? Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing both of those. It just seemed like an
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  Speaker 1: interesting schism. Well, it is, and part of it is,
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  Speaker 1: and there are good ones. Storytellers are important. And I
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  Speaker 1: started the arc about it, and I brought it up
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  Speaker 1: only because I'm getting inundated with more and more of
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  Speaker 1: these actresses, Anna Paquin and these folks, all coming out
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  Speaker 1: saying that Hollywood is to blame for Hayden Panettiere's death
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  Speaker 1: because they used her for the fact she was a
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  Speaker 1: good actress when she was a little kid, and then
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  Speaker 1: once she stopped being a little kid, they... left or
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  Speaker 1: by the side of the road. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: there is something to be said for that. But the
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  Speaker 1: point I made in the arc was that there are
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  Speaker 1: people in Hayden's world that could have done something about it.
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  Speaker 1: All the folks who were in Elvis's world that could
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  Speaker 1: have done something about it, but didn't. Didn't say, hey, Elvis,
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  Speaker 1: maybe all the people in Michael Jackson's world So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: was Michael Jackson's dad an SOB?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When Michael got out from underneath him, did he go crazy? Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like it. Was the colonel out there for his
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  Speaker 1: own gratification or for Elvis's? I think it may have
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  Speaker 1: been a little of both, depending on what part of
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  Speaker 1: the story you were in. But we all work with people. See,
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  Speaker 1: this is the idea that we're islands. We're not. There
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of radio networks this show could be on,
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  Speaker 1: but the only one that I want to be on
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  Speaker 1: is this one because I really love the people who
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  Speaker 1: run it. And I love their mindset and I love
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  Speaker 1: their business plan, but they're not exploiting me. Are they
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  Speaker 1: selling advertising, Dr. Mitch and all these folks? Well, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the nature of a relationship. Husbands and wives
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  Speaker 1: have relationships. She's good with the books, so she does
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  Speaker 1: all the bill paying. He's good with home repairs, so
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  Speaker 1: he does all the home repairing, or vice versa, or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. You seek relations with people who are
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  Speaker 1: strong where you're not, so that as a partnership, you
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  Speaker 1: become stronger than the sum of the parts. And whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a work relationship, And I think our labor laws
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  Speaker 1: and our zeal for mandated minimum wages and everything on
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  Speaker 1: an existential level have ruined the idea that your work
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  Speaker 1: is done in a relationship. You go to work telling stories.
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  Speaker 1: That's important. Societally, don't dismiss actors, actresses, writers... Because telling stories...
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  Speaker 1: And look at how much effort the left puts into
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  Speaker 1: taking over the media.
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  Speaker 4: This is..
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  Speaker 1: What's her name? Arianna Huffington. And this is why Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Breitbart ran screaming from her out of the woods. Like
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  Speaker 1: the crazy witch with the cookies in the oven. And
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: what was the first thing Andrew Breitbart said is... politics
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  Speaker 1: is downstream from culture. And the Marxists understand that. So
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  Speaker 1: the Marxists are out there writing culture so that we
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  Speaker 1: sit there and we pay 15 bucks or 20 bucks
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  Speaker 1: and we go watch the movie and we say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should wait for a superhero to come and
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  Speaker 1: save us. Storytelling is important. The Marxists get it. We
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  Speaker 1: are starting to with the studio like Angel Studios and
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  Speaker 1: some of the amazing films that are coming out. And
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  Speaker 1: great actors, Jim Caviezel and Cuba Gooding Jr. And these
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  Speaker 1: folks who are taking the career risk of saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to do that kind of
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  Speaker 1: movie anymore. I want to tell you a story. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at the box office industry. that Caviezel did, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone was like, they spent like 50 bucks on this movie.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the killer at the box-off, Sound of Freedom.
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  Speaker 1: But storytelling is important, so don't dismiss people like Hayden Panettiere.
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  Speaker 1: But where were Hayden's people to say, okay, Hayden, you're
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  Speaker 1: not a 12-year-old, so it's not a novelty for you
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  Speaker 1: to be the cute 12-year-old girl with pigtails on a
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  Speaker 1: TV show. What are you going to do next? How
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  Speaker 1: are you going to continue to be relevant as an actor?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think about me. I see pictures. We
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  Speaker 1: have a wonderful affiliate, Long Island News Radio, picks up
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  Speaker 1: the show on Saturday mornings. That was where I met
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  Speaker 1: my wife, when it was a rock and roll station.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a talk station. And I'm back. I'm back
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  Speaker 1: on the same frequency. That was one of my salad
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  Speaker 1: days of my youth. But I was a completely different
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  Speaker 1: guy then, doing a, well, We talked to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of listeners, and a lot of people complained about the show.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of my consultants and my boss were like,
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  Speaker 1: why do you talk to the listeners so long, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: Just shut up and play the record. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was fun, and it seemed like people thought it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: The classic story of acting was Harrison Ford was in
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  Speaker 1: Our Man Flint as a waiter. And Otto Preminger came blustering.
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  Speaker 6: He goes, you are nobody. You come on the screen
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're any kind of sport, yesterday was just gold.
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  Speaker 6: It was just gold. You know, let's dial back. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I wish we had a fire. We could build a fire.
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  Speaker 6: like a little bit of history for you. And then
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  Speaker 6: plenty of firsts since name-image likeness was introduced in college
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  Speaker 6: athletics in 2021. All right, the NCAA's 5-5 ruling opened
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  Speaker 6: the door for a judge in Baton Rouge. Let me
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  Speaker 6: repeat that for a judge in Baton Rouge is now
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: there are 16 NFL guys who are clearing waivers. And
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  Speaker 6: right now, Lane Kiffin has landed at least one of them. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: my God. One right. Who went unselected in the 2026 draft.
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  Speaker 6: He signed with the Eagles. He was cut. August 10th,
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• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Lane at Ole Miss, and he dressed for the Cleveland
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: two preseason games, did not play. Apparently there was some injury. Well,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NCAA a
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: stay Friday morning in an order to reverse the federal
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  Speaker 6: judge's decision that it opened the door for athletes and
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: to say, hey, look, five and five. OK, 2022, they
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  Speaker 6: can return. All right. I don't care how many contracts
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  Speaker 6: they've signed or how many one day deal they can
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  Speaker 6: they can return. And right now, the state does not
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: wipe out the cases of dozens of athletes who have
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: successfully petitioned now for restraining orders. I've heard numbers from
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: 16 to 33. So Lane Kiffin held his press conference yesterday.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: The LSU head coach told the Pens and Pads that
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Wright's case is just one of many. And that if
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: he didn't come to LSU, make the commitment to LSU,
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  Speaker 6: that Kiffin said he'd be playing somewhere else. So Kiffin said, look,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just doing my job, Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 27: These athletes in all these sports, and again, it's not
• 31:08
  Speaker 27: just football. These athletes in all these sports, and again,
• 31:12
  Speaker 27: it's not just football. are being told they can play.
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  Speaker 27: They hire an attorney, they go and win a case
• 31:17
  Speaker 27: and told that they can play. Then they enter the
• 31:20
  Speaker 27: portal so they're able to be recruited. I feel like
• 31:23
  Speaker 27: in those situations, that's my job. I wouldn't like to
• 31:26
  Speaker 27: be my boss that hired me and then come to say, hey,
• 31:31
  Speaker 27: here's these guys going around the country playing, making teams better,
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  Speaker 27: and they're going to play from the ruling. Why aren't
• 31:37
  Speaker 27: we recruiting them? Because we may end up playing against them.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Such a clean, well-run athletic department. Because then there's Will Wade.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Because then there's Will Wade, okay, who is the sleaziest, non-fat.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: He's the worst, okay? He's the one that went with
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: the wall back. Don't hold back. He received a temporary
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: injunction to play for LSU this year from a Louisiana
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: judge on Monday, of course, despite signing multiple NBA contracts.
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  Speaker 6: He had signed with the Jazz. He had a contract
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  Speaker 6: with the Celtics G League team. Well, he committed to
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  Speaker 6: LSU in May. I can't wait to hear about them
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: going to class. That's going to be interesting. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: I love this. You want to know why I love this?
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: I know you love it.
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  Speaker 1: You know where it's headed. It's headed to athletes working
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  Speaker 1: for the college that they're playing for. Forget classes. Forget degrees.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: This is silly. You hire the best engineering professors. And
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• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to You go to Thomas Jefferson High School in Northern
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Virginia and say, listen, kids, come to our school. We've
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  Speaker 1: your college on TV. Hire the best guy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if it's Aaron Rodgers and he's 46. If he's
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  Speaker 1: better than the rest of the quarterbacks in your league,
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  Speaker 1: hire him. Bring him on. Let's stop being stupid about this.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: How many years did you have? Yeah, exactly.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: No, let's get rid of the whole years did you have.
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  Speaker 1: These guys, their only job is to get their university
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  Speaker 1: on television. Let's stop pretending that they're athletes sometime. You
• 33:27
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• 33:29
  Speaker 1: athletic pursuit. But the guys who go on Saturday afternoon television.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You're already paying them now. You knew this was going
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: to happen when you crossed the Rubicon of name image likeness.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: So let's stop the dog and pony show.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Well, and the dog and pony show continues today, too,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: because the SEC issue. So the SEC comes forward. The
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: SEC presidents and chancellors are going to be. They had
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: a regularly scheduled meeting already in Birmingham, and they're going
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: to get together now today with Greg Sankey, the commissioner,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: and they issued a release already. College athletes, not former
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: professional athletes, have been at the heart of the Southeastern Conference.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Individuals who choose to leave college athletics, sign playing contracts
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: with professionals, and compete professionally should not be permitted to return.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I love it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: That's an SEC statement.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: The SEC has laid down the law.
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: I love it when the SEC has to lay down
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: the law. That wasn't enough yesterday. Speaking of the Browns,
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson was named the Browns starter Monday. And he
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: was surprised that there was such a reaction. The Browns
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: fans are losing patience. They booed him. Love this resume. 2021.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: 12 civil suits involving massage therapists, lost endorsement deals with
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Nike and beats headphones suspended six games in 2022.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Any completions or touchdowns on these stats suspended first 11
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: games in 2022 injured his shoulder in 2023, 10, 2024
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  Speaker 1: sack six times.
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, for 10 passes over 15 yards. He tore his
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: Achilles in October. January 25, then re ruptured, missed 2025,
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: his record at Cleveland nine and 10 in the midst
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: of a $ 230 million contract. So while he's speaking to
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: the media yesterday and still being, he was fixing his
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: million dollar earrings, you know, making sure he had this.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was priceless, right? So anyway, Deshaun said,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: and he told the media yesterday, why the, why the
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: big deal? I'm going to be booed.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: I don't agree with it, but what does that have
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: to do with anything about performance? When a person get hurt,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: especially for your own city, and they cheer. I had
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: different thoughts on how it was going to be, but
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: it is what it is. Sometimes the tables turn, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: I'm patient enough because I'm a child of God to
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: wait for that time to change.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a child of God. I'm a child of God.
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  Speaker 1: I like that line. What does that have to do
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: with performance?
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: There were 12 civil suits involving massage therapists. But I'm
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: a child of God, and when they cheered..
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe now, hey, you know what? A lot of people
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: did bad things, and then they find Jesus, and they
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: straighten things out. I'm fine with that.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Now, I'm going to... He did..
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  Speaker 27: Okay.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: There was one mention, and I checked Wikipedia. I looked
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: at it, and I forgot. He did donate... money to
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: a foundation to build homes for people that in Houston
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: when the hurricane hit, I can't remember which name of
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: the hurricane, but he did donate like $ 25, 000 or whatever
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: of his contract. So thank you, Deshaun. We'd like to
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: thank you for participating. I like the back of his card.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: There are no statistics, no completion percentage. It's indictments.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: It's lawsuits. The sports talk world. Went off the rails yesterday.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but to be fair, Cleveland, Ohio has more sports
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: talk radio stations than Philadelphia.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: It was a guy like me. It was a dream.
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  Speaker 6: It was a dream yesterday. And I was up till
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  Speaker 6: 11 o'clock last night, dialing around, finding press conferences, listening
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  Speaker 6: to these guys. It was just, it was priceless. So
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: thank you, Deshaun. Thank you, Valene Kiffin. Dabo Sweeney now,
• 37:22
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• 37:24
  Speaker 6: four portal guys in like three years. Dabo Sweeney. And
• 37:26
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• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Because Dabo came forward. I'm still trying. LSU Clemson in
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: week one. You know, that's the way it should be.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: The Eagles and Cowboys weren't available. I mean, it's about
• 37:41
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• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Give me the Little League World Series, Phoenix, Alabama, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: that girl won last night, that young lady. Give me
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Little League Baseball. But they're signing endorsement deals now anyway. Oh,
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: It's crazy. Have a good Tuesday.
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  Speaker 20: What the?
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  Speaker 6: It is a part of the program we call Tom
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  Speaker 6: Drops Bombs.
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  Speaker 1: Although, as I understand it, his military service, he was
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  Speaker 1: ground forces, but that's okay. He drops bombs anyway, now
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  Speaker 1: quite eloquently. You find him on YouTube under the moniker
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  Speaker 1: TomDropsBombs or DelegateTomGarrett on Facebook. And you've got Instagram. No Grindr, right? OnlyFans,
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't have that.
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  Speaker 12: But if you recommend it, I could check it out.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, don't.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go there. Don't go there. Our friend Bob in
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  Speaker 1: Esmont is like... Hey, I wanted to ask you..
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Joe?
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  Speaker 12: No judgment. You'll be judged by an entity far greater
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  Speaker 12: than me.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to that. The FCC. Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: This has been an abstract that I just inserted here
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  Speaker 1: because after the fifth, no, sixth instance... of a Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: starlet complaining that the industry is the reason Hayden Panettiere
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  Speaker 1: had issues that she may have brought on her own
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  Speaker 1: demise at the age of 36, and that it was
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  Speaker 1: the industry's fault that she may have had whatever problems.
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  Speaker 1: This is Anna Paquin and folks like that. You have
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  Speaker 1: sought the public sphere. You have sought it for representative office.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, you've won every election you've ever
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  Speaker 1: suited up for. But that is a popularity contest, just
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  Speaker 1: like storytelling on TV or in the movies. Is it
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  Speaker 1: important to know and did you learn at some place
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  Speaker 1: along your journey that what you thought you wanted wasn't
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  Speaker 1: what you really wanted and you had to kind of
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  Speaker 1: check yourself before you wrecked yourself?
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  Speaker 12: I mean, first of all, I just want to associate
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  Speaker 12: with so many members of your vast listening audience this thing.
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  Speaker 12: I have no idea who either one of the people
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  Speaker 12: you just.
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  Speaker 6: Said were, but I'm guessing.
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  Speaker 12: I'm guessing they're Hollywood actresses.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one was. She passed away last week at the
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  Speaker 1: age of 36, and there's questions and an autopsy, and
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  Speaker 1: Narcan was involved. So a lot of people are in
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 12: Listen, I just hope that she made peace with her creator, right?
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  Speaker 12: Because she's going to be just as redeemed as every
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  Speaker 12: single other one of us. She made the acceptance of
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  Speaker 12: that grace given for even the least of us. And
• 47:09
  Speaker 12: so with the theological hour ending, I didn't I don't
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  Speaker 12: like public office. I don't like social media.
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  Speaker 6: I do both.
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  Speaker 12: It's very simple. I was so blessed with a really
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  Speaker 12: good mother and father relationship. My dad in particular, sort of.
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  Speaker 12: And even though I really kind of started circling around
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  Speaker 12: Jesus a lot more closely the last five or six years,
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: I believe in God my whole life. And the talent says,
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  Speaker 12: you know, to whom much is given and much is expected.
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  Speaker 12: And so I may or may not be good at
• 47:38
  Speaker 12: some stuff. And I always wanted to live a life
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  Speaker 12: that mattered. Right. And I wanted to be willing to
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  Speaker 12: do something to perpetuate the gifts that I've been given
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  Speaker 12: to people who I'll never meet. And so whether it
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  Speaker 12: was military service or public service, right, these are the
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  Speaker 12: arenas where I felt called because I thought I could
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  Speaker 12: do stuff that mattered, that I could make a dent.
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  Speaker 12: And I think, Joe, you do and teachers do and
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  Speaker 12: a lot of people do. Good mom or dad will.
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  Speaker 12: And so this is sort of what I do well
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  Speaker 12: and where and where can I do that and sort
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  Speaker 12: of make. make a dent. And so, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 12: the social media, we got really into it this year, right?
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  Speaker 12: I've been at this for a long time, 15, 16 years,
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  Speaker 12: and never lost an election. But I think I had
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  Speaker 12: 1000 Facebook followers in January, and we're closing on 50,000 now.
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  Speaker 12: And there's other platforms that you mentioned, because I decided
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  Speaker 12: that the message, if you don't message, you're never going
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  Speaker 12: to win an argument. And one side's been messaging. So we,
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  Speaker 12: we started working harder on, on that. And, uh, but yeah,
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  Speaker 12: I don't, it's, there's a bunch of people filled with
• 48:43
  Speaker 12: hatred and anger and it's usually sort of their own
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  Speaker 12: problem that they've externalized and decided somebody else must be
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  Speaker 12: to blame. I don't like dealing with it.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 12: Cause I got this piece that I've never had before,
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  Speaker 12: but it's a journey, man. I mean, too soon, too late.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were, you were a prosecutor. So you probably
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  Speaker 1: seen these cases of people who have gotten into a
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  Speaker 1: position because You know, the dreams didn't work out or
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  Speaker 1: their lives didn't work out the way they wanted it to.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's a more important eddy and current to
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  Speaker 1: take this is is what was it you were looking
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  Speaker 1: for your life to to manifest into and when that
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  Speaker 1: didn't start to work out for you not you specifically
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  Speaker 1: but as a prosecutor like i said you.
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  Speaker 12: Need to though right i mean i get it i
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  Speaker 12: mean i don't know who this woman was who apparently
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  Speaker 12: died maybe died of an I'm at the mountaintop and
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  Speaker 12: I'm miserable and empty. And that was, in my case,
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  Speaker 12: that was alcohol and just, I knew who I wanted
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  Speaker 12: to be. And then if I was honest with myself,
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  Speaker 12: I knew who I was being, I didn't like me.
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  Speaker 12: And so what I've learned is that there's no such
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  Speaker 12: thing as fair, but if you work hard, you can
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  Speaker 12: certainly increase your odds of having happiness and then letting
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  Speaker 12: go of the stuff you can't, maybe she didn't get
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  Speaker 12: a part she really wanted, right? You gotta let go
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  Speaker 12: of the things you can't control. Now, I was talking
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  Speaker 12: to somebody who is in late-stage care right now, just
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  Speaker 12: the other day. And I said, I want you to
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  Speaker 12: imagine all the bad things that have happened in your
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  Speaker 12: life and name them, cancer and loss of a dear
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  Speaker 12: friend too soon. And that flat tire you got on
• 50:25
  Speaker 12: the side of the interstate when you were going to
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  Speaker 12: the job interview for your dream job and you didn't
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  Speaker 12: get it, that's a big pile of crap. Now I
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  Speaker 12: want you to look the other direction at all the
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  Speaker 12: blessings you got that you might not have deserved, a
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  Speaker 12: wonderful life partner, great kids. You know, special memories. Now,
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  Speaker 12: if you're staring and that's a big pile of blessings,
• 50:45
  Speaker 12: if you're staring at a big pile of blessings, you
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  Speaker 12: know what you can't see? The big pile of crap.
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  Speaker 12: And if you're staring at a big pile of crap,
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  Speaker 12: you know what you can't see? The big pile of blessings, right?
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  Speaker 12: So stare at the big pile of blessings. Focus on
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  Speaker 12: the gifts that you have, not the failures, not the disappointment,
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  Speaker 12: et cetera. And start your day with gratitude. Wake up
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  Speaker 12: every morning and say, what do I have that I
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  Speaker 12: don't serve? God just gave to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I think this is the point
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  Speaker 1: I was getting at.
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  Speaker 12: Your day is going to be better. And you're going
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  Speaker 12: to vote Republican most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, there's an attitudinal shift between something. Everything is
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  Speaker 12: somebody else's fault and woe is me. And what can
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  Speaker 12: I do today? And then when you start focusing on
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: gratitude– One of the things I told one of my
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  Speaker 12: older kids recently is, dude, I have never in my
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  Speaker 12: life regretted helping another person. I've been hurt by people
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  Speaker 12: who I helped, et cetera, but never have I regretted
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  Speaker 12: helping another person. And if you do that sort of thing,
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  Speaker 12: it's funny. Like, I like helping myself. I love helping others.
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  Speaker 12: I feel better when I help others than when I
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  Speaker 12: help myself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's, I think, but knowing self and knowing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and this is, she was a child star.
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  Speaker 1: you know, much in the same way. But then you
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  Speaker 1: look at a Shirley Temple. She was a child star,
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  Speaker 1: went on to become a, you know, international ambassador, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and having impacts to people, you know, that you never
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  Speaker 1: would have thought. And what do you do and who
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: you are? I guess that's the point. And if you don't,
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  Speaker 1: and this, you're jumping ahead to our TED's D program,
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  Speaker 1: we all have gifts and talents. And the secret to
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  Speaker 1: me and happiness is figuring out what those are, pursuing
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  Speaker 1: them with all the zeal that you certainly see manifest
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  Speaker 1: in Guitar Gonzo Man. And then from that, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about what a lot of the periphery is.
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  Speaker 1: But I see so many people get consumed in that periphery,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a heartbreaking thing to see happen. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's the point I was getting at, is I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that You know, in this story,
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  Speaker 1: while everyone's blaming Hollywood for it, we know that we
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