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"The Next Two Years" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're for, Joe. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what we're for.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what we're against, except we seem to
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  Speaker 2: be for winning and against somebody else winning.
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  Speaker 3: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 3: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 4: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 5: And call it even.
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 4: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 7: Leaves for work when the sun comes up. Drops the
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  Speaker 7: kids to school and nowhere.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 2: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 8: You want to know that number because I'm going.
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  Speaker 6: To tell you what went on last night.
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  Speaker 9: I'll give you my analysis of it for sure, but
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  Speaker 9: I want to know how it's impacting you. You, the
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  Speaker 9: singularly most unique local part of the radio station, is you.
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  Speaker 6: You're living it.
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  Speaker 9: And I think that's part of the problem as we
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  Speaker 9: head to the final week before the midterms, is that
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  Speaker 9: people are in their own heads, the folks who are
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  Speaker 9: seeking your votes. There are some that get it. There
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  Speaker 9: are some that are connecting and there's a lot that aren't.
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  Speaker 9: And I think a lot of it has to do
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  Speaker 9: with stress. You test out a piece of steel by
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  Speaker 9: stressing it.
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  Speaker 6: And I.
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  Speaker 9: Don't mean to oversimplify this, but in this world that's
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  Speaker 9: makes politics out to be kind of like an episode
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  Speaker 9: of The Apprentice, and everyone's looking for Donald Trump's support.
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  Speaker 9: Not everyone understands how to get it. Not everyone understands
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  Speaker 9: the things you have to do. So you have a
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  Speaker 9: consultant class that is out there, sure that they understand
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  Speaker 9: how to get Donald Trump's support.
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  Speaker 6: And they'll tell you. Oh, they'll tell you.
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  Speaker 9: And then you're in your head thinking, okay, I have
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  Speaker 9: to do this at this time and say this this
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  Speaker 9: way and that way in order to get Donald Trump's support.
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  Speaker 9: When in reality comes out much more like the president
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  Speaker 9: just wants you to be you and connect with the
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  Speaker 9: voters and who connects with the voters the best. So
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  Speaker 9: with a week to go, these are the first things
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  Speaker 9: this morning. It's not just elections here in the United States,
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  Speaker 9: but in our friends in Israel, parliamentary Knesset elections going on.
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  Speaker 9: In the nation's history, no single party has ever won
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  Speaker 9: an outright majority. It's always been coalition building. And that
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  Speaker 9: is actually what has been Benjamin Netanyahu's best talent is
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  Speaker 9: his ability to build coalition that Even when his party
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  Speaker 9: hasn't won the majority, he can still remain prime minister. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 9: in America's elections, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied
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  Speaker 9: President Trump's request to block California from counting mail-in ballots
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  Speaker 9: from people on a list of more than 20,000 registered
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  Speaker 9: voters on a list that leaves them questionable as to
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  Speaker 9: whether they're citizenships. They've also asked Washington to set aside
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  Speaker 9: 400 people's ballots from a list of 1500 that they
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  Speaker 9: say are questionable regarding their citizenship. In California, Pennsylvania, Florida,
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  Speaker 9: New York, and Nevada, 48 non-citizens have been arrested for
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  Speaker 9: voting in elections in 2020, 2022, and 2024. President Trump
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  Speaker 9: said Monday people who report voter fraud that end up
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  Speaker 9: with somebody being convicted can get $ 1 million in, I guess,
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  Speaker 9: bonus money, making the announcement eight days before the election culminates.
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  Speaker 9: He wrote on Truth Social, anybody reporting voter fraud in
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  Speaker 9: the past elections or upcoming 2026 midterm elections will be
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  Speaker 9: paid $ 1 million upon the arrest and conviction of those
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  Speaker 9: that created the fraud. Former FBI Director James Comey is
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  Speaker 9: facing two new federal charges from a 2016 disclosure of
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  Speaker 9: classified national defense information to a New York Times reporter.
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  Speaker 9: Comey is charged with two violations of the Espionage Act.
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  Speaker 9: Prosecutors allege that Comey, through one or more co-conspirators, directed
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  Speaker 9: an unidentified individual to leak the information to the reporter
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  Speaker 9: in October of 2016. And a Marine from Casa Grande, Arizona,
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  Speaker 9: has been convicted to 38 months for threatening to execute
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, hey, hey.
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  Speaker 6: You mean YouTube and Substack?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and Instagram, too.
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  Speaker 6: Only fans?
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  Speaker 9: It's always telling you the grass is always greener over
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  Speaker 9: someone else's septic tank, aren't they? And it's good to
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  Speaker 9: have aspirations, but they have to be your aspirations. And
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  Speaker 9: too many people have made too many dollars trafficking and
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  Speaker 9: telling you what your aspirations should be. This is part
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  Speaker 9: and parcel of what tomorrow is all about. And I
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  Speaker 9: don't mean tomorrow as in October 28th. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 9: in general, Ted's Day is about figuring out what your
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  Speaker 9: aspirations are and then going about achieving them. Don't let
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  Speaker 9: me tell you what they are. Mine are not yours.
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  Speaker 9: Mine are not a lot of people's. I hate to
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  Speaker 9: say that. And even in the radio biz, Mine are
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  Speaker 9: not the same as most other people. But you have
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  Speaker 9: to have your aspirations because otherwise there's no point to
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  Speaker 9: your perspirations. What's the next two years going to be like?
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  Speaker 9: I'll give you a look into my crystal balls in
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  Speaker 9: a moment and get to you at 434-882-4217. We've got
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  Speaker 9: callers lining up. But James, our friend, from jcsgold.com is
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  Speaker 9: online with us. Tell us how Gold and Silver are
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  Speaker 9: greeting this Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, James. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 18: I'm doing well, Joe, and Gold and Silver are on
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  Speaker 18: sale this morning. Gold is down about a half a percent,
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  Speaker 18: down $ 23 to $ 3, 993, dipping just below That $ 4, 000 mark,
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  Speaker 18: gold actually dipped below $ 4, 000 yesterday and then popped back
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  Speaker 18: up pretty strong, but feeling a little bit of weakness
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  Speaker 18: here currently on a discount.
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  Speaker 1: Same story with silver. Silver is down 1.5% to $ 53.
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  Speaker 18: 15 at the moment.
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  Speaker 9: And I just look at this as a great opportunity
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  Speaker 9: to purchase more with what you've got and to make
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  Speaker 9: sure that you have that buttress. especially for those who
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  Speaker 9: are approaching retirement, right, James? It's a good thing to
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  Speaker 9: have something that's not going to, you know, go way down,
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  Speaker 9: go way up.
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  Speaker 6: Or anything like that, right?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, we tell our clients, we understand a lot of people,
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  Speaker 18: you know, have investments in the stock market.
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  Speaker 1: They have investments in their.
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  Speaker 18: 401k and mutual funds and all of that, you know,
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  Speaker 18: lots of different T-bills out there. There are lots of
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  Speaker 18: different investments, and that's why we just tell people just
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  Speaker 18: about 10% of your portfolio we recommend should be in
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  Speaker 18: physical gold and silver. Of course, we're not saying that
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  Speaker 18: everyone should empty their bank accounts and come to JCS
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  Speaker 18: Gold and buy as much gold and silver as possible.
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  Speaker 18: But just about 10% in physical gold and silver that
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  Speaker 18: you actually hold on to and store yourself. which can
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  Speaker 18: be a reasonable amount that can fit in a gun
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  Speaker 18: safe or a safety deposit box or wherever you feel
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  Speaker 18: comfortable storing it.
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  Speaker 1: But we just say buy on a regular basis and.
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  Speaker 18: Be consistent about it once a month, once every two weeks,
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  Speaker 18: once a quarter to just stack your position. That way
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  Speaker 18: you're going to buy all these discounts just as they happen.
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  Speaker 18: They're going to line up with your purchasing date. You're
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  Speaker 18: going to take advantage of some of these lower prices.
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  Speaker 18: You're going to buy a little bit higher price But ultimately,
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  Speaker 18: you're going to cost average in and you're going to
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  Speaker 18: stack your position in gold and silver.
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  Speaker 9: And a quick note, wherever you stash your gold and silver,
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  Speaker 9: I know that mattresses are a common place that really
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  Speaker 9: is uncomfortable if you hide your gold and silver inside
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  Speaker 9: your mattress. You wind up stiff in places you don't
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  Speaker 9: want to be stiff. So find some place you don't
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  Speaker 9: have to sleep on to hide your gold and silver in. But, James,
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  Speaker 9: good stuff, my friend. Call them any time. at 434-979-COIN.
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  Speaker 9: You're going to get a voicemail sometimes. They open at
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  Speaker 9: 10 Eastern, a family business out there to help you
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  Speaker 9: not upsell you. James, you have a great morning, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Joe. You too.
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  Speaker 9: So what are the next two years going to look like? Well,
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  Speaker 9: I know there are those who are hoping that the
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  Speaker 9: polls and the pundits and the prognosticators are wrong, and
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  Speaker 9: they might be. So let's just take the the same
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  Speaker 9: narrative that greeted the red tsunami that didn't materialize. And
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  Speaker 9: let's look at a more modest, Hakeem Jeffries battles AOC
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  Speaker 9: for Speaker of the House, causing some tension. But at
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  Speaker 9: the end of the day, AOC says, fine, I'll just
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  Speaker 9: be the next president then. And she sits back down.
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  Speaker 9: You know, they give her some chair, you know, House
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  Speaker 9: Judiciary Committee or something like that. Won't that be fun?
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  Speaker 6: House Oversight. She's already on that committee, I think.
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  Speaker 9: And then Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 9: I think Thune stays the leader of a much tighter Senate.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's 51-49 at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm not saying I look for this, but for
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  Speaker 9: a lot of the folks who say it'll be nonstop impeachments,
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  Speaker 9: I want to stop you right there. Because one thing
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  Speaker 9: the Democrats learned from Donald Trump, it took them a while.
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  Speaker 9: They're not very bright, but it took them this long.
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  Speaker 9: They realized the best thing they can do for Republicans
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  Speaker 9: in 2028 and the worst thing they can do for
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  Speaker 9: themselves is impeach Donald Trump. Even one time, if they
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  Speaker 9: file articles of impeachment, their chances of holding onto the
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  Speaker 9: House in 2028 vanish almost immediately. I would love to
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  Speaker 9: think that my brothers and sisters in the media would
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  Speaker 9: hold them to account for the same things they try
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  Speaker 9: to hold Republicans to account for, saying, well, what's this
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  Speaker 9: got to do with making things more affordable?
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  Speaker 6: They won't.
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  Speaker 9: But every time Donald Trump is under attack, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 9: becomes more powerful. So I don't think you're going to
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  Speaker 9: see any impeachment filings. You might hear a couple of
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  Speaker 9: backbenchers say, they're just trying to score some points on MSNOW.
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  Speaker 9: But What you will see are a bunch of big
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  Speaker 9: spending plans go to the president's desk and get vetoed.
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  Speaker 9: I think you're going to see some big spending bills
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  Speaker 9: coming down in December that are going to get vetoed
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  Speaker 9: and we're going to have government shutdowns, partial government shutdowns.
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  Speaker 9: And by the end of the first year, you will
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  Speaker 9: find ourselves in exactly the same place we are now.
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  Speaker 9: Except for the fact that the Iranians will have come
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  Speaker 9: to the table. We will have ended that war. The
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  Speaker 9: gas prices will be coming down again. And you know
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  Speaker 9: who will be crowing about gas prices coming back down?
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  Speaker 6: The Democrats.
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  Speaker 9: So that's just what my crystal ball tells me the
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  Speaker 9: next couple of years are going to be like. I
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  Speaker 9: would love to see the Republicans maintain their majorities in
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  Speaker 9: the House and Senate. I think it's still feasible, mostly
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  Speaker 9: because of the way the Democrats are acting and running around.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think they believe they've got this in the bag.
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  Speaker 9: And think about it, if you draw the delineation of
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  Speaker 9: this election being Trump versus Obama, then it becomes a
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  Speaker 9: little bit more straightforward.
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  Speaker 16: You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
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  Speaker 15: If you choose not to decide, you still have made
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  Speaker 9: 434-882-4217 is our phone number one week away from the
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  Speaker 9: midterm elections culminating. Most states, and we're just stunned by
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  Speaker 9: some of these numbers, 4.5 million votes already cast in Texas, 3.3
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  Speaker 9: million almost entirely by mail in California so far. And
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  Speaker 9: I thought Virginia should be embarrassed a little bit, I think.
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  Speaker 9: We've been voting for 45 days, and we only have
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: a million votes in so far?
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: And turnout's the thing. And turnout is going to be key.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: We've talked about this until we're red in the face. Well,
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: because blue in the face would indicate I'm rooting for
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  Speaker 9: a different party. So you've got to change the slogan.
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  Speaker 6: But what is it?
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: And I've been accused of this, and I want our next...
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  Speaker 9: guest to address this. He's known me a long time,
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  Speaker 9: but we faced an accusation that talk shows like this
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  Speaker 9: one that can look at things like, say, and bring up,
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: you know, why haven't they passed the Save America Act?
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: Why are they busy trying to save college sports from themselves?
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: Why are they doing? Why aren't they getting anything done?
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  Speaker 9: And it appears like we're trying to root against the Republicans.
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  Speaker 9: We're trying to do the Democrats' business by pointing out
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  Speaker 9: that they've not been able to do the things that
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  Speaker 9: we might have wanted them to do when we sent
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  Speaker 9: them there. So to answer that, a dear friend of mine,
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: been friends with me for a long time, and he's
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: held office through most of that, is Congressman John McGuire
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: from the House Oversight committee and foreign relations as well. John,
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: good morning, sir. What do you make of this accusation
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: that it's talk shows like mine that are driving down
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: Republican enthusiasm because we might bring up the failure of
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  Speaker 9: the Senate to pass the Save America Act?
• 30:48
  Speaker 21: Well, I got to say, we've got one week to go.
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  Speaker 24: The only thing that matters is, like you said earlier,
• 30:54
  Speaker 24: is get out the vote. We have election season in Virginia.
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  Speaker 24: It's the election day. It's ridiculous. But you would think
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  Speaker 24: that we would have, like you said, more people voting.
• 31:03
  Speaker 24: If you think it's hard to get the Save America
• 31:05
  Speaker 24: Act and stuff passed now, imagine if we lose the midterms.
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  Speaker 24: Every committee is going to turn into a website oversight subcommittee,
• 31:16
  Speaker 24: full committee. And it's just it's going to be a nightmare.
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  Speaker 9: And when they campaign for affordability, and that seems to
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  Speaker 9: be the mantra they've borrowed it from the Virginia Democrats, John,
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: it's been a lie here, too, because everything that the
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  Speaker 9: Democrats did when they won the statehouse in Virginia last
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: year has been to make things cost more, not less.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, it's laughable that they would even use the word affordability.
• 31:44
  Speaker 24: You know, the Democrats believe that if they get you,
• 31:48
  Speaker 24: every day they get somebody dependent on government, it's a victory.
• 31:52
  Speaker 24: And Republicans think every day we get.
• 31:55
  Speaker 21: You independent of government, it's a victory. Abigail Spanberger, you remember,
• 31:59
  Speaker 21: ran on affordability.
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  Speaker 24: And within a week, her and the Democrats proposed over
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  Speaker 24: 50 new taxes because they think they can spend your
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  Speaker 24: money better than you.
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  Speaker 21: How is that affordable?
• 32:08
  Speaker 24: And then she put us back into Reggie, which raised
• 32:10
  Speaker 24: everyone's electric bill. And my opponent, Tom Perriello, he voted
• 32:16
  Speaker 24: on the cap and trade, which is what Reggie is.
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  Speaker 21: At a national level.
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  Speaker 24: And in an MSNBC interview, they said, but this would
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  Speaker 24: double people's energy costs and cost 50,000 Virginia jobs. He
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  Speaker 24: admitted that and he made the vote anyway, but luckily
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  Speaker 24: it failed.
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  Speaker 9: Well, and that's the, you know, we look at all
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: these things and they seem like it's Marxism with lipstick
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: on it. It's all about taking from Paul to give
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  Speaker 9: to Peter and And of course, then you're always going
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: to get Peter's vote. And you just have to get
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: Paul to agree to vote for you a couple of
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: times and you win. And it doesn't pencil out. And,
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: you know, I tried to paint a picture of what
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: the next two years could be like if the House
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: is lost and Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker of the House.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Even if it's a fractious battle with AOC at first,
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: they always get in line. They do this dog and
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: pony show of fighting with one another. And then They
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: all just line up and vote for the team, John.
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: So what peril is there of costs, of gas prices,
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: of electric bills on a grand national scale?
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: You've lived it for years now.
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: What have they been chomping at the bit to do
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: over the last few years that they're going to rush
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: to do that are going to wind up costing especially
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: small business owners in the United States of their ability
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: to keep their business open and employing people.
• 33:52
  Speaker 24: Well, they're horrible for business and they want to double
• 33:55
  Speaker 24: your taxes and they want all these, they want to
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  Speaker 24: give healthcare.
• 34:00
  Speaker 21: And all kinds of benefits to illegals.
• 34:02
  Speaker 24: I would ask the Democrats, when are you going to
• 34:04
  Speaker 24: stop being for them and start being for us? When
• 34:06
  Speaker 24: are the Democrats going to stop being for the people
• 34:09
  Speaker 24: that want to tear down this country and start being
• 34:11
  Speaker 24: for we the people? If you look at Paris Vernon,
• 34:15
  Speaker 24: socialism never works. They gave them 32 hour work week.
• 34:19
  Speaker 24: They gave them all kinds of social programs. They let
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  Speaker 24: open borders, brought all these people in, and they burned
• 34:25
  Speaker 24: the city anyway.
• 34:26
  Speaker 21: It's never enough. And Margaret Thatcher said.
• 34:29
  Speaker 24: The problem with socialism is it sounds like a good
• 34:33
  Speaker 24: idea to run out of other people's money.
• 34:36
  Speaker 21: But they would be horrible.
• 34:37
  Speaker 24: In fact, they want to push these climate change, green,
• 34:40
  Speaker 24: new scam policies. We used to have 250 refineries in
• 34:44
  Speaker 24: the country. You've probably heard me say it. Now we're
• 34:46
  Speaker 24: down to 130. We kneecapped ourselves. We shut down almost
• 34:50
  Speaker 24: 50% of our coal plants. And so every time you sneeze,
• 34:54
  Speaker 24: our gas prices go up. There's a hurricane, gas prices
• 34:56
  Speaker 24: go up. There's a conflict in the Middle East, gas
• 34:59
  Speaker 24: prices go up. If we had those 250 refineries a.
• 35:02
  Speaker 21: Day, we would have energy abundance.
• 35:04
  Speaker 24: And no matter what happened, you still have $ 2 a
• 35:06
  Speaker 24: gallon gas.
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: You mentioned France, and I made this case when the
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: riots happened last weekend. This is what, just as you said,
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: this is the fruit of these policies, these ignorance- of
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: the law, these ignorance of peril that's being threatened. How
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: close is the United States to having our own version
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: of what was going on in Paris and all those
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: other French cities?
• 35:38
  Speaker 24: I think if Kamala Harris were your president, U.S. cities
• 35:42
  Speaker 24: would be burning right now. Well, you know, one of
• 35:44
  Speaker 24: the things we did is we shut down USAID. We
• 35:47
  Speaker 24: stopped the funding for some of these terror groups. You know,
• 35:50
  Speaker 24: my opponent, Tom Perriello, works for George Soros, and he
• 35:53
  Speaker 24: ran the Open Society Foundation that pushed... 15 to 20
• 35:58
  Speaker 24: million illegal criminals into our country. I don't know if
• 36:01
  Speaker 24: you know, but Lake and Raleigh, that blood is on
• 36:04
  Speaker 24: the hands of Democrats like Tom Perriello.
• 36:07
  Speaker 21: And there's too many. In Louisa County.
• 36:09
  Speaker 24: You probably saw a two-year-old girl two months ago was
• 36:12
  Speaker 24: raped and murdered by an illegal alien. That blood is
• 36:16
  Speaker 24: on the hands of Democrats like Tom Perriello. It's suicidal
• 36:20
  Speaker 24: empathy or something.
• 36:21
  Speaker 21: I don't know.
• 36:22
  Speaker 24: But the enemy is not at the gate. The enemy
• 36:24
  Speaker 24: is in the gate. And you may remember during the
• 36:27
  Speaker 24: Summer of Love when Black Lives Matter burned our cities
• 36:30
  Speaker 24: for like eight months, the Open Society Foundation funneled $ 220
• 36:37
  Speaker 24: million to them to help them get out of jail
• 36:40
  Speaker 24: and everything else so they can continue burning our cities.
• 36:43
  Speaker 21: Thank God we got President Trump.
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  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: France is actually kind of copying us from that year. John,
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: how is the get out the vote? I mean, are
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: you seeing people saying, I don't know, I'm frustrated? Do
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: you have to kind of convince them to vote or
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: are they fired up when you see them?
• 37:02
  Speaker 24: It's a real challenge. But you got to think about it.
• 37:04
  Speaker 24: The Democrats, I hate to say it, they know what
• 37:06
  Speaker 24: they're doing. Like, they are putting the most negative ads
• 37:09
  Speaker 24: out there. And, you know, I see Jen Kegas and
• 37:11
  Speaker 24: Tom and Rob Whitman and myself. In my case, they
• 37:15
  Speaker 24: are attacking me with the most disgusting, sick ads. Like,
• 37:19
  Speaker 24: they're saying that I'm... I did not vote to release
• 37:23
  Speaker 24: the Epstein files.
• 37:24
  Speaker 21: Well, I did vote.
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  Speaker 24: In November 2025, every single member of the House of
• 37:28
  Speaker 24: Representatives voted to release all the Epstein files except one person.
• 37:32
  Speaker 24: And you correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
• 37:34
  Speaker 24: Epstein was a Democrat. All of his money went to Democrats.
• 37:37
  Speaker 24: All the bad actors in the Epstein files that I've
• 37:39
  Speaker 24: seen are Democrats. And in the Biden administration, they released
• 37:43
  Speaker 24: zero files.
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  Speaker 21: We've released millions.
• 37:47
  Speaker 24: And somehow the Democrats are trying to stick that on us.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a weird thing.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: John McGuire, no, mcguire4virginia. com. John, you have a great morning, sir,
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: and keep getting out the vote.
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  Speaker 25: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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  Speaker 27: I'm Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security. I'm here to
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  Speaker 6: Who work hard to provide for their young.
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  Speaker 7: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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  Speaker 6: Heart and brain. Who's with me?
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  Speaker 7: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed. And my
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  Speaker 21: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 22: Me too.
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service to you. 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 9: As everyone's in campaign mode right now, everyone's got another
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  Speaker 9: point to make, another hit. And it becomes wearisome because
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: so much of it is, look at how bad the
• 44:41
  Speaker 9: other guy is. And go back to what I was
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: saying about aspirational campaigns versus desperational campaigns. If the campaigner
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: is saying, I want to be for this, and we're
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: talking about 10%, maybe 20% of people who are uncommitted,
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  Speaker 9: you'll see, especially in early polls, not that I'm a
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  Speaker 9: huge devotee of polls, but there are efficacies of just
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: getting a mindset for what's going on on the street.
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  Speaker 9: There'll be, you know, 40% for the Republican, 40% for
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: the Democrat, and 20% undecided. And that's always what these
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: campaigns are about. It's about moving that 20% to your
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: side or the other. It's why these congressional districts that
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: are 20 points to the Republican or 40 points to
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  Speaker 9: the Democrat.
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  Speaker 6: They don't do.
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  Speaker 9: Anything for you because outside of primaries, which usually fall
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: under the banner of why are you going after our guy?
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: It becomes ugly because the grassroots will say, why are
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: you attacking our guy? That's why the 1929 Permanent Reapportionment
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: Act is so important. But I wanted to address the
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: elephant in the room, because now we've crested 20 text
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  Speaker 9: messages or emails asking or sending me a mugshot, a
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: particular mugshot, and asking me, why haven't I brought this
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: up yet? And, you know, we spent a lot of
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: time talking about the arrest of the most powerful Democrat
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  Speaker 9: in Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: We're sorry. Governor Spanberger, it's not you.
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  Speaker 9: Louise Lucas. And her mugshot is, as I predicted, without
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: her wig, her signature hairstyle. And the reason I finally
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: decided to address this, not to say that it means
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: one thing or another, aside from the fact that it's
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: an elected official in a mugshot, which I think should
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: speak to itself whether or not she kind of looks
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: like some doll character from Toy Story without her wig on, is.
• 47:31
  Speaker 6: A different matter.
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  Speaker 9: Trust me, I am not one to deride somebody for
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: how they appear, especially without hair. If you've ever seen
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: photographs of me, you know I have a considerable amount
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: of hair of my own. But there was a period
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: of time about 14 years ago where I didn't. Chemotherapy
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: will do that to you. And Ray Fiennes, I believe,
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: patterned his Voldemort look after what I looked like.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it was bad.
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  Speaker 9: Every hair on my body fell out, except my ear hair.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm really wondering what that means. Is ear hair
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  Speaker 9: different than all the other hair?
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't my.
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  Speaker 9: Of all the hair on my body, I would have
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: paid cash money to have my ear hair fall out.
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  Speaker 6: But there it was.
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  Speaker 9: I was beginning to think if I grew it long enough,
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  Speaker 9: I could comb over and at least I wouldn't look completely,
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: frighteningly bald.
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  Speaker 6: No eyebrows, no eyelashes, no goatee, nothing.
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  Speaker 9: And so I'm not going to make fun of somebody's
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  Speaker 9: appearance just because they've got no hair. Female pattern baldness happens.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: And, uh, It's rough.
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: But I didn't want to bring it up until Jerry,
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: being a habitual user, said, Joe, I've heard you frequently
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: refer to people as dumber than a bag of hair.
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: Exhibit one for the prosecution is a bag of actual hair.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: And Louise's mugshot includes a photograph of her wig. in
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: an evidence bag. And yes, so now I've saved that
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: particular photograph for whenever I need to make my case
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: for someone being as dumb as a bag of hair.
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: Because when I saw that, I said, oh, look, a
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: bag of hair. How interesting. is that 434-973-434-882-4217 is our
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  Speaker 9: Go to the phone lines. I want to see who's
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  Speaker 15: I'm sorry.
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: He got monologuing again. So 434-882-4217 is where you hook up.
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  Speaker 9: with us this morning. Let me get to, who is it?
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  Speaker 6: It's Joel.
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  Speaker 27: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Joel is on the line with us at 434-882-4217. Good morning, Joel.
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  Speaker 9: What's going on, my friend?
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  Speaker 19: Hey, good morning, Joe. I just wanted to say this
• 50:25
  Speaker 19: about President Trump. One thing that he, I don't know,
• 50:32
  Speaker 19: he marks himself as being, he's consistent. And You can
• 50:37
  Speaker 19: say that even throughout before he was even a president
• 50:40
  Speaker 19: in a lot of his beliefs in America. And what's
• 50:44
  Speaker 19: funny is they show clips with Oprah and then Phil
• 50:48
  Speaker 19: Donahue and people like that. And then what I think
• 50:53
  Speaker 19: is interesting, too, throughout these rallies for Republicans that are
• 51:00
  Speaker 19: going to be governors and senators and state representatives and
• 51:05
  Speaker 19: then congressmen, and Congresswomen for the federal portion of the government,
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  Speaker 19: that he shows that CNN clip. And the guy on
• 51:16
  Speaker 19: there is so adamant. He's so lively. And President Trump
• 51:22
  Speaker 19: makes this disclaimer. He goes, well, you know how much
• 51:24
  Speaker 19: I feel about CNN, but I have to give them
• 51:26
  Speaker 19: congrats on this. And you got to wonder, if you
• 51:30
  Speaker 19: had a split TV and you could show Democrats in
• 51:34
  Speaker 19: a crowd or or the CNN watchers, what they're thinking like.
• 51:39
  Speaker 19: It's like that commercial where the guy goes, will you
• 51:42
  Speaker 19: please pass the jelly? And it was actually fruit spread,
• 51:47
  Speaker 19: you know, and all these people like, oh, you know,
• 51:50
  Speaker 19: like you said something wrong, but he's bringing the reality,
• 51:53
  Speaker 19: you know, some reality into the world of AI and
• 51:57
  Speaker 19: lying and.
• 51:57
  Speaker 21: All this other stuff.
• 51:58
  Speaker 19: So I hope it's consistent and I hope the people
• 52:01
  Speaker 19: that have made those polls rise are actually voting.
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  Speaker 9: Well, and that's the key is don't believe the polls,
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: first off, Joel. Don't believe them because they are interpretive
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: dance more than science. They are truly scientism because they
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: begin with premises like, well, we think the Republicans are
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: pissed off and they're going to stay home. So we're
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: going to survey three times as many Democrats as we
• 52:29
  Speaker 9: survey Republicans. And that's how you wind up with some
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: of these skewed numbers. And somebody said, well, we're.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: Going to talk about polls a little bit later on, but.
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: It's more of an advertising campaign than anything else.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: You want to be with the winner. Anyway, Joel, you
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: have a good morning, sir.
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