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"Doubting Thomas" (FTTxJT Fri 092526 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Is it really safe?
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  Speaker 2: Is it really safe?
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  Speaker 3: And is it really effective?
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when.
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  Speaker 1: The sun comes up, drops the kids to school and
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  Speaker 1: on the way.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 8: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: this morning.
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  Speaker 6: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Coming to you from location this morning at our Big
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  Speaker 3: Ridge Guns and Archery on location studios at Common Ground
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  Speaker 3: in a beautiful town in between Charlottesville and Stanton called
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  Speaker 3: Fishersville for our weekly conference. City elders get together, cityelders.org,
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  Speaker 3: governing the city gates, putting ethical people. While we work
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  Speaker 3: on removing the power of unconstitutional takeover of the American
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  Speaker 3: economy and life from the government, while that is being unwound,
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  Speaker 3: we need ethical people in there while the levers still exist.
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  Speaker 3: So you need to find out more about them. CityElders.org
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  Speaker 3: is the national website. We're in, I think, nine states
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  Speaker 3: now have chapters. And if you're interested in starting one,
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  Speaker 3: our host here said he would gladly explain how easy
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  Speaker 3: it is to start one up and operate one to
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  Speaker 3: promote and to help gather ethical people together to lead
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  Speaker 3: the with the humility that being a faith-based person gives you.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin at CityEldersVA.org is how you get in touch with
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  Speaker 3: him there. But we started in Oklahoma and all over
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  Speaker 3: the country, and it is my hope that we can
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  Speaker 3: find our way to have City Elders chapters all over
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  Speaker 3: the place before all is said and done. Plenty to
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  Speaker 3: get into. We were just talking about presidents. Trump and
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  Speaker 3: the state dinner yesterday where Chairman Xi and we got misinformation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I thought that the food had been purchased
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  Speaker 3: at the wet market in Wuhan, China. I was in
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  Speaker 3: error with that. My apologies for that. Oops, my bad.
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  Speaker 3: But Charles writes in to JT in the morning radio
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  Speaker 3: at gmail.com. He said, did Eric Swalwell attend the dinner
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  Speaker 3: to meet with Chairman Xi and ask whether Fang Fang
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  Speaker 3: was still available. See, this is why you guys are
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  Speaker 3: such a tough crowd, because you never forget this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and it's important that we never forget, because they want
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  Speaker 3: us to forget at some point or another. Here are
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  Speaker 3: the first things, the stories that we're following for you
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  Speaker 3: this morning. State dinner last night, Chairman Xi and a
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  Speaker 3: room full of tech billionaires all invited by the president
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  Speaker 3: to sit down and break bread. And one wonders if
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  Speaker 3: they sent out for Mushu pork or not. I'm told
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  Speaker 3: there was some good American salmon on the menu there,
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  Speaker 3: not raised in a Chinese farm. It would be interesting
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  Speaker 3: if Smithfield had provided any of the sausages for the dinner.
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  Speaker 3: But as far as we know, it was just fun
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  Speaker 3: was had. The press, meanwhile, is covering the fact that, quote,
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  Speaker 3: nothing has happened. Heavy on pomp and light on substance,
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  Speaker 3: writes the Associated Press, that you know of should be
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  Speaker 3: the codicil. Today, President Trump will be taking Chairman Xi
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  Speaker 3: to the National Archives to put him in the same
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  Speaker 3: room as the Bill of Rights to see if Chairman
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  Speaker 3: Xi bursts into flames or not. One wonders if we
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  Speaker 3: could have a dramatic recreation of that wonderful final scene
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  Speaker 3: from that Star Trek episode where they find the E.
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  Speaker 3: Flemista in the case. Three news organizations banned from the
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  Speaker 3: White House for days were back Thursday after a judge
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  Speaker 3: handed CNN, MSNOW, and Politico a reprieve from the removal
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  Speaker 3: of their passes to the White House press room. New
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  Speaker 3: York State has sued the prediction market PolyMarket on Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and darn it,
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  Speaker 3: in New York, only the state can be the gambling
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  Speaker 3: operation of record. They've called for the judge to block
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  Speaker 3: the company from operating in the state. The lawsuit is
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  Speaker 3: the latest legal challenge from the state trying to rein
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  Speaker 3: in these betting apps. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was
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  Speaker 3: told to return 650,000 ballots that he seized to investigate
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  Speaker 3: whether there was election irregularities in the November 2025 special
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  Speaker 3: election statewide congressional redistricting. The court called the ballot seizure unlawful.
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  Speaker 3: And in a fiery speech to the UN General Assembly,
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  Speaker 3: another one, This time from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 3: who criticized the characterization of what's going on in Gaza
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  Speaker 3: as genocide, calling it the lie of the century. And
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  Speaker 3: those are some of our first things now we can
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  Speaker 3: discuss at 434-882-4217 here along the Talk Media Network. First
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  Speaker 3: thing this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Do you smell that?
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 17: Freedom of the press. Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 3: Then probably.
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  Speaker 19: Sure.
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  Speaker 19: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: coming to your city elders meeting.
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  Speaker 4: And the 37 who signed the Constitution. And here's to you, Mr.
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  Speaker 14: Jefferson.
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  Speaker 3: We all miss you.
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  Speaker 1: More than you will know.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you, please, Mr. Madison.
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  Speaker 4: Heaven help these fools that legislate.
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  Speaker 18: Rights away.
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  Speaker 3: Our rights away. Larry writes in from St. Augustine, listening
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  Speaker 3: to us on 1021 WFLY down there. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: you got tickets to the show up the pike from you.
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  Speaker 3: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Jacksonville. Go online, joethomasinthemorning.com, and you can get
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  Speaker 3: yourself some there. Enter to win, and we'll be doing
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  Speaker 3: some drawings in a little while from the folks who enter,
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  Speaker 3: wherever it is. We've got a whole bunch of intersectionality.
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  Speaker 3: I know that's not generally how they use the phrase
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  Speaker 3: these days, but places where the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 30th anniversary
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  Speaker 3: tour intersects with this year's programs. And you're not under
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  Speaker 3: any obligation if you're listening to us at KFAR in Fairbanks, Alaska,
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  Speaker 3: and you want to take a road trip to see
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  Speaker 3: them in Portland and you want to enter, that's on you.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do the transportation to the show. But we've
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  Speaker 3: got Portland and we've got Ontario, California. So many neat places,
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  Speaker 3: San Antonio. So wherever you are, Dallas for our friends
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  Speaker 3: in Lumberton and Beaumont, if you want to take the
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  Speaker 3: trip on over there, get it for the folks along
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  Speaker 3: the Gulf. We've got Tampa, St. Pete, WBGS. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: they're in St. Petersburg. But the question coming in from St.
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  Speaker 3: Augustine is, aren't you this Mr. Jefferson guy? you love
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Jefferson to no end, and he was the one
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  Speaker 3: that said, you've got to keep religion out of government.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what he said. See, this is the thing
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  Speaker 3: about history and what's important about my industry and giving
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  Speaker 3: an honest report. Thomas Jefferson never said that. Thomas Jefferson
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  Speaker 3: said that we needed to keep the government firewalled, let's
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  Speaker 3: use the phrase of the morning, guard-railed, out of And
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  Speaker 3: here's why. So follow the timeline. This is my timeline only.
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  Speaker 3: This is just based on my theology. Our friend John Quesenberry,
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  Speaker 3: who runs the City Elders in Charlottesville, Virginia, of all that,
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  Speaker 3: is also a minister. And he always face palms when
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  Speaker 3: I get into this because he's like, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Got that theology in your hand again, and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to hurt yourself. But understand, you know, we go, we
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  Speaker 3: start Moses... And this is the liberty to tyranny cycle
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  Speaker 3: that goes on. And we've watched it time and time again.
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  Speaker 3: John Locke saw it, and of course Jefferson schooled up
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  Speaker 3: in Locke in the Enlightenment. So you begin Moses frees
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  Speaker 3: the Israelites, who almost immediately start saying to him, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, things were better back... You think they
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  Speaker 3: learned the error of their ways? And it was a struggle, because...
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  Speaker 3: As Jefferson said, experience hath shown we will suffer the
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  Speaker 3: tolerable abuses as long as they stay tolerable. So back
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  Speaker 3: to your question about whether or not this is a
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  Speaker 3: violation by supporting folks like the city elders, governing the
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  Speaker 3: gates of the city, cityelders.org, here on location or in
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  Speaker 3: their prayer meeting right now. if this is a violation
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  Speaker 3: of this imagined Jeffersonian attack, there's a wonderful book, I
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  Speaker 3: would suggest you look it up, by a fellow named
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  Speaker 3: Mark Beliles, another great Central Virginian. The book is called,
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  Speaker 3: if I remember it correctly, Doubting Thomas. Doubting Thomas is
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  Speaker 3: not about me or my wife. It is about this
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  Speaker 3: mischaracterization of Jefferson the Atheist. And it's a wonderful book,
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  Speaker 3: Mark Belisle's Doubting Thomas. He's going to sit there and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to get some email from Amazon saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: your book sold 100 copies on Friday and we don't
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  Speaker 3: know why. It's a great book and I think you
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  Speaker 3: can still get it. It's like five bucks, whatever. I'll
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  Speaker 3: check and make sure. But Doubting Thomas is the name
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  Speaker 3: of the book. And it speaks to exactly what you've
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  Speaker 3: been told about Thomas Jefferson's attitude on faith. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to remember, Thomas Jefferson wrote the most important word about
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  Speaker 3: this country. The most important mitochondria in our country's DNA
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  Speaker 3: is the word there. Do I wish Thomas Jefferson had
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  Speaker 3: fought harder to keep his elegant treaties against slavery in
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. Constitution?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. But if it was in exchange of the word there,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I would take that trade. Endowed
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  Speaker 3: by their creator. It's on you to have a creator.
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  Speaker 3: It's not on the government to assign one to you.
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  Speaker 3: But the timeline. So Moses frees the Israelites. And then
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  Speaker 3: David's church continues on. through Jerusalem where the Romans occupy
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  Speaker 3: and the Romans act like Romans and they take over
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  Speaker 3: and the temple is corrupted because of the government and
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  Speaker 3: the temple, because the Romans like the fact that in
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  Speaker 3: the Jewish tradition, the temple is really the seat of
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  Speaker 3: the governing and that the family is the most important part.
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  Speaker 3: And it gets corrupted and it's selling indulgences. We brought
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  Speaker 3: that phrase up earlier in the program. The same thing
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  Speaker 3: with all this, oh, regulate me, regulate me. It's selling
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  Speaker 3: indulgences in our American temple. And here's why I say this.
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  Speaker 3: So now this carpenter rabbi from Galilee comes along and
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  Speaker 3: starts kicking over tables because he's trying to save the temple.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to save the Jewish church. He's not trying
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  Speaker 3: to start a new one. It's only after they nail
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  Speaker 3: him to the cross that he's like, I guess we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to start something new because they're not listening.
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  Speaker 3: But he came to Jerusalem on that Passover to try
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  Speaker 3: to save the church from its corruption because the government
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  Speaker 3: and the church had become too intermingled. Because the government
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  Speaker 3: and church became indistinguishable. So you go forward. Constantine comes
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  Speaker 3: along and does the takeover of the faith, Peter's church.
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  Speaker 3: And now you start to see the European corruptions. The
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  Speaker 3: crowned heads of Europe are using Jesus' name in vain
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  Speaker 3: to gain their power and their authority over the people.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where Martin Luther comes along and says,
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  Speaker 3: we can send the Bibles home with you and you
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  Speaker 3: can read them for yourself. And then that becomes corrupted
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  Speaker 3: by guys like Henry VIII. And finally, Jefferson comes along
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  Speaker 3: and says, maybe, just maybe, we should make sure that
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  Speaker 3: the government doesn't get its grubby little mitts on our churches.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where the whole essence of the separation of
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Time for our sports director, Mac McDonald, to open his
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  Speaker 3: reporter's notebook for us on this Friday morning. Thank you, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: and good morning. Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 12: The U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Senate is moving toward a final vote on the Protect
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  Speaker 8: College Sports Act after clearing multiple procedural hurdles this month.
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  Speaker 8: The first vote passed 74-24 to limit debate and advance
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  Speaker 8: consideration of the Protect College Sports Act. The second vote
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  Speaker 8: passed 77-22 to move the bill forward in the Senate.
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  Speaker 8: The latest procedural vote passed 70-21 to clear a cloture
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  Speaker 8: vote so as far as the house status is concerned
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  Speaker 8: the u s house of representatives is in recess until
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  Speaker 8: november ninth meaning any house vote will occur post senate
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  Speaker 8: passage former virginia governor and senator george allen has long
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  Speaker 8: been a proponent of fairness in college athletics His background
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  Speaker 8: of being a UVA quarterback, his legendary father coaching the Redskins,
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  Speaker 8: and of course, his push for Virginia Tech to be
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: a member of the ACC exemplifies his personal feelings on
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: major sports issues. So with the Protect College Sports Act,
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: the senator explained to Bud Foster and yours truly, what
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: happens next?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's the amendment process.
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  Speaker 19: What happens next will be amendments. There are people, there
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  Speaker 19: are senators who don't like the bill as drafted or
• 29:46
  Speaker 19: would like to see modifications or some other aspects, provisions
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  Speaker 19: put into it. But at least they said, all right,
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  Speaker 19: let's at least have a debate, which is helpful. And
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  Speaker 19: so at the end of that, Usually with a bill
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  Speaker 19: like this, or a lot of legislation, is that, is
• 30:04
  Speaker 19: there more good than bad? Or do you have to
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  Speaker 19: too distasteful that even if you do like a provision
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  Speaker 19: or two, You just think the overall bill is too
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  Speaker 19: bad and you vote against it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Senator Allen is in favor of football players being paid,
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: considering what the Power 4 programs bring to the table.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: He thinks it's only fair considering coaches and their contracts.
• 30:28
  Speaker 19: I think especially football players ought to be paid. They're
• 30:31
  Speaker 19: risking their health, their business. making literally tens if not
• 30:38
  Speaker 19: hundreds of millions of dollars for athletic programs and and
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  Speaker 19: football is a business and athletics is a business and
• 30:45
  Speaker 19: the football programs have to pay for all these other
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  Speaker 19: sports that the basketball and some of the women's programs
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  Speaker 19: and basketball will will pay for themselves for the most
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  Speaker 19: part depending on what conference you're in but the um
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  Speaker 19: There's not a limit on coaches and how much they're paid.
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  Speaker 8: There is one main debatable part of the Protect College
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  Speaker 8: Sports Act, according to Allen, the collective bargaining agreement. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: if college athletes should have a union to force athletic
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: department decisions.
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  Speaker 19: So you have that restraint of trade, but the NFL
• 31:18
  Speaker 19: gets away with this monopoly because they have a collective
• 31:22
  Speaker 19: bargaining agreement. And that's going to be one of the
• 31:26
  Speaker 19: debating points for college sports is the colleges don't want
• 31:30
  Speaker 19: these football players to be employees. And I'm not one
• 31:35
  Speaker 19: who's for unions, and I don't think government workers ought
• 31:38
  Speaker 19: to be in unions. Collective bargaining, all that's good for
• 31:42
  Speaker 19: is lawyers and drives up the cost for the taxpayers
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  Speaker 19: who have to pay for it. Some of the limits
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: they have in there and how many years you have
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  Speaker 19: to play and how many times you can transfer. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 19: I also think of when the time of players transferring.
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  Speaker 19: And I think they're getting that in better order. There
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  Speaker 19: needs to be some continuity, some limits. while still giving folks,
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  Speaker 8: And one more final note, stepping into the bill that's
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: in front of the House, the revenue sharing cap that
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: limits direct athlete compensation to 22% of average annual athletic
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  Speaker 8: revenue for Power 4 conferences. And I trust relief that
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: grants the NCAA protections to enforce... standardized rules across states
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: and courts, and the athlete benefits. It mandates five years
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: of post-eligibility health care coverage for student-athletes. Part one of
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: our interview with Senator George Allen will air tomorrow on
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  Speaker 8: Foster & Friends and WTON Radio. Joe, I will close
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  Speaker 8: the notebook for another week, and I will see you
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, you're going to see me in a little while
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  Speaker 3: because we're going to have lunch together as he has
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  Speaker 3: arrived here in our flagship city. I appreciate that. And
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have to agree to disagree on some
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  Speaker 3: companies asking the government to punish them and regulate them
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  Speaker 3: so that they can protect their own little pieces of
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  Speaker 3: college programs are asking for the same thing. Let the
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  Speaker 3: marketplace decide. And I've said this before. If football or
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  Speaker 3: basketball is a big marketing portion of an athletic department
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  Speaker 3: or a university, I should say, a university's plan, then
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  Speaker 3: And people don't want to talk about it that way.
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  Speaker 3: But this is where we are now with sports, is
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  Speaker 3: that I think we're, number one, allowed the chicken in
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  Speaker 3: some way, shape, or form compensation. And that's the part
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  Speaker 3: that I find the most most disheartening in this whole
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• 34:54
  Speaker 3: many graduates actually go find a job. You know, what's
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: funny is the leftists who support this are the same
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  Speaker 3: who are required by legislation to prove to incoming students
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• 35:18
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  Speaker 6: $ 100, 000.
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• 36:31
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• 36:34
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• 36:43
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  Speaker 6: To choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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  Speaker 7: I am the one in eight Americans who struggle with hunger.
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  Speaker 7: People you pass by every day but never knew were hungry.
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  Speaker 6: I am hunger in America. Hunger can be hard to recognize.
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  Speaker 4: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
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  Speaker 4: First Amendment. Freedom of religion. Freedom of speech. Freedom of
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  Speaker 4: the press. Freedom to peaceably assemble. Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 4: Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
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  Speaker 4: doesn't make you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
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  Speaker 4: Think first. Go to thinkfirstamendment.org to learn more.
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  Speaker 5: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything?
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  Speaker 20: You guys, I love this song.
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  Speaker 4: I love these nachos.
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  Speaker 8: I love our kickball league.
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  Speaker 3: I love this guy.
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  Speaker 19: What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I love?
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  Speaker 14: A ride when it's time to head out.
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  Speaker 5: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
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  Speaker 5: ride when it's time to go home. Buzz driving is
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: drunk driving. A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 4: Radio.
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  Speaker 7: It's on.
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  Speaker 1: We could tell you what 6-7 means. Where's the fun
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  Speaker 1: in that? First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the
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  Speaker 1: Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 24: In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison
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  Speaker 24: by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.
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  Speaker 24: These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to
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  Speaker 24: the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government,
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  Speaker 24: they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem,
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  Speaker 24: if no one else can help, and if you can
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, did that upset you? Did that sound effect
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  Speaker 3: upset you? Apologies to you. But I was asked a
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  Speaker 3: question during the break through text at 434-882-4217. John asked
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  Speaker 3: this after our bit about the GI Bill. And if
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  Speaker 3: you're joining us in progress, after Mac and former Senator
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  Speaker 3: George Allen were talking about this, you know, government regulate
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  Speaker 3: college football act. which is more bad wrapped in bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I understand the problem that people want to fix,
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  Speaker 3: but the problem is a self-inflicted wound there. But I
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  Speaker 3: compared it. I said, well, where do we go from
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  Speaker 3: here if we're saying that a university degree has no
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  Speaker 3: value anymore because we have to pay college students? And
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  Speaker 3: it's always been my argument that A college athlete is
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  Speaker 3: being paid the value of the degree that they're getting.
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  Speaker 3: And this is, you know, my high school, I've said
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  Speaker 3: this before. Tell me if I've said this before. If
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  Speaker 3: I've said this before. If I've said this before. My
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  Speaker 3: high school football team, Bayside New York High School, was
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  Speaker 3: 42-2 during my high school career. Only lost twice, and
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  Speaker 3: that was in the city championship game two of the
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  Speaker 3: four years I was there. We won the city championship,
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  Speaker 3: the other two. And we had an incredible bunch of players.
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  Speaker 3: We dominated the biggest city in America. Aside from the
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  Speaker 3: puzzlement that we would draw maybe 30 people to watch
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  Speaker 3: the football game, and I know if you're listening to
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  Speaker 3: us in Texas, you're like, 30 people? 30 people watch
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  Speaker 3: spring practice tryouts? No, it was just girlfriends and moms.
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  Speaker 3: That's who was there in the crowd. It was because
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  Speaker 3: New York is a pro sports town. Even though our
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  Speaker 3: football team probably could have beaten the New York Jets,
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  Speaker 3: nobody came out to watch them. We only put one
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  Speaker 3: of our players into the league. Only one of our
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  Speaker 3: players ever played on Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: A whole.
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  Speaker 3: Crap load of them, though. Played on Saturdays. And I
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  Speaker 3: mean for universities like Cornell. And Princeton, Ivy League schools,
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  Speaker 3: SEC schools, Iowa. And they all, many of them came
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: back with college degrees and started businesses and started non-profits
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: and became doctors because they were given a chance to
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: to play collegiate athletics and get a degree while doing so.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: I said, what's next? Do we have to, you know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: some lawyers start saying, well, for the soldiers that don't
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: use the GI Bill, do we have to give them
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: the cash value of whatever degree they had? So that
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: catches you up to where we are. John writes in
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  Speaker 3: to 434-882-4217, I'm just asking because I don't know, did
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  Speaker 3: the GI Bill also pay for skills training such as
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  Speaker 3: welding or construction skills of any sort? Yes. Yes, they do.
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  Speaker 3: So here are the things you can get with the
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  Speaker 3: GI Bill. College degrees, associate, bachelor's, advanced degrees, vocational and
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  Speaker 3: technical training, on-the-job apprenticeships, licensing and certification reimbursement, payment for
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  Speaker 3: national testing programs, specialized training, You can even qualify for
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  Speaker 3: monthly housing allowances and books and supplies. So, I mean,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: it's a full ride if you qualify for it by
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: serving in our military. But it pays directly for tuition
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  Speaker 3: and fees. It might even pick up housing, but it
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: also can be used for technical education. You want to
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: go to, you know, whether it's a vocational technical school
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: or something like that. John adds, as a postscript to
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: that question, one of the quickest ways from a republic
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  Speaker 3: to a dictatorship is to have the government provide all
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  Speaker 3: the solutions. Absolutely, John, you're absolutely 100% correct. Here's the
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: other problem with that. They're usually wrong. I mean, so,
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: you know, it's beyond just whether or not it's in
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: our Constitution or not. Their solutions are usually wrong. so
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: why would we ask somebody who's you know taking a
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: vote amongst you know 20 or 40 or 100 people
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  Speaker 3: that you don't know what you should be allowed to
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: do that's democracy that when you hear these people and
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: they talk about oh i'm a democratic socialist they're all
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: democratic all socialism is democratic as a matter of fact
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: one of the key points provisions of Socialism and Marxism
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: is democracy. I get to vote for what I want
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: taken from you. Go to a local zoning or planning
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: commission meeting in your town, especially if the issue of
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: homestay is on the agenda. Go ask your local planning
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: commission about affordable housing. Because this democratic Marxism is what happens.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: It is the source. It is the lifeblood of not-in-my-backyard-ism, nimbyism.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: I want to vote for my way. And it's one
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  Speaker 3: of the most corrosive and corruptive forces... In society, it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: not just America. In all of society, the idea of
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: I want to have a say over what you do.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't care less how you live your life as
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  Speaker 3: long as you don't harm other people doing it. As
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  Speaker 3: long as you don't infringe on somebody else's rights while
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: doing so. That's the point of the United States. This
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: is why I've said time in memoriam that the United
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: States is a really simple concept if you allow it
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: to be. But the do-gooders, as Ronald Reagan called them
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: in 1964, the do-gooders look at your life and say, oh,
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: poor Joe, he doesn't have a job. He owns a
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: radio station and a nationally syndicated radio show. But he
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: doesn't have a job. Look at his IRS forms. He's got, well, yeah,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: but I own a home. I have prosperity that maybe
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  Speaker 3: you don't recognize. Maybe you want to work as a
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  Speaker 3: professional with a 9 to 5 clock in, that kind
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: of thing. Seeley, our friend from Mesa Verde Hemp, just
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: writes in, Good morning, Joe. My pops went to Cornell also.
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  Speaker 3: Happiest time of his life. The only way he could
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  Speaker 3: have been happier is if he had attended so he
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: could come home, if I had attended, so he could
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: come visit. You know, and I've got to check this, Celie.
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  Speaker 3: I think my dad was in Cornell with your dad
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: because you said he was class of 54. I'm trying
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: to do the math. My dad was born in 31.
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
• 52:54
  Speaker 12: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 18: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 18: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 4: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 4: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 2: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 2: of their lives.
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  Speaker 12: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 2: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 2: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 16: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 2: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 3: For victories great and small.
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  Speaker 12: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 16: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 2: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 2: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 4: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 2: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 2: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV.org.