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"The Post-911 Generation" (FTTxJT Wed 090926 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been. Making mornings great again. First thing today on
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  Speaker 1: the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas. Music.
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  Speaker 2: The blessings of a Ted's day upon you this morning
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  Speaker 2: as we celebrate God's gifts to you and your voracious
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  Speaker 2: and enthusiastic application of that to a grateful constituency. Their
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  Speaker 2: rewards to you will be just and you will not
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  Speaker 2: have to worry, therefore, about the haters, the keyboard warriors.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what? Your attitude towards them, like the Christian's,
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  Speaker 2: thrown to the lions will win them over in the day. So, what? Dark? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it was dark, but it makes the point,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it? That's all we're here to do. As we
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  Speaker 2: tell you what went on last night, I will certainly
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  Speaker 2: share you my analysis of it, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear how it is impacting you, where you are. You
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  Speaker 2: are the singular, most important local aspect of the radio station,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be making new friends here quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit, I think, over the next few weeks as
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  Speaker 2: we've got new friends joining us. West Virginia has been
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  Speaker 2: a puzzlement to me. Not the state, but we had
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  Speaker 2: no friends there yet. We're going to be making new
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  Speaker 2: friends in what my neighbors and expat Virginians call Best Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they call it these days. And it's And
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  Speaker 2: it stings a little bit for those of us who
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  Speaker 2: live in old Virginia that when they sit there in
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  Speaker 2: places like Martinsburg and say, oh, yeah, we up here
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  Speaker 2: in Best, Virginia. And it sticks a lot. It sticks.
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  Speaker 2: And it stings a little bit here along the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River every time we hear
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  Speaker 2: John Denver's song, which is about Western Virginia. But we
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  Speaker 2: will put that aside. and get our mountaineers on soon,
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  Speaker 2: but lots of new friends for you to make and
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  Speaker 2: to talk with and to find out how the news
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  Speaker 2: of the day is impacting them as well, because each
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  Speaker 2: one of us comes to this with a perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: it's an important one. And, you know, sure, you look
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  Speaker 2: at the radio and say, yeah, but that's what we
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  Speaker 2: hired you to do. Yeah, I get it. That's what
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  Speaker 2: my job here is to spend my days going through
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  Speaker 2: this stuff, chewing through it, giving you my constitutional perspective.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, am I any
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  Speaker 2: different than any Supreme Court justice? Well, all right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my analysis doesn't necessarily carry the weight of the law
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  Speaker 2: on it, but I'm just a guy here taking the
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  Speaker 2: Constitution and laying it next to the news of the
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  Speaker 2: day and saying, how does this apply? So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is ramping up the trade conflict with Canada,
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  Speaker 2: ordering a ban on Canadian dairy products, most alcoholic beverages,
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  Speaker 2: and motorcycles. These restrictions will take place in three weeks,
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  Speaker 2: creating a window of negotiations for the two sides to
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  Speaker 2: get together. Iran launched a second wave of attacks against U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Navy ships this week, targeting an aircraft carrier and a
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  Speaker 2: guided missile destroyer with ballistic missiles, but failing to hit
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  Speaker 2: either vessel, according to the Wall Street Journal. See, Russia
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  Speaker 2: can provide them the missiles, apparently can't shoot them for them.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers
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  Speaker 2: yesterday in response to those attacks on the warships. They
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  Speaker 2: said the tankers were connected directly to the Islamic Revolutionary
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  Speaker 2: Guard Corps, the militia that specifically and only works for
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  Speaker 2: the mullahs. The administration is directing more than $ 225 million
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  Speaker 2: towards the Head Start programs nationwide under the MAHA banner.
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  Speaker 2: The folks in the Department of Health and Human Services
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  Speaker 2: say the grants will include $ 89 million for nutrition improvements.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to allow
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  Speaker 2: his administration to use a revamped immigration database to for
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  Speaker 2: checking the accuracy of state voter rolls. This is part
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  Speaker 2: of the whole campaign to keep the U.S. Postal Service
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  Speaker 2: from sending fraudulent ballots to non-existent voters. The Live Golf
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  Speaker 2: Tour burned bright, but is burned out. They filed for
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  Speaker 2: bankruptcy as the Saudi support of the golf tour has ended.
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  Speaker 2: The league filed in New Jersey with between $ 500 million
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  Speaker 2: and $ 1 billion in liabilities. See, you don't feel so
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  Speaker 2: bad now. Former Senator John Sununu has won the Republican
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  Speaker 2: nomination for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire Tuesday. He will
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  Speaker 2: face off against Democratic Congressman Chris Pappas. The race is
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  Speaker 2: for the seat currently held by Jeanne Shaheen. The Democrat
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  Speaker 2: is retiring after her third term. And the American Bar
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  Speaker 2: Association said it will eliminate DEI requirements for law schools
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  Speaker 2: due to pushback from the community at large and the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration warned its requirement that law schools commit to DEI,
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  Speaker 2: including having a diverse faculty and student body, could jeopardize
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  Speaker 2: its role as an accreditor. And those are our first things.
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  Speaker 2: We are packing the gear up at the end of
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  Speaker 2: this program when 9 Eastern comes around. Everything goes into it.
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  Speaker 2: packing crates, and we head to Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: there tomorrow morning and Friday morning for the 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of the terror attacks on the United States. Do we
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  Speaker 2: have the clip? Our sponsors are the Heritage Guide to
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  Speaker 2: And Jim Wood, the owner of Big Ridge Guns, he
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  Speaker 2: nailed it when he told me. Waynesboro City Councilor Jim
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  Speaker 2: Wood told me. He's also Waynesboro City Councilor.
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  Speaker 3: There's a whole generation now that wasn't alive when 9-11 happened. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the political attitudes have changed drastically.
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  Speaker 2: And he nailed it right there. And you'll hear more
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  Speaker 2: of our conversation with Jim coming up, but it begins
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the talk media network.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On this Teds-D, you know, setting up for our September
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  Speaker 2: 11th specials, both the 10th and the 11th. On the 11th,
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  Speaker 2: Ambassador Jim Gilmore is going to join us also. Former U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senator George Allen. George was in the Capitol building that day.
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  Speaker 2: And it was good intel that either the White House
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  Speaker 2: or the Capitol building was the destination ultimately for Flight
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  Speaker 2: 93 as we head to the Flight 93 memorial. And
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize this, that 20 years ago when we
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  Speaker 2: were broadcasting out there and I was accosted by religious
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  Speaker 2: zealots who hated me for my religion, and my politics
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  Speaker 2: and damned me to perdition for it. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: not Al-Qaeda, not Osama bin Laden or any of those.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Westboro Baptists. But, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a weird day 20 years ago. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I realized was that when we were there, there
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  Speaker 2: were some designs circulating online. and some flyers and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. And I didn't realize that that is the
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  Speaker 2: design that they started working off of, obviously, once you
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  Speaker 2: start to build out some of the things. I want
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  Speaker 2: to find out if the ad hoc memorial that had
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  Speaker 2: just been developed, there was a fence on a parking
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  Speaker 2: lot near the crash site that just became this place
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  Speaker 2: that people, when they got there, just started hanging stuff
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  Speaker 2: on this fence. I want to find out. I'm told
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  Speaker 2: it's somewhere. It's been incorporated into the memorial. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: keen to see that. But we will be live from
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  Speaker 2: the Flight 93 memorial tomorrow morning and Friday morning for
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  Speaker 2: the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks. And that point
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  Speaker 2: that Jim Wood made, though, is important because we have
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  Speaker 2: college students, graduating college students who were raised in a
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  Speaker 2: post-9-11 world, a world of the Transportation Security Administration, a
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  Speaker 2: world of the Patriot Act. And so when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the worldview, a worldview that, quite honestly, you can
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  Speaker 2: also point to the fact that they really know no
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  Speaker 2: national example of what Marxism looks like as a governing structure.
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  Speaker 2: It's abstract to them. It's theory. It's a book. It's
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  Speaker 2: a book that maybe you get taught in history class.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you don't. I'm of the mind that we should
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  Speaker 2: just shelve history as a curriculum and take the 45
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  Speaker 2: minutes wasted on what they call history these days in
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  Speaker 2: school and spend 45 extra minutes teaching kids how to read.
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  Speaker 2: They can find the history on their own. in a book,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's the problem. But enough about me. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about you. What do you think of me? No, seriously,
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  Speaker 2: Kareem is on the line with us. We'd like to
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  Speaker 2: find out where Kareem's truck has taken him this morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing this morning, Kareem?
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  Speaker 4: Doing well, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: And honestly, I thank the world of you, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that, and we appreciate it. I'm not nearly
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  Speaker 2: as shallow as I play on the radio, but it
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  Speaker 2: is my... lot in life. It's not a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a life. So what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Well, two of your top things this morning, the last
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  Speaker 8: two that you spoke of, but honestly, just a quick
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  Speaker 8: segue into these Marxists that are permeating society, the ones
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  Speaker 8: that want total government control and removal of the rights
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  Speaker 8: that we've come to know and love and spread around
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  Speaker 8: the world. they look to China, they point to China.
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  Speaker 8: And as long as we keep handing, handing wins to China,
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  Speaker 8: they'll keep spreading the word. And, uh, but going back
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  Speaker 8: to those last two things you said, uh, live golf, uh,
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  Speaker 8: that Saudi venture, Joe, this is just a, you know, uh, Anyway,
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  Speaker 8: as the sun rises, gradually then suddenly, bankruptcy occurs. Saudis
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  Speaker 8: are rich, yes. All those Gulf countries are rich, yes.
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  Speaker 8: They got all that oil. But all that money is
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  Speaker 8: tied up in American investments and assets, and they've been
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  Speaker 8: asking for money for loans for the past few months.
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  Speaker 8: So this live, I think, is just the most recent slow, slow,
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  Speaker 8: gradual increase until suddenly we'll find out just how poor
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  Speaker 8: they actually are, because there might stop in us. Well,
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  Speaker 8: go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and we'll talk about the American Bar Association in
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  Speaker 2: a second. But I don't want to lose this train
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  Speaker 2: of thought, because I think there's an important point to this,
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  Speaker 2: because we just. presume these Middle Eastern countries are all
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  Speaker 2: wealthy to obscene stature. And they're not great countries when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to human rights. I think they're better than
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  Speaker 2: they were when I started my broadcasting career. Not that
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  Speaker 2: I'm claiming credit for it, but I think American incursions
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  Speaker 2: in the Middle East, especially since, say, 2017, have made.
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  Speaker 2: The Middle Eastern countries greater than they used to be
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to their citizens and their rights. And
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  Speaker 2: I think in some ways our foreign policy has tried
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  Speaker 2: to show them, listen, you keep leaning on these people
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to turn out badly for you. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we watched what happened with the Arab Spring and there's
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  Speaker 2: a whole other story in there. But the money The
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  Speaker 2: money is an interesting aspect because what you learn pretty
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  Speaker 2: quickly is you can open up the fanciest restaurant in
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  Speaker 2: the world. holler you want to. You can open up
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  Speaker 2: a Gordon Ramsay's burger with no E restaurant in some
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  Speaker 2: Appalachian town that used to have coal mining 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to fail. I don't care how much
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  Speaker 2: money you throw at it because it's not tapped into
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  Speaker 2: what the customers want. And customers don't want to watch
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  Speaker 2: golf like that. I got the idea. It's what most
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  Speaker 2: fundraising golf tournaments are. It's music blasting. It's beer carts.
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  Speaker 2: It's all sorts of weird ways you can raise money.
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  Speaker 2: And they're fun. But we're not watching that on television.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think they made good television, which made
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  Speaker 2: for a bad product, which meant that there was no
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  Speaker 2: sponsor money. And eventually, all businesses have to come down
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  Speaker 2: to how much are we spending and how much is
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  Speaker 2: it earning us? And if one is greater than the other,
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  Speaker 2: you're done.
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  Speaker 8: Joe, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That I do get.
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  Speaker 8: And it's sad enough that the climate that they're in
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  Speaker 8: right now, I don't think that's the only business they
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  Speaker 8: have that's going to fold. If you're not bringing in money,
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  Speaker 8: it won't float. It has to sustain its own buoyancy.
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  Speaker 8: But going to the ABA.
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  Speaker 2: So to catch up, the American Bar Association has told
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  Speaker 2: its members, schools, I guess, the schools are the key
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  Speaker 2: to this, that they shouldn't be using DEI as a
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  Speaker 2: yardstick for their admissions anymore. and because they may lose
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  Speaker 2: their accreditation. I guess there was some conversation had somewhere
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  Speaker 2: with the Department of Education regarding these accreditations. And I
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  Speaker 2: guess you could operate without it and just say, screw it,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Trump administration. Who cares if they give us accreditation?
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  Speaker 2: We're still the American Bar Association. But they've decided to,
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  Speaker 2: as long as they can blame you know, Ms. McMahon
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the Department of Education, they'll go along.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: quick meteorological note. Every time I see another hurricane pop up,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if, you know, Hamp and all our
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  Speaker 2: like St. Augustine, you know, oldest city in America. You know,
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  Speaker 2: to open the largest can of whoop-ass I can find
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  Speaker 2: on you, like a pent-up kinetic energy. But anyway, just
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  Speaker 2: an abstract curiosity of that. But Kareem, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: hanging on the line. You wanted to talk about the
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: DEI is out, for now anyway, at the American Bar Association, who,
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  Speaker 8: Linda McMahon has been turning off the funds. She's been
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  Speaker 8: doing this, but more an effort to release education back
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with education.
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  Speaker 8: But setting that aside, McMahon's turning off the spigot. But
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  Speaker 8: the stick is the civil rights. They've got the lawsuits.
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  Speaker 8: UVA signed the deal and agreed, yes, we'll stop doing that.
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  Speaker 8: Each lawsuit that they— if they don't respond to the letter,
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  Speaker 8: the verdict. And that— granted, there's federal law statutes already written,
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  Speaker 8: but all those lawsuits settled or adjudicated— Make it for
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  Speaker 8: private lawyers to file lawsuits long after Trump's out of
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  Speaker 8: office to get bukus of money from them once they settle.
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  Speaker 8: And this DEI, just like administrative courts– oh, you don't
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Insurance companies and accreditations, licensing, private licensing organizations. The state
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  Speaker 8: no authority over them. So this DEI has been– they've
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  Speaker 8: been blatant about it. And these bar attacks, for example, D.C.
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  Speaker 8: Jeff Clark, former acting attorney general, he's still going through
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  Speaker 8: those issues. Six years later, he's still going through these issues. But, Joe,
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  Speaker 8: I think as far as just like the Gulf country
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  Speaker 2: Up until November.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway, Joe, have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you go ahead and drive safe, but you raise
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  Speaker 2: separate four, because the world marches on. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: It's sort of, if you squint and you look just
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• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Stevens from the Foundation for Individual Rights, fire.org, one of
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  Speaker 2: their chief researchers behind their annual college free speech rankings,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: which are out today. And here in our flagship city,
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  Speaker 2: we have several major universities, but one particularly bad and
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  Speaker 2: sadly considered one of the most estimable public law schools
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  Speaker 2: skeptic fathers, Ford, the pursuit of law, a man who
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: read the Quran because he was curious how a religious
• 34:25
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  Speaker 2: The UVA community in 2017 watched a bunch of ne'er-do-well
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  Speaker 2: was obviously in their mind as they marched with their
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  Speaker 2: citronella candles. We here in the central Virginia area refer
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  Speaker 2: to that August 11th of 2017 as Citronella Nacht. Because
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  Speaker 2: they marched through the UVA campus chanting anti-Semitic rhetoric surrounding
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  Speaker 2: UVA students and threatening them racially. And everyone was aghast.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone, man, woman, child, conservative, liberal, didn't make a difference,
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  Speaker 1: Here is the sound of thousands of sounds. First thing
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  Speaker 1: today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 10: On the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 16: There was a time. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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  Speaker 1: When I didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine such a thing? True though.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing matters.
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  Speaker 16: To me i.
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  Speaker 2: Swear i had a lot of money too.
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  Speaker 1: Did something happen i came alive.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody said you know what you do on your show
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  Speaker 2: I don't get weirded out.
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  Speaker 1: By this.
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  Speaker 2: Nope. No, not at all. As long as the documents
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  Speaker 2: are still there. And you know what? The American government,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on January 21st of 2029 can announce we're
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  Speaker 2: moving the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights to
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  Speaker 2: to the Smithsonian, and I'm going to go find some
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  Speaker 2: other place. I'll go move to Alberta, Canada, and see
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  Speaker 2: if we couldn't have them adopt that Bill of Rights
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  Speaker 2: and the Constitution, because as long as it's written down somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe we need just a reboot. Maybe we need
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  Speaker 2: a place like Alberta to declare its independence from the
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  Speaker 2: People's Republic of the World Economic Forum, and what? You
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  Speaker 2: don't think Canada is like a trial balloon for the
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  Speaker 2: World Economic Forum's governance? So, you know, go up there
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  Speaker 2: and they declare their independence. Say, hey, listen, we got
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  Speaker 2: this Bill of Rights here and we got a U.S. Constitution. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: we should make the Bill of Rights just part of
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution. Then it doesn't get, you know, messed with
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  Speaker 2: so much. Oh, okay, that's pretty cool. Add a few
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  Speaker 2: things like proportional representation and stuff like that to it.
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  Speaker 2: But as long as it's been written down, we can
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  Speaker 2: do it. People can stop believing in it because they've
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: been lied to. And it's sad. But we know the answers.
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  Speaker 2: All we have to do is use them. You tell
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 22: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 2: So we were talking about FIRE, the Foundation for Individual
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  Speaker 2: Rights and Expression. And I said, Sean Stevens coming on
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow to talk about their 2027 collegiate rankings. Believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not, the best... college, and this is after thousands
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of students interviewed in thousands and thousands of colleges,
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  Speaker 2: the University of Chicago. Yeah, I'm not kidding. They got
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  Speaker 2: a score of 81. It's a B minus, which tells
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  Speaker 2: you a lot about American academia when the number one
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  Speaker 2: university for free expression is the University of Chicago, and
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  Speaker 2: they only managed to scrape a B minus. Claremont McKenna
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  Speaker 2: College is a B- as well. Georgia Institute of Technology,
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  Speaker 2: a C +. Michigan Technological University, a C +. And
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  Speaker 2: for our friends in Chattanooga and Tennessee, Vanderbilt comes in
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  Speaker 2: at a C +. The bottom five, New York University
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  Speaker 2: with a score of 45. The University of Washington, not
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  Speaker 2: surprising any of our friends in the Pacific Northwest, Texas
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  Speaker 2: State University. So if you wonder where the blue virus
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  Speaker 2: in Texas is coming from, Texas State University, Northeastern University,
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  Speaker 2: and Rutgers in Nueva Jersey. And I was looking down
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  Speaker 2: the list. Surprisingly, here in our flagship city, the University
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia comes in at number nine, George Mason University.
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  Speaker 2: The namesake of the guy who gave us the Bill
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  Speaker 2: of Rights in the first place comes in at number 10.
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  Speaker 2: Other notable places along, you know, Colorado Mesa University makes
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  Speaker 2: the top 20. University of Tulsa makes the top 20.
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  Speaker 2: Florida State in the top 25. University of Colorado at Boulder.
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  Speaker 2: This one was fascinating to me. I've been to Boulder,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I still have the contact high. And
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  Speaker 2: that was 30 plus years ago. University of Colorado at Boulder,
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  Speaker 2: 23rd on the list of American universities with a 73.
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  Speaker 2: It's a passing grade. It's a C. UC Davis right
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  Speaker 2: there with them. Oregon State And at number 26, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when you're a C minus, that's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ringing a bell. That's not running home and saying, mom,
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  Speaker 2: I made the, you know, the closest you're making to
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  Speaker 2: the Dean's list is the list. The Dean is made
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  Speaker 2: of people who might have to get kicked out. They
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  Speaker 2: get another DUI fat, drunken, stupid son. There's no way
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  Speaker 2: to go through college. Our friends down the eastern part
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia, William and Mary, the university that Thomas Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: went to, 28th on the list. I mean, we're starting
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  Speaker 2: to get down to where the passing grades are getting
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  Speaker 2: fewer and fewer between. Mississippi State and the University of
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi both kind of scratch in at 71 and 70,
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  Speaker 2: final grade, C and C-minus. Auburn, Dr. Clark's not going
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  Speaker 2: to like this. Auburn University barely gets into the top 40,
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  Speaker 2: scoring a 68. That's a D +. Of course, it's
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the University of Alabama. So I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: all that matters. It's the iron bowl for free speech.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Commonwealth University, where a lot of my take-home pay
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  Speaker 2: went to pay for my daughter's art degree. It gets
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  Speaker 2: a 68, a D +. These are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: are what you would consider passing grades. University of Texas,
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  Speaker 2: El Paso, Southern Methodist University. What are the Methodists doing there?
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  Speaker 2: They're almost out of the list. These are the 66s. Stanford,
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  Speaker 2: Utah State, 66, just barely staying above the Mendoza line.
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  Speaker 2: University of Central Florida, these are all just barely staying above.
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  Speaker 2: These are 63. The fire is giving them a D,
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  Speaker 2: but me, under 65, is failing. Michigan State, Harvard, failing grade.
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  Speaker 2: The Harvard Lampoon is where Senator Blutarski learned it all. No,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't patterned after Ted Kennedy, not at all. University
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  Speaker 2: of Nevada, Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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  Speaker 2: These are all at the bottom of the list. Like
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned, NYU is the worst. University of Miami is
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  Speaker 2: a 50. Rice University. Jack Kennedy will go to the
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  Speaker 2: moon this decade. Why does Rice play Texas? Villanova? These
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  Speaker 2: are well-thought-of universities, failing grades, not even making it out
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  Speaker 2: of the 50s when it comes to free speech and
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  Speaker 2: free expression on their campuses.
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