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Saint Valentine (Saturday, February 14, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again. But the first
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  Speaker 1: thing today on the tunk media at Joe Thomas, I'll
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: Line Jeword said, steal me stem have a day at
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  Speaker 2: least for work.
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  Speaker 3: When the song comes up, drops a pet to school.
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  Speaker 4: Joey has everything, A dreamer all the treasure said, needs
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  Speaker 4: no wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Joe sawis smiled.
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  Speaker 5: He only as.
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  Speaker 6: Let it be.
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  Speaker 7: Joe Love songs, nothing but love songs.
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  Speaker 6: Remember whether that was a radio thing. Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know where that went. Love songs, nothing but
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  Speaker 6: love songs.
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  Speaker 7: I think they ran out of them after a bit,
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  Speaker 7: when Nirvana became a love song. They're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 7: I think the format is done. Happy Valentines Day, Saint
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  Speaker 7: Valentine's Day to you, and I hope, as we often are,
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  Speaker 7: a field guide to help you get past all the
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  Speaker 7: haters and the slaggers that will try to bring you down,
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  Speaker 7: will be a reality check for those who are I
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  Speaker 7: can't to home mark holiday. You know, these are the
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  Speaker 7: same people I've noticed yesterday, the truly made up holiday
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  Speaker 7: of Gallantine's Day. The same folks who were going out
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  Speaker 7: for wine and cheese on Gallantine's Day are the same
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  Speaker 7: ones who say Valentine's.
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  Speaker 6: Day is a meet up holiday.
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  Speaker 7: And if you bring up the fact that Gallantine's Day
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  Speaker 7: was invented by the writers of Parks and Reck the
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  Speaker 7: TV show, like, yeah, so the sometimes you can't win
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  Speaker 7: for losing, but you gotta suit up for the game, right.
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  Speaker 7: Saint Valentine's Day the day we celebrate a man who
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  Speaker 7: was stoned to death for marrying couples in the Christian faith,
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  Speaker 7: in their Christian faith here in a land built on
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  Speaker 7: freedom of religion. Wrap your brain around a government of
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  Speaker 7: society that would stone you to death for marrying a
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  Speaker 7: couple I do in four three four eight A two
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  Speaker 7: four two one seven. We can discuss debate, but I
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  Speaker 7: want to especially thank our friends on Long Island News Radio,
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  Speaker 7: one of our great Saturday morning affiliates, because it was
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  Speaker 7: there while I was doing mid Days that at a
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  Speaker 7: little place in Miller Place, Long Island called Avenues, I
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  Speaker 7: met the love of my life who has been my
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  Speaker 7: partner for I.
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  Speaker 6: Don't even want to tell you how many years.
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  Speaker 7: And I obsess and stress every Valentine's Day so I
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  Speaker 7: don't disappoint her. But that night, that Wednesday night, it
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  Speaker 7: was a ladies' night, and it was a guy's night too,
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  Speaker 7: because I met the love of my life while working
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  Speaker 7: for WRCN and John and all the folks at JBC Media.
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  Speaker 7: It's a great honor and I didn't even realize it
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  Speaker 7: was going to be a Valentine's Day on a Saturday
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  Speaker 7: where we would have this confluence. But it's just an
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  Speaker 7: honor to be back there as well. Here are the
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  Speaker 7: things you need to know about anothers shut down for
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  Speaker 7: parts of the federal government is here. All the stuff
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  Speaker 7: under the banner of Department of Homeland Security. As the
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  Speaker 7: Democrats dig in their heels over the new restrictions they
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  Speaker 7: want to place over immigration law enforcement. Nothing about changing
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  Speaker 7: any immigration laws, but just enforcing it they don't like.
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  Speaker 7: Unlike the last fall shut down, closures will be confined
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  Speaker 7: to things under the DHS umbrella like ICE and Border
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  Speaker 7: Protection and TSA, whose officers, if you're traveling today, are
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  Speaker 7: working under the threat of not getting a paycheck until
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  Speaker 7: after the shutdown is over. Many congressional representatives were in
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  Speaker 7: Munich for the beginnings of the Munich Security Conference because
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  Speaker 7: they had nothing else to do, like end the shutdown.
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  Speaker 7: Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before the crowd and
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  Speaker 7: reassured the European allies of the United States that they
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  Speaker 7: are still there for each other, but struck a firm
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  Speaker 7: camera contracts, mostly after Flock Safety CEO express support of
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  Speaker 7: the Trump administration. Amazon is leading to believe that this
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  Speaker 7: is after a backlash following a Super Bowl ad. However,
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  Speaker 7: the search party feature in Amazon's Ring Doorbell still exists
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  Speaker 7: military preparing for more week long operations in the Mediterranean
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
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  Speaker 1: Tunk Media Network All natural and am free of artificial intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: exciting him Domapo.
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  Speaker 7: We're expecting Remember when cruising was the thing? Yes, love,
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  Speaker 7: you got to get out on the ocean and be anonymous.
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  Speaker 7: That's what you want, That's where love happens. That's one
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  Speaker 7: of those you know in this media over rebooting stuff,
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  Speaker 7: you notice how they haven't rebooted the love Boat and
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  Speaker 7: all the things. I mean, they're going to reboot Sandford
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  Speaker 7: and Son before they had passing of Demond Wilson. Just sad,
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  Speaker 7: but they'll reboot Sandford and Son before they reboot.
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  Speaker 6: Love Boat. I have a deep.
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  Speaker 7: Seated feeling of it on this Saint Valentine's Day where
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  Speaker 7: it is not a made up Hallmark holiday, unless Hallmark
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  Speaker 7: was the one stoning this priest to death because he
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  Speaker 7: heretically married committed couples to one another in the name
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  Speaker 7: of Jesus. I mean it was against the law. Imagine
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  Speaker 7: a place where marrying someone was against the law. I'll
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  Speaker 7: leave that tweaked nugget for you there in for you
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  Speaker 7: to think, because I'm sure that will get some folks calling.
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  Speaker 7: But doctor Clark has already called this morning quickly because
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  Speaker 7: this is usually when we visit with our friends at
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  Speaker 7: jcsgold dot com. A quick note they'll be closed in
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  Speaker 7: store for President's Day on Monday.
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  Speaker 6: Still annoys me.
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  Speaker 7: There's a made up holiday for you, but they'll be closed,
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  Speaker 7: so you can't call them on Monday, but you can
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  Speaker 7: call them Tuesday at four three four nine to seven
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  Speaker 7: nine coin. But if you go to their smartphone optimized website.
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  Speaker 7: dollars forty one cents. Gold is back over five thousand
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  Speaker 7: yesterday afternoon five forty two dollars and eighteen cents. You
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  Speaker 7: you want to talk to a family, not a call center.
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  Speaker 7: Four three four nine to seven nine coin. Good morning,
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  Speaker 7: doctor Clark. How are you doing this Valentine's Day?
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  Speaker 6: Morning?
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  Speaker 17: But right along Joe long night.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, oh, dear, I hope nothing serious happened.
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  Speaker 6: Patient Oh had.
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  Speaker 17: A dog that had a very very infected leg. We
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  Speaker 17: amputated yesterday and just kind of had to nursing through
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  Speaker 17: the night. But so far, so good. Offering food this morning,
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  Speaker 17: said everything's good. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Our four four legged friends, granted that they have more
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  Speaker 7: of more options, but I have noticed that an amputation
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  Speaker 7: of a limb is not nearly as serious to a
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  Speaker 7: dog or a cat even hind legs, as it would
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  Speaker 7: be to us.
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  Speaker 17: Never they never ever sit there and go as my leg,
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  Speaker 17: I lost my leg. Oh, God, I don't have a
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  Speaker 17: leg just like, oh, well this is the way things are.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 7: It's an interesting lesson there. So anyway, what's on your
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  Speaker 7: mind this morning?
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  Speaker 17: Well, what's the The Democrats are vociferously protesting ICE's enforcement
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  Speaker 17: of the law. Right, And I know from like TV
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  Speaker 17: legal shows that a lawyer is never supposed to ask
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  Speaker 17: a question they don't already know the answer to.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm not a lawyer, Joe, there you go.
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  Speaker 18: So asked this question.
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  Speaker 17: Who voted how on our immigration laws? That'd be interesting
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  Speaker 17: to know how many Democrats voted for the laws they're
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  Speaker 17: protesting the enforcement of, because I know that every time
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  Speaker 17: the save back gets brought up, Chuckie Schumer or Hakim
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  Speaker 17: or somebody wants to tell me about Jim Crow two
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  Speaker 17: point zero now, unburdened by what.
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  Speaker 19: Has been seems to be their philosophy.
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  Speaker 17: But Joe, I'm burdened by what has been, and I
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  Speaker 17: think maybe our job should be to burden them by
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  Speaker 17: what has been. Who voted for Jim Crow? Who wrote
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  Speaker 17: Jim Crow?
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  Speaker 6: Democrats? Yes?
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  Speaker 17: Did a Republican ever write a Jim Crow?
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  Speaker 19: While Joe, now that I'm aware of, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 19: think so so I don't know, you know, we should
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  Speaker 19: have paid more attention to Kamala.
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  Speaker 17: I might have to go back and look at some
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  Speaker 17: of the other words salads. It might be like Peter
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  Speaker 17: Sellers from the movie Being There, where you thought it
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  Speaker 17: was just idiot Wyler, But no, wait a minute, she's
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  Speaker 17: telling us stuff.
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  Speaker 7: Wasn't it Eisenhower that sent the National Guard in to
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  Speaker 7: integrate the schools even as Governor Wallace stood in the
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  Speaker 7: doorway there? And if I'm not mistaken, after much debate,
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  Speaker 7: Dwight Eisenhower decided, I guess at the end of the
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  Speaker 7: day he was a Republican and George Wallace Democrat.
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  Speaker 6: Right seems that way. Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 7: You know, all the schools were closed because the kids
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  Speaker 7: all walked out yesterday here in Virginia. And the last
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  Speaker 7: time the schools all closed it was because they didn't
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  Speaker 7: want to integrate them, and those Democrats again did that.
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  Speaker 7: And I love the schools that did the walkouts because
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  Speaker 7: all the school administrators sent letters home or you emails
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  Speaker 7: to the parents saying, this isn't a school authorized event,
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  Speaker 7: but we have lots of teachers there to watch your children,
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  Speaker 7: to not encourage them to do this, but to watch
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  Speaker 7: to make sure they're okay.
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  Speaker 6: But it's not a school event.
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  Speaker 17: I need to go back and research and see whether
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  Speaker 17: any of the German shepherds that were sick on crowds
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  Speaker 17: of civil rights protesters were Republicans. I think they were
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  Speaker 17: all Democrat German shepherds.
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  Speaker 7: I know they've registered a whole lot of different people
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  Speaker 7: to vote, thus the Save Act that you mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't think they've registered a lot of German
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  Speaker 7: shepherds outside of maybe Atlanta Fulton County.
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  Speaker 17: We probably ought to quit talking about this otherwise there's
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  Speaker 17: gonna be some kind of deal where your dog.
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  Speaker 6: Can mail and vote. Okay, the Democrat will correct that vote.
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  Speaker 6: Where was that story? No, no, no, no, that's a real story.
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  Speaker 7: That was Oh gosh, now you triggered me on a
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  Speaker 7: story we didn't have prepped up here. But there was
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  Speaker 7: a guy, I'm tempted to say it was in California
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  Speaker 7: that had his dog, got a voter registration letter in
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  Speaker 7: the mail, and so he registered it and went and
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  Speaker 7: voted for him at least once. He claimed it was
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  Speaker 7: just in a primary. I think it was the Larry
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  Speaker 7: Elder Gavin Newsom. You know roundhouse primary where it was
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  Speaker 7: like twenty people nineteen Democrats and Larry Elder up on
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  Speaker 7: the pool table to decide, you know who would be
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  Speaker 7: you know, the recall election.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the First Thing Today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: Until the day.
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  Speaker 7: This love?
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  Speaker 6: Do you think this is appropriate? I mean, I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Love.
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  Speaker 7: The strangest interviews I ever conducted was, oh my gosh, anyway,
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  Speaker 7: okay for those who aren't necessarily running into Valentine's but
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  Speaker 7: Saint Valentine's. I understand the reality of Saint Valentine. And
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  Speaker 7: and I don't know. And I like to think of
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  Speaker 7: myself as an arbiter of the zeitgeist to a degree,
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  Speaker 7: But I cannot pin down where this idea, this craven
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  Speaker 7: crass idea that Valentine's Day was a craven Hallmark holiday,
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  Speaker 7: and maybe Hallmark caused it by being a little too
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  Speaker 7: much into the Valentine's Day. I mean, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 7: I mean they had entire stores. The Hallmark store is
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  Speaker 7: still serve I think they are. I mean the Hallmark stories.
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  Speaker 7: It's Chotschke's mostly now, but I mean Hallmark on Valentine.
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  Speaker 7: You could go into Hallmark stores or the Hallmark section
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  Speaker 7: on November fifth looking for a congratulations you won the
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  Speaker 7: election card and still see an entire aisle of Valentine's cards.
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  Speaker 7: Just In case people wanted to get ahead of it.
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  Speaker 7: So I can understand they went a little nutty cuckoo
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  Speaker 7: on Valentine's Okay, because it's a great holiday, it's a
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  Speaker 7: high feast, and the Catholic faith, it's a priest that
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  Speaker 7: ministered to persecuted Christians, Christians who are afraid for their
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  Speaker 7: lives for being the for celebrating the religion that they
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  Speaker 7: chose and followed Jesus Christ. Their own life was in jeopardy,
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  Speaker 7: so they wanted to be married, so they knew they
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  Speaker 7: had something.
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  Speaker 6: To hold on to. You can go. He was buried
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  Speaker 6: on February fourteenth.
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  Speaker 7: By the calendar of the day, that is how we
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  Speaker 7: associate February fourteenth with Saint Valentine's Day and the Feast
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  Speaker 7: of etc. But don't let people give you that gumph
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  Speaker 7: that it's made up hallmark holiday. It's real and love
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  Speaker 7: Israel and the marriage and the strength that comes from
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  Speaker 7: a marriage. Ask ask a kid from a broken home
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  Speaker 7: how much stronger his life would have been if there
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  Speaker 7: had been committed people. And this goes back to our
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  Speaker 7: discussion about abortion and DNA donor daddies and deadbeat daddies.
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  Speaker 7: If you want to use them that, you know, we
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  Speaker 7: need young people growing up understanding the story of Saint
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  Speaker 7: Valentine and understanding the power of a committed.
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  Speaker 6: Marriage, so that so that.
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  Speaker 7: We don't wind up with more and more teenagers with
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  Speaker 7: the most horrific phrase in the world.
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  Speaker 6: An unwanted pregnancy.
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  Speaker 7: So the men and the women of the of our
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  Speaker 7: youth understand the power of marriage and the power.
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  Speaker 6: Of committed couplehood. If you will, anyway.
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  Speaker 7: Off the soapbox, Joe, leave the theology to the theologians.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Joel is on the line with us at four three,
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  Speaker 7: four eight eight two four two one seven corning Joel,
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  Speaker 7: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: And there?
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  Speaker 15: I'm okay, praying a lot because I'm not getting unemployment
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  Speaker 15: and I had a couple interviews and I shadowed somebody.
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  Speaker 6: But hey, that's a start.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta be I'm not I'm not feel in love,
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  Speaker 7: so yeah, well you gotta you gotta be in it
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  Speaker 7: to win it.
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  Speaker 6: There's love all around you, Joel. You just got your
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  Speaker 6: eyes open, head on a swivel. Man. Uh, you know
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  Speaker 6: you'll find the greatness there. Trust me. You got to
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  Speaker 6: be in it to win it. If there is a
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  Speaker 6: if there's something I learned. Yea.
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  Speaker 7: Even even volunteering for some stuff. You know, if you
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  Speaker 7: volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center or something, you will
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: meet people and those people will see the value of you.
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  Speaker 7: It's not a perfect scenario. It's not hey, sell me
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  Speaker 7: this pen, but you know it's it's worked for me.
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  Speaker 7: I mean sometimes just doing some stuff on the side,
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  Speaker 7: people are like, I like this guy, Uh, this guy's good.
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  Speaker 7: Why is this guy available?
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  Speaker 1: Gab him?
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  Speaker 6: Grab him up there?
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  Speaker 7: You know, you just I know the phrase is trite,
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  Speaker 7: got to be in it to win it. But I
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  Speaker 7: mean that, you know, wholeheartedly. Plus it'll give you something
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  Speaker 7: to do with your days. But that's just my ministry
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  Speaker 7: from my radio pulpit. So what's on your mind.
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  Speaker 15: I'm just irritated because Congress they're going away for ten
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  Speaker 15: days another vacation. I would like to know, like it
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  Speaker 15: would it would be really wonderful to see a schedule
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  Speaker 15: of what they're what their congressional schedule is a Senate schedule,
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  Speaker 15: and actually you know the legislative bodies and see what
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  Speaker 15: they're what their actual schedule is, and when they actually
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  Speaker 15: take votes on things. I know there's emergency votes and
• 49:36
  Speaker 15: then there's special sessions and all that other stuff. Well,
• 49:39
  Speaker 15: but it just they're already. First of all, we have
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  Speaker 15: a bad we have a bad view of them. And
• 49:44
  Speaker 15: then secondly, we think the Republicans are just weak. They
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  Speaker 15: don't fight. The Democrats will do anything to win. But
• 49:53
  Speaker 15: I mean, President Trump's out there fighting. But and I
• 49:58
  Speaker 15: know Speaker Johnson is out there, but and I like
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  Speaker 15: him a lot. He's from Louisiana, he's a good guy,
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  Speaker 15: but he just I just don't see any power behind
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  Speaker 15: the words. You know, it's just get out there and
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  Speaker 15: do something. I mean, at least pass to say that,
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  Speaker 15: because if we don't, we're going to lose our republic.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, and here's the thing, so you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: so Lisa Murkowski of our friends up there in Fairbanks,
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  Speaker 7: she's going to vote against it, but we trade her
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  Speaker 7: off for John Fetterman. John Fetterman's all in on it.
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  Speaker 7: So all right, So it's a zero sum game that
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: still gives us the majority. Do the standing filibuster and
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: and break it and and make them come to a vote.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: But use the tools that are there to make sure
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  Speaker 7: minority voices are heard. You know, even if you're in
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  Speaker 7: the majority. And that's the thing that fascinates me, Hakeem, Jeffries,
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi before them, you know, they all
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: manipulated the parliamentary procedures that existed to make sure that
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: if you weren't the party in majority, you still got
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  Speaker 7: a say. And darn it, why can't the Republicans do that?
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  Speaker 7: And the only conclusion you can come to is that
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  Speaker 7: there's really two political parties there and they just happen
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  Speaker 7: to cancuss together to seem like they have a majority.
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  Speaker 7: I just I can't get over the fact that there
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  Speaker 7: are three parties in Washington right now, all the Democrats
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  Speaker 7: and the Fabian Republicans and the constitutionalists Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what you're feeling.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Jeff, there's fifteen of them are in Munich
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  Speaker 7: right now for this international summit. You have no well,
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  Speaker 7: all right, some of the Senators might have a say
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  Speaker 7: in a vote on a treaty or something, but for
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: the most part, you've got no business being there, especially
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: when the government shuts down and they flew through TSA
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: before TSA got unfunded. I want to see them try
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: to get back through TSA. I'm sorry, sir, we're gonna
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: have to administer a cavity search.
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: You might have contraband what.
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: On the congressman, you know, you know, just just my
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: Shodenfreud wants to see that.
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  Speaker 15: And the other frustrating thing too, is I like, I
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  Speaker 15: like Pam BONDI I think she's a great person, but
• 52:13
  Speaker 15: nobody's been convicted. I mean, you have the Minneapolis investigations.
• 52:17
  Speaker 15: They go for low level level figures. We had investigations
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  Speaker 15: about Joe Biden's LLCs. Nobody got nobody got convicted. It's
• 52:26
  Speaker 15: not because he and then and then the auto pen
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  Speaker 15: whatever happened to that.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it becomes the singer.
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  Speaker 15: There's valid or invalid.
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  Speaker 7: Well, but you've got to be careful because you're listening
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  Speaker 7: to talk radio guys saying these are crimes when they're
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: not lawyers, and they don't know what crimes have been committed.
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: And and the problem is, and I'll get into this
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: on the other side, is that these guys write the
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  Speaker 7: laws that make these things legal.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 23: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 23: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 24: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 24: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 16: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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