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FTTxJT 062926 "This Version of Capitalism?" · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: People do not believe that this version of capitalism has worked,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly it hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville that
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  Speaker 2: one in lights.
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  Speaker 3: Of Flashy Now the quality controlled, somebody threw his family,
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  Speaker 3: threw him in the hole.
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  Speaker 4: This rule is in the.
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  Speaker 5: Local band anger in the town styl whistle that the
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  Speaker 5: walls come down.
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  Speaker 3: It's a beginning in the boardroom of China Chase his
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  Speaker 3: man's a beginning, the washer.
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  Speaker 6: A mistaken person.
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  Speaker 3: Now somewhere in a corridor, someone was at the Steve
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  Speaker 3: Goodness me goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Be industry the same.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, and I said the salacious thing and it's
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  Speaker 4: just you know some people. Oh, you're just saying crazy
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  Speaker 4: stuff to get people in Greenwiche to listen to you. Joe, No,
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to do that. But here's the fact
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  Speaker 4: and the truthiness one of my favorite phrases. The only
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  Speaker 4: thing I'll give Stephen Colbert or his staff of writers
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  Speaker 4: any credit for us coming up with the word truthiness.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be in the opening of his Comedy
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  Speaker 4: Central show when he was mocking Bill O'Reilly and one
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  Speaker 4: of the words that popped up was truthiness. And I
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  Speaker 4: just love that phrase because that's what these guys like
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  Speaker 4: Chris Murphy deal in, is truthiness. Squeeze a little plausibility
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  Speaker 4: out in there. So Chris Murphy on you know, the
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  Speaker 4: book tour, confronted about Zayfod mad Money and all the
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  Speaker 4: New Yorkers that voted for social and do we have
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  Speaker 4: the Zeyfod mad Money interview as well? He said, some
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  Speaker 4: stunning things is that it play the.
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  Speaker 7: Clubes extreme views, you know, whether.
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  Speaker 4: It's oh, that's a fetterman. I don't want the fetterman club.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted the you're gonna get it for me? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you were ready for the Chris Murphy stuff, all right.
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  Speaker 4: So Chris Murphy being grilled about zay Fod mad Money
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  Speaker 4: and all the avowed socialist Marxists winning in New York
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  Speaker 4: City just over the border from them, they still desperately
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  Speaker 4: trying to keep New Yorkers out, was grilled about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have different candidates being nominated in
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  Speaker 1: New York City and suburban Connecticut. This is a party
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  Speaker 1: that is also nominated and won with candidates like Abigail
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  Speaker 1: Spanberger and Mikey Sheriff, I want us to be a
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  Speaker 1: big ten party. I mean, I've been saying this for years, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think, by the way, Abigail Spanberger still facing revolts from
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  Speaker 4: the people like left eye Lucas and left hand Luke Torrian.
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  Speaker 4: For that left wing lurch, Louise Lucas wants you all
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  Speaker 4: to get high and then do the jobs assigned to
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  Speaker 4: you by the government in exchange for your highness, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, back to Chris Murphy and his book tour.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually a sign of a party that is alive
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  Speaker 1: and growing when there's a contest of ideas inside the.
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  Speaker 4: Party, and that's one of those phrases that gets handed
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  Speaker 4: around from generation to generation. That means our lunch is
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  Speaker 4: being taken from us, and we're sweating, and the sweat
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  Speaker 4: is running down the crack of our arses.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not a Democratic socialist, but I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party has been historically way too timid
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  Speaker 1: in taking on corporate power.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a word salad, as Tim Kine would call it.
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  Speaker 4: It was one of his phrases from his Sunday Morning tours.
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  Speaker 4: That's a word salad for saying, yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 4: be a democratic socialist. I'm just from to know too
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  Speaker 4: much of a Caucasian state to get my swerve on.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have enough votes in Bridgeport and Hartford and
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  Speaker 4: New Haven yet to win outright as a socialist here
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  Speaker 4: in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put
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  Speaker 1: one on the table last week, a twenty five dollar minimum.
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  Speaker 4: Wage, because I'm scared of the Marxists and my party.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we do have to have answers for
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  Speaker 1: the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over
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  Speaker 1: and corrupting our politics.
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  Speaker 4: Say there's the magic mystery meat of you know, the
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  Speaker 4: free speech issue. Should corporations have free speech? Should they
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  Speaker 4: be able to run ads, even like the ads promoting abortion?
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  Speaker 4: Chris Right, Senator Murphy, I'm sorry, And of course then
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  Speaker 4: the money shot comes when he says no.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we have to understand that people do
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  Speaker 1: not believe that this version of capitalism has worked.
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  Speaker 4: This version of capitalism, let's unpack that. You have to
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  Speaker 4: unpack it with the name Robert Reich and the economic
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  Speaker 4: policies in the Clinton administration and as many people that
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  Speaker 4: give Donald Trump's administration a hard time, because, especially once
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  Speaker 4: we decided to end a two hundred and forty year
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  Speaker 4: long Cold war with radical Islam and stop allowing terrorists
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  Speaker 4: to scare us out of taking them on the playground,
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  Speaker 4: Bully finally gets has come up and still out there
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  Speaker 4: having a tantrum off the coast of the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: the adults, the elected Iranian president is sitting down with
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  Speaker 4: the elected American government and we're working out a deal
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  Speaker 4: the IRGC. When I say throwing tantrums, I mean explosive devices.
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  Speaker 4: But because the economy hasn't become amazing yet, because we're
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  Speaker 4: not paying fifty cents a gallon for gasoline, because groceries
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  Speaker 4: aren't you know, twenty five dollars a bag. Because restrictive
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  Speaker 4: policies in Democrat run states like Connecticut have left people
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  Speaker 4: unable to afford any place to live because they won't
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  Speaker 4: allow sro apartments because well, my neighborhood values. I don't want,
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  Speaker 4: you know, sro apartments. I want everyone to have a
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  Speaker 4: three bedroom apartment with a kitchen and a laundry room
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  Speaker 4: and a well that's great. Not everyone needs that, nor
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  Speaker 4: can everyone afford that. But see these do gooders in
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  Speaker 4: the progressive planning commissions won't let you build sro and
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  Speaker 4: one bedroom apartments. But it's Donald Trump's fault that people
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  Speaker 4: can't afford to live in places like Bridgeport and Greenwich.
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  Speaker 4: So Chris isn't wrong when he says this version. So
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  Speaker 4: when did this version of capitalism begin? Some could argue
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  Speaker 4: it began in nineteen sixty four with the Great Society,
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  Speaker 4: but much of what we're suffering under right now were
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  Speaker 4: rules and regulations Robert Reich and the Clintons brought into
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  Speaker 4: effect in the mid nineties, so that it's the economy
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  Speaker 4: stupid could actually turn around faster than it was doing anyway. Remember,
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  Speaker 4: for all fairness, George Herbert Walker Bush gave a groincare
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  Speaker 4: to the economy when he cut the defense budget massively.
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  Speaker 4: At the fall of the Soviet Union. It was already
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  Speaker 4: beginning to show signs of the recovery, but the Clintons
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  Speaker 4: couldn't wait too long for that. They had midterm elections
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  Speaker 4: as well. They were trying to win, so they wanted
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  Speaker 4: the economy to be seen as coming back faster. So
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  Speaker 4: they lifted a lot of firewalls off of our economic marketplace.
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  Speaker 4: Banks and insurance companies and investment firms, all who up
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  Speaker 4: till the mid nineties were kept from co mingling with
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  Speaker 4: one another. Rules about co mingling your boards of directors
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  Speaker 4: all lifted during that period of time. So Chris, I
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  Speaker 4: will argue that you broke it, you bought it. And
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  Speaker 4: am I hearing anything from you to fix all the
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  Speaker 4: things that Robert Reich and the rest of the Clintonians
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  Speaker 4: damaged in the nineties, or are you too close to Chappaquada?
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  Speaker 4: Dare bring on the wrath of Hillary and her shredder,
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  Speaker 4: her career shredder, because there are problems. This isn't capitalism,
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  Speaker 4: this is cronyism. And I'm not playing a blame game
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  Speaker 4: outside of the fact that these guys are out there
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  Speaker 4: trying to tag Donald Trump for something they created. And
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  Speaker 4: we can fix it if we're honest about it and
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  Speaker 4: stop playing this. I said, you said, Chris, You're not
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  Speaker 4: wrong that this version of capitalism isn't working, But you
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  Speaker 4: are the guys who invented this version of capitalism, So
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  Speaker 4: why don't you grow a set and help us fix capitalism.
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  Speaker 8: According to a new report from Discovery Education, ninety two
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  Speaker 8: percent of students say that engaging lessons make school more fun,
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  Speaker 8: and more than ninety percent of educators said engagement is
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  Speaker 8: critical for student achievement. Student engagement is essential for learning,
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  Speaker 8: but gaps remain about how to achieve, measure and sustain
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  Speaker 8: student's interest in the classroom. Although sixty three percent of
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  Speaker 8: students agreed that students are highly engaged in school, only
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  Speaker 8: forty five percent of teachers and fifty one percent of
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  Speaker 8: principles surveyed agreed with the same statement. Educators disagreed on
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  Speaker 8: the top indicators of engagement. Seventy two percent of teachers
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  Speaker 8: said asking thoughtful questions was the strongest indicator of student engagement,
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  Speaker 8: while fifty four percent of superintendents rate performing well on
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  Speaker 8: assessments as a top engagement indicator. Also, two thirds of
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  Speaker 8: students said they believed that AI could help them learn faster,
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  Speaker 8: yet fewer than half of teachers report using AI themselves
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  Speaker 1: People do not believe that this version of capitalism has worked,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, it hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk media Network by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas and Charlotts.
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  Speaker 3: That fifteen LiTi never mine mine. But I've too many story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm making TV.
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  Speaker 4: Sendling this out, Chris listening. It was on fourteen ninety
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  Speaker 4: W G. C. H and knit Connecticut Senator Murphy that
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  Speaker 4: ones for you as we celebrate Pride Month for a
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  Speaker 4: few days longer here on first thing today. Yes, so
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  Speaker 4: proud the nutmeg stayed. He puts the nut in nutmeg,
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  Speaker 4: He really does. And when you can be the craziest
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  Speaker 4: Connecticut Senator in a team that includes Danang, Dick Durbin,
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  Speaker 4: I mean Dick Blumenthal, Danang, Dick Blumenthal. They the meetings
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  Speaker 4: they must have, you know. They wheeled Danang Dick in
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  Speaker 4: and pour him back in there behind his desk. Now, Chris,
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  Speaker 4: they still think I'm the nutty one. So I need
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  Speaker 4: you to go out on a book tour. Can you
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  Speaker 4: write a book? Can you read a book? Chris, Chris,
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  Speaker 4: look at me again? Put the game boy down, Chris, Chris, Chris.
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  Speaker 4: I need you to go on tour. Needs you to
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  Speaker 4: stop stop people thinking that I'm the crazy one. So
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  Speaker 4: in a state represented by Danang, Dick Blumenthal, and Chris Murphy,
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  Speaker 4: it's a horse race, It really is they're rounding the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Turn more of Chris Murphy's statement. This is the same
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  Speaker 4: conversation yesterday in which he said he wants a twenty
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  Speaker 4: five dollars an our minimum wage for the country. But
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  Speaker 4: he's being questioned in all of them, all of them
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  Speaker 4: being asked about Zorhan Mom, Donnie. Zorhan Mom. Donnie got
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  Speaker 4: the presidential treatment himself. The Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 9: Let them.
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  Speaker 6: We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like
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  Speaker 6: if Republicans are going to make you the poster child
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  Speaker 6: for the Democratic Party. Let them. We don't have to
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  Speaker 6: ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins.
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  Speaker 6: I won last November, and over the course of these
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  Speaker 6: last six months, what we've delivered for working people are
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  Speaker 6: the very things we were told were impossible. We've delivered
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  Speaker 6: free childcare for two year olds for the first time
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  Speaker 6: in New York City history. We've delivered tens of millions
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  Speaker 6: of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of
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  Speaker 6: by bad landlords. We've delivered one hundred and sixty five
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  Speaker 6: thousand potholes being paved. And we've done all of these
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  Speaker 6: things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our
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  Speaker 6: city's history.
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  Speaker 4: I love that phrase. By the way, just don't report it.
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  Speaker 4: Tell the cops. They don't need to. You know how
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  Speaker 4: they all hate filling out the paperwork, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 4: you know when us guys come back from patrol, don't
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  Speaker 4: fill out any paperwork, then the maya can say he's
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  Speaker 4: got low. I love it when they use these words.
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  Speaker 4: They twist the words around in there anyway. So Chris
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  Speaker 4: Murphy asked, well, you know, mom, Donnie says the party's
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  Speaker 4: gone full on robot socialists there. What do you say about.
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  Speaker 7: You're at home? There were three far left candidates handpicked
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  Speaker 7: by New York City Mayor Mamdani, who won last week
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  Speaker 7: over more centrist candidates. Some are looking at that and saying,
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  Speaker 7: the reach of the left wing of your party seems
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  Speaker 7: to be expanding. And here is what President Trump said,
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  Speaker 7: take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is no this is my Oh as bad
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  Speaker 4: as things are for you guys in Connecticut, this is
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  Speaker 4: this is my guy. This is nearly the vice president.
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  Speaker 4: Actually by this point he would have been President. Tim
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  Speaker 4: Kaine's becoming a communist party.
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  Speaker 5: These are not social democrats. These are hardcore, godless communists.
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  Speaker 5: They're godless communists. All communists are godless.
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  Speaker 4: This is from NBC's Meet the Press. They don't believe
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  Speaker 4: in God.
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  Speaker 5: This is the most serious threat to our country since
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  Speaker 5: its existence.
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  Speaker 10: What the president said is just goofy word salad.
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  Speaker 4: So esteemed our leader. Of course, remember this is the
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  Speaker 4: same Tim Kaine that told us.
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  Speaker 11: Mister Barnes, I was struck by your opening comments, and
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  Speaker 11: I asked to get a copy of them so I
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  Speaker 11: could read them and make sure I quoted them correctly.
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  Speaker 11: You state, and this is a quote from Secretary Rubio,
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  Speaker 11: our rights come from God, our Creator, not from our laws,
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  Speaker 11: not from our governments. I find that very, very troubling.
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  Speaker 11: I'm a devout person. I was a missionary in Honduras.
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  Speaker 4: We notice how we avoid saying Catholic.
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  Speaker 11: But other devout folks in this room.
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  Speaker 4: Avoiding saying the sea word.
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  Speaker 11: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, American. The notion that rights don't come
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  Speaker 11: from laws and don't come from the government, but come
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  Speaker 11: from the Creator. That's what the Iranian government believes.
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  Speaker 4: It's is that a goofy words? Sell it as well, Tim.
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  Speaker 10: He goes on to say, I'm not an expert on
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  Speaker 10: New York House races, I am an expert on Senate races,
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  Speaker 10: and we have got Senate candidates all over this country
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  Speaker 10: working to flip red seat's blue.
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  Speaker 4: So it goes right. You see boys and girls here.
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  Speaker 4: If you ever want to run for office, that's called
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  Speaker 4: not accepting the premise of the question. It's a tactic
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  Speaker 4: the good ones or the successful ones too, so you
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  Speaker 4: answer the question you want to answer, not the question
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  Speaker 4: that they pose to you.
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  Speaker 2: Do.
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  Speaker 4: We have the Chris Murphy clip. So Chris Murphy was
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  Speaker 4: on ABC. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 12: Let's first off, start with your reaction to the latest
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  Speaker 12: primary results out of New York. You've heard President Trump
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  Speaker 12: say that these candidates aren't socialists. He's gone as far
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  Speaker 12: as to call them communists. As someone who identifies as
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  Speaker 12: a progressive, is this a moment of reckoning for establishment Democrats?
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to have different candidates being nominated
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  Speaker 1: in New York City and suburban Connecticut. This is a
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  Speaker 1: party that is also nominated and won with candidates like
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  Speaker 1: Abigail Spanberger and Mickey Cheryl with the cat face. I
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  Speaker 1: want us to be a big ten part. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've been other words, yes, during this for years. I
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  Speaker 1: think that it's actually a sign of a party that
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  Speaker 1: is alive and growing when there's a contest of ideas
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  Speaker 1: inside the party.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that won't be an economy that's alive in growing,
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  Speaker 4: because I've looked. I'm trying to find a communist economy
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  Speaker 4: that's alive and growing. But Chris Murphy continues.
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  Speaker 1: So, I'm not a Democratic socialist, but I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party has been historically way too timid
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  Speaker 1: in taking on corporate power.
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  Speaker 4: As Tim Kaine said, that's a goofy word salad. He
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  Speaker 4: goes on to propose a twenty five dollars an hour
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  Speaker 4: minimum wage and says, quote, this version, as you heard
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  Speaker 4: in the onset of our segment here, this version of
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  Speaker 4: capitalism isn't working. That's right, and he's right. Mark the
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  Speaker 4: date down June twenty ninth, twenty twenty six, third hour
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  Speaker 4: of First Thing Today in Joe Thomas, seven minutes past
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  Speaker 4: the hour. Joe Thomas said, Chris Murphy was right under
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  Speaker 4: the guise of truthiness. He doesn't mean it the way
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  Speaker 4: I do. Because they created they Chris Murphy and Danang,
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  Speaker 4: Dick Blumenthal and Tim Kaine and Mark Warner and John
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  Speaker 4: Hick and Looper and Mark Kelly and Adam Schiff and
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  Speaker 4: Maxi and Waters. They created this version. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 4: Al Gore. They created this cronious government, top down version
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  Speaker 4: of capitalism, wearing the costumes of capitalism, threatening corporations that
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  Speaker 4: if they didn't play ball, they would get punished, but
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  Speaker 4: if they did play ball, there would be great rewards.
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  Speaker 4: That version. Yeah, it's broke.
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  Speaker 4: to the right that followed it up quickly. But as
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  Speaker 4: as we heard on was it NBC this week?
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  Speaker 7: Here at home, there were three far left candidates handpicked
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  Speaker 7: by New York City Mayor Mamdani, who won last week
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  Speaker 7: over more centrist candidates. Some are looking at that and saying,
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  Speaker 7: the reach of the left wing of your party seems
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  Speaker 7: to be expanding. And here is what President Trump said,
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  Speaker 7: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Just becoming a communist party. These are not social democrats.
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  Speaker 5: These are hardcore godless communists. They're godless communists. All communists
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  Speaker 5: are godless.
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  Speaker 4: Now, uderstand, the President was speaking to the Faith and
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  Speaker 4: Freedom meetings. So when he's saying this, it's not like
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  Speaker 4: he will say, we should remind everyone communism is because
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  Speaker 4: the state must replace the church. In Marxism, and you
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  Speaker 4: see it, this is the concept of running electorally against
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  Speaker 4: Santa Claus. Look at your list. I hope you have
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  Speaker 4: a list of seven vices and seven virtues. As much
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  Speaker 4: as I love my pocket constitution, my pocket vice, my
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  Speaker 4: pocket reference of vices versus virtues is always handy. All right,
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  Speaker 4: seven deadly sins, but they begin is just a listing
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  Speaker 4: of vices pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
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  Speaker 4: And they have counterbalancing virtues. But the American experience driven
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  Speaker 4: by this zeal for pure democracy, and that's a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 4: You remember, pure democracy is how you wind up with this.
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  Speaker 4: This is how you wind up with Santa Claus at
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  Speaker 4: your door saying I can you vote for me? I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to give you stuff? Will you vote for me?
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  Speaker 6: Sure?
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  Speaker 4: If you're going to give us stuff, hells to the
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  Speaker 4: s so aside from President Trump, and is all too
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  Speaker 4: honest the depiction of what communism is. You had you
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  Speaker 4: had build Cassidy the third horse and a three horse
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  Speaker 4: primary race, saying that on his way out he wanted
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  Speaker 4: to to borrow one point five trillion dollars to invest
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  Speaker 4: in Wall Street to grow a fund that would then
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  Speaker 4: be added to the Social Security Fund. And I was
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  Speaker 4: reading his proposal and I get what his concept is.
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  Speaker 4: He's trying to come up with some socialist agenda item
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  Speaker 4: that a conservative can plausibly run on. And it just
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  Speaker 4: made me realize that this is what makes it so
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  Speaker 4: hard for you and me to quote be conservative. Do
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  Speaker 4: I know that I have an uphill battled when I retire,
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  Speaker 4: if I ever retire. Sure, I've also accepted the fact
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  Speaker 4: that I was going to keep doing this. Why because
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  Speaker 4: I love what I'm doing. Why would I stop doing
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  Speaker 4: what I love doing? Now? Some people have physical reasons
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  Speaker 4: they can't keep doing what they love doing, But the
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  Speaker 4: smart ones find a way to continue to do something
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  Speaker 4: adjunct to it. But why are things growing so expensive?
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  Speaker 4: And it's because of the debasement of the US dollar.
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  Speaker 4: So borrowing one point five trillion dollars just does more
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  Speaker 4: of that. It dilutes the US dollar, regardless of what
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  Speaker 4: it's for. It also keeps you from actually having to
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  Speaker 4: ask why is social security struggling so badly? Because there
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  Speaker 4: are easy to define reasons, and it all winds up
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  Speaker 4: back with I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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  Speaker 4: So Santa Claus is on the March Santa Claus and
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  Speaker 4: New York especially is emboldened by the idea we had
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  Speaker 4: Zoran Mamdani's statement on you know, rock on with my socialism. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: the president says, I'm a socialist.
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  Speaker 8: A democratic party let them.
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  Speaker 6: We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like
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  Speaker 6: if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over
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  Speaker 6: the course of these last six months, what we've delivered
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  Speaker 6: for working people are the very things we were told
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  Speaker 6: were impossible.
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  Speaker 4: They are impossible over a long period of time. But
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  Speaker 4: even Lenin had a period of a couple of years
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  Speaker 4: in the Soviet Union that were like you know, heaven
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  Speaker 4: on Earth. It was the workers utopia, and then things
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  Speaker 4: started to break down and Stalin had to start sending
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  Speaker 4: people to the gulags if they didn't meet their quotas.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we're missing, is we're missing the fact
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  Speaker 4: that by our continued insistence on government spending in government programs,
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  Speaker 4: we have made our dollars so week and plus we've
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  Speaker 4: made our government so deeply entrenched into quote, regulating our
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  Speaker 4: economy that we wouldn't know a free market if it
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  Speaker 4: bit us on the ROMP. They they have moved our
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  Speaker 4: money around so that you know, sure, we can give
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  Speaker 4: you some money if you spend it on the things
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  Speaker 4: four three, four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 4: First thing this Monday morning, Good morning, who's this?
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  Speaker 13: I survived another week?
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  Speaker 4: There you go week a Sunday without us and your
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  Speaker 4: back Andy. How are you doing in Florida this morning?
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  Speaker 13: I'm doing great. So it's just there's so many things
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  Speaker 13: that you touch on all the times and all the time.
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  Speaker 13: But you know, the debasement of our currency is at
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  Speaker 13: the core of a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: This, oh most of it. I would argue, Well.
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  Speaker 13: You know, if you go back to nineteen thirteen like
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  Speaker 13: pre nineteen thirteen banks for you know, mostly local like
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  Speaker 13: savings and for lack of a better term, like savings
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  Speaker 13: and loan kind of business.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: And one of the documents that I'm uncovering right now,
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  Speaker 13: it relates to my great grandfather who had his top
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  Speaker 13: factory burned down not once, but twice.
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  Speaker 4: People didn't like his Yeah, that's amazing, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: jobs and that kind of thing, Andy were coming up
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  Speaker 4: on our news. Here is it something you can now?
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm not even going to try hang
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  Speaker 6: We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like
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  Speaker 6: if a socialist ran.
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  Speaker 9: They wanted to see one of that, at least for work.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for letting guess be of service to you
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be.
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  Speaker 4: Four three four eight A two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you what went on last night,
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  Speaker 4: and then I want to hear how it is impacting you.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: You can text message that number, or you can use
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: it as a traditional phone call mechanism by all means
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  Speaker 4: still works for that. But I know how mornings are
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: and you get crazy busy, and that's fine. That's it's
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  Speaker 4: all good as long as we hear from you. That
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: is the thing. Emails come into JT in the morning
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  Speaker 4: radio at gmail dot com. Andy was on the phone
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  Speaker 4: with us heading into the break and Andy, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to give you a chance to finish up your thought
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  Speaker 4: on what was happening. You had mentioned your family's tile
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  Speaker 4: factory in Covington, Kentucky, just outside of Cincinnati, and I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to hear the finish up on what that had
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  Speaker 4: to do. We were talking about how the crony capitalism
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: has set up the field for a Zorhanmandani and the
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  Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders crowd to get out there and to make
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  Speaker 4: the case that capitalism is broken and is the problem.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it seems like while we were making
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  Speaker 4: the logical argument, they were going the other way. But
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: are you talking about like the access to explain how
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  Speaker 4: it all ties into this creation of the American socialist.
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  Speaker 13: One of the interesting things that I found is that
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  Speaker 13: all five of the investors were part of the Savings
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  Speaker 13: and Love one almost a judge.
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  Speaker 4: One was.
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  Speaker 13: One of the original investors, like in the Element railroad
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  Speaker 13: at Louisville and Nashville, and they had branches that went
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  Speaker 13: up into the coalfields that I also learning that my
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  Speaker 13: paternal grandfather actually owned. Now I'm turned seventy two this week,
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  Speaker 13: and yeah, I've got got fun things going on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, fireworks for Andy's birthday there. But I think your
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  Speaker 4: point was well made that this is you know about
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  Speaker 4: access to capital. That is, you know, at the root
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  Speaker 4: of it, what capital is a means is do you
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: have access to capital? And that's what a lot of
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: people don't realize that and and maybe it has will
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  Speaker 4: break down some of the things that the left has
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  Speaker 4: done to the economic system to limit access to capital
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  Speaker 4: to make their case