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"A Stranger in a Strange Land" (Wednesday, February 25, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 3: up a little bit later on today. But Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 3: and in the statement, you'll go back to the whole statement.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 4: impress upon you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like you, I'm no better than you, you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: A nine to sixty SAT guy, and you know, and I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act
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  Speaker 3: all there if you got nine and he's speaking to
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  Speaker 3: black community leaders in Georgia. Funny enough because he wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be running for president talking to Georgia, and he's talking
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  Speaker 3: about speeches and why he probably got that lower than
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  Speaker 3: you would imagine SAT score.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my dyslexica. I haven't overcome dyslexia. I'm living
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 3: Dyslexia is a cognitive process. And I met some folks
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  Speaker 3: who were working with this organization called Learning RX years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and I read the book that the program the Learning
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  Speaker 3: RX is founded on, and I just was shocked to
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  Speaker 3: find that there is literally only one Learning RX brain
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  Speaker 3: training center in the entire state of California, and it's
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  Speaker 3: in Costa Mesa, near John Wayne Airport. There none in Excremento,
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  Speaker 3: No nothing near where the government governor could go and
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  Speaker 3: get his you know, run out of the capitol building.
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  Speaker 3: So I've decided that we need some Learning OURX headquarters
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  Speaker 3: in Sacramento. We need to get some folks to start
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  Speaker 3: up Learning RX out there so that the governor can
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  Speaker 3: go take this braine And this brain training was designed
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  Speaker 3: by an optometrist who started to try started to dig
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  Speaker 3: in on what was causing kids to be dyslexic, like
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  Speaker 3: Aven Newsom. And after research and study and he realized
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  Speaker 3: it was cognitive not physical. You couldn't give somebody surgery
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  Speaker 3: to fix it. And maybe the governor's just been busy
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  Speaker 3: building his political career and he hasn't had time to
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  Speaker 3: think about it. But it doesn't take long. I went
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  Speaker 3: through the learning URX program because I had a bad
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  Speaker 3: case of CRS, you know, can't remember stuff, and I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't remember names or anything else. It was all just
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  Speaker 3: coming into my cognitive zone, like the chocolates, the metaphorical
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  Speaker 3: chocolates coming to Lucy and Ethel at the chocolate factory.
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  Speaker 3: Google it, kids, It's on YouTube. I just couldn't keep
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  Speaker 3: up with the data coming in. My processing was too slow,
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  Speaker 3: and they trained up my processing and now I'm better.
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  Speaker 3: I learned how to be faster at collecting stuff. They
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  Speaker 3: do amazing stuff in Colorado Springs. I talked to the
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  Speaker 3: person who runs the learning arcs in Colorado Springs and
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  Speaker 3: they were working with grievously injured soldiers with traumatic brain
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  Speaker 3: injuries to try to train them to use other parts
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  Speaker 3: of their brain to get going with There's amazing stuff
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  Speaker 3: this program does. Learningurx dot com and you look for
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  Speaker 3: locations and I went looking. I said, oh, this has
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  Speaker 3: got to be wrong. There's got to be learning our
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  Speaker 3: xes and Sacramento and Nope, not anywhere, not anywhere in California.
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  Speaker 3: I think we see the problem here. They could help
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom. I'm just trying to show you I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a hater. Democrats opposed to President Trump's State of the
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  Speaker 3: Union address decided to not go and went to the
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  Speaker 3: National Press Club, where they were holding a counter State
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  Speaker 3: of the Swamp party with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye and
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  Speaker 3: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson complaining about the President's enforcement of
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  Speaker 5: Need to bring a tample.
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  Speaker 4: Don't just do me, do the.
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  Speaker 3: Visit a couple of texts on the Learning r ex
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  Speaker 3: A bit.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at this nationwide map, and not to get
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  Speaker 3: into a tangent and stuff, but I was just trying
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  Speaker 3: to help Gavin Newsom in this, Like Lisa writes in
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  Speaker 3: please don't help Gavin Newsom, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he would re.
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  Speaker 3: The error of his political ways if he didn't have
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  Speaker 3: this dyslexia problem. Maybe he could read Russell Kirk and
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  Speaker 3: Edmund Burke and John Locke and realize the mistakes he's made.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we would be helping the man. You know, how
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  Speaker 3: can you not avoid the opportunity and learning our EX
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  Speaker 3: It's no way. I mean, it's a ton of them
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  Speaker 3: in Minneapolis. I think there's more Learning our EX branches
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  Speaker 3: in Minneapolis than there are leering centers. Why too soon,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. And of course here in Stanton
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  Speaker 3: and Charlottesville where we are flagged out of that's where
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  Speaker 3: I went. And as I mentioned Colorado Springs in Denver,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like Denver and Boulder have some location. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking around. I mean, you've got to drive into
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  Speaker 3: Alabama if you're down in Pasco. Gula listening to us.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe Saint Augustine. There's a branch in jackson Ville.
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  Speaker 3: We got to get more of these places. It is intense.
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  Speaker 3: And what they do is is they figure out what
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  Speaker 3: it is that your cognitive issue is and they have
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  Speaker 3: specific ones targeted to dyslexia. And that was the whole
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  Speaker 3: root of the program. And I'm not getting paid for this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they have sponsored me in the past, but
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  Speaker 3: I also went through the program and it was by
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  Speaker 3: the way, it wouldn't hurt if you mentioned somebody, if
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  Speaker 3: you called them that you heard guy on the radio
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  Speaker 3: was talking about just saying, you know, commerce has to
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  Speaker 3: happen somewhere. But I'm just saying it. You know, dyslexi
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  Speaker 3: is not something to shrug off. And maybe this is
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  Speaker 3: an implication of what Gavin Newsom's view of the world
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  Speaker 3: is is I you know, I have a disability. Therefore
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  Speaker 3: it defines me, rather than saying, hey, let's see if
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  Speaker 3: we can come up with some way to face it.
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  Speaker 3: If you can or or you know, find a way
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  Speaker 3: to keep going without. And it's maybe this is the crisis.
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  Speaker 3: The existential crisis in this country is that we're we're
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  Speaker 3: looking for government approvals. Hey, I'm only got an nine
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  Speaker 3: sixty SAT score. Honestly, I talked to people who have dyslexia.
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  Speaker 3: Nine sixties a pretty high SAT score for folks who
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  Speaker 3: are suffering with dyslexia.
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  Speaker 6: Plus, he was a jock too in high school.
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  Speaker 3: He was a You see all the pictures on social
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  Speaker 3: media of him playing high school baseball, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he looks the part too. He looks like that guy,
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  Speaker 3: you know with the letterman jacket and probably three or
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  Speaker 3: four sports and yeah, you know, you look at him,
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  Speaker 3: the cheerleader, girlfriend and everything else that you know, always
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  Speaker 3: used to dry if you're anything like me. I ignored
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  Speaker 3: it after a bit because I realized what was crippling
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  Speaker 3: most of the jockson my high school was something I
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  Speaker 3: never wanted to be part of. But yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 3: there's some if. But I was just looking around the
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  Speaker 3: footprint of this program, and there's just not a lot
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  Speaker 3: out there. So there's a what is that Dayton, Ohio
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  Speaker 3: has one? Youngstown just some Milwaukee it looks like, has one,
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  Speaker 3: So you have to drive up there from Chicago.
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  Speaker 6: But I know a lot of you folks do that.
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  Speaker 3: To the chagrin of the Wisconsins somewhere around Houston, so
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  Speaker 3: our friends in Beaumont could probably get up there, like
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  Speaker 3: I said. And then Phoenix has some. It looks like Vancouver,
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  Speaker 3: British Columbia has one for you guys in Portland. And
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  Speaker 3: like I said, Coasta, Mesa, California. Nothing in Sacramento, nothing
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  Speaker 3: in San Francisco. You know nothing in Nevada at all, Idaho, Montana.
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  Speaker 3: I know you guys callis spell. I was just looking around.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel bad because it's it is an eye
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  Speaker 3: opening program, because I just figured I was always crippled
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  Speaker 3: to be the guy that had to go and use
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  Speaker 3: my wife as the crutch. So if you had met
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  Speaker 3: me and I could remember faces, I couldn't remember the
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  Speaker 3: names that went along with them. So I would I
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  Speaker 3: would go to a mixer or even just a radio
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  Speaker 3: station event and people would.
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  Speaker 6: Go, hey, Joe, remember they we.
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  Speaker 3: Then, and I'm thinking, I don't remember your name. I
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  Speaker 3: do remember the conversation. I do remember you gave me
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  Speaker 3: this great book on George Mason or something, and I
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  Speaker 3: do remember all those little details, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't remember your name.
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  Speaker 3: And so I would always say, oh, hey, here's my wife.
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  Speaker 3: Have you met my wife, and I know it's one
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  Speaker 3: of the oldest tricks in the book. But then my friend,
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  Speaker 3: the fellow who runs the shop in Charlotte's Felle Darkan Hogshol,
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  Speaker 3: said would you take the course? He was giving it
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  Speaker 3: to me as a gift because I had just gone
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  Speaker 3: through chemotherapy, and chemo brain is apparently another thing, and
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  Speaker 3: they do work on Alzheimer's. There's all sorts of things
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  Speaker 3: that they're working on to use.
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  Speaker 4: And believe me, my.
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  Speaker 3: Bout with CRS required me to grow to just despise
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  Speaker 3: the sound of a metronome. Everything we had to do
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  Speaker 3: on a metronome. And you want to be a frustrated
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  Speaker 3: fifty year old man, try to do your five times table,
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  Speaker 3: the easiest times table in math, five times and try
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  Speaker 3: to do it on a and you're stumbling through it
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  Speaker 3: because the metronome keeps going.
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  Speaker 6: Faster and faster.
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  Speaker 3: You know your five times table, and it's frustrating. That's
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  Speaker 3: a TEXTS came in and said, Joe, we've heard you
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  Speaker 3: do math.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know your.
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  Speaker 4: Five times table. All right, I'm just trying to.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just trying to.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great program and if you're listening in any
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  Speaker 3: of these places, go go investigate. Dargan wasn't an educator.
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  Speaker 3: He had a business degree, and this was a business
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  Speaker 3: opportunity that came along and he got into it. And
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  Speaker 3: now he's considered one of the pre eminent experts in
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  Speaker 3: education around here. And he doesn't do education. They do
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  Speaker 3: the things that help make the education get to you.
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  Speaker 3: Immigrant is just marvelous. My wife's listened to it four
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  Speaker 4: The old joke you have a face for radio, exactly, sir.
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  Speaker 5: I'm amazed, Well, thank you for the nice introduction, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm amazed at your reaction to the immigrant saying I'm
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  Speaker 5: branching into a whole new form of storytelling. It's a
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  Speaker 5: two and a half minute piece. It has a video
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  Speaker 5: component of me. I don't know if it's me or
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  Speaker 5: it's me playing the role of the immigrant. It's so
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  Speaker 5: complex in its simplicity. It's a simple, little two and
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  Speaker 5: a half minute speech that I give sitting on a
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  Speaker 5: park bench across the New York Harbor from Ellis Island,
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  Speaker 5: which is a historic iconic place in terms of the
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  Speaker 5: history of the gateway to America.
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  Speaker 4: For it, that's a big part of it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: is the Vista exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And people are talking about this like it's a new genre,
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  Speaker 5: and maybe we have fallen upon something. I've been dabbling
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  Speaker 5: a rock band, so I don't know if I'm spreading out,
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  Speaker 5: but I've fallen upon something with this. We haven't promoted
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  Speaker 5: it that heavily. If people listening to this eventually want
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: to take a look at it, they'll be among the
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: first thousand people not to receive anything, but to see it.
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  Speaker 5: It'll ultimately have tens of thousands of views. But we're
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: doing it slowly because we don't even know how to
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  Speaker 5: describe it, and I'm learning as we go. But thank
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: you for the kind words. A lot can be said
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: about this. We could talk about how we made it,
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  Speaker 5: we could talk about the subject matter. And the last
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: thing it's really about is immigration, although it does come
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: back full circle to being about immigration too well.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: But you know it's still you know, our friendly Hbibe
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  Speaker 5: No, you're not. You're thinking of it. You're thinking it
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  Speaker 5: want to give away I don't I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: note who I am. Many people in the industry. I'm
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: well known in the in the broadcasting business, and of
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  Speaker 5: course this is primarily geared to them, because there's an
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  Speaker 5: company made this. I didn't make this alone, but I
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  Speaker 5: didn't I did write the copy and I perform the
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  Speaker 5: delivery of it. But what I basically say is at
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of time, you know, talking to introducing
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  Speaker 5: it takes longer than playing, is that I am an immigrant.
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  Speaker 5: and decades and decades and even more than that, how
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  Speaker 5: you don't find out? Oh, let me backtrack for a second,
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  Speaker 3: That's a whole got my that got my attention exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you you you tease it up very well for
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network, all natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Although we did talk a little bit about artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 3: this morning, it wasn't a completely lost subject matter to us.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Harrison and the publisher of Talkers magazine, long time
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  Speaker 3: radio guy, but you know now chronicling as he has
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  Speaker 3: this new world of all the new media and doing
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  Speaker 3: these podcasts and doing a lot of things in the
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  Speaker 3: Internet space. And we were just talking during the break
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  Speaker 3: about the differences and all the things that that make
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  Speaker 3: up a different world of media versus radio. A broken microphone,
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  Speaker 3: what makes radio work?
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  Speaker 5: And the whole thing comes down in two and a
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  Speaker 5: half minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Two and a half minutes.
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  Speaker 3: It's brilliantly done too, And I think that that kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing, that sort of storytelling, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it's Paul Harvey, if it's you know, if it's ever
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  Speaker 3: even really been done through the milieu of radio. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: not since the you know, the days prior to television
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  Speaker 3: when this was what radio did was you know, orson
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  Speaker 3: Wells and that kind of thing. Maybe that's what we're
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  Speaker 3: hearkening back to, but it's still it's about telling a story,
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  Speaker 3: and the sort of I tell folks all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if it's thirty seconds in a
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  Speaker 3: news story, you're telling a story, you've got to have
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  Speaker 3: a start, of middle and an end.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to go somewhere with.
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  Speaker 5: It, and hopefully some type of a moral. Sure, you
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  Speaker 5: know I mentioned earlier the Twilight Zone. I know a
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  Speaker 5: number of your listeners remember it well, and some of
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  Speaker 5: your listeners, the younger ones may not remember it, even
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  Speaker 5: though it's still out there. And the Twilight Zone go
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  Speaker 5: like this little I think they were half hour little stories,
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  Speaker 5: and it was the entire show led up to a punchline.
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  Speaker 5: The last thirty seconds told you the twist what it
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  Speaker 5: was about, and you wound up going oh wow. And
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  Speaker 5: then you got the moral, you know, Asop's fables you got,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you got the the Thurber's fables, you got
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  Speaker 5: the moral of the story is blah blah blah and
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  Speaker 5: and and that's what a real story is it has
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  Speaker 5: a moral a message.
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  Speaker 4: And that's kind of the joy I mean, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I presume, given you're a bit of I am
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  Speaker 3: a science fiction fan because I think there is a
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  Speaker 3: great opportunity to tell stories, to hold mirrors up without
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  Speaker 3: them being exact reflections, and you can say to somebody,
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  Speaker 3: look at how silly you know this thought might be,
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  Speaker 3: or so you know this behavior might be without you
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  Speaker 3: triggering I think is the word that's used nowadays that
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  Speaker 3: person to shut off and say.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you're just picking on me. And I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to listen to.
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  Speaker 4: That anymore, because you have to.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to communicate, you can't turn off the ears.
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  Speaker 3: The whole point is to have people listening to it.
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  Speaker 3: So you say, this is the beginning of this journey.
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  Speaker 3: How many do you have?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I could do a series of The Immigrant. I could
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  Speaker 5: do one hundred of them. I could do a thousand
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  Speaker 5: of them. You know, the question is am I the immigrant?
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  Speaker 5: Or am I playing the role of the immigrant? And
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  Speaker 5: so far I am the immigrant that is me, And
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  Speaker 5: so I might do a series called the Immigrant, or
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  Speaker 5: I might just do the Immigrant as the first of
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  Speaker 5: a series of something bigger or more diverse. We're figuring
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  Speaker 5: that out right now. It truly is experimental, and yet
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  Speaker 5: is it's a guy sitting on a park bench talking
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  Speaker 5: for two and a half minutes. It is nothing more
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  Speaker 5: than that looking at the camera and telling the story
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  Speaker 5: of the fact that he is an immigrant and how
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  Speaker 5: and why and from where he can't and he's in
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  Speaker 5: a strange land that is irrevocably I can't even remember
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  Speaker 5: the lines, you know, irrevocably located beyond the horizons of
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  Speaker 5: space and time. I mean, it gets a little mystical
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  Speaker 5: there the hell is this guy from. I am enthusiastic
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  Speaker 5: about the world. I am enthusiastic about my role in
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  Speaker 5: this wonderful broadcasting industry. I have a lot of very
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  Speaker 5: big interests. As I said, you said you're interested in
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  Speaker 5: science fiction, so am I. I'm also interested in science faction.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, my favorite science is possibilities
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  Speaker 5: that are based upon things that are plausible, as opposed
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  Speaker 5: to fantasy. I'm not a big fan of fantasy. I'm
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  Speaker 5: a big fan of science, and I love to see
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  Speaker 5: it used to create narratives and stories. But what I
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  Speaker 5: like about this is that this one takes in a
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  Speaker 5: topic that is core to my work, and that is
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  Speaker 5: observing the evolution of Homo sapiens, observing the relationship between
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  Speaker 5: technology and sociology. These are these are core to everything
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  Speaker 5: that I do. You know, the stage and the actor,
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  Speaker 5: the stick and the stick, the form and content yin
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  Speaker 5: and yang. This is and this is what I'm about,
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  Speaker 5: and I get to do it on this video really well.
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  Speaker 5: Plus there is a certain agree of technological enhancement, okay
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  Speaker 5: on this particular video that shocks people and maybe said,
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  Speaker 5: I'll come back on your show in a month or so,
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  Speaker 5: You'll say, you know those of you who remember when
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  Speaker 5: Michael was on the show, and I'll explain what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely Michael, I love it. Thank you. Sarah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I watched the video. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what he's enhanced and there, I mean, believe me, in
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood and covering the news, there's enough enhancements.
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  Speaker 6: You can see him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to go walk back after the show
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  Speaker 3: and watch it again. It's the immigrant at Talkers Media
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  Speaker 3: on YouTube. Uh there and is it's a surprise twist
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  Speaker 3: in the midst there as to you know what and.
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  Speaker 6: Where and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: But It is the story that you tell and the
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  Speaker 3: things that you do. And this is why it was
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  Speaker 3: neat to have him on after we were talking with Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Frasier about our official intelligence and what did he say,
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  Speaker 3: the stick and the stick. They're the seltzer and your pants.
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  Speaker 3: But it's how you tell a story. Because we have
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  Speaker 3: an unalienable, god given right to have freedom of speech,
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  Speaker 3: we don't have a freedom to be listened to. And
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: this is one of the things that tears apart our
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  Speaker 3: society right now. As we're watching people saying, you're not
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  Speaker 3: listening to me, I want the government to make you
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  Speaker 3: listen to me, and in that they become the people
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  Speaker 3: who are just as intolerantly not listening to anyone. And
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: it's crazy making. It's become this idea that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're all in this conflict with one another. Span Berger
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  Speaker 3: even used that narrative in her speech last night. Her
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: twelve minute response to the president is that we're being
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  Speaker 3: pitted against one another, and yes we are, and it's
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  Speaker 3: by the forces who want to become authoritarian over us.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not.
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  Speaker 6: Who she says it is.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where I think a lot of people have
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  Speaker 3: found themselves saying, you know, every time they get into
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  Speaker 3: this rhetorical jag about Donald Trump, it doesn't turn out
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  Speaker 3: to be all the things that they were saying it
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  Speaker 3: was going to be when they threatened us with all
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  Speaker 3: the things that Donald Trump was going to do to us.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's they have the right to speak.
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  Speaker 3: Up coming until tomorrow morning at five Eastern.
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