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"Not a Flaw, a Feature" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 2: $ 1 million. And call it even.
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 4: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops a
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  Speaker 4: kid to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed.
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  Speaker 5: Of, all the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 2: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 8: this morning.
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  Speaker 9: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know why we would.
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  Speaker 10: Let me get to you at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 8: Who's this?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, good morning. This is John calling from Vero Beach, Florida,
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  Speaker 11: listening to 105.7 FM radio.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you're well-trained, John. I appreciate that. And big ups
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  Speaker 10: to our friends down on the Treasure Coast. What's on
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  Speaker 10: your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I wanted to thank you for putting me in
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  Speaker 11: touch with the, I called James at JCS Gold.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, did he help me?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, everything was fine. I was able to send the
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  Speaker 11: payment in, as, you know, we discussed, you know, he
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  Speaker 11: and I.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: And so far it's moving along smoothly, and I want
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  Speaker 11: to thank you so much for, you know, referencing the contact.
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  Speaker 10: I feel bad that anyone has to go through hassles,
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  Speaker 10: but this is the point of not siloing ourselves off.
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  Speaker 8: From each other's.
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  Speaker 10: Everyone's got help we can give, and that's, you know,
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  Speaker 10: all it ever turns out to be.
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  Speaker 8: Any other thoughts on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: I wonder, is it okay if I, when I go
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  Speaker 12: to vote, I'm going to vote today, you know, early
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  Speaker 12: vote at the library here in Bureau Beach, Florida. And
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  Speaker 12: I want to find out if it's okay for me
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  Speaker 12: to approach somebody outside the place or something to help
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  Speaker 12: with this early voting, what they call this sample ballot.
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  Speaker 10: Well, every state's laws are different, but I believe there
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  Speaker 10: is a distance from which the election people, the Democrats
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  Speaker 10: and the Republicans, have to stay away from the polling place.
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  Speaker 10: But now there will be election officials in the building
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  Speaker 10: inside of that realm that can help you get to
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  Speaker 10: the ballot. They'll have blank sample ballots. The two political
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  Speaker 10: parties will generally have sample ballots that are already filled
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  Speaker 10: in with all of their people on it. And so
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  Speaker 10: you've got to be careful of that. Usually they keep
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  Speaker 10: all the the politickers outside of the building so that
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  Speaker 10: they're not. The phrase is electioneering too close to where
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  Speaker 10: you cast your ballot because you're supposed to cast your
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  Speaker 10: ballot in person.
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  Speaker 8: Publicly, but secretly.
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  Speaker 10: So it's supposed to be a secret ballot cast publicly
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  Speaker 10: so we can all attest to the fact that you're
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  Speaker 10: not being coerced.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: So, yeah, there will be election officials. They'll be clearly
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  Speaker 10: marked with name tags of some sort in the building
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  Speaker 10: as well that can help you navigate what the ballot
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  Speaker 10: looks like there.
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  Speaker 8: OK.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you so much, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I love your show.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you, sir. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 11: You do a great job of getting us informed and
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  Speaker 11: also helping us first-timers buy gold and silver.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you stay invested, sir. I want you to be prosperous, sir.
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  Speaker 10: And you have a great morning, John.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 11: God bless you, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: 434-882-4217. Our first things this morning, a Marine veteran from Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 12: The Constitution, what's it worth?
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  Speaker 8: right after you head home from the polls from your
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  Speaker 8: early voting. Dr. Clark hanging on the line with us
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  Speaker 8: with thoughts this morning. Clark, morning. What's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 25: Well, you speculated the other day that Louise Lucas would
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  Speaker 25: have enough people that could take the fall before her.
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  Speaker 8: That she could skate out.
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  Speaker 25: And, you know, sometimes I will tell you that I
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  Speaker 25: got information from Huggy Bear or Rooster on something. I
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  Speaker 25: had a conversation with the barrister of Munchkin Land.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: And, you know, Louise Lucas. You know how they like
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  Speaker 25: to do contractions and come up with.
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  Speaker 11: Nicknames and whatnot, Joe?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 25: I think from now on, Louise Lucas needs to be Lulu.
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  Speaker 20: Lulu.
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  Speaker 8: Lulu, why? Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 25: Louise Lucas.
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  Speaker 23: Lulu.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 10: I thought it might have been to serve with love
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  Speaker 10: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 25: Entirely different Lulu. And that can be her name on
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  Speaker 25: the block, the cell block, that is.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: Because what I got from the barrister of Munchkinland is
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  Speaker 25: Lulu is not merely screwed.
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  Speaker 11: She's truly.
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  Speaker 25: and sincerely screwed. So there's that.
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  Speaker 10: So there's no loyalty among family members because a bunch
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  Speaker 10: of the people arrested with Virginia's most important, powerful Democrat
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  Speaker 10: were her family members. Do you suppose that under these
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  Speaker 10: RICO examinations, they were going to turn tail? I know
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  Speaker 10: that the guy who was running her marijuana store.
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  Speaker 8: In Portsmouth, Virginia....
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  Speaker 10: On his perp walk, said something to the effect of,
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  Speaker 10: I was set up, quoting or at least paraphrasing the
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  Speaker 10: late Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry when a prostitute called
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  Speaker 10: the police and got him arrested for all the cocaine.
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  Speaker 10: There's something set me up. You know who set me up.
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  Speaker 10: And that's what her employee said. So you're thinking that
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  Speaker 10: these folks are doing a little CYA calculation and are
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  Speaker 10: just going to throw the 82-year-old grandma pot, granny pot
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  Speaker 10: out of the train?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, let's see. A couple things.
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  Speaker 25: Number one, they never would have made public an investigation,
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  Speaker 25: much less an arrest. Unless they had the complete package there.
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  Speaker 2: So, number two.
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  Speaker 8: One would think. One would hope.
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  Speaker 25: Yeah. Number two.
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  Speaker 8: Omerta.
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  Speaker 25: How did that work, Joe? Back when there was a
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  Speaker 25: sense of Omerta.
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  Speaker 8: It was a two-way street.
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  Speaker 25: Number one, if you kept your mouth shut, didn't implicate anybody,
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  Speaker 25: and went and just did your time, there'd be something
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  Speaker 25: for you when you got out. And if you had family...
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  Speaker 25: they would be taken care of. On the flip side
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  Speaker 25: of the coin, if you run your mouth, we'll kill
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  Speaker 25: you to make an example, and we might do ugly
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  Speaker 25: things to your family. So that's how that worked. There
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  Speaker 25: is no sense of omerta with the Lulu organization, I contend.
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  Speaker 25: Who's going to take care of anybody if Lulu takes
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  Speaker 25: the fall?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I guess somebody gets the business. Somebody's going to
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  Speaker 10: be running the weed shop. Somebody's going to be Grandma Ganja.
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  Speaker 25: So here's the big question. Can Lulu have the smoke
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  Speaker 25: concession on cell block D at 82 years of age,
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  Speaker 25: or is Big Merva going to maintain that and has
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  Speaker 25: too strong a coalition? We'll find out.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 10: I believe it says very clearly in the statute that
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  Speaker 10: you cannot get a marijuana distribution license if you have
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  Speaker 10: a felony conviction. Now, I'm sure we have a constitutional
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  Speaker 10: amendment that would automatically restore your voting rights if you're... Joe, Joe.
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  Speaker 25: Joe, where she's going, everybody's got a felony conviction and
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  Speaker 25: they still have marijuana distribution. So that's not going to matter.
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  Speaker 10: So she's going to become the queen of cell block
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  Speaker 10: D because she'll be smuggling things in in ways I
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  Speaker 10: don't want to think about it getting smuggled in.
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  Speaker 25: Only if she can put together sufficient muscle to overthrow
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  Speaker 25: whoever's got it now. I kind of doubted at 82
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  Speaker 25: that she's got the gas to pull that off.
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  Speaker 8: She's old enough to.
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  Speaker 10: She's kept herself out of jail quite a bit, so
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  Speaker 10: I don't know how much cell block gravitas she has.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: Her organization was very much limited to political power in
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  Speaker 10: the Portsmouth area, but she might have friends on the
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  Speaker 10: cell block, people that have done right in the distribution network.
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  Speaker 25: Well, it pays to have friends in low places.
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  Speaker 11: This is true.
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  Speaker 25: Now, You know, you made a statement as I was
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  Speaker 25: on my morning stroll about the communists impeaching Donald Trump
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  Speaker 25: and how beneficial that would be to 2028.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: You know what popped into my mind, though? What was
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  Speaker 25: remember the energy monster that the more beams you shot
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  Speaker 25: at it, the stronger it got?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I know. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 25: Oh, Donald Trump. He just gets stronger every time somehow.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by joe thomas on the talk media network.
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  Speaker 10: It is time for our sports director mac mcdonald opened
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  Speaker 10: his notebook another nfl week is in the uh In
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  Speaker 10: the bag, as they used to say in old Chicago.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Brother Mac. How are you doing this morning?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Just laughing at the irony of I
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: didn't want to play it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 32: I didn't want to think I didn't want people to
• 28:38
  Speaker 32: think that, you know, I'm just like anti WNBA.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: So they get beat. They get beat last night.
• 28:47
  Speaker 32: Three, two lead to get the State Farm Arena on Thursday.
• 28:50
  Speaker 32: They got to play at 1230 because the Hawks have
• 28:52
  Speaker 32: a game. So they're going to play it at 1230.
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  Speaker 32: The WNBA said that's fine because we don't want to,
• 28:58
  Speaker 32: you know, we want to try to sell as many
• 28:59
  Speaker 32: tickets as possible.
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  Speaker 2: I get that.
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  Speaker 8: That's fine.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: So the head.
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  Speaker 32: Coach and Angel Reese were complaining about in their press
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  Speaker 32: conference about not getting calls.
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  Speaker 2: That's perfect. That's perfect. She goes, yeah, I can't believe
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I get pushed by two hands. And I asked the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: official how come I didn't get the call. And they
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: said next time.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, it's good.
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  Speaker 16: All right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you a great story. I love,
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  Speaker 2: I love the stories.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 29:24
  Speaker 32: First of all, the brewers, they're on the brink of
• 29:26
  Speaker 32: their first championship. Just get the brooms out tonight. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 32: don't even know why the raise is, you know, It's
• 29:32
  Speaker 32: something else. I mean, they sweep the Dodgers.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they ought to be drinking during the game. Oh,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: now you're... a Milwaukee bias.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: Now you're talking about, you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 32: Know, I'm talking about the rays, the rays just should
• 29:45
  Speaker 32: put a cooler in the dugout and have a good time. The,
• 29:49
  Speaker 32: there's the story of, of Woodruff, the pitcher, right? Forever,
• 29:53
  Speaker 32: you know, because it was, you know, here's a guy that, oh,
• 29:57
  Speaker 32: sound like John Madden.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Here's a guy. He was originally drafted by the Rangers
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: in 2011.
• 30:01
  Speaker 32: He did not sign a couple of all-star players. appearances
• 30:05
  Speaker 32: but now he pitched the ninth inning of the Brewers
• 30:08
  Speaker 32: 10-1 win last night over Tampa you know he gave
• 30:11
  Speaker 32: up a run on a double all right but it
• 30:13
  Speaker 32: was his first appearance since July 4th yes shoulder trouble
• 30:17
  Speaker 32: again his first postseason game in five years He's 33
• 30:21
  Speaker 32: years old.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But let's turn back the clock because Woodruff is a
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: forever brewer.
• 30:27
  Speaker 32: He's a forever brewer because a scout in the southeast,
• 30:31
  Speaker 32: Scott Nichols, looked beyond his 6.75 ERA as a junior
• 30:36
  Speaker 32: in Mississippi State. He was a fifth-round pick by the Rangers. Uh,
• 30:41
  Speaker 32: he opted for college, you know, and then it, things
• 30:44
  Speaker 32: did not turn well. So anyway, low key in the
• 30:47
  Speaker 32: locker room, hiding his excitement as they get ready to
• 30:51
  Speaker 32: win the city's first world series.
• 30:54
  Speaker 31: We've had a lot of playoff games and I haven't
• 30:55
  Speaker 31: been able to participate in, in one since 21, I think.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: So what a better way to.
• 31:02
  Speaker 31: Make your re-debut in the, in the playoffs in the
• 31:04
  Speaker 31: world series, which is pretty cool. So yeah, I'll look
• 31:07
  Speaker 31: back on it one day and yeah, tonight was great.
• 31:10
  Speaker 31: It was a great team win. And I, but I
• 31:12
  Speaker 31: know this group is, is ready for tomorrow and we're
• 31:14
  Speaker 31: going to try to come in and finish this thing off.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotta be exciting.
• 31:18
  Speaker 32: Brandon Woodruff in the, in the mold of Billy Wagner,
• 31:21
  Speaker 32: you know, local hero of Virginia.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: So that's pretty good for Kevin cash though.
• 31:26
  Speaker 32: Thank you for participating. Eight runs, seven hits. The eight runs,
• 31:31
  Speaker 32: seven straight hits, not a single home run. And now
• 31:35
  Speaker 32: for the fall classic, Milwaukee has outscored the race 18-7
• 31:39
  Speaker 32: with just one home run. Kevin Cash trying to explain it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: The terrain hangs in there, gets a 2-2 count.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Boozer obviously trying to throw a strike.
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: Smokes the ball right up the middle. Walsey almost makes
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: the play.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: And then it just kind of unraveled from there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:53
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Well, it unraveled.
• 31:55
  Speaker 32: All right.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: Because so much bounces, it's, it's, you know, you don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: play the game on paper as the Yankees and Dodgers.
• 32:04
  Speaker 32: Yeah, Skipper, Pat Murphy, who I just love, and he said, look, guys,
• 32:08
  Speaker 32: you win this thing, and I'll talk about it next hour.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: He goes, it's four, not three. Okay? We're 3-0. It's four.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: You know, of course.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Ask the Red Sox. They'll tell you. You know, count it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 32: Well, it's the anticipated news that we absolutely die for,
• 32:24
  Speaker 32: we wait for, we can't wait to see.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: You know, is it going to be ZZ Top?
• 32:28
  Speaker 32: Will Paul McCartney or the Stones, will they make a
• 32:31
  Speaker 32: return as we get to Yes, the Super Bowl halftime
• 32:37
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• 32:40
  Speaker 2: It will be Roc Nation and Jay-Z.
• 32:43
  Speaker 32: The 56-year-old has performed three sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium.
• 32:49
  Speaker 32: He had a sold-out show in London and in Paris.
• 32:52
  Speaker 32: And so now the tour will continue and wrap up.
• 32:56
  Speaker 32: for the Super Bowl halftime show. His wife, Beyonce, headlined
• 33:00
  Speaker 32: Super Bowl XLVII at the Superdome, and she was alongside
• 33:03
  Speaker 32: Coldplay in 2016. So anyway, I'm guessing that Beyonce will
• 33:08
  Speaker 32: make a return, and we don't know who else is
• 33:10
  Speaker 32: going to be with Jay-Z, but he is going to
• 33:11
  Speaker 32: produce the show.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: Well, we know P. Diddy won't.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we know we were.
• 33:15
  Speaker 32: Just on pins and needles. I had just the headline.
• 33:18
  Speaker 32: I'm going to go into this a little deeper. Speaking
• 33:21
  Speaker 32: of music, Luke Bryan has a son named Bo. He's
• 33:26
  Speaker 32: a three-star QB from Battleground Academy. It's in Franklin, Tennessee,
• 33:30
  Speaker 32: which is just outside Nashville. And he committed to Georgia.
• 33:34
  Speaker 32: for his football career. Do you think there might be
• 33:36
  Speaker 32: a donation in here somewhere? Bulldog offensive coordinator, Mike Bobo
• 33:41
  Speaker 32: extended Brian, his first power for scholarship offer.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Brian is rated.
• 33:48
  Speaker 32: Now, when did, when was the last time that Georgia
• 33:50
  Speaker 32: took a 141st ranked quarterback in the country?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: And here, his offers have been, we used to look
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: at this at.
• 33:59
  Speaker 32: Virginia all the time, you know, while Virginia Tech was
• 34:01
  Speaker 32: getting offers, you know, their kids were getting offers from
• 34:04
  Speaker 32: Notre Dame, Clemson, and Virginia Tech. You know, Virginia was getting, like, Ferrum,
• 34:10
  Speaker 32: and it wasn't quite that bad with George Wells.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: Deciding, you know, between, you know, junior community college or UVA.
• 34:18
  Speaker 32: Yeah, Bo Bryan with offers from Austin Peay, North Alabama,
• 34:23
  Speaker 32: and UT Martin.
• 34:24
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: That's where, that's where he was.
• 34:27
  Speaker 32: And by the way, Austin, you know, one of the
• 34:30
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• 34:32
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• 34:33
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• 34:35
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  Speaker 8: Their great, great.
• 34:36
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• 34:37
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• 34:38
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• 34:39
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Last week, I overlooked it because there's been so much
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: going on. But just a, just a minute.
• 34:45
  Speaker 32: Here because last week, Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon, Michael
• 34:51
  Speaker 32: Wilbon celebrated 25 years of doing PTI.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I'm working for.
• 34:55
  Speaker 32: Gus Ramsey, who knew the producer and Gus has retired.
• 34:58
  Speaker 32: Gus produced Dan Patrick. And so the producer who whose
• 35:03
  Speaker 32: name escapes me and I should have looked it up
• 35:04
  Speaker 32: and I apologize anyway, came up with the concept of
• 35:07
  Speaker 32: the rundown the clock.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And everybody in the world uses it now. Everybody wears
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: it off.
• 35:12
  Speaker 32: But for 25 years, two of the brightest in Washington, D.C., columnists,
• 35:17
  Speaker 32: Washington Post writers, who launched their TV careers. Now, the
• 35:21
  Speaker 32: reason I bring this up, and not to name drop,
• 35:24
  Speaker 32: Michael Wilbon is one of the more special guys in
• 35:27
  Speaker 32: the entire world. I go back to an ACC tournament
• 35:30
  Speaker 32: in Greensboro. Michael Wilbon sat next to me for the
• 35:34
  Speaker 32: Chaminade broadcast in December of 1982. when that little NAIA
• 35:40
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• 35:43
  Speaker 32: It was at 8 o'clock at night. They've had documentaries
• 35:45
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• 35:48
  Speaker 32: living that, but Michael Wilbon was there. ACC tournament, I
• 35:52
  Speaker 32: think it was, I don't know, in the 90s sometime,
• 35:55
  Speaker 32: maybe 93, 94, maybe.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: When I was awake.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: The press room was empty.
• 36:00
  Speaker 32: And I was eating a late dinner and Michael Wilbon
• 36:02
  Speaker 32: strolls in and Michael Wilbon just, you know, he walks in.
• 36:06
  Speaker 32: So this is 10, 11 years later, 12 years later,
• 36:10
  Speaker 32: Michael Wilbon walks in, you know, grabs a salad and
• 36:12
  Speaker 32: a sandwich or whatever. And he sits down and he says,
• 36:15
  Speaker 32: can I sit here right across from you at the table?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: It's a big press room. I mean, and I said, Absolutely.
• 36:21
  Speaker 32: And he goes, you know, we were talking and I said,
• 36:24
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• 36:27
  Speaker 2: By play guy, worked away for blah, blah, blah. And
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: he goes, wait a minute. You did Chaminade, right? I said, yeah.
• 36:36
  Speaker 32: I said, he goes, I remember that we sat, you know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 32: because it was Wilbon.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Todd Turner, my color man, me. And, you know, there wasn't.
• 36:46
  Speaker 32: And maybe one other writer from Hawaii. I mean, that
• 36:49
  Speaker 32: was Press Row at the time. But he remembered that. Anyway,
• 36:54
  Speaker 32: when they did an April Fool's thing, they were special.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Enough already.
• 36:58
  Speaker 32: Stop.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: You always talk about Chicago.
• 37:00
  Speaker 32: Stop protecting this team.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I've had enough.
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: Come on.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I've had enough. I've had enough. I'm done. I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. That's it. I'm tired of it. So he
• 37:10
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• 37:14
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  Speaker 25: Again.
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  Speaker 30: It is time for the YouTube host known as.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Drops Bombs.
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  Speaker 10: And somebody asked me if he looks like the little
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  Speaker 10: Congressman Tom Garrett and now delegate to the Virginia House,
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  Speaker 10: oldest 400 years running and counting, and they haven't managed
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Tom. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 16: Wait, what Virginia house are you watching that hasn't been
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  Speaker 16: messed up yet? The one, the one that I currently
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  Speaker 16: serve in is definitively messed up. Although probably not as
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  Speaker 16: bad as the Virginia Senate is right now.
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  Speaker 8: You know, it's what happens.
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  Speaker 10: So, you know, now it's made national news and yet again,
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  Speaker 10: Virginia lights itself on fire to get national attention and,
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  Speaker 10: The mugshot has become all over the place, and I've
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  Speaker 10: avoided it because I've seen what I look like with
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  Speaker 10: no hair, although I do now know what a bag
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  Speaker 10: of hair looks like. So when I say somebody's not
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  Speaker 10: as smart as a bag of hair, I now have
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  Speaker 10: a photograph of a bag of hair. But that all
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  Speaker 10: being said, what happens now with Louise Lucas's position in
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  Speaker 10: the Virginia Senate? Can she still serve while she's in jail?
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  Speaker 16: So she's out on bond, and she's been asked whether
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  Speaker 16: she'll resign, and she said, well, I can't use all
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  Speaker 16: the expletives she did, but she said no. And I
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  Speaker 16: have spoken with colleagues from the chamber, and the sentiment
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  Speaker 16: is that most of them are afraid of retribution and
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  Speaker 16: retaliatory acts to move for impeachment or even censure. And
• 46:43
  Speaker 16: that is... I think someone will, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 16: to force anyone's hand. And even if it happens, I
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  Speaker 16: think you have to do it to put the Democrats
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  Speaker 16: on record as to whether or not they are willing
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  Speaker 16: to deny her or not. I'm a big advocate of
• 46:58
  Speaker 16: innocent until proven guilty. I'm even a big advocate of
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  Speaker 16: even if you're guilty, if law enforcement didn't do their
• 47:03
  Speaker 16: jobs right because the Constitution and the process matters, that
• 47:07
  Speaker 16: maybe you get a bite at that apple because they
• 47:10
  Speaker 16: dropped the ball.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: It is the damnedest smoking gun that I've ever seen
• 47:15
  Speaker 16: as a consumer of news. I mean, some of her
• 47:19
  Speaker 16: statements are tailor-made for getting yourself convicted. When I read,
• 47:24
  Speaker 16: of course, when I was doing it, it was illegal, unquote.
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  Speaker 16: I literally was called to forehead as an attorney.
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  Speaker 8: Well, but this.
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  Speaker 10: Is one of the reasons they tell you to not
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  Speaker 10: speak when you're being interviewed by the police. But even
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  Speaker 10: beyond that, doesn't this on a grander scale tell the
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  Speaker 10: story of what happens when the government gets too control
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  Speaker 10: freakish over its area, whether it's a state, a city,
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  Speaker 10: a county, or a federal government? The more you tightly
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  Speaker 10: try to control something, the more you either wind up
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  Speaker 10: with a Louise Lucas who has decided, I can write
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  Speaker 10: those controls to benefit me, or you wind up with
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  Speaker 10: what happened in Paris a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. I mean, I.
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  Speaker 16: Don't know. I think we, Joe, I don't know how
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  Speaker 16: many times you and I have discussed the Adams quote
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  Speaker 16: about how our form of government is wholly and exclusively
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  Speaker 16: suited for moral and religious people and entirely inadequate for
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  Speaker 16: any other. And I'm paraphrasing, but not by much. This
• 48:29
  Speaker 16: is what happens when people start thinking that they're better
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  Speaker 16: than or more important than anyone else. I am eight
• 48:35
  Speaker 16: and a half years into sobriety and super grateful to
• 48:38
  Speaker 16: realize that I'm not any better than anyone else, which
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  Speaker 16: sounds horrible. But then I realized that no one else
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  Speaker 16: is any better than me, that my job is to
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  Speaker 16: be the best me I can be, not to try
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  Speaker 16: to control you. And that if everybody did the same job,
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  Speaker 16: that we'd have a heck of a fine world to
• 48:54
  Speaker 16: live in. And she's lost it. I think she has
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  Speaker 16: acted as if she is somehow better than, more than.
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  Speaker 16: The other sort of secondary story that's fascinating to watch
• 49:05
  Speaker 16: is just how predictable she The defense is right. Like
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  Speaker 16: the little boy cried wolf sooner or later has to
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  Speaker 16: kick in on all of this is racist.
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 16: You know, and comparing it to Jim Crow. I mean,
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  Speaker 16: Jim Crow is like probably rolling over in a racist grave.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, that's not what I was doing.
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  Speaker 8: How many black families?
• 49:24
  Speaker 10: You know, I would I would counter if I was
• 49:26
  Speaker 10: the prosecuting attorney, I would counter how many black families
• 49:29
  Speaker 10: have been devastated by marijuana addiction.
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: Or the crime related to it.
• 49:36
  Speaker 10: So don't pull the race card if you've got as
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: much black blood on your hands, not that it's really
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: any different color, than anyone in the state government or
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: the federal government.
• 49:49
  Speaker 16: Well, I don't want to digress into the, I mean,
• 49:52
  Speaker 16: I personally believe, and I'm not an advocate for marijuana,
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  Speaker 16: lot more lives than marijuana ever will. The point, I think, instead,
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  Speaker 16: if I were making it, would be that the community
• 50:04
  Speaker 16: she purports to serve is the very one being exploited
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  Speaker 16: as she goes for her last chance for generational wealth, right?
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  Speaker 16: I mean, race is such a ridiculous construct that we've
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  Speaker 16: used to stir fear and animus and separate one group
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  Speaker 16: from another. You know, if you cut me, I'm going
• 50:23
  Speaker 16: to bleed the same color as anybody else. And I've
• 50:26
  Speaker 16: met some amazing black people who I went up on my.
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  Speaker 8: Team, you know, but.
• 50:31
  Speaker 16: There's Louise, and again, you know, I said this a
• 50:34
  Speaker 16: million times, as a person who's accomplished a lot of stuff,
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: and there's a lot more that we probably have time for,
• 50:40
  Speaker 16: she's an impressive story. It's just that at some point
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: she turned to the wrong side, you know? And that's,
• 50:49
  Speaker 16: if anyone should be held to account for breaking the law,
• 50:51
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• 50:53
  Speaker 10: I think so, especially if they've written the laws that
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: then they turn around to use to make money for themselves.
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: It's interesting. Her political party will.
• 51:02
  Speaker 10: Run around and scream and yell about Congress people feathering
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: their nest with their bills, and we need to have
• 51:10
  Speaker 10: a bill that stops Congress people from profiting from their position.
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: And then Louise Lucas comes along. Again, you mentioned face
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: and palm. I love the smell of face palm in
• 51:21
  Speaker 10: the morning. It smells like victory. But that's the hypocrisy
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: of it.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, you just created a really good meme, by the way. Somewhere,
• 51:32
  Speaker 16: one of your listeners is frantically typing away at the keyboard.
• 51:37
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• 51:41
  Speaker 16: Don't, you know, I won't do it while we're on air,
• 51:43
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• 51:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's good stuff.
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  Speaker 10: Tom, you know, one of the things that I find
• 51:51
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• 52:00
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they did. But I said, listen, what's going to
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