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"Yes Virginia, You Voted for Santa Clause" (Thursday December 18 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee operate?
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk
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  Speaker 2: word said, steal me.
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  Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up, drops a pet to school.
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  Speaker 4: Then Josy agenda.
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  Speaker 5: All the Joses said, it needs.
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  Speaker 2: No one that Joe's smile.
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  Speaker 6: He only is Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: this morning. That's the great the inclined from the Judiciary Committee.
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  Speaker 8: They don't focus on the facts.
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  Speaker 5: They focus on emotion and excitement and whatever gets them
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  Speaker 5: attention from the media.
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  Speaker 7: So uh so that's exactly what you want from somebody
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  Speaker 7: who's uh supposed to be there is the final arbiters
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  Speaker 7: of what law is. And if there's any wonder why
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  Speaker 7: we have problems with law and justice in this country,
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  Speaker 7: it's because it's become an interpretive dance. It's what do
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  Speaker 7: I feel like gets me the most positive results. And
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  Speaker 7: someday historians are going to write about this era in
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  Speaker 7: human history as the proof to the fact that pure
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  Speaker 7: democracy we vote for everything is bad. And you say
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  Speaker 7: that democracy is like a chemotherapy drug. It should come
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  Speaker 7: with a cid E suffix. It's like the poisons that
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  Speaker 7: they use to kill cancer in chemotherapy. If you take
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  Speaker 7: too much of it, you're the thing that dies. Sure
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  Speaker 7: you take the cancer with you, but you know it's
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  Speaker 7: the balancing act. You have jazz enough, just enough to
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  Speaker 7: cure what ails you. And I'm sure I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: start a mailstream of discussion about what really is a
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  Speaker 7: good treatment for cancer and exception of chemotherapy. I get that,
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  Speaker 7: But for the metaphor's sake, we're just saying that democracy
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  Speaker 7: should be used with only a doctor's prescription, maybe, and
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  Speaker 7: only to the point of where it informs those who
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  Speaker 7: represent us, and then to limit the amount of things
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  Speaker 7: that those representatives can do. I mean, you don't have
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  Speaker 7: to be John Locke to understand this. You don't even
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  Speaker 7: have to be bicycle locked to understand this. That's his
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  Speaker 7: lesser known cousin. What don't look at me like that?
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  Speaker 7: homes joke Before Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Is this thing on McFly Hello, McFly.
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  Speaker 7: Away, the radio program that tells you what went on
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  Speaker 7: last night and what we see in and amongst the
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  Speaker 7: evidence left behind at the crime scene. And here are
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  Speaker 7: those things that happened last night. Our first House Republicans
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  Speaker 7: passed a bill they say will lower healthcare costs for
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  Speaker 7: a broad swath of Americans by roughly eleven percent. Nobody
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  Speaker 7: asked Speaker Mike Johnson if that's an admission that they're
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  Speaker 7: the ones who made the costs go up by that
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  Speaker 7: eleven percent.
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  Speaker 8: But they did announce that they've passed.
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  Speaker 7: A bill that addresses the healthcare issues they claim are
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  Speaker 7: gripping the country without extending the Obamacare premium subsidies. House
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  Speaker 7: of Representatives defeated two resolutions Wednesday seeking to stop the
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  Speaker 7: president from taking action towards the drug manufacturers in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 7: on the South American country's soil. National Guards troops can
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  Speaker 7: remain in Washington, d C. Now, that's after an appeals
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  Speaker 7: court temporarily blocked a lower courts order which said that
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  Speaker 7: the president had exceeded his authority. Federal appeals court on
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  Speaker 8: President Donald J.
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  Speaker 7: that his administration inherited a mess in January of this
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  Speaker 8: After the President said, I think he wants to go
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  Speaker 2: Quick First Thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas and Charlotteville's.
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  Speaker 8: Hold that note.
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  Speaker 20: He's coming home this Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we are on the road. Tonight is the New
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  Speaker 7: And I really thank you guys, because it has been
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  Speaker 7: neat to hear from all the folks that we were
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  Speaker 7: able to give tickets to the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Where
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  Speaker 7: you are this morning and it's been fun sharing your
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  Speaker 8: It's been different.
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  Speaker 7: As they said, they don't get involved with these shows
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  Speaker 7: very much in there but on the subject of Christmas,
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  Speaker 7: and this is really when my wife plugs into Christmas.
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  Speaker 8: Don't talk to my wife about Christmas. Although, yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 7: Not fair, and far be it from me to not
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  Speaker 7: be fair, a fair broker calling balls and strikes. My
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  Speaker 7: crazy because she'll see something in a store, or she'll
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  Speaker 7: this is going to be perfect for and she'll have
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  Speaker 7: all these gifts.
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  Speaker 8: How do you do that in June? How do you
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  Speaker 8: even think of stuff like that?
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  Speaker 7: But she doesn't really plug into the Christmas season until
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  Speaker 7: we see Trans Siberian Orchestra concert, which we will be
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  Speaker 7: doing tonight. So today is an adventure, but tomorrow it
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  Speaker 7: might be.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, you guys better call because I'm wore out.
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  Speaker 7: No I promise I'm going to get enough rest and
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  Speaker 7: get my vitamin B and D and et cetera. In there,
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  Speaker 7: Gina writes in text message to four three four eight
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  Speaker 7: eight two four to two one seven, what is your
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  Speaker 7: daily signal story about subsidies called Joe so I can
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  Speaker 7: watch for it. I don't know my working title for
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  Speaker 7: it as I as I send it into the editors
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  Speaker 7: is yes, Virginia, you elected Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 8: And with apologies.
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  Speaker 7: To the who was the fellow that wrote the original column, Yes, Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: there is a Santa Claus, Francis Church. I think it's
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  Speaker 7: with apologies to Francis Church. My my column is titled yes, Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: you elected Santa Claus, and it starts out the late
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  Speaker 7: Rush Limbaugh posited in twenty twelve that would be very
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  Speaker 7: difficult to win an election over Santa Claus, meaning that
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  Speaker 7: someone who is just seen as bringing gifts will always
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  Speaker 7: be popular. And with apologies to mister Church, yes Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: you just elected Santa Claus. Both Governor Elect Abigail Spanberger
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  Speaker 7: and Lieutenant Governor Elect Cazala hash Meat have spoken since
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  Speaker 7: the election of their plans to lower the costs of
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  Speaker 7: things like electricity and housing for Virginians, and I bring
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  Speaker 7: this up. I mentioned it earlier in the program, which
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  Speaker 7: is why Gina texted about it, because this is what
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  Speaker 7: Mike Johnson's doing too. This is really a bipartisan crisis
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  Speaker 7: of I will. It's like everyone wants to be Dudley
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  Speaker 7: do Right. The cartoon Mounty, you have no fear Dudley
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  Speaker 7: do Right? Is yeah, coming down, slinging the back bacon
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  Speaker 7: from the Great White North. Anyway, the column goes back
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  Speaker 7: in there. However, as often is the case, details are sketchy.
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  Speaker 7: For example, Governor Spanberger, Governor Like Spanburger told DC Channel nine, quote,
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  Speaker 7: I think people will see a common theme on getting
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  Speaker 7: things done and improving on people's lives, which is hard
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  Speaker 7: to find anywhere in the US or the Virginia Constitution.
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  Speaker 7: Lowering the cost in air quotes is the most frequently
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  Speaker 7: co used code for subsidizing. It's a bipartisan truism. Republicans
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  Speaker 7: will often acquiesce to subsidy rather than trying to make
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  Speaker 7: the case for free market solutions. If you're explaining you're losing,
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  Speaker 7: they say. And if you talk to anyone in the
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  Speaker 7: political world outside of conservative talk radio, and sadly often
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  Speaker 7: too frequently. All so in conservative talk radio, people live
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  Speaker 7: on that model. If you're explaining, you're losing, and you
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  Speaker 7: know what that means is is if you have to
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  Speaker 7: go at length to explain what you're doing, you've lost
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  Speaker 7: your audience. So you've got to find a way to
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  Speaker 7: explain without explaining. That's why free market solutions so frequently
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  Speaker 7: don't get employed by conservatives in office, because it's easier
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  Speaker 7: just to say.
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  Speaker 20: Ah, and they'll say they'll they'll come up with ways
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  Speaker 20: to do it. They'll they'll subsidize the industry. They'll, you know,
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  Speaker 20: lower health care costs by subsidizing the medical companies, not
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  Speaker 20: the medical insurance companies. They'll go to the pharmaceutical manufacturers
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  Speaker 20: and say, what if we give you big tax breaks
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  Speaker 20: or open up you know, longer, longer windows of patent
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  Speaker 20: protection in exchange for you lower the price.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway.
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  Speaker 7: So if you're explaining, you're losing is the commonly held
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  Speaker 7: political belief. That's why Republicans fall prey to the subsidy monster.
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  Speaker 7: Back to my column, subsidy increases the cost of goods
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  Speaker 7: and services because the provider no longer is under pressure
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  Speaker 7: to consider the ability of the end user to pay
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  Speaker 7: what it would reasonably cost. This frequently causes the provider
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  Speaker 7: to choose more expensive ways of creating the product, often
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  Speaker 7: to prove to the subsidizer that they are worthy of
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  Speaker 7: continued receipt. The losers in this are the consumers that
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  Speaker 7: did not qualify for the subsidy, often only by a
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  Speaker 7: small margin, leaving them well short of being able to
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  Speaker 7: afford the full freight cost. The incoming Virginia administration will
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  Speaker 7: have two primary choices on how to accomplish this subsidization,
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  Speaker 7: supply side or consumer side. The latter is simpler but
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  Speaker 7: less common, because the subsidy comes from the government, and
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  Speaker 7: if the consumer fails to keep their qualification, it will
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  Speaker 7: be on the government to tell them that they are
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  Speaker 7: now out of luck. Think of snap benefits as a
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  Speaker 7: recent example. You can imagine that a new governor wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: want to take that hit. Supply side is more convoluted,
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  Speaker 7: but because it insulates the elected official from being directly
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  Speaker 7: blamed for the loss of benefits, it's more frequently how
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  Speaker 7: it works. Think of most Section eight housing or how
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  Speaker 7: most of the current electric cost subsidies work. The provider
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  Speaker 7: trades the position of having to play the bad guy
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  Speaker 7: like your electric utility for a predictable sea stream. Pardon me,
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  Speaker 7: predictable stream of semi paid bills. The phrase some money
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  Speaker 7: is better than no money applies here in the event.
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  Speaker 7: In either event, this will require tax paying Virginians to
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  Speaker 7: get Harry Moore of the burden through higher taxes, fees,
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  Speaker 7: and of course in the prices of the things that
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  Speaker 7: the governor will try and quote lower the cost of.
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  Speaker 7: And this is applicable in Colorado, in Oregon, in Connecticut,
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  Speaker 7: and every place you're hearing me. This is just I
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  Speaker 24: Everyone, Well, they had a good year, you know, they
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  Speaker 9: And I'll talk about it the next hour because naturally.
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  Speaker 24: The immediate, uh, the immediate, the immediate talk is, well,
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  Speaker 24: are you going to be with j He was with
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  Speaker 8: Oh did he come from there?
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  Speaker 24: I didn't know the thinking he's going to Blacksburg because
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  Speaker 24: you know, jumping the shark here, but he he uh
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  Speaker 9: That's yeah, but that happened.
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  Speaker 24: So, according to the New York Times, more than two
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  Speaker 24: and a half billion in sports contracts were traded with CAWCI.
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  Speaker 24: So now what has happened is the NCAA is taking
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  Speaker 24: a long look at this, and a filing submitted to
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  Speaker 24: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that is the CFTC cow
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  Speaker 24: She wrote that contracts on the transfer portal now will
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  Speaker 24: initially be listed December seventeen, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 9: The NC two A stepped in.
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  Speaker 24: The portal is in January. So there were you know,
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  Speaker 24: They can't get a date, you know, so they might
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  Speaker 24: as well grab a pizza from door dash and then
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  Speaker 9: Well, the NC two A stepped in and went, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, No,
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  Speaker 9: that's not gonna happen for you know, for example, that
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  Speaker 24: You could get a contract on whether Ronnie's going to
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  Speaker 24: five dollars, ten dollars, five hundred dollars, you know, if
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  Speaker 24: you want to.
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  Speaker 9: Now here's my thing.
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  Speaker 24: So Alabama coach Kitlin de Boor has said all the
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  Speaker 24: right things. They play tomorrow night, all right against Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 24: The CFP begins. Well, he made his point once again,
• 33:52
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  Speaker 25: really proud of the way they've handled whatever noise is
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  Speaker 25: out there. And again we've probably all season long, I
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  Speaker 25: me on how.
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  Speaker 7: Auburn is saying. So you know this, this, you know,
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  Speaker 7: goes back into something I've wondered about for some time.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: You and I have taked about this. Yeah, you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: Pete Rose can't get in the Hall of Fame. Pete
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Rose is permanently banned from baseball because he bet on baseball,
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: which is funny because baseball became America's pastime because people
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  Speaker 7: would go there instead of the horse track and bet
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  Speaker 8: And and so what is the what is the look?
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  Speaker 7: You said the NC double A is looking into these contracts. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: because they didn't want people bet in the transfer portal.
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  Speaker 7: So that's basically it like you know, who's going to
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: go because they're thinking there could be an influence there.
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: There could be a kid that calls somebody and goes, hey,
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: by the way, you can bet me. I'm I'm transferring tomorrow.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to make the announcement tomorrow.
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  Speaker 24: Put a lot of money on my head because I'm
• 35:38
  Speaker 24: gonna you know, I'm going to transfer to.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: To X y Z. Wouldn't that be illegal already? So
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: why ban something?
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: But you know with the cop let me back up
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: to my there's two things. My colleagues day short.
• 35:50
  Speaker 24: You know, for turny days, we used to sit around
• 35:54
  Speaker 24: and watch like Monday night football and we would bet.
• 35:56
  Speaker 24: We like put a dollar in a pocket and say, okay,
• 35:58
  Speaker 24: who scores the next touchdo? We were doing that in
• 36:02
  Speaker 24: nineteen seventy two, okay, long before any of this, you know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 24: of course, you know there were phones and apps and everything.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: We did that.
• 36:09
  Speaker 24: There was also a game that we used to play
• 36:12
  Speaker 24: when you would go to a tripa a baseball game,
• 36:14
  Speaker 24: or a Major League baseball game, or even a college game,
• 36:17
  Speaker 24: and we play mound ball where if you got four
• 36:19
  Speaker 24: or five guys, you put a dollar in apot every
• 36:21
  Speaker 24: half inning, so after the third out, you know, they
• 36:25
  Speaker 24: always throw the.
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  Speaker 9: Ball in the infield.
• 36:27
  Speaker 24: If it stays on the mound, you win, if you're
• 36:30
  Speaker 24: if you're the wolf, as they say, or if it
• 36:32
  Speaker 24: rolls off the mound, you lose. And the pot just
• 36:35
  Speaker 24: get you get to the sixth inning and you got
• 36:37
  Speaker 24: you know, forty fifty bucks in the pot, and if
• 36:39
  Speaker 24: somebody rolls the ball and it stays on the dirt,
• 36:42
  Speaker 24: you win. It's called mound ball. I mean, I've seen
• 36:45
  Speaker 24: you know, so these little like prop bets and things.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: Have gone on for you know, a long time, and
• 36:51
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• 36:54
  Speaker 24: Yeah, well exactly now we have and golf. That's one
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  Speaker 24: of those unwritten things. Oh there's a game called Wolf
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  Speaker 24: where you're playing against three guys and you either take
• 37:05
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  Speaker 24: the three guys. Then you then if you hit a
• 37:09
  Speaker 24: bad shot O, the group can go double and you go, okay, redouble.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: I got it.
• 37:15
  Speaker 24: So a quarter bet now turned into sixs a hole
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  Speaker 9: It man, you know, it's just we we as a
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  Speaker 24: That's just benett So Calshi, good luck. But the transfer
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  Speaker 24: portal is out, okay, Yeah, no transfer portal news for.
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  Speaker 9: You, okay.
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  Speaker 7: Technically this year really is this because the stuff started
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  Speaker 7: to go into action sixty years ago, like Medicare and
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  Speaker 7: Medicaid went in in in nineteen sixty five, and this
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  Speaker 7: was the cornerstone of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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  Speaker 7: The bait and switch, if you will, in it was
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  Speaker 7: that Medicare was so efficient that you know, it makes,
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  Speaker 7: you know, private insurers look like drunk monkeys when it
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  Speaker 7: comes to managing costs, so that you know, it would
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  Speaker 7: make you more sense. But the question always was scale
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  Speaker 7: it up to the level in which a Blue Cross,
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  Speaker 7: Blue Shield or an ETNA would you know, find themselves
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  Speaker 7: and see if those costs, those cost savings, those efficiencies,
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  Speaker 7: and we have seen they don't. So you know, never
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  Speaker 7: mind sixty years since Medicare and Medicaid became a thing.
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  Speaker 7: What now fifteen years of the Patient Protection and Affordable
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  Speaker 7: Care Act, And here is Congress debating what to do.
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  Speaker 7: Now we're subsidizing the cost of the premiums of a
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  Speaker 7: thing that we decided you had to buy otherwise you
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  Speaker 7: were going to.
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  Speaker 8: Violate federal law.
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  Speaker 7: And we've lowered the tax to nothing to zero, but
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  Speaker 7: it's still there. The law still says that the government
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  Speaker 7: can tax you for not purchasing insurance, and of all
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  Speaker 7: the things in all of Christendom that regardless of whether
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  Speaker 7: or not you've used the Patient Protection and an Affordable
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  Speaker 7: Care Act to get healthcare insurance because you had to,
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  Speaker 7: and you've probably found in the intervening fifteen years how
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  Speaker 7: woefully inadequate it is, and how expensive it is, and
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  Speaker 7: how much copay there is, and all of the things
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  Speaker 7: that people found out pretty quickly about Obamacare, which it
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  Speaker 7: makes it so amazing that these politicians can't get the
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  Speaker 7: intent estical fortitude to.
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  Speaker 8: Vote it down.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Johnson doing the closest thing perhaps anyone could, which
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  Speaker 7: is like, well, we're not going to subsidize the premiums anymore.
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  Speaker 7: And they will lose the midterms for it if they
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  Speaker 7: don't get out there and start showing that the very
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  Speaker 7: subsidies are why your premiums, the very laws that they're
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  Speaker 7: trying to keep in perpetuity are the very reasons why
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  Speaker 7: all of these things have become so inaffordable. And I
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  Speaker 7: worry as the midterms approaches, you know, if you're explaining,
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  Speaker 7: you're losing, and I think too many Republicans are counting
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  Speaker 7: on these redistricting efforts to give them guaranteed Republican seats,
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  Speaker 7: when places like Virginia are trying to do the same
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  Speaker 7: thing with new Democrat majority seats. And although I believe
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  Speaker 7: in my heart it's a fool's erin because in places
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  Speaker 7: like Illinois where it's not so stark, they are taking
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  Speaker 7: the few Republican districts and they're trying to stretch them
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  Speaker 7: over enough Democrat voters to make them blue districts as well,
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  Speaker 7: you create more possibility that you're going to lose. And
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  Speaker 7: in Virginia, they're taking what is generally a six to
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  Speaker 7: five or five to six split amongst the districts and
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  Speaker 7: trying to make it a ten to one split in
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  Speaker 7: favor of Democrat majorities. And you see it in Utah,
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  Speaker 7: you see it in Texas.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, that's court ordered. The question, you know, would
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  Speaker 8: they do it?
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  Speaker 7: Indiana voting against it doing this and instead of saying, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to have better ideas, because right now what
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  Speaker 7: they're doing is committing political Harry, Harry, because they're playing
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  Speaker 7: into the programs the make America Affordable Again rhetoric of
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  Speaker 7: the Hakeem Jeffreys and Abigail Spaanbergers of the world. If
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  Speaker 7: you missed yesterday's program, that's what.
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  Speaker 19: Is.
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  Speaker 7: So you're the sheep following the donkey down the road.
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  Speaker 7: And by the way, Ray, thank you for sending me
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  Speaker 7: that gift.
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  Speaker 8: That was worth it.
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  Speaker 7: He sent me a photograph of actually a donkey walking
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  Speaker 7: down the road with a flock of sheep behind it.
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  Speaker 7: But this idea that they can make America affordable again
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  Speaker 7: is a few fools erin because in nineteen sixty five
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  Speaker 7: they said, oh, well, we'll give you a Medicare and Medicaid.
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  Speaker 8: And has it gotten any better?
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  Speaker 7: No, it is become worse and worse and worse and
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  Speaker 7: worse each successive year. And yet nobody except for you
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  Speaker 7: and me seem to have the intestical fortitude to call
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  Speaker 7: out this munchausens By government syndrome. So Lyndon Johnson starts
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  Speaker 7: making us economically sick so that he and his progenitors
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  Speaker 7: can come along and.
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  Speaker 8: Say, oh, you're sick.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, I may have made you sick, but I can
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  Speaker 7: make you own sick too, and so, and I know
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  Speaker 7: it triggers people because they're Munchausen's by proxy and Munchausen
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  Speaker 7: syndrome real psychological problems. I'm not making light or trivializing
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  Speaker 7: of them. But if you look at how the government
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  Speaker 7: has done in the American free market economy, it has
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  Speaker 7: without question been Munchausen's by government. Let's make you need
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  Speaker 7: the government to subsidize you, and then the government will
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  Speaker 7: subsidence most of you provided you do what we tell
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  Speaker 7: tell you to do. And that's what I pointed out
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  Speaker 7: in terms of medical freedom and those sorts of things.
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  Speaker 7: If you say the wrong thing, Let's say you go
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  Speaker 7: on social media and you start talking about I don't
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  Speaker 7: know first thing today, you start sharing our podcast, and
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  Speaker 7: there are policies with morals clauses where you could take
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  Speaker 7: my show, apply it to your health insurance morality clauses
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  Speaker 7: careful what you wish for, you might get it. And
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  Speaker 7: that's what's happening with these insurance plans. This is what's
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  Speaker 7: happening with these insurance coverages. We need to and the
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  Speaker 7: idea of just giving the money to a citizen is
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  Speaker 7: as like we were talking yesterday about school choice, your money.
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  Speaker 7: Following the child's school choice is sort of built off
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  Speaker 7: of the premise that the government should be paying for
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  Speaker 7: your school rather than you. And I know that because
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  Speaker 7: we already are taking lots of money from you, that
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  Speaker 7: seems like a reasonable consideration. But we're still looking at
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  Speaker 7: people in Kansas and Nebraska, and of course it's always
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  Speaker 7: the people who are suffering and struggling.
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