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"A Full Plate" (Thursday October 23, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 2: Charlottan first thing today on the talk media network, Not Thomas,
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Speaker 3: for work. When the sun comes up, drops acute.
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Speaker 4: The scooday, Joey has everything a jinder all the jos said.
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Speaker 3: It needs no one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 5: He only aims.
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Speaker 6: Be Joe.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 7: this morning.
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Speaker 8: I want to be Joe.
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Speaker 7: We'll tell you the news, We'll tell you what we
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Speaker 7: see in between the lines of the news, and then
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Speaker 7: we want to hear from you as to how the
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Speaker 7: news is impacting you where you are at four three
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Speaker 7: do that by text message or by email as well.
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Speaker 7: You can do JT in the Morning radio at gmail
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Speaker 7: dot com, visiting Jeff Plate, founding member of the Trans
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Speaker 7: Siberian Orchestra at their drummer. To this day, they're out
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Speaker 7: getting ready to hit the road, and we're getting ready
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Speaker 7: to give away some more the tickets you've been entering
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Speaker 7: to win at Joe Thomas in the morning. Dot Com
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Speaker 7: shows all over the place, Tampa, New Orleans, Queens, New York. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: we'll send somebody to Queens, New York.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Sometimes it's a vindictive soul I have. But Mom, Donnie's
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Speaker 7: not mayor yet, but Jeff's hanging on align with us.
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Speaker 7: So let's get our first things into the pipeline. So
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Speaker 7: you know the news that we're talking about today. President
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Speaker 7: Trump has slapped sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies
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Speaker 7: after concluding that Vladimi or Putin was not being quote
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Speaker 7: honest and forthright in the talks regarding Ukraine, the US
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Speaker 7: Treasury chief said yesterday. Besen said, the Trump Putin summit
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Speaker 7: and Buddha past has been shelved, and this is all
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Speaker 7: part and parcel of that. Finnish Prime Minister peteri Orpoh
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Speaker 7: told Politico that the United States should let Ukraine use
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Speaker 7: American made long range Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike inside Russia. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 7: NATO Secretary General Mark Root on Wednesday endorsed the President's
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Speaker 7: decision not to send Tomahawk missiles to Kiev. Former President
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Speaker 7: Baranco Obama joined California Governor Gavin Newsom to urge support
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Speaker 7: for the Democrat led redistricting initiative, which has to pass
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Speaker 7: the voters in November. Proposition fifty will be up on
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Speaker 7: the state's November fourth ballot, and if passed, it could
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Speaker 7: be enacted by the time of the midterms. A twenty
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Speaker 7: one year old illegal migrant from India crossed into the
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Speaker 7: United States through Texas through a pardon me through southern
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Speaker 7: California and twenty two two and was released by the
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Speaker 7: Biden administration on the promise that he would come back
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Speaker 7: for his immigration hearing. Is now accused of causing a
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Speaker 7: horrific fiery semi trunk crash killed three people as he
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Speaker 7: plowed into slower moving traffic under the influence in southern California.
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Speaker 7: Law enforcement said jos Joshan prit Singh first entered at
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Speaker 7: El Centro sector of California. He's arrested on gross vehicular
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Speaker 7: manslaughter charges while intoxicated. This happened on the I ten
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Speaker 7: in San Bernardino. The Senate tried again and failed to
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Speaker 7: advance a measure to restore funding to the US government.
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Speaker 7: Senator John Thunne, majority leader, met with a group of
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Speaker 7: GOP senators to discuss what would happen after the government
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Speaker 7: reopens regarding healthcare, which may indicate a move regarding the
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Speaker 7: extent of the Obamacare subsidies. And after saying the hold
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Speaker 7: on National Guards troops in Chicago was on hold for
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Speaker 7: two weeks, Judge April Perry extended that order indefinitely. And
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Speaker 7: those are some of our first things on this Thursday
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Speaker 7: morning along the Talk Media Network, and we get you
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Speaker 7: back to Jeff on the line. And I've told you
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Speaker 7: this story when Paul when Al Petrelli came in and said, hey, guys,
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Speaker 7: I'll be away for a while, a little while, I'm
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Speaker 7: going to do a Christmas album, and we all chuggled like, okay, Al, goodluck.
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Speaker 7: I mean, he had just done a Widow Maker with
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Speaker 7: Dee Snyder and we're thinking Christmas, and we were trying
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Speaker 7: to figure out if it was a de Snyder Christmas
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Speaker 7: or something. And then here you guys come out with
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Speaker 7: Trans Siberian Orchestra and we're like, oh, Christmas. And it
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Speaker 7: changed because, I mean, the world the world of rock
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Speaker 7: and Christmas was trying to find a way to you know,
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Speaker 7: make you know, some of these songs fit or some
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Speaker 7: pop music or icons. Mariah carry does she fit on
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Speaker 7: a rock station? And then to have this inventory of
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Speaker 7: amazing Christmas stories with drum kits and guitars and bass
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Speaker 7: and the singers, and it was just it was like
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Speaker 7: everything I loved about music grew up and took its
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Speaker 7: spot amongst all the greats, like you said, Beethoven's Last
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Speaker 7: Night and you know, and there's the drum kit and
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Speaker 7: the electric guitar and the electric bass now there with
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Speaker 7: the harpsichord and the violins and and everything else. And
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Speaker 7: I felt like I grew up when you guys released
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Speaker 7: that first album.
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Speaker 9: It's amazing how different that song is. I mean, there's
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Speaker 9: a lot of artists. I think it maybe have taken
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Speaker 9: our lead now, but initially there's been a lot of
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Speaker 9: rock artists, pop artist, country, you name it that have
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Speaker 9: done Christmas songs and they've all been fairly safe, fairly cute.
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Speaker 10: You know.
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Speaker 9: It's a nice song, it's a nice version. That's you know,
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Speaker 9: and then TSO comes out with this bam, you know,
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Speaker 9: the beginning of Christmas seves are able to talk twenty
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Speaker 9: four starts like any other Christmas song, very pretty, very safe.
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Speaker 9: But when the band, when the band kicks in, it's
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Speaker 9: you're obviously listening to something very different. And I think
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Speaker 9: this was a big attraction for so many people. Was like, wow,
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Speaker 9: we've got some You know, the metal head now has
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Speaker 9: a Christmas song he can rock to. Oh yeah, everybody
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Speaker 9: who's been looking for something a little different has something.
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Speaker 9: And you know, credit to Paul and his team, they
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Speaker 9: created a style in a sound that was so unique.
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Speaker 9: It just took off, you know, right out of the gate.
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Speaker 9: It's and still to this day, that song is still
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Speaker 9: our most popular song when we play it live, so
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Speaker 9: very powerful.
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Speaker 7: Hang on, Jeff, we've got to run to a break here.
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Speaker 7: We'll have some tickets, so do another drawing from the
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Speaker 7: entries coming up as well.
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Speaker 2: Business the first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
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Speaker 7: So much to get into Jeff's gonna hang on with
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Speaker 7: us for a moment, he had to go grab somebody else.
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Speaker 7: You know, it's a busy time getting these tours out there.
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Speaker 7: I just remember a moment. My wife is an enormous
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Speaker 7: John Anderson fan, and yeah, he played with Yes for
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Speaker 7: a while, and she'll she'll tolerate Yes as long as
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Speaker 7: John Anderson is singing it. She's very, very particular about
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Speaker 7: this kind of stuff. But there was a year, and
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Speaker 7: I forget it was twenty ten. No, it was before
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Speaker 7: we were in Virginia, so it had to have been
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Speaker 7: like two thousand and five. Trans Siberian Orchestra did a
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Speaker 7: guest performers tour and they had all kinds of Steven
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Speaker 7: Tyler of Aerosmith, Pat bennettar I think, Dave Matthews, all
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Speaker 7: kinds of folks came out and did a lick with him.
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Speaker 7: And in Philadelphia came out they said, joke, don't leave early.
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Speaker 7: Don't leave early like I would do that, and right
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Speaker 7: after their regular show was done, Paul comes out and says,
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Speaker 7: ladies and gentlemen, John Anderson and I watched Tso do
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Speaker 7: this song with John Anderson. I told him, they say,
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Speaker 7: you guys should re release all that. I don't know
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Speaker 7: the legalities of it all, but that would be a
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Speaker 7: billion seller record. All the guest spots that they did.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if it even exists. I'm sure recordings
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Speaker 7: of them there. But we'll get back to Jeff in
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Speaker 7: a little while there, as he had to go grab
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Speaker 7: another spot. But I want to circle back to a
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Speaker 7: couple of situations with this mania that they have over
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Speaker 7: the West East Wing and the renovations going on there,
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Speaker 7: as if this was if this was some foundational document
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Speaker 7: of the Constitution. And one of the things that I
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Speaker 7: wanted to point out is that the very people who
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Speaker 7: want to take the Bill of Rights down and rewrite
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Speaker 7: and come up with fundamental changes to the Constitution freak
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Speaker 7: out when the East Wing gets renovated and a ballroom
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Speaker 7: gets put on it. And this is indicative of what
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Speaker 7: the statist is about. The statist is about the trappings
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Speaker 7: of government. When Caesar took over power in Rome, he
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Speaker 7: wanted to make sure the edifices of the Roman Republic
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Speaker 7: remained so that the population wouldn't think about it. We
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Speaker 7: we celebrate, uh, these these icons rather than the buildings
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Speaker 7: that they speak to themselves. Hang on the line one second.
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Speaker 7: We'll get to you in a moment here on first
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Speaker 7: thing today. Okay, and uh, let's you know, but you
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Speaker 7: got it. You gotta watch out for the false idolatry
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Speaker 7: of oh my gosh, they're renovating the East Wing. He's
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Speaker 7: tearing down America and they're doing it to you. The
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Speaker 7: gas lighting is out of control. Time to check in
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Speaker 7: with James at the jcsgold dot com site. James lock
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Speaker 7: on with this fourth generation of this family business helping
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Speaker 7: you navigate gold and silver investment. Good morning, James, how
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Speaker 7: are you, sir?
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Speaker 14: I'm doing well, Joe, and gold and silver are back
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Speaker 14: in the green today. That had a little bit of
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Speaker 14: a pullback yesterday, but gold held above four thousand dollars.
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Speaker 14: It's currently up eighteen dollars, about a half of percent,
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Speaker 14: to four and seventeen dollars. Silver is up one percent
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Speaker 14: to forty nine nine five, up about fifty five cents
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Speaker 14: so far this morning.
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Speaker 9: Now so holding strong.
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Speaker 14: Just had a little bit of a sale moment yesterday,
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Speaker 14: but doing pretty well so far.
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Speaker 7: Well, I know that a lot of the nattering day
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Speaker 7: bobs of negativism said, ah, here it comes, the balloon
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Speaker 7: is bursting. When it came back down over the weekend,
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Speaker 7: I said, look at the graphs that they put at
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Speaker 7: jcsgold dot com. You'll see that it's not it's not
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Speaker 7: a bubble. I mean, it's just a steady climb. Perhaps
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Speaker 7: some of it's in the decline and the value of
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Speaker 7: the dollar, but gold keeps being that good hedge against that.
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's not it's not a reason not to
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Speaker 7: buy gold, it's the value of the dollar is actually
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Speaker 7: the reason you should be.
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Speaker 14: Right, Yeah, you know, and that's a really interesting thing.
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Speaker 14: I'm not really sure you can call gold and silver
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Speaker 14: bubble that. It's nothing new about him silver. From empire
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Speaker 14: to fire, civilization, the civilization, gold and silver have been
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Speaker 14: the unit and measure of money.
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Speaker 17: Uh.
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Speaker 14: You know, they've been here for for longer than we
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Speaker 14: have for sure. So uh, you know, it is the
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Speaker 14: kind of the bedrock, you know, and it is the pressure,
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Speaker 14: It is everything that you know that our financial system
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Speaker 14: was originally based off of and it really is proof
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Speaker 14: to show the like you said, the devaluing of the dollar,
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Speaker 14: the shrinking dollar over time, and how important to have
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Speaker 14: a part of your portfolio in gold and silver so
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Speaker 14: you can be prepared for that. And and it's something
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Speaker 14: that you can pass down to the future generations. You know,
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Speaker 14: you can pass down to your kids. It's a preservation
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Speaker 14: of wealth. And that's what we tell our clients to uh,
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Speaker 14: to stack it over time and not to trade it.
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Speaker 14: So you know, as people are calling for bubbles and
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Speaker 14: and this to pop and that to pop, you know,
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Speaker 14: our clients are the ones that are actually taking advantage
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Speaker 14: of cheaper prices and and actually purchasing and stacking golden
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Speaker 14: which is great to see.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, James, us people in the media, we're
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Speaker 7: all drama lamas anyway, Oh you know it's the sky
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Speaker 7: is falling or whatever, or you know, sky is falling
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Speaker 7: tomorrow film at eleven there, James. So I appreciate it,
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Speaker 7: and please, you know, if you're thinking about it, get
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Speaker 7: it before the chi coms buy it all. I was
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Speaker 7: reading a story about that, I think on the Bloomberg
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Speaker 7: website that China is just buying up large amounts of
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Speaker 7: gold can't imagine why, so get it before they do.
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Speaker 7: Jcsgold dot com. You have a great morning, James.
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Speaker 14: Thanks show. And I also had a client in the
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Speaker 14: showroom yesterday and you wanted me to tell you hello.
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Speaker 14: He listens see you every morning, so you fount out
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Speaker 14: to him and it's great to see customers listening, and
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Speaker 14: then they come in and talk about Golden.
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Speaker 9: Silver, and it's great to have those conversations.
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Speaker 7: And I appreciate that because you know, otherwise, there's no
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Speaker 7: metric to know if you know being a partner to
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Speaker 7: the program is working or not unless you say, hey,
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Speaker 7: thanks and I heard about you on first thing today
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Speaker 7: Joe Thomas or wherever you are, if you email them,
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Speaker 7: if you order online, send them a little note saying yeah,
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Speaker 7: this is how I found you. Uh but I appreciate it, James,
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Speaker 7: thank you for that note, Sir, I appreciate it absolutely.
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Speaker 7: Always let me get to line too. It sounded like
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Speaker 7: doctor Clark was on the air on the phone with us.
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Speaker 7: Was that you Clark? Yes, sir, it was going to
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Speaker 7: be embarrassing if it wasn't, especially if it was a female.
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Speaker 7: Uh So, anyway, sir, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 17: Well, Joe happenstance, I too. I'm a tremendous John Anderson fan.
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Speaker 7: Oh you are, I didn't know that.
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Speaker 17: Yes, well, I saw roses choking in the grass, flaking
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Speaker 17: paint and a broken window pane, a mailbox barely standing
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Speaker 17: by the driveway. I can almost read the name different
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Speaker 17: and forgotten toys were little girls and boys played happy games.
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Speaker 17: Everything I ever cared about is gone now, but memory
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Speaker 17: still remains.
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Speaker 7: Good stuff, good stuff, great lyrics there anyway, slightly different
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Speaker 7: John Anderson, but we appreciate.
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Speaker 9: From both different ones.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, both both incredible artists, and we're we are all
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Speaker 7: so lucky that we you know, as as I was
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Speaker 7: saying to Jeff off the air, we were talking about,
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Speaker 7: uh Paul O'Neill, the founder of the band, passing away
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Speaker 7: a few years ago, I said, this is why it's
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Speaker 7: good nowadays that we record all this stuff, because if
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Speaker 7: we don't record it, uh, you know, who knows where
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Speaker 7: it goes when we go away. And I know somebody one,
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Speaker 7: Thank you for joining us visiting with Jeff Plate here
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Speaker 7: of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, And Jeff, I wanted to
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Speaker 7: ask you something because we love history here on this program.
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Speaker 7: And you guys went on tour with history, the prehistory,
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Speaker 7: the roots of trans Iberian Orchestra as a band called Sabotage,
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Speaker 7: and you guys just did a European tour, first time
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Speaker 7: in decades with that band. How did that go?
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Speaker 9: It was amazing? It was amazing. I mean we Sabotage
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Speaker 9: had not done a proper tour since two thousand and two,
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Speaker 9: twenty years, and the fan base has always been beating
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Speaker 9: the drums so to speak, for us to come back
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Speaker 9: now a lot of things have happened in that twenty years.
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Speaker 9: But past year, actually about two years ago, the conversation
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Speaker 9: really started heating up about the band and we just
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Speaker 9: had a hey, I think we've all wanted to do this,
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Speaker 9: but the timing was right this time. And John Oliva,
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Speaker 9: the man who founded the Sabotage and was Paul O'Neill's
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Speaker 9: writing partner, he you know, physically could not do the tour,
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Speaker 9: but he gave us his blessing to do the tour,
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Speaker 9: and John is involved in everything we do, from the
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Speaker 9: set list to you know who's playing well guitar solo,
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Speaker 9: you know, the vocal harmonies, et cetera, et cetera. So
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Speaker 9: this was a hurdle we had to get over, was
29:56
Speaker 9: you know, how are we going to do this without John? Well,
29:59
Speaker 9: we brought it. We brought in a couple other people
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Speaker 9: to fill out the band, to expand ourselves musically and
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Speaker 9: vocally a little bit. But when the first idea of
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Speaker 9: this of this came about, the fan base went crazy.
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Speaker 9: When with the first shows were announced, we were selling
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Speaker 9: out shows in Germany, you know, almost like six seven,
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Speaker 9: eight months prior to us even being there, and the
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Speaker 9: fans had not seen it, like I said, over twenty years.
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Speaker 9: So we knew that the shows were going to be great,
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Speaker 9: that the tour was going to be great, but honestly, Joe,
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Speaker 9: it was beyond all of our expectations. It was just
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Speaker 9: so exciting and so so rewarding to be able to
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Speaker 9: go out and play this music again in front of
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Speaker 9: these fans. And now you know, ironically that it's it's
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Speaker 9: been this long. Now a lot of our old time
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Speaker 9: fans are bringing their kids. So we've got this whole
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Speaker 9: age bracket, this this turning getting turned down to sabotage again,
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Speaker 9: and it's it's really pretty. So we did fantastic. Next year,
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Speaker 9: twenty twenty six is going to be another great year.
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Speaker 9: There's already some tour dates and owns for Europe. And
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Speaker 9: you know, we get I asked, We get asked all
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Speaker 9: the time about the States. If and when logistically it
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Speaker 9: makes sense for us to do our tour here, we
31:17
Speaker 9: will trust me. But you know, right now we're still
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Speaker 9: building things back up.
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Speaker 7: Oh I know, I know, But I have to tell
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Speaker 7: people this. And it just happened to me the other day.
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Speaker 7: I came up in my Spotify playlist when the Crowds
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Speaker 7: Are Gone as one of the songs in my playlist,
31:31
Speaker 7: and I started to I'm doing it now too. You're
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Speaker 7: well up. Anyone who understands the preciousness of anything in life.
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Speaker 7: I know it's kind of done from the milieu of
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Speaker 7: a rock singer, but I think anyone who's ever you know,
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Speaker 7: precious it was. You got to go go to Spotify,
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Speaker 7: go to YouTube wherever, and go go listen to this
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Speaker 7: song because you'll you'll never stop listening to it. You'll
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Speaker 23: You know where the years of con memories can only
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Speaker 23: the things I never knew. When the skin is.
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Speaker 3: Thin, the hot shows.
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Speaker 7: Knowing it, then it moves, It moves and moves and
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Speaker 7: moves visiting. Jeff played drummer on this too well.
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Speaker 25: You true.
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Speaker 23: Weas and Knights t again for the night to believe it.
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Speaker 8: Then a note for.
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Speaker 22: My recreaod the story is over when the crowds.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, anyone who's felt that sting knows
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Speaker 7: Jeff played on with us Trans Siberian Orchestra. We're going
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Speaker 7: to give away some tickets to and you do some
33:10
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Speaker 7: ready or in rehearsal.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely absolutely, I tell you know, when people ask me
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Speaker 9: about the show and how to describe it, I say, really,
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Speaker 9: you've got to just come see it. It's it's one
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Speaker 9: of the most unique shows you're ever going to see.
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Speaker 9: And you know, honestly, we've been doing this for a
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Speaker 9: long time. This is our twenty seventh year of touring,
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Speaker 9: minus the COVID year. But it's a busy time of year.
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Speaker 9: It's it's not like everybody you know has all the
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Speaker 9: all of them know the music. But you know, every night,
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Speaker 9: Chris Caffrey, we'll ask the audience how many people you
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Speaker 9: So it's just amazing how how many new people are
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Speaker 9: how this fan base, this love for TSO is still
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Speaker 7: And you know, I see it now too as we're
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35:01
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Speaker 7: it may be, just to get that oh my god,
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Speaker 7: Christmas traditions. On a sidebar there, Jeff, thank you and
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Speaker 7: everyone night Castle for hooking up with us for that.
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Speaker 7: We can't wait to see you at the show we're
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Speaker 9: Sounds good, Joe, take care man, We'll see you soon.
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36:41
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Speaker 7: Doctor Clark on the Align with Us at four three
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Speaker 7: four eighty two four two one seven on that so
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Speaker 7: tell them what you were telling me about your observation.
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Speaker 9: So listen to you.
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Speaker 17: Talk about the renovations at the White House and the
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Speaker 17: Left being upset about that. In the conversations with both
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Speaker 17: the Moscow Bob and Joel, as I was making my
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Speaker 17: healthy ardor he's make gas walking around up and down
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Speaker 17: the mountain, I got to thinking, Joe, and we don't
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Speaker 17: talk about agit prop enough. Now, if you look at
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Speaker 17: the roots of the words there, agitation and propaganda put together,
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Speaker 17: and agit prop is important for the left because the
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Speaker 17: left needs its base in a constant state of agitation
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Speaker 17: to make them more manipulatable. Right of course, Yeah, there's
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Speaker 17: a flip side to that. I think, Joe and I
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Speaker 17: never had really thought about it before. You know, how
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Speaker 17: you read about nicotine addiction, and somebody uses nicotine, they
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Speaker 17: get increased nicotine receptors and it becomes a craving. And
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Speaker 17: somebody uses drugs and the receptor for that drug becomes united.
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Speaker 17: They get more receptors, and that drug becomes a craving.
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Speaker 17: I think, Joe that there must be agit receptors interesting,
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Speaker 17: and the leftist needs to be agitated otherwise they may
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Speaker 17: be agitated about something different periodically to maintain their levels
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Speaker 17: of agitation.
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Speaker 7: That's interesting because better call Saul Olenski writes about that
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Speaker 7: very thing that you know, your movement better change enough
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Speaker 7: to keep to keep the interest of the agitators going,
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Speaker 7: it has to be fun for them, and it has
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Speaker 7: to be something that changes up so that they don't
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Speaker 7: get bored with it because none of this it's stuff.
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Speaker 7: And this is the difference and I think you've touched
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Speaker 7: on a really essential difference between the left and the right.
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Speaker 7: See you and me, we don't get bored with this stuff.
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Speaker 7: We don't get bored with, you know, the right to
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Speaker 7: free speech or defend yourself or to be private. We
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Speaker 7: don't get bored with the abuses of the commerce clause
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Speaker 7: or any of that. It's you know, and maybe it's
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Speaker 7: because we're fascinated with how the left has managed to
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Speaker 7: subvert all this stuff, almost from an anthropological viewpoint, where
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Speaker 7: like the Leakys, and we're investigating some civilization that we
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Speaker 7: don't fully understand. What we're fascinated by.
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Speaker 17: Is it or was it or has it been necessary
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Speaker 17: to reduce people's attention span?
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Speaker 7: I think that's been the goal rather than I think
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Speaker 7: I think. I think it's a I think it is
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Speaker 7: a happy accident. I think as entertainment became more easily,
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Speaker 7: you know, accessible, our attention span has become on a
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Speaker 7: mac Crow level, easier. But this is something, you know,
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Speaker 7: I remember a point in my life where if you
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Speaker 7: had said to me, young people would be waiting in
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Speaker 7: And then JK. Rowling shows up. You know, agree, disagree whatever,
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Speaker 7: you know, the whole controversy. I agree with her on
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Speaker 7: the silliness that's going on there, and she's getting canceled.
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Speaker 7: But my kids, like so many others, and there I
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Speaker 7: the next Harry Potter book to come out, like I
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Speaker 7: has been shortened. I think, you know, we've grown used
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Speaker 7: Doctor Clarke, you have a great morning, sir.
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Speaker 7: I got this text message Andy sent this in post mortem.
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Speaker 7: Thomas Jefferson did a similar thing to Patrick Henry and
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Speaker 7: I'm trying to So that was just after we came
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Speaker 7: on the air. Oh, when Brennan and Trump. So Brennan
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Speaker 1: There's something that is deeply flawed about Donald Trump, even
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Speaker 7: Is that what you wrote? Is that what you told
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Speaker 7: Michael Steele to write in his Steel dossier? Christopher Steele? Now,
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Speaker 7: Michael Steele is the left wing agitator who masqueraded as
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Speaker 7: the gopach here for a while. Christopher Steele's dossier? Is
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Speaker 7: that how you told him? Did you call him up
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