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"Why We Have This 3-Day Weekend" (Saturday, May 23, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again.
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Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Tunk Median Apples by
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Speaker 2: Thomas We'll do it line.
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Speaker 3: Jewort said, steal me have a day at least.
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Speaker 4: For work when the sun comes up, drops.
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Speaker 5: A kid to school. Anyway, Joey is everything a gender,
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Speaker 5: all the treasure. Saturday needs.
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Speaker 6: No one that Joe's as smiled he on the eggs.
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Speaker 7: Be Joe, thank you for letting us be of service
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Speaker 7: to you this Saturday morning.
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Speaker 8: And blessings to all the families whose loved ones we
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Speaker 8: honor on a Memorial Day. It is really about their
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Speaker 8: you know, situation and moving forward from the losses of
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Speaker 8: a loved one who's gone to serve our country in
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Speaker 8: military and didn't come home pow Mia as well. Families
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Speaker 8: left trying to figure it out. And it's the unspoken
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Speaker 8: fear that always undergirds anyone who's a spouse of somebody
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Speaker 8: in military service.
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Speaker 3: And this is why, you know, nothing is a vacuum.
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Speaker 8: And I really grow well, I don't grow weary of it,
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Speaker 8: but it troubles me at times because we seem very
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Speaker 8: focused on this program of debunking the narratives, of presenting
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Speaker 8: the entirety of something and not just sitting here and
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Speaker 8: giving you, you know, whopper beat the Big Mac. You know,
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Speaker 8: it's somewhat. Life is so much better than that. And
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Speaker 8: I hate the folks in my media circle who claim
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Speaker 8: I just don't have time to get into all that
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Speaker 8: minutia there, Joe, And it's just what else do we
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Speaker 8: have but time? Yeah, you're busy. This is the whole
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Speaker 8: reason we're here this morning is because you've got to
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Speaker 8: get on with your day and get moving so we
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Speaker 8: can sit around in naval gaze. At least the Long
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Speaker 8: Island Railroad is running again for our friends listening Long
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Speaker 8: Island News Radio.
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Speaker 3: And the most.
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Speaker 8: Ridiculous strike because they had agreed on three years out
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Speaker 8: of four in a contract. Okay, how about we cut
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Speaker 8: off that fourth year and just make it a three
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Speaker 8: year deal. How hard was that? But you had to
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Speaker 8: hold the city hostage for three days. Long Islanders held hostage,
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Speaker 8: bearing down, trying to telecommute in some ways that their
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Speaker 8: companies had been disincentivizing for some time. Zeyfad mad Money,
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Speaker 8: the mayor of New York, is sweating the idea. Maybe
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Speaker 8: they're going to start noticing again that they can.
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Speaker 3: Work from home.
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Speaker 8: Belmore is more attractive than Avenue of the America's many days.
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Speaker 8: And in our flagship area, gosh, we had a in
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Speaker 8: the height of COVID lockdown and get out of the
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Speaker 8: office and don't ever come back again, you nasty COVID
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Speaker 8: spewing murder machine. The area we flag out of people
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Speaker 8: were dropping fifty percent more than asking price for houses
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Speaker 8: in cash. They were pulling down from Georgetown and Montgomery County, Maryland,
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Speaker 8: saying I could buy a farm on one hundred acres
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Speaker 8: for what I sold my brownstone for. Heck, yeah, there's
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Speaker 8: crazy times. And then people started saying, hey, maybe we
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Speaker 8: should have President Trump. We need you back in the office.
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Speaker 9: Ah.
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Speaker 8: I just spent all this money to move down here.
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Speaker 8: But there's time to get into everything.
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Speaker 3: There is. There really is.
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Speaker 8: And for the folks who say there isn't, they're lying
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Speaker 8: to you. They want to lie to you because they
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Speaker 8: want you gas lid into thinking that life is too
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Speaker 8: complex for little brains like you and me to figure
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Speaker 8: it out, and that there's somehow, some mystical, magical formula
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Speaker 8: that they only they know, and they have the elixir
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Speaker 8: and they're behind the curtain pulling the strings and the
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Speaker 8: great and powerful OZ will tell you everything. And that's
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Speaker 8: why they Trump so much as Trump pulled the curtain
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Speaker 8: bags that I've seen these people.
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Speaker 3: Like Damn who let him through. Anyway, Our first thing
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Speaker 3: is for this Saturday morning.
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Speaker 8: Tulsey Gabbard resigned yesterday as the Director of National Intelligence,
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Speaker 8: saying that she needs to leave office to help her
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Speaker 8: husband through a battle with a rare form of bone cancer.
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Speaker 8: President Trump, in a social media post, acknowledged Tulsi has
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Speaker 8: done an incredible job and we will miss her. He
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Speaker 8: announced that Aaron Lucas, her principal deputy, will be serving
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Speaker 8: as acting DNI. Foreigners in the United States face changes
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Speaker 8: on how they can get a green card. According to
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Speaker 8: the administration on Friday, they will now have to apply
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Speaker 8: for that green card in their home country. The announcement
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Speaker 8: from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said foreigners who
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Speaker 8: are in the US temporarily who want to become lawful
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Speaker 8: permanent residents have to return home apply there, except in
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Speaker 8: quote extraordinary circumstances. Federal judge on Friday dismissed human smuggling
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Speaker 8: cases against kilmar Robrago Garcia, finding that the Justice Department's
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Speaker 8: pursuit of him was designed to punish him for challenging
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Speaker 8: his mistaken deportation. US and Iranian officials on Friday report
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Speaker 8: new progress towards an agreement at the end of weeks
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Speaker 8: and weeks of bombardments and now standoff, though negotiators remain deadlock.
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Speaker 8: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, said there's been slight progress.
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Speaker 8: Pakistan's powerful army chief arrived in Tehran Friday for diplomacy
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Speaker 3: On your to do list, Putting the radio on is
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Speaker 3: the first thing today?
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Speaker 7: I wait, what, I'm jealous?
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Speaker 8: I I can't remember the first time I said no.
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Speaker 8: I actually do remember the first time I saw Colin Quinny.
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Speaker 8: He was on that If you're old enough to remember
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Speaker 8: music television, one of the first moments I remember friends
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Speaker 8: of mine saying, what.
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Speaker 3: Is the game show? What's going on with this?
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Speaker 8: It was the music videos, you know, I was just
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Speaker 8: out of just nostalgia to a small degree because Memorial
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Speaker 8: Day weekends to me, you know, when I was working
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Speaker 8: the first time around at one o three point nine
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Speaker 8: on Long Island, was.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this was crazy time.
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Speaker 8: We were already on our last good nerve because we
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Speaker 8: were prepping out. We had you know, seven air staff
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Speaker 8: members and fifteen appearances each day. You know, Oh gosh,
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Speaker 8: the memories. There's so many of these aren't even still
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Speaker 8: around anymore. Boardy Barn, places like that Canoe Place in
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Speaker 8: certainly famous. So I was just kind of just for
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Speaker 8: wistfulness looking around at Hampton's dot com to see what
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Speaker 8: was going on. And Colin Quinn is in doing a
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Speaker 8: stand up set tonight and he does he does this amazing.
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Speaker 8: I don't even know if he's doing it in this
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Speaker 8: particular set. If you go to I think it's prime video,
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Speaker 8: you can find he does this great set on American
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Speaker 8: political discourse. And I found it, and I found it
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Speaker 8: so refreshing, because you know, we live in our little
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Speaker 8: isolator and you need for a healthy existence to you know,
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Speaker 8: look at yourself in the mirror with the same eye
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Speaker 8: that we look at people like Governor hokel right, and
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Speaker 8: he's set the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center there, and
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Speaker 8: so you know, it's just it's a it's a different
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Speaker 8: field than it was when you know, I was out there.
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Speaker 8: I'll be at the early nineties when I don't think
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Speaker 8: drinking and driving was considered a bad thing.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny, we could have really used uber
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Speaker 8: People would have made a fortune in the early nineties
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Speaker 8: when when I was working in the Hamtons.
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Speaker 3: Gosh, you could have cleaned up, or at least should have.
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Speaker 8: Anyway, as we head into this Memorial Day weekend, our
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Speaker 8: friends at jcsgold dot com or telling me because in
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Speaker 8: the same way they can tell you if you go
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Speaker 8: to jcsgold dot com. Gold's down a little bit this morning,
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Speaker 8: about thirty three dollars to four thousand, five hundred and
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Speaker 8: nine dollars and forty five cent. Silver is also down
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Speaker 8: about a dollar sixteen to seventy five dollars and fifty
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Speaker 8: two cents spot price. You can shop right there online
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Speaker 8: jcsgold dot com. They're enjoying some family time, but they'll
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Speaker 8: be back at it at the shop. It's a family business.
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Speaker 8: That's what you get. If somebody said, well, why can't
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Speaker 8: I call them on Saturday? I said, you want a
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Speaker 8: big corporation with a guy who knows nothing about gold
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Speaker 8: and silver except what's on the script in front of them.
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Speaker 8: Have you not seen Wolf of Wall Street. These people
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Speaker 8: don't know and they've been given a script and a
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Speaker 8: commission and a call sheet and goals. That's what they've got.
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Speaker 8: The Luck family. Yeah, they take some time to be
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Speaker 8: with the family and then you can call them on
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Speaker 8: Tuesday morning, ten Eastern at four three four nine seven
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Speaker 8: nine Coin we were talking about the main point, and
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Speaker 8: it's not to go see Colin Quinn in Westhampton or
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Speaker 8: anything like that. You hear, we've got car shows you guys.
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Speaker 8: I mean, my god, that music show you guys are
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Speaker 8: putting on. And I love what JBC is saying about
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Speaker 8: you know this, And obviously we're not as much a
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Speaker 8: big part of it as some of our affiliates, brother
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Speaker 8: and Sister stations there.
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Speaker 3: But the music show.
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Speaker 8: They're putting on for Memorial Day weekend for free, and
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Speaker 8: you know they're absolutely right about how concert tickets have
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Speaker 8: gone out of out of skew. You have to you
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Speaker 8: have to make sure that people can act say it's
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Speaker 8: the whole thing about free speech. What good is free
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Speaker 8: speech if nobody can hear you? And went out of
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Speaker 8: their way to pick up the tab for everything, thanks
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Speaker 8: to sponsors. And I say this to you all the time.
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Speaker 8: We are not shy about saying you get this stuff,
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Speaker 8: the analysis of President Trump's visit to Suffern and Tulsi
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Speaker 8: Gabbard's leaving the department in a national intelligence chair.
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Speaker 3: And all of these things. You know, we do this
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Speaker 3: for you with no charge. All we asked is that
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Speaker 3: when you need something from.
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Speaker 8: One of our sponsors, go get it from one of
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Speaker 8: our sponsors, because they've paid the bill for this. And
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Speaker 8: it's you know, the the JVC. You know concert is
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Speaker 8: going to be a blowout. I mean, and I'm not
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Speaker 8: even all that teed into the country music scene and
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Speaker 8: all that.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 8: You know, you have to be big enough for me
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Speaker 8: to know what the heck is going on? Uh there,
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Speaker 8: But you know, please join in all of these different things.
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Speaker 8: Find a way. But the most important thing is the
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Speaker 8: prayers and the hands to those who are.
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Speaker 3: Missing.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's the air when the air planes fly over,
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Speaker 8: and it's the missing man formation, That's what it is.
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Speaker 8: It's people aren't home. People aren't home with their families,
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Speaker 8: and they're never coming home, and you have to soldier
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Speaker 8: on pun intended there.
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Speaker 3: And that's why you have to, if.
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Speaker 8: You know someone, do something with them this weekend and
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Speaker 8: thank them for their sacrifices as well as their spouses
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Speaker 8: or their parents, their children's because without those folks and
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Speaker 8: the heroism of those who go off to theater, but
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Speaker 8: the other part of the warranty, to the sacrifices given
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Speaker 8: by the soldiers on this Memorial Day mean nothing if
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Speaker 8: we act like grab astic buffoons when it comes to
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Speaker 8: the liberties that they went to fight for.
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Speaker 3: That's the thing. You have to.
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Speaker 8: Make sure that we are jealous guardians of everything laid
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Speaker 8: out in the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution. And
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Speaker 8: it's not all my parties empower air parties now. It
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Speaker 8: doesn't make a difference. We're endowed by our creators. Despite
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Speaker 8: what the MS NOW panel tried to debate again, back
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Speaker 8: to this whole idea, the dumbest thing I've heard since
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Speaker 8: somebody first introduced me to a bag of hair. Mike
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Speaker 8: Johnson again doubled down, as Ted Cruz did months and
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Speaker 8: months ago, that our rights come from God, And this
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Speaker 8: woman said, is Mike Johnson putting God ahead of the
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Speaker 8: declaration of Independence? Because he's said and towed biochery, that's
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Speaker 8: where it comes. Well, it doesn't come from there, but
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Speaker 8: it's the most notable and lady, you know, you really
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Speaker 8: are embarrassing the other bags of hair. But we have
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Speaker 8: to be jealous guardians of those rights and liberties because
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Speaker 8: otherwise their sacrifice is meaningless and that's the worst kind
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Speaker 8: of loss. So let's make sure they have meaning and
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Speaker 8: protect those rights and live.
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Speaker 8: These organizations, along with the VA, have done something I
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Speaker 8: And they're impressed, they're amazed, happily, and we all should
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Speaker 22: Morning, Joe.
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Speaker 3: Amen to what you said.
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Speaker 8: You know, this is the point I was making, is
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35:42
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Speaker 8: And that's that's the hard bit, because this country has
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Speaker 3: So that's yeah, it really is. I agree. I can't.
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36:57
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Speaker 8: for the internet. Back in the old days, and we
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Speaker 8: would get crazy stuff. People would call it and say, yeah,
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Speaker 8: there's a car wash going on at and they would
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Speaker 8: give out an address and there wouldn't be it was
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Speaker 8: it was punkin It was you know, in the in
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Speaker 8: the days when you know, that was the most horrible.
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Speaker 8: Now we have swatting and all these other things that
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Speaker 8: the kids, you know, will do on the phone and
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Speaker 8: it's just crazy. We used to get a lot of
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Speaker 8: that when you know, we'd say, hey, you know, anything
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Speaker 8: going on this weekend and somebody would say, yeah, everyone
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Speaker 8: go to this address and you know, be one of
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Speaker 8: their friends and seventy cars would show up there looking
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Speaker 8: for a charity car wash or something. But if you
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Speaker 8: have something texted to me, I'll verify it and then
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Speaker 8: we'll put it on the air.
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Speaker 9: There.
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Speaker 8: One of the other fascinating little bits about me in
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Speaker 8: Memorial Day weekend is I used to work in State College.
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Speaker 8: When we mentioned we're going to be on our friends,
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Speaker 8: our affiliate, our holiday affiliate wrsc Out of State College
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Speaker 8: on Monday, and many times we did stuff in Bolsburg.
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Speaker 3: I remember being there with Governor Ridge.
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Speaker 8: We actually the first Alzheimer's walk I ever did was
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Speaker 8: at the Military Museum in Bolsburg, Pennsylvania. It is one
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Speaker 8: of those who claims to be one of the first
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Speaker 8: observances of Memorial Day as women. And you go through
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Speaker 8: the history of all of these and it's the debate,
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Speaker 8: is it Charleston, South Carolina? Is at Waterloo, New York, Columbus, Georgia.
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Speaker 8: All of these places laying claimed to be the first
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Speaker 8: place of Memorial Day ceremony, and lots of them had
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Speaker 8: to do with Civil War battles because what was happening
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Speaker 8: is these Civil War battles were just blood baths and
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Speaker 8: so many you know, fields were full of dead bodies
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Speaker 8: and then burial sites that those left in those towns
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Speaker 8: would be decimated. I mean, you think about the you know,
47:56
Speaker 8: what is it statistic I saw a few months back
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Speaker 8: upwards of eight percent of all American population has served
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Speaker 8: in the military, and active duty military members is just
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Speaker 8: a little bit more than one percent of the US population.
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Speaker 8: But when you go back to the Civil War and
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Speaker 8: you go back to Bolsburg, Pennsylvania, or Manassas or any
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Speaker 8: of these places where these big battles took place, never
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Speaker 8: mind places famous like Gettysburg, nearly wipe out an entire
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Speaker 8: city's population, least of the men. And what's a community
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Speaker 8: to do once everyone's buried? And they would start coming
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Speaker 8: together just to be together as families, trying to figure
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Speaker 8: out what are we going to do now with all
49:01
Speaker 8: the folks who have died in these battles. So you know,
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Speaker 8: these places are worth visiting to. Bolsburg's got a military
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Speaker 8: museum attached to it as well, But there is a
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Speaker 8: statue there that was commissioned as there is in Waterloo,
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Speaker 8: to the women who started doing these ceremonies of memorial.
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Speaker 3: But when we look at what's you know, our battles.
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Speaker 8: And we mentioned the World War Two Museum in New
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Speaker 8: Orleans and our great affiliate down there at GSO, but
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Speaker 8: I've been there. It's it's an amazing site. Their most
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Speaker 8: recent pavilion and the reason I bring it up is
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Speaker 8: called the Liberated and they wanted to tell the story
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Speaker 8: arc of World War Two all the way to those
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Speaker 8: who were freed from tyranny by the Allied Army.
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Speaker 3: And you go through that arc and you realize that's
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Speaker 3: our role in the world not just to be the.
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Speaker 8: Shining city on the hill, but sometimes you have to
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Speaker 8: go forth from the shining city on the hill to
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Speaker 8: help liberate people who need liberation from tyranny. And that's
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Speaker 8: a debatable point. That is a controversial point because people
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Speaker 8: say that's none of our business. But I believe it
50:35
Speaker 8: is our business, at very least to be the exemplar
50:38
Speaker 8: to be the economic driver of people who want liberty.
50:42
Speaker 8: And that's part of the reason I get so salty
50:45
Speaker 8: about how we've bastardized what America means, what the United
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Speaker 8: States concept is globally. And I'm not talking about World
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Speaker 8: Economic Forum stuff. I'm saying free market capitalism, which is
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Speaker 8: far from what the World Economic Forum wants. Every place
51:04
Speaker 8: it gets a foothold in the world, the quality of life,
51:08
Speaker 8: the standard of living, it goes up enormously. And that's
51:17
Speaker 8: what we need to remember, is these are the things
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Speaker 8: that we've forgotten. We have fallen prey to the bobbles
51:25
Speaker 8: and bells, the fruit of this great nation that we
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Speaker 8: planted two hundred and fifty years ago. But the tree
51:42
Speaker 8: is dying. We may have harvested another seasons full of
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Speaker 8: apples from the tree, but the tree is dying. The
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Speaker 8: tree isn't getting enough water, the tree isn't getting enough nutrients,
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Speaker 8: and if we're not careful, the tree is going to die,
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Speaker 8: and all the apples are going to stop growing. And
52:07
Speaker 8: then we're going to say what happened to our great apples,
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Speaker 8: and they'll blame Trump or whoever is president at the time.
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Speaker 8: They're already blaming Trump for it. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 8: anyone who's going to confuse at the end of history
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Speaker 8: Donald Trump with Milton Friedman, because Donald Trump is a pragmatist.
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Speaker 3: He says, this is the.
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Speaker 8: World we're living in today, and we're going to create
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Speaker 8: freedom based on the world we're living in today. And
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Speaker 8: I get it, and I can compartmentalize the fact that
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Speaker 8: he needs people like you and me telling him, yeah,
52:42
Speaker 8: but we got here because of these things, and we
52:45
Speaker 8: need to stop all of these things from continuing to
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Speaker 8: happen to ruin us.
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Speaker 3: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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Speaker 3: leg to a roadside bomb.
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Speaker 6: weightlifting champion.
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