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"Fire?" (FTTxJT Tue 082526 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections
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  Speaker 1: around the globe.
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  Speaker 2: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 3: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling. He only aims
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  Speaker 3: to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Let me be your Joe. Thank you for letting me
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  Speaker 1: be of service to you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what went on last night. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you my analysis of it, certainly. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear how it's impacting you, where you are. And 434-882-4217,
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  Speaker 1: that is how you do that. a text message or
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  Speaker 1: a telephone call in the traditional fashion, but I understand
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  Speaker 1: how mornings are. This is the moment when you realize
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  Speaker 1: now is later. Oh, I'll get to that later, honey.
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  Speaker 1: I've got tons of time. I'll do that later. Now
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  Speaker 1: is later.
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  Speaker 4: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: So you're running around like crazy. You miss little subtle things.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're supposed to come up with some way to
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  Speaker 1: hide the fentanyl in a box. So you just wrap
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  Speaker 1: it in brown paper and write Rolex on the top
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  Speaker 1: of it and hope it gets past airport security, right? No,
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  Speaker 1: I know that's not what you're actually doing. But I
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  Speaker 1: just saw this story from CBS News. Los Angeles International
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  Speaker 1: Airport Security Guard caught with 24 pounds of fentanyl in
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  Speaker 1: an airport bathroom. But my favorite part of the story
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  Speaker 1: is the photograph of the 24 pounds of fentanyl. They're
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in brown paper bags with the word Rolex.
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  Speaker 5: Black magic marker across the top. That's going to fool them. Hey, Bob,
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  Speaker 5: I've got the way. I got the way to get
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  Speaker 5: this stuff in here. Tell the guys in Beijing, we
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  Speaker 5: got it now. Just write Rolex.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair. At least they spelled Rolex correctly. This
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  Speaker 1: email comes in from Dan, who is listening this morning
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  Speaker 1: on 1490 WGCH in Greenwich. Fire, Joe? This woman thought
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  Speaker 1: fire is the reason the human race is the apex predator? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's referring to a story I told in the last hour.
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  Speaker 1: young lady I ran into in the 80s. This was
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  Speaker 1: at the very beginnings. This is prehistoric climate zealotry, insisting
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  Speaker 1: that fire was the worst thing that ever happened to
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  Speaker 1: the planet. And you have to understand, these are the radicals.
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  Speaker 1: This is the root of the movement. She is probably
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  Speaker 1: some leader at Greenpeace today. Some esteemed, oh, she's been
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  Speaker 1: fighting this battle since they first rubbed two sticks together.
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  Speaker 1: But her idea was that because mankind figured out how
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  Speaker 1: to make fire, that is what put us at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the apex predator list when we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: stronger muscles, faster running, stronger claws or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: She left out the whole ability to reason, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure she had already checked that out. Anyway, our first
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  Speaker 1: things this morning, the stuff we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about today and your friends at the water cooler. Scott Besant,
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  Speaker 1: as you heard the clip earlier, announcing a new round
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  Speaker 1: of sanctions that the president has dubbed an economic D-Day
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  Speaker 1: against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran is vowing to
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  Speaker 1: resist the economic pressure. Finance Minister Syed al-Madanzineh said Tehran
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  Speaker 1: has already prepared a two-year plan to cover the country's
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  Speaker 1: economic affairs. Nearly 50 House Democrats, speaking of economic affairs,
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  Speaker 1: want to know how the U.S. is paying for all this.
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  Speaker 1: This is being led by Colorado's Jason Crow, New Hampshire's
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  Speaker 1: Maggie Goodlander, and California's Derek Tran. Deadlines approaching quickly for
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  Speaker 1: mail-in absentee ballots for the midterm elections approaching U.S. Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: gave way for the president's administration to continue to restrict
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  Speaker 1: access to the U.S. Postal Service for mail-in ballots from
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  Speaker 1: states that have not verified their voter registration data against
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  Speaker 1: federal databases. California's Supreme Court is weighing whether Sheriff Chad
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  Speaker 1: special election on redistricting, need to go back to the
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  Speaker 1: election officials. U.S. on Monday formally removed Syria from its
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  Speaker 1: have been destroyed and 100,000 residents have been evacuated. but
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA will not allow them to enter their draft.
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  Speaker 2: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 18: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by
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  Speaker 15: CHARGES TONIGHT ACCUSED OF DEALING DRUGS OUT OF AN AIRPORT BATHROOM.
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  Speaker 13: CBS L.A.
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  Speaker 4: ASSIGNMENT EDITOR MIKE ROGERS IS AT THE DESK. MIKE, THE
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  Speaker 4: FED SAID THIS HAPPENED IN A TERMINAL SIX BATHROOM KNOWN
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  Speaker 4: FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING.
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  Speaker 6: YEAH, WHICH THAT WAS THE FIRST SURPRISING THING, RUDABEH, WHEN
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  Speaker 6: I READ THROUGH THIS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT HERE IS THAT THERE
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  Speaker 6: IS A BATHROOM INSIDE TERMINAL SIX AT L.A.X. known for
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  Speaker 6: at the photo here. This is 11 kilograms of fentanyl
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  Speaker 6: that was found inside of that red and white bag
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  Speaker 6: there you see at LAX.
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  Speaker 1: It's a red and white Target bag, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: a red and white Target bag. And they're literally six
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  Speaker 1: inch by six inch boxes wrapped in brown paper like
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  Speaker 1: grocery store bags. with the word Rolex written in black
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  Speaker 1: magic marker and then wrapped in plastic wrap. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you just, I know there's an old expression in law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement that, you know, in all of the tools a
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  Speaker 1: police officer has in solving a crime, the stupidity of
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  Speaker 1: the criminal is unparalleled. Kareem is on the line with
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  Speaker 1: us at 434-882-4217. Good morning, sir. Sorry for leading in
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  Speaker 1: with that. What's on your mind this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 10: Honestly, that's a perfect lead in from that to me.
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  Speaker 10: Just enjoying the sunrise here in Maryland. And honestly, there's
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  Speaker 10: a lot to pull from. Like you said, there is
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  Speaker 10: a lot of news. Tell you what, that big presentation
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  Speaker 10: yesterday from Scott Besson. Now, I have to admit, I
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  Speaker 10: have not watched the presentation. I'm just going off reports
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  Speaker 10: of what he said. And did I hear the word
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  Speaker 10: secondary tariffs mentioned or secondary sanctions?
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is what the press asked him about, if
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  Speaker 1: there would be secondary sanctions. And his response was, we're
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  Speaker 1: waiting to see what the response of these nations will be.
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  Speaker 1: If they will stop trading with Iran, then we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to do anything, is basically what he said.
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  Speaker 10: My understanding– now, again, I just hold a steering wheel
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  Speaker 10: for a living, so I don't really know much. But
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  Speaker 10: my understanding is Pakistan is, as much as they're our mediator,
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  Speaker 10: a trusted mediator in this situation, they also are a
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  Speaker 10: very close friend and– I can't say Kofnot, but I
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  Speaker 10: can say business partner for China.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And my understanding is Iran, they got that Persian Gulf area,
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  Speaker 10: but they also got six overland routes and a big
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  Speaker 10: railway to get oil and goods in and out.
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  Speaker 21: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 10: And- And my understanding is they've been trading Chinese yuan
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  Speaker 10: for a while. And if I'm not mistaken, also Saudi
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  Speaker 10: Arabia has been trading yuan, even though we have that
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  Speaker 10: petrodollar deal for the past few years. So my thinking
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  Speaker 10: is whatever we try to throw at Iran economically, China
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  Speaker 10: and Russia are just going to compensate on the other end.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm thinking that if there wasn't already a They
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  Speaker 10: didn't already pledge financial support. In fact, China, if I
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  Speaker 10: understand correctly, made it a law for any Chinese company
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  Speaker 10: to follow U.S.
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  Speaker 7: Sanctions.
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  Speaker 1: Made it a law that they shouldn't follow U.S. sanctions,
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  Speaker 1: I think is what you meant to say. But this
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  Speaker 1: is the BRICS bank. So Iran was always a cornerstone
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  Speaker 1: of this BRICS economic process. So Russia, China... South Africa,
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  Speaker 1: because everything good comes through Johannesburg, and Iran, as well
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  Speaker 1: as Brazil, are all part of this coalition of the
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  Speaker 1: damned that want to try to challenge both the petrodollar
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  Speaker 1: and the U.S. reserve currency by saying, listen, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need a reserve currency. Trade in whatever currency you want to,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll traffic it here at our World Bank. that
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  Speaker 1: they want to put up there in the Alexander Hamilton
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  Speaker 1: building there in Tehran. So they want to, what, that's
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  Speaker 1: not what they call it? Oh, my bad. So there,
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  Speaker 1: there's always going to be this, but this is what
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  Speaker 1: we've been tracking towards an economic global shutdown showdown. I
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  Speaker 1: think since the nineties, because it's no longer sufficient to
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  Speaker 1: do bullets and bombs. There's, there's, no upside to it.
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  Speaker 1: There's no winning in that. The economics of it, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, there is winning and there's not all
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  Speaker 1: the messy rebuilding that comes after it. So I think
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  Speaker 1: this is, I don't want to say World War III
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not one of those hair on fire, oh,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to me, I said something salacious guys, but
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  Speaker 1: these are the battle lines and we're trying to isolate
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  Speaker 1: China by pulling Iran and North Korea. Let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: North Korea in this as well. Where's President Trump going
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  Speaker 1: later this fall is to Pyongyang. So, you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to isolate China from a lot of its client states.
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  Speaker 1: So just watch out for that as it's going on
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  Speaker 1: and it's playing out there, Kareem. Thanks for the call, though,
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 10: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on, Kareem. Don't run away.
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  Speaker 1: Text message here. from Vivian. Vivian is listening down in Pascagoula.
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  Speaker 1: She said, hold it. He's a truck driver and he
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  Speaker 1: speaks English. And I presume he has a U.S. driver's license. Well, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: that just doesn't fit the stereotype. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what she's trying to get at there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I do know what she's trying to get at there.
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  Speaker 1: But bless you for being that That trucker who actually
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  Speaker 1: has a driver's license, and we appreciate your efforts.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. All right. 434-882-4217. I know that
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  Speaker 1: gold and silver is. But I like talking to people.
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  Speaker 1: 30 and say, hey, James, how are gold and silver
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  Speaker 1: doing today? Hey, Joe.
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  Speaker 22: Gold and silver are down just slightly this morning. Gold's
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  Speaker 22: down about a third of a percent, down $ 15 to $ 4, 636,
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  Speaker 22: holding on to that breakout move so far. Silver, similar story,
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  Speaker 22: down a little bit over 1% and the red to $ 67.
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  Speaker 23: 89.
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  Speaker 22: Silver did hit $ 70, but has pulled back just slightly
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  Speaker 22: from there. a nice little consolidation area.
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  Speaker 1: And took a look around, stuck its head out of
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  Speaker 22: The stock market has kind of stalled and, you know,
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  Speaker 22: all summer while the stock market rallied. And now that
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• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Hypocrisy is almost knee-deep on any given day. Sometimes it
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: almost gets up to hip depth. And the hypocrisy that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: is the Women's National Basketball Association I think just reached
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: its perfect level because I was wondering how long it
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  Speaker 1: would be before.
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  Speaker 2: A male.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got people. We had a teacher in
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Springs sanctioned after winning teacher of the year last
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago in Colorado Springs. They're not..
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  Speaker 2: Well..
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, low KPPF. We'll do the story again.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I think we hit it in the KPPF hour yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: attendee at Freedom Fest when we've been there. And absolutely
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  Speaker 1: eloquent voice for liberty in a world of nutty. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to be fair, I was a little surprised it took
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Ennis Cantor this long to... get into the whole WNBA hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: Sophie Cunningham, of course, saying that she didn't think men
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  Speaker 1: should be playing basketball against women, to which most years
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  Speaker 1: would have answered, duh. Although I would say that there
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: are guys on the New York Knicks bench that wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: score one point off of Sophie Cunningham. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: And they won the National Basketball Association championship. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying there are guys in the NBA. I would pay
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: cash money to see Bronny go up against Sophie Cunningham.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But I digress. Enes Kanter, who was the other guy,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the other NBA-er that is now Royce White?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So they declared their intention to enter the WNBA draft.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Their agents filed all the paperwork, forcing the WNBA to
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  Speaker 1: go run into their little closet and have a discussion.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there'll be more to this story.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have invoked some ordinance that doesn't apply. And I'm
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: hoping that Ennis Cantor brings this, along with Royce White,
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  Speaker 1: into the courts. Because if they're going to play in
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: this sandbox of you can be whoever you want to be,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and literally as a live-action play out, was it Lady
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Ballers was the movie that they made at the Daily Caller?
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  Speaker 1: Find out for me. It was a movie. It was
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  Speaker 1: like not even a year ago, maybe two. that they
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  Speaker 1: Can we play the trailer on the air?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to take a shot here? In a
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  Speaker 1: It's called Lady Ballers, where some backwash WNBA team decides,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we just say these guys are trans,
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  Speaker 1: they can play ball with us. And it's satire because
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. It is absolutely ludicrous, faster than you can
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  Speaker 1: Jean King's, well, don't drag me into this. Not that
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Riggs was playing at Wimbledon on center court. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Billie Jean King didn't go out there and beat John McEnroe. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Connors would have been the contemporary of that day.
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  Speaker 1: I get you. But but you see, the thing is,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and this goes to the what's her name? Leah Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: whatever his name was. He is a backwash middle of
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  Speaker 1: the pack NCAA swimmer. And that's OK, because he's a
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  Speaker 1: better swimmer than I am. But he was ranked like
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  Speaker 1: 150th in the world. And then he decides, I want
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  Speaker 1: to be a girl. So he puts on a onesie
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: instead of a Speedo, jumps in the pool and wins
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  Speaker 1: gold medals, sets world records. And nobody stops and says
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the musculature of a male is different than a musculature
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of a female. And I'm not saying that for a
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  Speaker 1: sexist reason. They are designed to do different things. I'm
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• 34:49
  Speaker 1: in the theology of man and woman and all of that, please, 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there are things that the female
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  Speaker 1: anatomy is designed to do. And I'm not just talking
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  Speaker 1: about recreation. The female's lower body is stronger. The male's
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: upper body is stronger. It's just the nature of the physique.
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  Speaker 1: And I guarantee that there are hundreds of women who
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: can bench press more than I can. But one wonders
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  Speaker 1: if we didn't know we were all tracking here when
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we passed Title IX in the first place. Because if
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you backwash this all the way to Title IX, Title
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: IX schools are required to do a lot of things,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: not just have female sports teams and scholarships available in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: an equal percentage to the number of male sports that
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: they have scholarships for. And for years, it was okay.
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  Speaker 1: People found out a little bit about some of the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: other stuff in Title IX, like you can't call the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: police when there's a sexual assault. The university has to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: investigate it themselves because that's never going to go wrong.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, like lyrics from a Kinks
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: song gone by, boys will be girls and girls will
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: be boys, and we seem to be okay with it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: We seem to be okay with gender dysphoria. And I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: know that there is a lot of folks who work
• 36:50
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• 36:55
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• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by joe thomas on the talk media
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  Speaker 2: network all natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into this story about AI and apparently not
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  Speaker 1: making anybody any money. Funny how that is. We can
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: make a free poster and that doesn't turn into profit.
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  Speaker 1: Businesses saying, I don't want to do this anymore. Fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to me there. Ron was on the line just as
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  Speaker 1: we were going to break in Salem, Oregon. We were
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: talking about Ennis Cantor, bless his heart, and Royce. White
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  Speaker 1: bringing this out by calling the WNBA and the woke
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  Speaker 1: crowd out on their hypocrisy and saying, hey, we have eligibility.
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  Speaker 1: Let's declare for the WNBA draft. And they freaked out
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  Speaker 1: and they've come up with apparently there's some decision on this.
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  Speaker 1: This is a leaker calling the press saying, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: made a decision. They've denied their request. It'll be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see how they word the denial of that, Ron.
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  Speaker 1: But this is hopefully going to continue to shine the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Klieg lamp on this issue of insanity where we've just
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: started denying the fact that there are children who truly
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: have issues, gender dysphoria. Instead of treating that, we're indulging
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: it and It's predictably not helping, right?
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: If you see with the generalization, my state, one out
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  Speaker 7: of every 137 girls is funded with our tax dollars
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  Speaker 7: through our health care system since we have the Canadians.
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  Speaker 7: It's called health care for everybody. That was voted on
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  Speaker 7: in 2022.
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  Speaker 1: And how is this health care? How is this even
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  Speaker 1: qualified as health care? Because I don't know what you're
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: caring for. You're actually ignoring the underlying problem. I would
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  Speaker 1: love to see somebody make the case, Ron, that this
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  Speaker 1: isn't actually health care. This is the avoidance of it.
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  Speaker 7: My foster father was there as a Tuskegee Airman 80
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  Speaker 7: years ago in eastern France all the way to Hungary
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  Speaker 7: and adopted a daughter 73 years ago in Austria. Mingless doctors.
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  Speaker 7: This is all designed. If you go back to when Mr. Manning,
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  Speaker 7: who was traitorous to the Navy, giving information to WikiLeaks
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  Speaker 7: and Obama, he's done it. He set the whole program
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: up through the military. And once you start doing up
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: through the military, and I'm a disabled veteran from 40
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  Speaker 7: years ago, when they bombed and killed off people around
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: the central area by Iran. Make a long story short,
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  Speaker 7: when you're a neighbor, when you have blue states like Oregon, Washington,
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: California being petri dishes and everything else. We violated the
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  Speaker 7: 1947 Nuremberg Court Agreement. Nobody don't want to even talk
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: about that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 7: And yet we're going to mutilate. We're going to undermine
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  Speaker 7: parental rights. And the taxpayer is going to pay for it.
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  Speaker 7: And with this universal health care level, I'll give you
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  Speaker 7: a great example. As a disabled veteran, I had foot
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: surgery 38 years ago. Normally, it takes three weeks, and
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: I can get my orthotic shoes. I might have been
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: told there was fuse and everything.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 7: Now, under the Unaffordable Health Care Act, as I call
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: it now.
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  Speaker 1: Well said.
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  Speaker 7: It takes– I apply before Memorial Day. I got to
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: wait until September 21st to get the place.
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  Speaker 24: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: This is why a lot of Canadians come down to
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  Speaker 7: the desert of Arizona, California, and Texas, and Mexico. Because
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: they pressure out everything and everything else. Go back to
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  Speaker 7: baby Char and baby Elvin in 2016, 2017, when the
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: Pope cannot even save a kid that could be shipped
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  Speaker 7: to America and have the various treatments.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: This is a straight out evil right from the Marxist
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  Speaker 7: called Fabian Socialism, the 1880s.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know what you need to do, though? You
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: need to go sneak into Mexico and then claim that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: you're seeking asylum and they'll get you your health care
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: right away.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and they'll give you a $ 30, 000 grant to buy.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: A house in Oregon. There you go. So I think
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: we've got a plan. Ron, it's so good to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. Thank you for listening to KFIR. No problem.
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: God bless you, my brothers.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: God bless. I'm so glad they're hanging in there. They
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: had their issues. You know, every time I think about
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: my flagship station in Stanton, Virginia, having issues, I know
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: that they've had their issues there and keeping her fired
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: up there at KFIR in Salem. 1340. God bless you
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: for doing it because the more radio there is, and
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: this is just a tangent, but I know the FCC
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: keeps saying that, oh, well, we discussed allowing all the
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: corporations to buy all the radio stations. And when the
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: best argument for it to me was, well, what would
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: you say if one of the insert name of big
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: corporation came along and offered you two million dollars for
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: your station, Joe? It's what does it do to you?
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: And every one of these corporations, I wish I had
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a chance to get on their board of directors and say, look,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: you're getting rid of the very people who connect you
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: with your customer. I know you think your customer is
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street investor, but your customer is the person
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: who puts the radio on and then hopefully goes into
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: some of your sponsors and to partake in whatever it is,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: whether you're buying gold through jcsgold.com or CBD oil from
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  Speaker 1: Mesa Verde Hemp. Go into bigridgeguns.com. Wherever you're going, whatever
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: you're doing, however you're participating with us, it's a blessing.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: And that's the personal interaction. And then they say, well,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the listenership is down. Not to stations like KFIR. who
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: are out there serving people and out there living in
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the community with you. And it's not just about living
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: in the community. It is about understanding this connection. And
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: everyone was always trying to figure out what made Rush
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Limbaugh great, what made him great. Because when Rush started,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and I think we talked about this a little bit
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: at the very end of yesterday's show, in 1988, See,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you don't get Newt Gingrich and the contract with America
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: without Rush Limbaugh. Rush, in 1988, starts his show, and
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: he connected. It wasn't that he was in your town.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: It was that he was in your car with you.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: And radio is the only industry that still does that.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: The podcast industry is a voyeuristic industry. We're all kind
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: of watching the train wreck as it goes on. Doesn't
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: mean they don't make money. I'm just saying that the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: reason we watch podcasts is a more voyeuristic approach than this.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: This is, you're hanging out with me. And that has
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: to be appreciated. And unfortunately... to their detriment, corporate America
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't appreciate that as much as they should. I worked
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: with a guy and every time he came up with
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a package, it was like he was selling shirts. And
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: not even shirts at like, you know, well, let me
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: see if I can get you the right shirt for you, Joe,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: and something that'll make you look good and tailor on yourself. No,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: it was like, hey, we've got cheap shirts here from China.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: We got six different colors and And why don't you
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: pick one? And they're very low price. And that was it.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not connecting to people. Let me put
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: my soapbox away. Stop being your hippy-dippy weatherman and get
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: on with our Tuesday morning here. First thing today on
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