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"The Redistricting Opiate" (Tuesday, May 5, 2026, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Is it really safe and is it really effective?
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Speaker 2: On a needs a know basis, because you need to
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Speaker 2: know the first thing today.
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Speaker 3: Jeword said, steal me step. You have a day at
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Speaker 3: least for work. When the sun comes up, drops a
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Speaker 3: pet of the school. The way Joe has everything a gender.
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Speaker 4: All the treasures, needs no one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 5: Let me.
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Speaker 6: Joe.
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Speaker 4: I want to be Joe.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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Speaker 7: on the program that tells you what went on last night.
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Speaker 7: We will then give you our analysis of it for sure,
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Speaker 7: and then we'll want to hear how it's impacting you
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Speaker 7: where you are, because your results may vary. Please do
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Speaker 7: not take in conjunction with any out of their radio programs,
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Speaker 7: as certain interactions may leave you with uncomfortable side effects.
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Speaker 7: We could because we care, and really because it needs
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Speaker 7: to be satirized for your protection. Bobby Kennedy is doing
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Speaker 7: medically what Donald Trump is doing internationally, taking on a
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Speaker 7: dragon that nobody wants to talk about or do anything
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Speaker 7: about because it has eighteen different side effects like victim chaining.
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Speaker 7: But we're at a point in our pharmaceutical applications of
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Speaker 7: antidepressants that we're still having a problem with depression. So
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Speaker 7: the medicine's not healing us. Oh, hold, it was I
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Speaker 7: under the misconception that the medicine was supposed to be
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Speaker 7: healing us. And as we jumped into it, we we
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Speaker 7: of course opened the can of worms or leeches that
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Speaker 7: say that what no, no, I didn't mean the pharmaceutical.
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Speaker 7: I meant like the old medicine of like putting leeches
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Speaker 7: and blood lighting and stuff they did to President Washington,
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Speaker 7: what do you think. I meant, Hey, that's a you problem.
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Speaker 7: So you know, like it was, so this can of
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Speaker 7: leeches gets opened, and what you see is an industry.
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Speaker 7: I was just talking to a friend who's married to
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Speaker 7: a doctor, says the government disbursement for basic medical procedures
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Speaker 7: has seen massive declines over the past few decades. The
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Speaker 7: text message at four three four eight eight two four
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Speaker 7: two one seven. And it has been described to me
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Speaker 7: as that the the insurance paradigm is medicine medical and
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Speaker 7: this is you're killing us. But we'll get into that
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Speaker 7: as a matter of fact, we'll lead with that story.
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Speaker 7: Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Health Secretary, is pushing for a
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Speaker 7: sweeping federal review of antidepressants and other psychiatric medications as
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Speaker 7: part of his Make America Healthy Again initiative, arguing they
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Speaker 7: are over prescribed and patients are not adequately informed about
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Speaker 7: risks or how to stop using them. Meanwhile, the other
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Speaker 7: dragon that the administration is taking on is Iran, and
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Speaker 7: their foreign minister Aras Agachi, has said that they will
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Speaker 7: continue to shoot missiles at US Zionists or American Zionist
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Speaker 7: naval vessels, which they claim to have hit with two
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Speaker 7: missiles yesterday in the Strait of Hormus near Jask Island,
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Speaker 7: and the US denies any ships were hit by Iranian missiles,
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Speaker 7: but Arachi said there is no military solution to our
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Speaker 7: political crisis. Oil prices came down a little bit. Brent
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Speaker 7: crude for July delivery is down to one hundred and
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Speaker 7: thirteen dollars and twenty four cents per barrel. US Customs
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Speaker 7: start on May twelfth. No word on how long it's
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Speaker 7: going to take to get to you who had to
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Speaker 7: pay for them on the shelf. Federal judge apologized to
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Speaker 7: the man who rushed President Trump at the White House
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Speaker 24: Can I get a mulligan.
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Speaker 7: Four three four eight A two four two one seven.
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Speaker 7: That is how you get to us. You share how
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Speaker 7: the news of the day is impacting you. A couple
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Speaker 7: of text messages on the issue of Robert F. Kennedy
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Speaker 7: looking into the prescriptions of antidepressants. We were discussing how
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Speaker 7: health care issues become things, and how we are treating
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Speaker 7: symptoms rather than the illness. And I think that if
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Speaker 7: you go back to Paul Krugman, who is the economic
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Speaker 7: architect of Obamacare, the whole point was the government was
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Speaker 7: going to step in where insurance companies feared to tread.
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Speaker 7: Insurance companies got tired of taking the hits for denying
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Speaker 7: care to people. As a matter of fact, there were
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Speaker 7: a couple of lawsuits right before Obamacare became all the
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Speaker 7: rage that insurance companies were seen as violating their own
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Speaker 7: policies when it came to why somebody would be denied care.
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Speaker 14: And so.
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Speaker 7: Along with insurance provisers and writers getting longer and longer
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Speaker 7: and longer, the patient protection and Affordable Care Act was
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Speaker 7: invented at its core, the advisability of care panel, which
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Speaker 7: determines still does, whether or not you qualify for, as
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Speaker 7: Paul Krugman put it at the time, an expensive piece
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Speaker 7: of healthcare. And it's easier to prescribe a drug that
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Speaker 7: will ameliorate right the symptoms the manifestation of the injury,
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Speaker 7: rather than actually deal with the injury itself. This then
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Speaker 7: opens the door to the cronyism, and it's you know
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Speaker 7: which came first, the chicken or the egg. I think
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Speaker 7: theron the advisability of care panels begats the cronyism, especially
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Speaker 7: when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry. I don't think
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Speaker 7: they invented it, but they sure saw it and said,
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Speaker 7: oh look at this, let's go get us some congressman.
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Speaker 7: Doctor Clark's on the line with us at four three
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Speaker 7: four eight A two four two one seven. I like
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Speaker 7: this text message Clark from Marie who writes in and said,
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Speaker 7: you need cholesterol in your brain, then why does it
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Speaker 7: cause strokes? And of course she missed like the whole
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Speaker 7: point of what I was getting at, which was the
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Speaker 7: cholesterol only builds up in your blood vessel on scar
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Speaker 7: tissue that you get from being inflamed. So let's not
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Speaker 7: get inflamed. Let's do let's do some things to keep
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Speaker 7: the inflammation down in our blood vessels, and then we
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Speaker 7: won't have the scars issue, and then we won't have
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Speaker 7: the cholesterol built ups. Uh there, But that's you know,
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Speaker 7: I did stay at a holiday inn express one, so
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Speaker 7: I think I'm qualified to mention that. But what brings
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Speaker 7: you to our phone?
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Speaker 25: Well, you mentioned a dragon we were willing to fight,
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Speaker 25: and let's just stick that somewhere and hang on to
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Speaker 25: it and circle back around earlier you talking about I
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Speaker 25: had mentioned in the past we have a lot of
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Speaker 25: countries right now that we're mortal enemies of the United States,
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Speaker 25: but now we're trading partners or becoming allies, and we're
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Speaker 25: seeing a realignment. Shoe, all, we're willing to fight dragons
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Speaker 25: that we haven't been willing to fight.
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Speaker 22: What do we call the World War two generation? What's
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Speaker 22: the what do we call them?
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Speaker 7: The greater the greatest generation?
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Speaker 22: The greatest generation?
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Speaker 25: And I think rightfully so, Joe, because they did some
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Speaker 25: great things, But how much greater would it have been
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Speaker 25: if appeasement had not been the policy?
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Speaker 22: And I don't know how many millions of people?
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Speaker 6: Was it?
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Speaker 22: One hundred million people died in World War Two? A
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Speaker 22: lot of people died.
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Speaker 25: And there was quite a bit of discruption, more so
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Speaker 25: than just Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, Britain was pile of rubble.
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Speaker 18: Lot.
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Speaker 7: Well here's the question. So all right, so you pose
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Speaker 7: a conundrum internal sovereignty of a nation or is it appeasement?
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Speaker 7: So Germany says, you know, oh, everything's fine here. We're
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Speaker 7: just dealing with this issue. Some of our citizens don't
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Speaker 7: like the Jews, so we're sending the Jews to these
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Speaker 7: camps so that they can be safe. That was their premise,
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Speaker 7: That was their argument, was get on the train, because
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Speaker 7: we can't guarantee your safety from these wild brown shirts.
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Speaker 7: We find out later that Hitler had hired the brown
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Speaker 7: Shirts to go make the Jews feel scared, and thus
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Speaker 7: begins a whole other chapter in human history. But what
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Speaker 7: is the international in look? And this becomes the bigger problem.
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Speaker 7: We look at NATO. NATO's core is that if you
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Speaker 7: mess with one NATO country, you mess with all of them. Well,
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Speaker 7: that was the issue in England and in France and
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Speaker 7: Poland and the sudatean Land and all these places where
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Speaker 7: we're like, well, that's not our fight, and that becomes
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Speaker 7: the real tightrope you're on. Whose fight was it? And
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Speaker 7: were there things that were happening, like are happening in
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Speaker 7: Ukraine and Russia right now where you can say there
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Speaker 7: might be reasonable argument. Doesn't give you a right to
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Speaker 7: roll tanks in and start shooting at farmers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 22: So here's the thing, Joe.
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Speaker 25: We're used to seeing manifesto after somebody has gone in
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Speaker 25: and shot a place up right or done some heenus
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Speaker 25: thing right. Well, when somebody writes a manifesto, mind comp
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Speaker 25: when somebody writes a manifesto.
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Speaker 22: The Surahs and whatnot, that.
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Speaker 25: Tells how they plan on taking over and dominating the
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Speaker 25: world in perpetuity.
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Speaker 22: Maybe the world ought to pay attention.
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Speaker 7: Well, this is why I brought up playing, This is
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Speaker 7: why I brought up Jefferson in seventeen eighty six, we're
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Speaker 7: all talking about America two fifty, America two forty was saying, hey,
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Speaker 7: we might need to fight a war against this ideology.
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Speaker 7: And two hundred and forty years later Donald Trump said, hey, hey,
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Speaker 7: do you know what I found here? In the desk.
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Speaker 7: Jefferson sent this to Washington. You think, I think we
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Speaker 7: ought to do something with it, and so he did.
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Speaker 25: Where in history has not only appeasing but fading dragons worked.
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Speaker 22: Out for the appeasers.
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Speaker 7: Never at all.
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Speaker 25: Okay, now we got somebody right now that's willing to
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Speaker 25: fight dragons, not appease the dragons, not feed the dragons.
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Speaker 22: How many billion dollars did the dragons get.
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Speaker 7: Fed, Joe, Oh gosh, just in one administration alone. It
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Speaker 7: was hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Speaker 22: A lot of dragon feeding there. That was our money.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but that was the policy that John Adams invented,
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Speaker 7: that policy. Instead of listening to Jefferson, Washington listened to
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Speaker 7: Adams and sent the Barbary pirates money because they were such.
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Speaker 7: And this is the thing that makes people mad. But
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Speaker 7: these Islamists, not the Muslims that live in the country.
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Speaker 7: I'm talking about these Islamists, the ones who will go
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Speaker 7: get the scimitars out and wage jahid. They're so deeply
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Speaker 7: held religious beliefs, but will put them aside if you
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Speaker 7: send us some cash. I mean, I don't know about
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Speaker 7: your religion, but I know in my religion that's how it.
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Speaker 25: Works, rugin off, Joe. Sorry, Jesus never said it's a
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Speaker 25: sin unless you give me some money.
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Speaker 7: That's true. Actually, that was why he turned all the
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Speaker 7: tables over the temple, because that's what was going on. Anyway,
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Speaker 7: Good stuff, doctor Clark. I appreciated, sir, uh and you know,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this kind of just you know, cut up on me.
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Speaker 31: this unless there because it happened right after you.
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Speaker 1: Then I were off the area is today and uh,
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Speaker 31: And then w f AN Radio confirmed that a long
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Speaker 31: at the age of eighty seven. Uh, naturally famous for
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Speaker 31: the Yykees.
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Speaker 1: Well and Yankees, well.
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Speaker 31: You know, and called him in the game is Michael
29:18
Speaker 31: Ka then pays tribute, which I'm gonna uh so, I'm
29:21
Speaker 31: gonna do Sterling in kind of three parts here because
29:23
Speaker 31: he was just so iconic and what he did and
29:25
Speaker 31: how he called and just you know, so uh maybe
29:29
Speaker 31: you never who's John Sterling if you're asking that question.
29:32
Speaker 31: But anyway, this was I had this in the archives
29:35
Speaker 31: because I sent it to my good buddy Jimmy Cassello,
29:37
Speaker 31: who is a diary.
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Speaker 1: I made a ring tone for Jimmy's phone.
29:41
Speaker 7: Uh Yankees.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
29:44
Speaker 1: This was the three thousand hit for Derry Jeter on
29:47
Speaker 1: the tiring home run.
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Speaker 32: Swung on it head on there, big hot bows Hi
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Speaker 32: heosport heados done. He's Homer or Chita Homer's to tie
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Speaker 32: the game.
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Speaker 1: And there it is hit number.
30:04
Speaker 32: Three thousand the Captain Darren Jeter, a magnificent milestone for
30:12
Speaker 32: a magnificent yak.
30:14
Speaker 31: Yeah, Susan Waldman, she was right there to pick up
30:16
Speaker 31: the pieces for sure. But last night, so last night,
30:21
Speaker 31: Michael Kay, So judge hits the home run of the
30:23
Speaker 31: first inning, right, It's only fitting.
30:25
Speaker 1: They had his initials on the back of the hat,
30:27
Speaker 1: and it was only fitting.
30:29
Speaker 31: Michael Kay, the broadcaster who you know, they were friends,
30:32
Speaker 31: they were longtime friends, paid tribute to Sterling calling a
30:36
Speaker 31: home run the way Sterling would have liked it.
30:38
Speaker 7: And the pitch high drive Blake centerfield, going back to
30:43
Speaker 7: Varis is high Man is God?
30:48
Speaker 20: How do a judge a judge of blast?
30:51
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Speaker 31: It just so, you know, so fitting, because I mean
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Speaker 31: Sterling was was an ironer five thousand and sixty straight games,
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Speaker 31: known for his iconic nicknames and home run calls. It
31:03
Speaker 31: he called eight World Series, he won twelve Sports Stimmies,
31:07
Speaker 31: and absolutely accepted the role of the voice of the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: He loved it. He got his start in Baltimore. He
31:14
Speaker 1: was doing the Baltimore Bullets in Morgan.
31:16
Speaker 31: State football, and he just you know, when he up
31:20
Speaker 31: he ended up with the Braves for a while in Atlanta,
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Speaker 31: and so when he gets to New York.
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Speaker 1: I mean it was something just to literally, you know, behold.
31:27
Speaker 1: But this might have been even though he didn't do
31:29
Speaker 1: the Judge in blast.
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Speaker 31: But this call might have been one of his best.
31:34
Speaker 31: When Aaron Judge goes for number sixty two and just
31:38
Speaker 31: then he dives into a little history.
31:40
Speaker 2: Here's the one one swung on.
31:43
Speaker 18: There goes Date Loft.
31:45
Speaker 2: It is high let us far hot us gone number.
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Speaker 32: Sixty two to set the new American League record. Aaron
31:56
Speaker 32: Judge hits his sixty second all the he's out of
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Speaker 32: the dugout.
32:01
Speaker 1: To greet him.
32:03
Speaker 2: Just think of it.
32:04
Speaker 1: Three Yankee Wright.
32:06
Speaker 32: Fielders, the Babe hitting sixty and twenty seven, the Jolly
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Speaker 32: Roger hitting sixty one and sixty one, and now Aaron
32:16
Speaker 32: Judge hits his sixty second home run, the most home
32:21
Speaker 32: runs any American leaguer has hit in a single season.
32:25
Speaker 32: And the American League has been alive for one hundred
32:28
Speaker 32: and twenty years.
32:30
Speaker 2: This is judgment Day. Oh nice, nice.
32:37
Speaker 31: So some of the yeah, some of the New York media,
32:39
Speaker 31: of course, they thought it was all stick and they
32:41
Speaker 31: thought it was too much. Come on, you know, John Sterling, well,
32:44
Speaker 31: you know New York media, Come on, you're not going
32:46
Speaker 31: to be able to please all of them. But with
32:49
Speaker 31: what he really meant and how much My friend Tepsa
32:52
Speaker 31: was interviewed yesterday and talking about how how much he
32:56
Speaker 31: enjoyed John Sterling and just as a as a friend
32:59
Speaker 31: and a broadcaster, but.
33:00
Speaker 1: He said he wasn't the most technical, uh.
33:02
Speaker 31: Technically perfect play by play guy with you know, because
33:07
Speaker 31: and then he started to lose eyesight, uh later in
33:10
Speaker 31: his career, and sometimes he wasn't sure that the ball
33:12
Speaker 31: was going to clear or the ball was you know,
33:14
Speaker 31: was a home run. And nothing is worse than you know,
33:17
Speaker 31: if you're fighting iesight and trying to be a play
33:18
Speaker 31: by play guy, especially in football, but anyway, very iconic
33:23
Speaker 31: and uh.
33:25
Speaker 7: You know, but there's an importance that you know, and
33:27
Speaker 7: you did, you know your your reason for being here
33:30
Speaker 7: is for forever. It's whether it's uh, you know, acc basketball,
33:35
Speaker 7: it's a wake forest, it's the University of Virginia. You've
33:38
Speaker 7: been doing play by play IOWA. You know, you're you've
33:42
Speaker 7: connected to people through the game. And there's a reason
33:47
Speaker 7: that radio broadcasts of sporting events click with people. It's
33:53
Speaker 7: it's the same reason shows all this too. I'm talking
33:56
Speaker 7: to a person. You and I are talking to one
33:59
Speaker 7: person's sitting there in their car or in their coffee,
34:02
Speaker 7: you know, in their cubicle, and it's a one on one.
34:05
Speaker 7: And when you're doing a play by play of a
34:08
Speaker 7: ball game, you're the guy sitting next to them in
34:11
Speaker 7: the stands with them. You're rooting for the home team. Yeah,
34:15
Speaker 7: And and even the ones who do the national games,
34:18
Speaker 7: they make you feel like you're into it as much
34:20
Speaker 7: as they are. And that's it's a it's a gift
34:24
Speaker 7: for the radio play by play guys.
34:27
Speaker 22: We had we had.
34:28
Speaker 31: WRVA on our network for years and years, you know,
34:30
Speaker 31: and they were a fifty thousand walk clear, which in
34:32
Speaker 31: radio terms means that at night, going back to the
34:35
Speaker 31: radio active nineteen twenty five, that they could cover about
34:38
Speaker 31: twenty states or whatever. And I always picture my mom
34:41
Speaker 31: and dad were in Tennessee and I just pay and
34:43
Speaker 31: they would be at the table and they knew that
34:45
Speaker 31: a game was on, and my dad had this you know,
34:47
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34:51
Speaker 31: to RBA, and I always pictured I always pictured them.
34:54
Speaker 31: I think that's a you know, so that's very very
34:57
Speaker 31: well said. Yesterday, I had in my class, and I
35:01
Speaker 31: asked him, I said, okay, because right I liked it.
35:03
Speaker 31: We like to stay current, at least with you know,
35:06
Speaker 31: the students. And I said, okay, who knows John Sterling crickets?
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Speaker 1: You know, nobody, you know, they.
35:12
Speaker 7: Just didn't really, but I'll bet you they have a guy.
35:14
Speaker 7: I'll bet you they have somebody. I mean, I was
35:17
Speaker 7: you know, you know, I grew up. I grew up
35:19
Speaker 7: a Mets fan, and you know, and when the Mets
35:21
Speaker 7: won the nineteen eighty six World Series, I'm standing on
35:24
Speaker 7: a bridge over a Long Island railroad track listening to
35:28
Speaker 7: Bob Murphy call the game on the radio. The Giants
35:31
Speaker 7: win their first Super Bowl I'm listening to it on
35:33
Speaker 7: the radio because I had to work. I mean, these
35:35
Speaker 7: these great moments if you love sports, so many of us,
35:39
Speaker 7: you know, we experienced them on the radio.
35:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
35:43
Speaker 31: And then Vin Scully, who could do really you know,
35:45
Speaker 31: he knew how to do TV too, But Vin Scully
35:48
Speaker 31: the great thing. And I tell my students all this
35:50
Speaker 31: time about being prepared when when when a producer cut
35:55
Speaker 31: away to a kid eating a snow cone, Scully could
35:57
Speaker 31: do the history of the snow cone and that's what
36:00
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36:03
Speaker 31: for a night game, you know, with his arms full
36:05
Speaker 31: of books, and he sat down in research and research.
36:08
Speaker 31: I mean, there's a YouTube video. In fact, I'll try
36:10
Speaker 31: to find it. This week there was a YouTube video
36:12
Speaker 31: with Scully talking about the history of beards and baseball
36:16
Speaker 31: is the game, you know, Baseball is the game where
36:18
Speaker 31: you have a chance to capture it when you have
36:19
Speaker 31: a chance to you know, not only let things breathe,
36:23
Speaker 31: but you can storytell. And his call of the Gibson
36:26
Speaker 31: home run, you know against.
36:27
Speaker 1: The A's very very iconic.
36:29
Speaker 31: He had a line and I stole a couple of
36:31
Speaker 31: things from Scully because they were just so good. But
36:35
Speaker 31: Scully said, you know, this hole at bat was so
36:38
Speaker 31: dramatic by Kurt Gibson. He goes, he is shaking his
36:43
Speaker 31: leg like a horse trying to get rid of a
36:45
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36:47
Speaker 1: And I mean it's just like poetry. It just you know,
36:50
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36:50
Speaker 31: But then when when Gibson hits the home run, Scully
36:53
Speaker 31: took off his headset. He took up his headset and
36:56
Speaker 31: stood there just you know, he wasn't going back on
36:58
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37:00
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37:02
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37:03
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37:05
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37:09
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37:13
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37:17
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37:31
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37:32
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37:35
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37:38
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37:43
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37:47
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Speaker 7: How many districts should podunk cav four three four eight
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Speaker 7: eight two four two one seven. Redistricting? Everybody who's got
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Speaker 7: some redistricting? Hakeem Jeffrey says, okay, go ahead, redistrict all
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Speaker 7: your southern states. We'll start redistricting New York and New Jersey.
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Speaker 7: And I mean, I don't know how many different ways
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Speaker 7: we can do it. But the courts again ruled that
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Speaker 7: things in the Voting Rights Act, though certainly driven by realities,
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Speaker 7: were unconstitutional, and racism is racism, no matter how you slice.
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Speaker 7: It has opened up the can of redistricting all across
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Speaker 7: the old Confederacy. And a man who used to be
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Speaker 7: the attorney general from one of those states is now
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Speaker 7: the head of the Election Transparency Initiative. He is on
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Speaker 7: the phone with us Ken Kotchin Ellie Ken.
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Speaker 5: How are you, sir, I'm good, I'm good. I hope
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Speaker 5: you are.
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Speaker 7: Joe h as the you told me you crunk clarified.
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Speaker 7: It's a curse. It's a Chinese curse. May you be
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Speaker 7: born into interesting times. Yeah there, Mao has got us again.
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Speaker 5: So look at all that this one was Confucius. It's
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Speaker 5: a little older.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well he wishes right. Yeah, he had a much
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Speaker 7: bigger book. No, he didn't need a little red one.
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Speaker 5: So and more, more, more constructive contribution from Confucius than now.
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Speaker 7: All right, that's it. We're done, no more interview. That's it.
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Speaker 7: That's the point of it. So so all these states
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Speaker 7: rushing to redistrict now that they don't have to have
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Speaker 7: majority minority districts, and I agree with them on it.
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Speaker 7: I think it's it was a second wrong, trying to
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Speaker 7: make a right after the racially based nineteen twenty nine
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Speaker 7: Permanent Reapportionment Act. And I'm the only radio show that
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Speaker 7: even talks about that one. But that's one of the
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Speaker 7: things you like about me, Ken. So they do that.
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Speaker 7: In nineteen thirty they and they start dividing black communities
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Speaker 7: up to keep black congress people from showing up. So
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Speaker 7: of course they begat the Voting Rights Act that says, no,
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Speaker 7: you've got to have some of these you can't divide
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Speaker 7: up black communities. So here we are. We finally scrubbed
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Speaker 7: that one. What do you think is going to happen next?
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Speaker 7: With all these states rushing to redraw their districts in
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Speaker 7: Alabama and Mississippi, and I mean Ron DeSantis just signed
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Speaker 7: his redistricting yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean the bottom line, Joe,
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Speaker 5: some of them are going to do it, some of
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Speaker 5: them aren't going to do It's not going to do it.
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Speaker 5: I'm glad George is not going to do it. I
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Speaker 5: personally see no rush. I wish they would not rush
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Speaker 5: to do it now. I think I think it is
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Speaker 5: very unseemly.
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Speaker 17: And it.
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Speaker 5: Gives not real evidence, but it gives something for the
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Speaker 5: Democrats to point to as they continue to claim without
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Speaker 5: basis that Republicans dislike black people, which is false and absurd,
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Speaker 5: and particularly coming from that party. It's interesting historically, but nonetheless, nonetheless,
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Speaker 5: the truth of the matter is is the majority of
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Speaker 5: the US House is not going to be decided by
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Speaker 5: these The majority in the US House in twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: seven is going to be decided by the environment and
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Speaker 5: the quality of the candidates that in And let's be
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Speaker 5: blown about it. If gas is still over four dollars
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Speaker 5: a gallon, Republicans are going to get absolutely wiped off
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Speaker 5: the map. And I don't care how thoroughly you win
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Speaker 5: the redistricting game. That's a fact.
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Speaker 17: It's just a fact.
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Speaker 5: And you know, if that isn't a buck fifty lower
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Speaker 5: down at least below three dollars, and there aren't encouraging
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Speaker 5: signs of economic progress for ordinary people, not just for
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Speaker 5: the AI Department, well that's it.
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Speaker 7: It's a little like you were listening to the first
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Speaker 7: hour of this program can because because that was my
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Speaker 7: point is that you know, if we just had the
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Speaker 7: price of a barrel of oil, is a one hundred
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Speaker 7: and thirteen dollars a barrel for the stuff that's going
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Speaker 7: to be delivered in July, which is going to be
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Speaker 7: the gasoline that's refined from that is going to be
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Speaker 7: at a price point in August. And now you're starting
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Speaker 7: to teeter on four or five dollars gas in August
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Speaker 7: and September, which is what everyone says is the beginning
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Speaker 7: of political season for the midterms. So you're really at
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Speaker 7: a point where if gas, if oil doesn't come down
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Speaker 7: dramatically in price right now. Yeah, it's it's Johnny by
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Speaker 7: the door, you know, bar the door for Republicans who
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Speaker 7: align themselves in this way.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I mean, we won't lose the Senate
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Speaker 5: to a Nazi in Maine, so they'll keep the majority.
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Speaker 5: But I mean that's a majority with you know, Lisa
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Speaker 5: Mrokowski in it. And I frankly I appreciate having Susan
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Speaker 5: Collins for mein she does. She's frustrating sometimes, but nothing
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Speaker 5: like Lisa Murkowski, who just tries to pocus in the eye.
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Speaker 5: She's like a female John McCain. And with respect to
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Speaker 5: conserv and but she comes from a red state. It's
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Speaker 5: absurd that we have to put up with this woman
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Speaker 5: and two more years.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, and for our friends listening on kfar
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Speaker 7: in Fairbanks. That one's for you because they call me
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Speaker 7: all the time, and you bet it is. Yeah, they well,
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Speaker 7: but this is also you know, one of the points
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Speaker 7: I make about the twenty nine Act is when you
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Speaker 7: create such massive districts and then you have this gerrymandering
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Speaker 7: going on, you will wind up with districts that are
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Speaker 7: massively Republican or massively democrat, and you wind up with
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Speaker 7: bad candidates because it becomes just a matter of who
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Speaker 7: has the most friends in that particular political party and
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Speaker 7: that and that's not good for representative government either.
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Speaker 5: No, the notions of free market capitalism do also apply
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Speaker 5: to the marketplace for ideas and the quality of people.
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Speaker 5: And you know, you do want to set up a
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Speaker 5: them as best you can to force competition so that
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Speaker 5: better representatives, and I mean that in a sort of
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Speaker 5: objective way win, not just ones who agree with us,
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Speaker 5: but I'm talking about who are good people.
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Speaker 7: Who engage their intellect certainly, you know, is a big
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Speaker 7: part of it. You know, you want somebody who's actually
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Speaker 7: going to stop and read a bill, not just say, oh,
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Speaker 7: you know, the president endorsed this, regardless of which party
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Speaker 7: the president's in.
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Speaker 5: Agreed, Absolutely agreed. And we you know, we've reached a
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Speaker 5: point where we're just getting billionaires and bartenders coming in there,
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Speaker 5: people who for whom they've already made their riches. And
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Speaker 7: Well, and then the bartenders want to become the billionaires
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Speaker 7: as well once they're in there. Ken Kochinelli is on
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Speaker 7: with the Election Transparency dot org is where you find
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Speaker 7: Ken and you help him out and contribute to Election
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Speaker 7: Transparency initiative. I want to pivot off of all these
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Speaker 7: other states doing redistricting to Virginia. And you know, we
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Speaker 7: sit and we wait. But as you mentioned, Georgia said,
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Speaker 7: voting has already started, we can't start redistricting. That's the CrOx.
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Speaker 7: If I remember last week and it's been a busy
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Speaker 7: of what is is. You know, was the voter engaging
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