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"Lessons from Cuba?" (Thursday, May 21, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 5: Sorry, Teresa, she was listening to to us this morning
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  Speaker 5: of the program. So Teresa, you're hopefully you're listening to
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  Speaker 5: this on podcasts. And I did get your text message
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  Speaker 5: about Cuba and lessons that we can learn. She said
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  Speaker 5: Cuba was because we allowed the mob to run Cuba.
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  Speaker 5: This is sort of what's happening as the mob is
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  Speaker 5: now running the Democratic Party. In my view, Joe, these
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  Speaker 5: folks just want government friends. It's like Corleoni said that
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  Speaker 5: his friends in government look out for his illicit business
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  Speaker 5: as long as he doesn't push.
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  Speaker 4: It too far. You know, there is some to that.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's cronyism and it doesn't even have to be
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  Speaker 5: criminal activity. Cash O man I just wrote a column
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  Speaker 5: for the Daily Signal about legal weed quote unquote legal weed.
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  Speaker 5: It's still a Schedule one narcotic. But you know states
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  Speaker 5: that you know are going down this path. Virginia just
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  Speaker 5: vetoed their legal weed. Gosh, you got democrats in control
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  Speaker 5: of every branch of government, saved the judiciary, and they
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  Speaker 5: can't have legal weed. What's a good progressive to do
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  Speaker 5: in Virginia?
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  Speaker 4: How dare they?
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  Speaker 5: It's funny what happens when your governor sees a president
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  Speaker 5: when she looks of a mirror at the governor's mansion,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it? But yeah, we got a great column about it.
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  Speaker 5: But what is criminal activity anymore? Gambling? Gambling is run
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  Speaker 5: by the state now. Most states have some sort of
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  Speaker 5: casino bills or Native Americans out there. In any event,
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  Speaker 5: we gather Andy's coming up. He's hound hold here but
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  Speaker 5: to Israel and the US. According to a report in
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  Speaker 5: with high ranking supposed government officials leaking to them that
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  Speaker 5: the original plan for the embardment bombardment of Tehran was
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  Speaker 5: to knock out the Ayatola and install Makwood. Ahmed Dinijad,
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  Speaker 5: considered one of the most hardline presidents ever in Iranian
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  Speaker 5: post revolutionary history, into the position. However, the former president,
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  Speaker 5: who had been under house arrest until February twenty eight,
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  Speaker 5: than the bombardment, says that he has reconsidered his participation
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  Speaker 5: after a US missile strike. Now The New York Times
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  Speaker 5: does not say which direction he's reconsidered. Was he a
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  Speaker 5: no and now is reconsidering yes?
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  Speaker 4: Who knows?
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  Speaker 5: But in other military actions, the uss NIMT senates strike
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  Speaker 5: group to have arrived in the Caribbean this week, as
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  Speaker 5: tensions in Cuba escalate and a federal prosecutor has announced
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  Speaker 5: murder charges against former Cuban president Raoul Castro for the
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  Speaker 5: downing of civilian planes operated by Miami based exiles. Cuba
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  Speaker 5: United States. However, the arrival of the NIMUS makes them
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Karen, pass the gift that gives you. She did
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  Speaker 5: everything short of saying, you know we're opening a in glamping.
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  Speaker 5: I said, no, glamping. If you've never heard of glamping,
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  Speaker 5: it's a creative business way of getting around some of
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  Speaker 5: the regulations on the hotel business. So what people do
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  Speaker 12: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But they build these glamp sites and they're basically tent
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  Speaker 5: themselves over. Yah, it's big Matt Garda, how dare you
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  Speaker 5: out of hotels and then when somebody starts doing Airbnb
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  Speaker 5: in their community, the hotels go to the city Saint dude,
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  Speaker 5: what up? And instead of thinking maybe we should stop
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  Speaker 5: taxing the hotels, they go after the home state people
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  Speaker 5: do day And as we've got a bunch to get to,
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  Speaker 5: Andy was hanging on the line with us this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Andy, what's on your mind this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 17: Well, A couple of things.
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  Speaker 18: First of all, you know, the smartmatic and dominion voting
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  Speaker 18: systems and all that stuff has been rigging our elections
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  Speaker 18: for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Glynn dell Out, I think I think I was talking.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking about you the other day.
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  Speaker 5: We were talking about President Trump's summit in China and
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  Speaker 5: how Mark Warner, Virginia's esteemed head of the Senate Intelligence
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  Speaker 5: oxy moron Committee, always talks about how he's afraid of
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  Speaker 5: being connected to chik Chikom operations and Intel Service. As yet,
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  Speaker 5: for the same reason he doesn't seem to be as
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  Speaker 5: worried about the voting machines. Somehow he can say out
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  Speaker 5: of the same face that the voting machines are safe
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  Speaker 5: and secure, but all these other things are in grave
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  Speaker 5: peril of Chai Coom intervention.
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  Speaker 4: How does he manage to do that?
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  Speaker 18: Andy, It doesn't make any sense, But you know he's
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  Speaker 18: He and Tim Kaine are both a huge part of
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  Speaker 18: the problem. You know, going back to constitutional money and Ingram,
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  Speaker 18: we could in an interim way, we could make all
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  Speaker 18: labor voluntary. So let's you're you're basically doing volunteer work
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  Speaker 18: with your your wife Elaine right now because they forasked
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  Speaker 18: you so much that you know, you're you're having to
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  Speaker 18: do other things to you know, to make your mark
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  Speaker 18: on the world.
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  Speaker 4: I go to work.
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  Speaker 17: The other thing is the other thing the if you
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  Speaker 17: mentioned something about the Olympics coming.
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  Speaker 4: That the city is.
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  Speaker 5: We only get glimpses of these ten cities, Andy. And
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  Speaker 5: and then now the mayor is saying, hey, let's let's
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  Speaker 5: back off this mandatory thirty dollars wage for hotel workers
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  Speaker 5: because all the hotels.
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  Speaker 18: That constitutional money that would care, that would take care
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  Speaker 18: of the problem.
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  Speaker 5: How do you mean that we have a minute here.
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  Speaker 5: I want to get a little thumbnail schedule. What you
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  Speaker 5: mean you're talking about going back to gold based currency, right,
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  Speaker 5: Well it's sting.
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  Speaker 17: Never took it out of the constitution.
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  Speaker 18: But there was a man who wrote a book called
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  Speaker 18: The Emperor's Clothes Cost twenty dollars and why they harassed him.
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  Speaker 18: I mean they came he'd been inside government for a
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  Speaker 18: number of years and they harassed.
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  Speaker 17: Him for the rest of his life. Actually threw him
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  Speaker 17: in jail for a while for some things that you know,
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  Speaker 17: Oh sure I thought it.
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  Speaker 18: Didn't know exactly what it was that he did, but
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  Speaker 18: you know, his uh, his information got out there, and
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  Speaker 18: so just you know, just go back to you know,
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  Speaker 18: gold and silver. And the reason that they had like
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  Speaker 18: gold and silver was so that the bankers could actually
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  Speaker 18: do arbitrage and like manipulate the currency a little bit.
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  Speaker 18: The back thing came along and the Central Bank and
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  Speaker 18: they hated him.
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  Speaker 5: So and by the way, his name is the author's
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  Speaker 5: name is Lloyd Darland. And uh, hey, on that subject,
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  Speaker 5: I need to check in and see how gold and
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  Speaker 5: silver are doing.
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  Speaker 4: Andy, Uh, keep doing what you're doing. God bless you.
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  Speaker 17: And ask James about the velocity.
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  Speaker 4: Of money I will do that very good. And that's
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  Speaker 4: right here.
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  Speaker 17: Really am signing off today. I've got like a full
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  Speaker 17: plate fit.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's always podcast later this afternoon. The show goes
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  Speaker 5: up online, so you can listen then when you get
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  Speaker 5: a chance.
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  Speaker 17: But good luck today, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a deadline.
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  Speaker 4: He says, it's no overtime.
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  Speaker 19: She said, it's something then for then he needs right now,
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  Speaker 19: that's on specified.
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  Speaker 4: Ye know, who do you complain about when you are
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  Speaker 4: the boss?
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  Speaker 17: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Again, be in PC, be so hediots me?
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  Speaker 17: So it's new next week. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta be careful because I used to be able
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  Speaker 5: to come home and complain about my boss to my wife.
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  Speaker 5: But now since she's fifty one percent owner of Thomas Media,
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  Speaker 5: I got to watch my p's and q's with that.
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  Speaker 5: So with that said, James lunk is on the phone
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  Speaker 5: with us. Andy wants me to ask you about the
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  Speaker 5: velocity of money. James, no pressure. It's not like the
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  Speaker 5: SATs or anything. And you're going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 5: given better scholarship money if you fail this test. He
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  Speaker 5: just knew I was going to you next, and he said,
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  Speaker 5: oh yeah, he was. You know, Andy loves you know
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  Speaker 5: gold and silver, and we need to get back into
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here In First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: Maurice is driving his son to school this morning, and
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  Speaker 5: he wanted my help because he was trying to remember
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  Speaker 5: what I had said about what my views on our pastime.
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  Speaker 5: And I've said in the past, and not frequently. It's
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: not like a drum that I'm beating constantly, like I'm
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Keith Moon or something. But I've said in the past
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: that I believe that baseball is a uniquely American game,
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: and unfortunately our municipal governments.
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  Speaker 4: Are screwing us out of it, you know all.
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  Speaker 5: And it's I don't want to make it seem like
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: it's the boogeyman that we can find under everyone's bed.
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  Speaker 4: But baseball was a game you could.
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  Speaker 5: Play in a school yard, an empty school yard, an
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  Speaker 5: empty park, an empty field.
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  Speaker 4: In the street out in front of your house.
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  Speaker 5: And it's quickly being municipalized away because you can't go
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: there unless you have insurance and a permit from the county,
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: and we don't want you on the field. There's a
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: liability if you get hurt, and you're gonna sue us.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I don't know which came first, the
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  Speaker 5: litigious suit of some kid got hurt playing in a
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: public park or the regulations, but I think I have
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: a pretty good idea of how the chain of events
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: went because we used to be able to just go
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: play ball with five six people. Remember if you only
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: had four or five people, you played half field. But
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: baseball was game just like soccer is in the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the world. Kids could just get a ball and
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: go find some empty space and play but in the
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: in the process, Maurice asked, He said he was trying
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  Speaker 5: to explain to his son why baseball is uniquely American
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  Speaker 5: to me in the in how baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Is played, the rules of how it's played is American.
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  Speaker 5: It's American. It's free market, it is meritocracy. It is
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: your ability to do something. Did I want to be
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: the starting cancer in high school?
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: Sure?
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Did I know that John Harrigan, who had been a
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: friend of mine since elementary school, could hit the cover
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: off the ball, But you know, had trouble catching a cold,
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: So I resigned myself to being defensive replacement. Take a
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  Speaker 5: thrill out of throwing some kid out at second that
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: had never ever, ever been thrown out at second before.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I couldn't you know, I couldn't hit the broadside of
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: a barn. But you know, I love the game and
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  Speaker 5: I love being able to do something for a group
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  Speaker 5: that I chose to be part of. And that's part
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: of America. That's part of the American economy. And economy
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: and life are intertwined in America because we choose to
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: live places, we choose to work, places, we choose to
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: listen to radio shows. So first you choose the team
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: you want to play with, you choose the position you
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: want to play, and you contribute there. It's very much
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: like what we talk about in tedsty I love catching.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: My knees kill me to this day climbing up and downstairs.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, those years catching never had a surgery
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: on him, never had a surgery on him. Thanks to
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: Sealy and his CBD oil that has been going down somewhat.
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: By the way, thank you, Kareem. Kareem reminded me that
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: two weeks ago marijuana was reclassified as a Schedule three narcotic,
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  Speaker 5: So I appreciate that. Thank you for your role in
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  Speaker 5: the research department.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. I'm sorry.
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Sixty two years, it's been a Schedule one narcotic in
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  Speaker 5: my life. It takes a little while to remember conversationally.
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  Speaker 5: The baseball analogy to American life, though, Maurice, is that
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: if you fail, you can do something else. So let's
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: say you commit an error in the field. Were my
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: flagship station is a Washington Nationals affiliate, and it's been
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: a tough few years. I grew up a New York
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  Speaker 5: Mets fan in the nineteen seventies. I understand how a
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: tough few years can be at least, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: Nationals got a lot of young guys. They score runs
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  Speaker 5: like crazy. They also commit errors like crazy, and it's frustrating,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, it's an example of Okay, James Woods
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  Speaker 5: commits a throwing error, allows a run to score, then
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: hits an inside the park grand slam home run. That's baseball,
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  Speaker 5: but that's also America. It's a metaphor for Okay, you
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  Speaker 5: screwed up, dust yourself off, grab a bat and get
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: you know, try to find some other way to contribute.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I think it's a uniquely American game because
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  Speaker 5: if you mess up, you're not done. It's one of
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: the things that was happening to college football. If you
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: lost a game, you were immediately now out of any
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  Speaker 5: national championship contention, unless you were Alabama. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 5: Alabama could lose like three games and they'd still be
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: ranked in the top five.
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  Speaker 4: But if you lost one time, uh, that's it. There
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  Speaker 4: are seasons done.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, how could you say that there are four
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: games into the season, the season's not that win and done,
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: lose and be vanquished forever mentality that I just don't
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  Speaker 5: think is American America is Okay, I want to do something,
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: but it didn't work out, so I get to try
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: something else. So I can't hit, but maybe I can throw.
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  Speaker 5: I can throw pretty well, so let me throw guys
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: out at second base and make that my contribution to
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: the team, just as an example. So boris that's my
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: point about baseball hamp listening to us down on the
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  Speaker 5: Treasure Coast WTTB down there? Where does Danny previous segments?
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  Speaker 5: Emailer think that most people get their information social media.
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  Speaker 5: That's who Spencer Pratt is focusing on. I understand, and
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  Speaker 5: you see, Danny, I have no problem with Spencer Pratt
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  Speaker 4: You know, all right? Would I do a video pretending
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  Speaker 4: to be the French Prince of bel Air?
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  Speaker 25: No?
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  Speaker 4: But you have to look at the ethos of a person.
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  Speaker 4: Who is this person?
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  Speaker 5: And if this is who this person is, imagine that
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  Speaker 5: person making the heavy lifting decisions that a mayor of
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  Speaker 5: And because New Yorkers had been so browbeaten, I dear
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  Speaker 5: friends grew up with conservative people still living in New
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  Speaker 5: was chances of winning in New York. In LA, things
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  Speaker 4: Going to reclassify it was a glamp site? How about that?
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  Speaker 4: rent out your tent. Can you spray a little bit?
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  Speaker 4: Just get a fumigate some.
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  Speaker 5: And Karen Bass is a punchline much in the way
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  Speaker 5: David Dinkins was a punchline in New York. So maybe
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  Speaker 5: that's David Dinkins begat Rudolph Giuliani. So maybe Karen Bass
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  Speaker 5: has become such a laughing stock that conservatives and even
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  Speaker 5: business friendly Democrats in LA are done with it. They've
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  Speaker 5: you know, everything's short. The only thing that would do
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