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"That's it! Dollars, Taxes" (FTTxJT Wed 100726 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We will tell you what went on in the world.
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Speaker 1: Then we will give you a chance to tell us
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Speaker 1: how it's impacting you, where you are. And one of
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Speaker 1: the examples of what I was saying yesterday about we
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Speaker 1: expend so much more energy trying to avoid looking bad
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Speaker 1: rather than the same amount of energy, which could do
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Speaker 1: uncountable amounts of good, is this gas tax situation. Republicans
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Speaker 1: here in our flagship state seemingly on the exact same
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Speaker 1: day Donald Trump is asked, what about the gas tax?
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Speaker 1: Funny that. Held a press event at a gas station
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Speaker 1: and said, we want the governor to cut the gas tax,
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Speaker 1: which just gave the governor an opportunity to go on
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Speaker 1: the TV news and say it's Donald Trump's fault. Good job, guys.
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Speaker 1: Good job. And so the question of whether gas tax
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Speaker 1: or not is center stage in this. And I'll explain
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Speaker 1: why it's a great example of do good rather than
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Speaker 1: Hamas attack on Israel. 1,200 people dead, 251 taken hostage
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Speaker 1: this day three years ago. It is, as Israeli news
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Speaker 1: is noting, the first anniversary since all the hostages had
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Speaker 1: been released. While it's gearing up for its first elections
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Speaker 1: since the October 7th attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
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Speaker 1: opponents in the parliamentary elections have are putting it at
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: This means war.
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Speaker 1: Something must be done.
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Speaker 17: War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
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Speaker 5: Hey, I got an uncle lives in taxes.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about taxes, money, dollars.
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Speaker 18: Dollars. That's where my uncle lives.
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Speaker 5: Dollars, taxes.
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Speaker 16: Ha!
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Speaker 1: Gas taxes are kind of not intentionally what I was
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Speaker 1: talking about yesterday when I said we expend 10 times
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Speaker 1: more effort, both individually and politically, to avoid looking bad
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Speaker 1: than we do in doing good. And it's a shame.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's something that any parent with a child
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Speaker 1: has probably, hopefully, spent some time saying to them. that
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Speaker 1: it costs you way less time and effort to do
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Speaker 1: the right thing than the wrong thing and cover it up.
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Speaker 1: Cover up is always worse anyway. And why haven't we
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Speaker 1: cut the gas taxes yet? Because politicians, elected officials, Republican
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Speaker 1: and Democrat alike, know that it would identify to their
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Speaker 1: voters just how much their gas prices are driven up
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Speaker 1: by their taxes. This is why Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania
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Speaker 1: only for, I think it was about one month, had
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Speaker 1: a gas tax holiday. Right, you're right, Hungary. There is
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Speaker 1: a Yugoslavian, but Yugoslavia was part of the communist bloc,
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Speaker 1: is what I was getting at. The gas tax is
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Speaker 1: one of those things that all the politicians agree on
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Speaker 1: doing and can't agree not to because as soon as
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Speaker 1: you mention it, they immediately run to, how are we
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Speaker 1: going to replace all the money we lose? As if
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Speaker 1: it's theirs, as if it was theirs by birthright. And
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Speaker 1: this is why I say this is their efforts to
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Speaker 1: avoid looking bad. Because cutting the gas tax months ago,
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Speaker 1: even Republicans would admit how complicit they are into your
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Speaker 1: high gasoline and diesel fuel prices. And you might remember
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Speaker 1: that the next time they come knocking on your door
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Speaker 1: for re-election. That's why none of them ever want to
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Speaker 1: do it, Republican or Democrat alike. Don't cut the gas tax.
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Speaker 1: That admits the gas tax exists. It's like Fight Club.
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Speaker 1: The first rule of gas tax is don't say there's
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Speaker 1: gas tax. So you have to give the Republicans grudging
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Speaker 1: credit for all of a sudden coming out and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: we should cut the gas tax. mostly in states where
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Speaker 1: they're not in power. So they're going out in Virginia
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Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania. I also saw them in Illinois demanding that
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Speaker 1: the governors start cutting the gas tax. I think New
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Speaker 1: York's had some protests as well. Beware if you are
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Speaker 1: successful and Kathy Hochul cuts the gas tax in New
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Speaker 1: York The minute Bruce Blakeman becomes governor, he's going to
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Speaker 1: be expected to repeal the gas tax because Republicans have
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Speaker 1: just outed the fact that gas taxes exist. and that
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Speaker 1: they're a massive amount of what you're paying at the pump.
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Speaker 1: And yes, right now they're doing it because we have
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Speaker 1: a month to go before election day. And the press,
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Speaker 1: because they've seen these stories at a place like Virginia,
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Speaker 1: have gone to Donald Trump and said, would you cut
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Speaker 1: the federal gas tax? And he said, we're thinking about it. Really?
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Speaker 1: You're just now thinking about it? It's October 7th. You're
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Speaker 1: just now thinking about it?
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Speaker 12: Why?
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Speaker 1: Because too many political types who, to be fair... the
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Speaker 1: president listens to sometimes, have told him that to cut
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Speaker 1: the gas tax would be to admit culpability in the
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Speaker 1: increase in gas prices. I know, it sounds insane. It
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Speaker 1: sounds insane, but that's the amount of time and effort
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Speaker 1: that is put into the avoidance of looking bad. rather
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Speaker 1: than doing the right thing. And I'm not decrying what
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Speaker 1: we're doing with Iran. We're trying to close the book
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Speaker 1: on the oldest war in American history. And I'm fine
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Speaker 1: with that because it needed to be ended. When Thomas
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Speaker 1: Jefferson himself said, this one may need a war to
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Speaker 1: put it to bed. And we went with John Adams
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Speaker 1: paradigm of maybe if we just pay them off, they'll
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Speaker 1: let us be. And 240 years of paying them off
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Speaker 1: has left an awful lot of dead Americans, soldiers, and
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Speaker 1: civilians in the wake of this. So just do the
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Speaker 1: right thing for the right reason right now. Damn the torpedoes.
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Speaker 1: Cut the damn gas tax.
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22:07
Speaker 5: actually three known gases. Hi, I'm Dr. Mitch, and nitric
22:12
Speaker 5: oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
22:17
Speaker 5: to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
22:21
Speaker 5: By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen,
22:27
Speaker 5: and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
22:31
Speaker 5: and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
22:34
Speaker 5: precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
22:38
Speaker 5: energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
22:41
Speaker 5: your hands and feet. Well, our product, Ultimate Nitric Oxide,
22:46
Speaker 5: can easily help fix this lack of nitric oxide. Go
22:50
Speaker 5: to TotalWellness.com. That's TotalWellness.com, where we are helping you to
22:56
Speaker 5: look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
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Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 1: On this Ted's D, thank you for letting us do
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Speaker 1: what we do for you in your name so that
28:35
Speaker 1: you get your day started out with some common sense
28:40
Speaker 1: and the perspectives. A couple of emails on my point
28:44
Speaker 1: about the oldest war in U.S. history. I'll get to that.
28:49
Speaker 1: Yvonne writing in out of Salem this morning. Regarding being
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Speaker 1: good versus looking good. Don't try to keep up with
28:59
Speaker 1: the Joneses, they say. Just drag them down to your level.
29:03
Speaker 1: With the demon grats, every day is April Fool's and
29:07
Speaker 1: every night is Halloween. Cheers. So well pointed out. that
29:15
Speaker 1: our political discourse has become too much of a race
29:19
Speaker 1: to the bottom. And there's an upside to it that
29:23
Speaker 1: I don't think people realize, and we talked about it yesterday,
29:25
Speaker 1: is it depresses voter turnout. So when you depress voter turnout,
29:30
Speaker 1: it becomes even easier because the smaller numbers are easier
29:35
Speaker 1: It's Lincoln's old expression. It's easier. You can fool some
29:39
Speaker 1: of the people all of the time or all of
29:42
Speaker 1: the people some of the time, but you can't fool
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Speaker 1: all of the people all of the time. Well, when
29:47
Speaker 1: you get down into the 20, you know, hey, we
29:50
Speaker 1: need 20% of the population to buy our idea. We
29:53
Speaker 1: were talking about this. This is an abstract that shows
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Speaker 1: up on the program frequently. 95% of our media coverage
30:01
Speaker 1: is dedicated to covering 5% of our population. So if
30:05
Speaker 1: you go out there and see, somebody said John Mulaney
30:08
Speaker 1: was just doing this in his recent tour. He was
30:12
Speaker 1: up in Red Rocks in Colorado. And I don't know,
30:16
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing his special when it comes out.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that means there'll be a comedy special that
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Speaker 1: I'll be able to see. But he said, you know,
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Speaker 1: people think everybody hates each other. That's just the 5%
30:28
Speaker 1: that's getting on TV. He's right. He's right. That's just
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Speaker 1: the 5% that we're giving because they're yelling, they're jumping
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Speaker 1: up and down. If we light our hair on fire
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Speaker 1: and jump up and down, somebody will turn a TV
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Speaker 1: camera on it. And you can't give yourself the idea
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Speaker 1: that this is everybody. Social media is the same way.
30:53
Speaker 1: One of our flagship cities, Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisonburg, Virginia, just
30:58
Speaker 1: signed into this class action suit against meta and bite
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Speaker 1: dance and all these people who make the social media
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Speaker 1: platforms for getting our kids addicted to it. But the
31:12
Speaker 1: perspective on what I see in social media, it is,
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Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of people trying to have a
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Speaker 1: conversation at a lunchroom table in the world's biggest high
31:21
Speaker 1: school cafeteria, complete with the same amount of bullies and
31:29
Speaker 1: and nerds and posers and politickers that were in your
31:37
Speaker 1: high school. And maybe you had a small high school,
31:39
Speaker 1: but you still had all those caricatures. The internet is
31:43
Speaker 1: just that times a million. And you're there just trying
31:47
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with two or three of your friends.
31:50
Speaker 1: And along comes the class bully or the class clown
31:54
Speaker 1: or the class flirt or the class troublemaker or the
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Speaker 1: class nerd. and tries to insert themselves into your private conversation.
32:08
Speaker 1: So let's get a perspective field going here on who
32:14
Speaker 1: we is and how bad things really are and how
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Speaker 1: blessed we really are in this place. Sunrise Sermonette over
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Speaker 1: here on the Eastern Seaboard. Our friend James is at jcsgold.com
32:26
Speaker 1: helping folks navigate the stormy waters of the straight of
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Speaker 1: gold and silver investing. And there are lots of people
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Speaker 1: on both sides trying to take shots at you when
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Speaker 1: you're trying to invest there. James, how are you doing
32:37
Speaker 1: this morning, sir?
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Speaker 21: I'm doing well, Joe. And gold and silver are back
32:42
Speaker 21: on count this morning. Gold is down a little bit
32:45
Speaker 21: over 1%, down $ 48 to $ 4, 115. Gold's really trying to
32:46
Speaker 21: find support there at that $ 4, 100. So we'll see if
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Speaker 21: that can hold today. It's at $ 41.
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Speaker 1: 15 at the moment.
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Speaker 21: Silver is down almost 2% today to $ 60.
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Speaker 1: 14.
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Speaker 21: Again, silver trying to find that support there right at $ 60,
33:09
Speaker 21: even a psychological level there for silver. So great buying
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33:18
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Speaker 1: You mean, it's not like a gas station where the
33:36
Speaker 1: price of crude oil goes down and the price of
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Speaker 1: gasoline goes up somehow. Funny that that's what you guys
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33:49
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33:56
Speaker 1: gas station pump. Gold is the first one, silver. But
34:03
Speaker 1: this is also indicative of a fantasy. James is happy
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Speaker 1: when the price of gold goes down because you can
34:10
Speaker 1: buy more. You talk to these commission-based dealers and And
34:13
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34:18
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34:49
Speaker 1: an hour and a half ago, and it's come down
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Speaker 1: another eight or so dollars in that hour and a half.
34:54
Speaker 1: So something's moving in the marketplace. Absolutely.
34:59
Speaker 21: It looks like a little bit broader sell-off on all
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Speaker 1: So we'll see where today shakes out. Well, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: You have a great morning, sir, and thanks for everything. Thanks, Joe.
35:10
Speaker 1: You too. So you're back to the idea of cutting
35:17
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35:21
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35:26
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35:34
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35:42
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35:52
Speaker 1: are needs of a government that we do under democratic process,
35:58
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36:01
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36:08
Speaker 1: made too many things public utility, but that's a different matter.
36:14
Speaker 1: Once we've agreed that we're going to have public schools
36:18
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36:21
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36:29
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36:31
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36:43
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36:48
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36:54
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36:59
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37:21
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37:24
Speaker 1: so why don't we just put our taxes in on
37:27
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37:34
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37:42
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37:48
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37:51
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37:55
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37:59
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Speaker 2: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today by
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Speaker 1: And this is the difficulty with being me, is I
44:45
Speaker 1: can't lie to you. I can't give you anything more
44:49
Speaker 1: than my view on something. And this is why it
44:53
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like I'm trying to sell you something. You know,
44:58
Speaker 1: there's so many of these podcasts and these programs you
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45:04
Speaker 1: you know, at least Billy Mays said, this is Billy
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Speaker 1: you the ShamWow. You know, he washed a car while
45:26
Speaker 1: he was doing it or he cleaned his kitchen. But,
45:28
Speaker 1: I mean, he was selling you a ShamWow. So when
45:34
Speaker 1: we talk about war and we satirize for your protection
45:42
Speaker 1: NATO and their insistence that somehow they're now going to
45:54
Speaker 1: Do Russia in, even though that was kind of their
45:57
Speaker 1: whole point in existing. But now, oh, we're going to
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Speaker 1: destroy Moscow. Yes, we are.
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Speaker 5: We're going to have some duck soup for breakfast.
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Speaker 1: So we're satirizing their behavior.
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Speaker 6: Say, did you happen to catch the New Jersey Senate
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Speaker 6: debate last week? No, sir. Someone asked about the situation
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Speaker 6: in Fredonia, and Barbara said that he was studying it.
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Speaker 1: That's right. We've got to study the things, because Sylvania
46:31
Speaker 1: is going to invade soon. They're out of light bulbs.
46:35
Speaker 1: So while NATO is saber-rattling, and we can point to
46:39
Speaker 1: the silliness and the mistakes that they've made, that are correctable.
46:43
Speaker 1: It's not just a, you made a mistake. These are
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Speaker 1: correctable mistakes. All mistakes are correctable. Isn't that what that
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Speaker 1: carpenter rabbi from Galilee taught us? So we can also
47:03
Speaker 1: say that there are instances where war is necessary. This
47:07
Speaker 1: is why the sixth commandment was thou shalt not murder,
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Speaker 1: because they knew in an effort to self-defend yourself. OK, well,
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Speaker 1: you talked yourself into a corner there, didn't you, J.T.?
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Speaker 1: In an effort to defend yourself, you might have to
47:23
Speaker 1: take someone's life. If somebody is invading your home and
47:28
Speaker 1: you end them, is that a mortal sin? This is
47:35
Speaker 1: why the difference between murder and kill is so profound,
47:39
Speaker 1: depending on your interpretation of the Ten Commandments. So I
47:48
Speaker 1: had said this earlier, and it seems like every time
47:50
Speaker 1: I say this, I get two, three texts and emails saying,
47:53
Speaker 1: what do you mean the oldest war in American history?
47:56
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of people who are mad, or
47:59
Speaker 1: let me put it in the best way again. There's
48:02
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: money to get Democrats elected in the midterms this year,
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Speaker 1: who want you to believe that Donald Trump has violated
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Speaker 1: his oath to you that he wasn't going to start
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Speaker 1: any new wars. And believe me or not, I go
48:21
Speaker 1: back to history. There's a group of soldiers, very famous Marines, right?
48:32
Speaker 1: And their battle cry is, from the halls of Montezuma
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Speaker 1: to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country's
48:40
Speaker 1: battles on the land, in the air, and sea. They're
48:47
Speaker 1: referencing American ships being raided and American sailors being kidnapped,
48:57
Speaker 1: much like Israeli concert goers three years ago, by what
49:03
Speaker 1: was referred to, depending on your side in history, the
49:07
Speaker 1: Barbary Corsairs or the Barbary Pirates. And the new nation
49:13
Speaker 1: was struggling with this. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were
49:17
Speaker 1: dispatched to meet with the leader of these Corsairs who
49:24
Speaker 1: said to them, and the question was put to him,
49:28
Speaker 1: why are you doing this? We have no quarrel with you.
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Speaker 1: Jefferson writes about this. We have no quarrel with you.
49:36
Speaker 1: He said, it is in our texts that We are
49:40
Speaker 1: commanded to do this to you, the infidel. You are
49:47
Speaker 1: not of our faith. Therefore, we are commanded to do
49:52
Speaker 1: this to you. John Adams comes back to the administration
50:01
Speaker 1: and says, maybe we can pay them off. Maybe if
50:05
Speaker 1: we give them enough money, they'll just leave our ships alone. Jefferson,
50:12
Speaker 1: arguably the most pacifist of our founding fathers, says, this
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Speaker 1: one we may need to end with a war. Because Jefferson,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know whether Adams had or hadn't, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Adams had read the Quran. Jefferson, when
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Speaker 1: he was in college at William and Mary University, had
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Speaker 1: read the Quran because he was a law student and
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Speaker 1: was fascinated by the Quran. because he believed in John
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Speaker 1: Locke and the idea that church and state hold different
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Speaker 1: roles in the community and therefore should stay to those lanes.
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Speaker 1: He was fascinated by this text that was also considered
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Speaker 1: the legal doctrine of countries that followed it. So he
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Speaker 1: knew that radical Islamists were always just going to kill non-Muslims.
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Speaker 1: radical Islamists. They were going to kill Muslims just as
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Speaker 1: much as they were going to kill Christians and Jews.
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Speaker 1: So this is what I mean when I say the
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Speaker 1: oldest war in American history, not just because President Jefferson
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Speaker 1: then eventually sends the Marines to the shores of Tripoli,
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Speaker 1: but because from the earliest instances, these Barbary corsairs, these
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Speaker 1: radical Islamists, who have moved locations. Sure, they were in
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Speaker 1: Syria then. Now they're in Iran. They've been all over
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere.
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Speaker 1: They move. They find new caves to hide in. They
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Speaker 1: find new ways to terrorize the West. And so this
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Speaker 1: isn't a new war. This is a war Thomas Jefferson
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Speaker 1: told us we needed to fight. We needed to fight
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Speaker 1: it on behalf of all the Muslims who were going
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Speaker 1: to be killed by the radical Islamists, just as much
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Speaker 1: as we needed to fight it for the Christians and
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Speaker 1: the Jews that were going to be killed by the
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Speaker 1: radical Islamists. And that's when I say the oldest war
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Speaker 1: in American history. That's what I mean. I'm not just
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Speaker 1: trying to carry the water for President Trump or run
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Speaker 1: cover for him or blow smoke up his skirt or
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Speaker 1: anything like that. I guess it wouldn't be his skirt.
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Speaker 1: It would be, you know, Melania's. But I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to blow smoke up there at all.
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