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"Scams and Hoaxes" (Tuesday December 09 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: But the word.
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  Speaker 2: Affordability is a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: Scam on your to do list. Putting the radio on
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  Speaker 3: is the first thing today.
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  Speaker 4: Your words that steal metem.
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  Speaker 5: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 5: sun comes up, drops a kid to school, then.
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  Speaker 1: Joys everything all the chooses.
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  Speaker 6: Seven needs no one that Joe's smile he only as.
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  Speaker 1: Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Bless you for letting me be of service to you.
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  Speaker 7: I see you there basking in the amplitude and frequency
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  Speaker 7: modulation goodness. And you know, the singular most important local
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  Speaker 7: aspect of your radio station is you. And that's why
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  Speaker 7: the most important part of our mission while we tell
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  Speaker 7: you what went on since last you checked, uh, and
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  Speaker 7: we'll give you our viewpoint from where we sit, but
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  Speaker 7: I want to hear how it's impacting you as you
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  Speaker 7: roll into it. This morning at four three four eight
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  Speaker 7: eight two four two one seven Eddy Wrights in, we've
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  Speaker 7: kind of been talking about affordability, uh. And you know
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  Speaker 7: where we've come off the rails, and a lot of
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  Speaker 7: it has started at the Great Society. And we talked
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  Speaker 7: about how the one singular voice against the Great Society
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  Speaker 7: was Ronald Reagan, but he was doing it on behalf
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  Speaker 7: of Barry Goldwater, who wasn't nearly as full throated his
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  Speaker 7: rebukes of and then as Barry Goldwater aged after he
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  Speaker 7: had lost that presidential election. By the time he passed away,
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  Speaker 7: you couldn't tell. I mean there are I think. I
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  Speaker 7: think Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona says more conservative things
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  Speaker 7: than But that's just you know, the nature of life.
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  Speaker 7: I guess we age and we start thinking, well, maybe
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  Speaker 7: if I had gone left when I went right, Eddie
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  Speaker 7: writes in Ronald Reagan in the early eighties established a
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  Speaker 7: gold Commission to look and see if it was feasible
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  Speaker 7: to return to the gold standard. There was already too
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  Speaker 7: many dollars in circulation. Remember there's two parts of the
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  Speaker 7: gold standard that we regulated what the price of gold was,
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  Speaker 7: and then based our dollars on the value of what
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  Speaker 7: that gold. At least now we can say China's a
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  Speaker 7: currency manipulator and not be hypocrites about it. But the
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  Speaker 7: value of our dollar is one of the most important
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  Speaker 7: parts of this affordability crisis. That Donald Trump, he heard
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  Speaker 7: him there talking about the scam of affordability. What he
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  Speaker 7: means affordability isn't the scam, And of course that's what
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  Speaker 7: all the Marxists are out there saying. Good Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: campaigned on sortability noises. It's a scam. No how they're
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  Speaker 7: portraying it, their scam. Should the President be a little
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  Speaker 7: bit more specific in the way he says it, I would.
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  Speaker 7: But the scam is that they can somehow magically waive
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  Speaker 7: their wand and make things affordable. What they're going to
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  Speaker 7: do is send you money, or more importantly, send the
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  Speaker 7: people you're buying stuff from taxpayer money in exchange of
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  Speaker 7: charging you what they want to charge. So, for example,
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  Speaker 7: your electric bill, your electric bill will be your electric
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  Speaker 7: utility will receive a subsidy block grant from the government,
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  Speaker 7: provided that you qualify for the energy companies low in
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  Speaker 7: Low in Electric rates program. And if you do anything
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  Speaker 7: at all that violates that, boom out the door. Thanks
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  Speaker 7: very much for good afternoon. Here's a home version of
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  Speaker 7: our game. And you will owe back rates as well,
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  Speaker 7: but you'll blame the electric company, not the government. So
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  Speaker 7: that's why I don't understand some of these the health
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  Speaker 7: insurance providers and these electric utilities when they go along
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  Speaker 7: with us, you're just being set up. Our first things
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  Speaker 7: on this morning, the President is off to Beautiful Mount
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  Speaker 7: Airy Lodge in the Poconos to begin an affordability tour.
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  Speaker 7: The president will return to the campaign style rallies that
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  Speaker 7: helped him win the second term in the White House.
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  Speaker 7: He's angrily rejected calls by the Democrats that they're the
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  Speaker 7: only ones who can bring you affordability. The President also
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  Speaker 7: said that Mexico may be paying five percent more in
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  Speaker 7: a tariff if they don't release two hundred thousand acre
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  Speaker 7: feet of water as part of the nineteen forty four
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  Speaker 7: water treaty before December thirty one, Texas farmers are struggling.
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  Speaker 7: On Monday and the Cabinet meeting, President Trump said that
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  Speaker 7: it appears that the boat that was capsized by a
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  Speaker 7: missile strike in the Caribbean Sea, two suspected drug smugglers
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  Speaker 7: were trying to right the ship after it capsized in
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  Speaker 7: the initial strike. The President did say it would be
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  Speaker 7: at War Secretary Pete Hegsith's discretion whether or not the
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  Speaker 7: video would be released to the public. Congress, however, is
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  Speaker 7: saying they're going to withhold one quarter of the Pentagon's
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  Speaker 7: travel budget until they turn over the videos of those strikes.
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  Speaker 7: The four finalists for the NCAA Heisman Football Trophy were
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  Speaker 7: revealed Monday night. They are Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 7: Vanderbilt Commodore's quarterback Diego Pavia, Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love,
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  Speaker 7: and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayan federal judge Monday ruled
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  Speaker 7: that the President's administration failed to justify its decision in
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  Speaker 7: suspending leases and permits for new win projects. Patty sarras
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  Speaker 7: US District judge in Boston, sided with a group of
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  Speaker 7: seventeen Democrat led states and the District of Columbia, finding
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  Speaker 7: that agencies failed to explain why they had to pause
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  Speaker 7: much of how bills get debated on the floor. Would
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  Speaker 7: opening the floor lead to more conservative bills or more
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  Speaker 7: bipartisan ones, she says the answer, it would do both.
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  Speaker 12: I'm the Powerful Society, but upward to the Great Society.
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: All natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all.
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  Speaker 7: As the truth is, the President goes out on his
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  Speaker 7: affordability tour. I just I you know, I know it
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  Speaker 7: was fanciful, and all of this is the fruit of
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  Speaker 7: the great society. But the ink was even dry when
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  Speaker 7: a man quit Lyndon Johnson's own party and said, we have.
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  Speaker 1: So many people who can't see a fat man standing
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  Speaker 1: beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the
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  Speaker 1: fat man got that way by taking advantage of the
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  Speaker 1: thin one. So they're going to solve all the problems
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  Speaker 1: of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now,
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  Speaker 1: if government planning and welfare had the answer, and they've
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  Speaker 1: had almost thirty years of it, shouldn't we expect government
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  Speaker 1: to read the score to us once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year
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  Speaker 1: and the number of people needing help, the reduction in
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  Speaker 1: the need for public housing. But the reverse is true.
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  Speaker 1: Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater.
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  Speaker 1: We were told four years ago that seventeen million people
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  Speaker 1: went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true,
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  Speaker 1: they were all on a diet. But now we're told
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  Speaker 1: that nine point three million families in this country are
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  Speaker 1: poverty stricken on the basis of earning less than three
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year welfare. We're spending ten times greater
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  Speaker 1: than it was in the dark depths of the depression.
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  Speaker 1: We're spending forty five billion dollars on welfare. Now, do
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  Speaker 1: a little arithmetic, and you'll find that if we divided
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  Speaker 1: the forty five billion dollars up equally among those nine
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  Speaker 1: million poor families, we'd be able to give each family
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  Speaker 1: forty six hundred dollars a year, and this, added to
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  Speaker 1: their present income, should eliminate poverty.
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  Speaker 7: And I've done the arithmetic. I have taken the federal budget.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was the twenty nineteen nos it was
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  Speaker 7: later than now, it was twenty twenty two federal budget,
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  Speaker 7: and I took all the welfare spending by the number
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  Speaker 7: of people who live below the poverty level in the
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  Speaker 7: United States, and the arithmetic still works out exactly the same.
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  Speaker 7: We've been spinning our wheels like Vinnie and his girlfriend
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  Speaker 7: in the mud of Alabama. It's spending our wheels. And
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  Speaker 7: Jeff Van Drew, the advisor to President Trump, the man
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  Speaker 7: who had advised him on what to do in this
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  Speaker 7: affordability tour, takes aim at the one thing that is
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  Speaker 7: a yoke on so many Americans.
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  Speaker 6: Here's what we must remember. Don't argue with each other,
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  Speaker 6: stop being selfish, make sure that people understand we're with them.
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  Speaker 6: And healthcare, I've talked about this before. We have to
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  Speaker 6: give people that bridge. Obamacare is horrible. The ACA has
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  Speaker 6: been horrible and awful. But if we're not able to
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  Speaker 6: immediately get rid of it for a very short period
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  Speaker 6: of time, continue with it while we come up with
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  Speaker 6: a much better comprehensive plan. People cannot afford to have
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  Speaker 6: huge increases in their healthcare. That will be a mistake.
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  Speaker 6: I've spoken out about that and I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 6: to do so. We have to take care of the
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  Speaker 6: American people.
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  Speaker 7: We have to take care of the American people. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: to be fair, Jeff Andrew, like Ronald Reagan at one point,
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  Speaker 7: was Democrat, we have to take care of the American people.
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  Speaker 7: And therein lies the problem is too many people in
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  Speaker 7: both political parties don't believe that you can take care
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  Speaker 7: of yourself. And one of the great other flaws in
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  Speaker 7: mister Van Andrew's commentary there was he said health care.
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  Speaker 7: That's not what the problem is the problem is with
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  Speaker 7: health care, insurance and this grand bureaucracies that have grown
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  Speaker 7: and grown out of the need to do something to
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  Speaker 7: make sure something happens. Remember the iron rule of bureaucracy
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  Speaker 7: that Ray reminded us a couple of weeks ago that
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  Speaker 7: bureaucracies if you're giving something that doesn't require an exchange
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  Speaker 7: of goods or services. If you're just giving something, there's
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  Speaker 7: going to be a bureaucracy. Santa Claus as a bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 7: You have to write a letter to Santa Claus, and
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  Speaker 7: then some elf has to read the letter and make
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  Speaker 7: sure you're on the good list or the naughty list.
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  Speaker 7: Santa Claus has a bureaucracy because you're getting a Christmas
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  Speaker 7: gift without exchanging any money or services for it. We
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  Speaker 7: all have them. I do them. I have a bureaucracy
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  Speaker 7: for public service announcements. The one thing I don't have
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  Speaker 7: a bureaucracy for is phone calls. So you know, I
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  Speaker 7: want to hear how the news is hurting you or
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  Speaker 7: impacting you or helping you where you are at four
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  Speaker 7: three four eight eight two four two one seven. Good morning,
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  Speaker 7: You're on the air with Joe. First thing this morning.
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  Speaker 7: Who's this.
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  Speaker 9: Someone that's been good at being naughty.
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  Speaker 7: I like that, does efficiency count? Santa claus Can. It's
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  Speaker 7: like this FBI or whatever it is that the college
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  Speaker 7: football schools are trying to claim is the reason they
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  Speaker 7: should be in the playoffs. Well, I played a strength
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  Speaker 7: of schedule that said I really had some whatever. But yes,
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  Speaker 7: you're very good at naughty Mike, Thank you, sir, Mike.
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  Speaker 7: Do we lose them? It's like that the camel into Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 7: What day is it? What day is it? Mike, Mike, Mike,
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  Speaker 7: And we lost Mike, just like that Dtor Clark bureaucracy.
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  Speaker 7: You know, does seed does up hold it? Mike's coming
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  Speaker 7: back to hang on to Clark? Second, Mike, is that
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  Speaker 7: you again? Mike? What happened to you know?
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  Speaker 21: He?
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  Speaker 7: He lives in this area they hate, literally hate cell
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  Speaker 7: phone towers, and you know are they are? They the
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  Speaker 7: most attractive thing to drive? But there's a purpose to
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  Speaker 7: cell phone towers, and and he lives in an area
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  Speaker 7: they actually forced people to take down cell phone towers.
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  Speaker 7: And then of course they'll come along and say that
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  Speaker 7: they've got government internet for you. I feel so bad
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  Speaker 7: for him. It's truly is that if you can see
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  Speaker 7: cell phone tower, they want it take him down. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they're truly crazy people. To be fair that a lot
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  Speaker 7: of the people that administer the government where Mike lives
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  Speaker 7: in Charlottesville, wish that they could be Colonial Williamsburg, where
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  Speaker 7: everything is kept looking like it did in the eighteenth century.
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  Speaker 7: You wouldn't have shopping centers and red lobsters and folks
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  Speaker 7: like that. But you hear it. This is you know,
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  Speaker 7: Jeff Andrew is exemplar, and I'm sure he's of good
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  Speaker 7: heart and spirit and wants to do well. And this
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  Speaker 7: is why conservatives and people who want the free market
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  Speaker 7: to come back and bring prosperity are holding their breath
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  Speaker 7: over this tour. And it doesn't It's not just because
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  Speaker 7: he's kicking it off at a casino, although there are
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  Speaker 7: some folks that are like, really really wants America to
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  Speaker 7: be affordable again, and he's going to do a casino
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  Speaker 7: to start it. But what Van Drew misses is the
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  Speaker 7: fact that we have to have honest adult conversations about
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  Speaker 6: Can do it again. We've just he's got and he will.
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  Speaker 7: And you can interpret that any way you want. Good morning,
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  Speaker 7: I had a request, and I used to do this
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  Speaker 7: back when I was in rock and roll radio, but
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  Speaker 7: I had a request. Uh, Teresa said, I heard a
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  Speaker 7: song last week on your show that made me laugh
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  Speaker 7: so much, something about being woke. It sounded like that
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  Speaker 7: Dean Martin Christmas song they won't play anymore. What's it called? Well,
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  Speaker 7: it's Teresa's called It's Woke Outside, and it's by a
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  Speaker 3: I really can't.
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  Speaker 7: Or maybe I'll be.
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  Speaker 3: Archeverick.
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  Speaker 10: Whatever you want.
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  Speaker 10: Pretty, you got to found out there.
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  Speaker 7: and download there a couple of other emails and text messages. Joe,
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  Speaker 7: what is this law of bureaucracy you were talking about before?
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  Speaker 3: You said?
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  Speaker 7: Ray reminded, well, listener, we were talking about bureaucracy. We
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  Speaker 7: talk about bureaucracy a lot. Oh, where's the text. That's
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  Speaker 7: the text from Sherry said, Santa Claus has a bureaucracy?
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  Speaker 3: Joe?
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  Speaker 7: Really, is that your Christmas offering for twenty twenty five? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: because we act like and I'm guilty of it as
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  Speaker 7: anyone else because of my real affinity for Douglas Adams
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  Speaker 7: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and partially because the great
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  Speaker 7: intergalactic villain was a race of bureaucrats, the vogons. That
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  Speaker 7: it is because bureaucracy tends to be the reason Donald
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  Speaker 7: Trump has to go out on this affordability tour. It
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  Speaker 7: is the reason that Abigail Spanberger can say that she
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  Speaker 7: and Kazala Hashmi will mystically and magically make everything affordable again.
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  Speaker 7: We know how they're going to do it. They're going
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  Speaker 7: to fire up a bureaucratical pursuit and it will start
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  Speaker 7: sending you money, provided you've filled out the forms and
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  Speaker 7: everything else. But Portell's iron law of bureaucracy, I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to read it for you because I don't want to misquote.
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  Speaker 7: In any large organization, those dedicated to the bureaucracy itself,
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  Speaker 7: the administers and administrators and the rule makers, will eventually
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  Speaker 7: gain control and sideline those focused on the organization's actual
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  Speaker 7: goals teachers, engineers, etc. Writing rules that serve the system,
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  Speaker 7: not the mission, leading to institutional self preservation over purpose.
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  Speaker 7: And actually, you know you can apply that. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I've worked at radio stations where that was the case,
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  Speaker 7: and you know you may have worked at factories where
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  Speaker 7: that's the case. The preservation of the system. If you've
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  Speaker 7: ever gone into a place and asked to be a
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  Speaker 7: change maker and only to hear, oh, I'm sorry, that's
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  Speaker 7: not the way we do things here. And so even saying, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we want kids to learn better, and you create the
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  Speaker 7: Department of Education, and how you have this bureaucracy that's
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  Speaker 7: standing in the way of it because of this doctor Clark.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you get what I'm saying. And like I said,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not saying that everyone in the bureaucracy is bad,
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  Speaker 7: because a lot of them want to teach or make
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  Speaker 7: things affordable for people, but it's just not how that
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  Speaker 7: system works.
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  Speaker 21: People that wind up in bureacracies are by definition risk
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  Speaker 21: of Earth Joe. People to go start their own radio stations,
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  Speaker 21: they're willing to take risks. They were willing to step
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  Speaker 21: out and do their own thing.
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  Speaker 7: Well and to take it to put it into a
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  Speaker 7: law enforcement paradigm, you know. And yeah, sure, you could
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  Speaker 7: start your own security company, you could become your own
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  Speaker 7: private investigator. But when you break law enforcement back up
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  Speaker 7: to the localist level, you've got to be ready to
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  Speaker 7: arrest the head of the big you know, plantation. To
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  Speaker 7: put it into the or the sun of the head
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  Speaker 7: of the big plantation, to put it into the heat
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  Speaker 7: of the night. You've got to be willing to go
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  Speaker 7: after the big local person if they've done wrong, because
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  Speaker 7: that's what justice means. And so that's hard. And that's
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  Speaker 7: why I think, you know, again, you go back to
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  Speaker 7: ease of operation. It's easier to say the FBI did
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  Speaker 7: it rather than your local sheriff or the commandant of
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  Speaker 7: the state police, because they might have to arrest somebody
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  Speaker 7: there friends with. This is the same thing I've said
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  Speaker 7: about local radio is that you know, I can spout
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  Speaker 7: off about Nancy Pelosi all I want. The odds of
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  Speaker 7: me bumping into her in the grocery store are minimal,
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  Speaker 7: if at all existent. Yet if I talk about my
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  Speaker 7: local Board of Supervisors members, I'm going to be at
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  Speaker 7: lunch and they're going to be sitting at the next table,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm going to have to deal with the repercussions
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  Speaker 7: of the things I've said. So I've got to make
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  Speaker 7: sure they're a righteous cop.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 21: My observation from my side of the speaker as a
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  Speaker 21: radio listener would be the difference between national syndicated talk
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  Speaker 21: radio and local talk radio is national syndicated talk radio
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  Speaker 21: gets national syndicated money, and I into it that there
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  Speaker 21: are some strings that go along with that national syndicated
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  Speaker 21: money because things get discussed on local talk radio that
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  Speaker 21: do not get discussed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to put a finer point to that,
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  Speaker 7: doctor Clark, you know. And it's not because we are
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  Speaker 7: now on the Talk Media network and we're doing this,
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  Speaker 7: you know, in Sacramento and New Orleans and Greenwich, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 7: as well as Stanton and Charlottesville, Virginia. It's it's corporate.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's the centralized, bureaucratic corporation versus the independent owner.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm going through the roster and we have some
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  Speaker 7: that some stations on our roster that are owned by
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  Speaker 7: Cumulus or iHeart, and then some are independently owned and
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  Speaker 7: operated like ai f R and in Corvallis, Oregon. And
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  Speaker 7: they are all points in between big companies, little companies,
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  Speaker 7: companies that climb on rocks and now I want a
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  Speaker 7: hot dog. Gosh darn it. So it's not the syndicated
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  Speaker 7: because there are people in local radio, local radio announcers
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  Speaker 7: who work for these big companies who were sort of
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  Speaker 7: told to fit in this package. When the floods in
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  Speaker 7: North Carolina happened. There were two guys got written up
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  Speaker 7: because they did heroic work trying to maintain information to
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  Speaker 7: the North Carolina community. One wasn't on air person. One
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  Speaker 7: was the salesperson. They were the only two employees of
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  Speaker 7: the radio station. It was owned by a big corporation.
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  Speaker 7: But they were on the air for forty eight fifty
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  Speaker 7: six hours something like that, and they did heroic work
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  Speaker 7: and they should be lionized for it. But there were
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  Speaker 7: only two of them, because that's how big corporate bureaucratic
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  Speaker 7: radio works. Anyway. For us, it's about independence. On first
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  Speaker 7: thing today, So long and thanks for all the fish.
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