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Surprising Way the Brits Viewed Our Revolution- Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven five ah fifty five Carsite Talk Station, A
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  Speaker 1: That's an hour from now, preceded by Donald O'Neill at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of this hour, but right now always a
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  Speaker 1: special time for me Big Picture with Jack Avid in
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, my dear friend. Always a pleasure to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the fifty five krsee Morning show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Gavin. Let's love alim this morning. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: that was a heck of a speech King Charles gave
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  Speaker 2: to Congress.
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  Speaker 1: We needed that.
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  Speaker 2: As as you would expect, it was terrific. We've discussed
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  Speaker 2: how countries like the United Kingdom have a separate head
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  Speaker 2: of state in their case of monarch who does not govern,
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  Speaker 2: but who represents the nation to the world, while the
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  Speaker 2: chief executive in Britain's case, the Prime Minister, does the
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  Speaker 2: political dirty work. We'll focus later on the current British
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister, Kiir Starmer, another elegant talker, but one who's
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  Speaker 2: a lot less popular back home than our combined head
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  Speaker 2: of State and Chief Executive Donald J. Trump. Not a
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  Speaker 2: great talker, just a great doer. As for King Charles,
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  Speaker 2: not to be ungracious, but you and I and I
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  Speaker 2: bet most folks listening have never been fans of monarchs.
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  Speaker 2: That was the whole point of seeking independence, and the
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  Speaker 2: Charles Diana Camilla triangle did not endear Prince Charles to
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  Speaker 2: me because, as you know, Brian, when we're not talking history,
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  Speaker 2: I write romance novels. Nevertheless, and we love our wives.
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  Speaker 2: Since King Charles and Camilla have come all this way
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate so eloquently our country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the surprising way many Brits supported America
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  Speaker 2: even during the Revolutionary War. Back in seventeen sixty when
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  Speaker 2: he inherited the throne, the British people by and large
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  Speaker 2: loved King George the Third one reason he was the
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  Speaker 2: first member of the Hanover dynasty who was actually born
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  Speaker 2: in England. For reasons too complicated to recap, here George's
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  Speaker 2: great grandfather had to be imported to England from Germany,
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  Speaker 2: and King Charles the Third's ancestry is still more German
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  Speaker 2: than English, which should delight local Octoberfest fans. But getting
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  Speaker 2: back to George the Third. By seventeen seventy six, the
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  Speaker 2: king was losing popularity because he insisted on being a
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  Speaker 2: divine right monarch, not a constitutional head of state who
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  Speaker 2: defers to parliament. George the third should have gotten the
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  Speaker 2: message when a king from a previous dynasty, the Stewarts,
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  Speaker 2: had his head chopped off, just as a French King,
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  Speaker 2: Louis the sixteenth la lost his head to the guillotine. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: ignoring all warnings, King George started raising taxes on its
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  Speaker 2: British subjects as well as American colonists. Brits at least
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  Speaker 2: had a voice in Parliament. Americans cried out against taxation
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  Speaker 2: without representation even worse than other country refused to let
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  Speaker 2: its colonies manufacture their own goods. Under what was called
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  Speaker 2: the mercantile system, Britain reserved the exclusive right to buy
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  Speaker 2: up all of America's raw materials, textiles, farm products, all
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  Speaker 2: the rest, but only British manufacturers were allowed to turn
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  Speaker 2: those raw materials into finished products, which the Americans then
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  Speaker 2: were forced to buy. That's what the Boston Tea Party
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  Speaker 2: was all about. Worst of all, Britain also insisted, despicably
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  Speaker 2: that Americans buy other finished goods, human beings. The Colonial
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  Speaker 2: Assembly of South Carolina tried to choke off the importation
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  Speaker 2: of slaves, not for humanitarian reasons, I'm sorry to say,
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  Speaker 2: but because the colony quote was sensible of the great
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  Speaker 2: social and political danger arising from the enormous multiplication of
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  Speaker 2: negroes in the colony end quote. But still, curtailing slavery
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  Speaker 2: would have hurt British slave traders, and it also would
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  Speaker 2: have raised the price of tobacco and cotton, so South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina's law was rescinded by the King. These and other
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  Speaker 2: measures drummed up support for America among the growing number
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  Speaker 2: of British abolitionists, as well as Brits who wanted to
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  Speaker 2: reign in the crown. One of them, the former Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister William Pitt the Elder, warned George the third quote,
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  Speaker 2: America cannot be conquered. I wish they would tell that
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  Speaker 2: to CNN and the New York Times and the great
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  Speaker 2: Conservative leader of the time, Edmund Burke told Parliament that
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  Speaker 2: the Crown had gone too far in America. Quote, you
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  Speaker 2: drove them into the Declaration of Independency, That's what he
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  Speaker 2: called it, because the abuse of power was more than
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  Speaker 2: what ought to be endured. The most popular critic of
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  Speaker 2: the King's War with the people was a writer, publisher,
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  Speaker 2: and member of Parliament, John Wilkes. Yes, he was the
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  Speaker 2: guy who gave his name to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and
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  Speaker 2: to John Wilkes Booth. Not only was John Wilkes imprisoned
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  Speaker 2: for opposing King George, much as you can be imprisoned
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  Speaker 2: today for political speech in Britain because they don't have
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  Speaker 2: a First Amendment adding insul to injury, John Wilkes's enemies
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  Speaker 2: also called him the ugliest man in England. Wilkes cheerfully
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  Speaker 2: conceded the point, but boasted that given half an hour,
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  Speaker 2: he could charm any woman in the Kingdom. And when
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  Speaker 2: an opponent said he was not sure whether John Wilkes
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  Speaker 2: would die on a games or from syphless, Wilkes replied
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  Speaker 2: the gallows, if I embrace your views, Syphless, if I
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  Speaker 2: embrace your mistress, oh, that's awesome. Politicians were witty back then.
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  Speaker 2: Today all Democrats have to say is if Trump, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: if you're Jimmy Kimmel, let's kill Trump. These British protests
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  Speaker 2: against the King's War in America, coupled of course, with
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  Speaker 2: General Washington's victories on the field, finally helped end eight
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  Speaker 2: years of fighting. They also taught King George the Third
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  Speaker 2: an important lesson about relinquishing power, a lesson I wish
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  Speaker 2: today's lifetime politicians on both the sides of the pond
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  Speaker 2: would learn. When told that instead of choosing to be
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  Speaker 2: a king, George Washington was retiring to his farm at
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  Speaker 2: Mount Vernon, King George said, quote, then he will be
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  Speaker 2: the greatest man in the world, which I agree. George
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  Speaker 2: Washington was. For that and later accomplishments we'll be discussing
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  Speaker 2: in the run up to July fourth. Meantime, what does
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  Speaker 2: the King of morning talk radio say about all this?
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  Speaker 1: No brilliant analysis? What more can I say beyond that
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that witty comments you interjected in there, that
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  Speaker 1: that is side splittingly great and speaking of the ugliest man,
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine if social media was around what the
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  Speaker 1: discourse might have looked like beyond this, you know, the intellectual,
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  Speaker 1: high level comedy and intellectual discussions they had, and the
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  Speaker 1: language they used, and the brilliance in the writing. When
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  Speaker 1: you read the writing from our founding fathers, for example,
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm in awe of their brilliance. And they
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  Speaker 1: were all very with the most part, very young men.
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  Speaker 1: And I just then I turn over to the state
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  Speaker 1: of modern education. I just wonder if there was any
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  Speaker 1: high school graduate that could articulate anything the way that
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  Speaker 1: they did, in the manner in which they did it,
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  Speaker 1: and with the intellectual level that they articulated their positions.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I stand in awe at their writing.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe next week, picking up on that comment,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the quality of the writing
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  Speaker 2: of the founders compared with today's profanity, incessant profanity. Meantime,
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  Speaker 2: let's get back to Sir kir Starmer. Today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks to Iran and other issues, we find ourselves
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  Speaker 2: once again at war with the British. It's cold war,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a war well, at war with the weak,
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  Speaker 2: need woke, socialist, open border, anti free speech government of
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  Speaker 2: Kure Starmer, Winston Churchill he is not. Churchill's mother was American,
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  Speaker 2: and he was the man who wanted to stop Adolf
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  Speaker 2: Hitler before he got the weapons to overrun Europe. Just
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  Speaker 2: as another bulldog today, Donald Trump has stopped the Ayatolas
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  Speaker 2: before Iran could develop nuclear weapons that it surely would use.
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  Speaker 2: Winston Churchill one set of the country whose help he
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  Speaker 2: needed back then. I avow my hope and faith that
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  Speaker 2: in the days to come, the British and American peoples
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  Speaker 2: will walk together side by side injustice and in peace.
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  Speaker 2: Churchill found a friend in Franklin Roosevelt. America does not
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  Speaker 2: have a friend in Kirs Starmer and the Labor Party still.
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  Speaker 2: Starmer is even less popular in the UK right now
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  Speaker 2: than Congress is in the US. He's down to single digits.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe maybe a new prime minister will renew our alliance.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a Margaret Thatcher in the mix out there?
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  Speaker 1: Jack Eviden?
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  Speaker 2: Margaret Thatcher is one of the greatest leaders in the
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  Speaker 2: history of the world. Unfortunately, she was repudiated after twelve
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  Speaker 2: years of governing by her own party by the so
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  Speaker 2: called Conservative Party, the Tories, and she left the government
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  Speaker 2: very unpopular in Great Britain. My daughter you know, lives
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  Speaker 2: and teaches in England along with her British husband, and
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  Speaker 2: they cannot stand Margaret Thatcher's, sorry to say, trying to
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  Speaker 2: do for Britain what Donald Trump is doing for America.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and what Reagan was trying to do for America.
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  Speaker 1: They cooperated quite well. And the economy in Britain before
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Thatcher showed up, kind of it was worse than
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  Speaker 1: the economy in America. For Reagan showed up, which got
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  Speaker 1: him elected, and through Reagan's policies he would have turn
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  Speaker 1: it around and we all benefited immeasurably from the progress
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  Speaker 1: that Reagan brought about. And same thing with the Brits.
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  Speaker 1: Don't they remember what it was like in the late seventies.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Brian, don't they. We're just going to say.
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  Speaker 2: Reagan and Thatcher and a great pulpe Pope John Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Throw him in the mix as well. We're short on
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  Speaker 1: well great leaders along Margaret Thatcher's lines these days. And
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  Speaker 1: I would hasten to say and point out to your
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  Speaker 1: comments about Donald Trump's language and how he articulates his positions.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, the great communicator, We could sure use one
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  Speaker 1: of those these days as well.
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  Speaker 2: Jack sure could, but at least we have a great
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  Speaker 2: communicator in you Mining and I can never thank you enough. Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Of you speaking, I really find myself in at least
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  Speaker 1: the secondary, if not further down the list position. But
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  Speaker 1: God bless you for the kind words and for you
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  Speaker 1: coming on every week. Really appreciate your words, your and
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  Speaker 1: your history weave. It's just it comes across as great
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I know my listening audience appreciates as well.
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  Speaker 1: And we will do it again next week seven oh five.
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  Speaker 1: Here at fifty five krs dot the talk station every
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  Speaker 1: whe