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"Yes, even on Holidays" (FTTxJT Mon 101226 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Even on Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 1: He said it, didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: He's one of those people.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for letting.
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  Speaker 1: Me be of service to you.
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  Speaker 6: Now, don't poke your radio.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's ticklish.
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  Speaker 1: We are actually here. It is not some best of
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  Speaker 1: concocted so that somebody can have that last long holiday
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  Speaker 1: weekend on the Outer Banks or in the mountains or
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  Speaker 1: Big Sur or wherever it is they head to. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't begrudge them that. See, the thing is, my
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  Speaker 1: world gives me the power to continue to do these things.
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  Speaker 1: Even when we're away, I take the radio show with me.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm not the Luddite that everyone makes me out
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  Speaker 1: to be. And I'm not sure how I got that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm skeptical about technology, but I also view
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  Speaker 1: technology as an inanimate object. Just I'm sure at some
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  Speaker 1: point when the ratcheting wrench was invented, auto mechanics said,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with my open-ended wrench? Bad enough they made it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, closed around so that it's supposedly easier for
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  Speaker 1: these kids who can't handle putting a wrench around a nut.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have to have ratcheting. It's going to ruin
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  Speaker 1: the world. Not a Luddite. But we grasp technology, and
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  Speaker 1: even if I am away, I take the radio show
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because my wife is a late-night person. She's going to
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  Speaker 1: bed about an hour, maybe an hour and a half
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  Speaker 1: before I get up in the morning. So it's good.
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  Speaker 1: We're like Jack Spratt and his wife, only without the
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  Speaker 1: fat part there. Anyway, for you, this Columbus Day morning,
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  Speaker 1: so much afoot. And of all the mornings in all
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  Speaker 1: of Christendom, to not have your radio show live and
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  Speaker 1: performing the things, this was a stunning Sunday full of peace.
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  Speaker 1: And President Trump must have figured I'm going to show you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have all these historic peace things come
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  Speaker 1: out while nobody is in this newsroom because it's Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 1: And we've caught you. We caught you taking Columbus Day off.
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  Speaker 1: You won't call it that, Disingenuous Persons Day or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but we caught you taking the day off. So we
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  Speaker 1: jump in on our first things this morning all along
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  Speaker 1: the talk media network and our friends online. up in
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  Speaker 1: the Mumford T Firefly Suck It From the Sky downlink antennae.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate their efforts to be here for your edification
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  Speaker 1: this Monday morning. We begin with several different ramifications of
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  Speaker 1: possible peace breaking out all.
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  Speaker 8: Over the world.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump said Sunday night that Russia and Ukraine had
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  Speaker 1: agreed to an energy ceasefire. but offered no detail on
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  Speaker 1: what that meant. And he said, though, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the Truth Social post, now don't break it. Moscow
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  Speaker 1: did not immediately comment on that announcement. They have other
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  Speaker 1: things that we'll tell you about in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But President Vladimir Zelensky said, we discussed this with President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine supports the ceasefire. However, the Trump administration, after a
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  Speaker 1: diesel fuel depot was struck by Ukrainian missiles on Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: Friday morning, is threatening to disrupt NATO-backed arms supply to
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine if they continue to hit energy infrastructure. The president
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  Speaker 1: also said it's time for Zelensky to go in Truth
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  Speaker 1: Social posts on Saturday and And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: said Sunday on ABC's This Week that he would hold
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  Speaker 1: elections if Russia would give, quote, a 60 days of
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  Speaker 1: total ceasefire. 60 days and we will organize elections. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: what President Vladimir Putin did say over the weekend is
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  Speaker 1: that Iran has spoken to him about brokering an agreement
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  Speaker 1: to end the war with the United States. Russia's state-run
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  Speaker 1: Raya news agency said in coordination with the Iranian president,
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  Speaker 1: Putin conveyed the Iranian side views on a possible resolution
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  Speaker 1: with the conflict to President Trump. Saudi Arabia Sunday extended
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  Speaker 1: the closure of its main international airport in Riyadh as
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  Speaker 1: Houthi rebels armed with missiles, ironically, from Russia via Iran,
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  Speaker 1: threatened airstrikes across the region. A missile attack on Friday
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  Speaker 1: killed 12 people and wounded more than 300. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: so that while they take a well-earned break, we can
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  Speaker 1: Anything that's an unnamed source within an administration or a department,
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  Speaker 1: is a leak. Somebody didn't like something, so they called
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  Speaker 1: their friend at whatever news network, and they said, Trump, Gilfoyle. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the leak from inside the White House is
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  Speaker 1: that Marco Rubio is really pissed off at Kimberly Gilfoyle.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first time since we got into the studio
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  Speaker 1: it's a tongue twister. But the former Fox News host
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  Speaker 1: apparently is on the verge of successfully screwing up one
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  Speaker 1: of the plum postings in the international services of the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and that's Ambassador to Greece. Not since Helen
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  Speaker 1: was in Troy... Not Ellen in Troy, who is one
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  Speaker 1: of our loyal listeners, but ever since Helen was in Troy,
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  Speaker 1: have been a moment or two during World War II.
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  Speaker 1: Eastwood movies. But for the most part, when a president
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  Speaker 1: wants to reward somebody, they make them ambassador to Greece.
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  Speaker 1: And it appears that Kimberly Guilfoyle has successfully screwed this
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  Speaker 1: up because somebody, again, leaking that she asked them to
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  Speaker 1: pay her American Express bill. Now, understand, this is almost
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  Speaker 1: a two-year-old quid pro quo. Kimberly Guilfoyle, it has been
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  Speaker 1: leaked to the Wall Street Journal. This is several weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: but asked somebody, one of the president's contributors, to pay
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  Speaker 1: a $ 100, 000 American Express bill. Now, not everybody has an
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  Speaker 1: American Express card. American Express is not a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay your American Express bill each month.
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  Speaker 1: So if you charge something on American Express, they need
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  Speaker 1: that money by the end of the month. And she
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  Speaker 1: said that Eric Dieters, the paramour that was asked for
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  Speaker 1: this largesse, would be Trump's ride or die forever and ever. Now,
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  Speaker 1: For a little bit, we have the TV series with
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  Speaker 1: the girl from Ted Lasso playing this spy, secret spy
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  Speaker 1: that all of a sudden has to, you know, ride shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: Ride or die, as an expression, goes back to the biker,
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  Speaker 1: the explosion of motorcycle clubs, fraternal clubs of motorcyclists in
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  Speaker 1: the 1950s. that that was their oath, was that they
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  Speaker 1: would ride together against all odds and all comers or die.
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  Speaker 1: It was a loyalty oath to whether it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hell's angels or you name it. Apparently, whatever inference that
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  Speaker 1: this was supposed to leave the contributor, Dieter, hasn't materialized.
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  Speaker 1: And so now he's calling her out on it. And
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  Speaker 1: according to this, Marco Rubio is extremely, the phrase is
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  Speaker 1: pissed off and wanted to fire her immediately, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: they're letting her hang around until after Columbus Day. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever it means, there are, of course, the interpretations.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what, you know, plenty of my Republican
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  Speaker 1: friends say, this is what the problem with Trump is,
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  Speaker 1: is he rewards people who are loyal to him without
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  Speaker 1: checking to see if they're idiots or not. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: you tell me that there aren't friends of yours who
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  Speaker 1: complain about President Trump in stories like this in exactly
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  Speaker 1: that way. Was there ever opposition research done on Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Guilfoyle to find out if she had a credit card
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  Speaker 1: problem or that she had asked anyone for it? And understand,
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  Speaker 1: this is the other thing. So if there's anything Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Guilfoyle is guilty of within the political structure, it's not
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  Speaker 1: keeping a promise you made. This is how you screw
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  Speaker 1: up one of the easiest postings in the U.S. government
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  Speaker 1: service is you don't keep your promise. So if she's
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  Speaker 1: guilty of anything, it's the nitwittery that leaves you making
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  Speaker 1: promises that you don't keep. Now, you may say, was
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  Speaker 1: she able to keep? How could she keep the... Maybe
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  Speaker 1: she never asked. Maybe she didn't say, hey, can this
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  Speaker 1: guy visit the Oval Office? Susie Wiles runs a tight ship.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Maybe Kimberly Guilfoyle called and Susie Wilde said, what
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  Speaker 1: are you, nuts? Nobody gets those kind of meetings with
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  Speaker 1: the president. What did you promise him that for? Go
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  Speaker 1: make it right. Go pay him back the money or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. This is probably the most likely scenario
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  Speaker 1: is that if you think that she's not just a
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  Speaker 1: head full of air. that she has some gravitas, that
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  Speaker 1: she has some ability, then you have to give her
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  Speaker 1: at least the credit that maybe she tried and she
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  Speaker 1: over-promised and under-delivered. And now the guy that she promised
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  Speaker 1: this to has decided, I'm going to call the press
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  Speaker 1: and tell everyone that I paid your $ 100, 000 Amex bill
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't get me a meeting with Trump. Now
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  Speaker 1: she could have inferred more, but I think the expression,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be your ride or die, is pretty straightforward. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want, Trump will do for you. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: expression means in biker culture. I guess it's also a
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  Speaker 1: evolved into hip-hop culture. I don't know where Kimberly Guilfoyle is,
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  Speaker 1: probably more the.
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  Speaker 1: He's Trump, he's Trump, he's Trump, he's in their head.
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  Speaker 1: Da Nang, Dick Blumenthal is back.
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  Speaker 4: In the news.
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  Speaker 1: He's Trump, he's Trump, with every thread. And so proud
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  Speaker 1: you are. I mean, it's got to be a thing
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  Speaker 1: to be back in the nutmeg state because your senators
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  Speaker 1: put the nut in the nutmeg, don't they? And when
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Chris Murphy can make Da Nang Dick Blumenthal seemed like
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  Speaker 1: your better option for representation. But we appreciate you tuning
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  Speaker 1: in every morning out there at WGCH in my mom's hometown.
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  Speaker 1: Just celebrated my mom's birthday. Born back in Greenwich, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: October 10 of a few years ago. We won't mention.
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  Speaker 1: But Da Nang Dick Blumenthal... found a bunch of Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: and by a bunch of Republicans, I mean the ones
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  Speaker 1: you would expect, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, got to love her,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: representing Alaska, and all those people who apparently the last
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: time she was in Alaska didn't have running water or
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: electricity and couldn't apply for identification if they needed it.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Tom Tillis, the usual suspects. and Da Nang Dick
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  Speaker 1: all signed a sternly worded letter to President Trump saying,
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  Speaker 1: how dare you talk to Vladimir Putin and get oil
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  Speaker 1: from him to try to make things more affordable for us?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Don't you know that's the Democrats' campaign platform? Meanwhile, President
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Trump doing 3D chess has apparently, as I read the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: tea leaves coming out, successfully not only ended our combats
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  Speaker 1: with Iran, but also in between Russia and Ukraine. And
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Because after demanding that Zelensky get out,
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  Speaker 1: Zelensky said, okay. Actually, what he said was give us
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  Speaker 1: 60 days and we'll hold elections. 60 days of ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: and we'll hold elections. Now here in our flagship state
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of Virginia, we find this hard to believe because Virginia,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: after years of trying, can't successfully pull off an election
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  Speaker 1: in 45 days and we don't have anyone lobbing drone
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  Speaker 1: missiles at us. We have 45 days we vote and
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  Speaker 1: then we still can't know the answer for five or
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: six or seven days after that because apparently we let
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: people continue to mail in ballots after that. So we're
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: skeptical here in Virginia. We can't pull off an election
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  Speaker 1: without missiles being fired at us. You're telling us you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: can do it in 60 days? You must have special
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: voting machines there in the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 20: Oh, hold it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You have the same voting machines we have? Oh, then
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you should be confident in your 60-day elections, Mr. Zelenskyy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Kareem's hanging on the line with us. He had something
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: on his mind. And, Kareem, I appreciate you checking in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: with us. How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Doing well, Joe.
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  Speaker 16: Enjoying the views in North Carolina of the starry sky.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: The storms blew through, and it looks like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: here in Virginia, the stars are out in force this
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  Speaker 1: morning there. So driving, you're working on Columbus Day as well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. Especially what I got. I don't say
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  Speaker 1: your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Well, two things.
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  Speaker 16: Just remind that Brazil counted over 100 million votes in
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  Speaker 16: four hours.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Florida does it in hours. I mean, it's 930,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock, and we know who won the elections in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody can accuse Brazil of being racist.
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  Speaker 16: Tell you what, they can in certain parts of it,
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  Speaker 16: but they all got voter ID and everything's paper balanced.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: But you know why? Countries like Argentina and Brazil, they're
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: very efficient with their elections. That's why the elections, you know,
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  Speaker 1: chiefs named Schmidt and Hans and such, and we don't
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• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it works out pretty well.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, but looking at the Kimberly Guilfoyle situation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. How do you mess that up? You know, here, here.
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  Speaker 16: I get that.
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  Speaker 3: And $ 100, 000 in a month? Well, yeah, there's that too.
• 33:15
  Speaker 16: Putting a finer point, as far as my view.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Now, granted, I say controversial things.
• 33:21
  Speaker 16: But my thinking is, just like Chuck Grassley, the senator
• 33:26
  Speaker 16: who is entertaining investigations with the upcoming Congress, the deals
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: are being made because of what's expected November 3rd. Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 16: Right now, Marco Rubio, who I consider to be the
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  Speaker 16: Pete Buttigieg of this administration.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 16: Is making sure to make a name for himself for 2028.
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  Speaker 16: And he has to do that by jettisoning people. And
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  Speaker 16: he has to make an example. And right now, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
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  Speaker 16: who has a history. She's not just a face. People
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  Speaker 16: may say these days she's whatever they want. But she
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  Speaker 16: is a former model.
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  Speaker 3: Lingerie. Went to law school. She has accomplished on many fronts.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: An American idea of what an independent, strong woman should be,
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  Speaker 16: they can point to her, former Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom.
• 34:14
  Speaker 16: But if you look at the other businesses that are happening.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's where she learned her spending habits is when
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: she was with Gavin.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: It could very well be.
• 34:27
  Speaker 16: But if you're looking at other deals to go on,
• 34:29
  Speaker 16: this is the tip of the iceberg, and it could
• 34:31
  Speaker 16: be that they're cleaning it publicly now so that other
• 34:34
  Speaker 16: people can start jumping ship so it doesn't have to
• 34:37
  Speaker 16: be as public.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, go ahead, Joe.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I received a text message after our little
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: bit about her earlier, and Jerry actually made a reasonable
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: point that– Of course, he took a crack back at
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: your humble host as well. He said, most of you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: media personalities have no idea what these expressions mean. They
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: sound cool. You say them and then somebody actually tries
• 35:05
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• 35:07
  Speaker 1: he will guarantee that Kimberly Guilfoyle just thought it was
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: a cool phrase to express a loyalty of some nature
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and just used it and perhaps Dieter's held her to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a higher standard when it came to what ride or
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  Speaker 1: die meant. But this is the oldest, maybe the third
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: oldest profession in governance, which is selling access. It's, hey,
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  Speaker 1: give to my campaign. Oh, can I visit the Oval Office?
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And Trump is This is the thing. If Kimberly Guilfoyle
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get this guy a meeting with President Trump, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: don't know what the issue is because President Trump meets everybody.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: It's like a part of the White House tour now. Oh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you want to visit the president? No, go ahead and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: take a picture with him as well. I mean, he
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: visits with everybody. How does she not get whatever it
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: was he was expecting of her before he dropped dime
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: on her. That's the part that puzzles me in this.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: What did he want out of Trump? Because Trump doesn't
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: seem like the president that's like, nah, I don't want
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to talk to this guy. If anything, a lot of
• 36:25
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  Speaker 3: Joe, I agree.
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  Speaker 16: Two things I'll bring up. If anybody wants to know
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  Speaker 16: speeches she gave.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get an idea why ride or.
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  Speaker 16: Die is not outside of her normal parameters for descriptions.
• 36:50
  Speaker 16: But we can also look at a previous scandal of
• 36:55
  Speaker 16: someone selling influence, peddling influence, or at least attempting to
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  Speaker 16: peddle influence.
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  Speaker 3: David Petraeus' mistress's a perceived threat.
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• 37:13
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  Speaker 3: This one is, there are details.
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  Speaker 16: CNN kept replaying this lady walking across her lawn on
• 37:26
  Speaker 16: loop because that was the only footage they had. But
• 37:30
  Speaker 16: she tried to broker deals, and she went outside, so
• 37:33
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  Speaker 16: thanks for taking my call. You have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: Mary writes in and thanks for being live on the
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  Speaker 1: radio this Columbus Day morning. And I appreciate it. I
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  Speaker 1: love my time in State College. Mary there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you remember me or not. It was a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Let's just say all the color was
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  Speaker 1: still in my goatee at the time when we were
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  Speaker 1: out there on Beaver 103. And yes, that was the
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  Speaker 1: name of the station, Stop Snickering. He was the governor
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  Speaker 1: 150 years ago. That being said, there's names that you
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  Speaker 1: don't hear about getting changed too much. But Mary goes
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: on regarding the Democrats like Da Nang Dick Blumenthal saying,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: opposing President Trump's interactions with Russia. Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: should be esteemed for all of his hard work and,
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  Speaker 1: of course, his years of dedicated military service in Tehran,
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  Speaker 1: where he served in the in the in the dot, dot, dot. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I see. You know, I saw what you did there.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate it. I appreciate the tongue twister. in
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  Speaker 1: cheek about Da Nang Dick's esteemed military service, all the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: times he spent on the front line in Baghdad and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: other points in our military service there. But, of course,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: opposing affordability, even the little bits, the amount of diesel
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: that Putin would be able to bring in. But then
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the same phone call apparently also got them to pull
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  Speaker 1: the strings on Iran to end this thing there. which
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: is going to create greater affordability. Good job, guys. Way
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to be against ending wars. Thank you for at least
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: proving what we always thought about you. Matt is on
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  Speaker 1: the line from Central Virginia this morning, our wonderful home
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  Speaker 1: in Waynesboro. There, good morning, Matt. How are you doing
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  Speaker 1: this morning, my friend?
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  Speaker 8: Not too bad. I just wanted to call up and
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  Speaker 8: wish you a happy Disingenuous People's Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's catching on. I used to just say that. to be,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: you know, snark snarky and smart ass. Uh, but people
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: are starting to pick up on, on the phrase, uh,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: because some of the folks, you know, the world is
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: spinning so fast, they don't realize what you said and
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: it goes right past them. And they think you just said, uh, in,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in indigenous persons day, you just switch some letters around.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. We're just, you know, we're, we're all kids of, uh,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: what was, uh, who was the Malaprop comment? Was it, uh, Oh, gosh.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I used to watch him all the time on, like,
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  Speaker 1: the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Oh, yeah. And he could
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: make a punchline out of any Malaprop because he'd say something.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: You were like, oh, I get what he said there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember his name. Eddie will text me in
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  Speaker 1: five seconds.
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  Speaker 8: We'll think of his name if we talk about something else.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So what is on your mind?
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: With this Kimberly Guilfoyle business, I have... I am exhausted
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: and exasperated with the media and the left. Every time
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: there is some kind of hiccup, it's all of a
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  Speaker 8: sudden the biggest crisis you can imagine happening. We have
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: put up with 10 years of people like Rachel Maddow
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: saying the walls are closing in on Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 8: it's like, okay, let me get this straight. You're upset
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  Speaker 8: with an ambassador because she was trying to sell access.
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: Isn't that what ambassadors do?
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Isn't that in the job description?
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: That's right. You're the gatekeeper to the president. But, you know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. And I've said this time and time
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and time again, Matt. If you want to limit this
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: kind of corruptibility, start doing what you and I have
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: talked about for decades. Take the power away from these people.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: The less power they have, the less money they can
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: move around through their bills, the less insider trading they're
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to pull off. It's pretty straightforward. Madison
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: had it figured out. Don't give them power over the
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: economy and nobody will try to corrupt them.
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: Well, and I have said for years that there is
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  Speaker 8: nothing wrong on this planet that would not be cured
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: by having a better class of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Well, you know, we've joked in the past
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: that I think originally our representatives to Congress were the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: people that the community all voted that they could do
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: without for a few years. Like, all right, Bob, yeah,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: we don't need Bob around here for a while. Send
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: him to Congress. And maybe that's what we should do
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: is who would hurt the least if they weren't around
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: for a few years?
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I spent many years working in Vermont
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: and our local representatives would go to Montpelier. They would
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: take time off from their day jobs and they would
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: go to Montpelier the delegation would rent a couple of
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  Speaker 8: hotel suites, and they would all stay together. They would
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: be in Montpelier for the session, which was in the
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  Speaker 8: beginning of the year, but they would be home as
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  Speaker 8: soon as the session was done because they had jobs
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  Speaker 8: to return to.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of those... It wasn't their occupation. A
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: lot of those calendars, you know, Virginia's the same way. It's,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: you know, January, February. are built around the fact that
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: given the fact that most of us were farmers, that
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: these were the months we didn't have a whole lot
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: going on. We aren't planting now. We've already done that.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: We're not harvesting now. So we have a couple of
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: months to go and yell at each other.
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  Speaker 8: I still remember the day when the Vermont budget was
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: late and Charlie Palmer from Pownall, stood up and said,
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: we have to have this budget passed by March 24th
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: because I have 400 acres of corn to get in.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: God bless them for it, too. Unfortunately, sometimes that pressure
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: works against us. And that goes back to how much
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: are we asking these men and women to do for us?
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Because the more we ask, the less we get. And
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: maybe we're all sort of like this guy who paid
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Kimberly Guilfoyle's Amex bill And we're all sort of sitting
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: here feeling, where's what you promised us? And here's the
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: other part about this Kimberly Guilfoyle bit. And I mentioned
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: it to Kareem. These are the same people who systemically
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: ignored Hunter Biden for four years with logs and records
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: and testimony about his interactions with Burisma Holdings and And
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: people coming and going and the big guy and his
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: uncle and what was going on selling access to the
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: part of the story that still hasn't been explored enough.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: He was selling access in what we found out to
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  Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States. What is the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: only thing the vice president has access to that could
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: be worth any money, Matt? That's access to the president. Exactly.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: So what did Barack Obama know and when? He picked
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: this guy for a reason and not just because people
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: would protect him more thoroughly if they thought Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: was the next man up. Anyway, God bless you. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the rest of Disingenuous Persons.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: One other point I want to add to your cultural... Well.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Hang on to it. Hang on to it.
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