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"Get 'Out' and Do More?" (Friday, May 8, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 3: This is a public service message from Joe Thomas in
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Speaker 3: the morning. And first thing today here he talk media network. Uh,
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Speaker 3: just a couple of things coming up in a little bit.
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Speaker 3: My co worker at the Daily Signal, she runs the
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Speaker 3: Ohio desk in the same way I run the Virginia desk. There,
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Speaker 3: Rebecca Downs is going to join us to give us
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Speaker 3: details and we'll get back with Bob Good. But Bob
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Speaker 3: Good is actually in this corner of folks like Attorney
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Speaker 3: General Dave Yost, who is stepping down as Attorney General
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Speaker 3: know more and more of these folks who we talked
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Speaker 3: who have found that they have greater impact quote in
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Speaker 3: the private sector, if you will. This is a great
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Speaker 3: line on the show. I once watched this. You mean
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Speaker 3: my faith, my religion, my private sector, and you know,
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Speaker 3: but you know, wherever they wind up in the private sector,
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Speaker 3: they feel like they have had more impact than they
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Speaker 3: did in congress. Former Congressman Robert Hurt became the dean
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Speaker 3: of the law school at Liberty University. Dave Brad, another
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Speaker 3: former congressman that I'm good associates with friends with, became
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Speaker 3: the dean of the business school and felt like he
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Speaker 3: had more impact on more young people coming in with
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Speaker 3: conservative business principles. There So another in the list, Dave
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Speaker 3: Yost stepping out of the Attorney General's office. We'll have Rebecca.
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Speaker 3: You read her stuff at Daily Signal dot com is
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Speaker 3: the same way you would read mine. I've got a
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Speaker 3: video coming up on the Daily Signal YouTube channel about
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Speaker 3: the raid at Louise Lucas's office and a Sopranos esque
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Speaker 3: irony that goes in there. As it's the Biden administration
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Speaker 3: not the Trump administration that are rating Senator Lucas's office,
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Speaker 3: and she ought to know. They ought to know when
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Speaker 3: corruption rears at the ugly head. Meanwhile, we must discuss
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Speaker 3: our first things, because how can you call me and
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Speaker 3: tell me how the news of the day is impacting
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Speaker 3: you until I've told you what the news of the
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Speaker 3: day is. Gosh. President Trump said that some retaliatory strikes
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Speaker 3: by American forces against Iran were quote a love tap,
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Speaker 3: and the ceasefire remains in effect there. Meanwhile, Iranian States
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Speaker 3: Central Headquarters said that the US targetthead An Iranian oil
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Speaker 3: tanker doesn't say hit. Washington Post reported Thursday that classified
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Speaker 3: CIA assessments were leaked to them. They were delivered to
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Speaker 3: senior US policy makers, and I'll leave it to you
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Speaker 3: to decide whether or not the leak came from Langley
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Speaker 3: or the US capital. The leak, though, contained documents that,
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Speaker 3: of course, the Washington Post posted in their special Pentagon
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Speaker 3: Papers section that concluded a Bran can hang on for
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Speaker 3: at least one hundred and twenty days if faced with
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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for letting us be of service
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Speaker 3: to you. Some emails and Bob Good is here with
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Speaker 3: Charles writes in uh serious stuff, and he sent me
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Speaker 3: a story out of Bacon's Rebellion. It's Jim. Jim Bacon
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 3: His uh newspaper online is Bacon's Rebellion and a great
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Speaker 3: piece on I think it was published in March of
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Speaker 3: Virginia Senator Louise Lucas and all of the businesses that
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Speaker 3: she runs that are either regulated or funded by the
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Speaker 3: very government she leads, and can I mean, it's not
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Speaker 3: surprising that even the Biden administration had to see that.
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Speaker 3: And this is why I made the point, Charles, and
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Speaker 3: that's included in the piece. By the way, I appreciate
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Speaker 3: you sending it on to me, but I include some
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Speaker 3: of the stuff that was done at Bacon's Rebellion in
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Speaker 3: the video that I've recorded for Daily Signal dot com.
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Speaker 3: They're into it, all these businesses that I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: if you were to make a case, and I, of
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Speaker 3: course tongue in cheeks say that if anyone was going
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Speaker 3: to catch a government official using their office to make
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Speaker 3: themselves money, it would be the Biden administration. They know
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Speaker 3: what it looks like. But there's another side to it.
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Speaker 3: There's quality control. They might have felt that Louise was
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Speaker 3: being sloppy. You know, it took a lot of effort
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Speaker 3: to find Hunter Biden's laptop in that junk keep in
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Speaker 3: Delaware and unearth all the stuff about Barisma and everything
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Speaker 3: else in there. Biden has been, you know, had been
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Speaker 3: doing this for a long time. He might have been
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Speaker 3: trying to say to Louise Lucas, get back over your skis.
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Speaker 3: You're going to get us all caught by being a
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Speaker 3: little too bodacious or audacious for it. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: Ellen sent me about a New Jersey situation with laws.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to get into that when we come back
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Speaker 3: when we have more time. But Bob Good Good for
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Speaker 3: America podcast, we were talking about the redistricting mania that's
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Speaker 3: gripped America. Okay, so you were saying, Bob about the redistricting.
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Speaker 3: Ideally was where we've sort of had to interrupt you.
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Speaker 16: Ideally we would not have hyperpartisan Jerry mandering or districting
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Speaker 16: for political advantage specifically, but we would allow the districts
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Speaker 16: to be drawn like Virginia's were a few years ago.
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Speaker 16: They did improve the districts geographically, They kept communities of
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Speaker 16: interest together, counties together. They made sense from the for
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Speaker 16: the voters and their ability to represent your voters or
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Speaker 16: of access to your representative, which is how it should be. However,
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Speaker 16: Democrats have been doing it for years. Again, six states
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Speaker 16: in New England, not one Republican in those six states,
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Speaker 16: for example, And the Democrats did it in the twenty
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Speaker 16: four cycle. They did it in New York. They did
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Speaker 16: it first. So Trump was right to say, hey, we're
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Speaker 16: going to fight fire with fire. The Democrats have been
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Speaker 16: doing it, We're going to do it, and it's the
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Speaker 16: reality of the day. So I support what Governor DeSantis
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Speaker 16: has done, what we're doing now in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Indiana,
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Speaker 16: and so forth, because you got to fight fire with fire,
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Speaker 16: and you can't unilaterally disarm, and it's not illegal to
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Speaker 16: do it, so you fight within the law. The only
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Speaker 16: thing that's illegal is to do it specifically based on race,
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Speaker 16: and so I think Republicans need to do it and
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Speaker 16: ought to do it.
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Speaker 3: Well, is there a political peril? We were talking with
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Speaker 3: Kim Kochinelli from the Election Transparency Initiative former Virginia Age
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Speaker 3: earlier in the week, and he was concerned that there
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Speaker 3: would be a peril for Republicans who aren't steeled to
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Speaker 3: the to the rhetoric that's going to come from this,
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Speaker 3: which is Republicans want to disenfranchised black voters. Do you
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Speaker 3: share that? You know a lot of Republicans. You know,
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Speaker 3: there are guys like you, Chip Roy that don't seem
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Speaker 3: to be afraid of, you know, getting into a conversation
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Speaker 3: about uncomfortable issues. But you know, as a whole, are
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Speaker 3: Republicans as a as a community ready for that kind
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Speaker 3: of argument when they get hit with the inevitable you
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Speaker 3: just want to disenfranchise black people?
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Speaker 16: Well, I think many people have become numb to that charge. Now,
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Speaker 16: that's was the textbook response, the knee jerk response go
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Speaker 16: to all the time for the Democrats and are left.
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Speaker 16: No matter what you did, they called.
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Speaker 3: You a racist.
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Speaker 16: And the greatest fear anyone had was being accused of
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Speaker 16: being a racist, which could destroy careers in industry, in media,
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Speaker 16: in politics and entertainment or whatever it might be, I
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Speaker 16: don't think that's the case anymore. And I think President
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Speaker 16: Trump has largely contributed to that because he has been
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Speaker 16: willing to confront things like that and to call things
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Speaker 16: like that out and to say, heck, I'm going to
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Speaker 16: speak the truth or do what I think is right,
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Speaker 16: irrespective of the allegations that are going to be made
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Speaker 16: or the charges or the or the or the labels
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Speaker 16: that are put there. So I don't think it has
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Speaker 16: the same play that it used to. Thankfully, that's a
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Speaker 16: good thing. Secondly, I think those who are voting based
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Speaker 16: on that are already voting for the Democrat anyway. So now,
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Speaker 16: do I think more Republicans ought to have more courage
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Speaker 16: and more spine like the aforementioned Ken Kuchinelli and Chip Roy.
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Speaker 16: I do, and I wish more Republicans were in that mold.
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Speaker 3: The last question for you, and I want to find
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Speaker 3: out what's coming up on Good for America, the podcast
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Speaker 3: coming up. But I have dear friends in a group
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Speaker 3: just learning about this group. They've actually managed to get
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Speaker 3: Republicans elected in the Charlottesville area. They're called City Elders,
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Speaker 3: and it's a faith based group nationwide. I've got a
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Speaker 3: fired up group in all sorts of corners of Virginia.
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Speaker 3: They look for people who unabashedly are men of faith
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Speaker 3: like yourself, and say they need to be in the
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Speaker 3: elected office. These are the folks who, when we're not
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Speaker 3: hovering over them, are going to use their roots and
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Speaker 3: their grounding and faith to make good decisions. Yesterday was
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Speaker 3: the National Day of Prayer. Again. I'm getting hit with
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Speaker 3: you all. You know, oh, this is separation of church
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Speaker 3: and state. But we need people who are self governing
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Speaker 3: to be in our government if it's going to be
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Speaker 3: self governing. Bob, what do you think you know of
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Speaker 3: the argument against it?
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Speaker 16: Well, it was the founders and those who in members
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Speaker 16: of the First Congress who had the practice of holding
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Speaker 16: worship services in the House Chamber on Sundays, they would
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Speaker 16: use the House Chamber to hold worship services. And Thomas Jefferson,
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Speaker 16: who is, as you know, historically misrepresented as being in
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Speaker 16: favor of this mythical separation of church and state, Thomas
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Speaker 16: Jefferson is recorded as having attended those worship services in
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Speaker 16: the House Chamber. So obviously neither he or the other
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Speaker 16: leaders of our country in the early days who wrote
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Speaker 16: the Constitution and wrote the Bill of Rights and so forth.
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Speaker 16: Never intended to have to protect government from the influence
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Speaker 16: of faith and religion. They thought it was essential to that.
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Speaker 16: They started the habit of the national the day of prayer.
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Speaker 16: They started the habit of opening Congress in prayer, and
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Speaker 16: that's essential to who in what we are as a country.
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Speaker 3: So what's coming up this weekend? Good for America at
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Speaker 3: Good for America dot org on the Good for America podcasts, Well,
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Speaker 3: we're going.
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Speaker 16: To be releasing an episode on Vexit and about the
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Speaker 16: movement for Western Virginia to secede to West Virginia as
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Speaker 16: has been invited as you know, by the General Assembly
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Speaker 16: and the former governor of West Virginia. But we're also
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Speaker 16: going to talk about the debt and the entitlement emergency
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Speaker 16: and the just the real crisis, the real emergen that's
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Speaker 16: facing our country that's not getting talked about much in Washington.
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Speaker 16: We continue to focus on that. We're going to continue
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Speaker 16: to do that.
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Speaker 3: Guilty is Charged. I mean, you know, I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: cover the news of the day, and we get into
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Speaker 3: some abstracts, but that is of all of them. That's
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Speaker 3: why our gas prices and our bread prices and everything
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Speaker 3: else are where they are. Bob, It's good to catch
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Speaker 3: up with you. Good for America dot org. Have a
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Speaker 3: wonderful Mother's Day weekend you.
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Speaker 16: As well, Joe, Thank you my friend.
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Speaker 23: Good morning, Joe.
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Speaker 24: It's great to talk with you as Russia because I
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Speaker 3: Well what part of Virginia. I didn't know that.
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Speaker 24: I was in Arlington, and then I was in Alexandria,
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Speaker 3: Oh So Ohio is super conservative compared to what you're
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Speaker 24: Oh absolutely, deep blue, deep blue Virginia.
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Speaker 3: I guess at the end of the month.
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Speaker 23: Sure, so, Attorney General Devios.
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Speaker 24: There was a lot of chatter yesterday morning, they had
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Speaker 25: So that's going to be.
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Speaker 24: Yeah, that's going to be effective June seventh, so a
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Speaker 3: So it's interesting to me. And we love the Alliance
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Speaker 23: So they're going to be busy.
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Speaker 3: Yep, yes, they are so bless him for taking this on,
32:23
Speaker 3: and I see the point, but it's a head scratcher
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Speaker 24: Of course, and not such a fantastic connection. Right, which
32:46
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32:48
Speaker 24: it wasn't my first thought. I actually did mention in
32:51
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33:01
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33:11
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33:16
Speaker 24: made clear to me that could affect Ohio's laws as well. Right,
33:20
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33:25
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Speaker 23: As well as similar laws.
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33:37
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33:45
Speaker 3: There's a subtext. I was just talking to a friend
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33:50
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33:54
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33:59
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34:07
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34:11
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Speaker 24: Have you found out that would not surprise me at all?
34:16
Speaker 24: Of course, nobody. In bath Goood's case, he lost a primary.
34:19
Speaker 24: I'm sure that wasn't fun for him. But also sometimes
34:21
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34:24
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Speaker 23: So that didn't surprise me, especially if it's a job
34:36
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34:37
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34:40
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34:42
Speaker 23: But I will say the time was curious to me.
34:45
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34:48
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34:49
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34:51
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34:55
Speaker 23: Right, So, but I think that's you know.
34:58
Speaker 24: If the job is worth it, an you say, oh,
35:01
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35:05
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35:09
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35:12
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35:13
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35:18
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35:22
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35:24
Speaker 23: Now, I will say I did talk to people.
35:26
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35:29
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35:33
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35:36
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35:38
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35:41
Speaker 3: So what happens now?
35:43
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35:44
Speaker 3: I presume, because you know, well publicized goubernatorial race going on.
35:49
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35:51
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Speaker 24: Yeah, so that is an excellent point because it could
36:10
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Speaker 24: who it's funny, Ohio politics is very funny in that
36:17
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36:22
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36:30
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36:33
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36:44
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36:44
Speaker 23: But otherwise everybody else runs, you know, on their own accord.
36:48
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36:50
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36:50
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36:53
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36:56
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36:59
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37:15
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37:20
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37:35
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Speaker 3: For three four eight A two four two one seven
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Speaker 3: is we wrap up festivities this morning and head into
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Speaker 3: Mother's Day. We can please make sure uh that you're
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Speaker 3: representing for your mom's Uh there, and you know it's
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Speaker 3: one of those things we go through this Father's Day
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Speaker 3: weekend as well. Uh we we hit you know whether
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Speaker 3: or not and what is and what is qualified as
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Speaker 3: we need to as a community get back to the
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Speaker 3: idea that these roles are important. We talked about a
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Speaker 3: little bit earlier in a business construct when we were
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Speaker 3: talking about whether or not a supervisor of a big
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Speaker 3: chain of businesses does a good job in transmitting how
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Speaker 3: important the job is, leading to employees not sharing the
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Speaker 3: importance of a position, and we see this so often
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Speaker 3: across the spectrum that it's a shame to me because
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Speaker 3: there are companies that serve people in their industry, people
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Speaker 3: in their world constituents, if you will, And to me,
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Speaker 3: if somebody is coming into your business or engaging in
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Speaker 3: your business and dropping down their doray me money, it's
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Speaker 3: important to recognize and to appreciate that. And I don't
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Speaker 3: think we do it enough. I think we do wind
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Speaker 3: up thinking, oh, this is a bovine excrement job, and
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Speaker 3: therefore I don't need to care about it, And what
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Speaker 3: that does is it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy of that.
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Speaker 3: And I think the same is true in parenting. You know,
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Speaker 3: you didn't want to be a parents, but you're now
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Speaker 3: you're a parent, And I see too many. It's all anecdotal,
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Speaker 3: and I don't know if it's a majority, but I
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Speaker 3: see it as a growing population of folks who didn't
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Speaker 3: want to be parents but are trying to do the
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Speaker 3: right thing. But their own wild oats if you want
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Speaker 3: to call them, that are still out there trying to
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Speaker 3: be sown. And so you know, the parenting attention is
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Speaker 3: divided between what I want versus what my kid needs.
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Speaker 3: And you know this is why I talk about the
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Speaker 3: important part of the abortion discussion. Isn't the abortion discussion,
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Speaker 3: it's the unplanned or unwanted parent child portion. It's an
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Speaker 3: unwanted pregnancy. What a horrific thing to think of, What
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Speaker 3: a heartbreaking, heart rending thing to think of that there
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Speaker 3: could even be such a thing in a modern society
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Speaker 3: as an unwanted child. We all want the sex, we
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Speaker 3: don't want the child, and that's a shame because we
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Speaker 3: need to have those conversations to say, sure, it's pleasurable,
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Speaker 3: but there's also a biological outcome, one that is horrifically
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Speaker 3: low percentage. The odds against a couple getting pregnant is
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Speaker 3: longer than the odds of was it a gold wrapping
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Speaker 3: paper or whatever it was that won the Kentucky Derby
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Speaker 3: where they were twenty three to one. The odds are
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Speaker 3: a lot harsher for a couple to wind up making
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Speaker 3: a baby. But motherhood needs to be respected both by
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Speaker 3: those who practice it and those who are the beneficiaries
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Speaker 3: of it, because it's an important role and it's one
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Speaker 3: that we need to do well. Good morning, You're on
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Speaker 3: the air with Joe, who's this.
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Speaker 28: Hey, good morning, and Andy just wanted to wish all
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Speaker 28: a great Mother's Day weekend, and.
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Speaker 3: Thank you what you're doing.
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Speaker 28: Yeah, the breadth of your debt guests is so well.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, well, thank you. I appreciated this you and
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Speaker 3: and again it's another one of those things where you
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Speaker 3: know somebody is looking to perhaps pursue a more important role,
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Speaker 3: not in elected office, which I think tells you something
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Speaker 3: about elected office. And blessed yost fella for that.
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Speaker 28: Cronism is not capitalism for free markets or you know,
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Speaker 28: they're those things are taught you know, in theis Institute.
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Speaker 3: So it is. You know, I said this earlier. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we we blanch away from poverty issues, especially because so
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Speaker 3: many people who believe in conservative principles also want to
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Speaker 3: be political, and we need to untether from that and
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Speaker 3: have honest conversations without worrying about what will be said
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Speaker 3: about me in some future campaign for office somewhere. Because
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Speaker 3: we we we we do the whole society damage by
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Speaker 3: hiding behind this idea that capitalism is bad somehow.
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Speaker 28: Well, free markets are are great, you know. Cronyism started
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Speaker 28: in I think it was sixteen oh seven. When Lord
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Speaker 28: Baltimore was granted all those winds.
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Speaker 3: To the west, wasn't wasn't he Nancy Pelosi's dad, Lord
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Speaker 3: Baltimore was Nancy d Good stuff. Andy, you have a
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Speaker 3: wonderful Weather's Day weekend as well.
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Speaker 28: I'll do the best I can. I did have an
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Speaker 28: awesome mom.
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Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. Just remember her, remember her in
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Speaker 3: a special way. Yeah.
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Speaker 28: Yeah, I'm you know, pay homage sure, almost every day
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Speaker 28: because I see her on the way out the door.
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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna course, I'm gonna go find a mirror
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Speaker 3: in tribute to my mother and have an argument with
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Speaker 3: myself on the same side as myself, because that's what
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Speaker 3: my mom and I used to do. She'd come down
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Speaker 3: and start arguing with me about something I agreed with
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Speaker 3: her about. Uh, and yet we still need to argue
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Speaker 3: about it. So that's that was my youngest training at
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Speaker 3: this Thank you.
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Speaker 28: Sir, alright, keep it up, God bless you.
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Speaker 3: Uh this text me?
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Speaker 21: Oh she.
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Speaker 3: Okay. John wrote in Trump administration strains creduelty when it
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Speaker 3: says the ceasefire is holding, it's such a qualified statement
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Speaker 3: that rings totally hollow, and he adds, what does Bob
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Speaker 3: think about this ceasefire statement from the Trump administration, John,
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Speaker 3: I apologize I didn't see the text until just now,
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Speaker 3: but I will add this. The Iranians don't say anything
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Speaker 3: was hit. They say that this tanker was fired upon.
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Speaker 3: You gotta I hate parsing words like this, but you
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Speaker 3: know they say it was fired at Okay, so the
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Speaker 3: missile landed in the water next to it. I mean
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Speaker 3: sure it was a wake up call there, So I
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Speaker 3: don't know what it means. Bob in Virginia writes in
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Speaker 3: on the subject of church services in elected offices the
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Speaker 3: Albemarle County, which we call Charlottesville County. It's basically Charlottesville
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Speaker 3: without the city limits. The County Courthouse historically served as
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Speaker 3: a multi denomination all place of worship practiced Thomas Jefferson
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Speaker 3: championed famously by referring to the building as the common
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Speaker 3: temp because Charlotte'sville lacked dedicated church buildings until eighteen twenty six,
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Speaker 3: so the courthouse hosted rotating Sunday services for Episcopals, Presbyterians, Methodists,
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Speaker 3: and Baptist congregations. Good stuff. Thank you for the history
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Speaker 3: on that. But this idea of a confrontation of church
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Speaker 3: versus state is I think a mistake born of the Marxists.
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Speaker 3: There until Saturday morning. If your station gets us on
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Speaker 3: Otherwise back here Monday morning. Have a great Mother's Day weekend.
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Speaker 3: Remember if she's the mother of your kids, Mother's Day counts,
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Speaker 3: and make sure you do right. I am Joe Thomas
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Speaker 3: until then, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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Speaker 21: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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Speaker 16: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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Speaker 16: of and supporting my family.
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Speaker 13: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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Speaker 2: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless tall.
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Speaker 13: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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Speaker 17: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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Speaker 13: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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Speaker 1: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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Speaker 18: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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Speaker 13: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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