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"Creating Wealth?" (FTTxJT Wed 082626 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been.
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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: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: at 434-882-4217. That is our phone number. It's a multitasker.
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  Speaker 3: You can use it to call in the traditional sense,
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  Speaker 3: or you can shoot me a text message. We will
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  Speaker 3: read your words into the public record after I tell
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  Speaker 3: you what went on last night. I'll certainly share with
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  Speaker 3: you my analysis of it. We've sent it to the lab.
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  Speaker 3: We've had it come back with spectral analysis and chopped
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  Speaker 3: it into easily digestible gummies. There, of course, the passage
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  Speaker 3: of Dolly Parton dominating a lot of the news programs
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  Speaker 3: this morning, but so many other things going on in here.
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  Speaker 3: We've got text messages and emails on an FCC rule
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  Speaker 3: that is not what you think it is. It's about
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  Speaker 3: extending political rates to Agenda groups, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: call them that. Some of the 501C6s that go around
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  Speaker 3: and they're citizens for this or, you know, community organizers
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  Speaker 3: for that. And they would now be granted because this
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  Speaker 3: is what the nanny state does. This is what the
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  Speaker 3: government does is tell broadcasters that they have to charge
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  Speaker 3: a rate for a commercial. You say, well, how do
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  Speaker 3: they get away with that? Because they can. It's just
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  Speaker 3: like farmers can be told by the FDA what they
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  Speaker 3: charge for things. I mean, can you imagine the Securities
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  Speaker 3: and Exchange Commission going to Apple and saying, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Your share price is too high. You need to come
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  Speaker 3: up with a fairer rate for your stock. But they
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  Speaker 3: do it to industries all the time because of Hamilton's
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  Speaker 3: implied powers. and corruption that kind of metastasized after the
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  Speaker 3: Civil War. As people started saying, well, if the government's
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  Speaker 3: going to pay for it, that's less money I have
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  Speaker 3: to spend. But the strings attached continue to cause ripples throughout.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get into all of those different things. The
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  Speaker 3: coal miners in West Virginia finding new things to do
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  Speaker 3: with coal. And whether or not that was something that
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  Speaker 3: was created by government regulation, I think, is an important
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  Speaker 3: point that several of you brought up. And I want
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  Speaker 3: to go back in and break down there as well
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  Speaker 3: this morning. But our first things begin with China. China
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  Speaker 3: flexing yesterday in a couple of fronts. First off, taking
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  Speaker 3: the side of Iran. by saying that it would, quote,
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  Speaker 3: take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard China's own rights
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  Speaker 3: and interests. This is from China's foreign ministry and their spokesperson,
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  Speaker 3: Lin Jian, alluding to the fact that they'll take these
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  Speaker 3: economic sanctions, which, by the way, avoid China in many instances,
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  Speaker 3: very seriously. And they also reached out to Volodymyr Zelensky
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  Speaker 3: of Ukraine, offering a strong diplomatic role to ending Russia's war.
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  Speaker 3: Zelensky thanked Chinese Chairman Xi for the congratulations on their
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  Speaker 3: Independence Day. It was runoff election day as Darlene Nardone
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  Speaker 3: won South Carolina's Republican U.S. Senate runoff, defeating Congressman Ralph
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  Speaker 3: Norman 52.5 to 47.5 percent. after President Trump weighed in
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  Speaker 3: and told Carolina Republicans, pretend I'm on the ballot this year. Also,
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  Speaker 3: a presidential endorsement in the gubernatorial runoff in Oklahoma, State
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  Speaker 3: Senator Mike Mazzei won the nomination, defeating Attorney General Gentner
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  Speaker 3: Drummond 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent. On the Democratic side,
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  Speaker 3: Everton Blair won the special election runoff in the 13th
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  Speaker 3: Congressional District. As the Peach State's Congressman David Scott passed
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  Speaker 3: away earlier in the year, Scott's daughter Marcy had been
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  Speaker 3: competing with Blair for that nomination. And in Oklahoma's Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Party U.S. Senate runoff yesterday, it was Democratic Socialist Nikila
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  Speaker 3: Jasmine Thomas who joining the rostrum of Democratic Socialists on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot. She defeated Attorney and Minister Jim Priest to
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  Speaker 3: face Congressman Kevin Hearn in November. President Trump has sent
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  Speaker 2: by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody ever gets that, what does that mean, artificial colors?
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  Speaker 3: Now we got organic, too. Mostly, you know, stone-pressed as well,
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  Speaker 3: I think it says. Half-baked.
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  Speaker 8: On this Tedstein.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Dolly, all right, and Ted. Again, thanks to Kareem,
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  Speaker 3: who found that on Ted Nugent's social media platform. Ted
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  Speaker 3: posted that from the old Mike Douglas TV show circa 1980.
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  Speaker 3: Ted and Dolly doing Kansas City with the crowd. I
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  Speaker 3: think Susan Anton also sang on that, as well as
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  Speaker 3: Mike himself there. Mike Douglas was a talk show back
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  Speaker 3: in the day, 70s mostly. In the heyday, it was Sally.
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  Speaker 3: Jesse Raphael and Phil Donahue. Why do I have this
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  Speaker 3: mental block about Phil Donahue? They were the daytime talkers.
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  Speaker 3: This is before Oprah became Oprah and became the source
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  Speaker 3: of all things talk show. And then Mike Douglas would
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  Speaker 3: come along in the afternoon and Dick Cavett. I was
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  Speaker 3: reminded Dick Cavett did a thing. as well on a
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  Speaker 3: regular basis. And then you had Johnny at night. And
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  Speaker 3: that was, you know, it was where you went and
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  Speaker 3: you did public relations. If you had a new movie
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  Speaker 3: coming out, if you had a new record coming out,
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  Speaker 3: if you had a book coming out, those were the
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  Speaker 3: places that you went to to get that done and
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  Speaker 3: taken care of. And some of it was commercial. Some
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  Speaker 3: of it, you know, you gave the production company some
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  Speaker 3: money for your trouble. And I want to pivot to
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  Speaker 3: commerce for a moment. In light of, as Ray pointed out,
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  Speaker 3: this Gallup poll that says 81% of us like the
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  Speaker 3: idea of a free market. I'd like to see how
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  Speaker 3: many of us actually are gaslit into believing that's what
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  Speaker 3: we're living under now. It's probably the other 19% that
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  Speaker 3: don't like the free market. They think that's what we're
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  Speaker 3: living on now. But I told you the Federal Communications
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  Speaker 3: Commission is trying to extend political rates to non-political candidates,
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  Speaker 3: but in the political realm. So a federal appeals court
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  Speaker 3: yesterday blocked the FCC from extending, forcing broadcasters, I should say,
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  Speaker 3: to extend the political rates to political parties and joint
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  Speaker 3: fundraising committees. The FCC said it would allow the committees
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  Speaker 3: to get the same political rate that political candidates, which
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  Speaker 3: the FCC called discounted. I'll tell you, the punchlines, they
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  Speaker 3: just write themselves discounted. This is what broadcasters have started doing.
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  Speaker 3: So the FCC, of course, will say that the mandated
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  Speaker 3: political rate is a discount. But it's not because what
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  Speaker 3: especially the big corporate Wall Street traded broadcasters have done
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  Speaker 3: is they won't go below a certain dollar amount now,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of how small your business is. This is why
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  Speaker 3: you don't hear... the mom-and-pop haberdashery or the mom-and-pop cigar
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  Speaker 3: shop advertising in many places because the companies, especially where
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  Speaker 3: there are lots of elections, they would rather screw the
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  Speaker 3: little guy and get as much money out of the
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  Speaker 3: political campaigns as they can. And Mark writes in, listening
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  Speaker 3: to us this morning out at Cayment, in the Inland Empire.
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  Speaker 3: He says, Joe, isn't that still their choice to do it?
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  Speaker 3: You've been railing about regulations all morning, but it seems
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  Speaker 3: like the FCC's regulation is just simply saying that broadcasters
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  Speaker 3: cannot gouge political campaigns, which would seemingly go to reward
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  Speaker 3: the rich, well-funded media candidates more than the independent upstarts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and Mark, that was the premise that the FCC, when
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  Speaker 3: they came along with this unconstitutional regulation of a marketplace, said.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like, oh, okay, because first you get
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  Speaker 3: told the story about how expensive political campaigns are. And
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  Speaker 3: then the FCC says, we're going to do something about it.
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  Speaker 3: And what they did was actually make advertising for everyone
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  Speaker 3: else more expensive so that the corporate publicly traded broadcasters
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  Speaker 3: would still have high rates to charge the congressional candidates
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  Speaker 3: and the political parties and all that. What you need
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  Speaker 3: to do, and this is when Clark writes in, he says,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I just don't get it. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: missing something in the lowest rate for political ad. But
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  Speaker 3: you see, that's the thing. You're already presuming it's the
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  Speaker 3: lowest rate for political ads. It's not. It's broadcasters saying, okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's what we want to get from politicians, and now
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  Speaker 3: we can't charge anyone less than that. This is why
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  Speaker 3: you hear national chains and all these people doing ads,
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  Speaker 3: and you rarely hear the little mom and pop, because
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  Speaker 3: the little mom and pop might only be able to
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  Speaker 3: afford a few dollars a commercial, but the floor has
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  Speaker 3: been set. It's not a ceiling, it's a floor. That's
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  Speaker 3: what you're not getting is you're thinking they're discounted when
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  Speaker 3: they're actually inflating. I don't know what to think about
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  Speaker 3: the minimum rate for political ads other than why does
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  Speaker 3: anyone have the power to regulate any of that anyway?
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  Speaker 3: That's the key. Scott in Virginia Beach saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Shouldn't you be able to charge whatever you want and
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  Speaker 3: let the market decide? Yes. And we do. So my company,
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Media, has our own business model for our local station.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, we have politicians all over the place. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't care. I'd rather... get a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 3: gun stores and boot sellers and car repair shops for
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  Speaker 3: $ 5 a commercial, then worry about, well, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: Ben Klein runs for re-election, I could get $ 50 a commercial,
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  Speaker 3: but I would have to then screw all the car
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  Speaker 3: repair places and the gun shops and the clothing stores
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  Speaker 3: that were trying to help Because they have to pay
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  Speaker 3: $ 50 a commercial too. You see what I mean? So
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  Speaker 3: I've just decided, because I'm an idiot probably, that I
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  Speaker 3: don't care. And politicians, when I tell them what the
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  Speaker 3: rate card is, they're like, really? I'm like, yeah, because
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  Speaker 3: I can't afford to charge the deli down the street
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  Speaker 3: or the startup coffee shop or the food truck. exorbitant
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  Speaker 3: rates just so that I can keep my political rate
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  Speaker 3: card up. But it's on the broadcaster to choose how
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  Speaker 3: they about it. It's just like the company that's turning
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  Speaker 3: coal into all this other stuff because the regulations have
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  Speaker 3: stopped people from buying coal to burn in a power plant,
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  Speaker 3: so they figured something else out to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't mean the regulation, quote, helped it, Let's.
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  Speaker 3: comes in from S. Smith. Two measles deaths in PA,
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  Speaker 3: and they wonder why we don't trust them. These are
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  Speaker 3: measles-associated deaths. You mean like pneumonia.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Department of Health, and she goes on to quote, LancasterOnline.com.
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  Speaker 3: story S. Smith sends in. The Department, S. Frogs, huh?
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Health used the term measles associated to
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  Speaker 3: refer to the deaths, which Press Secretary Neil Rulon said
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  Speaker 3: is applied when laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present,
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  Speaker 3: but the official cause of death is under investigation. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to insert my nose here for a second
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  Speaker 3: and say we never did that for COVID, did we?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if COVID was for you, guy died in
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  Speaker 3: a motorcycle accident, but he had COVID. So it was
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  Speaker 3: a COVID death. Maybe it's because we're not paying hospitals
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  Speaker 3: extra money for measles deaths. Lancaster County's coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I think that name is familiar. I worked in Lancaster
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  Speaker 3: for a long time with great success. And then they
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  Speaker 3: kicked me out, and I realized we should probably do
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  Speaker 3: Tonk Radio. Dr. Stephen Diamond Toney, I think it was
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  Speaker 3: Corner even then, said Tuesday that no measles deaths were
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  Speaker 3: handled by our office, though the office was investigating the
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  Speaker 3: death of an infant who tested positive for measles and
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  Speaker 3: died because of a ruptured spleen. The investigation is ongoing. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And Smithy is exactly right. This is why we don't
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  Speaker 3: trust them. They're trying to come up with ways. They
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  Speaker 3: figure monkeypox didn't work mostly because we found out how
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  Speaker 3: you have to get monkeypox in the first place. And
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  Speaker 3: most are like, dude, no, I don't even want to
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  Speaker 3: think about that. So monkeypox went out the window. They
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  Speaker 3: tried that one. They've given up on trying to create
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  Speaker 3: this health emergency out of climate change. although it's still
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: on the table. Gun deaths also considered a health crisis.
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  Speaker 3: So they're still trolling around for a way. And if
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  Speaker 3: were sitting with Del Bigtree from the TV show The
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  Speaker 3: High Wire, and we were talking about this very thing.
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  Speaker 3: And he said very clearly, what's going on? This used
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: to be a punchline when Bobby Brady got the measles.
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  Speaker 3: And then everyone in the house got the measles. And
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think it was funny. I had a final
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  Speaker 3: project due in high school. I didn't have my measles
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  Speaker 3: until I was in high school. And I had to
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  Speaker 3: stay home for a week, and I was under the
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  Speaker 3: gun to get my final TV project finished. And so
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  Speaker 3: my final TV project, I look like Bobby Brady, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm just covered in the remains of the measles. But
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  Speaker 3: measles happens. It's because insurance companies don't want to have
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  Speaker 3: to fit the bill for things. So they all want
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  Speaker 3: ways where they can say no to paying for your
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  Speaker 3: medical treatment. Like, hey, there is a vaccine for measles.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't take it and you get measles,
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  Speaker 3: guess what we're not doing? And we've got to be
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  Speaker 3: honest about why some of these things are happening. I
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  Speaker 3: leave the cannolis Fauci. And maybe he has the stink
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  Speaker 3: of fire and brimstone in his cologne. But for the
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  Speaker 3: most part, they're doing the insurance companies bidding. And it's
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats who, you know, all up and down about
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  Speaker 3: health care costs, all up and down about the insurance companies,
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  Speaker 3: all up and down. You are the guys who wrote this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching this here in central Virginia. The guy who
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  Speaker 3: cast the tie-breaking vote to bring Obamacare to the floor,
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  Speaker 3: before you could read it, of course, Tom Perriello is
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  Speaker 3: running for Congress again. And I kid you not, one
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  Speaker 3: of his campaign promises is he's going to fix a
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  Speaker 3: broken health care system. Oh, my God. And he's probably
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  Speaker 3: going to be successful because people don't know. Or they
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  Speaker 3: don't care. It's this gaslighting, and I use that as
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: a segue, because there aren't enough O's in smooth for
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: what we do here, to the story of the coal company. Because, again,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: more folks saying, Joe, didn't this coal company make trillions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars because... of government regulations. Yeah, but what would
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  Speaker 3: the coal company have made if they were just selling
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  Speaker 3: coal to the electric company? You see, what I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: at is that saying that the coal company, I want
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  Speaker 3: to give them a right name, Frontieris North America is
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  Speaker 3: mining coal in West Virginia and and has made $ 2. 1
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  Speaker 3: trillion breaking it up into substantive parts like hydrogen for
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: hydrogen fuel cells and things like that. They're making diesel
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  Speaker 3: fuel and jet fuel out of its derivatives. And the
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: left is up in arms about it because you're still
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  Speaker 3: burning things. We burn things. This goes back to a
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  Speaker 3: conversation we had yesterday about how the scary ones at
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the very core of the climate movement believe fire was
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  Speaker 3: the worst thing that ever happened to humanity. We were
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be like feeder fish or something just down
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  Speaker 3: by every lion and tiger or bear that goes by.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know what they would have made on
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  Speaker 3: this coal if they were just selling it to electric
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  Speaker 3: companies to burn in their generating plants. It could have
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: been $ 20 trillion in coal. So to just say, hey,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: they made $ 2 trillion because they did something, because there
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  Speaker 3: was a regulation, doesn't mean anything. Look at the employment numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Frontierist doesn't employ nearly as many coal miners or West
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  Speaker 3: Virginians as the coal mines did, whether they were down
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  Speaker 3: digging or in the front office accounting. So, yes, they've
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: created a profitable business as a workaround to the regulation.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: But this is like our friend Joel Salatin, who runs
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  Speaker 3: the Rogue Food Conference, just finished the Rogue Food Conference
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago here in central Virginia where
• 37:15
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  Speaker 3: that they wouldn't have made more if there weren't regulations.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: This text message coming in from Sharon in Sacramento, she said, yeah,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: but Joe, Would they have ever thought to do this
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  Speaker 3: if you could just sell your coal to the electric companies?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I think so. At some point, there's only going to
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  Speaker 3: But fully organic and farm-to-table. That's where our intelligence comes from. Farm-to-table, baby.
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  Speaker 19: I'm coming home.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just losing light.
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  Speaker 3: So as we wrap things up, I want to address
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: a text message came in from Lumberton, our fine affiliate
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: out there in the Beaumont area. Are they still? No,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: they're only. OK, so somebody's going to have to tell
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Terry that they're going to have to go to the podcast.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Let's get it. It's Joe Thomas in the morning dot com.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: It'll give you your choices. If you go to Apple podcast,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: half of the participants are. Come from there or go
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: to Spotify is another one. iHeartMedia, they all have the
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: podcast on there. But start off and get a subscription
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: and then it'll learn what you like off of that.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: But anyway, he was listening to us in Beaumont. this
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: morning before they finished up KHTW. But he asks about
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: our story about Ted Cruz and the Reformation Party, if
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: you will. That's what he called it. Ted Cruz wants
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: to start a third party because Ted Cruz can't stand
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump and can't stand what Donald Trump has done
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: to the Republican Party, especially when it comes to the indebtedness.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: I hear the same thing when you're a guest speaker
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: the podcaster that used to be in Congress, you mean
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Bob Good, Good for America? Yes, he says the same thing.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: This debt is killing our buying power because every dollar
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: you print, and I won't be disingenuous, we said this
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: during Biden's administration, every dollar you print weakens us. And
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: there's a sidebar to this that a lot of these
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: savings accounts, these Trump accounts, everything else driven in a
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: lot of ways by the money made by our 5%
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: stake in companies like Intel. What happens when somebody invents
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: a better computer chip made out of different stuff? And
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tie this back to Dolly, Terry. Dolly
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Parton never called Fred Thompson or Al Gore and said, hey,
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: I need you to lean on Nashville a little bit.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: They're cranking out too many of these twinks like Shania
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Twain and Faith Hill, and they're cutting into my record sales.
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  Speaker 3: But does Intel call the U.S. government if you, Terry,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: invent some new way to process computer data? I'm told
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: that these processing chips are... going the way of the
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: dodo soon that there's some new tech that I haven't
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: really wrapped my brain around yet that will eliminate the
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: need for these i7 core processors and all that stuff
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: but whether or not Ted Cruz oh his text goes
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: on to say he wants a new party that he
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: can make his own where we have abortion but regulated
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: we have debt and disparity, but regulated. And maybe this
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: is guilty as charged with a lot of Republicans who
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: have been in office a long time to say, are
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: you for it now or were you for it then?
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Because that's the argument, Terry, is that something that Ted
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Cruz may have supported 10 years ago may not be
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: something he supports now. But remember, Donald Trump is not.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, if Donald Trump even knows who Russell Kirk is,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I would be surprised. And I love the policies. Go
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: back to Ralph Norman's clip. Where did we put the
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman clip from this morning, from his concession speech?
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Do we still have it? You got rid of it already?
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: That you don't know here is ok she says so
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: here's ralph norman from this more last night's concession in
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: the runoff election and it's it's a fact i'm not
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: being critical it's just the packs that were against uh...
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: to make to make freedom uh.
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: is democrats they wanted their they got what they wanted.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: I get that uh... but you know the but you
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: know the president got involved he has that right. That's
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: his prerogative.
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  Speaker 6: As I told, I never, well, y'all, his policies are good.
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: I never understood why he got.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: In this race. His policies are good. And here's one
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: of the things that I will tell you. If his
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: policies are good, put the rest of it away. Democrats
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: couldn't stand Lyndon Johnson in the 60s, but he knew
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: where all their skeletons were, so they shut up. And
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not comparing Donald Trump to Lyndon Johnson. I'm just
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: saying that if you like somebody's policies, the rest of
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: it's be damned. But The point I was making about
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: this new party that Ted Cruz is talking about and
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: your point about Republicans wanting to go back to the
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: way it was where we were this, the loyal outsiders
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: trying to cause some ruckus with, you know, a rally
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: here or, you know, a phone bank there calling Congress
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: people to try to do the right thing. Yeah, there's
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: some money to be made in that. And that's really,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, what everyone's motivation is.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: paying the electric bill. But the idea of a third
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: party doesn't need to be created by Ted Cruz. Just
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: get rid of the 1929 Act for Permanent Reapportionment. And
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: you will see viable third parties and maybe even fourth
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: parties popping up on the right and the left.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Because now you have a competitive marketplace. Now you have
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: three times as many congressional districts that reach a much
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: smaller amount of people. And there may be unintended consequences
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: to that, too. Do they all start voting in a block?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Is it become quasi-parliamentarian where the Speaker of the House
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: has to get elected the same way a prime minister does?
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, as it is, he has to get elected,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: but it's just by the majority party and a vote therein.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: So as we wrap up this morning, I appreciate you
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: taking some time out with us and spending time what
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: of it you could, and I appreciate all, you know,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: like Kareem, I certainly appreciate his sending us the wonderful
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Ted Nugent-Dolly Parton duet from the Mike Douglas show because
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: I was trying to find a way to kind of
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: get Ted and Dolly together because Dolly has a lot
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: of Ted-ness in her in the way she handled a
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: lot of the controversies around her.
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  Speaker 7: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 9: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 20: We'll get more of that kind of stuff coming up.
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  Speaker 2: But until tomorrow morning, I am Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 19: So long and thanks for.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: All the fish.
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