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FTTxJT 070626 "Let's Get the NEXT 250 Started!" · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Then on a need to know basis, because you need
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Speaker 1: to know the first thing today.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, you haven't fallen into some pre recorded radio
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Speaker 2: program here. That one is, by my special request, that
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Speaker 2: was recorded on an Independence Day at what, for years
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Speaker 2: was one of the biggest Independence Day celebrations, certainly before
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Speaker 2: President Trump got involved in the whole situation. That was
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Speaker 2: Happy Birthday America. That was Jack and Davis is what
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Speaker 2: they call themselves. That is the third generation of Reid's
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Speaker 2: Jack and Davis. Reid opened up once the sky finished
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Speaker 2: opening up as the storms hit the mid Atlantic along
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Speaker 2: this heat wave, just blasting some violent storms through the area,
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Speaker 2: knocking down trees, knocking out power. Of course, giving everyone
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Speaker 2: then a reason, Well, why don't we go to some
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Speaker 2: show somewhere. Let's go see if they're still playing in
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Speaker 2: Gypsy Hill Park. I'm sorry, I'm not saying Romani says
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Speaker 2: it right there on the sign. I'm sure someone will
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Speaker 2: go to a Stanton City Council meeting at some point
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Speaker 2: saying I really think we should change the name. I'm
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Speaker 2: from the committee that took down the Robert E. Lee
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Speaker 2: statue in Charlottesville, and I think we need to change
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Speaker 2: the name of Gypsy Hill Park now because I'm special,
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Speaker 2: but Jack and Davis that was one of theirs, so
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Speaker 2: they didn't acknowledge. They did not acknowledge Pride Month on
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Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas, but they did a
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Speaker 2: great rendition of kissing Angel good morning and for the crowd.
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Speaker 2: And if you know, oh, you know, that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: It's the implied promotion if somebody says something that only
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Speaker 2: you've said before, if you know, you know, the word
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Speaker 2: is first Thing Today, and the word is spreading so
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Speaker 2: onwards and inwards into the affairs President Trump on his
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Speaker 2: way to NATO, and this is so indicative of the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration, you know, previous administration, not just Biden. You
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Speaker 2: do something like Independence Day, which he just just got
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Speaker 2: in under the wire. He got there. It was like
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Speaker 2: ten forty three pm. He posted to social media, I'm here,
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Speaker 2: and my son and his girlfriend were at at the event.
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Speaker 2: They said it was incredible. It was homeran getting home
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Speaker 2: from Washington, DC. But that was because hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 2: of people try to get on subway trains. But the
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Speaker 2: big question, and I was watching James o'keep's video from
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Speaker 2: the mall, and I asked, I asked my kids. I said,
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Speaker 2: when they got back, I said, what was the deal
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Speaker 2: with the evacuation? And my son's girlfriend said, oh, there
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Speaker 2: was something going on. I expected my son to be
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Speaker 2: ardent about it. His girlfriend's like, oh no, no, there
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Speaker 2: was something hinky going on when they evacuated everybody. And
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Speaker 2: James o'keeps same thing. Do we have the video clip yet? Oh?
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Speaker 2: You thought that was going to be in the next segment.
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Speaker 2: Let's see. See. Gotta be a little bit more nimble
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Speaker 2: with me. Sometimes sometimes I jump ahead, sometimes I just
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Speaker 2: jump around, jump jump, jump around. So we don't know yet,
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Speaker 2: but there will be investigations. There are people who want
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Speaker 2: to know what was the what was the danger that
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Speaker 2: had everyone evacuated from the National Mall. Previous administrations probably
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Speaker 2: would have done it just out of poops and giggles,
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Speaker 2: but in this particular case, there were some concerns. But
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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily say that Trump administration would cover it up.
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Speaker 2: But I for this Department of Justice, I don't see.
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Speaker 2: Todd blanche and the team wanted to give somebody the
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Speaker 2: promo run that were watching Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin work
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Speaker 2: his way through man It has been a spin week
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Speaker 2: for his I don't know if his lawyers are any
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Speaker 2: good in court, but they are good at getting spin.
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Speaker 2: I haven't watched lawyers spin a story about their client
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Speaker 2: this well since growing up in New York. And John
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Speaker 2: Gotti was in the US Attorney's crosshairs all the time,
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Speaker 2: and the mob bosses. What was his name, Bruce Cutler,
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Speaker 2: Bruce Cutler, who looked like he just climbed out of
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Speaker 2: either a tanning bed or Boca ratone where he was
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Speaker 2: chatting up the ladies at the villages. But he'd walk
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Speaker 2: out eight thousand dollars suit. The only suit in the
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Speaker 2: room more expensive than Bruce Cutler's was John Gotties himself,
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Speaker 2: and he said, my client is an upstanding member of
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Speaker 2: the Brooklyn community who raises tons of money for the
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Speaker 2: kids in the Boys and Girls club. And nobody, of
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Speaker 2: course in the press, you know, they're all impressed by
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Speaker 2: the shiny suit and whatever. And nobody said, mister Cutler.
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Speaker 2: Nothing you just said addresses the whole murder for higher
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Speaker 2: thing that you're the US attorney Giuliani has brought your
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Speaker 2: client here for Hey, this is a guy who's just
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Speaker 2: being persecuted by an out of control government. But this
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Speaker 2: kid in Utah and with our dear friends in Saint
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Speaker 2: George's that that carry the program. You know, I used
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Speaker 2: to broadcast to Western New York where Timothy McVeigh was from.
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Speaker 2: I get you, I feel you play it. But they're
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Speaker 2: doing a masterful job of spinning it that they are
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Speaker 2: being persecuted and kept from thoroughly defending their client, and
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Speaker 2: they're just getting all over the press, and the press
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Speaker 2: is loving it. The press is eating it all up,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know where it's going to turn out.
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Speaker 2: But the reason I bring this up about the twenty
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Speaker 2: three year old and this case is that I don't
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Speaker 2: believe that Todd Blanche once there is some knowledge as
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Speaker 2: to whatever threat it was on the National Mall Saturday,
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Speaker 2: it wouldn't tell us. He probably doesn't want to give
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Speaker 2: any pr to those who were trying to cause a ruckus.
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Speaker 2: But I asked the son, I said, was it well organized?
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Speaker 2: He said, you know, it really wasn't all that bad.
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Speaker 2: It probably caught some of the shop owners unaware. They
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Speaker 2: figured out, you know, we made it through the crush.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's there on the mall. Now we can kind of
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Speaker 2: go mop the floors a little bit, and here come
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Speaker 2: tens of thousands of people again into their McDonald's and
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Speaker 2: all their other shops nearby, the just looking for a
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Speaker 2: place to get a cup of coffee for a little while.
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Speaker 2: But James O'Keeffe right there on the spot was talking
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Speaker 2: to folks about being there for Independence Day. As soon
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Speaker 2: as the evacuation, you know what, a whole lot of
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Speaker 2: people didn't leave, and according to James, they were facing arrest.
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Speaker 2: Now I don't have any details on whether or not
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Speaker 2: they were actually arrested or not, but the National Parks
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Speaker 2: Police threatened anyone who didn't evacuate the National Mall with arrest,
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Speaker 2: which means there was something something prickly going on. They
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Speaker 2: didn't just want to do it to churn the crowd
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Speaker 2: up a little bit, to help people get better for
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Speaker 2: seating or something like that. But I just don't think
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Speaker 2: Blanche wants to give anyone.
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Speaker 2: Reason to bring in Max Last Crowd. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: as we bask in it and I was gonna sit
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Speaker 2: here still feeling the sunburn on my face from you know,
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Speaker 2: an hour and a half walking in a parade, waving
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Speaker 2: and shaking hands, kissing babies, that kind of stuff. Always
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Speaker 2: always with permission, always with permission, never never would have
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Speaker 2: done it without, but had a good time with everybody.
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Speaker 2: But you know, you realize all of a sudden, you
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Speaker 2: know there should have probably been some sunscreen or a
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Speaker 2: big floppy hat or something involved in there. The National
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Speaker 2: Mall evacuation is prickly for a lot of folks because
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Speaker 2: they feel like the administration isn't telling them everything. But remember,
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Speaker 2: terrorism is fueled by media attention as well. You do
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Speaker 2: something terroristic to get the cameras pointed at you. The
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Speaker 2: first plane hit the World Trade Center to get all
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Speaker 2: the TV cameras in the nation pointed on the World
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Speaker 2: Trade Center so that when the second plane hit, we
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Speaker 2: all watched it live. This was planned, this was executed
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Speaker 2: that way, and this is why you know, people are like, well,
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Speaker 2: I want to know what the hell was it? Obviously
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Speaker 2: we want to know, you know, if there was some
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Speaker 2: soob that wanted to kill a bunch of people on
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Speaker 2: the National Mall, and what are we doing to end them?
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Speaker 2: But I also don't want to give them the publicity
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Speaker 2: of saying, well, their agenda was and that's what we're
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Speaker 2: watching in Utah. And I know that our friends at
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Speaker 2: KDX you don't tune in until next hour. But we
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Speaker 2: all go through these moments, you know, we Unfortunately, as
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Speaker 2: the media becomes more and more prevalent, although more fragmented,
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Speaker 2: the idea of getting attention for yourself is becoming very pervasive,
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Speaker 2: and that's what we're where did I go there? Disappeared
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Speaker 2: from me for a moment. And I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: give the kid who is alleged to have shot Charlie
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Speaker 2: Kirk dead in Utah the pr that he probably wants.
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Speaker 2: But to his defense attorneys are arguing that they should
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Speaker 2: have a greater leeway in their interrogations. The defense attorneys
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Speaker 2: want to cross examine witnesses at the grand jury because
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Speaker 2: there's a lower burden of proof. Prosecutors need to show
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Speaker 2: probable cause. All the defense needs to do is cast doubt.
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Speaker 2: I know that lawyers will say reasonable doubt, but the
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Speaker 2: way a lot of these go, all you need to
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Speaker 2: do is plant a little bit of doubt, and not
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Speaker 2: usually seems to be sufficient. Prosecutors are saying they've got
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Speaker 2: DNA evidence on the rifle that shot Kirk, the fact
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Speaker 2: that it was the guy's grandfather's mouser, fingerprint evidence, and
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Speaker 2: an alleged confession which his defense attorneys are going to
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Speaker 2: try to argue against the admissibility of that text messages
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Speaker 2: they're trying to get thrown out. Stuck in orum for
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Speaker 2: a little while longer. Shouldn't be long till I can
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Speaker 2: get home. But I got to grab my rifle still
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Speaker 2: like he was going to go back there. It was
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Speaker 2: like everyone laughed, good, I only get back up on
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Speaker 2: the roof and I still at this point. You know,
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Speaker 2: one of the things that I think we all need
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Speaker 2: to know, not to whether or not it's going to
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Speaker 2: change the fact of whether Charlie Kirk comes back or not,
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Speaker 2: but how do these people get up on these roofs.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just whether it's Butler or UVU. Can we
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Speaker 2: secure because you have these sweeps, and we have the
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Speaker 2: metal detectors, and we have all the checkpoints. And if
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Speaker 2: a friend of mine was trying to get into the
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Speaker 2: State Fair and it took her two hours online because
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Speaker 2: they were planning on the President arriving earlier than ten
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Speaker 2: forty three at night, so it took her like two
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Speaker 2: and a half hours to get through the metal detectors
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Speaker 2: didn't have enough. But I mean, how at some point
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Speaker 2: she can't have enough metal detects yet people get up
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Speaker 2: on these rooms. And that's the part that just is
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Speaker 2: baffling and starts the ball rolling towards conspiracy and complicity
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Speaker 2: and things like that. Because nature abhorrors a vacuum, especially
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Speaker 2: in the world of information. This one must have pained
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Speaker 2: the folks at the Old Gray Lady. New York Times
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Speaker 2: had to publish a story. I'm sure they went about
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Speaker 2: it thinking, well, those will make Trump look bad. They
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Speaker 2: wanted to get human you know, one of those human
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Speaker 2: interest stories, heroism in the rubble of Venezuela. And what
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Speaker 2: they got was a recorder full of people complaining about
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Speaker 2: Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro. And to be fair, Rodriguez,
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Speaker 2: she was there for all of this. These people weren't
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Speaker 2: in law, and two grandchildren were trapped beneath one of
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Speaker 2: the collapsing apartment buildings. The fact that this guy can
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Speaker 2: even stand upright to answer questions from the New York
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Speaker 2: Times was amazing to me. You have that kind of
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Speaker 2: family devastation, I'd be a ball of goo on the well.
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Speaker 2: I presume I never I hope knock would I never
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Speaker 2: have to face that these people weren't killed by the disaster.
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Speaker 2: They were killed by the government because they built these
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Speaker 2: buildings like garbage. And The New York Times published that
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Speaker 2: in New York City was Zorhan Mamdani getting ready to
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Speaker 2: do the exact same thing. Government buildings built with government
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Speaker 2: The program was called Mission Vivienda. It was a housing
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Speaker 2: social takeover. Remember Chavez. First he did was mandated higher wages,
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Speaker 2: and so everyone started paying everyone mandated higher wages, and
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Speaker 2: the cost of everything went up. So then he invoked
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Speaker 2: price controls, so everything closed. Then he started arresting the
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Speaker 2: business owners who closed their businesses, and Barack Obama bails
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Speaker 2: him out with you know, they said, and they exchange
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Speaker 2: become the National Secure Purity Advisor for taking a phone
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Speaker 2: Hugo Chavez was Where are some of the complaints about that?
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Speaker 2: Oh he was he was magic, he was storybook man,
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Speaker 2: storybook This is just another one of those weird chapters
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Speaker 2: of the storybook. But it's it's fun to watch the
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Speaker 2: New York Times forced to report that government housing can
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Speaker 2: you know, here in New York we're on bedrock. So
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Speaker 2: now that won't happen when Zarhan Mam Donnie builds all
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Speaker 2: the wonderful public housing like we used to build in
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Speaker 2: Queen's in Brooklyn for people, so we could just deposit
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Speaker 2: It's President of Trump from just under the wire, just
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Speaker 2: like Cocoa Goff got the winning shot in just before
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Speaker 2: the curfew, just before it became July fifth. On the
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Speaker 2: National Mall Saturday Night. We'll get back into that. I
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Speaker 2: want to get into the Supreme Court. In their discussions
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Speaker 2: of these gun bands, Virginia, Connecticut, our friends up at
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Speaker 2: fourteen ninety wgh all looking to see because you know,
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Speaker 2: it's really hurtful to lump Virginia in with Connecticut when
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Speaker 2: it comes to these kind of gun crabs. But the
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court is trying to weigh in some of the
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Speaker 2: lower courts trying to decide whether or not to allow
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Speaker 2: an unconstitutional gun grab to go on before anyone's actually
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Speaker 2: tried to buy one, you know. And that's the problem
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Speaker 2: with the courts is they decide, well, nobody's been harmed
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Speaker 2: by this, and then you have to wait for somebody
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Speaker 2: to get harmed by it, and then the state will
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Speaker 2: argue with their hot and cold running lawyers that it
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Speaker 2: was a setup, and it goes back and forth. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: it's all about unconstitutional usurpations. But let me get a
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Speaker 2: couple of folks busy this morning at four three, four
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Speaker 2: eight eight two four to two one seven to discuss
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Speaker 2: the business of the day. Eddie in Scottsville, How are you, Eddie?
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Speaker 2: Doing great?
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Speaker 7: Happy Independence Year?
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Speaker 2: We said, yeah, sorry, we're gonna drag this one out.
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Speaker 2: If the leftists can do it, we can do it.
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Speaker 2: You know, they do it Lennon's feld. I mean Green Day,
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Speaker 2: so you know we can Earth Day. I'm sorry, Green
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Speaker 2: Days a band. But Eddie, what's on your mind this morning?
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Speaker 7: Just one more comment? About the follow works display up
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Speaker 7: in Washington. And by the way, we had a great
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Speaker 7: parade here in Scottsville, about ten thousand people. All the
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Speaker 7: festivities went on as playing, except we had to delay
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Speaker 7: the follow works until last night. And it was still
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Speaker 7: a nice nice.
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Speaker 2: Oh did you move into the next night? I see,
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Speaker 2: I've and for the first time, I think this is
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Speaker 2: the first time in twenty years or something like that,
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Speaker 2: I was not a participant. We were in the Stanton
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Speaker 2: parade this morning or Saturday morning. There. They did manage
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Speaker 2: to because they had a big concert scheduled as adjunct
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Speaker 2: to the fireworks. They were getting, you know, the Statler
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Speaker 2: Brothers and all this stuff together to celebrate two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty years, so they couldn't really move it to
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Speaker 2: the next night, so they hung in there like the
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Speaker 2: President until they finally got the lightning out of the
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Speaker 2: room there. But so it was a good crowd though
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Speaker 2: in Ssconsville for the fourth of July.
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Speaker 7: Yes it was.
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Speaker 3: I was.
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Speaker 7: I was in the braide again. I had a little
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Speaker 7: bit newer ride than you and I had three years ago.
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Speaker 7: I had a seventy three triumph R six.
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Speaker 2: Nice well years ago to celebrate my old flagship station
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Speaker 2: had been put on the air in nineteen thirty three?
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Speaker 2: Was it Eddie? And so we found a nineteen thirty
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Speaker 2: three Ford to ride in the parade with. That was
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Speaker 2: kind of cool today. And you did a fine job
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Speaker 2: driving because I was not going to drive this person's
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Speaker 2: beautiful piece of machinery that they had led to us there.
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Speaker 7: Well, I I was chopin this time, but I had
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Speaker 7: fifty pounds of canyons to throw to the kids, So.
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Speaker 2: You needed security for that. So you had to thought
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Speaker 2: about the fireworks over DC.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I guess I'm old fashioned, but you know,
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Speaker 7: when you on the ground, I know how it was
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Speaker 7: in DC. But when you're on the ground and you're
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Speaker 7: looking up into the night sky and all of a
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Speaker 7: sudden you see a burst, and to have the fireworks
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Speaker 7: painted against the night sky, I think it's just great.
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Speaker 7: But it looked like the Hamburg Firestone warm in Washington.
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Speaker 7: I mean, you couldn't see the sky. It was all fireworks,
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Speaker 7: and given it's the most love ever seen in my lifetime,
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Speaker 7: and I've been around the flood a few times, but
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Speaker 7: you couldn't see the sky and there was a heavy
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Speaker 7: smoke cover and I just thought it might have been
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Speaker 7: a little bit too many.
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Speaker 2: But you know, the smoke, the smoke is always one
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Speaker 2: of those things that the pyrotechnics experts like RJ would
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Speaker 2: tell you. You know, you got to take into a fact
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Speaker 2: how much smoke is going to linger, especially on a humid,
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Speaker 2: rainy night. The smoke is not going to dissipate all
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Speaker 2: that much. But that's all in the planning process. You'd
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Speaker 2: only turned two hundred and fifty one time, Eddie, so
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Speaker 2: you ready you fired up for the next two fifty.
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Speaker 7: I might be able to handle fifteen of them.
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Speaker 2: We'll all be here. We got a hold on for
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Speaker 2: the actual two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the country,
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Speaker 2: which is going to be in about fourteen years. But
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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon, Eddie. God bless you, sir,
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe, God bless you. And four three four
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Speaker 2: number there. And our friends at the Jefferson Coin shop.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the the the power of gold and silver
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Speaker 2: a big part of you know, what has made this
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Speaker 2: country prosperous for all these years. And James luck of
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Speaker 2: course each and every morning checking in to let us
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Speaker 2: know how gold and silver are faring on the markets
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Speaker 2: and heading in to this next two hundred and fifty years. There,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, James. How are you doing this morning, sir?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Joe? How are you? Oh? Busy? Busy?
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Speaker 2: A lot of folks want to kick off the next
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years in style. Absolutely, I don't
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Speaker 2: blame him. How was your Independence Day?
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Speaker 1: It was nice.
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Speaker 8: I spent some good time with family.
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Speaker 2: I got in the pool a little bit.
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Speaker 8: So that was fun.
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Speaker 2: Good, good. I'm glad you had a good time. So
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Speaker 2: how are gold and silver doing this? You know? July six, Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Gold and silver had a strong Thursday to finish out
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Speaker 8: the short week yesterd last week, down just slightly this morning,
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Speaker 8: but still holding above key levels. Gold is above forty
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Speaker 8: one hundred dollars, which is great to see.
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Speaker 9: It's currently down about half a percent so far today,
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Speaker 9: down twenty five dollars, but it's at four thousand, one
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Speaker 9: hundred and fifty dollars. Silver is down about a half
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Speaker 9: percent also, but it broke above sixty on Thursday and
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Speaker 9: it is held strong.
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Speaker 8: Is at sixty two dollars and five cents this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's trying to make a rally there, but
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Speaker 2: still an opportunity there. It's good, so you'll be back
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Speaker 2: at it for probably a lot of orders waiting for
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Speaker 2: you at jcsgold dot com. Folks going to visit you
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Speaker 2: over the weekend there, so I'll let you get on
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Speaker 2: with it, James. But thanks for all the support as always,
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Speaker 2: jcsgold dot com. Don't believe me about the family business bit,
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Speaker 2: of course not. You know, I don't ask you to
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Speaker 2: believe me just because I say something. Call them at
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Speaker 2: four three four nine to seven nine coin just like
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Speaker 2: I just did, not a special number or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: You have a great morning, James, Thanks show you too
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Speaker 2: at four three four eight A two four two one seven.
28:48
Speaker 2: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe. Who's this? Hey,
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Speaker 2: Joe's Clark? Hey Clark? Did you hear the nod from
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Speaker 2: the stage in Stanton?
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Speaker 10: Wait? Which one?
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Speaker 2: So? So the third generation of Reads took to the
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Speaker 2: stage once the storms got out of there and favored
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Speaker 2: the tune the town with a little Pride Month throwback, uh,
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Speaker 2: And they did their rendition of yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 10: The Kissing Angel. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: That was great.
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Speaker 2: If you know you know.
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Speaker 10: Hey, you know you plant little seeds and then they
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Speaker 10: grow joe.
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Speaker 2: Like chestnut trees. There it is, so hang on a second.
29:30
Speaker 2: I know you've you've held on for quite a bit,
29:32
Speaker 2: but the headlights looming ahead of us is not the
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Speaker 2: end of the tunnel, but the beginning of the news
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Speaker 2: So I just don't want to get you started and
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Speaker 2: not be able to finish with you. I just want
29:45
Speaker 2: to let you know we got you, We feel your player,
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Speaker 2: and we'll come right to you when we get back
29:49
Speaker 2: from the news, catch you up and get you in
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Speaker 1: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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Speaker 1: know the first thing today.
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Speaker 2: It's not Don and Harold, but it's Jack and Davis
31:27
Speaker 2: Reid and a little nod to doctor Clark and pride
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Speaker 2: month here on the first thing today. Uh there Clark,
31:36
Speaker 2: thank you for hanging on the line there. That was
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Speaker 2: recorded Saturday night during our Independence Day celebration. Statler Fest
31:44
Speaker 2: is what everyone's calling it as they brought Jimmy Fortune back.
31:48
Speaker 2: At least a lot of folks online asking the same
31:50
Speaker 2: question you asked Saturday morning. But you know, this is
31:54
Speaker 2: what you get and uh and a lot of people
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Speaker 2: love it. I was. I mean, we've got in our
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Speaker 2: flagship city of Stating, and we've got Statler Boulevard, We've
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Speaker 2: got lou de Witt Highway. I mean it is it
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Speaker 2: is Statler Central here for the Country Music Hall of
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Speaker 2: Famers around here, a huge crowd all waited through the
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Speaker 2: rain storms, lightning, And that was the bigger problem is
32:20
Speaker 2: they couldn't get the lightning to stop flashing. And every
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Speaker 2: time you get a flash of lightning, fire departments and
32:26
Speaker 2: all those folks say, you know nothing for half an hour.
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Speaker 2: High school football games famous for you know, hour long,
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Speaker 2: two hour long evacuations of the stands when there's lightning
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Speaker 2: in the area. There anyway, Clark, thank you for hanging
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Speaker 2: on the line with us. How are you doing this morning?
32:45
Speaker 2: I'm all good sjah.
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Speaker 10: So you're using the blue Tarsky speech.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I used to, you know, ask anyone who saw
32:52
Speaker 2: the parade. As if anyone saw the parade, I was
32:55
Speaker 2: going around every you know, twenty or thirty yards. I'd
32:58
Speaker 2: get a new cop of people underneath the trees, out
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Speaker 2: of the sun, and I'd run up to them. Who's
33:04
Speaker 2: ready for the next two hundred and fifty? That first
33:06
Speaker 2: two fifty was so easy. Let's do another two fifty?
33:09
Speaker 2: Who's with me? And they all laughed. It was It
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Speaker 2: was kind of fun. I was playing the clown Prince
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Speaker 2: of Parades on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 10: So as Blue Tarski's speech wound down, Otter, portrayed by
33:23
Speaker 10: Tim Matheson, yeah, very well, shoot up and made this
33:27
Speaker 10: statement that somebody needed to do something futile and stupid
33:32
Speaker 10: as a gesture, and they were just the people that
33:34
Speaker 10: could do it. Now here's the thing, Joe. Tim Matheson
33:39
Speaker 10: was the voice of Johnny Quest.
33:42
Speaker 2: Was he really? I didn't know that.
33:44
Speaker 10: Yes, he was the way. There's more. Tim Matheson joined
33:49
Speaker 10: the United States Marine Corps became a United States Marine
33:52
Speaker 10: in nineteen seventy.
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Speaker 2: Joe, do you know what that means? He's a marine.
33:57
Speaker 2: Johnny Quest became.
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Speaker 10: I don't know what Hodgy went on to do, but
34:05
Speaker 10: Johnny Quest ended up in the United States Spring. That's
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Speaker 10: pretty cool, Joe.
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Speaker 2: It's very cool. He also did a great job when
34:13
Speaker 2: they put Bill O'Reilly's first book to film, Killing Reagan.
34:18
Speaker 2: It was the first one of Bill O'Reilly's killing series.
34:22
Speaker 2: Tim Mathieson did a great job as Reagan in that movie.
34:27
Speaker 2: It was also I think Vice President Hoins on the
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Speaker 2: West wing. But I just thought he did a great
34:35
Speaker 2: job in killing Reagan when they made that into a movie.
34:38
Speaker 2: For I think he can find out somewhere.
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Speaker 10: You're a little bit younger than I am. How old
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Speaker 10: are you in nineteen seventy six, Joe?
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Speaker 2: I was thirteen years old?
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Speaker 10: Thirteen? Okay, all right, so we remember nineteen seventy six.
34:57
Speaker 10: Let's say the Starland Vocal Band was singing out star
35:00
Speaker 10: Rockets or Skyrockets in flight, Apollo Creed gave an unknown
35:06
Speaker 10: club fighter a shot at the title in Philadelphia. Yep,
35:12
Speaker 10: because it was to buy Centennial. Joe, it just seems
35:17
Speaker 10: like to me it was a lot bigger deal.
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Speaker 2: And well, because you're talking about you, here's why it
35:24
Speaker 2: was a bigger deal, doctor Clark, because you had the
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Speaker 2: whole country behind the idea.
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Speaker 10: Yes, yes, you had one of the country, not fifty maybe.
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Speaker 10: And if they want to refer this as an experiment, Joe,
35:39
Speaker 10: I don't know how many experiments you ever had to
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Speaker 10: write up, but I had to write up a bunch
35:44
Speaker 10: of them. And there's always a hypothesis, there's methods, data,
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Speaker 10: and then a conclusion and you know, a good experiment
35:55
Speaker 10: should have one variable, Joe Hard it's got too many variables.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not an experiment. See that's the lie they
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Speaker 2: tell you. It's not an experiment. It's because we wove
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Speaker 2: changeability into it. And maybe, you know, I don't think
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Speaker 2: it was a mistake, but the haters and the improgressives
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Speaker 2: want to use that as a signal though, Well, the
36:22
Speaker 2: Founding Fathers knew they were wrong. They must be corrected,
36:28
Speaker 2: and there's all this rhetoric of hate. You know that
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Speaker 2: the Founding Fathers put flexibility into something. You'd think a
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Speaker 2: group that likes to call themselves progressive would be all
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Speaker 2: in favor of but they're not. They love to use it,
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Speaker 2: but they don't want to trumpet in.
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Speaker 10: Yeah so progressive. What have we learned about left speak?
36:51
Speaker 2: Show it's the opposite.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: So they don't want progress, they want regression. They want
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Speaker 10: to go back to centralized authority and total control.
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Speaker 2: Which takes me to the New York Times, who was forced,
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Speaker 2: probably because they spent a lot of money to send
37:10
Speaker 2: their reporters down to Venezuela, forced to publish a column
37:15
Speaker 2: that said that communists were the reason that the citizens
37:19
Speaker 2: of Venezuela were saying it was Hugo Chavez and Nicholas
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Speaker 2: Maduro who built these crappy public housing buildings that came
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Speaker 2: crashing down the minute. You know, there was a little
37:30
Speaker 2: shaking going on.
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Speaker 10: Yes, well, I don't know even a broke clock will
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Speaker 10: get it right twice a day or something like that.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, I just think it's a heady time when
37:46
Speaker 2: even The New York Times is forced to publish in
37:49
Speaker 2: a city that's berefed, with Zorhan Mamdani talking about doing
37:54
Speaker 2: the exact same thing, taking huge swaths of land and
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Speaker 2: you know, and turning it into the public.
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Speaker 10: All right, So you got Zorhan, mom, dammy, and we're
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Speaker 10: gonna start primary and the old Guard. So maybe people
38:12
Speaker 10: at the New York Times are starting to figure out
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Speaker 10: that it's one time, or it's one thing to talk communism,
38:17
Speaker 10: it's another thing to have to.
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Speaker 2: Do it until their buildings get taken over. You know,
38:23
Speaker 2: they were hit because the New York Times Dirty Little
38:27
Speaker 2: Secret is published, like so much of New York is
38:30
Speaker 2: made in New Jersey because New Jersey, as bad as
38:34
Speaker 2: it is, is actually better for taxes and that kind
38:38
Speaker 2: of thing. So, like so many other businesses connected to
38:42
Speaker 2: New York City. It actually exists in New Jersey and
38:46
Speaker 2: they came up with huge taxes on and this they're
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Speaker 2: one of the center pieces of Mam Donnie's attempt to
38:56
Speaker 2: what do they call it, nationally on shore the tax
38:59
Speaker 2: revenue to repatriate this tax revenue. So they're trying to
39:04
Speaker 2: get them to have to pay fees to deliver their newspaper.
39:07
Speaker 2: They want an extra tax on all newspapers, subscriptions that
39:11
Speaker 2: come into New York City. Is all kinds of stuff.
39:15
Speaker 2: Any any employees have to be you know, pay New
39:18
Speaker 2: York City employee tax. It's crazy, but this is what
39:24
Speaker 2: they're doing. They're chasing all the businesses that previous Democrats
39:30
Speaker 2: drove out of New York City. There's chase. Instead of
39:33
Speaker 2: trying to get them back, they're just chasing them down
39:36
Speaker 2: for money. Out of Florida, out of Georgia, out of
39:39
Speaker 2: New Jersey, out of Connecticut, all these places that these
39:43
Speaker 2: companies have run to be they Democrat led or not,
39:48
Speaker 2: they're better than New York City. And then so now
39:51
Speaker 2: Mamdani's trying to get their taxes too.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you'll have Newsom and Mandami trying to pull some
39:58
Speaker 10: kind of deal whereby get like, I don't know what
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Speaker 10: would you call it, tax.
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Speaker 2: Extradition all X size taxes or you know, oversized taxes
40:12
Speaker 2: or something. It's or fees. They love fees. John Roberts
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Speaker 2: can call them taxes if it goes to the Supreme Court.
40:19
Speaker 2: Good stuff, my friend. You know, here's to here's to
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Speaker 2: the next two fifty and we need more marines. Four
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Speaker 2: three four eight eight two four two one seven is
40:32
Speaker 2: the phone number emails come into JT in the Morning
40:35
Speaker 2: radio at gmail dot com. Ray wrote this in on Saturday.
40:40
Speaker 2: I thought we had some really good conversations on the
40:44
Speaker 2: things the other things that we started two hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty years ago with our declaration of independence.