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"Grift" (Tuesday, March 24, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville jewort said.
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  Speaker 2: Steal me. What is it with my hometown? Pleas for work?
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  Speaker 1: When the sun comes up?
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  Speaker 2: Drops a kid to scoom.
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  Speaker 1: Joey all the jersues needs.
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  Speaker 3: No one that Joe's as smile He only is.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, did you ever feel like just the weird stuff
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  Speaker 2: follows you around? Thank you for letting me be of
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  Speaker 2: service to you this morning live from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in
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  Speaker 2: the shadow of Lookout Mountain where, Yeah, we were thinking
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  Speaker 2: about actually doing the show from a top lookout mountain,
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  Speaker 2: but considerations for the Mumford Tea firefly sucket from the
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  Speaker 2: sky down link antenna that we use was pre eminent.
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  Speaker 2: So we wanted to make sure we could connect with
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  Speaker 2: you thoroughly and properly at four three four eight eight
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  Speaker 2: two four two one seven That is the phone number.
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  Speaker 2: Emails come into JT in the Morning radio at gmail
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  Speaker 2: dot com fully functioning, which is more than I can say,
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  Speaker 2: at least because he needs a check up from the neck.
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  Speaker 4: Up.
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  Speaker 2: Story out of my hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia actually begins in Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: where and I kid you not. This is the headline.
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  Speaker 2: Quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested for murder at a Charlottesville hospital.
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  Speaker 2: That's the headline. The story gets right, then the story
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  Speaker 2: gets weird from there, so as it goes, this fellow,
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  Speaker 2: who I guess had a grievous septic situation as a youth,
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  Speaker 2: lost both legs and arms in the attempt to save
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  Speaker 2: his life, which was successful, has gone on to achieve
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  Speaker 2: greatness as a champion corn hole player. Yeah, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: clock over there. We're in a mobile studio and I
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  Speaker 2: need to make sure I can see everything so that
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  Speaker 2: we don't blow past important time marks, like when we
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  Speaker 2: tell you what's been going on. But this, this fellow,
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  Speaker 2: this quadruple amputee out of Maryland La Plata, Maryland, shot
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  Speaker 2: somebody in his car during an argument. Dayton Weber shot
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  Speaker 2: and killed the passenger and dumped him out of the
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  Speaker 2: car and then drove to Charlotteesville because I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: where you go. Friend of mine suggested that it's because
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  Speaker 2: of the way the local prosecutor handles cases like this
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  Speaker 2: and is considered to be one of those Soros backed
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  Speaker 2: soft on crime types. I don't know, but what is it?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just feel like your hometown is jinxed sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: so as we get into the news that means something
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  Speaker 2: to you. Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and
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  Speaker 2: flight data recorder from the Canadian Airlines plane that crashed
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  Speaker 2: into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport, killing both pilot's.
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  Speaker 2: Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homidy, said
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  Speaker 2: the cockpit voice controller recorder was not damaged and they've
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  Speaker 2: also been able to get the flight data recorder. She said,
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  Speaker 2: my hope is that we'll have information to share tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: on what led to the horror face crash with the
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  Speaker 2: fire truck at one of the busiest airports in America.
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine's military intelligence says it has irrefutable evidence that Russia
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  Speaker 2: continues to provide intelligence to Iran and such activity can
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  Speaker 2: only prolong the war in the Middle East. According to
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  Speaker 2: Vladimir Zelinski, don't know what he got that idea from.
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  Speaker 2: Right after Russian President Vladimir Putin went on statewide television
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  Speaker 2: congratulating Iranian leaders on Norwood's and said Moscow remained a
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  Speaker 2: loyal friend and reliable partner to Tehran State. The Senate
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  Speaker 2: confirmed Mark Wayne Mullen as the new Homeland Security Secretary
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  Speaker 2: late Monday, proving President Trump's nominee to take over. It
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  Speaker 2: was largely on a party line vote, with a couple
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  Speaker 2: of Democrats joining the Republicans in supporting Mullen's candidacy. President
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  Speaker 2: Trump said MONDAYI was talking with a respected Iranian leader
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  Speaker 2: and has claimed the Islamic Republic is eager for a
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  Speaker 2: deal to end the war. Vice President J. D. Vance
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  Speaker 2: meanwhile was speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin nat Nyahou
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  Speaker 2: on Monday about these efforts to renew war ending negotiations
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  Speaker 2: with Tehran. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights
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  Speaker 2: has opened two new investigations into Harvard University over allegations
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  Speaker 2: of anti Semitic discrimination tied to both admissions practices and
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  Speaker 2: campus speech conditions. The United States and Total Energies Monday
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  Speaker 2: signed an agreement to end the French company's offshore US
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  Speaker 2: wind farm projects and redirect the one billion dollars in
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  Speaker 2: our first things for this Tuesday morning. Not entirely unlike
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  Speaker 1: Question the first thing today on the Talk Media Network
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 16: Come on, wait to get down to Tanne see I'm
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  Speaker 16: leaving immediately, Channa nooga here, I came on me boy?
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  Speaker 2: Is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo should probably a quarter
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  Speaker 2: mile from the Chattanooga Chew Choo Museum.
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  Speaker 17: Can you give me a shot?
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  Speaker 2: Not sure? Thank you, missus miss and miss and miss Andrews. Yeah. Also,
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  Speaker 2: interestingly enough, the International Towing and Recovery museum is in Chattanooga.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what you infer from that, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're in the towing and recovery business, you probably already
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  Speaker 2: knew that Chattanooga was home of the ear the International.
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  Speaker 2: I'm compelled more than I am to go see the
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  Speaker 2: Chattanooga choo Chow because I'm waiting for big Boy to
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  Speaker 2: come through town. Is to go see what makes this
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  Speaker 2: the international? I mean, do we have a French tow
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  Speaker 2: trunk there? I'm not sure what makes it an international
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  Speaker 2: recovery and museum there? Of course, in the shadow of
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  Speaker 2: Lookout Mountain here in Chattanooga, on our way to Dallas
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  Speaker 2: for seapack brought to you by the Heritage Foundation, the
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Institute for Public Policy, and the Committee for a
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  Speaker 2: Constructive Tomorrow, and we've got a lot of coverage. We're
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  Speaker 2: already setting up folks, interesting folks, a lot of international flavor.
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  Speaker 2: But as Matt Schlapp told us in a previous episode
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  Speaker 2: of the program, an awful lot of stuff from people
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  Speaker 2: who are out there doing more than they are pontificating.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure you're going to have the Ted
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  Speaker 2: cruises there. President Trump in Memphis up just up the
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  Speaker 2: road from us here and our dear friends at the
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  Speaker 2: nine to ninety Kwham and visiting and talking with the
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  Speaker 2: work that they're doing, and really a great story out
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  Speaker 2: of Memphis where the mayor has embraced the idea of
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  Speaker 2: if hey, if the President wants to help us fight crime.
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  Speaker 2: And we were there as a matter of fact, we
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  Speaker 2: just ran the ad for Freedom Fest couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom Fest was in Memphis, Tennessee, and one of the
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  Speaker 2: most strikingly ironic things I've ever seen in all my
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  Speaker 2: years is the large, not inconsiderable homeless encampment. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a professionally managed I think it's Red Cross, but one
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  Speaker 2: of the local aid agencies comes every morning with food
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  Speaker 2: and then in the evening they come back with blankets
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  Speaker 2: for this quasi permanent homeless encampment right out in front
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  Speaker 2: of the Federal Reserve Bank. I know that triggered Andy, Andy, Andy,
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  Speaker 2: and Florida is like.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: We were walking past it because it's right in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of downtown, which downtown in Memphis terms right now
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  Speaker 2: means a lot of hulking empty buildings that have been
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  Speaker 2: empty since the eighties, probably since Tom Cruise and company
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  Speaker 2: left filming the John Grisham movie there. But the it's
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful spot, it's a beautiful city. Some municipal boondoggles,
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  Speaker 2: the whole city island thing with the tram that that's
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  Speaker 2: featured in the Grisham movie. But I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of city and state spending on stuff that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't helping anyone get jobs, and so the poverty just
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  Speaker 2: kept metastasizing, got worse and worse and worse. And President
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  Speaker 2: Trump in Memphis and our friend Todd Starns there a
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  Speaker 2: roundtable with the mayor and all the folks there. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, on his way to they keep this stuff
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  Speaker 2: under wraps. But they've got Saturday kind of blocked up
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  Speaker 2: at Seapack, so you have to imagine President Trump will
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  Speaker 2: be their Ted Cruz. So all these folks, Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of podcasters who are going to be
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  Speaker 2: looking for our attention. And this is one of the things,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not slagging. We post every show to the
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  Speaker 2: podcast channel at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com,
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  Speaker 2: but every time another expert comes up to me and
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  Speaker 2: tells me that radio's dying and we could go back
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  Speaker 2: to the CBS Radio thing. My dear friend John Caracciola,
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  Speaker 2: the owner of JBC Media and Long Island News Radio,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of our affiliates. We'd love to be
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  Speaker 2: on there Monday through Friday. We're just there on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: after Saturday's program. And I'm going to see John in
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  Speaker 2: about a month and a half at Talkers Magazine's annual conference.
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  Speaker 2: But it was right after Saturday's program. And if you
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  Speaker 2: listen to Saturday's program, I know we're on up in
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts and here on our flagship station in Charlottesville and
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  Speaker 2: Stanton and Harrisonburg, but I don't know. And of course
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  Speaker 2: on Long Island News Radio right after Saturday's program, which
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  Speaker 2: was just full of this story of CBS Radio News
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  Speaker 2: shuttering its news division for radio after almost one hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: John Carracciola, if you follow me on Facebook, I reposted
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  Speaker 2: his point about Wall Street and media, and he makes
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  Speaker 2: some good points in the abstract of right here, right now,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll unpack some more of that coming up in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. But all that leading up to Seapack,
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  Speaker 2: which is coming up in just a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: out of Dallas, Texas. You know, dollars, taxes, there this
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  Speaker 2: email about the quadruple amputee murder suspect arrested in Charlottesville.
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  Speaker 2: He says, Joe, don't you understand there's a pamphlet Everyone
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  Speaker 2: who has a slightly less than firm grip on their
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  Speaker 2: marbles is told, get thee to Charlotte'sville. Okay? Is that
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  Speaker 2: like Horace Greeley's go West young Man exhortation. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: go to Charlottesville if you're feeling on edge. A text
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  Speaker 2: message from Martha says Joe. Absolutely, Charlottesville is famous for
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  Speaker 2: its progressive prosecutor, as is much of Virginia, so this
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  Speaker 2: guy probably figured he'd get the easiest possible deal there,
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  Speaker 2: although Maryland is pretty soft on crime too. Apparently the
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  Speaker 2: story is they were having an argument in the guy's tesla,
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  Speaker 2: the quadruple amputee murder suspect. You can't make this stuff up,
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  Speaker 2: which is name Wells, So Wells got into an argument.
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  Speaker 2: Wells was the victim. I'm sorry, Wells is the victim.
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  Speaker 2: Bradrick Michael Wells of Waldorf, Maryland was in the car
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  Speaker 2: going somewhere with Dayton Weber. Dayton Weber's the assailant, and
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  Speaker 2: they got into an argument and apparently at some point
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  Speaker 2: it wound up with Weber shooting Wells, killing him driving
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  Speaker 2: a decent amount. They said it was about half an
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  Speaker 2: hour from where the shooting took place. Dumped the body there,
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  Speaker 2: and then continued to Charlottesville to go to one of
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  Speaker 2: our two hospitals. And I find it interesting that every
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  Speaker 2: single news outlet and I shouldn't be fixated on which
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  Speaker 2: hospital this guy wound up in. It's probably the famous
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  Speaker 2: one attached to the University of Virginia, but wound up
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  Speaker 2: in an unnamed hospital where he was arrested by the
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  Speaker 2: county police after they found his car, which had a
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  Speaker 2: BOLO released for it be on the lookout. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's sad story. I don't know. Anger issues. Dude
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  Speaker 2: had seemingly overcome quite a bit, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's something in being a professional cornhole player that
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  Speaker 2: brings out, you know, just like being a professional football player.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of these guys have anger issues. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure I've never been a professional.
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  Speaker 17: Hey Brandt, and her name is Shary I love. She's
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  Speaker 17: a friend of mine whom we were just praying for
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  Speaker 17: because of a surgery. She just went through.
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  Speaker 16: talk about all the time, which.
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  Speaker 17: Is meta share.
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  Speaker 18: That is right.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, So what was your experience like with meta share
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  Speaker 4: There was a scheme a couple of employees that we're
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  Speaker 2: two channel two in Houston about this. All right, it's
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  Speaker 2: a couple the guys, it's The total was somewhere around
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and forty six one thousand dollars in duplicate
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  Speaker 2: tool purchases with and moneies that they made is selling
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud. All right, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: change the outcome of election, but the election has already
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  Speaker 2: been certified. So move on. Because if this is just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys in the Houston Public Works Department, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what did you go to the ATM and get a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hundred singles for? But these massive city budgets
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  Speaker 2: throw this money around without you know, realizing that it's
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  Speaker 2: dollars in spending. And that's this is the stuff that's
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  Speaker 2: not authorized, not the slush funds that are authorized by
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  Speaker 2: the city, which is really probably the problem with these
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  Speaker 2: two criminal masterminds in Houston is they were they were
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  Speaker 2: grifting outside of the city's authorized grift.
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  Speaker 23: They to talk to you about all the tools that
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  Speaker 23: This post is from one of his Instagram accounts, selling
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  Speaker 2: Text message just came in and said, what is eBay's
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  Speaker 2: authority in this. Aren't they supposed to check that you
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  Speaker 2: bit of business. Now in Virginia, where we flag out of,
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  Speaker 2: I remember when the law was passed, probably ten fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years ago. My first thought was those yard signs and
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  Speaker 2: by owner. How I always wanted to see one of
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  Speaker 2: that these dudes may have committed was selling something they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have permission to sell. But that's murky because they
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  Speaker 2: did purchase it. They have receipts saying that they were
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  Speaker 2: the ones who purchased with someone else's credit card. And
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  Speaker 2: you say, well, how do you how do you operate
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  Speaker 2: or spending plans is that somebody sitting all the way
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  Speaker 2: down the food chain is going to say they got
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  Speaker 2: all the money in this town. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: not living in the nice part of town. The cutoff
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: T shirt he is wearing looked clean, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in the rich part of town. They were city employees
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  Speaker 2: working for public works. And I'm not excusing it by saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the true grift, which are the slush funds that are
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  Speaker 2: created out of the seven billion dollar budget. It's in
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the capital expenditure world. See what this guy really needed
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  Speaker 24: I asked, we'd like to appropriate fifty thousand dollars from
• 37:32
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: With every thread, the White House is a really nice
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  Speaker 2: place to live. But I'm telling you President Trump has
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  Speaker 2: got much more palatial space in the frontal cortex of
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  Speaker 2: most of those with TDS. And maybe, as as we
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  Speaker 2: discussed yesterday, that's what the ketamine treatments for AOC was for.
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  Speaker 2: I know ketamine is traditionally you know PTSD, but I
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  Speaker 2: think TDS certainly could be part of it. Or it's
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  Speaker 2: for her staff who has to deal with her, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that may be far more likely uh scenario.
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  Speaker 2: And as an example, her grandpa, Bill James Carville, all
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  Speaker 2: good old corporal cube ball, and I have to give
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  Speaker 2: Jim a little credit here. He has taken to sitting
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  Speaker 2: closer to the computer because for a while there when
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  Speaker 2: networks like CNN we're saying, hey, we can get James
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  Speaker 2: Carville on, and he used to be with Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: so that's famous. He would literally be sitting halfway across
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  Speaker 2: his living room reclining in a bark lounger, shouting across
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  Speaker 2: a bare walled room at a laptop condenser microphone. Condenser
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  Speaker 2: microphone is a little microphone that comes in your laptop
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  Speaker 2: as so he sounded like, is that's off here and
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to make it out through the echoes and
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  Speaker 2: everything else. So you know, somebody has told Bill sit
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  Speaker 2: a little closer to the laptop. We're not saying you
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  Speaker 2: have to go put a microphone phone on or any
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  Speaker 2: other that corporate stuff that you get so pissy about.
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  Speaker 2: But he went on a rant about President Trump and
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  Speaker 2: his reaction to the passing of Robert Muller, which, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I understand, we didn't talk about what what are we
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about? What was what was a segment
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  Speaker 2: on Robert Muller going to add to your morning. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to get arrested, He wasn't going to get
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  Speaker 2: a purp walk. So okay, he's met he's met the
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  Speaker 2: much more severe judge in his matters. But at the
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  Speaker 2: end of his screed about Trump and Robert Mueller, James
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  Speaker 2: Carville and his ADHD wandered him off into a discussion
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  Speaker 2: about Bill Maher and Bill Maher has really become the
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  Speaker 2: guy in the crosshairs because he's he's committed the original
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  Speaker 2: sin of being a guy they all trusted and then
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  Speaker 2: he turned on them. And not as much as Joe Rogan,
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  Speaker 2: because Joe Rogan still tries to be out there saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy let me down. Trump said no wars uh. And
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  Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, the Laught wants to say,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan, look at Joe Rogan. When five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: if Joe Rogan said something two years ago, if Joe
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  Speaker 2: Rogan said, there, you know, he's just a he's a comic,
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  Speaker 2: he's a comedian, that would be funny, is it? And
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  Speaker 2: now it's like, well, we'll look at this great political commentator,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan. Sense. But Joe envy As signed, here's Corporal
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  Speaker 2: c Ball yesterday talking about Bill Maher.
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  Speaker 1: And so now understand where you're coming from. Innocent.
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  Speaker 2: I'll consider you a friend.
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  Speaker 9: I'm and when you show a bunch of time, I
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  Speaker 9: think he basically.
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  Speaker 2: A compelling, gracious man. But give me a favor of Bill.
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  Speaker 27: Try to get your head out of Barry Weisse's ass.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's that's all the left has. If you disagree
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  Speaker 2: with them. It has to be because somebody has convinced
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  Speaker 2: you to do otherwise. I get it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I get people claiming that, oh, well, you're just paid
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  Speaker 2: for by thus and such. I mean, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at who's got the money to buy news coverage.
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  Speaker 2: It's the you know, pharmaceutical, big agriculture. You don't hear
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  Speaker 2: their ads on the show, do you you here, doctor
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  Speaker 2: barryon his gassy blood vessels, Doctor Mitch. Sorry, I'm don't please.
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  Speaker 2: I'm already in enough trouble for that, and I should
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  Speaker 2: apologize to Cealy here. But Cely, it is twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: and it's really up to you whether you want to
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  Speaker 2: be a guy or a girl. But Ceely, our friend
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  Speaker 2: in the four Corners is decidedly a male, and he
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  Speaker 2: sent me photographic evidence yesterday because I fumbled and stumbled
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  Speaker 2: my way through a segment about the CBD oil, to which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I blamed on the CBD oil. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it could be side effects, teasing, teasing, Celia,
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  Speaker 2: it's a I just took mine before we came on.
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  Speaker 2: But let's let's go back to this idea that Barry
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  Speaker 2: Weiss is the reason that Bill Maher has got a
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  Speaker 2: problem with the left wing agenda. You know, James, what
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  Speaker 2: was it that convinced you Bill? Was Bill Clinton cutting
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  Speaker 2: you in on some of the girl action? Is that
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  Speaker 2: why you supported him so much? Or did Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 2: get you, you know, to a point of power and
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  Speaker 2: authority and grift that you know you're able to look
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  Speaker 2: the other way while he was going off with the interns.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the same the good for the goose, good
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  Speaker 2: for the gander. If it's Barry Weiss that's telling Bill
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  Speaker 2: Maher how to think or act or what he should
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  Speaker 2: do on his show. By the way, Barry Weiss not
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  Speaker 2: in charge of HBO last time I checked. But the
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  Speaker 2: idea is that everyone's kissing up to Barry Weiss, who's
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  Speaker 2: the head of CBS, And everyone's saying, oh, do we
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  Speaker 2: have the clip of the CNN anchor quitting on the
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  Speaker 2: air again, Not because of Barry Weiss, but because now
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  Speaker 2: everyone is saying that Barry Weiss has ruined the newsrooms.
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  Speaker 2: You're making us be fair. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: segment at SEAPAC about bringing back the fairness doctrine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying because I'm that kind of guy to get
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  Speaker 2: FCC Commissioner Carr to come over to our radio booth.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think the chairman of the FCC would see a
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  Speaker 2: media row full of people, he'd come by and visit.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping because I want to ask. The fairness
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  Speaker 2: doctrine was the ultimate in unfairness. And okay, it's a
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  Speaker 2: weapon that we can use against people if you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to who said bad things about Donald Trump or even
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  Speaker 2: questionably true things about Donald Trump. But the fairness doctrine
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  Speaker 2: did more damage to more conservative thought. And if you
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  Speaker 2: want to bring back something that will almost immediately end
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  Speaker 2: our ability to have an honest conversation about anything on
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  Speaker 2: the radio, especially bring back the fairness doctrine. Now, I
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: know Barry Weiss is getting a lot of heat for
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  Speaker 2: shutting down CBS Radio News and blaming the fact. And
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  Speaker 2: this is where you know, I will agree with James
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  Speaker 2: carrvel Barry Weiss needs to get a check up from
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  Speaker 2: the neckup because the problem with CBS Radio News, and
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  Speaker 2: we've told you this chapter and verse is not the
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  Speaker 2: of all Americans do the math. It's three hundred million
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  Speaker 2: out to three hundred plus million people, it's your problem,
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  Speaker 2: So that sounds like a you problem, But that's what
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  Speaker 2: they want. They want to bring back the fairness doctrine.
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  Speaker 2: They want to do all these things because Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: made jokes unendingly about Donald Trump. I don't know. He
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of time hemorrhaging audiences too on ABC
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  Speaker 2: and CBS, hemorrhage so much audience that they had to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of Stephen Colbert because it was costing them
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  Speaker 2: too much, even for the amount of money of the
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