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"Narrative" (Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: The purpose of SpaceX.
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Speaker 2: It's like we want to make Star.
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Speaker 1: Trek real loving evidence out. First thing today on the
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Speaker 1: Talk Media Network by Joe, Thomas Stewart.
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Speaker 3: work when the sun comes up, drops a pet into school,
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Speaker 5: Treasure said needs.
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Speaker 6: No one that Joe's smiled.
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Speaker 2: He on the eggs, pa, hey you for letting us
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Speaker 2: be of service to you this morning. On the program
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Speaker 2: that tells you what went on last night, we'll tell
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Speaker 2: you what we see in between the tea leaves. But
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Speaker 2: more importantly, I want to know how it's impacting you,
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Speaker 2: four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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Speaker 2: If you're joining us in progress. We've covered a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff already and Joel's reacting to it. So even
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Speaker 2: before we can get your first things out there, Joel
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Speaker 2: has been triggered by something or another. I said, good morning, Joel,
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Speaker 2: how are you, sir? What's going on?
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Joe? Yeah, I'm not having an allergic reaction.
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Speaker 7: I'm having a reaction though.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't have any EPI pens, so I guess
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Speaker 2: that's good.
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Speaker 7: But two things I'd like to say. First of all,
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Speaker 7: I'd like to say, uh, mac mac McDonald was right
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Speaker 7: when he we have to we have to say he
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Speaker 7: has the proper macrophone. Since since you're doctor Clarker, you
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Speaker 7: and doctor Clark are inventing words, are creating worth it.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. Why can't we We're told we
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Speaker 2: can invent whatever we want.
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Speaker 7: Right since so now he knows he has a macrophone
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Speaker 7: for accuracy on the football games, yep, you know. So
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Speaker 7: I didn't watch it. I don't know if I watch it.
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Speaker 7: This Dealers are going to lose. Well, they lost anyway.
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Speaker 7: So I'm from Cincinnati and I was I was going
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Speaker 7: to root for them because I was hoping they can
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Speaker 7: make it to the playoffs scheme.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, but there's a certain way. I think
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who have grown weary of
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, uh, and so watching him fumble into a
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Speaker 2: touchdown and throw an intercept by the way spoilers, and
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Speaker 2: then throw an interception into a touchdown, I think there
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Speaker 2: were a lot of people who were just so like, ah,
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Speaker 2: maybe we're done with this guy. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: in anyway, what was your other point before we have
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Speaker 2: to run into our news here.
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Speaker 7: My other point is with my other point is with
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Speaker 7: these windmills and solar panels, can't they can't President Trump
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Speaker 7: indirectly since a lot of them come from China and
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Speaker 7: can't he can't. He can't he put like greater tariffs
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Speaker 7: on that and and do a slower trickle if they're
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Speaker 7: still going to get payments like like trickle their their
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Speaker 7: payment down to where they can't even repair them.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, take the High Amendment. We were talking
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Speaker 2: about the High Amendment yesterday, and right people are use
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Speaker 2: the premise of that past something that says American taxpayer
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Speaker 2: money cannot go to chikom companies to manufacture something is simple.
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Speaker 2: Why are we paying another country to undermine our country's security?
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Speaker 2: That goes into Huawei and the monies we pay into
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Speaker 2: these technology companies and these cell phone developers. And every
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Speaker 2: time I do it, somebody says, well, they're the only
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Speaker 2: ones who can. Since when there was obviously a point
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Speaker 2: like right after Henry Kissinger landed there that they weren't.
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Speaker 2: This is why they're given the hall pass on all
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Speaker 2: this climate stuff because they're still classified as an emerging economy,
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Speaker 2: which is laughable as well.
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Speaker 7: And Joe, parallel with everything we're talking about as far
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Speaker 7: as not the sports, but what these lefties is if
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Speaker 7: there's a green and they want everything so green, you
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Speaker 7: can't even reclaim the land on those solar panels like
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Speaker 7: now your guests we're talking about yesterday, or let's say,
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Speaker 7: even lithium batteries. You know they're hazardous too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. I mean you can't even use them
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Speaker 2: for a kid who's bipolar anymore. So that's lithium off
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Speaker 2: the market. Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. You have
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Speaker 2: a great morning.
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Speaker 7: A new prescription commercial for lithium batteries and my goodness, oh.
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Speaker 2: Don't even start. I hear I can hear the complaints already.
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Speaker 2: Here are first things this morning, the stories we're covering
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Speaker 2: for you so that we can discuss thoroughly. Jack Smith.
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Speaker 2: dropped because there was nothing there. He's going to be
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Speaker 2: called before the House Judiciary Committee January twenty second to
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Speaker 2: Quote is it is painful to see how, especially in
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Speaker 2: the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is
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Speaker 2: ends up excluding those who do not conform to the
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Speaker 2: ideologies that are fueling it. Speaking of nonconformists, Iran is
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Speaker 2: threatening to start executing the protesters that they have captured. However,
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Speaker 2: they have eased some restrictions on its citizens that are
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Speaker 2: allowing some people if you qualify or high ranking enough
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Speaker 2: to call out of the country. Nobody can call into
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Speaker 2: Iran right now, and they still have no Internet service
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Speaker 2: to communicate with. Speaking of other authoritarian regimes, China is
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Speaker 2: welcoming perhaps a new trading partner, as Canada is looking
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Speaker 2: for someplace to sell their goods aside from the United States.
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Mark Karney arrives in Beijing tomorrow is what
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Speaker 2: he calls a major rethink ties to the US French
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Speaker 2: Yeah, our friend Joanne Butler took the hit. You know,
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Speaker 2: us how gold and silver rarefied air well over eighty
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Speaker 2: dollars an ounce for silver, forty five hundred dollars an
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Speaker 2: ounce for gold. Yesterday morning, James, Good morning, sir, how
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Speaker 2: are you doing I'm doing well, Joe.
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Speaker 19: Gold and silver a holding at those highs from yesterday.
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Speaker 19: Gold is down just slightly, just down eleven dollars at
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Speaker 19: four thousand and five and eighty five dollars. There's a
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Speaker 19: quarter of percent below zero there and on the change.
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Speaker 19: Let's see silver though, Silver is holding strong, up half
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Speaker 19: of percent so far this morning of fifty cents to
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Speaker 19: eighty five dollars and sixty one cent.
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Speaker 2: So it likes it up there, it seems.
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Speaker 16: It sure does.
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Speaker 19: And uh, you know, with the with the rise and price,
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Speaker 19: we found some a couple of our silver items there
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Speaker 19: that were at spot or below spot, but we found
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Speaker 19: some there that that we put up. So there's some
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Speaker 19: back in stock and a negative pre there on silver,
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Speaker 19: so people can take advantage of that while those supplies last.
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Speaker 2: Oh good good. I'm glad you're able to find some
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Speaker 2: of that. And that's one of the other sides of
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Speaker 2: going to j csgold dot com is that, you know,
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Speaker 2: you you find collectible stuff more, you know, and I
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Speaker 2: think there are some gold coins, but most of it
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Speaker 2: is silver stuff coins collectibles, historicals and and that kind
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Speaker 2: of thing. Right, Yeah, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 19: We have a lot of items there that you know,
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Speaker 19: have the newest back value but also have a silver value.
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Speaker 19: When silver prices are high like this, the silver value
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Speaker 19: really kind of takes over that numismatic value.
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Speaker 2: But when you can find.
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Speaker 19: Those deals, and that's all that you know, coin collecting,
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Speaker 19: investing in golden silver is all about is finding that
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Speaker 19: and interesting.
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, because sure it's fun to invest, but if
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Speaker 2: you have something intrinsic that goes along with it, it
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Speaker 2: really it can be eight times more. And conversation at
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Speaker 2: a party, you know, it's like, are those doa balloons?
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Speaker 2: I don't know what you know, if you have the
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Speaker 2: balloons or anything like that, James, I appreciated those are
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Speaker 2: Please go to jcsgold dot com and take a look
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Speaker 2: at everything they have eighty gosh eighty five dollars on us. James,
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Speaker 2: thank you, sir, You have a great morning. Thanks show
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Speaker 2: to seventy nine coin after ten Eastern. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: hanging on the line, Matt. What's on your mind this morning, sir?
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Speaker 16: Well, I was just curious if Tim Walls is going
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Speaker 16: to mobilize the Minnesota Guard to fight against the ICE agents.
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Speaker 16: Before he does that, is he going to have Mark
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Speaker 16: Kelly come in to lecture them about illegal orders.
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Speaker 2: That would be a good, probably preparatory move on his part.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the question. Tell me if you haven't heard
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Speaker 2: of this scenario playing out in some oh, let's just say,
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Speaker 2: third world country where the president has the army and
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Speaker 2: the mayor of the capital city has the police, and
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Speaker 2: they're squaring off on you know, trop Tropicana dea Moore,
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Speaker 2: the main drag of whatever, beep whole city that they
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Speaker 2: call their capital. This is what Tim Walls sounds like.
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Speaker 2: He's becoming. He's becoming the mayor of that that the
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Speaker 2: third world capital city that wants to take over because
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Speaker 2: the police, in his mind work for him.
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Speaker 16: Well, in some ways, I feel kind of sorry for
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Speaker 16: Tim wall speakers. A year and a half ago, he
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Speaker 16: was riding high on this wave of agulation, right, and
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Speaker 16: now all of a sudden he realizes that not only
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Speaker 16: is he likely to end up in prison, but that
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Speaker 16: his own party is abandoning him because he has gotten
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Speaker 16: two radioactive and they're just gonna Tim. I think it's
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Speaker 16: you to fall on your sword. But here's a re
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Speaker 16: useful idiot. But now you're just an idiot.
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Speaker 2: This is the thing though, So when Kamala Harris was
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Speaker 2: told by her party elders who she was going to
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Speaker 2: have as a running mate, because I will garon damn
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Speaker 2: to you, she didn't make this call. Yeah, who vetted
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Speaker 2: Tim Waltz for this position? Because if they were supposedly
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Speaker 2: doing what is it they call it in politics, opposition research.
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Speaker 2: This was the whole point of the Steele dossier was
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Speaker 2: supposedly opposition research that the Clinton campaign had paid for
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Speaker 2: into finding out what Donald Trump was really about and
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Speaker 2: if there was anything they could use against him, they couldn't,
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Speaker 2: so they made stuff up. Hey, narrative, there's that word again.
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Speaker 2: But you know, well, who investigated Tim Waltz and who
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Speaker 2: missed all this stuff? Or were they willfully ignorant of it.
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Speaker 16: I don't. I don't think it's amitted that they were
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Speaker 16: willfully ignorant. I think they picked him because they thought
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Speaker 16: he's a good soldier, he'll do what he's told. And
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Speaker 16: also as far as opposition research, who are they afraid of?
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Speaker 16: They've got the media.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is the thing.
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Speaker 16: It's like when when you look out across the spectrum
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Speaker 16: of the media. You've got what the New York Post,
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Speaker 16: You've got several conservative radio networks and that sort of thing,
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Speaker 16: but the bulk of America is still listening to the
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Speaker 16: mainstream media, which, like Jim Walls, also does what it
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Speaker 16: is told.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I see your point is so in their
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Speaker 2: capital city, their newspaper can't even spell out the word
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Speaker 2: Minneapolis anymore. It's the mp LS Daily whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: And I feel for him. Yeah, there really is no
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Speaker 2: accountability because it's about fields. This is what the kids say,
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Speaker 2: it's about your feels, and and oh, they're helping the Somalis.
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Speaker 2: No they're not. They're the Somalis are helping themselves do
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Speaker 2: our money and none of it was going to the
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Speaker 2: people who deserved it. But nobody showed any interest into
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Speaker 2: this kind of fraud. So Tim Waltz was that much
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Speaker 2: closer to even an even bigger bag of other people's money.
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Speaker 16: Well, and also, I mean you talk about opposition research
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Speaker 16: and the media. I remember that Tom Eagleton got crucified
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Speaker 16: when McGovern picked him for a for the vice presidency
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Speaker 16: because at one point he'd had some electro shock treatment.
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Speaker 16: And then and then you jump ahead ten years, Oh
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Speaker 16: No? I think it's the slow infiltration of leftists into
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Speaker 2: we're going to run out of rare earth minerals. For
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Speaker 2: the solar panels, the issue was more what do we
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Speaker 2: do with them when we're done with them. We can't
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Speaker 2: recycle the things. If you came up with a way
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Speaker 2: to take a spent photovoltaiccel, clean it, whatever you would
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Speaker 2: have to do to reinvigorate all the receptors that turn
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Speaker 2: things into electricity, I would be I would be perfectly
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Speaker 2: fine to report on that. And there have been people
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Speaker 2: who have been making attempts to find ways to recycle
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Speaker 2: solar cells. They haven't been successful yet. But the solar
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Speaker 2: panel recycling is something that you would think. And again, Terry,
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Speaker 2: part of the reason I bring it up is the
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Speaker 2: hypocrisy of the green movement, which isn't green at all.
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Speaker 2: It's about creating these consumer products that we wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: bought in the first place because they're less efficient than
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Speaker 2: a sixty year old refrigerator is running on ammonia, less
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Speaker 2: efficient than anything. And we're told, just because nobody is
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Speaker 2: burning anything that it's green energy. But we're told nuclear
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Speaker 2: isn't green energy. Hydro electric isn't green energy, even though
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Speaker 2: hydro electric is just water running over a turbine that
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Speaker 2: generates electricity. Nuclear is making electricity the same way natural
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Speaker 2: gas or coal fired plants are. It makes steam and
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Speaker 2: the steam turns turbines. Thank you, doctor Watt. So the
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Speaker 2: point I was making is not necessarily along the lines,
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Speaker 2: but I appreciate you calling me on that one portion
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Speaker 2: of the commentary, which is that we don't know how
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Speaker 2: much cobalt and all this other rare earth stuff there is.
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Speaker 2: I know that it seems to be the big geopolitical
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Speaker 2: battle over the future is who controls those rare earth minerals.
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Speaker 2: This one about the Pope's comments regarding woke ideology, Latische
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Speaker 2: writes in to JT in the Morning Radio at gmail
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Speaker 2: dot com. When the Pope talks about woke ideology, it's
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Speaker 2: finally refreshing to hear somebody who's in a popular position
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Speaker 2: pushing back against populism. I know you do on quite
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Speaker 2: a few occasions, Joe talk about how we've become addicted
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Speaker 2: to populism. Why do you think that is? Well, you
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Speaker 2: got a few minutes. I mean, we only have two
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Speaker 2: hours of radio program left. But his short answer is
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Speaker 2: that popularity has become a currency. When people, especially economic historians,
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Speaker 2: look back on our time, considering how much our activity
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Speaker 2: has been monetized. Advertising agencies pay big money to know
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Speaker 2: with some surety what you're going to do when you
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Speaker 2: turn on your computer or open up your cell phone,
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Speaker 2: so your browsing activity prior to that becomes big business.
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Speaker 2: And there's some of the Consumer Electronics Show stuff. By
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Speaker 2: the way, our Consumer Electronics Show broadcast partner, I'm a
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Speaker 2: Corey Animal Clinic. Go get yourself a shelter pet. Guess what,
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Speaker 2: you don't need to download an app for that unless
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Speaker 2: you do the chip and that's a whole other thing.
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Speaker 2: But at the Consumer Electronics Show. A lot of the
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Speaker 2: ethicists that were there were talking about monetizing your Internet activity,
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Speaker 2: and the debate was, is access to all of this
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Speaker 2: stuff that costs money to produce for free? As much
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Speaker 2: of it is the price you pay for you being
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Speaker 2: the product the old expression, if it's free, you are
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Speaker 2: the product. So you get these things, you get your
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Speaker 2: low costs cell phones, low costs Internet service despite the
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Speaker 2: costs that are involved in it, and then the data
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Speaker 2: sales of your interaction. Should you be monetizing that? Because
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Speaker 2: people on the Internet do monetize their popularity. So therefore
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Speaker 2: being popular becomes a survival instinct that I no longer
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Speaker 2: just have to do good work. I have to be
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Speaker 2: popular about doing the good work. I can't just skate
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Speaker 2: along and say I get off my lawn. I have
51:38
Speaker 2: to curry favor. And I think that's what drives these newsrooms,
51:44
Speaker 2: and certainly the media is crippled by this idea of
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Speaker 2: needing to be power. Latis needing to be popular, but
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Speaker 2: we're all hooked into it. What do you do for
51:59
Speaker 2: a living? I'm a machinist. What does your kid do?
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Speaker 2: They're a social media influencer and companies will pay them
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Speaker 2: to wear their shirts, sort of drive their cars. And
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Speaker 2: it's not a whole lot different than radio people used
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Speaker 2: to be. And I can speak conversently that a lot
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Speaker 2: of radio shows wake up in the morning and think
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Speaker 2: of what is going to be the most popular thing.
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Speaker 2: I can say today, who is the person that we're
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Speaker 2: going to be the most popular for a sailing or
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Speaker 2: making fun of lampooning? And the news media has become
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Speaker 2: crippled with that same idea. We need to be popular? Therefore,
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Speaker 2: what can we do to be popular?
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