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"Are we awake?" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: You would set about disrupting the class by attracting attention
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  Speaker 1: to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: That is the name of this job, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's called Dignity. Joe works hard to steal me.
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  Speaker 5: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 6: Drops the kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 4: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 7: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 8: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 9: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 10: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 4: And we bless you for being there to serve me.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Your opinions and your analysis of the way the news
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  Speaker 4: of the world is impacting you where you are. The
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  Speaker 4: single most important local aspect of this radio station is you.
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  Speaker 4: Why wouldn't we put you front and center? Certainly, I
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  Speaker 4: will tell you what has gone on since last we checked,
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  Speaker 4: and there's plenty of it. Let me check. Hang on
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  Speaker 4: one second. Just checked. North Koreans haven't hacked into my
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  Speaker 4: gold and silver collection. Just saying. Too soon? Trick or treat.
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  Speaker 4: I'm dressed as Kim Jong-un. Give me all your crypto.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what went on since last we checked,
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  Speaker 4: but after I give you my analysis of it, I
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  Speaker 4: really want to hear how it's impacting you, where you are.
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  Speaker 4: Crypto industry has taken a bath, but I've got some
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  Speaker 4: interesting stories about what they still have money to spend
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  Speaker 4: on and why. This morning, I hope you had a
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  Speaker 4: good Halloween or Al Hallows Eve. Got this email on Friday. No,
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  Speaker 4: it was Saturday. It was after Saturday's program. Joe, thank
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  Speaker 4: you very much for another episode of what really is
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  Speaker 4: the meaning of the holiday. I wanted to play the
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Brown theme constantly in the background while you were
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  Speaker 4: explaining what All Hallows Eve meant to those who didn't
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  Speaker 4: understand that it wasn't about dressing as Darth Vader and
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  Speaker 4: or getting really, really drunk down the street at a party.
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  Speaker 4: just saying, hypothetically. Well, I hope there were no bad
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  Speaker 4: incidents coming from that hypothetical party down the street from you, Dan,
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  Speaker 4: but I appreciate the email, which you can send to
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  Speaker 4: jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com and or you can text or phone
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  Speaker 4: call to 434-882-4217. It doesn't matter, you know, whatever time
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  Speaker 4: of day or night it is, wherever you're listening. And
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  Speaker 4: I know some folks delay broadcast the program in the evening,
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  Speaker 4: which is going to be awkward. But luckily, I don't
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  Speaker 4: go by the moniker Joe Thomas in the morning anymore,
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  Speaker 4: which would really sound weird. But our first things today
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  Speaker 4: as we gather in Poland in constitutional crisis. Funny, I
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  Speaker 4: thought we were facing one of those, but this is
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  Speaker 4: real as Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government attempted to orchestrate
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  Speaker 4: what's being called a judicial coup against the country's highest court.
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  Speaker 4: The move triggered street riots and the deployment of police
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  Speaker 4: and an extraordinary intervention by President Nawrocki. The confrontation erupted
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  Speaker 4: Friday when the Constitutional Tribunal President Szczeskowski and his deputy
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  Speaker 4: were suspended because they didn't go along with judicial appointments
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  Speaker 4: made by the prime minister. President Trump Sunday blasted Michigan
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  Speaker 4: party lines. Stevens said her decision was driven by concerns
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  Speaker 4: North Koreans. This was the hack into Binance we reported
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  Speaker 4: Are we awake?
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 4: We're not sure.
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  Speaker 17: We're back.
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  Speaker 4: So be truthful with me. How many of us woke
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  Speaker 4: up an hour early this morning? I know I did. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if confession is good for your soul, not
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  Speaker 4: that we're confessing anything, but we like to play it off.
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  Speaker 4: I like to play it off, brush it off. No, no,
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  Speaker 4: I never have any issues with the time change. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. Part of my problem is, not to sound
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  Speaker 4: like a Luddite, but there's one, two, three clocks in
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  Speaker 4: my house that are not connected either to the Mumford
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  Speaker 4: T Firefly socket from the sky downlink antennae getting its
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  Speaker 4: constant updates from the Naval Observatory. Believe me, I've naval
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  Speaker 4: observed quite a few times in my life. Usually during
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  Speaker 4: long meetings, you'll catch me naval observing. Um, but there
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  Speaker 4: are three clocks and unfortunately one of them is on
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  Speaker 4: my dresser in my bedroom and two of them are
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  Speaker 4: right in the middle of my kitchen. So at least
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  Speaker 4: six times yesterday I had the wrong time in my,
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  Speaker 4: oh wow, it's seven o'clock already. Um, and it just
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  Speaker 4: was so awkward. And I even made sure that I,
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  Speaker 4: I reset my dresser clock. manually before I hit the
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  Speaker 4: rack last night, and yet there I was, 1.30 in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, staring at the ceiling, saying, okay, why are
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  Speaker 4: you awake? Don't you know you have another hour? And
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't even, you know, at certain ages, some of
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  Speaker 4: us wind up needing to get up at like 1.30
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, but that was not why I was awake.
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  Speaker 4: I just was staring at the ceiling because I was awake.
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  Speaker 4: So I got up. I think this... campaign against permanent
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  Speaker 4: daylight savings time is financed by the coffee industry. Because
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you the eight to nine o'clock hour of
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  Speaker 4: this program might be a little bumpy because then you're starting, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, rubbing your eyes and you're doing jumping jacks during,
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  Speaker 4: you know, breaks in the action. But, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: and I alike sometimes... I have more issue with the
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  Speaker 4: autumnal fallback than I do with the spring forward. I
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  Speaker 4: know more people in my world have trouble with the
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  Speaker 4: spring forward because it's like, oh, I've got to get going.
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  Speaker 4: I'm late. But I've just always wound up being that
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  Speaker 4: guy who can't figure out the fallback bit. Just another
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  Speaker 4: one of those things as Hamp down on the Treasure
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  Speaker 4: Coast will point out that the U.S. Senate hasn't managed
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  Speaker 4: to pull its head out of its arse. Why should
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  Speaker 4: we care who the U.S. senators are? They don't get
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  Speaker 4: anything done anyway. Well, you know, there's a reason for that,
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  Speaker 4: and it's multifaceted and nuanced, and we can get into it,
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  Speaker 4: but it is one of those face palm in the
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  Speaker 4: morning kind of moments where It's the same reason people like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the senator, you know, from Murkowski. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: it's still called Alaska out there. And I'm glad finally
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  Speaker 4: we're getting some coverage. Ken Cuccinelli from the Election Transparency
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  Speaker 4: Initiative and you and I have spoken frequently about ranked
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  Speaker 4: choice voting. Do you realize, of course, that ranked choice
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  Speaker 4: voting is why New York City is is currently living
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  Speaker 4: under the administration of Zorhan Mamdani, right? Because it was
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  Speaker 4: ranked choice voting that elevated him to the victory in
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  Speaker 4: the primary over Eric Adams and Ed Al and several
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  Speaker 4: members of the Cuomo family. I think there may have
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  Speaker 4: even been members of the Gotti family on the ballot.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. But you just keep throwing people at
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  Speaker 4: the ballot. And each place that does ranked choice voting
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  Speaker 4: does a little bit differently, and I get angry sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Must control fists of doom. Because people will say, well,
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  Speaker 4: you Virginia Republicans did ranked choice voting one time, and
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  Speaker 4: it was too.
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  Speaker 4: I will take Bernie Sanders' lead here and call the
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  Speaker 4: people who I associate with politically as doing something dumb.
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  Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders on Sunday called Alaska's foray into ranked choice
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  Speaker 4: voting dumb and their decision to get Dan Sullivan, too,
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  Speaker 4: into the race. Has anyone seen Dan Sullivan, the second,
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  Speaker 4: the other Dan? The steely Dan? No, the steely Dan
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  Speaker 4: has taken a powder, was last seen. And this is
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  Speaker 4: always a phrase that you love to hear in discussions
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  Speaker 4: of political candidates. candidate for Senate from Alaska, Dan Sullivan,
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  Speaker 4: was last seen. It's just one of those phrases. If
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  Speaker 4: you're in a sentence and the phrase was last seen
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  Speaker 4: is in there, you're not having a good week. The
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  Speaker 4: other Dan Sullivan was last seen getting on an airplane
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  Speaker 4: from Petersburg to Anchorage last Monday. That's a way to
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  Speaker 4: run into the election season. I'm getting out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Mary Peltoa didn't tell me this was going to happen
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  Speaker 4: when she recruited me. But ranked choice voting is one
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  Speaker 4: of those things. Now, Virginia's Republican Party in 2021 did
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  Speaker 4: use a form of ranked choice voting. It was because
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  Speaker 4: Virginia because there were all Democrats involved, had made holding
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  Speaker 4: a convention illegal. I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is not Poland. No, they had determined that
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  Speaker 4: because COVID's scary, you couldn't hold a nominating convention unless
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  Speaker 4: you made steps possible for everyone in the district that
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  Speaker 4: you were trying to sort of, in this case, the
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  Speaker 4: entire Commonwealth of Virginia, able to participate even if they
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  Speaker 4: couldn't go, which means you would basically have to send
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  Speaker 4: out ballots to everyone who wasn't coming to the convention.
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  Speaker 4: So at that point, why hold a convention? Didn't technically
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  Speaker 4: make it illegal, just made it dumb as a bag
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  Speaker 4: of hair. Yes, the ones, Louise Lucas's wig will suffice
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  Speaker 4: as a bag of artificial hair. And ever since then,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember arguing, saying, please don't do this because
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  Speaker 4: the ranked choice voting honks are going to use this
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  Speaker 4: as a, no, they won't. This is just to equate
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  Speaker 4: to how we would do it at a convention. Because
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  Speaker 4: at a convention, you hold a vote to see who
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  Speaker 4: gets the nomination from all the attendees. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if nobody gets all the votes or enough of them,
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  Speaker 4: then they You eliminate one and then it goes to
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  Speaker 4: vote number two, and then you eliminate number, and then
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  Speaker 4: you go to vote number three, and finally you get
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  Speaker 4: a nominee. So in order to equate to that, Virginians
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  Speaker 4: were given a ballot with all the names and you
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  Speaker 4: were supposed to rank them. And then as the process went,
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  Speaker 4: you winner them off. And I think they had to
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  Speaker 4: go through four tabulations before Glenn Youngkin won the nomination.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not the same as ranked choice voting. That
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  Speaker 4: was an internal party thing. Nobody ever complains if you're
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  Speaker 4: holding a convention and seven people are running for your
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  Speaker 4: nomination and you have to winnow five of them off
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  Speaker 4: before you finally decide who the nominee is. But in Alaska,
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  Speaker 4: oh boy.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, not ranked choice voting anyway. 4-3-4-8-8-2-4-2-1-7, how
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: you get to us on that which is going on.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: How much did you get hit? And I know that
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: at least four out of every ten Americans have some
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: crypto position. And two friends of mine are like, I
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: got killed by this ByDance freeze, the $ 6 billion North
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Korean hack. What do North Koreans need 6.3 billion of
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: our cryptocurrency for? I thought they were communists and they
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: just existed on the currency of communism. I thought communism
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: was anti-money. Why do they need $ 6 billion in North Korea? Meanwhile,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, they still have $ 200 million to spend lobbying
• 29:39
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• 29:42
  Speaker 4: get somebody elected who already is behind the idea of
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: regulating in favor of our industry? As Bernie Sanders said,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: it's not illegal. It's dumb. I look at folks who
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: pay money to politicians to go and do things for them.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Is this the best use of your money? I've always
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: wondered about that. Bless the folks who are out there
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: who want to see good things done. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I've just been around these people so long I
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: realize that investing too much in most of them can
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: be And the ones who actually do put the rubber
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: to the road and actually do have impact either, A,
• 30:30
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• 30:33
  Speaker 4: that doesn't necessarily. Or you're missing the ones that really
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: are important to this, like school board candidates. I don't know.
• 30:43
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• 30:46
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  Speaker 4: your pockets inside out when the school board candidates need help?
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  Speaker 4: Just ask it. I know what I believe the answer
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to be, and you're not going to like it. But
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: as we go forth, Kareem has called in at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Kareem. Happy Monday. How early did you get
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  Speaker 4: up this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe. Happy Monday to you, too.
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  Speaker 24: I got up around 1230 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: So is that normal, or was that an hour earlier
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  Speaker 4: because you had forgotten to reset your clocks?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. For me, it was normal.
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  Speaker 24: Usually, I start running around 2 a.m. This morning, I'm
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  Speaker 24: Has an influx of about 2 million every workday. Again,
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• 31:58
  Speaker 24: to the Midwest instead of having it all congealed on
• 32:02
  Speaker 24: the East Coast.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: There's a wonderful science fiction book called The Probability Brooch
• 32:08
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• 32:13
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  Speaker 4: So it's really unpleasant to be there. And that was
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  Speaker 4: the real world more. It's a Every now and then
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• 33:01
  Speaker 24: I want to touch on Alaska, brain choice voting, and honestly,
• 33:05
  Speaker 24: go back to the 2010 South Carolina general election for senator,
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  Speaker 24: which I think it was Lindsey Graham. who won that time.
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  Speaker 24: I didn't want to mention it. He's always been on
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  Speaker 24: my mind, but I didn't want to mention it because
• 33:19
  Speaker 24: he was in politics for a short while, but then
• 33:21
  Speaker 24: he's out, and like I said, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 24: you don't want to draw too much attention because he,
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  Speaker 24: bless his heart, he served his time. Alvin Green, the
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  Speaker 24: story with the 2010 Democratic primary, If you recall, or
• 33:35
  Speaker 24: may not recall, he was out of nowhere, came and
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  Speaker 24: won the Democratic primary in 2010 to run against Lindsey Graham.
• 33:44
  Speaker 24: And it was a long history of rumors of, well,
• 33:49
  Speaker 24: the Republicans were funding candidates, and all it took, I think,
• 33:53
  Speaker 24: was a $ 10, 000 cashier's check. And for a man with.
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  Speaker 24: Basically no history and no current means of having that $ 10, 000
• 34:04
  Speaker 24: to pay for the entry fee, he somehow was able to.
• 34:08
  Speaker 24: And there were other members of South Carolina who were
• 34:12
  Speaker 24: able to somehow come up with a $ 10, 000 check to
• 34:16
  Speaker 24: pay the entry fee to run.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Anyway, he won the primary.
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  Speaker 9: He lost.
• 34:20
  Speaker 24: But even on the campaign night, election night, he was
• 34:23
  Speaker 24: enjoying the fair, which honestly, if I had no no support,
• 34:28
  Speaker 24: no nothing, I'd probably be enjoying the fair too during
• 34:31
  Speaker 24: a blowout loss. But ranked choice voting, it can be
• 34:35
  Speaker 24: won by Republicans if they embraced it earlier and if
• 34:39
  Speaker 24: they embraced what, just like early voting, mail-in voting.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, John. I don't want you to misconstrue what
• 34:45
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• 34:48
  Speaker 4: fraudulent form of voting. I don't care who wins it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I've been told this all the time. I've had people
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: take me out and wine and dine me to support
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: ranked choice voting because Republicans can win it. I've been told, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: ranked choice voting will give Republicans a say in California
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  Speaker 4: elections and things like that. I said it doesn't change
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  Speaker 4: the fact that it's derivative and you wind up with
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: everybody's second choice. or third choice in some cases, depending
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: on how the race is run. I don't want more candidates.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: I want more choices to get to a point. And
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: ranked choice voting is not more choices. It's window dressing
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: to make it look like it's more choices. Now, you
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: bring up the South Carolina primary. And the same thing,
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: I hope, I don't want the Department of Justice arresting
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: people unless Mary Poltola's campaign actually colluded with somebody to say, hey,
• 35:56
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• 35:58
  Speaker 4: the DOJ investigated the South Carolina Republicans in the same
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: way and found that they had done it, that's collusion.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: That's efforts to commit a fraud investigation. And there are
• 36:14
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• 36:20
  Speaker 4: get some plant into a Republican Party, we had it here.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Who was the... Robert Sarvis helped Terry McAuliffe get elected
• 36:31
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  Speaker 4: Cuccinelli for the, quote, that he would get a turn
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• 36:46
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• 36:51
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• 36:59
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• 37:04
  Speaker 4: And then they promoted this guy, Robert Sarvis, who was
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: a perfectly nice guy and a libertarian by his name.
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• 37:26
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• 37:30
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• 37:36
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• 37:54
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  Speaker 4: 434-882-4217 VOTING You hear the most outrageous lies. It's like
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  Speaker 4: that scene from Repo Man. Radiation. You hear the most
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  Speaker 4: outrageous lies. Gogglebox do-gooders. Voting. There's a book. It's part
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  Speaker 4: of the technocracy movement of the late 19th, early 20th
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  Speaker 4: century by Charles Dodgson. It's called Liquid Democracy. And I
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  Speaker 4: was struck by an epiphany. On Saturday morning, we do
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  Speaker 4: a Saturday morning version of the program. And if you
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  Speaker 4: joined us, you heard me have this epiphany right live
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  Speaker 4: on the radio. All this early voting is designed to
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  Speaker 4: make us not care about voting anymore. Voting isn't something
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  Speaker 4: we worry about. I got time to do it later.
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  Speaker 4: You're probably living a world where something you put off
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  Speaker 4: till later is is going to be needed to be
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  Speaker 4: done really soon. Now is later. But the more we
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  Speaker 4: do without voting, the more likely it will be the
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  Speaker 4: government will institute proxies because the government will, like they
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  Speaker 4: do with ranked choice voting, lie to you and tell
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  Speaker 4: you that ranked choice voting gives you a bigger voice
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  Speaker 4: when actually it gives you a smaller voice. You have
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  Speaker 4: more choice. No, you have less choice at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day. And ranked choice voting along with proxy
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  Speaker 4: voting are two of the tentposts of liquid democracy in
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  Speaker 4: which the government, if they fail to find that you
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  Speaker 4: have voted, will assign a proxy to vote for you
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  Speaker 4: in the style in which you traditionally vote. They say
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  Speaker 4: you can trust them. They're from the government, right? This
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  Speaker 4: is why, you know, it sounds like when people talk
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  Speaker 4: about ranked choice voting, they're talking about more voting. They're
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  Speaker 4: actually talking about less voting. Vote suppression is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's making sure your voice isn't heard because we're just
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  Speaker 4: going to make you capitulate with everyone else. It's the
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  Speaker 4: mob rule that is at the corner of all, quote, democracy.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe. First thing
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  Speaker 4: this morning, who's this?
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  Speaker 15: Hey, Joe, it's Clark.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Clark. Happy Monday. You're up early, or is it
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  Speaker 4: just because of the time change? You're too disciplined. You
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  Speaker 4: didn't wake up early because your clock didn't get reset,
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  Speaker 4: did you?
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  Speaker 15: I woke up the same time as always. Now, what
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  Speaker 15: says the clock is like what says the clock.
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  Speaker 4: He's on the sun's dial there. I hear you. So
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  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 15: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: You remember how all the pinkies.
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  Speaker 15: Quit telling us how many COVID boosters they'd had and
• 47:38
  Speaker 15: went to hashtag I support Ukraine, Joe. You remember that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the new cool kids slogan and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: hang a Ukrainian flag. You know what we need to do?
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 15: We need to start an I support Poland hashtag thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, where are all our Polish, you know, this issue
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  Speaker 4: with the, President, no, the prime minister just firing the
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  Speaker 4: or suspending the chief justice. And, you know, if people
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  Speaker 4: think we have a problem here, you know, President Trump
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  Speaker 4: can't just fire John Roberts because he doesn't like a
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  Speaker 4: ruling he made, which is what's happened in Poland.
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  Speaker 15: Word on the street is George Soros is trying to
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  Speaker 15: get Bozberg to change his name to Bozberski.
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  Speaker 4: Move him to Poland, make him chief justice there.
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  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 15: No! Wait until Trump's on an airplane and then try
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  Speaker 15: to take over the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 4: And then vote him out. You know, this is the stuff, though,
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  Speaker 4: that these... And Poland has been a great ally of
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  Speaker 4: the United States for a long time, ever since they
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  Speaker 4: broke free from the... communist dictatorship. Remember Lech Walesa, even
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  Speaker 4: though he was leading a union movement of the dock
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  Speaker 4: workers and Soledad Arnosk. This was a great American ally
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  Speaker 4: that we rested free from the communist bloc, which makes
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  Speaker 4: me wonder. is this just another form of a Russian invasion?
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  Speaker 4: You know, Russia doesn't have the troops to invade Poland because, well,
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  Speaker 4: that two-week chint into Ukraine has taken five years. But
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  Speaker 4: Russia wanted to move on Ukraine, on Poland as well.
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  Speaker 4: And is this internal strife just being driven out of
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  Speaker 4: the Kremlin?
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  Speaker 15: So, okay, look. Global communism, good.
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  Speaker 4: National socialism, bad. This was a move by.
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  Speaker 15: The global communists. It was not the national socialists of Russia.
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  Speaker 15: So there's that. Now, on this deal in Alaska... Mary
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  Speaker 15: Patola has come out and said that apparently there has
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  Speaker 15: been some confusion. And this was done by Mary J.
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  Speaker 4: Patola. It wasn't her. Wasn't she a rap singer? Oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: it was Mary J. Blige was the rap singer. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: my gosh, yes. You have me confused with some other
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  Speaker 4: Mary Patola who's not running for Senate right now.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's all. I mean, at some point, we're
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: going to reach some point where 20 percent of the
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Alaskan population is running for Senate and they're all on
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  Speaker 4: the ballot.
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  Speaker 15: You know, you're.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Clark Sullivan's fault, will it be? I don't I missed
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  Speaker 4: part of what you were saying. Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark.
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  Speaker 4: I missed a salient bit of what you were saying.
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  Speaker 4: Your phone dropped out right as you were saying you were,
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  Speaker 4: you were, and then I don't know what I was doing.
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  Speaker 15: You were talking about if Dan Sullivan doesn't win, it's
• 51:14
  Speaker 15: Dan Sullivan's fault. Now, my question is, which Dan Sullivan's.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Fault will it be? How many, you know, somebody, the
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: guy running or.
• 51:27
  Speaker 15: The retired communist school teacher running He said, yeah, I
• 51:31
  Speaker 15: hate Trump. I'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it. And then disappeared. He took a powder.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: And if you're a candidate for office and the phrase,
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  Speaker 4: the last time anyone saw you was, is involved in
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  Speaker 4: your name, it's a bad sign. So this guy took
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  Speaker 4: a powder last week and hasn't been seen since.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, and the last thing, Joe, if you will go
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  Speaker 15: to American Thinker, Solid evidence that J.B. Burke listens to
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  Speaker 15: your Saturday morning show.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, really? Okay. I'll have to, you know, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 4: easy going when it comes to people stealing from me.
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  Speaker 15: He has the Halloween midterm horror story thing going.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really? He actually ripped you off, not me.
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  Speaker 15: Well, hey, once I put it on there, it's Joe Thomas's, okay?
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  Speaker 4: All right. And remember. The punchline to your story, I
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  Speaker 4: thought about it after the fact, quote the Senate majority leader, nevermore.
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  Speaker 15: There you go.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You have a good morning, Clark.
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  Speaker 15: Keep doing it.
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