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The Big Picture with Jack Atherton 5/6/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven six, Happy Wednesday listener, lunch Snow's Lakeside tavernook to
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  Speaker 1: see you there. And as I have been starting out
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  Speaker 1: and bringing up from time to time, before we get
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  Speaker 1: the Jack addid in pause for a moment, please extend
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  Speaker 1: your prayers and positive thoughts for Joe Strecker who struggled
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  Speaker 1: with a medical emergency yesterday. He's not here today, praying
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  Speaker 1: for his swift recovery. Got to get him back in
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  Speaker 1: the executive producer booth, although Danny Gleeson is doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job covering for Joe Strecker, But prayers for Joe
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  Speaker 1: Strecker and welcome back. It's time for the big Picture
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  Speaker 1: with Jack Adverton. It's a pleasure to have you back
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  Speaker 1: on the show as it is every week, Jack Adid,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome back Brian.
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  Speaker 2: All fans of your show, and I'm chief among them,
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  Speaker 2: are praying for a super producer Joe, and we hope
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be back soon. But most of all
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  Speaker 2: we brave he is going to stay healthy. Well, let's
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  Speaker 2: smile so that we can lighten things up a little.
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  Speaker 2: In one of the funniest movies of all time, mel
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  Speaker 2: Brooks's original version of the producers with Zera Michelle and
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  Speaker 2: Gene Wilder. Yeah, you remember hippie Adolf Adolf Hitler played
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  Speaker 2: by Dick Sewn as a hippie things. This one on
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  Speaker 2: one is two two and two is Paul. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: so bad because we're losing the war until the FIRA
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  Speaker 2: calls for his Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Gerbels and asks, Joey,
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  Speaker 2: why didn't you just tell the people? I told them
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  Speaker 2: we invaded England, and happy do Joey? We won? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Hitler's propaganda could not convince the German people for long,
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  Speaker 2: not with Allied bombs reducing Berlin to rubble and sending
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  Speaker 2: to Ferra and his underground bunker mates just like the
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  Speaker 2: propaganda minister to suicide. They both committed suicide. Mel Brooks
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  Speaker 2: Hitler mirrors what's going on right now with Iron. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrat media is gleefully telling Americans that the Mullahs and
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  Speaker 2: the Revolutionary God are winning. Secretary of War has set
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  Speaker 2: responded in biblical terms, accusing safe news reporters of being pharisees.
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  Speaker 2: But the history of line goes back way before the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament. The very first lie was sold to the
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  Speaker 2: very first woman, not by Adam. He did not go
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  Speaker 2: on a dating app and claim I'm six foot two
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  Speaker 2: and everyone mistakes me for Brad Pitt. Now, the first
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  Speaker 2: lie was sold by the serpent. God ordered Adam, you
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  Speaker 2: must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: good and evil, for when you eat from it, you
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  Speaker 2: will certainly die. But the crafty serpent is sure to
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  Speaker 2: Eve you won't die. Girl. God doesn't want you to
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  Speaker 2: eat that scrumptious fruit, because if you do, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: like God. Well, the upshot was that God condemned serpents
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  Speaker 2: thereafter to crawl on the earth and be the lowliest
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  Speaker 2: of all animals, and Adam and Eve did eventually die
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  Speaker 2: after they were expelled from Eden. As Archie Bunker quoted, God,
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  Speaker 2: get your clothes on and get the hell out of here.
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  Speaker 2: On the other end of the spectrum, Brian, one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite philosophers, believed ethical conduct depends on telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Immanuel Kant condemned lying even when you have good intentions,
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  Speaker 2: because lyon deprives other people of their humanity. They cannot
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  Speaker 2: make good choices if they don't have truthful information. The
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  Speaker 2: trouble as God does not always step in the way
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  Speaker 2: he did the Garden of Eden. Liars often get away
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  Speaker 2: with their lives. This comes up in history's first book
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  Speaker 2: about politics, Plato's Republic, tells about a Greek shepherd named
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  Speaker 2: guide Jees who discovers a magic ring. This ring makes
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  Speaker 2: him invisible, letting Guijes get away with murder. He kills
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  Speaker 2: the king to deuces the queen and the people he
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  Speaker 2: rules have no way of judging his true worth, which
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  Speaker 2: brings us back to the Nazis, not mel Brooks, the
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  Speaker 2: real Nazis. In chapter ten of his book Mine Kam
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  Speaker 2: or My Struggle, Adolf Hitler advocates the big lie, the
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  Speaker 2: idea that the bigger the lie, the more people will
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  Speaker 2: believe it, because they figure nobody would dare tell a
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  Speaker 2: lie that preposterous. Hitler was a great big liar, and
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  Speaker 2: so was Gebels, because the propaganda minister also ran the
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  Speaker 2: newspapers in Germany, radio and even their movie industry, almost
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  Speaker 2: like today's serpents mainstream media. When it comes to line,
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  Speaker 2: as Carly Simon would sing, nobody does it better than
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  Speaker 2: democrats beside just one golden Oldie, because it shows how
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  Speaker 2: government colludes with the media today. Democrats in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: claimed that a videotape showed Donald Trump with Russian hookers
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  Speaker 2: at a Moscow hotel. You know, a hooker and got
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  Speaker 2: a cover of the kid's ears for this. They heard
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  Speaker 2: it endlessly on Democrat media that videotape supposedly showed the
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  Speaker 2: hookers urinating on the bed that Barak and Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 2: had previously slept in, because we were told Trump wanted
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  Speaker 2: to show how much he despised the Obamas. That line
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  Speaker 2: went as viral as COVID nineteen Golden Shawer means, rained
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  Speaker 2: down everywhere on social media. Stephen Colbert did a skit
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  Speaker 2: where he bounced on the hotel bed. The so called
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  Speaker 2: p tape became a pillar of the wider Russia Russia,
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  Speaker 2: Russia scandal, which was a total or maybe I should
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  Speaker 2: say totel terry in hoax. As even Special counsel Robert
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  Speaker 2: Muller finally admitted a lie in a fake dossier paid
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  Speaker 2: for by Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen presidential campaign, but half
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  Speaker 2: the country believed her big lie, and now political line
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  Speaker 2: has grown to pandemic proportions from leftist media to tax
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  Speaker 2: exempt activists like the Southern Poverty Law Center paid three
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  Speaker 2: million bucks at least to the KKK and other hate
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  Speaker 2: groups to make conservatives look like haters. It's the opposite
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  Speaker 2: of Guigi's turning invisible. The left pay's villains to go
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  Speaker 2: public and incite violence, including three assassination attentpts on Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: egged on by hatemongers like Jimmy Kimmel, Brian You know,
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  Speaker 2: George Orwell's nineteen eighty four is not just about surveillance,
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  Speaker 2: although that's bad enough, It's also about the kind of
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  Speaker 2: lives that Hitler and Stalin institutionalized. Big Brother's Ministry of
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  Speaker 2: Truth spreads propaganda, but even worse, it destroys history, what
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  Speaker 2: we talk about every week. It destroys history by dumping
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  Speaker 2: old newspapers and books down what's called a memory hole.
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  Speaker 2: By Orwell, true history disappears, just the way American students
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  Speaker 2: are now being taught safe history, including the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times sixteen nineteen projects, which claims America from its founding
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  Speaker 2: at its core, was a slave state. This lie is
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  Speaker 2: an attempt to define Black Americans, women, sexual minorities, and
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  Speaker 2: others today not as individuals with opportunities, not as Americans,
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  Speaker 2: but as victims eternally dependent on big state socialism. Folks,
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  Speaker 2: today's Democrat Socialist Party is by definition a lie, a
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  Speaker 2: big lie, because most people living under socialism are pessants.
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  Speaker 2: Only the elites thrive. So the best way to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's independence is
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  Speaker 2: to spread the truth, which, luckily for us, what you
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  Speaker 2: and Joe do every morning. What are you saying?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the kind words there at the tail end.
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  Speaker 1: I try my best to do that. Sometimes I feel
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  Speaker 1: personally I fail epically. But as you point out, history
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  Speaker 1: proves your point on socialism, and we bring this up constantly.
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  Speaker 1: Every time it's been tried, it is a result in
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  Speaker 1: failure in the form of misery of the people, collective misery,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, since everyone's sharing and share alike in the
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  Speaker 1: misery that socialism brings around, and that makes things good
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  Speaker 1: or equal. No, you have a demonstrably opposite proof that
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  Speaker 1: our system of government freedom, coupled with free markets and
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  Speaker 1: capitalism is far superior for generating wealth for all people.
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  Speaker 1: That is demonstrable, demonstrated by history for those who take
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  Speaker 1: the moment in time to study it. Go back to
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  Speaker 1: your Adam and Eve point. Maybe it was Adam's failure
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  Speaker 1: by listening to Eve rather than listening to God. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's something to learn there about relationships with He. I
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  Speaker 1: believe he failed in some way by listening to her
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  Speaker 1: and not listening exactly to the commandment of God, which
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  Speaker 1: is don't touch it. Lies work collectively on us when
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  Speaker 1: we fail to get the information, when we ignore politics.
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  Speaker 1: How can you get away within such an obvious lie
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  Speaker 1: if by doing a little bit of research, which is
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  Speaker 1: easy to do in this information age, and you can
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  Speaker 1: learn for yourself that maybe it is not true, or
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  Speaker 1: in fact, it could be an outright life. So that
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  Speaker 1: seems to be our failure. And I recognize that when
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  Speaker 1: information is controlled allah or Well, you're only going to
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  Speaker 1: get one view and I think we're farther away from
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  Speaker 1: that one viewpoint than we ever have been because of
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  Speaker 1: all of the information that we find ourselves capable of
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  Speaker 1: reading and learning. So maybe there's a lesson here for
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  Speaker 1: us out here. And I talk about low information voters
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  Speaker 1: all the time, going back to campaign ads and lies
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  Speaker 1: which are in campaign ads, that money that pays for
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  Speaker 1: the campaign ads would be thrown down the toilet, effectively
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  Speaker 1: if we all could see through the lies in the
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  Speaker 1: campaign ads. But because we don't paying attention to politics
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, that stuff can have some significant effect on
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  Speaker 1: the outcome of an election. Well because you learn what
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  Speaker 1: you learn simply because you listen to a thirty second
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  Speaker 1: spot on TV.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. I believe most people accept lives because of
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  Speaker 2: peer pressure, which we're going to be talking about as
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  Speaker 2: a topic soon, but for now. When you live in
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  Speaker 2: a healthy society, one where faith, family, free markets, and
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  Speaker 2: personal responsibility are values, peer pressure builds virtue. But in
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  Speaker 2: a decay, decadive society, one with a pop culture that
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  Speaker 2: traps people and arrested adolescents, virtue is replaced by mindless conformity.
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  Speaker 2: To get the most clicks, you sink to the lowest
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  Speaker 2: common denominator because it can't be a lie if everyone
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  Speaker 2: you know believes it. One other thing that we talk
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  Speaker 2: about constantly, Brian is Iran. And look what's going on
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  Speaker 2: now is I've been saying for more than a month
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  Speaker 2: while Democrat propagandists lie when they say Iran is winning
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  Speaker 2: this war. Donald Trump could yet lose the peace. We
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  Speaker 2: pray he won't, but it's possible. Iran boasted to Steve
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  Speaker 2: would cough back in February. They don't deny it that
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  Speaker 2: they had enough highly enriched uranium to build eleven nuclear
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  Speaker 2: bombs in a matter of weeks. That was like a
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  Speaker 2: mugger holding a gun to your head. You have to
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  Speaker 2: grab the gun, and our military did that brilliantly. But
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  Speaker 2: Trump then felves and apparently still feels he can treat
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  Speaker 2: the surviving Mullahs and Revolutionary Guard the way he treated
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  Speaker 2: Delsi Rodriguez in venezuelaans that Maduro's vice president is not
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  Speaker 2: a religious fanatic. Yeah, she's willing to do our bidding,
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  Speaker 2: and I bet she'll hold free elections sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 2: By sharp contrast, Iran's dead enders will not keep any
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  Speaker 2: deal the Trump negotiates. As we've said, they're like cockroaches.
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  Speaker 2: They're survivors. So while yes, we have won the war militarily,
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  Speaker 2: America may yet lose the peace if we don't stop
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  Speaker 2: losing time and the midterms negotiating a worthless peace deal
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  Speaker 2: and instead demand unconditional surrender. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I really am glad you brought up the point about religion,
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  Speaker 1: because that turns the conflict into something completely different. And
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  Speaker 1: I always like to suggest my listening audience, many of
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  Speaker 1: whom are people of profound faith, would you turn your
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  Speaker 1: back on your religion? I mean, under really any circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: or would you fight to the end in the name
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  Speaker 1: of your religion and your God? So that horse of
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  Speaker 1: a different colum or when you're talking about just sort
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  Speaker 1: of like being ed to a political philosophy versus being
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  Speaker 1: weed to God and religion, that transforms the whole nature
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  Speaker 1: of the conflict. I love talking about it, And go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty to eat other than that apples.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, God.
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  Speaker 2: Is magnificent in his blessings. You just lead a decent life,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the world would be such a better place. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Communism as a concept wouldn't exist if
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  Speaker 1: they're the politicians, the liars, the crazies that want to
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  Speaker 1: control us, couldn't capitalize and win based upon covetousness, envy
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  Speaker 1: and greed, which is really all what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Going back to religion.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, all right, Joe, stay strong.
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  Speaker 1: Amen,