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"If You Can't Convince 'Em... Threaten to Shoot 'Em" (Saturday October 4, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is a very special days to do it lot media.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, I will do it long.
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  Speaker 3: Jeord said, steal me.
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  Speaker 6: No one that Joe's smiled.
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  Speaker 7: He only as.
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  Speaker 8: Let them be. Joe here hold these truths. I want
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  to be the one smart, self evident.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for letting me be of service to you. Yes,
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  don't pope, Pope the radio bruise easily. It is a
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  Saturday morning and we are here to unpack it because sadly,
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  despite the fact that your week's in mind very rarely
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  involved to consecutive of days of non labor, we used
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  to call them weekends kids.
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  Speaker 8: That most of us have got work to do today,
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  So why would the morning radio show of record take
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  the day off? Not me? I do have lots to
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  do today, aside from breaking down the news with you
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  and finding out how it's impacting you. Where you are
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  at four three four eight eight two four to two
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  one seven. You can text message there as well as
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  phone call there. Text message is very popular, I think,
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  mostly because mornings are a cacophony of everything put off
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  to the last minute, So yelling something at voice to
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  text because the radio show tweaked you a little bit,
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  it's good for me. I will do my best to
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  interpret your words. If they're all caps, I will do
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  my best not to sound like I'm yelling at everyone else.
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  You can also email JT in the radio at gmail
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  dot com. Violence and what does it say about a
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  movement that has to resort to violence to get its way?
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  To me, it's always been that last desperate vestige of
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  a movement that's bereft of any intellectual heft or depth.
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  And I know that sounds derisive and dismissive, but you know,
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  if all you've got in the debate of public ideas
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  is okay, maybe I'll shoot you in the head. Then
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  I'm not thinking your argument holds a lot of depth.
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  And we'll get into it, because there's at least a
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  half a dozen instances of that going on right now
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  in America. But we must do our first things. Can't
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  discuss the news until you know the news. Hamas on
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  Friday announced that it has agreed to release all of
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  the Israeli hostages, dead or alive, as part of President
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  Trump's Gaza peace proposal. The president released a video from
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  the Oval office yesterday afternoon, where he began by thanking
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  the nations that assisted in setting up the plan.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank the countries that helped me put
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  this together. Katar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and so
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  many others. So many people fought so hard. This is
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  a big day. We'll see how it all turns out.
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  We have to get the final word down in concrete.
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  Speaker 8: Leaders also indicated they were prepared to enter mediated negotiations
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  to finalize the according to Hamas's statement that was shared
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  on truth Social, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein signed IRENA's
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  Law to increases checks on criminals out on bail and
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  prohibits cash list bail for violent crimes and most repeat
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  offenders following the stabbing death of the Ukrainian refugee on
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  Charlotte train in August. Stein, a Democrat, said he doesn't
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  like every part of the bill, which was passed by
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  the Republican majority state legislature, because in part it starts
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  executions again in North Carolina, but he signed it because
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  quote it alerts the judiciary to take a special look
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  at people who may pose unusual risks of violence before
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  determining their bail. And that's a good thing. Speaker Mike
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  Johnson is sending a message to Senate majority a minority
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  leader Chuck Schumer. As the twenty twenty five government shutdown
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  is poised to enter a second week, the Leader of
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  the House canceled chamber activities for all of next week,
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  effectively directing lawmakers to stay home until at least October fourteenth.
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  Federal judge sentenced Nicholas Rosky, who now goes by Sophie,
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  to eight years in prison on Friday for attempting to
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  murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the weeks leading up to
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  the Supreme Court's landmark Dobbs decision. The sentence is far
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  lower than what the Department of Justice sought. Prosecutor said
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  Roski should face at least thirty years, while his defense
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  team had asked for eight, and the administration's attempts to
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  end birthright citizenship received a rebuke Friday by the First
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  US Circuit Court of Appeals. The Trump administration has already
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  going to segue from that into the only time and
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  considering the amount of controversial stuff that we get into
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  each morning, and I was deeply concerned in Charlottesville here
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  or where we come from in twenty seventeen, when we
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  had a bunch of fakers and usurpers trying to tell everyone,
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  and the press was not intellectually curious enough to investigate
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  whether or not they were actually conservatives, not because they
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  those folks. I was concerned, but I had never nothing
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  ever became of it. I was just concerned. They would
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  they would holler at me, They would yell at me,
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  they would they would impose the feeling that there might
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  be violence coming if I didn't comply, But there was
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  none ever specifically said. And as I've said, I was
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  confronted by very harsh words words that my friends of
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  the left wing persuasion these days would call violence by
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  the Westboro Baptists back on September eleventh, two thousand and six,
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  because I supported a president that allowed people to be gay.
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  But the only time I ever actually received death threat.
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  For all the stuff we get into all the way down,
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  and we'll talk about death threats of all different kinds,
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  but the only time that anyone ever actually posted a
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  death threat to me that required action by the Suffolk
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  County Police Department was when I used to work at
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  one oh three point nine FM and somebody felt that
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  the Jones beach Amphitheater. I hadn't, but the fellow had
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  a tenuous grip on his last good marble and thought
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  that I had done that. So called back to the
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  receptionist and said, I'm going to kill that SLB for
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  screwing me out of the Aerosmith tickets. And the police
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  took it serious enough. They started searching and keeping an
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  eye on the rooftops around the studios and everything. Only
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  time it's ever happened. But I sit here today amongst
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  you and look at some of these stories of the
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  death threats that are going on just here in our hometown.
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  We have statewide races here in Virginia and New Jersey.
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  You may have read a little bit about them. Trump
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  keeps everyone very busy, so you're not getting the coverage
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  on the Mickey Cheryl. And this is to her benefit too,
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  because Mickey Cheryl has got some serious problems with ethics
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  and violations of oaths and things like that. And we
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  have the same thing going on in Virginia's gubernatorial race.
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  But as if it wasn't bad enough that the fellow
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  who would like to be the top law enforcement officer
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  for Virginia, the Democrat candidate Jay Jones, was just caught
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  doing one hundred and sixteen miles an hour and apparently
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  just given a smack on the wrist nearly twice the
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  speed limit. What would happen? And I know it's a
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  very small window of opportunity if somebody was caught doing
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  twice the speed limit on the Long Island Expressway or
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  the mass Pike, and I've driven both of them frequently
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  and with friends went to UMass. You're up there and
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  know the speed limit. I sixty four through Central Virginia
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  is a seventy mile an hour speed limit. Jay Jones
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  at the time was doing it was in a sixty
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  five mile an hour zone. So doing one hundred and
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  sixteen nearly doubles the speed limit. What would that net
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  you if you were in Suffolk County doing twice the
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  speed limit on the southern state the Sunrise Highway. I mean,
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  if you could rie starts to back up pretty badly
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  where you know, high speed is twenty miles an hour.
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  But yeah, two o'clock in the morning, you're on four
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  ninety five and you're you're laying it down. What do
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  you think the New York State Police would say to
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  somebody doing one hundred and twenty miles hour on the lie?
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  You think they'd get a smack on the wrist. Well,
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  this guy's a member of the Virginia House and he's like,
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  but that's not the worst of it. Apparently in twenty
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  twenty two he was so incapable of engaging the Republican
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  House Majority leader Todd Gilbert and you may have seen
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  that name in the news. For a very brief period,
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  he was the US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia,
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  appointed by President Trump. He was this J. Jones guy
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  when he was in the House was so incapable of
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  engaging Todd Gilbert in learned and scholarly debate that he
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  said three people two bullets each in a text message
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  to a Republican. He's texting with a fellow House member,
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  and I guess it was a group chat, and this
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  Republican was part of the group chat in which this
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  guy says three people two bullets each. He starts the list,
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  a list that includes Adolf Hitler with Delegate Todd Gilbert,
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  and he said, oh, I'm sick to my stomach. Now
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  his statement today is I'm sick to my stomach after
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  reading this. He doesn't say he was sick to his
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  stomach because he said it. He might just be sick
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  to his stomach. That you found out about it. It's
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  in the National Review yesterday. They published the story about it.
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  But this is on the heels of our gubernatorial candidate
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  here in Virginia saying to her supporters, you need to
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  use your rage to fuel you and then saying, oh,
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  I didn't mean I didn't mean anything. You have Tucker Carlson.
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  So to show you it's bipartisan talking about civil disobedience
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  because Trump is supposedly cracking down on free speech. Then
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the first Thing today by
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  Speaker 8: Excuse me, nobody even knows what those are anymore. That's
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  the other thing. You've got to realize that they're they're
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  turning us on each other, because that's what Uncle Carl,
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  the unfunny Marx brother told them to do. When you
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  ask me why I oppose Marxism so much, I mean
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  the buffet to choose from the body bags that are
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  inherent in Marxism. But I often go to the cornerstone
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  principle of Marxism, which is that some people just are
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  never going to go along with the revolution and they
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  will have to be quote removed from the community. I'm sorry,
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  that doesn't inspire me. That doesn't inspire me. And what
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  we found is as Marxism rolls along more and more years,
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  more and more people wind up having to be removed.
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  Do you want to live in a place where you
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  might wind up being the one that, Oh, it's all
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  fun in games if you're in the group that isn't
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  being removed. Oh yeah, but someday you wind up being
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  in the group that must be removed. I was reminded
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  of this, that that this isn't a new paradigm. Greatest Hits,
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  classic news quote was sent to me just during the
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  news break. Michael dukankas, Yeah, tank, tank girl, Right, tank girl?
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  What do you do if you're in a room with
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  Molmar Kadafi, Saddam Hussein and John Sanunu and you have
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  a gun with only two bullets? Shoots Snunu twice. That
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  guy was one of two finalists to be President of
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  the United States once. Luckily, somebody said, you know what, Mike,
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  get into the tank. That might be a good thing
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  to make you look tough on crime. What if you
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  had a tank with only two bullets in it? Duke,
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  you know that if you're a habitual user of this program,
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  I have a simple belief that you can't blame the
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  weapon for whatever it does, whether it's the knives and
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  the trucks that have been driven into synagogues in Manchester,
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  UK or in rural Michigan, whether it be churches of
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  Jewish temples, driven by people who didn't like those churches,
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  didn't like people who believed in those faiths and got
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  their peace and their love for their fellow man from
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  those faiths and had to kill them. One driven by insanity,
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  one can only imagine, since he's assumed room temperature in
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  a shootout with police in Michigan. The other hamas according
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  to Intel out of the UK, which is Iran, which
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  is state sponsored, kill the Jews. Anyone find out what
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  Candace Owens said about that. And here's why I bring
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  up Candace and Tucker Carlson and Joe Thomas. I'm tired
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  of people like me shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh,
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  we didn't do anything, because there's a certain amount of
• 32:46
  that that goes on. I don't believe the gun did anything,
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  or the knife somebody picked it up and did something
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  with it. And I've been in broadcasting for so long
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  I know it is easy. It's easy Pickens to say
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  they're the enemy. And we had a very learned conversation
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  based on some text messages Yesterday Mornings program on what
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  happens when a generation is raised? On Big Brother and Survivor,
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  and sure there are some other competitive programs you could
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  throw The Apprentice in here as well, but the Apprentice
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  was never everyone else voting to fire somebody. That was
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  always Don Trump saying if I had, and usually after
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  a fairly reasonable layout of what they did wrong. I liked,
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  didn't like the Celebrity Apprentice, but I actually appreciated the
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  kind of business seminar that I always felt like a
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  regular episode of The Apprentice was. And I've seen some
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  of the British original episod episodes of The Apprentice and
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  again thought they were educational in how to conduct yourself
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  in business and marketing and that kind of stuff. But
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  Survivor it was all driven by, you know, intrigue and
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  backstabbing and manipulating opinions and getting everyone to vote your
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  rival off the island. And there is some merit to
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  what we're called as opinion makers. We shouldn't be And
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  I would like a society raised with a judicious skepticism
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  about stuff they see on TV. And I do get
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  hardened by those who follow Charlie Kirk in the turning
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  point USA movement that a lot of them, thanks to
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  YouTube and some of the crazy ass stuff that you
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  I need to get everyone against him. And so when
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  I don't think he's evil. I think and I try
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  to bring some understanding of the background of that little
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  abandoned them. I get why he grew up to want
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  to be a Marxist. Doesn't mean I want him to
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  be successful at bringing on Marxism, but I get it.
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  I try to have empathy for people I disagree with.
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  don't realize how amazing all those other people in their
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  world are, and for the people who suborn hate. So
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  the point I'm making is that if we're out on
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  TV and radio and on our YouTube channels and our truth,
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  social or rumble channels spewing division, and that your opponent
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  must be hated and dispatched. Well, we're no better than hamas.
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  And you can't beat terrorism by becoming terrorists. And you
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  Who's this Good morning? Joe's Joel. Hey Joel, Happy Saturday.
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  Speaker 23: I'm okay. I'm struggling to try to find work again.
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  Speaker 21: You.
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  Speaker 8: It's always amazed me that, Yeah, I know so many
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 16: I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 1: Question for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't the news?
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  Speaker 5: I gotta you should see the rash?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so tell Joel called in and I didn't mean
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  to get you know, all human resources department somewhere my
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  sister in the wilds of New Jersey and his face palming, saying,
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  come on, Joe, I'm the one with the degree in
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  human resources. You know, stop playing job coach. But Joel,
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  what was it that brought to you the phones at
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  four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to call.
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  Speaker 23: I know, you know, I'm one of the regulars that calls,
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  and I think the thing that really upsets me with
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  everything going on you were talking about TV shows influencing
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  and radio programs and probably, uh, you know people that
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  use their game the gaming and all that Halo and
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  that was it.
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  Speaker 8: Could they call it first person shooter games and and
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  what like that. I think I know where you're going,
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  but I want to hear it from you first. See
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  if I'm right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 23: But I grew up. I had a mother and a father,
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  and they were both immigrants. One came from Italy, one
• 45:30
  came from Germany.
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  Speaker 8: Well, wow, it's a combo right there. That's like, it's
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  like my mother and father in law or Campbell and McDonald.
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  So anyone from Scottbax's what that means is like, oh,
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  my mother and dad are one's a hat Field, one's
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  a McCoy. Uh anyway, exactly. So yeah, your childhood and.
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  Speaker 23: Often, but often you talk about tribalism and separate, separate
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  thinking thinking. But I don't think I don't think we
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  would do what we are today without the people and
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  your father excuse me for mentioning that, but you know,
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  defeating defeating Hitler and defeating Japan, and it was and
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  the and it was a lot of anti war going
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  on in America too, and there's a lot of other
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  things going on in America, but we have this, we
• 46:19
  have this this focus on such petty stuff and and
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  instead of people thinking of themselves as Americans, now, what
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  is it to be an American? And and I don't
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  I think that concept is trying to be brought back
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  right now. Sure, President Trump bringing back values and showing
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  what it is to work and have a place to work.
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  But you have people, you have people in two different parties,
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  and you have some that that just they want everything
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  given to them, and they look like buffoons in front
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  of people on TV. And who do you think sees
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  it first?
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  Speaker 8: You know?
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  Speaker 23: And then they see those as role models.
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  Speaker 8: There was another nurse I knew years ago. Actually she
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  was actually a research project and she was the chairman
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  of the local Democratic Party. But she was my neighbor
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  and we would we would needle each other. She asked
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  me once where my Trump yard sign was, and I said,
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  I don't know, I'm waiting for you to put out
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  your Hillary one. And we would needle each other about
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  stuff like that. But she would come over and we'd
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  fire pit and complain about city council and just and
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  talk about her kids and her nephews, that she always
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  was reaching out to help and she was just an
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  amazing woman. And I always felt like I want to
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  be more like her, not necessarily politically, but if I
• 47:43
  acted the way some of these folks in social media
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  want to treat somebody from a different political party, I
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  would I would be a lesser person for not getting
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  to know her. And that's when you talk about being
• 47:54
  an American. That's what we have to understand, is that
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  they whether we look at poverty or homelessness or unemployment
• 48:05
  or whatever it is, Yeah, but they're all real issues.
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  And we can agree that the issue is there. How
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  are we fixing it? That might be a different thing,
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  but one of the things you mentioned was moms and dads.
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  See the reason these TV programs in the YouTube channels
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  and the video games are taking on so much importance
• 48:24
  is that the people who are supposed to be in
• 48:26
  those positions of giving young people answers the fathers, the mothers,
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  especially the fathers, because the great society diminishes the importance
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  of dads. So we don't get the answers from our parents,
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  so we look elsewhere while the guy on TV seems
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  to be put together and you know, he's got some
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  good answers, and it's perilous because you don't know who
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  they're running into. There are some people out there who
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  speak some pretty egregious MACHOs, stuff off that you know,
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  just sounds like they've been tapping the HGH a little
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  too much and you've got to be careful of that.
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  But it's a it's so So that's what I believe
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  are our void is in this country is we have
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  a void of individuals leading and that's why you know,
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  groups like the you know, whether it's the Boys and
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  Girls club, your church, your parents, these things need to
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  be brought to the four. And I'm going to circle
• 49:26
  back around because that is one of the missions of
• 49:28
  the crisis pregnancy centers is to heal the broken families
• 49:33
  that are leading a woman to an abortion clinic. So anyway, Joel,
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  you have a great weekend. So I've got to run
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  four three four eight eight two four to two one
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  seven is our phone number. Text message as well to it,
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  because like I said, I get it. It's easier to
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  yell at that voice to text and hit send when
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  you're trying to put together all the last things that
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  were there. Last thing. So when we get back into
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  this and some of it, and they prey upon people
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  who are looking for meaning. The Marxists are always looking
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  for people, and this was a failing King Louis. The
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  French revolutionaries Robespere as well, didn't understand that it has
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  very little to do with money. It has to do
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  with meaning. I've never had tons of money. I mean,
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  I remember the salad days up there in the Hamptons
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  when we you know, I do three nightclub appearances, you know,
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  polo grounds and you know this sort of avenues and
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  things like that, and I'd walk away with one hundred
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  and fifty dollars in cash just for being the famous
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  radio guy there. I have no idea where that money is.
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  But for the most part, I have never made a
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  ton of money. You say, oh, it's syndicated radio show, Joe,
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  you must you know, I've read Howard Stearn's contract. I
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  mean there's also things you don't get in some of
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  these big contracts. You know Howard Stern, for example, you know,
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  with his couple of hundred listeners still remaining, you know,
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  his contract with serious Axem he pays everyone else. So
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  they pay him those millions of dollars, and then he's
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  got to pay everyone else that works for him on
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  his show. So it's not that he's walking home with
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  millions of dollars to find a way to do a
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  publicity stunt. So there's always there's always things going on there.
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  But we love to play scorecard, scoreboard with money. Wow,
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  you can't be a big radio show host so and
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  so on the such and such network. What makes way
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  more than you do? Well, it's not about that, it's
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  about meaning. That's what we all want in life. I
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  know dozens and dozens of people who have lost big, lucrative,
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  middle management, white collar jobs. One of the more recent
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  big events was when I was working in Wilmington, Delaware,
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  and Bank of America purchased MBNA and fired everybody. And
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  you want to talk about people with a ten mile stare.
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  Here were middle managers, white collar workers figured they had
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  caught the golden ring. They were working form of the
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  biggest companies that wasn't named DuPont in Maryland. They were
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  the job was a job where bankers were and then
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  they get downsized because Bank of America had people that
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  already did their jobs, but they wound up finding or
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  going back to the things that they were passionate about,
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  and found ways to eke out a living doing that,
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  and they had meaning and peace.
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