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"Autopen Strikes Again" (Monday, May 4, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Quick first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Your words that steal me.
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  Speaker 3: Stem you have a day, please for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up, drops a kid to SCOOPNSA. Joe has everything,
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  Speaker 3: a dreamer all the Jasure seven needs.
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  Speaker 4: No one that Joe's smile he only as.
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  Speaker 5: Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I want.
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  Speaker 6: You know how we roll. I will tell you what
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  Speaker 6: went on last night. We will give you our analysis
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  Speaker 6: of it based on experience and intuition, but I want
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  Speaker 6: to hear how it's impacting you where you are as
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  Speaker 6: well at four three four eight eight two four two
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  Speaker 6: one seven. Text messages work just as well. I will
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  Speaker 6: read your words with all the gravity that Richard Burton
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  Speaker 6: would read the words of the barred himself there and
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  Speaker 6: we'll get your thoughts that way, or you can call
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  Speaker 6: us if you have the time. Mornings are a crazy time.
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  Speaker 6: I know, it's where we put everything that we say.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get to it later. Well now is later, so
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  Speaker 6: as you try to get through the cacophony of an
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  Speaker 6: early morning, you can just holler something into voice to
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  Speaker 6: text and it will work for us. You can also
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  Speaker 6: use email JT in the morning Radio at gmail dot
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  Speaker 6: com is the email address, and we appreciate all the
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  Speaker 6: folks who work through it that way. And it was
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  Speaker 6: so much to get into it. Really, this is the
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  Speaker 6: part that I find most juicy in what we do,
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  Speaker 6: is when the hypocrisy comes marching right out of the
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  Speaker 6: corner and demands that you pay attention to it. And
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  Speaker 6: if there's nothing else in the discussion over congressional district
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  Speaker 6: drawn maps, it has dragged the left out into its
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  Speaker 6: hypocritical best. We'll get into that also breaking over the weekend,
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  Speaker 6: fun little story about Spirit Airlines, and everyone's hammering Donald
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  Speaker 6: Trump for not bailing out Spirit Airlines. But you see,
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  Speaker 6: apparently in twenty twenty three, when Joe Biden was still president,
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  Speaker 6: or the Auto pen was still president, or doctor Jill
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  Speaker 6: was still president, whoever it was president, in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 6: the administration turned down a merger that Jet Blue had
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  Speaker 6: offered to pay three point eight billion dollars for Spirit Airlines,
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  Speaker 6: and the Department of Justice said, oh no, that would
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  Speaker 6: make things incompetitive. In other words, United and American would
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  Speaker 6: have to compete with Jet Blue for a change, instead
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  Speaker 6: of having it all to themselves. Those are just two
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  Speaker 6: of the delicious little nuggets that we're going to chew
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  Speaker 6: on this morning, and so much more happening. So here
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  Speaker 6: are our first things. Alabama's General Assembly meets today to
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  Speaker 6: begin redrawing the state's congressional districts in the wake of
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  Speaker 6: last week Supreme Court ruling on majority minority districts. Mississippi's
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  Speaker 6: governor said they'll be meeting in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Florida adopted their new maps and the governors signed them
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  Speaker 6: into law. Louisiana has suspended primary elections to redraw theirs. However,
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  Speaker 6: Georgia and South Carolina have determined they will not because
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  Speaker 6: primary voting had already begun. Meanwhile, in Virginia, the Democrats
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  Speaker 6: there are saying, oh, no, no, you weren't really voting
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  Speaker 6: when you were early voting. It just felt like it.
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  Speaker 6: It's like feeling like you're a character in a George
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  Speaker 6: Lucas movie because you go around saying May the Fourth
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  Speaker 6: be with you. A party near a lake in Oklahoma
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  Speaker 6: City has sent twelve people to the hospital as a
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  Speaker 6: shooting took place at the party. Edmund Police spokesperson Emily
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  Speaker 6: Ward said authorities received reports of shots being fired around
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  Speaker 6: nine last night at a gathering of young people near
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  Speaker 6: Arcadia Lake. She said late Sunday, no arrests had been
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  Speaker 6: made yet. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is
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  Speaker 6: in hospital in critical condition, according to a spokesperson, This
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  Speaker 6: just after he told his talk radio show audience with
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  Speaker 6: a raspy voice that he was feeling a little under
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  Speaker 6: the weather Ted Goodman. A spokesman didn't say what it
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  Speaker 6: was that sent Giuliani to the hospital, or how long
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  Speaker 6: the eighty one year old has been there, or what
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  Speaker 6: the prognosis is. Police and Amarillo, Texas are looking for
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  Speaker 6: anyone's help and identifying suspects and a shooting at a
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  Speaker 6: party there Saturday night. They're looking for two people who
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  Speaker 6: opened fire at this apartment complex and Amarillo around two
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  Speaker 6: Saturday morning, and they're asking local residents to check doorbell
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  Speaker 6: and surveillance cameras. Two US Army soldiers went missing in
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  Speaker 6: Morocco on a recreational hike. According to officials from the
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  Speaker 6: Defense Department, they were not actively taking part in any training.
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  Speaker 6: The official says in the day's exercises had concluded and
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  Speaker 6: for more understanding, they were out on a recreational hike.
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  Speaker 6: Iran has sent a new proposal to the United States
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  Speaker 6: calling for issues between the two countries be resolved within
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  Speaker 6: thirty days and aims to end the war rather than
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  Speaker 6: extend the ceasefire. According to Irans media, President Trump said
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  Speaker 6: Saturday he's seen the proposal and isn't thrilled with it,
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  Speaker 6: and Opak has agreed to an oil output hike. As
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  Speaker 6: the United Arab Emirates left the group on May first,
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Tunk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: I know, I know, I know what you're saying. After
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  Speaker 6: the time we've spent together, you really are surprised I
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  Speaker 6: would roll this out. I think it's important though, to
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  Speaker 6: remind people who you don't remember nineteen seventy seven all
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  Speaker 6: that well, that the opening of Star Wars in and
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  Speaker 6: of itself probably the probably some of the most impactful
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  Speaker 6: changes in the art. And I mean you just jumped
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  Speaker 6: you right in and when the ship flies over, and
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  Speaker 6: you know at the time you see it now you
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  Speaker 6: watch it on Netflix or whatever it is now Disney plus,
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  Speaker 6: I guess is where you'd find it, and you watch it.
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  Speaker 6: Go okay, because we've grown used to this kind of
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  Speaker 6: you know, special effla now with CGI especially. Yeah, at
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  Speaker 6: the time, you remember you have to remember where the
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  Speaker 6: United States was in nineteen seventy seven. Nineteen seventy seven
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  Speaker 6: was the era of the Great American malaise, and this
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  Speaker 6: film made everyone feel better. I mean, nineteen seventy seven
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  Speaker 6: was the summer of sam The biggest city in the
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  Speaker 6: biggest country was in you know, half the summer was
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  Speaker 6: in blackouts. Half the winter was under seven to eight
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  Speaker 6: inches of frozen ice, with power outages both in the
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  Speaker 6: dead of winter and the heat of the summer for
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  Speaker 6: week or more. Some guy was running around shooting kids
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  Speaker 6: necking in their backseat of their cars, killing many, maiming others.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody knew who he was. There were eighteen different descriptions
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  Speaker 6: of the guy, and the city police was going to crazy.
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  Speaker 6: And then this movie comes out. And it's not like
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  Speaker 6: we forgot everything. It's just that this this movie gave
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  Speaker 6: us that reminder of what film, what storytelling, what that
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  Speaker 6: kind of can do to someone's psyche, even to a
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  Speaker 6: mass formation. It was a couple of hours that we
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  Speaker 6: came out saying, Okay, bad stuff happens, and you can
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  Speaker 6: overcome it. It's really the story. I mean, Lucas had
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  Speaker 6: his nine films mapped out, you know, and the whole
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  Speaker 6: story of outlines for nine movies and how he sold it,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, scraped together money and oh and shot
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  Speaker 6: and on a budget nobody knew, And of course you
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  Speaker 6: wound up with It's just a cowboy in Western you know,
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  Speaker 6: story set in space. Okay, fine, you're acting like by
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  Speaker 6: nineteen seventy seven, we had invented new stories. By nineteen
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  Speaker 6: seventy seven, we had burned through every possible kind of story.
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  Speaker 6: By nineteen seventy seven, you were going to be at
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  Speaker 6: some point or another retelling some other story. How many
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  Speaker 6: remakes of Romeo and Juliet are there? More than you
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  Speaker 6: realize if you stop and sit down and think about it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying that you have the free time to
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  Speaker 6: think about it, but don't don't be so harsh on
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  Speaker 6: your friends when they come up and say, oh, you
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  Speaker 6: know what, you don't speak Wookie. It's just May the fourth, now,
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  Speaker 6: I'm told, and this is getting goofy here. Now I'm
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  Speaker 6: told that in a couple of days time, it will
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  Speaker 6: be the Revenge of the Sixths. And I'm sorry you've
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  Speaker 6: jumped the shark. At that point, go find something else
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  Speaker 6: to feel special about. If you're If you're celebrating Revenge
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  Speaker 6: of the Sixths on Wednesday, that's that's when human resources
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  Speaker 6: needs to be called. But you know, you look at
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  Speaker 6: where we were and just just in nineteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 6: that's the import of you know, and maybe why maybe
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  Speaker 6: Star Wars comes out in nineteen eighty two and it's
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  Speaker 6: the it's me you railroad when it's time to railroad,
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  Speaker 6: and a lot of the art of an era is
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  Speaker 6: based on that era. It's not that George Lucas said,
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  Speaker 6: boy America is in a bad place, we should make
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  Speaker 6: an inspirational cowboy in western movie in space. Nor was
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  Speaker 6: he the first if you've read anything about a gene
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  Speaker 6: Roddenberry sold Star Trek to the TV Networks as wagon
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  Speaker 6: train in space. We're all just retelling someone else's stories.
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  Speaker 6: You need to tell you how many emails text messages
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  Speaker 6: I get from people who are coming across the program
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  Speaker 6: for the first time saying you remind me of Okay,
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  Speaker 6: we're all telling someone else's story in our own way,
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  Speaker 6: in our own milieu. And aside, just again from that
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  Speaker 6: inspirational thing, not that the guy was one hundred and
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  Speaker 6: to one shot, but a twenty three to one horse
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  Speaker 6: race odds is still a bit of a long shot.
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  Speaker 6: Golden tempo from last to first, and not even in
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  Speaker 6: a long period of time. I think two thirds of
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  Speaker 6: the race had gone by and the horse was still
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  Speaker 6: in last place. And then you know it's neat because
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  Speaker 6: you've got overhead footage, now drone footage that you're watching
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  Speaker 6: this horse just like some guy in a hot Camaro
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  Speaker 6: driving around rush hour traffic along the shoulder. In some cases,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the guy was practically running the horse in
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  Speaker 6: the grandstand just to looking for space to get around
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  Speaker 6: this pack of horses. And you don't know what the
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  Speaker 6: horse is thinking, but you know, if he's thinking anything,
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  Speaker 6: he's like, why is everyone going so slow?
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  Speaker 2: They just just.
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  Speaker 6: Roll past everyone in a turn and a half, it
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  Speaker 6: seemed like. And the horse could have been catfishing. You know,
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  Speaker 6: there's tactic to riding these races. You hang in the back,
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  Speaker 6: you waiting to see who's got what, but the other
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  Speaker 6: the peril in that as you fall too far back.
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  Speaker 6: Golden tempo was a beneficiary of the fact that the
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  Speaker 6: pack was pretty well tight. Everyone was within a second
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  Speaker 6: or two of each other, so it was pretty easy
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  Speaker 6: to ride around easy. Not like I could do it,
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  Speaker 6: but you know, and the thing is they were all
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  Speaker 6: talking about this being the first one without Bob Baffert there,
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  Speaker 6: the legendary horse trainer, and how different it was going
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  Speaker 6: to be. He was flamboyant. He never had the trouble
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  Speaker 6: Trump did you know? You know he could be flamboyant.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone's like, oh, it's just Bob, see you win, And
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  Speaker 6: everyone shrugs and says, well, that's just you.
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  Speaker 15: Now.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see if that becomes the legend of Trump over time.
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  Speaker 6: But those are just a couple of notes for this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Just don't be too harsh on your friends when they
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  Speaker 6: come in with their white robes on and it's like,
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  Speaker 6: what is this casual? You know, Oh, I'm just identifying
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  Speaker 6: I agree with Georgia in this case, and we'll see
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  Speaker 6: how Virginia Supreme Court rules on it. But that's the
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  Speaker 6: question before them, which is, you know, is voting voting?
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  Speaker 24: Of all the things, our citizens are lining up and
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  Speaker 24: going into a polling place and casting votes, but we're not.
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  Speaker 24: We say that's not really voting. I mean, at some point,
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  Speaker 24: what is it the phrase the tangled web we weave
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  Speaker 24: as somebody pointed out there. But uh so and the
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  Speaker 24: Mississippi I think the Tait said it's going to be
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  Speaker 24: twenty one days from when the Supreme Court ruling came down,
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  Speaker 24: which I guess is two weeks from wednesday. Florida just
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  Speaker 24: you know, Governor DeSantis has signed it in now Florida's
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  Speaker 24: districts are done. The LGBTQ Quarterly is published an op
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  Speaker 24: ed saying that's it, We're done, and here's and I
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  Speaker 24: have to agree with the op ed in the LGBTQ
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  Speaker 24: Times because what they're admitting to is that if given
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  Speaker 24: a fair landscape, conservatives will win the day because there
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  Speaker 24: are just that many more of us than there are
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  Speaker 24: of the progressive communist Marxist collectivists. But many Republicans don't
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  Speaker 24: turn out to vote because their district are drawn in
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  Speaker 24: such way. Now, I contend that you know this is
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  Speaker 24: all begun by a second wrong trying to make a right.
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  Speaker 24: When the Voting Rights Act was passed, it was to
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  Speaker 24: address issues caused by the nineteen twenty nine Permanent Act
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  Speaker 24: for Redistricting pardon me not for Reapportionment, which was written
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  Speaker 24: by racists to divide up black communities so that we
• 49:28
  Speaker 24: would stop having black congress people because they didn't like that.
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  Speaker 24: So the Voting Rights Act was wrong, but they were
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  Speaker 24: wrong in the way of trying to make it right.
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  Speaker 24: That's fair, I mean, you know it because people had.
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  Speaker 6: Grown used to a Congress of of four hundred and
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  Speaker 6: thirty five and they just didn't feel like people would
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  Speaker 6: be comfortable if all of a sudden they made it
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  Speaker 6: possible to have oh, I don't know, eight hundred nine hundred. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and here's our friends w Tar Andrew Rice
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  Speaker 6: representing you guys in Virginia. I asked him straight up, well,
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  Speaker 6: what's the future of the of the Republican Party? How
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: does the Republican Party go forward? When I sat down
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  Speaker 6: with him earlier this month, visiting with us this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, Joe, it's my pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: Will you say that now? I haven't asked my first
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  Speaker 6: questions yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's true.
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  Speaker 6: So one of the questions that came up is where
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  Speaker 6: does the Republican Party go?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 6: You're a young fella, You're new into the party system,
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  Speaker 6: at least you know publicly. You may have worked behind
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  Speaker 6: the scenes before. You've got elected to the House of Delegates.
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  Speaker 2: But this is your first term.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, that is correct? Yes, I was elected Saint Patti's
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  Speaker 4: day in March, and I'm replacing Barry Knight, who is
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: a longtime family friend, personal friend of mine, and we're
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  Speaker 4: going to continue his good work and we're going to
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: do some of our own.
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  Speaker 6: But coming in as a newer person. I want your
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  Speaker 6: thoughts on this because a lot of folks have said,
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  Speaker 6: what does the Republican Party to have to do? We
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: went back to twenty twenty when the redistricting was taken
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  Speaker 6: out of the hands of the politicians, and there are
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  Speaker 6: one point three million fewer votes cast than they were
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  Speaker 6: in that election. How do we get those people back?
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: Where have they gone? Are they just folks who only
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: vote in presidential years? So as a new set of
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  Speaker 6: eyes into the Republican Party, what has to happen now?
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  Speaker 4: So thanks show for that question. There's one point three
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  Speaker 4: million people. I think we're just sitting at home. This
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  Speaker 4: was a special election in April. Virginia is not used
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  Speaker 4: to that. We're used to special elections in other months,
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  Speaker 4: but April's not really our month. And this was a
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  Speaker 4: quick turnaround from the constitutional amendment that was passed in
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  Speaker 4: session to the vote yesterday. This was a very quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 4: And as far as the Republican Party goes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a doomsday guy, I'm not a I'm not
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  Speaker 4: a I'm not a doomsday guy. And so I actually
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  Speaker 4: am encouraged by the vote. Although it's not the result
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  Speaker 4: that perhaps we wanted. I do think that the amount
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: of grassroots efforts that came out and the amount of
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  Speaker 4: messaging that the Republicans did.
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  Speaker 6: And it's a good thought in today's troubled world.
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