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"Pay for Play?" (Thursday October 2, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Couldn't you at least tell her about the shrinkage factor.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not gonna tell her about your shrink It's besides,
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I think women know about shrink its.
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Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network,
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Speaker 4: Said, steal me stem you have a day.
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Speaker 5: Shrink least when the.
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Speaker 6: Sun comes up, drops a kid to school.
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Speaker 7: Joey has everything, a jinder all the treasure.
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Speaker 4: Seven needs no one that Joe's allies smile.
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Speaker 8: He only as.
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Speaker 9: Joe.
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Speaker 8: You know, we used to have a very large government.
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Speaker 10: I want the.
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Speaker 8: Swimming pool has been very chilly these early October mornings
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Shore satirize for your protection because the puffery that these
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people deal in can only truly be dealt with through sarcasm,
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the news down into easily digestible gummies, and then I
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want to find out how the news is impacting you
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where you are at four three four eight eight two
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four to two one seven. That's the phone number, and
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you can also use that for text messages, because I
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know how cacophonous mornings can be. Whether it's the end
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of your day at this hour or the beginning of it,
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you just at some point just want to yell something
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into your voice to text and hit send. Got your player,
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I am there, I do. I find myself doing that
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sometimes as well. I have to be careful though, because
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my boss these days is my wife, and you gotta
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be careful what you yell at your boss when she
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knows where all the extra guest pillows are. So a
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couple of things obviously shut down twenty five. This time
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it's personal shut down twenty five and three D. In
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a world where Mike Johnson is your last hope, he
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comes writing from the West and somebody you know talking
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about debt deficit text messages. We went to the US
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National debt clock. That's always fun and frolic in a morning.
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We'll get back into that. The idea of voluntary surveillance
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network built around your cameras and what is privacy and
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what parts of privacy are there and if you're connected
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to the internet, This is a big question. This is
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the eight hundred trillion dollar question. If you're connected to
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the Internet, are you really in private? What is the
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expectation of privacy when you're connected to the Internet and
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his ring cameras and all that you can app on
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your smartphone, they're connected to the Internet. Just got confirmation
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from Washington, d C. James, our embedded reporter amongst the
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scoundrels and scallow wags in Washington, d C. I don't
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believe my eyes again, the sun is rising again in
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the east over Washington, d C. Even despite the and
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ironically his photograph he sent me is over the Treasury Building.
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There's irony in there. I don't care who you are
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that there is funny right there. Yep, yep, we can
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confirm seven ninees the sun officially rose eastern daylight time
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in the east, despite all the new reports to the contrary.
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So our first things this morning, shutdown shutdown? Who got
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the shutdown? Two more votes cast yesterday, both with the
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same results. Democrat and Republican crs failed along party lines.
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For the most part, three Democrats gained with the House
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GOP who lost ran Paul in the same Senate vote,
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So the shutdown remains. Office of Management and Budget Director
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Russ Vote told Republican Caucus on Wednesday the administration will
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begin firing employees in the next one to two days.
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The FBI has cut ties with the Anti Defamation League.
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It's a group that, by its definition, tracks anti Semitic
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behavior except on college campuses where people are chanting from
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the river to the sea. See the collected substack works
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of John Sutz if you want to know for a fact.
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Republicans criticized the group because they discovered that Turning Point
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uf Essay was on the ADL's list of extremists. In
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a social media post, FBI Director Cash Pattel said the
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bureau quote won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
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Federal Communication Commission share Brendan Carr has been called to
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testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on comments made via
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social media about ABC and their affiliate stations airing the
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Jimmy Kimmel Show. United States, according to a report in
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The Wall Street Journal, will be providing Ukraine with intelligence
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for long range missile strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure. If
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you're playing along at home, you may recall that many
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years ago. At the beginning of this both sides promised
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not to target the energy infrastructure, citing deteriorating conditions. President
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Donald Trump said the National Guard is in play to
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protect immigration and customs enforcement efforts in Portland, Oregon from
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domestic terrorists. Hamas is reviewing President Trump's Gaza plan, so
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as close to the terrorist group said. Other Palestinian factions
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Speaker 8: Let's begin.
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Speaker 9: Lookout sindje.
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Speaker 22: A.
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Speaker 3: Right, see the night.
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Speaker 8: So, uh, this anted Defamation League story sticks out, you know,
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mainly because well you know how I loathe to say
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I told you so, and it will have to harken
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back to Monday's program. I know it's way back. You
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may not have been there. But before we do anything else,
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because I want to find out how the news is
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impacting yous uh four three four eight eight two four
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two one seven, Good morning. You're on the air. First
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Thing this morning with Joe Thomas. Who's this morning show
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as Mike, what Mike, how are you doing? Sir?
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Speaker 9: Okay?
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Speaker 23: Just an interesting piece of news, and I'm wondering if
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I'm connecting dots correctly or not even demon Nazi g dots.
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But it's yesterday. Kurts dot gov released a rich In
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statement that richly they had enough fundating through Friday, but
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they found enough counsel received both to stay open till
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Friday the seventeenth.
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Speaker 24: Uh.
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Speaker 23: Now if they close on Saturday the eighteenth and layoffs
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become firings, is the credit unions? I mean, the employee
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union's going be able to file kurt complaints protesting.
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Speaker 8: That's interesting. So so the courts. Courts dot gov is
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the web portal for the the Virginia it's is it
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just Virginia or is it national courts?
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Speaker 23: The federal courts.
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Speaker 8: That's interesting because you know, they're a lot of the
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filing systems FCC. Famously, you can't call and complain about
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the stuff I do on the show today, because that's
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one of the things in the partial shutdown, is the
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complaint line at the FCC. But I don't know, I
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you know, if if they shut the government down and
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the courts are part of the government. I've got to
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think that that would apply that you can't you can't
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get a speedy and fair trial. Not that you could beforehand,
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but yeah, would it would definitely impede on that possibility.
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Speaker 23: Okay, well, unfortunate in that I'm not containing who's playing games,
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like we'll let the government sat down, We'll let Trump
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do our dirty work for us in firing people, and.
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Speaker 17: We'll blame him.
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Speaker 23: If they're non essential during a shutdown, why wouldn't they
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be essential after a shutdown?
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, and I was saying this to my
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son last night, Mike, you know, you know that in
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all the people that RUSS vote fires in this, they'll
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find one person, you know, the guy that was in
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charge of training all the air traffic controllers. And and
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as my son pointed out, you know what, in the
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federal government, the way bureaucracy works, I'll bet you there
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is only one person whose job it is to train
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all the air traffic controllers in the United States. They'll
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find that one person who got fired by RUSS vote,
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and that will be four days worth of unending news
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and commentary on the on the firings that.
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Speaker 21: Trump's made us unsafe by firing Mike. Mike is the
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one guy that trained all of our air drafting controllers,
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and now all the planes are gonna come crashing out
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of this guy or the one lady whose job it
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is to affix the postage to the Social Security checks,
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as if anyone still gets Social Security checks through the mail.
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Speaker 8: That's another one I love. All the franking office is closed,
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so we can't send out any mail. Nobody does mail anymore.
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This is like the nitwit that said that we needed
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to tax email because people weren't using the US Postal
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Service anymore. The faster than you can say, Douglas Adams, Mike,
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this is getting It's going to get nutty before it
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gets better. But yeah, it courts closing. That's that's an
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important role of government. And you'd like to think that
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the courts would be an essential side of it, but
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maybe just not the web portal attached to them.
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Speaker 23: Well, it will be interesting to see how many people
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get fun on October eighteenth while the Democrats continue a
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shutdown because they have proposed of they know will never
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get included. You and I have to balance our checkbooks.
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The Senate in Congress does not. But when people are
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hoting them accountable. Well, it's he's. Well, yesterday you were
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you and doctor Clark were talking about the Democrats and
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how you have q relet them the nuts term because
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they never goot stuff. They're blaming the Republicans. They're not
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blaming their own policies for not working.
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's always somebody else's point. It's always somebody
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else's fault. And one of the things that, Mike, you
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know this to be true that if for everyone who
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tries to apply high principle and more and and mission
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to these people in Washington and Richmond and Salt Lake
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City and Sacramento and all the places where governments convene,
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it's just high school in better clothes, mostly better clothes,
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until John Fetterman walks, and then it's just like high
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school all over again, because it's the same. It's the
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same petty nonsense. You said something bad about me to
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so and so, and that got me thrown off the
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Committee of thus and such, and therefore I'm never voting
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for anything you do again, you know, And this is
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what we get for representation. Maybe maybe it is representative
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government afterhall, isn't it, Mike?
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Speaker 23: It represents our high school personalities, and so does international
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affairs like wars. Why you called my interror minister childish,
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while why I'll put you in time out for two years.
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Speaker 8: Or I'll follow me, me and the boys are going
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to come and take you into the bathroom and give
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you a swirly Uh yeah, it is. It is sad
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because you know, actual people wind up dying in these scenarios,
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and uh, you'd like to apply higher principle to it,
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but mostly it's just the same snits that we got
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into in high school. Good stuff, Mike Light four three
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four eight eight two four two one seven. Don't you
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agree at some point this this all becomes just like
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high school all over again. So you know, I'm loath
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to say I told you so. But this ad L
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story the Anti Defamation League bid where they were caught
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with Turning Point USA on their list, and we spent
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a good spade is spade. We talked on Friday about
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the Southern Poverty Law Center, all these groups that are
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out there saying these people don't hang out with these people.
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Are they any different than so? The Anti Defamation League
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said Turning Point USA was on a right wing extremist
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group and you may recall. On Monday's First Thing Today program,
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the host Joe Thomas said, as we cover more and
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more of this, it occurs to me that I think
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I've decoded the message. When they say right wing extremist,
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they mean Christian, and extremist becomes one of those words that,
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like the Boy who Cried Wolf, is meaning less and less.
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It just means you disagree with me. It means you
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you refuse to go along with me, You refuse to
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give in to my way of thinking. Regardless, like what
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Mike said, it maybe it's not. Maybe it's your fault
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Speaker 8: It's all good. It makes an apple christ to die for.
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It's like I always stayed fair stuff and oh my gosh. Anyway,
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well yeah, actually, real quick, before you get started, our
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buddy Less Sinclair sent us an email from yes he
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appreciated the whole rom com discussion at the end of
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yesterday's sports He said, great, he said, favorite line of
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the week. I'll go back to watching rom coms when
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Quentin Tarrant, you know, makes his next one. And he
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was asking because he was curious, and of course, you know,
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as anyone knows, the rom com I was speaking of
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was Django unchained exactly? Yeah, that was that was a
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little that was a little brutal.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, and yeah, Chad Powers, I might probably this
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weekend because it's gonna be raining, I'll probably go back
30:20
and watch the first two episodes again. There you go,
30:23
because it was so good and I'm gonna, I know,
30:25
I missed a lot of stuff. Anyway, I want to
30:27
talk about Nick Saban today because you know, Nick Saban's
30:30
doing a lot of interviews now and and loves the
30:32
media now and he has to you know, being a
30:34
college game day and he's just so visible but so
30:37
good and so smart. And I've a you know, I've
30:39
read the Saban book. I've read two Belichick books. The
30:42
process has been but he you know, he's been the
30:44
face of football for over fifty years. His coaching career
30:48
began at nineteen seventy three at Kent State.
30:51
Speaker 8: Yes see the Crosby Stills Nash.
30:53
Speaker 1: Song, Ohio, because they're the famous story about Saban watching
30:59
that at unfold with the National Guard and everything and
31:02
the kids being killed. He watched it from his coaching window.
31:06
That's a true story. Anyway, his first professional stint was
31:09
with the Oilers in eighty eight, and then after going
31:12
to Toledo, he was Belichick's defensive coordinator with the Browns.
31:15
Speaker 8: I'm telling you all this because.
31:17
Speaker 1: He went to Michigan State and he won the national
31:19
the Natty at LSU.
31:21
Speaker 8: But then he went to the Dolphins, okay.
31:23
Speaker 1: And he had the you know, and then then when
31:25
the Alabama job opened up, he took the Alabama job
31:28
six championships later, and the rest is history, right, Okay,
31:31
So now this he can compare. He can compare professional
31:36
and college and where we are now, you know where
31:39
things sit as far as the college athletes. And you know,
31:41
because we talked yesterday about the portal window being is
31:45
now being is shrinking to one time fifteen days January.
31:49
Speaker 8: That's going to be it.
31:50
Speaker 1: So Saban has been very vocal about a lot of
31:54
things and what happened, and so he went to social
31:58
media and just said, you know what, if I had
32:00
my choice right now, I'd be in the pros.
32:03
Speaker 24: And if I was going to coach today based on
32:06
the circumstances in college and in the NFL. I would
32:09
coach in the NFL because all those things in college
32:12
have changed. The whole idea of what college used to
32:16
be is not there anymore. I mean, it used to
32:19
be you went to college to develop value for your future.
32:23
Now people are going to college to say how much
32:25
money they can make. I'm not saying there's anything wrong
32:27
with that, but you change the whole dynamic of the
32:31
importance of getting an education.
32:33
Speaker 8: Yeah.
32:33
Speaker 1: And the great thing about this is, and we've told
32:35
the story before, right before he retired, he always had
32:39
the kids over for a big barbecue.
32:40
Speaker 8: And Miss Terry, his wife, very famous, you know, talking
32:43
about it.
32:43
Speaker 1: And so she was hosting all the moms in the
32:45
kitchen whill all these recruits and everybody who was standing by,
32:47
and they were all asking Miss Terry, how much can
32:49
my kid make? And so after the smoke cleared at
32:52
their barbecue, and you know, Nick and Miss Terry were
32:56
out on the deck and she goes, I'm not sure
32:58
this this climate is good for you anymore. She goes,
33:02
do you realize how many moms ask me how much
33:04
my kids get? And when they realized that, it was
33:06
like it wasn't about development. It wasn't like, you know,
33:08
can I my son get a degree? Personally, think it
33:11
was about how much money they can make. And that's
33:14
the great thing about Saban because now he believes everything
33:17
has changed.
33:17
Speaker 24: You change that whole dynamic and the idea that these
33:20
guys are free agents twice a year and they can
33:22
just go wherever they want. I mean, I got NFL
33:25
coaches calling me complaining about these guys have no ability
33:29
to sustain and persevere and overcome adversity because they never
33:33
had to do it. They just pack up and leave.
33:36
That's what I always enjoyed about college, developing those things
33:40
that help guys be successful. And now the system has
33:44
changed where that's.
33:46
Speaker 3: Not even possible.
33:47
Speaker 24: And I think the players should get paid in college,
33:50
but I just think the system that we're doing it
33:52
in is not really beneficial to them and their development
33:57
in the future.
33:58
Speaker 1: So as we've been feeling our way through the you know,
34:01
portal and changing portal rules and nil rules and house
34:05
you know, house settlements and you know who's going to
34:08
get this money in Virginia tax adding two hundred and
34:10
thirty million to a four year new budget just so
34:14
that you know, eighty percent can go to football and
34:16
we can find you know, so as we are in
34:18
this climate that just keeps saying, you know, we're still
34:21
trying to feel our way through. You'll hear me talk
34:23
about next hour. Diego Pavia played two years in junior
34:28
college and now he's the stud at Vanderbilt. I mean,
34:31
he's ridiculous at Vanderbilt, how good he is. And Vanderbilt
34:35
goes into they beat They upset Alabama last year in
34:39
twenty twenty four. I mean the goalpost got taken downtown Nashville.
34:42
If you've ever seen that strip. And so now this
34:47
week college game Day is that is in Tuscaloosa to
34:51
highlight Vanderbilt at Alabama.
34:53
Speaker 8: Who would have thunk? Right?
34:55
Speaker 1: Well, Diego Pavia meanwhile is suing the n C two A,
34:59
and the n C two A said, okay, Diego, we
35:01
understand your lawsuit. You want extra eligibility because it limits
35:05
you and you don't get a chance to earn the
35:06
money you think you should have earned via because you
35:09
don't get all the years playing. But I tell you what,
35:11
you you've got an exemption while your court case is
35:15
going on.
35:15
Speaker 8: So you oh my god, you know he's.
35:18
Speaker 1: Twenty four he's twenty four, he's a stud and and
35:22
he could be the difference Saturday when when Vanderbilt plays,
35:26
you know, plays in Alabama.
35:27
Speaker 8: So where are we in? What point am I trying
35:30
to make?
35:30
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but there's no doubt that Nick Saban,
35:34
just like Mike Krychevsky, should be bizarre basketball.
35:37
Speaker 8: Well that's why I'm still hoping that they be the
35:40
commissioner of college basketball. You get Sabin Shrzyzewski, Tony Bennett
35:45
and you know, and you know pick you know, Brian
35:48
O'Connor or some big baseball coach. You don to come
35:51
walking out of center field like remember at Shay Stadium
35:54
when Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle dreams right,
35:58
and let him come walk, you know exactly, and and
36:03
and say listen, you know, because Saban's point, and you
36:07
know how I hate saying Nick Saban's right, but Nick
36:11
Saban's point about overcoming adversity. That's the whole point of
36:18
athletics is to teach young people. The reason we play
36:22
sports with kids is to say, sometimes you lose life's rough,
36:28
get a helmet. This the whole point of it is
36:32
to say Okay, kid, you made an error in the field,
36:36
get a bat. You're coming up the next inning. Maybe
36:39
you can make up for it. And Brady was sixth
36:42
on the depth chart in Michigan, right, and was a
36:46
seventh round draft choice. You know, how many of these
36:49
guys I'm just quitting, I'm just gonna go to another team,
36:52
or you know, because they you get it out of
36:54
high school. And this is always the thing about college
36:56
athletics is kids would come out of high school and
37:00
they may have lost one time in four years at
37:03
high school because the way high school is, and all
37:06
of a sudden you're in the SEC and everyone has
37:09
a plan until they get punched in the neck. That
37:12
that all of a sudden you are like, oh my gosh,
37:15
I lost. I've never been on a losing team before.
37:18
And how do you deal with that? How do you
37:20
process it? That's the I think that's what Saban said.
37:23
I agree with him.
37:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, getting knocked down, getting you know, on a smaller scale,
37:28
it was, you know, there were only four of us
37:30
doing Northwest Missouri state games and then all of a sudden,
37:34
all this we got this surge and now we had
37:35
twelve guys. We were competing with to make sure we
37:38
got the airtime on Saturday, and I fought for it
37:40
and I studied, and I were not saying my goal was,
37:43
you know, but you're You're exactly right. You got you
37:46
gotta fight. You gotta fight because you got to learn
37:48
how to fight. You got to learn how to compete.
37:50
So there you go.
37:51
Speaker 8: That's good stuff story. That's that's right. Who was that
37:54
was one of the Baltimore colts wrote that book. That's
37:57
my story and I'm sticking to it anyway. Good stuff
38:00
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Speaker 8: You know, it's amazing to me sometimes. You know, we
44:26
can said here about talking about religion Jews, Christians, Muslims
44:32
and the milkshake that brings all the boys to the
44:35
yard are either Quentin Tarantino, rom coms or Nick Saban's
44:41
role in college athletics depravity, you know. But you know,
44:47
but I get it because there are grander themes going
44:50
on here, and we'll get into the Tarantino controversy in
44:54
a moment. But Bob you Hada thought on Saban.
44:59
Speaker 28: Yeah, everyone's saying how good Nick Saban is and everything else.
45:04
He's actually the cause of the problem in college football
45:08
today because of who he was, the universe he worked
45:12
to and all the alumnis that went to all these
45:15
parents and the recruits and under the table paid all
45:18
these recruits to come to them. Same thing with Krushevsky,
45:22
Same thing with a lot of these winning coaches in
45:25
college athletics. It's who they knew and their alumnis had
45:30
had the money to pay off. There are no Ben Somembardies.
45:34
They are no Woody Hayes, They're no bull Shambeckers. They
45:38
make tons of money by winning. So Nick Saban should
45:43
be this because if he Nick Saban was such a
45:45
wonderful coach, how come he did so terrible in the NFL.
45:49
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, I think he was. He experienced a
45:53
winning locker room like one time in his whole NFL
45:56
career between Cleveland and Miami. But good point, Yet, John
46:00
Wooden's there. I mean people went to play at u
46:02
c l A because because they wanted to play for
46:05
John Wooden. Uh, not because they were going to make
46:07
a lot of money in ad revenue.
46:10
Speaker 28: There one big point, at one big point, his wife
46:15
and he should not be out there saying they were
46:17
there for their students to get an education, because go
46:20
and look how many of his student athletes actually have
46:26
a degree and actually are living, making a good salary
46:31
and have a good job.
46:32
Speaker 8: I'll take a look, you know, I know that there
46:35
are some people that track you know who you know,
46:37
what colleges graduate the most folks and everything, But thank you, Sarah,
46:40
appreciate the point, and it is, you know, it is
46:43
one of those things. And I think to a degree,
46:46
it's like, okay, you know, so you compare Saban to
46:50
would John Wooden or bea and then you go into
46:56
what what he Hayes and Beauchambickler and what they were doing.
46:59
But then is it Nick Vince Lombardi before that? You know,
47:04
on how far back you go in different eras And
47:07
at some point it might just be the above board
47:11
commercialism of it instead of I get to pick which
47:15
players get money because they're the ones I think that
47:18
are the most important. They all think they should get money.
47:21
So is it an ultimate democratization of the process. But
47:26
at the end of the day, that the point of athletics,
47:30
and I know college athletics bring money to the school
47:37
to a point, I think that money is going to
47:40
dry up at some point because ROI so when I
47:45
put a sponsor, if nobody goes to jcsgold dot com
47:51
from this audience to even ask them about gold and
47:54
silver investing. And by the way, it being nice if
47:56
you told them that you are. But anyway, I mean,
48:00
James and the Luck family would know if somebody is
48:03
calling from Daytona, Florida, the odds are they heard it
48:08
on this radio program or San Bernardino, California. There has
48:18
to be a return on investment they've invested into me
48:21
telling you that I think it's a good idea to
48:23
go talk to a family business about gold and silver investing.
48:27
If you don't call, then it's not a good investment.
48:30
And I'm hearing more and more rumblings from the ad
48:33
agencies that these sports teams, especially their broadcasts, are not
48:42
bringing the boys to the art anymore. That it's not
48:46
selling Mercedes, it's not selling Budweiser. And that's going to
48:52
be the death knell to it all, because then that
48:54
money goes away, and then what doesn't matter what your name, image,
48:58
likeness contract says if there's no money. My concern on
49:02
a more traditional first thing today theme is how many
49:07
of these universities confronted with that are going to go
49:11
to their state governments or the federal government for a bailout.
49:19
How many alumni of the University of Michigan are going
49:24
to be buttonholed in the US Senate for a bailout?
49:31
Is Kathy Hokeel going to be hit for a bailout
49:35
if Saint John's University can't pay its basketball team. Is
49:42
Folcahontas going to be asked to help bail out UMass
49:48
amherst Adam Schiff. Yeah, hello, mister Schiff. I'm from the
49:55
University of California at Los Angeles. You may have heard
49:59
of us used to be pretty good in basketball. Yeah,
50:03
or because all of our advertising revenue has dried up
50:07
and we need some help bailing us out of our name, image,
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likeness contracts.
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Speaker 17: Click.
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Speaker 8: I mean, if it's okay for an automotive industry to
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say we're too big to fail, at what point it's
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about the kids? You know? And then it doesn't even
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have to be within the state. Just a powerful alumni.
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Ted Kennedy went to the University of Virginia. Yeah, this
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is UVA, Ted, remember you know you went here for
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you know, and and the sheriff ignored all those Yeah,
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well right, we need a bailout. That's the thing I'm
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that's the political thing, that's the governmental thing I'm afraid of.
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The other side of it is that I'm afraid we're
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not teaching young people about the things that athletics are
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supposed to teach. And I know there's an abstract of athletics,
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especially amongst the Olympiad that know it's about training for combat,
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it's about war. That's why running and throwing and shooting
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we're all Olympic sports because we were showing off how
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well trained our armies were hashtag pete Hegseth. But at
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a youth level, pre teens and teenagers, you teach them
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the struggle as the Marxists like to call it, but
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the idea that Okay, you're not going to you didn't
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win this game. There's a very prescient thing from a
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sports figure that nobody ever gives the credit for the
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brilliance that he had. Yogi Bera once said that there
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are thirty percent or thirty three percent of all baseball
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games you're just going to win, no matter what happens.
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And there are thirty three percent of baseball games in
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a season that you're just going to lose. And this
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was a guy that played for the New York Yankees
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of Mickey Mandl and Joe DiMaggio. There's thirty three percent
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of the games, you're just going to lose no matter
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what thirty three percent. It's what you do with those
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other thirty three percent. And the first thing you have
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to do without other thirty three percent is identify them
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and then say we need to this. This is one
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of those pivotal games that'll make the difference between a
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winning team and the Washington Nationals. I'm sorry, a not
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winning team. Sorry was that out loud? Joe Thomas says
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