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"We Need Words to Spell S.M.U.R.F." (Tuesday October 7, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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what's going on. Chuck Grassley claims that he has documents
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Virginia branch of the Fraternal Order of Polices demanding that
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Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones withdraw from the race
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following the revelations of his violent text messages regarding what
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he wanted to do to fellow members of the House
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of Delegates. President Donald Trump spoke to us Max yesterday
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on the upcoming and now today anniversary of the terror
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attacks on the Gaza Strip and the possibility of a
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peace deal between Hamas and Israel.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think we're getting very close. And you know,
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it's been going on for There are those that say
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three thousand years. Let's say a couple of hundred years. Okay,
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let's say a few centuries. But it's you know, many,
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many years. It's been going on forever. And I think
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we're very very close to having a deal. We have
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all of the Arab nations, we have all of the
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Muslim nations, we have many many just I mean, the
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world is in favor of having this deal done. It's
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a very specific deal and it will bring peace to
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the Middle East beyond Gaza. It'll bring peace to the
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Middle East, and I think there's a lot of good
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will being shown now. It's pretty amazing.
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Speaker 5: Actually, we've over sort of yes if they do. Those
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are our first things this morning on the talk media
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network Big Finish. It's our theme music. It's titled Compensating
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for Something. It is the first thing today by Joe Thomas.
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Andy is on the line. Well, this good morning, Andy.
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How are you doing, my brother.
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Speaker 2: Hey doing great?
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Speaker 5: Thanks for doing what you do because without voices like
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you trying to that's heady company. You put me in there,
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heady company.
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Speaker 6: Just congratulations on the lawsuit things.
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Speaker 2: Do you have an update for us the general public?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's not necessarily anything that's going to
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impact anyone's day aside from the judge tossed it and
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said that to get out of here. So we're done
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as far as that's concerned, and we're done. It's a
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put a. I wish it never happened.
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Speaker 7: Book twenty four Months of your Life.
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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, Well, I mean it's just it was. It
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was sad. You know, I've never been divorced in or
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do I plan on it, but this is as close
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as I ever want to come, as you know, in
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court with somebody you had spent seventeen years with. So
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it's it's never fun and uh and there's a lot
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of pain involved in it. Personal it doesn't it doesn't
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impact anyone else aside from perhaps being an example to
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somebody else going through that same kind of thing. And
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I don't discount that kind of role. But I try to,
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you know, find the more impactful things that I can
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help you with on a day to day. So what's
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on your mind? What's tweaked you today? The other thing, well, I.
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Speaker 8: Mean I really do said my alarms.
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Speaker 5: I can listen to you in the morning. It appreciated that. Yeah, anyway,
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that that Mac story about, and just the impact of
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some of these other things. But right think going back
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to the Wagner, Billy Wagner, that's it, that's the name,
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correct name, Yeah, right, Baseball Hall of Fame guy.
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Speaker 2: You made him sign your jersey, right.
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Speaker 5: I didn't make him. I asked him to. I mean,
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I'm still a little kid at heart, even though I
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think I'm older than he is. But it is what
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it is.
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Speaker 6: I just say, what we also have is you raised
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one hundred and fifty thousand dollars at.
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Speaker 5: Farmington right, Yes, yes, sir, because the last time I
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played golf there.
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Speaker 2: It was just before my horrible car wreck.
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Speaker 3: And I had an employee.
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Speaker 5: He was in his seventh or eighth year and he's
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never played there.
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Speaker 2: He's a good golfer, but you know he used to.
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Speaker 5: Play in public courses.
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Speaker 6: In the day that we played.
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Speaker 5: It was the day after they had had a major
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championship there, like a senior something over there at Farming
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and and.
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Speaker 6: Heat three putts every hole.
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Speaker 5: I beat him by su where the greens cut coats.
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Speaker 6: One of the greatest athletes to ever live, to ever
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work for me.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's fun. But it shows you though, I mean,
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you know, we can all have those moments. And this
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is what I think Billy was talking about when he
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said losing is as important as winning. You've got to
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want to win, but you have to understand what to
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do with the losses when they do come, because they
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inevitably do come. I've got to run to break here. Andy,
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good stuff, my friend. Yeah, keep keep doing what you're doing.
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We'll do and uh, good morning. Can you hang on.
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We're just about to run to a break here or not.
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I guess not. They didn't want to hang on running
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to a break here. Maybe there was something else, my
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Speaker 5: Will, We'll talk for food. That's me the truth, not
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Speaker 3: Sorry, all what's on your mind?
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Speaker 5: All, that's where it all comes from. I just want
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to hear and I want to help, and that's all
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we're here for. And under the banner of will talk
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for food, you know, we all have something we are
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good at. We've talked about this. That's the premise of
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tedste is that God has gifted us with abilities talents
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that we can bring to bear to help our neighborhoods,
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our communities. And we were in abstract talking about it
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last night at the golf tournament. I was mceing, is
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that not everyone can teach a kid how to play golf,
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but maybe you can do bookkeeping, maybe you can run
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a schedule, maybe you know how to organize people. And
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these are all valuable assets, especially to a nonprofit. And
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to that end, Ronnie Snoddy is on with us. He
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loves cars and he loves organizing and showing off cool cars,
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and so he's put together a car show to benefit
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the Alzheimer's Association and their longest day fundraising. Ronnie, thank
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you for coming on. Thank you for doing what you
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love to do to help a great cause.
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Speaker 6: Thank you Joe for having us own this money.
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Speaker 5: So talk about your love of cars first, because I
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think you know the car show, the great car show
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you put on for the Alzheimer's Association is driven out
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of love of cars. Where did that come from?
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Speaker 6: I guess it came from my brother. He was around
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cars and got me into it at an early age
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and just been a love of mine all my life.
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I've worked in automobile, automobiles my whole life.
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Speaker 5: Now you go ahead, what was your what was your
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first car? What was your first You know, I know
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I know mine, But what what was yours?
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Speaker 6: My first car was a sixty five Comet that was
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handed down to me about my brother.
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Speaker 5: Now was that one of those you know you loved
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that car because my first car was my first love.
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It was a nineteen sixty nine Grand Prix had it
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had been a station car, so the nose was pushed
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in a little bit but had a big, you know,
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four hundred cubic eng engine and it just rode like
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a dream, even it was beat up a little bit.
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And I've owned three Grand Prix since then, not all
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of them, you know, sixty nine's, but boy, that sixty
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nine Grand Prix was something else. Was that the same
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for your Comet?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much. It was a It was a drag
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car for my brothers, and then I turned it into
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a street car and drove it for several years.
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Speaker 5: That's very cool, very cold. So since then, now you're
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organizing these car shows. Talk about the car show you've
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got coming up on Saturday in our flagship area, about
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the longest day and you know, and what people should
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think about if they want to do something like this
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for the longest day where they're listening.
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Speaker 6: So this is the fifth year that we've had this
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car show at Sam's Club, and well that third year
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at Sam's Club we had two of them, two other
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ones across the mount at Channado Speedway. But this is
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our fifth year Sam's Club. We have cars anywhere. I've
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had some cars there that people told me they had
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three hundred, one thousand dollars in These were pretty wow
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pretty nice cars. And we've got a lot of cars
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that people drive, you know, a lot two car shows
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and that type stuff. So we have a big variety
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of cars, trucks and motorcycles. And last year we had
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one hundred and seventy six cars at a show. How
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much here I'm hoping for two hundred.
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Speaker 5: How much can a car show like this help a
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group like the Alzheimer's Association raise?
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Speaker 6: Last year we raised sixteen thousand dollars, but a lot
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of this was through sponsorships of people that have businesses
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or individuals that donated money to it. You know, it's
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not a lot of money in the car show itself.
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When you only have it's an inter fee of twenty dollars,
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and if you have two hundred cars, it's only four
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thousand dollars. So we did quite a bit better than that,
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but you know, it's grown every year, and hopefully this
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year we're going to be in the twenty thousand dollars ranges.
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Speaker 5: And all that goes to help the folks who are
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trying to battle Alzheimer's disease. And really, you know, this
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is such a great example of the Longest Day Campaign
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because it's do what you love, and you obviously love
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cars and do it, you know, all day in marathon
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fashion to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association. So I
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just think whatever it is, be an example to you
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whether and we've got folks who do marathon bicycling, maybe
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put together your own car show, have a chess tournament.
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It doesn't make a difference. Whatever you love to do,
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share that passion with the Alzheimer's Association for that. So
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for the folks who might be coming to your show, Ronnie, Ronnie,
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what are some of the need highlights are there? I
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know in some years I've seen James Bond's car, I've
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seen all sorts of different things, especially there's some British
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car clubs in the valley. What are some notable entries
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that you know of already?
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Speaker 6: We you know, really it's hard for me to tell
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you because I don't know who's gonna show up until
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this show.
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Speaker 11: Up to.
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Speaker 6: That, a gentleman text me Sunday night asking about your show,
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and he was in Richmond and he's planning on coming
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to their show here. So you know, we've had a
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lot of them from Fredericksburg, Richmond, across the mountain. So
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we get a large turnout for the show, and a
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lot of them drive quite a distance to get to
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the show, so all of them know that it's for
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good calls and that's the reason that they're there, other
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than to have fun and socialize with their friends.
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Speaker 5: And you get first two hundred cars get a little
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dashplack for participating. I know that, Ronnie, is there a
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Facebook group or something at someplace people could find out
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more about your show.
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Speaker 6: We do have a Facebook page the Longest Day and
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they can find out the information about that on that.
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Speaker 5: Very cool and well, so you're an example to us
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all and I appreciate it, Ronnie. And is your comment
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still running or is she going to be in the
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show or is she just in photographs?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 6: I got rid of that car long ago, but I
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do have a seventy Boss three you mustang die bringing
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that we we did quite a bit of work on
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so you know I'll have that there. But it's a
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lot of nice cars there with individuals that yea love
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the cars.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Amen to that. Amen to that. Well, thank you
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for being a hero of the internal combustion and and
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we will talk to again very soon. Okay, thank you
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appreciate it raising money for the Longest Day. And the
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beauty of the Longest Day is whatever it is you
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love to do, you can do for the Alzheimer's Association.
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Find out more at alz dot org, slash Longest Day,
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and just find out a different way to do it.
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I know they're going through some resetting for this apropos
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cause the most ruckus. And I finally got past the
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I said, sorows money you riot for was what I
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came up with. But Charles Charles really I think stuck
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the landing on this one when he emailed to JT
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in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com, soorrows money
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under the radar funding I guess keep them coming in.
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I like that one that may.
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Speaker 9: Be the.
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Speaker 5: Leader in the clubhouse at least sorows money under the
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radar funding. And then you know, when they say, why
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are you calling me a smurf? I said, well, I
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Speaker 5: First thing Today by Joe Thomas in a computer Crash
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edition of the Mission this morning, and everything went as
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we were trying to pull up some video of the celebrations,
28:23
the commemorations of October seventh in the Middle East right now,
28:28
and what's going on in Israel and what's going on
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in Gaza as there are still you know, it's almost
28:38
like you're looking at two different worlds. And the heroes
28:42
of the assault are commemorated and celebrated, and then on
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the other side you've got a fifty to fifty split.
28:54
And this is the bully's nature. And don't describe any
29:02
higher purpose to Hamas than to be a bully. And Iran, really,
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Iran funds the bully. So the bully sees a group
29:14
of people he wants to thug up, and they all
29:18
don't like him, and so he goes after and he
29:21
assaults a bunch of them back alley stickball bats, just allegedly.
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I'm not saying I was ever involved in such a thing,
29:29
might have been on the receiving end of one. But
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the idea is to break the will of the group.
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Because if you have a group of people and they
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oppose a policy or a dietary service, whatever it might be,
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that they oppose as a group, you assault the group
29:53
until you break their will to stand as a group,
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and then as we're a one half of them, march
30:02
away and say, you know what Israel's wrong. And this
30:07
is how you wind up with leaders in the Jewish
30:09
community of the United States saying Israel should cease to
30:15
exist because they have grown up in a world that
30:23
tells them that all the bad stuff that happens in
30:27
the United States is because of Israel. And it's a poor, inept,
30:40
surface level telling of what goes on. But remember, this
30:46
is a group that owes its roots to the Nazis.
30:51
And I'd love to bring this to the bear because
30:54
you've got these folks who join Antifa, the anti fascists,
31:07
and these folks who rail against Nazis marching on behalf
31:16
of a group that really got its start at the
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hands of the Nazis, the real ones. The Grand Mufti
31:28
of Palestine sitting with Adolph, that Adolph discussing how they
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worked together on their common Palestine problem and America, the
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United States being aligned with and against Germany. So therefore
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we must have been with the Jews because we were
32:01
against Germany, said we need to do something and pardon
32:08
the expatriate Jewish community. They weren't really rushing back to
32:15
Germany at that point, and many of them had set
32:20
up communities already in what is now Israel and the
32:26
Western world. Like they always do, come in and draw
32:29
some arbitrary lines, ask the folks in Kashmir, and then
32:35
walk away and leave it for the people left behind
32:37
to battle it out over where those lines should be.
32:42
And Israel's face this since the moment they were founded,
32:48
because the people who were on the other side of
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the wall, the people that were in the tunnels using
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US AID money to make bombs and create havoc and
33:08
bring terror, laughing themselves all the way to the mosque,
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and it's not just. And when you bring up how
33:18
these folks hide themselves behind faith, it's the same reason
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I bring up the story of the Westboro Baptists and
33:28
September eleventh, two thousand and six, when they were out
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there going after me and my wife and my kids
33:36
because we supported the United States and the United States
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allowed people to be gay, and they were affronted because
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they thought getting George Bush elected president, he'd ban gayness
33:47
or something what they were thinking. So it's not like
33:55
it's specifically. And when you have hate groups that are
34:03
going out there committing murder and committing violence and then
34:08
hiding themselves behind the veil of faith. Oh, we only
34:13
do this for our faith, or we do this for
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the You're ruining it for everyone. This was why Jefferson
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wanted a separation of church from state, because they were
34:29
sure that, as had happened for the millennia, states would
34:38
use faith as fulk room to gain power over everyone.
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And it's to the detriment of really both, but mostly
34:52
the faith community when they are co opted by the
34:55
governments who want nothing to do with the faith outside
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of they are useful foot soldiers, especially if you get
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them ramped up into this, uh, this euphoric state. Some
35:08
of the Japanese pilots in World War Two would get
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ramped up into such a state believing that they were
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carrying out.
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Speaker 14: A holy war.
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Speaker 5: And while the police are right now standing guard New
35:29
York and Washington d C ready for protests that go on,
35:36
you know, contrary to the commemorations. And this is what
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you're going to see here is you've seen in Great
35:44
Britain their Keir Starmer's is warning against un British protests.
35:57
I'm not sure what that means, what an Unbritish protest is,
36:04
but this is some of the outside.
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Speaker 16: Imagine that day when your cousin tal will finally come home.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, first of all, when we think of this, the
36:14
first thing I think about is tells kids, because all
36:17
they know is that one day their dad left home,
36:20
gave their mother a warning and never came back. And
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to them, it's just this endless, one single day that
36:28
never ended. For me personally being a part of the
36:32
Hostage Family Forum for two years, being very active, what
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I imagine is this day when we go into the forum,
36:38
we enter the building, go into the warehouse, bring out
36:42
all these T shirts, pile them up and ship them
36:45
somewhere to other people who need T shirts, and take
36:48
all the posters and send them to recycling or put
36:51
them in some kind of archive, and at the end
36:54
of that day we close the door behind us and
36:57
just move on with our life.
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Speaker 5: Godin who started a yellow ribbon campaign about the hostages
37:05
still being held, and a lot of folks are talking
37:10
about what Marco Rubio said on Sunday talking about a
37:15
Palestinian state, and it was noted by a lot of
37:18
folks that the Secretary of State of the United States
37:23
acknowledging that there will be a Palestinian state was notable,
37:27
if not just seemingly off the coffin. A lot of
37:30
people sort of let it go by. This particular note
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came in. I think it's a bulk email from a listener,
37:42
but he sent it out to a bunch of folks.
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Giving Palestine a state is only going to insist that
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they do this kind of horrific act more each time
37:52
they want something, they now know how to get it.
37:55
Appeasement has never ever worked.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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Speaker 23: Probably okay isn't okay? Especially when it comes to drinking
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Speaker 2: We're all afraid to speak the truth, and the more
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afraid we get the more.
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Speaker 5: We hate the ones who do.
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Speaker 2: You're ashamed to be American? Okay, that's code.
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Speaker 23: It's honestly, we are all ashamed of YouTube.
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Speaker 5: So and an example of what I was telling about
44:30
with how to force capitulation, how to force appeasement. According
44:36
to prepared remarks picked up through Axios, to take it
44:41
for the grain of salt that it comes with, vivek
44:45
Ramaswami is going to speak to a Montana branch of
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Turning Point USA, and in his prepared remarks they talk.
44:56
He talks about how the conservative move movement is at
45:02
a fork in the road, and he goes on to
45:07
say that the conservative movement needs to drop its its
45:15
fixation on owning the liberals. We, he writes, can still
45:22
stand for truth while viewing those who believe in falsehoods
45:26
not as our enemies who must be vanquished, but instead
45:30
as fellow citizens who have lost their way and must
45:33
be shown the light. And so you know, at the onset,
45:39
Axios is publishing this to inflame you. But if you're
45:43
listening to this program, generally speaking, that has been the mantra.
45:46
I don't want somebody not listening because they voted for
45:51
Kamala Harris. I want them to hear what we're talking
45:56
about so they can say, oh, because otherwise we leave
46:01
the field to their activists, their agitators telling them who
46:06
we are pointing at these groups like the ones that
46:10
gather around David Duke and hold their little rallies in
46:15
places like my hometown Charlottesville just to start dumpster fires
46:20
to get notoriety, or are they truly Western conservatives who
46:25
are out there trying to defend the last bastion of
46:30
liberty and self fulfillment. And that's the thing I mean,
46:35
this was one of the things that Charlie Kirk made
46:37
as a real cornerstone of what he did was you know,
46:46
talk to me, don't just stand there and protest me.
46:49
Come and say here's what I believe, here's why I
46:52
think you're wrong, and allow me to have a moment
46:57
to push back on it. And it was working, and
47:07
so he's not wrong. What's happening is the left now
47:11
is out there taking it and saying, look, the MAGA
47:15
movement is fracturing. Years ago, a dear friend of mine
47:20
used to listen on the show that was suing me.
47:23
Can I mention them now? Probably not a good idea,
47:26
call a lawyer. Anytime you have to think should I
47:30
call my lawyer first, it's not a good idea. It's
47:35
like the old expression, well if you have to decide,
47:38
if you can imagine doing this in front of your mother,
47:42
then you can do it. If you think something might
47:45
be a good idea, but you really feel like you
47:47
should call a lawyer first, it's probably not a good idea,
47:51
or at very least impolitic. But anyway, years ago, I
47:54
used to have a fellow that listened to me. He's
47:56
not a web streaming guy, and the radio stations we've
47:59
all or a little out of where he listens. Sometimes.
48:02
He's a truck driver. Now, my buddy Chris, and I
48:06
think he listens online sometimes. But years and years ago
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he and I had a conversation. He said he was
48:12
looking forward to a world without liberals, and I love
48:17
him dearly, but I had to say, Chris, that's a
48:20
fool's errand a because there's always going to be somebody
48:24
that believes that somebody else should be helping somebody else.
48:33
That's always there's always going to be that weakness in
48:36
our resolve that is going to say, well, somebody should
48:40
help that poor soul because you and I agree somebody
48:44
should help that poor soul. A conservative says, how can
48:48
I help that poor soul? Not why can't somebody help
48:53
that poor soul? Now that's a very good view. You
48:55
write that down, that's a good line. The difference between
48:59
conservaive in liberal is we think, how can I help
49:04
that poor soul? But what's happened is a lot of
49:08
people have co opted conservatism under the idea of the
49:11
hell would the people who need help? We got too
49:15
many damn people. And there are these Jane Goodall groups
49:20
in the conservatives and liberals that want to see depopulation,
49:25
get rid of all the people I disagree with and
49:27
the world will be okay. And the full heartiness in
49:31
that is that you're always going to find people. So
49:34
let's say there's one hundred thousand conservatives and everyone else
49:38
has gone. Well, now that one hundred thousand conservatives are
49:41
going to start picking at each other. If you've ever
49:45
been to a political convention, you know what I'm talking about.
49:50
When the essence of Western conservatism, based on John Locke,
49:56
and we hold these truths to be self evident, is
49:59
that and that you should be free to do as
50:02
you see fit up until the point just before it
50:06
impacts someone else. And if you cross that borderline, now
50:13
we must punish you for violating somebody else's rights, so
50:16
that everyone else in the community now has an example of, oh,
50:20
don't violate somebody else's rights. This is what happens to you.
50:25
I mean, it's really simple. And maybe that's what the
50:29
progressive left can't deal with, is it is really simple.
50:34
But write that one? Do we have? I ever finished? Now?
50:37
So I'm like three quarters of the way through my
50:40
unauthorized autobiography, and I want to add that as a chapter,
50:46
or at least the premise of a chapter. A conservative
50:50
sees somebody in need and says, how can I help?
50:54
And a progressive see somebody in need and says, why
50:58
doesn't somebody help? Apply that. Look at a lot of
51:03
the stories, especially on this October seventh, because we brought
51:08
up the Barbary Pirates and Jefferson in Tripoli and the
51:12
Marines earlier on. Those were people who were hiding behind
51:21
religiosity in order to justify their crimes. A Muslim man
51:29
living in the United States just raising his family is
51:32
not an Islamist terrorist, and we have to use our
51:36
languages carefully. Who are the Islamist terrorists? Dave writes in
51:47
Dave Smith. He says Hitler tried to get rid of
51:50
all the people that he didn't agree with. It didn't
51:52
work out that well for anybody. It's just the difference
52:01
of opinion doesn't have to become a difference of dominion,
52:08
because what's happened is in this world where it's almost
52:13
like you endorse somebody. If I accept the fact that liberal,
52:17
progressive Kamala Harris voters exist, then I'm endorsing the idea.
52:27
It goes back to how they reacted and how we
52:30
allowed them to steal the dialogue when Rush said he
52:35
hoped Barack Obama failed, not because he was a black man,
52:39
because he was a Marxist man. Anyway, we must roll
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until tomorrow morning, five Eastern. I am Joe Thomas, so long,
52:48
thanks for all the fish.
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