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"At Least Trump Said It Out Loud" (Wednesday October 15, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fiant and more.
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  Speaker 2: Megan now make America great again than I've ever been.
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  Speaker 1: Habi Tendsy to you, where we celebrate God's gifts to
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  So you join us on this the morning so much
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  to get into medals of honor. Time Magazine photographs battles
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  in Gaza, the Gazin's, the Palestinians standing up against Hamas
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  Hovey or mile I getting something that Heretofore, neither candidate
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  for governor in the United States has received a president endorsement.
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  I know, Chatterrelly technically got endorsed, but that was during
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  the primary. That's where Trump said he wanted to And
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  so the president all in in the rj L in
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  the left is, oh, Nicole Wallace is, you know, so upset.
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  She's starting to look more and more like Mike Wallace.
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  And I don't know what Andrea Mitchell will do. She
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  can't have anything else tightened, but she's she's come loose
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  at the seams at the very thought of a US
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  president getting involved in somebody else's presidential election. I mean,
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  except for when Barack Obama and Joe Biden got involved
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  in the Ukrainian elections, but that was Who's who's talking
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  about that? We're not talking about that. Come on, Joe,
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  You're You're just a MAGA influencer. You just want to
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  get your candae Owens on. That's that's all you're trying
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  to do here show off. Yes, we are here across
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  the talk media network where we'll tell you what happens
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  and happened with our first things now and then we
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  will discuss at four three, four eight eight two four
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  two one seven. President Trump posthumously awarded the highest civilian honor,
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  the Medal of Honor, to Charlie Kirk, assassinated leader of
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  Turning Point US a yesterday na ceremony in the Rose Garden.
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  The number of federal worker layoffs as a result of
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  the government shutdown was revised downwards slightly to four one
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  hundred and eight employees since October first. Rather than working
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  to end the partial federal government shut down as it
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  stretches into its third week, eighteen, US Senate Democrats are
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  backing a bid to shield federal workers from the consequences
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  of the shutdown by introducing the Federal Employee Civil Relief Act,
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  which built on the same kind of premise that went
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  on during the COVID shutdowns, will forbid evictions foreclosures, repossessions,
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  or defaults during the lapse. This includes student loans. President
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  Trump said Tuesday, a wealthy donor has offered to pay
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  the American troops during the government shutdown. He said this
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  during a White House session with Argentine President Milai. I
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  have a man who's a very wealthy person. He said.
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  If there's any money necessary shortfall for paying the troops,
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  I will pay it. He also said that he had
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  communicated President Trump had to Hamas that the militant group
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  must disarm or be forced to Treatury Secretary Scott Bessen
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  has accused China of deliberately trying to hurt the global
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  economy after Chairman She imposed sweeping new export controls on
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  rare earth and critical minerals. He said, quote, this is
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  a sign of how weak their economy is, and they
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  want to pull everyone else down with them. I mentioned
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  President Trump's endorsement of Javier Malai great meeting with javieror Milai.
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  He wrote on truth Social he is doing all the
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  right things for his country. He will make Argentina great again.
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  And then the President threatened to pull assistance for Argentina
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  if the nation's internal politics don't go the US way
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  in the upcoming elections. Los Angeles County leaders have declared
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  a state of emergency in the region due to undocumented residents.
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  But it's not because they're there, it's because Ice is
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  there arresting them. Spokesperson for the county government says this
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  ensures that the full weight of county government is aligned
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  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers, or.
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  Speaker 8: Prepaid debit cards.
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  Speaker 10: That's buzzed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 10: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 11: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  heart and brain.
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  Speaker 12: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 10: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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  brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
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  call me a ride.
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  Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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  it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 12: Hundred to do list.
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  Speaker 3: Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh them damn Yankees.
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  Speaker 12: There they go again.
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  Speaker 1: Meddling in foreign elections. This is Trumpet his worst. I
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  can't believe that this guy is out there meddling in
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  foreign elections. This is not American Presidentia. Why this is
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  beneath the office except for all the other times that
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  it's happened in the office. And perhaps one of the
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  left's problems with Trump as Democrats vacate their lower intestines
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  into their pants over President Trump saying we'll cut aid
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  to Argentina if Milai isn't re elected. He's at least
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  saying it out loud, rather than the shadow ops that
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  Obama and Biden, and I bring up Biden not because
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  he was necessarily a foreign policy heavyweight in the manipulation
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  of the Ukrainian elections. It was it twenty ten. It
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  was the twenty ten Ukrainian presidential elections. The administration actually
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  told an entire region of the country you can't vote,
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  had the UN and monitors and an entire region was
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  just not permitted to vote because there was too much
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  ethnic Russian people there. Can you imagine telling that Arizona,
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  New Mexico and California you can't vote in the American election.
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  There's too damn many illegals, there, too many Mexican nationals,
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  too many people waving Mexican flags. I think Claudia Schinbaum
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  is actually their president. We're not going to let you vote.
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  Can you imagine that? But that's what Barack Obama and
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  Joe Biden did at the behest of Borisma holdings. And
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  again it also began the whole he said, she said
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  in Russia and Ukraine, there's plenty of wrong to go
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  around in these two countries. So as the US manipulated
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  the Ukrainian election and in many people's view, led to
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  this battle between Putin and Zelenski. No Zelensky was not
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  the guy who won, but the guy who won was
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  so inept and so corrupt that it led to a
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  TV talk show host, John ostensibly John Stewart getting elected president.
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  It was so bad that Ukraine elected their version of
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  Stephen Colbert to be president, and a lot of it
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  was because of the US. So I'm not defending or diminishing.
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  I'm just saying that don't get all your panties in
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  an uproar over President Trump saying will cut Argentina's aid
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  if the Marxists win, because that's a battle right now.
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  Is there's an assembly race right now where what you
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  would comparatively call the midterms, what America is going to
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  go through in twenty twenty six, it's going on in
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  Argentina right now, and a lot of the Marxists are
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  out there saying he's not doing anything for the poor
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  except trying to make their currency valuable again or bring
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  jobs back in because the place isn't such a septic Tank.
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  But the Marxists come in and say, he hasn't done
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  anything for you in the last twenty four hours, has he?
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  It's what they always do. It's what they're going to
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  do here in the United States twenty twenty six midterms.
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  A lot of the twenty twenty six midterm races are
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  already going on. How many congressional announcements have you heard?
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  We've had congressional announcements of candidacies. I think I have
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  five Democrats looking to unseat John Maguire. He may even
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  have a Republican. One question mark, we've got a Republican
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  ready to run against Mark Warner in twenty twenty six.
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  By the way, fun frolic sixteen US senators, rather than
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  working on reopening the federal government, decided to copy and
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  paste a bill similar to all the ones they passed
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  during the COVID lockdowns that tell private business owners and
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  property owners and banks and Fannie May and Bernie Mack
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  and all the school scholarship programs, you can't go and
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  collect from federal workers because of shutdown. The co sponsors,
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  along with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, and you got
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  to like somebody who's named his Shatz, I mean democrat
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  or not. I mean it's like saying a Democrat from Charlottesville,
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  democrat from Hawaii. What so? Brian Shatz himself introduced this bill. No,
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  there was a comment in there. Why are you looking
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  at me like that? Brian Shatz himself introduced this bill.
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  Co sponsors such luminaries of the US Senate Upper House
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  as Danang, Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut. There you go, gh
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  Ohio's Sharad Brown, Maryland's Ben Carden, Kate Mastow of Nevada,
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  Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Diane Finstein. It's a fine Stein.
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  That kind of Ted's day, isn't it. Diane Feinstein has
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  been located and went visited her at home and got
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  her to sign on on this. Daisy had Maisie Herono.
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  Hey the other senator from Hawaii. So proud we are
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  here in our flagship state. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner
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  on the roster of co sponsors. The press release makes
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  it sound like they wrote the bill. Nobody wrote it.
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  It was copy and paste from some COVID bill. Amy
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  Klobuchar of Minnesotago, d Iz Bob Menendez of New Jersey,
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  Jeff Merkley, Alex Paedia, Bernard Sanders, Chris van Holland, and
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  Focahontas the Federal Employees Civil Relief Act to keep the
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  federal employees working and pay well, not paid because they
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  won't get back to work. And what was the meme
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  I saw yesterday? I just I had to laugh out loud.
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  It was a Babylon Bee headline said senate's a picture
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  of Chuck Schumer there. Senate Democrats vowed to keep the
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  government shut down until someone notices. I think that sums
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  it up. I don't even know if that's a fake
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  headlin line.
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  Speaker 11: Yes?
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  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
• 24:31
  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: I'm Andrews Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:05
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:16
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
• 25:25
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your Social Security number.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Or bank account. Or send money in any.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Form cash, gift cards, wire transfers.
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: Or prepaid debit cards.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Report the call to our law enforcement on the Office
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  of the Inspector General at OIG dot SSA dot gov.
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  Speaker 10: Uh oh, BRA's buzzed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 10: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 15: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  art and brain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: Who's with me?
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
• 26:11
  brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody.
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: Call me a ride.
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
• 26:19
  it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
• 26:23
  Speaker 15: Did you know that more.
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  Speaker 2: Than half our household energy costs go to heating and cooling.
• 26:28
  Energy efficiency isn't just good for the environment, It means
• 26:31
  lower utility bills too. One way to reduce your energy
• 26:35
  waste is a home energy assessment. Your utility company can help,
• 26:40
  or you can learn how to do it yourself at
• 26:42
  energysavers dot gov. That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to
• 26:46
  look for air leaks around windows and doors, check ducks
• 26:49
  for holes, and improve your insulation. Another time to cut
• 26:53
  energy costs is when you shop for a new appliance.
• 26:56
  Look for the energy Star logo and read the energy
• 26:59
  guide label, and there are day to day.
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  Speaker 3: Things you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
• 27:06
  close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
• 27:09
  air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
• 27:13
  reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
• 27:18
  a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
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  Speaker 3: On a need to know basis, because you need to know.
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  The first thing today, it's because.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't vaccinated. Oh no, we don't do that anymore.
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  That's because you got the I didn't get the jab,
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  the booster to the bad scratch fever.
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  Speaker 12: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The so COVID the premise the COVID shutdowns put so
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  many people out of work that we had to protect
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  them from the evil doers that were their landlords or
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  their banks that had lent them the money to purchase
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  their homes. And so the government again not failing to
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  notice that there was a constitutional way to handle shut
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  down like they needed to, but they didn't follow that.
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  They just said stay home, we'll pay you. That didn't
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  hurt our economy at all. Remember, we were buying stuff
• 29:32
  because we had money, but nobody was making anything, hence inflation.
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  By the way, the Corrections and Retellings Department of the
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  new black Bob Menendez? Like, what is Bob Menendez? He
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  shutdown version of this bill, the twenty twenty five Civil
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  Federal Employees Civil Relief Act. Again, it's Brian Schatz himself
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  introducing the bill. Chuck Schumer on this one. It's good
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  to see the guy who's in charge of actually trying
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  to get the Senate to vote in favor of reopening
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  the government is a co sponsor now of a bill
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  that says, we'll just make sure you're paid while we're closed,
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  and you can't be kicked out of your apartment or
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  from State Farm. Dick Durbin, always good. Alex Paedilla now
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  on this list. Bernie Sanders, Chris van Holland, Danang, Dick Bloomenthal,
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  Christian gillibrand Angela also Brooks of Maryland. Focahontas on this
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  one as well as she was two years ago. Tammy
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  Duckworth as well, Maisie had Daisy, Katherine Mastow of Nevado,
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  and Emmy Klobushar back in there Corey Booker trying to
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  get his twenty twenty eight swervon Martin Heinrich of New Mexico,
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  and apparently the House is going to bring up similar
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  legislation under the penmanship of Congressman Brendan Boyle. Their shats, Boyles,
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  you got it in Focahontas. It's always good, especially right
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  after Disingenuous People's Day. I hope you enjoyed all the
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  memes of the Disingenuous People Day pictures of Focahontas in
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  full familial head dress. So I'm going to go back
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  to twenty ten because the what's the Expressian Your indignation
• 32:02
  would be interesting if it wasn't so full of crap.
• 32:05
  All the commentariat members who were fuming over President Trump's
• 32:10
  threats into Argentina, forget about Victor Yanuko Yanuko Voyage, who
• 32:22
  was elected president while a huge swath of the country
• 32:26
  wasn't even allowed to vote I think maybe five or
• 32:30
  ten percent because of their Russian ethnicity, thanks to assistance
• 32:38
  from the Obama administration and Joe Biden, whose son at
• 32:42
  the time was being guarded by the azof Battalion on
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  the board of Barisma Holdings. I can't imagine why and
• 32:52
  was this was about a year or so before the
• 32:56
  famous tel Vladimir, I'll have more flexibility after the re election.
• 33:10
  Yanukovich is how it's pronounced. Okay, thank you the Corrections
• 33:14
  and Retellings department in my ear saying it's Yanukovich. And
• 33:25
  this guy was so bad he led to Ukraine's version
• 33:30
  of John Stewart winning the election. Voladimir Zelenski Great Britain
• 33:36
  announced today that John Cleese has been elected Prime Minister.
• 33:39
  I mean, this is what has happened there, and I
• 33:43
  know We've got more and more chances of that happening.
• 33:47
  Donald Trump had a wonderful run as a reality TV
• 33:51
  show host, so I'm not saying it doesn't happen. What
• 33:57
  was the Lewis Black movie? Now, I know he was
• 34:03
  one of the stars in Robin Williams A Man of
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  the Year. So in Ukraine what happened Yanakovich was so
• 34:13
  bad as so corrupt that Robin Williams was elected president
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  in their Ukrainian version, the off Broadway Road production of
• 34:27
  Man of the Year. Because Obama did the same thing,
• 34:31
  but Obama did it quietly. Nobody knew about it until
• 34:37
  like twenty fourteen, and it really came out. CATO has
• 34:42
  a great piece. It's called America's Ukraine Hypocrisy, and it
• 34:50
  begins an abundant of out There is an abundance of
• 34:54
  outrage in the United States about Russia's alleged meddling in
• 34:57
  the twenty sixteen presidential and such unbridge might be more
• 35:02
  credible if the United States refrained from engaging in similar conduct.
• 35:08
  The historical record shows that Washington has meddled in the
• 35:12
  political affairs of dozens of countries, including many democracies. An
• 35:17
  egregious example occurred in Ukraine. Oh, I'm sorry twenty fourteen.
• 35:24
  Yanukovich was already president. He was, but the US meddled
• 35:34
  in the twenty fourteen campaigns in the Savoo Party. So
• 35:42
  it was actually after tel Vladimir I'll have more flexibility
• 35:46
  after the election. A great piece at CATO dot org
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  on the meddling in the Ukrainian elections that led to
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  Zelensky getting there. So President Trump yesterday giving Charlie Kirk
• 36:05
  on his birthday. And I don't know if you went
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  to any I went to a party held by some
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  They now also sell Charlie's Tea for the Turning Point
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  talking for four hours or even I think he only
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  had to talk for three hours, He's like, I need
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  and before his ask me anything proved me wrong events,
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  So they have that available as well at First Free
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  Coffee Bar. But we were there for a party and
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  many of you were as well. And this is President Trump, Yes.
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  Speaker 12: All right, Charlie.
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  Speaker 17: It's just they've got a power that others don't have,
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  and very few people who will ever have. So today,
• 37:04
  like those martyrs before him, Charlie's voice, his message, and
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  his legacy are stronger and greater than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: And the careful and the thing we need to be
• 37:17
  on guard for is how it can be manipulated, much
• 37:21
  like Martin Luther King Junior's message got parsed and those
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  profiteers who sought to take their position take their place
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  rather than an organic individuals first, which was Charlie's point.
• 37:39
  The turning point, USA was a million strong because of
• 37:45
  those millions, not because of him. He was just the
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  guy whose idea it was. And I think that's again,
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  like Reagan said, it's amazing what you can do when
• 37:57
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  Speaker 3: Amaze your friends here at First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: My boss must know I'm an archaeology nerd, he sends.
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  You know, when you own a radio network, you can
• 44:25
  send stuff to hosts along it and say, I think
• 44:27
  this is your kind of story. I don't know if
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  we've ever talked about this. I've known Talk Media network
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  owner for a long long time before we started putting
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  this show out on it, so I don't know. I
• 44:39
  may have at some point mentioned what kind of archaeology
• 44:42
  nerd I am, but from the pop culture down to
• 44:49
  minutia about neat little stories like this. And we're going
• 44:54
  to have a special guest coming up that's actually going
• 44:57
  to take us through little bits. He's written a book
• 45:01
  about Western civilization. Gee, I know, but Joe, what about Yeah,
• 45:07
  the deportations and citizenship and all of this stuff, it
• 45:11
  all roots in Western civilization and crazy ass stuff like
• 45:16
  the Los Angeles County commissioners announcing that they're going to
• 45:20
  declare a state of emergency to protect non citizens from
• 45:25
  the citizens should tell you all you know about how
• 45:28
  little we know about how Western civilization is supposed to work.
• 45:33
  But archaeologically speaking, I mean, there are all sorts of
• 45:38
  fascinating Biblically. I know, there's tons of archaeologists that insist that,
• 45:43
  you know, Romans, Roman governments didn't collect taxes in December
• 45:48
  and all that stuff. About when we're Mary and Joseph
• 45:52
  actually in Bethlehem to pay their taxes and that kind
• 45:55
  of thing. Okay, all well and good, because there are
• 45:59
  things in human history, and this is what fascinates me.
• 46:02
  One of my nerdiness about archaeology is that we often
• 46:08
  co opt spaces. So the story out of Troy, Ohio
• 46:12
  that my boss sent me, I think this is your
• 46:15
  kind of story, and it is I nerd out on
• 46:17
  this stuff. There was a tavern, the Overton Tavern, Overfield tavern.
• 46:25
  I'm sorry, I stopped, And second, I said, was it
• 46:28
  really called the Overton Tavern? Did it have windows? It's
• 46:31
  Overfield tavern in Troy had a big fire. And now,
• 46:36
  because it was a historic landmark and had been there
• 46:40
  for hundreds of years, they are doing archaeology there. While
• 46:45
  they sift through the remains of the fire to find
• 46:47
  artifacts and things that were there that weren't destroyed in
• 46:50
  the fire, they're using the opportunity to dig under this
• 46:56
  tavern and taverns historically, you go back a couple hundred years,
• 47:00
  they were at the crossroads of the thing. I live
• 47:03
  in a town that's called Palmyra. Palmyra was a great
• 47:07
  crossroads town and biblical era, and so these and they
• 47:14
  were crossroads before we got there. So they're finding ancient,
• 47:21
  prehistoric Native American artifacts underneath this tavern, including coins and
• 47:29
  other currencies that date back before Americans, before before that
• 47:34
  Columbus fella, and certainly before American colonials got to Ohio,
• 47:43
  because this spot and I don't know where in Troy
• 47:46
  it is, but I imagine it's got to be close
• 47:48
  to Troy's on a river because of all these old
• 47:51
  American towns. We were on rivers because that's how we traveled,
• 47:54
  So our towns were in the put ins along the river,
• 47:58
  and that's where our towns developed. You see what kind
• 48:00
  of nerd I get about this stuff. So apparently this
• 48:04
  tavern was where people had been meeting and doing stuff
• 48:09
  and congregating for a long time before pale Face arrived.
• 48:14
  And so it's just neat reading about all the prehistoric currencies,
• 48:20
  coins and things like that that are being found and
• 48:24
  dung up there. And I hope that they do the
• 48:28
  right thing with these archaeological things. If you've ever been
• 48:34
  not that I haven't tried to get Virginia Tourism to
• 48:37
  sponsor this program, but there's a neat place in Virginia
• 48:40
  not named Monticello, although Charlottesville has its things. If you
• 48:45
  are first three in the morning, coffee is a great
• 48:47
  place to get coffee if you're staying in town. But
• 48:50
  if you come to Virginia, you have to go to
• 48:52
  Colonial Williamsburg, and not for its bit. It's kind of
• 48:58
  becoming pre fat I know, it's eighteenth century preofab But
• 49:03
  if you go down to Jamestown, which is the area
• 49:09
  where the first settlement was of this congregation, where in
• 49:15
  sixteen nineteen the first elected representative body was formed, the
• 49:21
  beginnings of American DNA evolution from the European DNA doing
• 49:27
  things differently than they did them in Britain. You go
• 49:32
  there and there's a huge archaeological dig under churches and foundations.
• 49:37
  You see all this stuff. Again Nerd like me, loves
• 49:40
  this stuff, and I remember being struck by how small
• 49:43
  the square footage of the community was. This is it,
• 49:48
  This is where the whole settlement lived. And they were
• 49:51
  like yeah, And it was all woods around it, so
• 49:54
  it wasn't like you know, prairies and farmland behind it
• 49:57
  and open highways can be daunting there. It's just you
• 50:03
  look at Troy in neat uh situation going on there
• 50:07
  archaeologically and American archaeology is interesting to me because we
• 50:13
  we do have it, and we do have you know,
• 50:17
  ancient sites, and in many ways it shocks people when
• 50:25
  some of this stuff is even older than the European stuff.
• 50:30
  You see, how you know, the European kind of hunter
• 50:34
  gatherer tribes and the Gauls and all of that start
• 50:38
  to be you become Romanized, especially in their battles with Rome,
• 50:43
  and they start to pick up Western civilization as they
• 50:47
  go along. That's always neat in the European style. But
• 50:51
  then in the United States here, you know, the archaeology
• 50:54
  is neat because it was Native American then it wasn't
• 50:59
  it was pale face arrives and starts doing his thing
• 51:04
  there four three, four eight eight, two four two one seven. Yes,
• 51:07
  and I've watched all the India I even watched the
• 51:10
  Indiana Jones and the CGI generated raiders of his Face
• 51:18
  whatever the most recent one was. Yes, I've watched it
• 51:20
  as well, but it's neat.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: And American treasure I've seen all of the American treasurer
• 51:27
  movies as well. Please don't judge harshly I will, I
• 51:31
  will watch some Twilight if it brings up my cool points.
• 51:34
  There just it's a neat story and I appreciate Josh
• 51:38
  sending it on to us. There plenty to get to,
• 51:41
  and this is one of the things Charlie Kirk to be.
• 51:45
  Just like everyone else, we'll, you know, try to retell
• 51:47
  you Charlie's history. But he every time I heard him
• 51:50
  talk about American history, he liked to see how this
• 51:56
  thing led to that thing that led to the next thing,
• 52:00
  and how we get here, because especially when you're lost
• 52:03
  in the woods the way we are currently with our
• 52:07
  crony capitalism and our weaponized justice system, the important thing
• 52:12
  is to start figuring out where the breadcrumbs are and
• 52:16
  how do you get back, because you can't just keep
• 52:22
  going forward and get back, not without a lot of
• 52:26
  naked protesters in Portland. Oh, I'm sorry, Bob, I didn't
• 52:30
  mean to bring up Sorry about bringing up the naked
• 52:34
  portrait protesters in Portland, But I mean, does anyone notice
• 52:38
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• 52:40
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• 52:44
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