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"Good for America" (Friday October 31, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 3: what they call it in politics. We're visiting. We're going
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Speaker 3: to talk a little bit more about this redistricting mania.
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Speaker 3: Got this text message during the break and it actually
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Speaker 3: ties into a story that I thought was fascinating. We
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Speaker 3: reported to you that there was a story going around
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Speaker 3: that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons
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Speaker 3: had endorsed the Caucasian woman. Maybe you know it's c
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Speaker 3: so it's the National Association for the Advancement of Caucasian Persons.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that's the other CP. But does a text message
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Speaker 3: are Virginians who were excited to vote for the first
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Speaker 3: black president not so excited to vote for Virginia's first
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Speaker 3: black female governor. Well, you know, this is the problem.
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Speaker 3: This is the hypocrisy. This is not you know, the
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Speaker 3: idea that it's brown or beige. It's red. That's the color.
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Speaker 3: The color is red, not like Donald Trump's necktie. I
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Speaker 3: mean like Karl Marx. And if you read the Communist Manifesto,
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Speaker 3: you understand that the very first thing it says is
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Speaker 3: you need a class warfare in order to bring about
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Speaker 3: the revolution. And usually how it works if you go
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Speaker 3: through all the time since Marx pen died that the
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Speaker 3: wealthy give money to the Marxists, so that the wealthy
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Speaker 3: can be protected from ever having to lose their money
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Speaker 3: because you know, the idiot sons of the idiot sons,
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Speaker 3: that's a real thing. And wealthy people don't want to
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Speaker 3: see their fortunes that they worked hard to maintain because
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Speaker 3: you know, as they say on the NFL football field scoreboard,
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it is. It's it's it's showing off,
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Speaker 3: it's dancing in the end zone. But they don't want
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Speaker 3: to lose that. They don't want to lose that power
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Speaker 3: because money equals power in their mind, and in many
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Speaker 3: ways they're right, So they don't want to lose that power.
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Speaker 3: I mean, nobody's going to found an institute for some
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Speaker 3: guy who just made a lot of money and in
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Speaker 3: his sons pritated away, you know, the Melons and the
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Speaker 3: carnegie and the Rockefellers those that's multi generational way health.
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Speaker 3: So they have to promote the idea that their wealth
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Speaker 3: will be protected. And that's where the Marxist comes in,
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Speaker 3: because the Marxist isn't I mean, their sloganeering is we're
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Speaker 3: here to help the workers of the world unite. We're
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Speaker 3: here for the poor, We're here for the little guy,
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Speaker 3: the downtrodden, so silly. They're there for the wealthy to
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Speaker 3: protect the wealthy from ever losing their money again, so
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Speaker 3: long as they give a fair share to the Marxists.
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Speaker 3: So Marxist comes along and tell me if any of
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Speaker 3: this sounds like how we're living in the United States
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Speaker 3: right now, Marxist comes along and says, to the wealthy people,
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Speaker 3: the Warren Buffett's and the Jeff bezos Is and Mark
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Speaker 3: Zuckerbuck's and those folks, I can fix it for you.
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Speaker 3: So you'll never your family, will never lose all this money,
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Speaker 3: your ex wives, we'll never have to worry about buying
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Speaker 3: off the rack again. Got you covered, Give me the money.
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Speaker 3: I've got a guy. He's storybook man. He's clean, he's articulate.
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden ve him for me. He said, Oh, this
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Speaker 3: guy's storybook. So we've got this storybook character who's going
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Speaker 3: to come along and he's going to help us get
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Speaker 3: Marxism in here because everyone's going to like him, and
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Speaker 3: everyone's going to be afraid to vote against him, because
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Speaker 3: if you do, you'll be called a racist. Did we
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Speaker 3: mention he's black?
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Speaker 4: The first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate
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Speaker 4: and bright and clean and my looking guy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a storybook man.
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Speaker 3: So we've got this storybook character and he's going to
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Speaker 3: bring on the revolution. We're going to call it change,
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Speaker 3: which is just another word for revolution. So your question
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Speaker 3: about voting for the first black president, first black woman governor,
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Speaker 3: The problem is she wants people to fend for themselves,
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Speaker 3: and she wants the government to give them back the
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Speaker 3: money so that they can fend for themselves. We can't
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Speaker 3: have that. That might cost the wealthy families their position. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it could. That's how a free market works. I know
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Speaker 3: it's been generations since we've actually had a free market
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Speaker 3: where a family could lose their fortune just as quickly
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Speaker 3: as another one would make theirs. That's why they won't
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Speaker 3: support Winsome Seers for governor, because it's not the same
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Speaker 3: as Barack Obama. And it has nothing to do with
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Speaker 3: the color of their skin. It has to do with
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Speaker 3: the color of their ideology. Because in the sixties, the
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Speaker 3: Marxist tried race warfare and that it worked to a degree,
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Speaker 3: but it just never caught on because you'd wind up
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Speaker 3: with an Ellison or you know, some wealthy black man
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Speaker 3: who would say, hang on a second, here, I was
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Speaker 3: able to make, you know, let's make sure everyone can
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Speaker 3: follow that dream. So they failed sort of at that.
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Speaker 3: It established the idea that it wasn't us versus them thing,
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Speaker 3: and that's where post Jim Crow, we started to become racist.
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Speaker 3: We were talking about that yesterday with doctor Kevin Roberts
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Speaker 3: from the Heritage Foundation, talked about how, you know, since
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Speaker 3: Barack Obama's election, we've become more racially divided than ever
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Speaker 3: before because the Marxist needs the friction between classes, and
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Speaker 3: since we don't have an economic class structure, they're trying,
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Speaker 3: but we don't have it yet. You can still transition
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Speaker 3: too easily in between classes. Now we will go back
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Speaker 3: to use race. Race will do it, especially with the
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Speaker 3: amount of poor people there are in race, so it
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Speaker 3: can be class and it can be race. So we'll
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Speaker 3: get that going under this Obama storybook, fella, and we'll
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Speaker 3: ride those cottails right into power so we can protect
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Speaker 3: our rich fundraisers. They'll always stay rich because now we're
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Speaker 3: protecting them. We call them party elders, party chairs. You know,
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Speaker 3: We've given them positions so that when they have a
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Speaker 3: big House on the Hill. You understand they have more
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Speaker 3: than you because, as the great philosopher George Orwell taught us,
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Speaker 3: some animals are more equal than others. So that's the
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Speaker 3: answer to your question. Is that's why Virginians are not
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Speaker 3: looking forward to electing a black woman for governor because
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Speaker 3: she's not, you know the cut from Joe Biden's storybook,
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Speaker 3: kind of black woman. She wants individual liberty, she wants
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Speaker 3: school choice, money follows this child's school choice. She wants
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Speaker 3: police to go out and arrest people when they've committed crimes. Again,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Matt, How are you sir? Well?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go for all the people driving to
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Speaker 5: work and it's maybe it's.
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Speaker 2: Not been a good week sales wise.
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Speaker 5: Maybe the car dealerships they only moved two cars, they
10:17
Speaker 5: should move ten. You know, whatever, it might be, but
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna bring you a little John Harbaugh inspiration, a
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Speaker 5: couple of wins in five days to the Ravens. And
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Speaker 5: so he steps up in the locker room and for
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Speaker 5: you who took the step, go Stanton, join the network,
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Speaker 5: you know, spend your harder money.
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Speaker 3: To build radio stations.
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Speaker 1: Whatever.
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Speaker 2: What does it take?
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Speaker 3: Psalm ninety one five.
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Speaker 5: Faith and guts, John Harbaugh the best at delivering inspiration.
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Speaker 2: Man, Faith and guts. You gotta have both. You gotta
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Speaker 2: have belief and you gotta be tough.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 2: That was courageous.
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Speaker 3: That was heroic.
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Speaker 2: That's just two.
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Speaker 7: That's what it is, though, because that's who you are.
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Speaker 2: Stay grounded, man, Just keep your faith. Let's keep rolling.
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Speaker 5: Uh, John, I love the inspiration, but it was just
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Speaker 5: the Dolphins. You know, they they had a kickoff block
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Speaker 5: that they are not good anyway. Then he takes he
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Speaker 5: takes the message to the media because after all, we
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Speaker 5: know there are a few scribes in that room that
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Speaker 5: could use this.
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Speaker 7: I told the team, but this is this is the
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Speaker 7: warriors Psalm. This is something we talked about. But basicals says,
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Speaker 7: you will not fear the terror of the night. The
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Speaker 7: arrow that flies by day or the pestilence that stalks
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Speaker 7: in darkness, it will not come near you because you
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Speaker 7: have made the Lord your dwelling place. Our guys kept faith,
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Speaker 7: and they showed a lot of toughness, a lot of courage,
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Speaker 7: faith and guts.
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Speaker 2: And that's what it takes.
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Speaker 7: It takes belief, and it takes toughness, and takes faith,
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Speaker 7: and it takes guts.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know what, I'm getting on my knees
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Speaker 5: today and praying that YouTube and Disney will figure this
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Speaker 5: thing out because I have no ESPN today.
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Speaker 2: Now I got to cancel YouTube.
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Speaker 3: I got to cancel YouTube.
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Speaker 5: I canceled Spectrum because Spectrum got in the same battle
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Speaker 5: financially with the ESPN. The day before this was a
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Speaker 5: year ago, the day before college football opens, Spectrum cancels
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Speaker 5: our deal with ESPN.
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Speaker 2: Now the big one a.
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Speaker 5: Great Saturday, Vandy Texas, Virginia Virginia Tech, all these great games.
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Speaker 2: I have no ESPN none.
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Speaker 5: I can't even go through the app because I'm a
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Speaker 5: YouTube subscriber. So now I have to fight that, and
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Speaker 5: they want so they asked me to go to what
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Speaker 5: can I something like what can I do dot com?
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Speaker 5: Or how can I get my ESPN, back dot com
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Speaker 5: or whatever. They asked me to fill out a comment thing. Oh,
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Speaker 5: I filled out a comment thing already. I started it
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Speaker 5: with WTF and you you know, you guys know what.
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Speaker 3: That means if you text okay, gosh.
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Speaker 5: So it's like you've got to be kidding me, all right.
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Speaker 5: So I love this story though. This transitions to this
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Speaker 5: amidst the cloud of controversy, and I'll talk more about
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Speaker 5: this next hour with sports. Scott Woodward got fired by
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Speaker 5: LSU yesterday with the ad Yeah, after the one hundred
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Speaker 5: and thirty two million, you know, he left schools hanging
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Speaker 5: with Scott Ballard, the school's board supervisor chair, made the
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Speaker 5: announcement yesterday that Woodward will no longer his services will
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Speaker 5: no longer be needed as they search for a football coach.
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Speaker 2: This is so good.
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Speaker 5: And then land Governor Landry, who had made all those
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Speaker 5: headlines yesterday, Governor Landry goes on the Paton McAfee show.
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Speaker 5: That's a great place for a governor to be and
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Speaker 5: he said, well, there are several bad contracts that have
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Speaker 5: followed Scott Woodward, so we have decided to you know,
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Speaker 5: thank you for participating in LSUS.
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Speaker 2: It's just so great.
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Speaker 5: All right, So now what follows is, of course, during
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Speaker 5: the press conference week, everyone wants to know what people
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Speaker 5: are thinking about the firings. I've played you a couple
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Speaker 5: Southeastern Conference coaches talking about it.
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Speaker 3: Well, the one guy you should.
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Speaker 5: Ask is Dabo, because Dabo Sweeny always said, you know,
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Speaker 5: he wants to let you know how long you you
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Speaker 5: been at Clemson?
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Speaker 3: How many champions?
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Speaker 4: Jense?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm very fortunate here because I've I've been the
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Speaker 8: head coach seventeen years, you know, not two years, not
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Speaker 8: four years. I mean, you've got a long track record.
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Speaker 8: That doesn't mean I mean, you know, that doesn't mean
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Speaker 8: I get rid of me tomorrow. I mean that's just
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Speaker 8: part of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, Paybe, he doesn't care.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what I don't know what
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Speaker 2: his buyout is, but.
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Speaker 3: It's you know, he just they keep renewing, renewing. So
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Speaker 3: with all that being.
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Speaker 5: Said, we transition because who else would get the question
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Speaker 5: this week is Tony Elliott and this writer whoever asked
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Speaker 5: him the question, and it was really really thought out
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Speaker 5: and it was a good question. Towards the end of
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Speaker 5: Tony's press conference, He's got California tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: They've never won a weach.
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Speaker 5: Okay, big game, you know, Uba trying to stay alive
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Speaker 5: in the ACC and got cal They're favored out.
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Speaker 2: West by the way.
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Speaker 5: But anyway, Tony got the question, can you advise, you know,
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Speaker 5: with all these new these programs that are looking for coaches,
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Speaker 5: can you advise, Tony goes, Look, Virginia is a lot different.
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Speaker 9: I think it's different everywhere, right. I think that that
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Speaker 9: that you got to have a plan, and then you
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Speaker 9: got to have the humility to adapt to your plan
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Speaker 9: based off of what what fits you. I just I'm
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Speaker 9: grateful for doctor Williams leadership and her belief in in
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Speaker 9: my plan and in our plan as a program, and
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Speaker 9: just providing the resources for us to be able to
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Speaker 9: do it. And right now, you know, it's working, you know,
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Speaker 9: for for Virginia, But I don't know if that's the
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Speaker 9: right formula, you know for everybody across the country.
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Speaker 2: There you go, well, yeah, but you know, and it isn't.
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Speaker 5: The Virginia formula is different than Virginia tax and Carolina is.
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Speaker 3: But you know, everyone, what's Mike Tyson's favorite line, Everyone
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Speaker 3: has a plan until they get punched. In the face,
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Speaker 3: you know, and nailed the nuts right right on my
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Speaker 3: knuckles or engraved N I L so, you know, with
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Speaker 3: a picture of the transfer portal on my pinky. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: so you know these everybody's got a plan. No, everyone's
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Speaker 3: going to have, you know, a bank account so that
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Speaker 3: you can get the star quarterback. I mean Tony Elliott.
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Speaker 5: Starts with fifty million, yeah exactly.
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Speaker 3: You know, Tony Ella is a very nice guy, but
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Speaker 3: you know, he was woe be gone at UVA and
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Speaker 3: they were ready to throw him out before the first
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Speaker 3: game of the season happened. And and he gets a
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Speaker 3: quarterback who's caught lightning in a bottle, uh leads the
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Speaker 3: field and that's great, but okay, he's going to be
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Speaker 3: gone next year. So are we back to two and eight?
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Speaker 10: Now?
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Speaker 5: It depends you go now with I think they've got
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Speaker 5: the backing overall, and knowing so many schools that are
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Speaker 5: finding out all right, we got to invest in the
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Speaker 5: portal because NIL is so important.
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Speaker 3: And at some point there.
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Speaker 5: Will be some some uh caps and all that stuff,
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Speaker 5: and contracts will be a little tighter. And you know,
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Speaker 5: because as they as they go through this whole thing,
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Speaker 5: the CFP created it the television ratings course and all
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Speaker 5: that money you know, was and so one once they
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Speaker 5: get the cap figured out, and once they because it is,
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Speaker 5: it's it's professional sports now.
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Speaker 3: And all these college kids want to stay for six years?
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Speaker 3: Uh why not?
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Speaker 5: Because you know, and if if Diego Pavia wins his case,
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Speaker 5: look out because the quarterback at Vanderbilt, because if he
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Speaker 5: wins his case and gets another year, oh my god,
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Speaker 5: oh my god.
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Speaker 3: Well but here here's the thing that you know. You look,
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Speaker 3: you know the old days when Penn State was linebacker
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Speaker 3: you and if you wanted to be a linebacker in
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Speaker 3: the in the on Sundays, you had to go to
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Speaker 3: Penn State or you know, or a Big ten school.
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Speaker 3: You know, in all these schools. You're almost going to
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Speaker 3: go to that model where in order to get a
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Speaker 3: kid to come to you like, listen, come here, be
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Speaker 3: my star running back, because my star running backs get
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Speaker 3: drafted in the first round. Yeah, you know, and that's
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Speaker 3: going to be the sales pitch. Now, it's not going
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Speaker 3: to be you know, come here. Look, you'll have to
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Speaker 3: go out and say, listen, you want to be my
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Speaker 3: star running back. Look at the star offensive line that
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Speaker 3: we've just signed, and it's it's going to be pro
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Speaker 3: sports and and so you know when you see a
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Speaker 3: Bill Belichick go in there, I think, you know, athletic
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Speaker 3: directors are going to start becoming. You know, like who
17:57
Speaker 3: was the guy that helped build the Giants of Bill ourselves?
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Speaker 3: And I can't remember his name. He was actually assigned
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Speaker 3: by the league because the Mara family was such a
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Speaker 3: hot mess. Remember I don't know Vinny our GM would remember,
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Speaker 3: but they, you know, the NFL said you have to
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Speaker 3: take this guy because you're you're you're a mess. And
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Speaker 3: remember with the airplane flying over Giant Stadium, you know,
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Speaker 3: forty years of lousy football. Enough is enough?
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Speaker 5: Well it's like, yeah, it's like tonight we have a
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Speaker 5: we have a Halloween party on our because we have
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Speaker 5: a very active adult kid.
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Speaker 2: Neighborhood with a neighborhood next to us.
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Speaker 5: That's gated, and they they hand out like bags, They
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Speaker 5: hand free bags of snickers, not just a little tiny hello.
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Speaker 5: I mean these people give away car washes and give certificates.
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Speaker 3: A chick radio it's a radio remote going Yeah, r
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Speaker 3: my neighbor is a hot side.
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Speaker 5: He leased a twenty twenty five Corvette. So I'm going
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Speaker 5: tonight as a nil athlete. I'm going to just sit
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Speaker 5: in the corvette and where wear big chains?
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Speaker 3: And who are you addressed as Tony Madzell.
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Anyway, great night last night, Michael Vick, DeShawn Jackson. They
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Speaker 5: were teammates for the Eagles. They coached against each other
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Speaker 5: last night and oh financial field. Norfolk State got beat. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: they played it at Philly last night. Great moment anyway,
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Speaker 5: Norfolk State one and eight under Michael Vicks and not
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Speaker 5: the best as another coach tries to build a program.
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Speaker 3: So good there you go.
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Speaker 2: A great Halloween.
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Speaker 3: Happy Halloween to you, Mac. Don't eat all the Reese's
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Speaker 3: peanut butter cumps by your door and we'll talk to
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Speaker 3: you right.
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Speaker 2: Here in my office.
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network.
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Speaker 3: This Friday morning, Halloween joined and you know a lot
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Speaker 3: of shows that the entirety of their show would be,
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Speaker 3: oh what are you dressing?
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Speaker 6: Those?
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Speaker 3: Is Halloween call now? So if I haven't requisitely said
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Speaker 3: enough about Halloween, I apologize. It is, you know, a
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Speaker 3: fun holiday, and you know, having three kids, we have
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Speaker 3: plenty of Halloween memories. But it's not the sum total
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Speaker 3: of all what's going on in the world, So we
20:24
Speaker 3: want to help you delve into that, you know, while
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Speaker 3: you're putting on your Elvira Mistress of the Night costume.
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Speaker 3: We don't judge joining us though, from the world of
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Speaker 3: Former House Freedom Concuss chair Bob Good Good morning, Bob.
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Speaker 3: How are you doing, sir?
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Speaker 6: Good morning Joe, Happy Friday, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Great to do with you.
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Speaker 3: Halloween a big deal or do you wait for All
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Speaker 3: Saints' Day tomorrow?
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Speaker 6: Well, my family and I have celebrated modestly Halloweens through
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Speaker 6: the years. As you noted, our children celebrate Halloween. They
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Speaker 6: certainly trick or treated, and we've given away candy at
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Speaker 6: the house. Tracy and I have never been big dress
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Speaker 6: up folks or participants as adults, and we don't go
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Speaker 6: kind of all out crazy and do a lot of
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Speaker 6: decorating anything like that like.
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Speaker 3: Some folks do.
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Speaker 6: But we've enjoyed the harmless, neighborly, good, good natured sign
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Speaker 6: of Halloween over the years, but particularly special for us
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Speaker 6: as our first granddaughter was born two years ago today,
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Speaker 6: so Halloween is her birthday, so we'll be celebrating her
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Speaker 6: birthday turning two years old.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 6: So that's more important to us Halloween.
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Speaker 3: I've aimen to that as it should be. You know,
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Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you a lot of today's program
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Speaker 3: has been about parliamentary procedure, and I know this was
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Speaker 3: something when you were House Freedom Concuss Chair, You and
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Speaker 3: the Freedom Concuss really led a move to bring the
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Speaker 3: House of Representatives back to regular order uh post COVID,
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Speaker 3: and bring back the voice of the minority to be
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Speaker 3: protected and to make sure that Congress people could get
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Speaker 3: bills to the floor without you having to kiss up
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Speaker 3: to the Speaker of the House just to get you know,
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Speaker 3: favored nation status. So we see in the Senate the
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Speaker 3: President has said drop the nuclear option on it and
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Speaker 3: get rid of the filibuster and get the government reopened.
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Speaker 3: Certainly the cause is laudable, I think, but I don't
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Speaker 3: know if if blowing up the filibuster is as good
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Speaker 3: as going back and finding all the places the concept
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Speaker 3: and the procedure was corrupted over time. Bob, what do
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Speaker 3: you think about it?
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Speaker 6: Well, how the founders intended, as you know, for the
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Speaker 6: Senate to be the more deliberative, more slow moving, more
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Speaker 6: thoughtful of the bodies. That's the reason why they gave
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Speaker 6: the senators six years of a term instead of a
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Speaker 6: two year term. The House having to be more passionate
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Speaker 6: and to be more decisive, and to be more responsive
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Speaker 6: to the news of the day, if you will. I
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Speaker 6: had to respond back to the people every two years
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Speaker 6: in order to stay in Washington, and of course more
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Speaker 6: of citizen legislators the House was intended to be. But
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Speaker 6: we need to be careful what we wish for this filibuster,
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Speaker 6: which is a mechanism of course, to slow things down
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Speaker 6: and to require almost a super majority in order to
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Speaker 6: pass legislation or to get things done as designed that
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Speaker 6: you found us. And we don't want drastic, tremendous change
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Speaker 6: to happen without significant support from the people represented by
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Speaker 6: sixty votes in the Senate, the supermajority. But the philibuster
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Speaker 6: you no longer have to actually give us stay on
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Speaker 6: the House floor making a speech anymore. Now it's basically
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Speaker 6: you just have to have not have sixty votes for
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Speaker 6: what's called closure to close debate and to move on
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Speaker 6: to the next thing, or take action that's desired to
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Speaker 6: be taken and has been weakened and diminished where it's
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Speaker 6: not used. For some things like confirmations, you don't have
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Speaker 6: to have sixty votes anymore. You just have to have
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Speaker 6: fifty one votes. The Senate sort of acts like the
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Speaker 6: White House Personnel Department, approving all the president hires and
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Speaker 6: appointments and so forth. However, I have said that I
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Speaker 6: would rather the Senate change the filibuster then do what
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Speaker 6: Democrats want. In other words, if Republicans are going to
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Speaker 6: expand Obamacare or keep the Obamacare subsidies, or further hurt
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Speaker 6: us from a fiscal standpoint by not changing the filibuster,
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Speaker 6: I'd rather change the filibuster and use it to do
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Speaker 6: the right thing, to shrink government to cut spending. It
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Speaker 6: if they would use it to do the right thing,
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Speaker 6: because Democrats are already threatening to change it when they
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Speaker 6: get power again anyway, so Republicans may as well use
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Speaker 6: it to try to save the country, to try to
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Speaker 6: put us back on the right track, which is all
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Speaker 6: about shrinking government and cutting spending. Now, Republicans have been
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Speaker 6: shown an appetite to do that, so unless they were
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Speaker 6: really going to utilize it to make a significant difference
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Speaker 6: for the country, then I think they would rut the
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Speaker 6: day that they did it, and that is probably likely
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Speaker 6: the case.
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Speaker 3: You know, It's interesting as I was digging in on
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Speaker 3: this subject, I found a little arcane piece of history
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Speaker 3: which was one of the places you needed sixty votes
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Speaker 3: in the Senate was ironically on changing Senate rules, and
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Speaker 3: back in twenty twelve, that was when they changed that
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Speaker 3: to just be a simple majority. And I think this
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Speaker 3: is where you see this tyranny of whoever's got one
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Speaker 3: more senator than the other party can write draconian rules.
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Speaker 3: We see it in effect in Virginia's General Assembly, where committees,
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Speaker 3: even with the slimmest of electoral majorities, the Democrat Party
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Speaker 3: has nine to three overwhelming majorities in the committees because
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Speaker 3: they get to decide how this is done. I think
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Speaker 3: this is what frustrates Americans. They may not be able
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Speaker 3: to put their finger on it, Bob, but I think
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Speaker 3: when they see just sort of, well, we don't like this,
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Speaker 3: so we're just going to either ignore the rules, or
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Speaker 3: change the rules, or find some loophole that we buried
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Speaker 3: into the rules. Twenty years ago we talked about lawlessness
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Speaker 3: on Main Street. There's lawlessness on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Speaker 6: Well, Congress can do anything that it wants to do
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Speaker 6: except violate the Constitution, essentially, because Congress obviously makes the law,
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Speaker 6: and the Constitution gives the Congress the ability to make
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Speaker 6: the rules for their own houses. The House gets to
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Speaker 6: make the rules for the House. The Senate gets to
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Speaker 6: make the rules for the Senate unless it's explicitly prohibited
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Speaker 6: or determined in the Constitution itself. And so you've got
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Speaker 6: Democrats threatening, of course, to do in Virginia. What do
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Speaker 6: you see happening across the country with redistricting and using
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Speaker 6: their partisan majorities to try to accomplish that. I hope
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Speaker 6: they are not successful in doing it, but I certainly
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Speaker 6: hope Republicans will do it across the country. And so
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Speaker 6: to some degree understand Democrats trying to do it here,
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Speaker 6: but they've got some legal challenges to It doesn't really
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Speaker 6: count as an election since the voting has already started.
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Speaker 6: Many of us think it does not count as an election,
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Speaker 6: and the voters of Virginia may not vote for a
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Speaker 6: hyper partisan redistricting anyway, When if they put it on
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Speaker 6: the ball in a special election in the spring.
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Speaker 3: Well, I was saying this yesterday with Victoria Cobb from
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Speaker 3: the Family Foundation in Virginia. Specifically, there's going to be
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Speaker 3: it looks like they're going to use the same premise
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Speaker 3: regarding intervening elections to try to pass through two special
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Speaker 3: constitutional amendments regarding gay marriage and also fell in restoration
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Speaker 3: of rights, but also abortion up till the moment of
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Speaker 3: birth right. And so you know, that's the kind of
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Speaker 3: stuff that I think people are saying, that's the thing
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Speaker 3: that should have a higher standard than just get me
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Speaker 3: to the majority, don't you think yes?
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Speaker 6: And Abigail span Berger and Jay Jones both wholeheartedly support
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Speaker 6: the extremist and that there is a Democrat party on
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Speaker 6: the LGBT issue and on the abortion issue up to
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Speaker 6: the moment of birth. That's who Democrats are.
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Speaker 3: They're all extremists.
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Speaker 6: There aren't any bipartisan moderates in the Democrat Party anymore.
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Speaker 3: Well, Bob Goods with us. He's the host of the
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