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"We're talking 'bout practice" (FTTxJT Mon 091426 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: You would set about disrupting the class by.
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  Speaker 2: Attracting attention to yourself!
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 4: A steel mill, which damn near every day.
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  Speaker 5: That is the name of this job.
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  Speaker 4: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 4: kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 7: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 8: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 10: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 11: at gmail.com. We will begin this week giving you a
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  Speaker 11: chance to do what we had a great time doing
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  Speaker 11: last year. And if you're new to the program, I'm
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  Speaker 11: after 30 years seems to be getting their legs under them.
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  Speaker 11: And we'll tell you more about that as time permits
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  Speaker 11: coming up. But to our business model, we go our
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  Speaker 11: first things this morning. President Trump said Sunday he will
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  Speaker 11: look into requests from families of September 11th victims and
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  Speaker 11: release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia's governmental
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  Speaker 11: role in the attacks 25 years ago. 15 of the
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  Speaker 11: 19 hijackers were Saudis. and the Saudi government has long
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  Speaker 11: denied any involvement in the case. Some of bin Laden's
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  Speaker 11: family is one of the largest construction companies in the
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  Speaker 11: Middle East. The CEO of Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude,
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  Speaker 11: said he thinks the industry needs to reduce the speed
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  Speaker 11: of its work, cautioning Saturday to a swarm of AI
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  Speaker 11: agents might be able to take over the Internet in
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  Speaker 11: six months. Meanwhile, China again reports coming out, more and
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  Speaker 11: more news agencies picking up on something that this program
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  Speaker 11: was one of the first to report over broadcast, that
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  Speaker 11: China is pouring billions of dollars into issue advocacy in
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  Speaker 11: the United States to turn American citizens against the idea
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  Speaker 11: of having data centers managing artificial intelligence. U.S. District Judge
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  Speaker 11: Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C. ordered the U.S. Postal Service
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  Speaker 11: to not implement President Trump's executive order limiting mail-in balloting
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  Speaker 11: in states that had not verified their voter rolls. The
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  Speaker 11: Supreme Court is already considering the administrations of appeal of
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  Speaker 11: another order through Boston and District Court Judge Indira Talwani.
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  Speaker 11: Environmental Protection Agency is about to formally repeal carbon pollution
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  Speaker 11: The Environmental Protection Agency is about to repeal carbon pollution
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  Speaker 11: standards for coal and gas-fired plants. The Bloomberg organization reported
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  Speaker 11: this in a snit saying, we've spent trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 11: on this. How dare you? No, they didn't actually say that.
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  Speaker 11: President Trump's proposal to send $ 5, 000 to every American adult
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  Speaker 11: if the Republican Party remains in control of the House
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  Speaker 11: and Senate will have to get congressional approval. You think
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  Speaker 11: House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would work very hard
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  Speaker 11: to unify with the Republic of Ireland. He was asked
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  Speaker 11: about Scotland's repeated independence movements, and he said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 11: So AI, and remember, we weren't the first, and I
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  Speaker 11: won't be the guy who says, oh, check me out,
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  Speaker 11: I was the first one to tell you. I was
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  Speaker 11: the first radio show to pick up this story because
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  Speaker 11: I saw it on two different news sites out of Washington,
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  Speaker 11: The Hill and Politico, and I thought, well, this is interesting.
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  Speaker 11: And these are, you know... Politico can borderline on being Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 11: 's version of TMZ, but The Hill generally tries to
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  Speaker 11: portend to be news. And so when I saw the story,
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  Speaker 11: it told me that China was spending a fortune in
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  Speaker 11: promoting anti-artificial intelligence data centers in the United States, I thought,
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  Speaker 11: that fits. We lived through it as we went down
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  Speaker 11: the barrels of 2017's riots, post-Trump swearing in riots, and
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  Speaker 11: we found that both Russian and Chinese operations were paying
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  Speaker 11: for advertisements that would promote both sides in one case
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  Speaker 11: in order to create discord among Americans so that Americans
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  Speaker 11: might not turn out to vote. They'd be able to
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  Speaker 11: promote their own candidates in their own ways, giving them
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  Speaker 11: an opportunity to muck around in the United States. It's
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  Speaker 11: not the most efficient way to influence an election, but
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  Speaker 11: it works in a country where, generally speaking, 45% of
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  Speaker 11: us turn out to vote at any given time for
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  Speaker 11: an election. Maybe we'll get up to 60% for a
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  Speaker 11: presidential contest, maybe even 70%. They still only need to
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  Speaker 11: convince 35% of the people that their side is right.
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  Speaker 11: And I thought about it and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 11: as somebody who's spent some time in marketing, it makes
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  Speaker 11: sense because you can build this bipartisan coalition. You have
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  Speaker 11: the people like you and me who believe in privacy
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  Speaker 11: and think that, you know, the government agents that look
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  Speaker 11: at your internet and things like that without warrant, without
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  Speaker 11: any sort of proof to anyone that there's a need
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  Speaker 11: to go after Catholic priests in Richmond, Virginia or parents
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  Speaker 11: at a school board meeting in Utah simply for speaking
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  Speaker 11: out against the government narrative, perhaps for not wearing their
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  Speaker 11: woke mask or keeping their health club in Lynchburg, Virginia
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  Speaker 11: open when the government said that's verboten, even though they
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  Speaker 11: had no constitutional authority to. So you get those conservatives
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  Speaker 11: who believe in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
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  Speaker 11: and you tell them that if you don't have data centers,
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  Speaker 11: you don't have surveillance. And you say it over and
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  Speaker 11: over and over again. You get serious people with gravity,
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  Speaker 11: and you make AI bots that look like serious journalists
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  Speaker 11: standing behind serious desks or in front of serious graphics. Well,
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  Speaker 11: they must be serious. And people, because we're in and out,
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  Speaker 11: we're running around and it's crazy. Go, oh man, data
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  Speaker 11: centers are the reason. If we get rid of data centers,
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  Speaker 11: we get rid of unwarranted surveillance.
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  Speaker 19: Awesome.
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  Speaker 11: It's the same narrative that says if you get rid
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  Speaker 11: of flock cameras, you'll get rid of unauthorized surveillance. It's
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  Speaker 11: a lie. And I'm not in that business. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 11: I'm just not. We just celebrated another mile marker in
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  Speaker 11: my particular existence on this planet yesterday. I'm too old
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  Speaker 11: for this.
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  Speaker 8: Beep.
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  Speaker 11: As Detective Murtaugh once said so eloquently, I'm getting too
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  Speaker 11: old for this.
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  Speaker 21: Beep.
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  Speaker 11: I don't have time to lie to you and then
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  Speaker 11: try to make up before it later. So now more
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  Speaker 11: and more media outlets, the Associated Press is picking up
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  Speaker 11: the story that China is paying billions of dollars to
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  Speaker 11: convince you that if we get rid of data centers,
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  Speaker 11: we'll get rid of AI. What really will happen is
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  Speaker 11: China will take over AI. President Trump said it yesterday
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  Speaker 11: on the tarmac, arriving, I think, with a plane full
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  Speaker 11: of Irish whiskey. I think that's, oh, no, no, he
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  Speaker 11: lifted the tariff on the Irish whiskey. I'm sorry. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: there might be some. He'd stop at the duty-free shop.
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  Speaker 11: After setting a car bomb off in Ireland, saying, I
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  Speaker 11: think that Northern Ireland should be reunited with Ireland.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, boy. What?
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  Speaker 11: No, no intent of using that particular phrase for what
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  Speaker 11: Donald Trump said.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, the IRA and car bombs. Oh, I see what
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  Speaker 11: you said. Well, you know, infer what you like. But
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  Speaker 11: I know that we hearken back to a day when
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  Speaker 11: AI simply meant the NBA superstar Philadelphia 76er Allen Iverson.
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  Speaker 22: We sitting here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player,
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  Speaker 22: and we in here talking about practice.
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  Speaker 11: The good old days when that's all you meant when
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  Speaker 11: you said A.I. AI, like flock cameras, like firearms, are
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  Speaker 11: simply tools that humans use. The U.S. Constitution has lots
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  Speaker 11: of firewalls to provide recompense if we catch a human
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  Speaker 11: being violating other humans' rights with whatever tool it might be.
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  Speaker 11: It could be a garden hoe. But if your data
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  Speaker 11: centers are not in the United States, if the artificial
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  Speaker 11: intelligence is not being transmitted through the United States, then
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  Speaker 11: our Bill of Rights has little to say about it.
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  Speaker 11: if the data centers are still in the United States,
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  Speaker 11: our Fourth Amendment can be applied. Our insistence that you
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  Speaker 11: get a warrant before you look at the video footage
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  Speaker 11: on a flock camera, I don't care who you are,
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  Speaker 11: can be applied. I know, it makes law enforcement harder.
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  Speaker 11: We're in a country where law enforcement is supposed to
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  Speaker 11: be probably the hardest thing you do. Arresting somebody, putting
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  Speaker 11: somebody in prison is in a free country, is supposedly
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  Speaker 11: the hardest thing the government has to do, requiring the
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  Speaker 11: highest bar of proof. But we shrug off and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 11: but you're arresting the bad guys. That's good. Until somebody
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  Speaker 11: like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris gets elected, and then
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  Speaker 11: they start to get to decide who the bad guys are,
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  Speaker 11: see the FBI going after Catholic priests or parents at
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  Speaker 11: school board meetings. And then you start to realize why
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  Speaker 11: giving the government that kind of wiggle room around going
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  Speaker 11: after the bad guys is what James Madison and George
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  Speaker 11: Mason wanted to protect us from in the first place.
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  Speaker 11: But you've got to keep these things here so that
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  Speaker 11: as hard as it may seem, we still have a
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  Speaker 11: chance to fight them. No chance if they go to China.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: So let me spend a minute blowing our own horn.
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  Speaker 11: And that's possible, of course, because of the CBD oil
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  Speaker 11: a little bit. Miraculous stuff. But coming soon to an
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: arena near you, Christmas. I know, I know, I know.
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: We're halfway through September. We're only four days away from
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: our flagship state beginning its voting. I think we're the
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: first people to start voting in the midterm elections. coming
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: up on Friday. But Friday is also a notable date
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: because that's the day that the Vox Populi gets to
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: go to Live Nation and buy tickets to see the
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: Trans-Siberian Orchestra in your town. And because I've known the
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: band since, well, it's got to be 30 years because
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: this is their 30th anniversary tour, that I've known some
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: of the band longer than that. No wonder I had
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: so many candles on my cake yesterday. But because of
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: our relationship with the band, we get to do something
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: that no one else does. Because I sat down with
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: the folks that manage the band. They're like, you do, okay,
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: so you're on in what cities? And you want to,
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: and I said, listen, we've done giveaways and honored. We've
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: got them coming back to our flagship city of Charlottesville,
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: Virginia in December. It is the kickoff to the Christmas
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: season that my family plugs into every single year. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: if you want to fight the bah humbug, you need
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: pyrotechnics and guitars and incredible singers and incredible harmonies painting
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: incredibly rich tapestric stories for you from the greatest story
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: ever told. And so join me for this. And what
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: we've done is we've gone through our rostrum process. of
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: places people can hear us, and we've got a bunch
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: of shows to give away. Our friends in Youngstown, you're
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: listening to us right now on 1570, will have tickets
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: to the show there. We have the actual dates. It
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: would have been handy. Could you put the dates up
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: for me on the screen? I'm looking at this. You
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: have tickets to the evening show on Sunday, In Youngstown.
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: Which date? Which Sunday is it? I know it's early
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: in the tour. You bring me all the way to
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: the place with the thing and then you don't have
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: anything for the... I'm sorry about that. That's a failure
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: in pre-production there. But anyway, so we have tickets to these.
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: And what we're going to do is we're going to
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: set up a page at joethomasinthemorning.com. And then you'll go
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: there and you can get yourself tickets to those shows.
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: We will have them to other folks listening at this point. Sacramento,
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: they've got a show coming up there. Our friends at
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: KMET in the Inland Empire, they're going to be playing
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: in Ontario, California. San Antonio. I know our friends KLUP
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: right now tuned in there. If you're in the TSO
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: fan club, you can already get tickets. They went on
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: sale on Friday for fan club members, but there's always
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: plenty of room there for your shows. Okay, Youngstown, thank you.
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: The Covelli Center on... November 22nd, that's the Salt Lake City.
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: We've got their show coming up there. Colorado Springs. 1040
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: isn't on until later. So, all right, save that. Stick
• 32:36
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• 32:40
  Speaker 11: out about it. Salt Lake City on the 24th. Tickets
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: to that.
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  Speaker 2: Portland.
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Portland. I'll open this up. If you want to enter
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  Speaker 11: from Salem or Portland, we'll get you in there as
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: well as our friends in Dallas. We just signed on
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: a friend, our new friends in Las Vegas for the
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: Saturday show. So we should try to get, I think
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: that's coming up as well. So many places that you
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: can go see them. It is worth it if you
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: never have. And after 30 years, you'd think everyone who
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: would have wanted to will have, but Every year, I
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: manage to give tickets to somebody who's never seen them before,
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: and they come back and say, oh, my gosh. It
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: really is. It's the way my family plugs into the
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: Christmas mood. Charlottesville, I think, is December 18th, 17th, somewhere
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: around there. I don't want to give away the wrong information. Charlottesville,
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: December 16th. is when they're going to be there. So
• 33:45
  Speaker 11: lots of places you can tune in and join us, uh,
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: to see our, my friends. And I don't say that
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: about a lot of people. I mean, even Ted's D
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: we love, we love us some Ted, but I've never
• 33:55
  Speaker 11: met the man. I've only seen him in concert a
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: few times and he's just an avatar anyway for our, uh,
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: our shows on Wednesday. But these folks, I actually know
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: and quality people, an amazing show. Um, it's like Broadway
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: without the two, three kick turn, two, three kick turn there.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: So anyway, so that's coming up for you. Horn sufficiently blown.
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  Speaker 11: Let me get to you at four, three, four, eight, eight, two, four, two, one, seven.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe. First thing
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: It's Kareem calling from Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, beautiful part. East, west, middle.
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  Speaker 4: West going to the middle, then on to the east,
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  Speaker 11: As we used to call it when I lived there,
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  Speaker 11: we drove through there, obviously, last week, Shanksville, all the
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  Speaker 11: to drive past, either hand-painted Trump signs on the side
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  Speaker 11: 2019 or in some cases 2015 there. So definitely Trump country.
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  Speaker 11: So what's on your mind?
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Well, honestly, Joe, three points. First one is I'll make
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: traffic it quick. I have never heard of a single
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: radio station giving nationwide tickets to a concert. But I
• 35:27
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• 35:31
  Speaker 4: a single concert.
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: Well, that's because it's their own concert. And you want
• 35:36
  Speaker 11: to talk about blowing their own horn. You know, live
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: from Bankruptcy Court Arena, it's the iCloud or whatever it
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: is show. Yeah, they do their one big concert, just
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: like they do their one big group-wide contest as well. Well,
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: I appreciate it, but it's not the stations. I want
• 35:57
  Speaker 11: to be very careful because what winds up happening is
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: our dear affiliates will get phone calls from listeners saying, hey,
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: I heard you're giving away, and they are not.
• 36:06
  Speaker 14: I am.
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: First thing today by Joe Thomas is giving away the tickets.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: We happen to be on these stations, and I don't
• 36:14
  Speaker 11: want to put that relationship in peril because sometimes very
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: busy programmers don't have time for a phone call where
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: people are saying, I heard the guy on your station
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: say he's got. So please, I just want to make
• 36:25
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• 36:29
  Speaker 11: You would be surprised. Anyway, point two.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Point two, the pending Supreme Court answer as far as
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: the– and I hear about Virginia. Four days until the
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: early ballots go out for the midterm elections. I think
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: this could be a fantastic opportunity. for the Supreme Court
• 36:53
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• 36:56
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• 37:00
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• 37:05
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• 37:10
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• 37:15
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• 37:18
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• 37:22
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• 37:25
  Speaker 11: I'm setting that aside. Last point, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Last point.
• 37:32
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• 37:35
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• 37:36
  Speaker 12: To go in.
• 37:38
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• 37:43
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• 37:46
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• 37:51
  Speaker 11: Thanks for the call. Thank you, sir. The amazing thought
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  Speaker 11: of an Arab autumn there, because we remember what happened
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  Speaker 11: in Egypt during the Arab spring. Thank you, Kareem.
• 38:01
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• 38:52
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• 38:56
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 11: So Kareem brings up the Saudi story. And the potential
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  Speaker 11: collapse of the Saudi Royals.
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  Speaker 12: And....
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  Speaker 11: There is peril in this, but there is also one
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  Speaker 11: of the long-standing flaws in our foreign policy has been
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  Speaker 11: what George Washington warned us about so many years ago,
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  Speaker 11: is that the international entanglement and what access to the
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  Speaker 11: United States means. And I think that there is an
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  Speaker 11: unfortunate belief that we don't have the appropriate gravitas, if
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  Speaker 11: you will, to enforce, they like to use that word,
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  Speaker 11: the leftists like to use, enforce our ways on other
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  Speaker 11: But if we really believe that all men are created equal,
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  Speaker 11: and if we really believe that they're endowed by their
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  Speaker 11: creators with unalienable rights, even if their religious texts don't
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  Speaker 11: acknowledge them, then it should be imperative on us to
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  Speaker 11: only associate with people who will for the benefit of
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  Speaker 11: that association, live up to those. Rather than being lectured
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  Speaker 11: by the British, who Kareem likes to point out, or
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  Speaker 11: the original enemy turned frenemy, about speech restrictions and.
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  Speaker 18: Oh we told you this 250 years ago but no
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  Speaker 18: you all wanted to do your own freedom thing you're
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  Speaker 18: all learning now old jolly old Britain wasn't so crazy
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  Speaker 18: about free speech huh all of a sudden became Scooby
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  Speaker 18: Doo in the middle of my bad British accent.
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  Speaker 11: But the heart of the revolving door That is 10
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  Speaker 11: Downing Street. Don't even unpack the boxes anymore there. He's
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  Speaker 11: only going to be here for a few months.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 11: We get lectured about our free speech and our freedoms
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  Speaker 11: while we laughably play slap and tickle with them. We
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  Speaker 11: were talking about this earlier with the artificial intelligence. I.
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  Speaker 11: I am not saying we're doing it right at the moment.
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  Speaker 11: But the documents, I've been in the room, they're still there.
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  Speaker 11: A little tough to read after a bunch of years.
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  Speaker 11: A couple of places where I'm not sure it's a
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  Speaker 11: smudge or a punctuation mark. But Martin Luther King, hours
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  Speaker 11: before he was assassinated, nailed it. that the United States,
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  Speaker 11: because we have discourageous elected officials, discourageous leaders that want
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  Speaker 11: to bloviate on things that they want to do or
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  Speaker 11: aspirations or perspirations or panderings that they want to make,
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  Speaker 11: none of them have had the intestinal fortitude to actually
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  Speaker 11: tear up the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and
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  Speaker 11: save of Barack Obama's spouse, who at least had the
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  Speaker 11: balls herself to say, what? She did. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 11: a metaphor. What did you think I was saying? Anyway,
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  Speaker 11: when Barack Obama's spouse had the intestinal fortitude to say
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  Speaker 11: that we need to change the kind of country we are,
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  Speaker 11: and Barry himself said, he'd prefer a constitution that told
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  Speaker 11: the government what they were supposed to do for people.
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  Speaker 11: We finally started to see a generation willing to say,
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  Speaker 11: time to get rid of the constitution, time to get
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  Speaker 11: rid of the Bill of Rights. And that should frighten you.
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  Speaker 11: Because the black population only is free because of the
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  Speaker 11: Bill of Rights, even though it was ignored for many years.
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  Speaker 1: All we say to America is be true to what you.
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  Speaker 4: Said on paper.
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  Speaker 11: This is why his argument won. Was he wasn't asking
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  Speaker 11: for new rights. He wasn't asking for, you know, reparations even.
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  Speaker 11: He just said, let us compete freely. We'll beat your ass.
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  Speaker 11: And the Dixiecrats, fully aware that the Nazis had used
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  Speaker 11: their very own Jim Crow laws and changed the word
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  Speaker 11: Negro to Jew, said, oh, we'll show you. We'll give
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  Speaker 11: you a great society. And then everybody can be poor
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  Speaker 11: just like you. And the rest of us will be rich.
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  Speaker 11: And then when people catch on to that, we'll promote Marxism,
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  Speaker 11: which will protect the rich. Go after the middle class,
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  Speaker 11: whatever of that remains. So, you know, when we talk
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  Speaker 11: about looking at Saudi Arabia and saying, gee, I wish
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  Speaker 11: they'd live up to their human rights, you know, our
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  Speaker 11: human rights agenda, I want to be careful with that.
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  Speaker 11: I want all the countries that trade with the United
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  Speaker 11: States and ally with the United States to live up
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  Speaker 11: to our original founding documents. Because mostly, I want us
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  Speaker 11: to live up to our original founding diamond.
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  Speaker 1: All we say to America is be true to what
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  Speaker 1: you said on paper.
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  Speaker 11: Sadly, how many years ago? And it's still true. It's
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  Speaker 11: more so true than I think it was when Martin
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  Speaker 11: Luther King Jr. said that. So we have a long
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  Speaker 11: way to go. And in the AI story, as I said,
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  Speaker 11: in the flock camera stories and all of this, it
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  Speaker 11: goes back to restraining the government. But given the largesse
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  Speaker 11: of their budgets and their fundings, most people don't want
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  Speaker 11: to restrain the government anymore. You know why? Because it
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  Speaker 11: makes us money. Even if the money is valueless, we
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  Speaker 11: can't see past the number of dollar bills in our
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  Speaker 11: pockets regardless of how few things those dollar bills actually
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  Speaker 11: can purchase anymore. Those are some of the things that
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  Speaker 11: we have to fix. Oh, yay, howly. And we'll work
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