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"Money and Politics" (FTTxJT Mon 092126 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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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 2: Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 3: He's damn near every day. Leaves for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up. Drops the kids to school and all
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  Speaker 3: the work.
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  Speaker 2: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 3: All the treasures that he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 5: Let me be your judge.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning. I want to be of use.
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  Speaker 7: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 6: That is our phone number. You can use it in
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  Speaker 6: a couple of different ways. Call in and we'll have
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  Speaker 6: a conversation. But mornings are crazy busy. I get it.
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  Speaker 6: So you can also use it as a text message hotline.
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  Speaker 6: Texting me at 434-882-4217. To that end. You know, we
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  Speaker 6: were discussing, and Andy writes in, Christian grounding is a
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  Speaker 6: great place to start dealing with mental health. This text message, Joe,
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  Speaker 6: how are you connecting Cindy Crawford's kid to suicide? There's
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  Speaker 6: an awful lot of data that shows those who become addicted,
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  Speaker 6: whether it's alcoholism, drug use, self-medicating pains that go beyond
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  Speaker 6: the physical. And to Andy's point, the Ten Commandments begin with,
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  Speaker 6: I am your Lord God, you will have no other
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  Speaker 6: God before me. And that is a rebuke of the
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  Speaker 6: arrogance that we insert ourselves into the God place and
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  Speaker 6: Let me get to you on the phone there. We
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  Speaker 6: have our first things coming up. I'll detail why Kareem
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  Speaker 6: says this is going to be an interesting week here.
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  Speaker 6: Let me get line two here on hold. I triggered
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  Speaker 6: somebody with this. Good morning. Who's this? This is Eddie, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Eddie. I've got somebody before you. Hang on
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  Speaker 6: the line. Let me see who that is. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Joe. Good morning. It's Joel.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Joel. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing okay. Just.
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  Speaker 9: battling the job front again and try not to, you know,
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  Speaker 9: sound weak on it. But anyway, not to get into
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  Speaker 9: that discussion, but, um, I just wanted to mention, uh,
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  Speaker 9: Robert Kennedy jr. He's a great example for mental health
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  Speaker 9: care because he, and, and, and for Maha, because he
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  Speaker 9: battled addiction himself. He started when he was 14 and
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  Speaker 9: he's been sober since 1983.
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of it is in his testimony. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of it in his testimony is because of the
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  Speaker 6: expectations of family and that he didn't really feel like
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  Speaker 6: there was somebody he could turn to within the family.
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  Speaker 6: You go back to his aunt who was committed because
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  Speaker 6: she was, from what I've read, just a brassy broad
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  Speaker 6: from Boston. And Joe, Grandpa Joe couldn't cotton that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 6: finish up your thought real quick.
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  Speaker 8: But what I wanted to say was that.
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  Speaker 9: People don't realize that addictions are actually where a lot
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  Speaker 9: of times your brain changes. Because you can go back
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  Speaker 9: and rebuild neuropathways. I'm not a doctor, but I know
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  Speaker 9: you can rebuild those neuropathways.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: And he went through a 12-step program. I actually worked
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  Speaker 9: emergency psych, and I've done a lot of different areas.
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  Speaker 9: I've worked with some pretty hideous people.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 9: Besides that you have to treat the per you have
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  Speaker 9: to treat somebody as a person and i don't mean.
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  Speaker 8: And i don't mean.
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  Speaker 9: Taking away the mental problem but you have to treat
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  Speaker 9: as a human being and a lot of times that's
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  Speaker 9: not looked at i i've i've had to go to
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  Speaker 9: psychiatrists and all they want to do is ask about
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  Speaker 9: your problem and then treat you with with and everybody
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  Speaker 9: a lot of people have done it and they're not
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  Speaker 9: going to admit it but All they want to treat
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  Speaker 9: you is with the medicine and not really listen to
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  Speaker 9: you because it's a revolving door.
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  Speaker 6: Hang on to that a second because we really do
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  Speaker 6: need to tell people what's going on because I can't
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  Speaker 6: really ask them to talk about it until I tell
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  Speaker 6: them what it was. So let me run our first
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  Speaker 6: things down here. Ukrainian forces dropping more than a thousand drones.
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  Speaker 6: on Russia as their parliamentary elections culminated on Sunday. Moscow's
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  Speaker 6: mayor called the drone attacks the largest ever, including explosions
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  Speaker 6: at the Moscow oil refinery. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
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  Speaker 6: says that he has spoken with President Trump and they
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  Speaker 6: plan to meet in New York this week for talks that, quote,
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  Speaker 6: could change a lot in finding a resolution to the
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  Speaker 6: two-and-a-half-week invasion of of Ukraine that has taken four and
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  Speaker 6: a half years. Also meeting with President Trump in New
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  Speaker 6: York this week will be combatant from another foreign country,
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  Speaker 6: New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani. I mean that because
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  Speaker 6: New York has become quite a hotbed. The meeting is
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  Speaker 6: scheduled to be at the mansion that the Marxist lives
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  Speaker 6: in called Gracie. North Korea successfully hit the ocean with
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  Speaker 6: a South Korea said they saw the launches and the
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  Speaker 6: North has threatened to bolster its nuclear deterrent capabilities and
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  Speaker 6: respond to what it's calling U.S. hostilities. How do you
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  Speaker 6: like your crow for breakfast? For all those who said
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  Speaker 6: President Trump was going to send the military into Greenland
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  Speaker 6: and he just wanted a new state in the United States,
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  Speaker 6: Denmark and Greenland, are hailing an agreement that will be
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  Speaker 6: signed this week at the U.N. meetings, giving U.S. permanent
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  Speaker 6: control over Greenland's security and will bar Russian and Chinese
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  Speaker 6: bases from the Arctic territory. And the sneaker company Converse
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  Speaker 6: has capitulated to online criticism, saying an ad starring K-pop
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  Speaker 6: singer Karina invokes KKK imagery. All right, for the Daily Signal,
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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  Speaker 6: The story of Cindy Crawford's kid. And The Weeknd has
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  Speaker 6: had several of these instances, celebrities and young people dying
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  Speaker 6: out of order. But, of course, we know that each
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  Speaker 6: thing is part of a plan. And so what is
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  Speaker 6: that point? Is the point to perhaps help move a
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  Speaker 6: conversation a little bit closer to where we take care
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  Speaker 6: of one another better? Joel was on the line with us,
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  Speaker 6: nurse by trade. And I appreciate your insight on this, Joel.
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  Speaker 6: And thanks for hanging on the line, Joel. So go ahead,
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  Speaker 6: finish up your thought there. I'm sorry, but we just
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  Speaker 6: there's things that got to get done before the before
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  Speaker 6: the time runs out.
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  Speaker 8: I understand. And I feel honored to be able to
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  Speaker 8: talk on your program.
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  Speaker 6: But I wanted to say, by the way, hey, hey, hey, hey,
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  Speaker 6: not to show my shallowness. Isn't it an honor just
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  Speaker 6: to talk to me or is it just my program
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  Speaker 6: you're here for? Do you only love me for my program?
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  Speaker 6: I love you.
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  Speaker 8: I love you as another brother. I mean, you're a
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  Speaker 8: great person.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just picking on you. I get pedantic about the
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  Speaker 6: way we turn phrases there, and I understand what you
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  Speaker 6: were saying. I just was like, held it. You only
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  Speaker 6: love me for my program? It's a good thing I
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  Speaker 6: have a big program. Never mind. I'm sorry. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know how we got off the rails there, but finish
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  Speaker 6: your thought, and then we get to Eddie here.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I'll make this quick, but the problem is that
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  Speaker 9: people are looking for something besides what they are about themselves.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 9: And it's discovering what you are about yourself and not
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  Speaker 9: just centering yourself, but the world that's around you so
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  Speaker 9: that you can become part of using yourself to be
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  Speaker 9: structural for that world. But a couple of things real quick.
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  Speaker 9: Fentanyl is not an overdose. It's a poisoning because it's
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  Speaker 9: 100 times stronger than morphine. And those opiate receptors, often
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  Speaker 9: at times it takes more than one dose of Narcan,
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  Speaker 9: and you can't reverse it a lot of times because
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  Speaker 9: they just won't open up.
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  Speaker 8: And it's not overdose, it's poisoning. I'm correcting that.
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  Speaker 6: No, you're right. It's a fentanyl poisoning death. You're right
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  Speaker 6: in that. But you mentioned this in the last segment,
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  Speaker 6: doctors looking to prescribe opiates, and even perhaps more dangerously
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  Speaker 6: for mental health issues, you know, just sometimes pour gasoline
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  Speaker 6: on a fire that's already just smoldering.
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  Speaker 9: Well, what I was trying to go back to with
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  Speaker 9: Bobby Kennedy is that he knows about addiction.
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  Speaker 8: So a lot of it with food, they put flavorings, they.
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  Speaker 9: Put enhancers, and now you don't even know what natural
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  Speaker 9: flavoring is because There's over 4,000 different things that they
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  Speaker 9: can put into food, and Europe has banned a lot
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  Speaker 9: of that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. Most of it.
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  Speaker 9: Addictions are just like a lot of other things, but
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  Speaker 9: it changes your brain. And I'm so glad he's in
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  Speaker 9: that position because he understands it. And he's going through
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  Speaker 9: his 12-step process every day. We all go through something
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  Speaker 9: we need to change.
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  Speaker 6: You're always an addict.
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  Speaker 9: He's a great example of that because he's had money.
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  Speaker 8: He's had fame. But he's not using that. He's using
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  Speaker 8: his brain.
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  Speaker 9: He's using his sense of worth and trying to make
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  Speaker 9: people healthy again.
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  Speaker 8: That's all I wanted to say.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely well said. And the preceding was not paid for
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  Speaker 6: by the Department of Health and Human Services. However, if
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  Speaker 6: you need a great nurse at HHS, Bobby, call Joel
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  Speaker 6: or I'll get you his number.
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  Speaker 8: 434-882-4217 is ours.
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  Speaker 6: I lied a little bit there, misrepresented perhaps. Eddie's coming up,
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  Speaker 6: but I want to check in with our friends at
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  Speaker 6: the jcsgold.com this morning. Gold's on sale. We told you
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  Speaker 6: about that last hour, James. Luck, fourth generation. And I
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  Speaker 6: was telling the folks in the early seating, I said,
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  Speaker 6: you can talk to two of the four generations that
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  Speaker 6: have run JCS Gold, if you call them at 434-979-COIN.
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  Speaker 6: If I understand how your brother and your parents work,
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  Speaker 6: You're going to be doing Cinderella this morning, packing up
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  Speaker 6: boxes all day. But if you call at the right time,
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  Speaker 6: you probably can talk to James, right? That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: I answer the phone most of the time, Joe.
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  Speaker 18: And while I'm packaging up boxes, I'm answering questions on
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  Speaker 18: the phones. I love talking to clients and figuring out
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  Speaker 18: the best silver or gold product that fits their budget
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  Speaker 18: because everyone has a different story. And gold is a
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  Speaker 18: little bit on sale this morning, down about half of
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  Speaker 18: a percent. to $ 4, 351. Silver is right at even so
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  Speaker 18: far this morning at $ 66.
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  Speaker 6: 25. So of course, you know, James will be busy
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  Speaker 6: because everyone sees that and gets online and says, well,
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  Speaker 6: that gives me a chance to get a little bit
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  Speaker 6: more for my portfolio. But we appreciate your efforts in
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  Speaker 6: taking a little time out before the day even begins.
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  Speaker 6: You can call them after 10 Eastern at 434-979- Coin,
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  Speaker 6: that's 2646. James, you have an awesome morning, sir. Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: You too. So I mentioned Eddie several times. It's like
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  Speaker 6: I've got Roseanne on the line here. Tell Eddie we'll
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  Speaker 6: get to him in a minute. But now hopefully he
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  Speaker 6: has something to say because we've been teasing him for
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  Speaker 6: 15 minutes now. Good morning, Eddie. How are you doing
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  Speaker 6: this morning?
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  Speaker 19: Good morning, Joe. Second cup of coffee, I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: Just while he was waiting for us to finally come
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  Speaker 6: to his call. That's two cups of coffee.
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  Speaker 19: Well, Joe, uh, you pushed the button this morning. Um,
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  Speaker 19: I have, I don't have facts and figures, but I've
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  Speaker 19: heard that the Scandinavian countries really have a decent, uh,
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  Speaker 19: mental health care system over there. And one reason is
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  Speaker 19: they've integrated mental health care into their primary care system. Um,
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  Speaker 19: You know, we're the best country in the world. Why
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  Speaker 19: can't we have as good mental health care here? as
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  Speaker 19: they do?
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  Speaker 6: You know, well, first off, because we do everything bureaucratically.
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  Speaker 19: I really can't. But they're doing something right over there.
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  Speaker 6: I just got a text message that says it's because
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  Speaker 16: I told you so.
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  Speaker 6: You know how I hate to say it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I told you so.
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  Speaker 6: You know, and I'm not sure what flavor bagel goes
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  Speaker 7: How.
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  Speaker 6: Many times have we been here. Somebody will tell you
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  Speaker 6: that Donald Trump is, insert whatever it is, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 6: long after everyone has trundled off to some other issue,
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  Speaker 6: what they were up in arms about comes to pass,
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  Speaker 6: and it is what President Trump said it was going
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: to be, not everyone else said it was going to be.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: And the issue of Greenland, perhaps, is on the podium,
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: at least, with very fine people. And I only pick
• 29:29
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• 29:32
  Speaker 6: some of them. And the president was correct, having been
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: spared a horrific beating, I was about to receive by
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: the president of Black Lives Matter. Think about that a second.
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  Speaker 6: Along with the prayer circle that my friend John Quesenberry
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  Speaker 6: and his church group started in the middle of the
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: riots of August 12th, 2017, there was the conservative talk
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  Speaker 6: show host about to get into a fistfight with somebody
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: a third of his age and probably not win. But
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  Speaker 6: I was going to have it anyway because he insisted
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  Speaker 6: on calling me a racist because of the color of
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  Speaker 6: my skin. Not really feeling like it was the time
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  Speaker 6: to debate the silliness of that or the fact that
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  Speaker 6: he himself was doing something racist. I figured bringing up
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Ibram Kendi wasn't the time, but the fight was about
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: to ensue. It was on the cover of the Roanoke Times,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: the photograph of me and him screaming at each other.
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  Speaker 6: And right before the blows started to fly, in comes
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  Speaker 6: the president of Black Lives Matter, who knew me personally
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: because he had been on my show a bunch of times,
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Hawk Newsome. And he said, no, no, no, this guy's cool.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: You think about that. The only reason he knew that
• 30:52
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• 30:55
  Speaker 6: interactions away from this giant cafeteria full of high school
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: bullies that we call the internet. Oh, sure. He and
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: I both existed in the internet zeitgeist as well. But
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  Speaker 6: the point was we knew each other individually. So when
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  Speaker 6: oh my gosh, the president of Black Lives Matter is
• 31:19
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• 31:30
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• 31:55
  Speaker 6: a bigger story James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano character, depression is
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• 32:11
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• 32:14
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  Speaker 6: for the Second Amendment. I think there's more to it
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: than that. But this issue with Greenland, they're going to
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: sign the treaty. Now, obviously, it's got to go through
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Mark Warner and the U.S. Senate. But here's the thing
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  Speaker 6: that has brought us to this point so frequently. Donald
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  Speaker 6: Trump is, insert whatever horrific, detestable thing, Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 6: the earth. I can't imagine what this morning is like
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: in Greenland, where the residents had been told for months
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump is going to buy the country and make
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  Speaker 6: you all wait tables in Donald Trump's North Pole casino
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  Speaker 6: But yet I'll guarantee all those people who were protesting
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  Speaker 6: they don't want that. Of course they don't want that.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody would want that, but that's not what the deal is.
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  Speaker 6: The deal is no China, no Russia, just U.S. And
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  Speaker 6: interesting to see after this is done and how the
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  Speaker 6: Danish and Greenland governments deal with all the people who
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: are drive-by media. And there never has been a more
• 35:41
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  Speaker 6: who swooped in on Greenland like locusts, caused an international
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• 36:02
  Speaker 6: And now when the deal is done, how do you
• 36:06
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• 36:10
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• 36:20
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• 36:24
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  Speaker 6: What does he say about that? What does Adam Schiff
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• 37:08
  Speaker 6: this is why Kyoto was never a treaty. Because the
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  Speaker 1: Just look at the.
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  Speaker 5: Birds who gather supplies to build nests or Swiss foxes.
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  Speaker 6: Who work hard to provide for their young.
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  Speaker 5: Or penguins, who travel up to 500 miles to secure
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  Speaker 5: allows them to navigate the trees and the wild in
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  Speaker 5: search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared by
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  Speaker 5: our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are our
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  Speaker 5: wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 15: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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  Speaker 6: Heart and brain. Who's with me?
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  Speaker 5: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
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  Speaker 27: And my brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
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  Speaker 24: Love that guy.
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• 42:24
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  Speaker 28: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  Speaker 28: going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
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  Speaker 3: But help is available.
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  Speaker 2: Treatment works.
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• 44:15
  Speaker 2: My priority is money out of politics, money in your pocket,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Medicare for all.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: Work to get money out of politics.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: But if you believe that we've got to get money
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: out of politics.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: So that our politicians actually work for us.
• 44:28
  Speaker 29: So you heard it here from the horse's mouth.
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: Not to correct the host, but you had 180 degrees
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: the other end of the horse is where... A lot
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: of emails from our visit to Newsmax. I like this one. Joe,
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: how many other jobs are you going to have? They
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: said at the onset of your visit that you were
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: the morning show host on the Talk Media Network and
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: a columnist for the Daily Signal. Are you going to
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: wind up hosting a show on Newsmax? First off, if
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: you watch the video, You realize Face for Radio is
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: exactly what's going on here with me. But here's the
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: premise of this. That was the voice of El-Sayed, the
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: Michigan Marxist, running for something. This is the setup of
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: National Report had me on on Friday morning.
• 45:25
  Speaker 29: We begin this hour with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed,
• 45:29
  Speaker 29: who will reportedly attend a fundraiser at the West Hollywood
• 45:32
  Speaker 29: home of billionaire George Soros' nephew later this month. Jeffrey
• 45:37
  Speaker 29: Soros is slated to host a meet-and-greet alongside former Obama
• 45:41
  Speaker 29: advisers and other Hollywood figures. Now, each guest can reportedly
• 45:44
  Speaker 29: donate roughly $ 57, 000 to Abdul for the Michigan Victory Fund,
• 45:50
  Speaker 29: and it's not yet clear if George Soros himself will
• 45:53
  Speaker 29: be in attendance. Hello and welcome to a brand new
• 45:55
  Speaker 29: hour of National Report. I'm Krisha Lenzo.
• 45:57
  Speaker 30: And I'm Kyle Lauder in for Edie Hill this morning.
• 45:59
  Speaker 30: The out-of-state big money fundraiser comes as Al-Sayed has repeatedly
• 46:03
  Speaker 30: criticized the influence of corporations and billionaires in politics and
• 46:08
  Speaker 30: is campaigning on getting, quote, money out of politics.
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  Speaker 11: Take a listen.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: My probability is money out of politics, money in your pocket,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Medicare for all.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: Work to get money out of politics.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: But if you believe that we've got to get money
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: out of politics so that our politicians actually work for us,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: then I hope that I can earn your support.
• 46:29
  Speaker 29: Scott Brown is a former Massachusetts senator and former New
• 46:32
  Speaker 29: Hampshire Senate candidate. And Joe Thomas is a morning radio
• 46:35
  Speaker 29: show host with the Talk Media Network and a columnist
• 46:38
  Speaker 29: with The Daily Signal.
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: Good morning, gentlemen.
• 46:40
  Speaker 29: Good to have you. So you heard it here from
• 46:42
  Speaker 29: the horse's mouth, Scott, in terms of getting money out
• 46:45
  Speaker 29: of politics. But yet he is partnering with George Soros.
• 46:50
  Speaker 29: So explain that to us.
• 46:52
  Speaker 31: Well, listen, it's not a surprise to me. I mean,
• 46:54
  Speaker 31: we know that Soros is basically using that money to
• 46:58
  Speaker 31: influence politics around the world, not only in the United States.
• 47:02
  Speaker 31: And to say he's getting big money or corporate money
• 47:05
  Speaker 31: or billionaire money out of politics is laughable, especially with
• 47:08
  Speaker 31: someone like Soros. This is a guy that supports the far, far.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: Left DSA agenda, i.e.
• 47:15
  Speaker 18: Soros.
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: And this person, al-Sayed, running.
• 47:18
  Speaker 31: Is basically that model, Medicare for.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: All, abolish ICE, blah, blah, blah. I mean, we all
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: know the drill.
• 47:24
  Speaker 31: I think, obviously, that it's going to be close, but
• 47:27
  Speaker 31: I still think that Mike Rogers wins this race.
• 47:30
  Speaker 30: It just reeks of hypocrisy. So George Soros worth an
• 47:34
  Speaker 30: estimated $ 8. 6 billion. His super PAC has already reportedly contributed
• 47:39
  Speaker 30: nearly $ 37 million to other political committees. This midterm cycle
• 47:45
  Speaker 30: in 2024, he contributed nearly $ 60 million. So, Joe, is
• 47:48
  Speaker 30: this really money out of politics here?
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: No, absolutely not. It was probably one of the most
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: Marxist things I've heard these democratic socialists say so far
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: this election cycle. And by the way, not to correct
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: the host, but you had 180 degrees the other end
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: of the horse is where that came from.
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: Good one.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: But this is what the Soviet Union did. The Politburo
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: picked your candidates and then you were told, A and B,
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: but it really made no difference. It was just who
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: the party selected, who the government selected for you. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: that is really the issue with money out of politics
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: is what they're saying is politics in your money. And
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: whether you think the peanut butter is inside the chocolate
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: or the chocolate surrounds the peanut butter is regardless your
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: freedom to choose. And yeah, there's money. It costs money.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: You know what part of it is, is there are
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: profiteers all around the political world who, you know, for
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: no other reason than that, they haven't had any victories
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: in any of the elections they've consulted. They'll stick their
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: hand out and they get paid. And this is people
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: is the worst kept secret. All these political consultants, you
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: know how you pay them with a percentage of the
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: ad buy. And that includes mailers. This is why you
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: get those ridiculous sales. 12 by 12 cardboard mailers in
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: your box and they cost a fortune. They're the singular
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: biggest cost driver in an election are those mailers. Do
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: you read them? Do I? And I'm in the business,
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: quote unquote, tangentially. And I don't read them. They immediately
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: go in the trash or the fire pit. Even from
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: people I like. But these consultants get paid each time
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: you buy more airtime or more of these flyers. Good morning.
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: You're on the air with Joe. Who's this?
• 49:49
  Speaker 22: Hey, this is Moscow Bob.
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: Hey, Bob. How are you doing this morning? We were
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: reading about those drone attacks in Moscow. Are you okay?
• 50:00
  Speaker 22: Yep, I'm okay. It wasn't far from where I live.
• 50:04
  Speaker 22: My friend's apartment, she could see... the smoke and flames
• 50:09
  Speaker 22: from her apartment. But this is getting ridiculous. Think about it. Supposedly,
• 50:14
  Speaker 22: Ukraine has no money. They sent 1,100 drones yesterday, according
• 50:19
  Speaker 22: to President Zelensky. The 1,100 drones cost, what do you think,
• 50:24
  Speaker 22: how much money do you think they spent on Saturday overnight, Seth?
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: Well, we're not talking the drones you can get at Costco.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: These are expensive military drones with armaments, munitions on them, bombs.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: They're thousands and thousands of dollars. Some of them get
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: up into millions of dollars.
• 50:46
  Speaker 22: The ones they're using are roughly, say, $ 10, 000 minimum. So
• 50:49
  Speaker 22: that's $ 11 million in one night they just sent. Who's
• 51:02
  Speaker 22: funding all this?
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: Well, didn't he just come back from NATO? Didn't he
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: just come back from a big NATO sit down?
• 51:09
  Speaker 22: Yes, but he isn't going to do anything. He's going
• 51:12
  Speaker 22: to do what he's been told from, like you said
• 51:15
  Speaker 22: on Friday, from the Biden and Obama administration, who they
• 51:22
  Speaker 22: interfered with the CIA and overthrew the Russian president, as
• 51:25
  Speaker 22: you stated on Friday. That's what the whole thing is.
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't disagree. I mean, this is on our watch.
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: And you know, if Trump had done that, if Trump
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: had done that, this would be another Senate investigation, another
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: impeachment hearing, you name it.
• 51:45
  Speaker 22: But the whole thing is, by the CIA and the U.S.
• 51:49
  Speaker 22: government infringing on that presidential election, they violated the treaty
• 51:57
  Speaker 22: that Ukraine signed and Russia and NATO had, because with
• 52:02
  Speaker 22: them overthrowing it, that made it a NATO incursion into Ukraine,
• 52:07
  Speaker 22: which was agreed they would for the nuclear weapons.
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: And stop it. You know, that's a point that was
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: brought up briefly when it happened or when we became
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: aware of it happening. You know what Obama and Biden did?
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: They're like, well, you're just racist for saying that about us.
• 52:25
  Speaker 22: No, but the whole point is it goes back to
• 52:28
  Speaker 22: what I've been saying all along. Russia was provoked into
• 52:32
  Speaker 22: doing what they had to do. And the United States
• 52:35
  Speaker 22: and Great Britain did not allow Ukraine to talk and
• 52:39
  Speaker 22: settle it peacefully before it ever started because the United
• 52:43
  Speaker 22: States wanted this. And that's sad.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: Well, you're talking about as it escalated under Biden.
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