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"Krage" (Danish for Crow) (FTTxJT Mon 092126 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Talk radio just the way your mother used to make it.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Monday morning as we gather together in your name
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  Speaker 2: to help you get started with a new work week
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  Speaker 2: or the same old one if you're working a seven-day gig.
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  Speaker 3: Your words are to steal me up, which damn near
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  Speaker 3: every day. Pleased for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 3: Drops a kid to school in the long world. Joe
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  Speaker 3: has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the deal. I'll tell you what went on last
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  Speaker 2: night and over the weekend in this case, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you my analysis of it, of course, dice
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  Speaker 2: everything up into easily digestible gummies. And then once the
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  Speaker 2: side effects start to take effect, I want to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you, you being the most important local aspect of
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  Speaker 2: the radio station. You tell me how the news of
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  Speaker 2: the day is impacting you. And yes, gas prices are
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  Speaker 2: included in that.
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  Speaker 6: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 2: That is the phone number and text message hotline. It's
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  Speaker 2: a multitasker, so you don't have to wait for me
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  Speaker 2: to get to you or anything like that. Just open
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  Speaker 2: up voice to text and say what you got to say,
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  Speaker 2: and I will do my level best to read your
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  Speaker 2: consult into the public record. And then we will discuss
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  Speaker 2: on same day. And if I get it wrong, text
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  Speaker 2: me back. Say, hey, that's not what I meant. Ask
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  Speaker 2: my wife. It frequently happens. You didn't quite get my
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  Speaker 2: meaning on that. Sorry, dear. It's a phrase that successful
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  Speaker 2: married men have learned for years. I'm sorry, dear. 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can send in the traditional fashion emails to
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  Speaker 2: jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com. Sure, we have social media, but there
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  Speaker 2: are only so many screens I can have open and
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  Speaker 2: still pay attention to it all. We tried that once.
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  Speaker 2: We had the rolling text message screens up. We were
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  Speaker 2: streaming video online, and people were trying, and sentences would
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  Speaker 2: end abruptly because I would see something, and I would turn,
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  Speaker 2: and I would look at it, and I'd say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: hang on, that's an interesting idea. Bob out in Portland
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  Speaker 2: sent me this cartoon. Inoculate your kids against socialism by
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  Speaker 2: having them clean the bathroom, pay them $ 10, and then
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  Speaker 2: take seven and give it to their sibling who didn't help.
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  Speaker 2: Socialism won't seem so attractive to them then. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and the apocryphal stories of teachers that have done that
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  Speaker 2: with grades. Believe me, socialism is not hard to explain.
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  Speaker 2: except to apparently enough voters in New York. Where President
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  Speaker 2: Trump is headed and our first things begin there as
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  Speaker 2: New York City braces for some of the worst traffic
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  Speaker 2: it will ever see. And for our friends listening at
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  Speaker 2: 1490 WGCH, telecommuting might be a good idea today as
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  Speaker 2: the U.N. meetings begin. President Trump will add to all
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  Speaker 2: the security details. Around the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who brought down
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  Speaker 2: fiery drone attacks on Moscow on the last day of
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  Speaker 2: the weekend's worth of voting in Russia's first elections since
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  Speaker 2: their two-week invasion of Ukraine began five years ago. Zelensky
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  Speaker 2: said that he had spoken with the president and the
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  Speaker 2: two agreed to meet in New York for talks that could, quote,
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  Speaker 2: change a lot in finding a resolution to the Russian
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  Speaker 2: invasion of his country. President Trump will also meet with
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  Speaker 2: foreign leader, New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani. No, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: He is still the leader of New York City and
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  Speaker 2: they are still in the United States. The meeting is
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for Monday at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned Ukrainian forces fired more than a thousand drones
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  Speaker 2: into Russia overnight on the last day of weekend-long elections.
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  Speaker 2: One of the drones struck an oil refinery just outside
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  Speaker 2: of the city. North Korea successfully hit the ocean with
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  Speaker 2: two ballistic missiles shot up into the air on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: South Korea's military said days after the North threatened to
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  Speaker 2: bolster its nuclear deterrent capabilities. Denmark Saturday hailed a binding
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  Speaker 2: swallowing their crow. Greenland security will bar Russia and Chinese
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 2: on this Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Morning.
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  Speaker 2: A badass song. I know that a lot of stations
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  Speaker 2: aren't playing at her request. hit me with your best shot.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think they should. But again, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: for censorship. She's the one who said, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to play it in concert anymore. But one of the
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  Speaker 2: awesome people I had an opportunity to meet for somebody
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  Speaker 2: who has had all the success she's had, pretty grounded
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  Speaker 2: and not thrown off at all when the entire city
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  Speaker 2: of Buffalo decided to say happy birthday to her dad.
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  Speaker 2: Because she was there performing on his birthday, and we
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  Speaker 2: felt bad. I mean, you know, who doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: sit with your dad on his birthday? I mean, besides,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know there are some, and I'll get
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  Speaker 2: the emails and cards and letters saying, well, my dad,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. I've had moments with my dad as well.
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  Speaker 2: So as we pause, and how do you like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your crow? And I say it that way because I'm getting...
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  Speaker 2: I can't say weary because it has become just sort
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  Speaker 2: of SOP for this program to give you an analysis
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  Speaker 2: of something, have people tell me, that's dumber than a
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  Speaker 2: bag of hair, Joe. Only to, especially since January 20th, 2017,
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  Speaker 2: especially since then, we have given you analysis of things
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  Speaker 2: or told you the truisms of things, beginning with the
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  Speaker 2: truth behind very fine people. And we'll take the slings
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  Speaker 2: and arrows. And I'm not saying, oh, woe is me.
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  Speaker 2: We do okay. I love what I do, and I
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  Speaker 2: love where I do it from. I mean, it's Independence,
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  Speaker 2: and it's Virginia. We go together like... Got to play
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  Speaker 2: Vince Fontaine in the actual Broadway version of that play.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot different than the one you see on
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  Speaker 2: the movie screens.
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  Speaker 4: Um.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all right, there's one salient bit that they leave
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  Speaker 2: out of the movie scenes. But regardless, Vince Fontaine is
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  Speaker 2: an entirely different dude in movies. He's not a just
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  Speaker 2: lovable goofball DJ. A little dark. But they do. These
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  Speaker 2: independent thoughts, these independent analyses generally begin... with overlaying the
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  Speaker 2: Bill of Rights, at least, if not the entire U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Constitution across something, as if we were using one of
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  Speaker 2: those old overhead projectors or perhaps some app on Photoshop.
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  Speaker 2: You take an issue, you overlay the Constitution and the
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  Speaker 2: Bill of Rights on it, and you say, okay, I
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  Speaker 2: can see where the discordance is. It's pretty straightforward. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know I shouldn't tell you this because there'll be
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of new radio hosts getting started saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: I can do that. Of course you can. That was
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  Speaker 2: the whole point. Did you forget the Federalist Papers? The
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  Speaker 2: whole point of the Federalist Papers was to tell farmers
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  Speaker 2: in upstate New York, you got this. Don't be afeard.
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  Speaker 2: Because the New York politicians... as if they were trying
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  Speaker 2: to set the scene for folks like Kathy Hochul and
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  Speaker 2: Zorhan Mamdani, were telling the farmers, oh, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: this U.S. Constitution. You're going to be subjects. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be servants. You're going to be slaves, probably predicting
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  Speaker 2: what Kathy Hochul and Zorhan Mamdani would do later. But
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  Speaker 2: you got this is the subtext. That should be our slogan.
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  Speaker 2: The United States of America, you got this. So when
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  Speaker 2: we come across these stories, whether it is in physical possession,
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  Speaker 2: as it was with very fine people, all the way
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  Speaker 2: through Greenland, I take the position that I see. You
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  Speaker 2: tell me I'm crazy. And then months later, we're sitting
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  Speaker 2: here saying, hey, how'd that work out? And I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: believe me, I understand why people think I say crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: when I talk about the 1929 Act for Permanent Reapportionment,
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  Speaker 2: and then, and this happened about two, three months ago,
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  Speaker 2: I heard somebody on CNN mention it.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't call any other talk radio show hosts, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall seeing any other sub-stack columnists writing about it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that 1619 Project, oh, they'll flog themselves, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: to be an anti-racist by Ibram Kendi, knee Harry Rogers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that forever. You mentioned something like the
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  Speaker 2: 1929 Act for Permanent Apportionment. Like I said, crazier than
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  Speaker 2: the aforementioned bag of hair. But by the middle of
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  Speaker 2: this week, we'll have a signed deal with which is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what President Trump said would happen regarding Greenland, that
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  Speaker 2: the United States, extending its Monroe Doctrine north a wee bit,
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  Speaker 2: simply wanted to make sure that there were no Chinese
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  Speaker 2: and Russian army bases along the northern passage. doing what
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  Speaker 2: Iran continues to try to do at the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Hormuz which is make it impossible to run a ship
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  Speaker 2: through there as difficult as it is it has become
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  Speaker 2: one of the busiest shipping corridors on the planet So
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  Speaker 2: President Trump just said, I think it's in our best
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  Speaker 2: interest just to not have Russia and China with Chairman
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  Speaker 2: Xi getting ready to hang with the president. You don't
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  Speaker 2: see him saying, well, we're going to go to war
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  Speaker 2: over this. You don't see Putin say Putin's got other
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  Speaker 2: issues like the drones dropping bombs on Moscow last night.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you some look into if the Russians have
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  Speaker 2: results for their elections already. It's embarrassing to states like
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  Speaker 2: California and New York and Virginia that can't get it
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  Speaker 2: right within the time parameters before the clock strikes 12
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  Speaker 2: on election night. Drones dropping Ukrainian or NATO missiles on
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  Speaker 2: them and all sorts of, you know. But we'll get
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  Speaker 2: you some updates on the Russian elections coming up in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I'll bet you President Putin's endorsed candidates
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  Speaker 2: held sway, kept the majority in their midterms. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're waking up this morning with that sense of here
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  Speaker 2: we go again, welcome to my world. And we continue.
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  Speaker 2: celebrity story, Cindy Crawford's son dying while in a treatment
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  Speaker 2: we've had so many of these celebrity stories. And it's
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  Speaker 2: any number of places that will take dissidents away to
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  Speaker 2: keep then complaining that the government isn't doing enough. I
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  Speaker 2: want to fix the pain thanks to Obamacare because Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: things happen, it's not so much about the celebrity, but
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  Speaker 2: what do we do with the opportunity to have that conversation?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: The heartbreaking story, one of the leading Democrats in our
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: flagship state, State Senator Creed Eads, ran for governor in 2009.
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  Speaker 2: Good guy, Democrat, gun owner, actually a pretty good score
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  Speaker 2: the last good marble, after a couple of nights in
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  Speaker 2: up for weeks in the hospital, grievous injuries from the
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  Speaker 2: knife attack. What a horrific story. And we need to
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  Speaker 2: people in positions of whatever feigned authority we think we
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  Speaker 2: don't think, is capable of doing better in these things.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need a better answer in terms of
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  Speaker 2: Kareem's on the line. No segue intended. Kareem's just on
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  Speaker 2: lead in, but these stories need to be told. And
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  Speaker 2: What's on your mind this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 22: Well, Joe, honestly, you've got a pretty good garden right there.
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  Speaker 22: Just going back, what happened if the state senator did
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  Speaker 22: not defend himself? Then we have a Rob Reiner incident with, like,
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  Speaker 22: he and his wife. And, Joe, mental health going back decades,
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  Speaker 22: at the turn of the century, not this one, the
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  Speaker 22: previous one, mental health was– Some sanitariums would rent out
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 22: setting that aside, Joe, those with the fentanyl overdoses, new
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  Speaker 18: Lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, no, no. But I mean, this is this
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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  Speaker 2: So how do we deal? What do you do? How
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  Speaker 2: do you define? And I bring this up in this
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  Speaker 2: way because, you know, the Kennedy family and.
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  Speaker 18: Clancy and her defense that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, being a mother was too much for her. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being a mom is too much for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of folks. But how are we responding to, because
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  Speaker 2: I really feel societally that we keep, and this may
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  Speaker 2: be the greatest example of mental health. And yes, this,
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  Speaker 2: this Cindy Crawford's kid is He has everything in the world,
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  Speaker 2: everything in the world. His mother is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most famous people on the planet. Singers like Kurt Cobain
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  Speaker 2: devastate themselves and shock the world. He has everything, right?
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  Speaker 2: We have everything. What could you possibly... Because we're out
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  Speaker 2: here trying to figure out how I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: enough gas in my car to get to work and back.
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  Speaker 2: As are you. And we're saying, well, what does Cindy
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  Speaker 2: Crawford's kid missing? We don't know. And that's why the
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  Speaker 2: government is ill-equipped to handle this kind of stuff. But we,
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  Speaker 2: this is a grand example, as I was saying, of
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  Speaker 2: us falling prey to what Douglas Adams called the somebody
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  Speaker 2: else's problem field. We see the alien ship sitting in
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  Speaker 2: the field. It's just emanating an electrical field that convinces
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  Speaker 2: us that, oh, somebody else will work on that. And
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  Speaker 2: we go on with our day, paying no mind to it.
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  Speaker 2: Reading the stories and going, oh my gosh, that's horrific.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible. How did that happen? And then when it
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  Speaker 2: screams at us like, uh, And again, it is an
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  Speaker 2: imperfect world when folks like the Kennedys can have JFK's
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  Speaker 2: older sister committed and lobotomized because from what I've read
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  Speaker 2: about her, she was abroad. She was everything Rose Kennedy was,
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  Speaker 2: a Massachusetts, sharp-elbowed, don't-mess-with-my-bootlegger-husband woman. And she was cut from
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  Speaker 2: that bolt of cloth and she wasn't going to play
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  Speaker 2: nice with others. She was Sophie Cunningham. And they cut
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  Speaker 2: up her brain because of it, because she was going
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  Speaker 2: to make things tough for Jack and Bobby and Teddy
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  Speaker 2: when they needed to get elected to something. Because now
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  Speaker 2: Joe wasn't the sharp elbowed bootlegger anymore. Now he was
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  Speaker 2: the ambassador to the UK and we can't have this.
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  Speaker 2: Kareem was on the line with us. Kareem, I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think of this issue, and what
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  Speaker 2: do you think the right way out of these woods are?
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  Speaker 22: Don't leave us hanging, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 22: I've got some ideas about how it could be, but
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  Speaker 22: I'd like to hear yours.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Well, you asked. Pull up a seat there, boy,
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  Speaker 2: and let me get monologuing here. Here's the thing is
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  Speaker 2: we are laying out things that are aspirational things in
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  Speaker 2: terms of our marketing. We, we, we, instead of just saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a good product. Would you like to buy it?
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  Speaker 2: We have fallen into this abyss of you're not worthy
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  Speaker 2: unless you have insert, whatever it is you have here.
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  Speaker 2: And we need to fix that. Um, you know, the,
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  Speaker 2: the celebrity endorsements and things like that, uh, all feed
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  Speaker 2: into this, you know, grass is greener over the septic tank. Um,
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  Speaker 2: mindset that we have been getting consumed by, I would
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  Speaker 2: point back to my generation. We started keeping up with
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  Speaker 2: the Joneses and all of that is a fool's errand.
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  Speaker 2: It's Satan himself whispering in our ears, you're not worthy,
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  Speaker 2: you're not worthy, and we're buying it. And we need
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  Speaker 2: to stop shopping at that store because I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of our mental health issues are driven by that depression. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that's only one aspect of it. That's like saying, okay,
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  Speaker 2: the economy is the reason for homelessness. It's not. It's
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  Speaker 2: part of it, but it's not the only part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And so you need to address all those parts. And
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  Speaker 2: if you can, this is why I say the government
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  Speaker 2: is ill-equipped to handle these issues because they are one-size-fits-all.
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  Speaker 2: They're really not capable of individual, like, okay, Kareem's problems
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  Speaker 2: are this, Joe's problems are this. It's going to be bureaucratic,
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  Speaker 2: one-size-fits-all stuff. And that's where I think the government fails
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  Speaker 2: to Well, medical care in general, but certainly mental medical care.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the short answer, he says. What do you think?
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  Speaker 22: Mine's on the individual level.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Christian.
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  Speaker 22: Jesus Christ died to clean and clear our sins, so
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  Speaker 22: I'm thankful for that gift. For those who don't accept that,
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  Speaker 22: We have Marcus Aurelius to Epictetus, the stochastic philosophers, that
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  Speaker 22: whatever I can control inside myself, that's what I need
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  Speaker 22: to focus on. Now, granted, be aware of dangers. Stay
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  Speaker 22: away from fentanyl. Stay away from cyclophorene. But also be
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  Speaker 22: aware of the vast movers outside in the world. Segueing
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  Speaker 22: to this Greenland deal that Trump has, he's been saying
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  Speaker 22: he's going to do one. He's got an agreement. It's
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  Speaker 22: not signed. And it has to be approved by Greenland
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  Speaker 22: and even the Denmark legislatures both.
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  Speaker 2: They both seem like they're into it.
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  Speaker 22: I hear you, Joe, but he's already signed that treaty–
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  Speaker 22: not treaty, but he already signed that Memorandum of Understanding
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  Speaker 22: at the Palace of Versailles, no less.
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  Speaker 19: And he hasn't honored that.
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  Speaker 2: But I hear– Which treaty? Which treaty of– It's.
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  Speaker 22: Not a treaty. It's just a memorandum of understanding. It's
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  Speaker 22: just an agreement to have of understanding before they even
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  Speaker 22: sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're talking about with Iran. I got you on that.
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  Speaker 2: And here's one last part, and this will be fun.
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  Speaker 2: You know who has to approve any U.S. treaties?
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  Speaker 10: Senate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be fun, isn't it?
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  Speaker 22: Yes, sir. For a go, Joe, just the last thing.
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  Speaker 22: It's Baba Mandab, Strait of Hormuz, but the Malacca. We're
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  Speaker 22: wanting to fly our own military jets over the Strait
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  Speaker 22: of Malacca. So this UN visit from Putin and all
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  Speaker 22: this happening, Joe, it's going to be an interesting week
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  Speaker 22: up ahead. Anyway, thanks for taking my call. Have a
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  Speaker 22: great day.
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  Speaker 2: You too. Thank you, Kareem. How do the majority of
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  Speaker 2: us stay grounded? I mean, that's the thing about it
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  Speaker 2: is what is mental health? What is a cry for help?
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  Speaker 2: What is a cry for attention? And why would one
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  Speaker 2: be less apt to get an answer than another?
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