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"Tim Walz and his Purple Reign" (Tuesday December 23 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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  Speaker 1: know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 2: Your words said, steal me step.
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  Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up, drops a pet to school on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has a dreamer.
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  Speaker 4: All the treasure needs.
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  Speaker 1: No one that Joe's a smile.
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  Speaker 5: He only as.
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  Speaker 6: Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me service, to let me be
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  Speaker 4: of service to you. Four three four eight eight two
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  Speaker 4: people's mornings are. And you can also email JT in
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  Speaker 4: bankruptcy is driven by you know, somebody saying, wow, we
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  Speaker 4: really should do something about this. My friend Chris Horner
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  Speaker 4: the author of red hot Lies and power grab has
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful way to depict it. We must do something,
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  Speaker 4: is the statement from some government official. Then his underling says, well, Sarah,
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  Speaker 4: this is something, then we must do that. And that's
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  Speaker 4: how it usually works. Sometimes it's not an underling somebody,
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  Speaker 4: it's somebody with a financial interest in the political figure.
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  Speaker 4: We must do something about this. Well, this is something.
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  Speaker 4: Oh hrumph, And so we wind up with these government
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  Speaker 4: expenditures of best intentions, you know, just like the revitalization
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  Speaker 4: stuff we talked about yesterday. San Antonio going through it.
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  Speaker 4: San Antonio is one of the most beautiful cities. And
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  Speaker 4: I can say this because they only get the first
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  Speaker 4: hour of the program and some people do download the
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  Speaker 4: other three. So sh don't tell them. I said this,
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  Speaker 4: it's a beautiful city. What does it need more state
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  Speaker 4: money going into its riverwalk for? How does something become
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  Speaker 4: unvital because that's the implication is that, well, this is
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  Speaker 4: an unvitalized area, so we need to spend taxpayer money
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  Speaker 4: to revitalize it. Okay, before we do that, can we
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  Speaker 4: figure out how it became unvitalized so that doesn't happen again? Well,
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  Speaker 4: if it doesn't happen again, what are we going to
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  Speaker 4: spend revitalization money for. We must build bypasses, as Douglas
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  Speaker 4: Adams once wrote, We must build bypasses. We must build
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  Speaker 4: baseball stadiums. We must build new courthouses, and we you know,
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  Speaker 4: and when we build new courthouses. As an abstract, I
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  Speaker 4: don't have a problem with building new courthouses. It's building
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  Speaker 4: a new courthouse and then closing the old one. Build
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  Speaker 4: more courthouses so that, you know, the exploding population in
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  Speaker 4: this country can get justice and stop seeing these courtrooms
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  Speaker 4: as places where we go to get screwed, because that's
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  Speaker 4: a that's as big a problem in America today as anything.
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  Speaker 4: As we we don't see our courtrooms as a place
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  Speaker 4: of justice. So we'll get it all of that and
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  Speaker 4: more for you this hour. But first we must lay
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  Speaker 4: out our first things. This morning, President Trump announced plans
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  Speaker 4: Monday for a new warship. It's a Trump Class destroyer
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  Speaker 4: or battleship, Trump Class battleship, part of a broader initiative
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  Speaker 4: he calls the Golden Fleet, which is designed to defend
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  Speaker 4: the homeland borders. According to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and
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  Speaker 4: Navy Secretary John Fhalen, the administration's shipbuilding and fleet expansion
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  Speaker 4: is central to national security, and the Trump class battleships
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  Speaker 4: will be bigger than the ones previous. He also said
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  Speaker 4: during the announcement of the Trump Class battleship that it
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  Speaker 4: would be smart for Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to step
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  Speaker 4: down as US naval forces continue to press a blockade
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  Speaker 4: on the sneaky oil shipments. The ghost tankers trying to
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  Speaker 4: get out of Venezuela and head to countries embargoed from
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  Speaker 4: dealing with them. However, Russia, one of Venezuela's key allies,
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  Speaker 4: expressed their full support for Maduro's government. A group of
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  Speaker 4: ninety eight Minnesota mayors have sent a letter to Governor
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  Speaker 4: Tim Waltz and the General Assembly saying that they've burned
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  Speaker 4: through eighteen billion dollars in surplus and have led to
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  Speaker 4: a three billion dollar deficit. Do the math. In a
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  Speaker 4: letter to state lawmakers and Governor Waltz, the mayors of
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  Speaker 4: the ninety eight cities expressed concern and frustration, saying the
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  Speaker 4: state has slipped in national economic rankings and moreover, quote
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  Speaker 4: fraud unchecked spending and inconsistent fiscal management in Saint Paul
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  Speaker 4: have trickled down to our cities, reducing our capacity to
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  Speaker 4: plan responsibly, maintain infrastructure, hire and retain employees, and sustain
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  Speaker 4: core services without overburdening our local tax payers. More to
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  Speaker 4: come on that in a moment. The Food and Drug
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  Speaker 4: Oh how close were we? I mean it was bad enough.
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  Speaker 4: I used to think that Tim Caine would have been
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  Speaker 4: a nightmare as vice president, a heart beat away from
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  Speaker 4: the Oval office. But the more we learn about what's
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  Speaker 4: going on in Minnesota, can you imagine a government with
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  Speaker 4: president might be. How you go And I understand, before
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  Speaker 4: the money vanished, even as New York City went bankrupt
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  Speaker 4: and gerald Ford said drop dead, which he didn't actually say,
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  Speaker 4: but it makes or a good headline. Where I grew up,
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  Speaker 4: they tried to blame it on things like building bus enclosures.
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  Speaker 4: the Lindsay administration gave well al, we spend too much
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  Speaker 4: money on the bus enclosures. You mean the bus enclosures
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  Speaker 4: like almost every city in America has now. But when
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  Speaker 4: I go through this, and how in the world a
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  Speaker 4: state like minniap or a state like Minnesota goes from
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  Speaker 4: an eighteen billion dollar surplus to a three billion dollar deficit.
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  Speaker 4: And I just think about all the things that we
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  Speaker 4: have to thank Donald Trump for. Perhaps the most important
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  Speaker 4: of those things is sparing the US government, sparing the
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  Speaker 4: American people. Writ Large of Administration run by Tim Wattz
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  Speaker 4: So ninety eight mayors in Minnesota quote fraud unchecked space fraud.
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  Speaker 4: Fraud leads the list. Why because we're seeing it every
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  Speaker 4: time we turn around. There's more fraud. Hold it, you
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  Speaker 4: remember the fraud we had last week. There's more fraud
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  Speaker 4: coming out. Because what happens is as soon as the
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  Speaker 4: first whistle blows in a government, it's rats from a
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  Speaker 4: sinking ship. Either you blow your whistle now or you
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  Speaker 4: go down with the ship. Better to blow the whistle
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  Speaker 4: now and be seen as one of the people that
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  Speaker 4: called out the Somali corruption. And currently there's a movement
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  Speaker 4: to dox all these people who are talking about the
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  Speaker 4: fraud in the Somali community. Why would they possibly be
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  Speaker 4: talking about doxing these people putting their addresses and faces
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  Speaker 4: on the internet for all to see. Why would that
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  Speaker 4: be an issue? Hmm, I hear you, Joe, Joe, you
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  Speaker 4: say hollering at the radio war weren't you just a
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  Speaker 4: half an hour ago railing about legislative in transparency. Oh sure,
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  Speaker 4: until somebody's life can be at risk for calling out fraud,
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  Speaker 4: then I'm all for protecting the whistleblower. The Minnesota Witness
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  Speaker 4: Protection Program better be in place. But I mean, think
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  Speaker 4: about this. Think about how close it was to Tim
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  Speaker 4: Waltz being the Vice President of the United States, a
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  Speaker 4: man whose state has burned through eighteen billion dollars to
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  Speaker 4: the And I've checked most of these mayors Democrats, fraud,
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  Speaker 4: unchecked spending, inconsistent fiscal management. Now here's where I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to turn on the ninety eight mayors because a lot
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  Speaker 4: of your fiscal issues are in the next list. They
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  Speaker 4: in their letter write down this fraud, the unchecked spending, etc.
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  Speaker 4: Trickle down to our cities, reducing our capacity to plan responsibly.
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  Speaker 4: Why'd you put that first? You know, I'm not predisposed
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  Speaker 4: to take your side. If that's what maintain infrastructure, hire
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  Speaker 4: and return employees, and sustain core services without overburdening local taxpayers. Now,
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  Speaker 4: first off, if I was writing this list, I would
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  Speaker 4: have since it's obviously not alphabetical, I would have put
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  Speaker 4: sustained core services first, because as a conservative, I know
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  Speaker 4: that's what your government's supposed to do, and it's debatable
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  Speaker 4: as to what those core services are. I get that,
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  Speaker 4: I understand that, but overburdening local taxpayers. The letter says,
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  Speaker 4: all right, so your local taxpayers have been given a
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  Speaker 4: pass on paying for oh, your police, your highway maintenance.
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  Speaker 4: Have all these cities been riding high off of Minneapoli? Listen,
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  Speaker 4: Saint Paul, this is more of this bait and switch.
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  Speaker 4: That is other people's money. Hey, this is great. We
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  Speaker 4: can pay our police with other people's money. That way,
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  Speaker 4: we don't have to raise our local taxes. You could
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  Speaker 4: eliminate from their list of things that they can't do
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  Speaker 4: because Governor Waltz has burned through it's the twenty one
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  Speaker 4: billion dollars, so plan responsibly. How about you leave that
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  Speaker 4: to the businesses in your town maintain infrastructure and sustain
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  Speaker 4: core services. Fine, how about we have a nice judicious
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  Speaker 4: list of what those core services are. Hire and retain employees.
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  Speaker 4: How many employees do you need? I think if we
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  Speaker 4: take some of this out of your purview, you don't
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  Speaker 4: need so many employees anymore. And I'll bet your local taxpayer,
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  Speaker 4: since you bring them up, would be pleased to think
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  Speaker 4: of how efficiently you were running your cities. But because
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  Speaker 4: Saint Paul has been burning through their half of the
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  Speaker 4: cash subsidizing you, now you're mad. Now, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: you've had Jesus come to visit. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 4: you're wrong, and I'll take every opportunity to remind people
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  Speaker 4: how close we were to having Tim Waalts as vice president.
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  Speaker 4: But I think these mayors have another problem, which is
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  Speaker 4: how they're planning to run their cities based on all
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  Speaker 4: of the state funding. Are they a Dylan Rule state?
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  Speaker 4: I should check and see if there're a dil rural state.
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  Speaker 4: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't like the way you do that sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: just the implication, you know, show didn't even exist while
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  Speaker 4: just about this time, twenty four hours ago, or a
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  Speaker 4: whole lot of sleep ago. You know, I confess to
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  Speaker 4: an awful lot the same outside of your window. But anyway,
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  Speaker 4: twenty four hours ago, we were talking with Virginia Congressman
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  Speaker 24: So how do we incentivize like that to sell their
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  Speaker 24: homes to these first time buyers. So it used to
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  Speaker 24: age thirty two, and now it's closer to one percent,
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  Speaker 24: Holy cas And so it basically creates a five year
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  Speaker 4: So the point I made earlier in the program playing
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  Speaker 25: No?
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  Speaker 4: retire and sell the program to someone and I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to have to pay capital gains on the program because
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  Speaker 4: I was successful. It's a success tax. You know, they
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  Speaker 4: You were successful, and now we're going to punish you
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you just think about it a second. If
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• 33:06
  Speaker 4: what we're facing in this country is is this idea
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  Speaker 4: that being successful is not fair and this is the
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  Speaker 4: fruit of the great society. And you can have a
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  Speaker 4: big company. This isn't just a rebuke of Walmart or
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  Speaker 4: some places like that. You can be successful and have
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  Speaker 4: in my world, and each time she's gotten in there,
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  Speaker 4: somebody has come up, Hey, we're trying to unionize this place.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to unionize this place, and let's draw. Let's
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  Speaker 4: draw upon what happened in Starbucks versus what happened in Walmart.
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  Speaker 4: Starbucks must be a pretty crappy company, says a guy
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  Speaker 4: who's sponsored by another small independent coffee maker, who, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, just drove a Starbucks shop out of business
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  Speaker 4: down the street from him. Because every time I turn around,
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  Speaker 4: there's another Starbucks unionizing. Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania, just over the weekend
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  Speaker 4: voted to unionize the Starbucks. If you're counting on getting
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: a union to end us a while, then that's going
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  Speaker 4: to teach them a lesson about success. The lesson would
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: have been, perhaps treat your employees better so they didn't
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  Speaker 4: all want to run to a union to feel like
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: that's the only way they can get a redress of
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  Speaker 4: their grievances and or hire some of the people who
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  Speaker 4: run Walmart. Because every time I turn around again the
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  Speaker 4: other direction, somebody is trying to unionize a Walmart store
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  Speaker 4: and their employees say, nah, we're good here, we're good.
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  Speaker 4: So how is that? How is Walmart able to avoid
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  Speaker 4: the union spasm that can consumes because they understand that
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  Speaker 4: success is good but success is something that should be
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  Speaker 4: shared by everyone in your company, not because the government
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  Speaker 4: mandates it or subsidizes it or gives you a tax
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  Speaker 4: break for it. And that's what the capital gains tax is.
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  Speaker 4: It's a success tax. If your company is successful, then
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: it needs to make that much more money in order
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: to share that with it. Hopefully it's employees, but certainly
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  Speaker 4: it's shareholders. This tax comes into four to three four
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  Speaker 4: eight eight two four two one seven. I had to
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: cash in a four to oh one K to pay
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  Speaker 4: a move bonus three thousand dollars and ten thousand on
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  Speaker 4: higher bonus. Now I have to pay taxes on that
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  Speaker 4: twelve percent. So you had to cash in a four
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  Speaker 4: oh one K to pay a move bonus, you had
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  Speaker 4: to pay the move bonus. I don't I don't understand
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  Speaker 4: the the the the point. But if you had to
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  Speaker 4: if you had to cash out a four oh one K, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I can see how they're going to come after you
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  Speaker 4: for your capital gains. Again, it's your it's not even
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  Speaker 4: success in this case. But just to make the point,
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  Speaker 4: it's a success tax. It's a tax on doing the
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  Speaker 4: right thing, which is silly to me. We should be
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: incentivizing doing the right thing, which is being diligent and
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  Speaker 4: creating good companies and avoiding the union spasms and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. Good morning, you're on the air with Joe.
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• 37:33
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• 37:40
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• 37:45
  Speaker 7: you know, as far as like for a two year
• 37:46
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 4: so much to get into so many, so few waiting
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  Speaker 7: What I don't understand is right, Okay, I was already
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  Speaker 7: and I heard, well if you're fifty nine. But I
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  Speaker 7: don't know all that stuff, and that's why I guess
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  Speaker 7: all the CPAs make big money and I don't. But
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  Speaker 7: I've been told I may even have pay ten percent
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  Speaker 7: or twelve percent, which is almost twenty two hundred dollars,
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  Speaker 7: and so far I don't have an income to me
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  Speaker 7: this morning is.
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  Speaker 4: Before I talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: I've been on unemployment with Florida, which is another issue,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm trying my best to get a job. I
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: just don't feel like a normal human being anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I hear you, my friend, but this is this is
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  Speaker 4: what I mean about me. I don't feel like it's Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: It is. And understand that the suffering that went you know,
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  Speaker 4: the kid that was born on Christmas Day went through
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  Speaker 4: a lot worse than you and I have ever gone through,
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  Speaker 4: and and he did so for us. So hang in there,
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  Speaker 4: my friend, all right, You know, you got to understand that.
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  Speaker 4: I know, it's it's what the world does. It's what
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  Speaker 4: the world does. He gotta hang in there because they're
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  Speaker 4: you know, the the deceiver is in your house and
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to turn you against you know, all the
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  Speaker 4: things that are good in this world. Don't let him,
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  Speaker 4: all right, hang in there, but I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but this is this speaks to what I mean. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is real world stuff regarding the taxation culture. Was
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  Speaker 4: was Joel successful? No, he just happened to have a
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  Speaker 4: bonus and a jug that, as you said, you were
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: taxed on when you first got it, and then when
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: you had to cash it out you had to pay
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  Speaker 4: taxes on it again. Whatever happened to, you know, double taxation.
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  Speaker 4: I think we fought a battle over that a couple
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  Speaker 4: hundred years ago. Hang in there, my friend, it is no,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: don't be sorry, it is Christmas. Hang in there. You will,
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  Speaker 4: you will, you know, come out of this better than
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: you've ever been before. Uh And and I truly believe
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  Speaker 4: that for all of us, if we stay true and
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: stay faithful. All right, thank you. You know that's when
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  Speaker 4: people act, you know, and you know I know that.
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  Speaker 4: I get text messages from a loyal listener who tells
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: me when I need to take my blood pressure medication.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: But I get angry. I do get angry when I
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: see normal people like you suffering under this stuff when
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: you know, the subsidization nation drives you out of work,
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: or the politically correct snowflake culture pushes somebody out of work.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Because now businesses have to take into effect the impact
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  Speaker 4: of their employees on the snowflake class. It's offensive to
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  Speaker 4: me that we've allowed it to happen. And so if
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  Speaker 4: I do get angry or I sound like I've gotten
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  Speaker 4: angry over something, it's because these things aren't oh JP
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  Speaker 4: Morgan Chase, Oh it's JP Diamond or any of these people.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: It's people like you and me that can ill afford this.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: This is what they call regressive taxation. So you want
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: more of something, tax it less, you want more success,
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: tax it less. Mister President, get rid of this wall.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Mister President, tear down these capital gains taxes. All right,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Maybe not quite the same impact as mister garbageev tear
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  Speaker 4: down this wall, but the effect is similar. Tell me
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  Speaker 4: it isn't. Tell me the Marxism that's driven by this
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  Speaker 4: this world that says that we all have to contribute
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  Speaker 4: for other people, and we should, we should help out
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  Speaker 4: our brothers. But to take it and then distribute it
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  Speaker 4: to those we You know that the government sees fed
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  Speaker 4: and then if we have the temerity to ask about it,
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  Speaker 4: money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Oh silly. So
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I want to pivot back to the idea of free
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  Speaker 4: speech and this FCC commissioner that's making it out and
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: I know what he's doing. He's not saying he's going
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: to go after radio, but he's trying to make the
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: case they he should have the same authority he imagines
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  Speaker 4: that he has over radio broadcasts, over podcasts and cable
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: channels and things like that. And because they don't use
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  Speaker 4: spectrum per se. He's struggling with this because the premises
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  Speaker 4: of the Federal Communications Commission is it's broadcasted over the air,
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  Speaker 4: and if it's not, then they don't have the ability
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  Speaker 4: to regulate it. Here's Mike Huckabee speaking yesterday in Israel.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Listen to what he says about young people and the
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: information they get and add this to what I just
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: said about Brendan Carr and see if you don't hear
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: some frightening or well Yon stuff.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's a difference between domin ignorant. Dom is
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: that a person cannot process information they just don't have
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: the capacity. Ignorance is that the data isn't there. What
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: we're dealing with is not an operating system problem, it's
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: a data problem. We have not downloaded the proper data,
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  Speaker 5: the correct and we've assumed that they're going to grow
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  Speaker 5: up intellectually curious and intellectually honest.
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  Speaker 4: So, Mike, here's a quick question. And Sarah may have
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  Speaker 4: grown up that way, and that's great and good for
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  Speaker 4: the people of Arkansas. But if you're a parent of
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  Speaker 4: a child, assuming they're going to grow up that way,
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: you're already behind two or three balls, not just not
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: just one eight ball, because you are the ones. You,
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: the parent, are the ones who have to teach that
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  Speaker 4: intellectual curiosity that you insistence that just because I said
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  Speaker 4: so is not a sufficient answer to why you have
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: to keep you we as parents, you as parents, have
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: to teach that to your kids. So when the FCC
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: says we need to you know, you know, be aware
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  Speaker 4: of the responsibility our licenses give you. Excuse me, your
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: license to the FCC is just a deed to this
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  Speaker 4: piece of spectrum that I'm allowed to broadcast over. It
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  Speaker 4: gives you no regulation any more than the typical licensure
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  Speaker 4: gives everyone The regulation over us and that's what we
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: need to get back, is this idea that we need
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: a license, a license versus a permit. It's a different thing,
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: and maybe we need to rename these FCC licenses. Anyway,
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: it's time for us to roll until tomorrow unless the
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  Speaker 4: FCC comes after me. I'm Joe, so long and thanks
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  Speaker 4: for all. Hi.
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