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"Mob Mentality" (Wednesday, January 14, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 2: organizers as well. But whatever it is you're good at doing,
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Speaker 2: and that's the shame of it. But if we get
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Speaker 2: our ted's the on and we grasp who we are
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Speaker 2: and if and if you don't. This is one of
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Speaker 2: my points. Every day is New Year's Day. That's why
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Speaker 2: our program fourteen days ago was so difficult because it
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Speaker 2: was actually New Year's Day and people were, oh, it's
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Speaker 2: New Years Day, but you know what January fourteenth is
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Speaker 2: New Year's Day as well. Started off by figuring out
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Speaker 2: what it is you have been gifted to do. And
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Speaker 2: here's my suggestion to do it. Get no more than
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Speaker 2: five people involved in this, people you really care about
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Speaker 2: and trust and whose opinions whether it be on what
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Speaker 2: shirt to wear, or what car to drive, or where
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Speaker 2: who are that good, that tight with you, get them
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Speaker 2: all into a room and let them tell you what
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Speaker 2: you're good at. Listen, and you have to listen. That's
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Speaker 2: the bigger things. You got to listen. Our first things
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Speaker 2: This morning, Iran is on fire as the streets are
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Speaker 2: filled with protesters. The Iranian government has announced public hangings
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Speaker 2: are going to begin soon with folks who had been
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Speaker 2: arrested for protesting. President Trump is calling on the Iranian
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Speaker 2: government to refrain from killing protesters, but he said quote
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Speaker 2: to all Iranian patriots, keep protesting. German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz,
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Speaker 2: speaking at a leadership conference yesterday, said, I assume that
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Speaker 2: we are witnessing the final days and weeks of this regime.
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Speaker 2: The head of Iran's judiciary signaled that there would be
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Speaker 2: speedy trials and execute for anyone they feel was trying
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Speaker 2: to bring down the Iranian government. Gola Mosine Mojenijai said
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Speaker 2: that a blood security a bloody security force crackdown has
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Speaker 2: already killed two thousand, five hundred and seventy one. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: Steve Whitkoff has been meeting with Rezepelavi. Reza Pelavi is
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Speaker 2: the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, who was
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Speaker 2: sent packing in the nineteen seventy nine Iranian Revolution. Multiple
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Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: On this Tednesday morning, we were talking about the issue.
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Speaker 2: Now there's a story how the narrative as we get
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Speaker 2: into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America is that, oh,
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Speaker 2: Jefferson didn't really write the Declaration of Independence. He was
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Speaker 2: he copied it from this other guy, George with and
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Speaker 2: and with apologies to some of the folks who says
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Speaker 2: with it is not white. Uh there, Andy, I mean
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Speaker 2: have you heard that story.
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Speaker 16: Well, you know, the the upper echelon of you know,
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Speaker 16: intellectuals were like George with I mean, I grew up
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Speaker 16: in Williamsburg men giving Patrick Patrick Henry's speech, but I
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Speaker 16: also was walking in a little side streets, you know,
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Speaker 16: past George with us with house.
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Speaker 17: Thomas Jefferson did go to government.
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Speaker 2: School, yeah, William William and Mary.
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Speaker 17: But you know Patrick Henry, he was actually self taught, right,
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Speaker 17: and you know, Jefferson used after you know, Patrick Henry died,
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Speaker 17: Jefferson spent a lot of his energy trying to disparage
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Speaker 17: the guy because he thought that, you know, that Patrick
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Speaker 17: Henry was the source of uh you know, him being
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Speaker 17: uh testhizing, wanting to have you know, Thomas Jefferson put
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Speaker 17: on trial for treason for abandon his post when he
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Speaker 17: was in the fourth governorship. I guess it was during
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Speaker 17: that period when Patrick Henry did the first three.
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Speaker 2: And you know, and this the battle between Patrick Henry
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Speaker 2: and and and and his people and Jefferson and Madison
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Speaker 2: is such a seminal battle in the foundation of America.
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Speaker 2: It's the friction that made America work because it was
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Speaker 2: and really the forgotten founder in all this is James Monroe,
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Speaker 2: who was the guy in both camps. So he moved
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Speaker 2: to Charlottesville to be closer to Jefferson and Madison, but
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Speaker 2: then winds up being good friends and part of the
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Speaker 2: same camp along with Patrick Henry and George Mason when
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Speaker 2: it came to the Declaration of Independence, but moreover the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: And he's the one that really and there's a book
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Speaker 2: about it. It's called Founding Rivals. It's about the relationship
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Speaker 2: between Madison and Monroe. It really was the art of
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Speaker 2: the deal guy when it came to getting the Bill
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Speaker 2: of Rights written, when it came to you know, all
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Speaker 2: of that, it was it was really him that did
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Speaker 2: it all. You know, couldn't agree with you more.
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Speaker 17: My first residence was going to be the little outbuilding
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Speaker 17: there at James Monrose House.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, if you ever get here, and
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Speaker 2: James Monroe's presidential home, the controversy now is it may
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Speaker 2: not actually be his home. They discovered a foundation of
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Speaker 2: a building much larger than the one that they had
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Speaker 2: always just assumed was Mondro's home, unearthed it and said, huh,
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Speaker 2: there may have been a fire. And so certainly Monticello
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Speaker 2: and Montpelier are there, and go if you go to Montpelier.
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Speaker 2: The I don't know if they still do it or not.
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Speaker 2: The last room was Madison's study, where he sat and
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Speaker 2: rode out his idea for the Constitution of the United States.
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Speaker 2: And you can look out on the Blue Ridge Mountains
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Speaker 2: and it's beautiful and you just you can almost convene
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Speaker 2: that idea. President Trump was getting his very fine people
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Speaker 2: on yesterday when asked on CBS News about the protest
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Speaker 2: or Renee Good.
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Speaker 12: About the situation in Minnesota, the death of Renee Nicole Good.
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Speaker 12: I've been speaking to her father, who is a big
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Speaker 12: supporter of.
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Speaker 18: Yours, Good, like how many Americans are.
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Speaker 4: But he's heartbroken right now.
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Speaker 12: You can understand that he's heartbroken because his daughter, his dad.
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Speaker 12: That's obviously he's also heartbroken because your administration so quickly
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Speaker 12: has come out and said she's a domestic terrorist. What
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Speaker 12: do you want to say to her father right now?
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Speaker 19: Well, I want to say to the father that I
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Speaker 19: love all of our people.
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Speaker 2: They can be on the other side.
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Speaker 19: As you say, he might be on my side, he
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Speaker 19: is on your side.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's great, and I do. I think
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Speaker 3: it's great.
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Speaker 19: And I would bet you that she, under normal circumstances,
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Speaker 19: was a very solid, wonderful person, but in her actions
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Speaker 19: were pretty tough. I mean, I've seen it many ways
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Speaker 19: and many different shapes and forms, but the bottom line is, Look,
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Speaker 19: we have hundreds.
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Speaker 2: Of thousands of murderers.
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Speaker 19: In our countries killers ICE is trying to get them out.
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Speaker 19: They were let in through an open border policy of
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Speaker 19: sleepy Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: So this text message on that statement comes in Joe,
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Speaker 2: the radicals are like drug addicts under the influence of communism.
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Speaker 2: They do things that they wouldn't normally do thinking straight,
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Speaker 2: and part of that is the anonymity of the mob.
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Speaker 2: So we talked about the very fine people and the
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Speaker 2: riots here that I experienced, and in it I mentioned
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Speaker 2: how I knew that there were fine people in amongst
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Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter, one of them I nearly had a
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Speaker 2: devastating fistfight with because he bumped into me in his
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Speaker 2: chase of the half a dozen or so remaining Ohio Nazis.
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Speaker 2: To all of my listeners had cleared out the park
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Speaker 2: after realizing that this wasn't what they signed up for.
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Speaker 2: God bless them for it. But anyway, Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 2: members were chasing David Duke and Dicky Spencer and all
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Speaker 2: these people down the streets of Charlottesville and a kid
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Speaker 2: bumped into me. I mean, I'm there photo journalizing this event,
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Speaker 2: trying to put it on our radio station, and the
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Speaker 2: kid turns around and just starts yelling in my face,
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Speaker 2: you beeping racist, you beep beep beep racist. And I'm like, dude,
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Speaker 2: I was just standing in the street. I have no
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Speaker 2: beef with you, and he just wouldn't like O of it,
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Speaker 2: and he was all hyped up. And there's actually a picture.
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Speaker 2: Photo journalists for the Roanoke Times took a photograph of
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Speaker 2: it and was on the front page of the next
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Speaker 2: day's newspaper of this kid right on my face with
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Speaker 2: the finger coming down and we look like, you know,
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Speaker 2: a base ball manager and an umpire yelling at each other,
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Speaker 2: and right before it came to blows. Hawk Newsome, who
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Speaker 2: you know. He became very famous during the period of time,
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Speaker 2: and he's kind of wavered back and forth. How much
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Speaker 2: of the Black Lives ideology. He's sopped up and there
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Speaker 2: are moments he's not. But he came to my rescue.
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Speaker 2: He knew me. We had done radio together. We had
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Speaker 2: done a bunch of segments of my show. He came
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Speaker 2: and said, no, man, he's cool. Point of the story
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Speaker 2: is the kid later on, after the mob had dissipated,
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Speaker 2: came up to me. He wasn't this screaming mimi. After all,
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Speaker 2: he was a sweet, soft spoken kid who was going
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Speaker 2: to Columbia University, an Ivy League school for engineering. I'm sorry, sir,
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Speaker 2: I didn't. I don't really. It's like you're saying, it's
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, I think we've played this on the internet,
27:35
Speaker 2: and we have a lot of available to us on
27:37
Speaker 2: a Tedsday, enjoying us, and we were running down the
27:42
Speaker 2: pantheon of all the part time Everyone's wallet should be
27:46
Speaker 2: in their hands because all these part time legislatures have
27:51
Speaker 2: either convened back in our friends in Alabama listening up
27:55
Speaker 2: in Alaska it's not till next week. But Kentucky he
28:00
Speaker 2: was last week. They gabbled in Massachusetts, all these places,
28:04
Speaker 2: bless them. You know, almost half the country has part
28:08
Speaker 2: time legislatures representing them. Yet still yet, still, it comes
28:14
Speaker 2: down to some some tight moments. And here in the
28:18
Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Virginia, Uh, they're gabbling in their session today
28:24
Speaker 2: to start debating all sorts of things. Same same to
28:27
Speaker 2: our neighbors in Best Virginia, where they're trying to enact
28:32
Speaker 2: the vexit program. They've passed or have proposed legislation to
28:38
Speaker 2: allow all the bordering counties of Virginia to secede and
28:43
Speaker 2: join West Virginia. I'm like, well, that's that's interesting. You know,
28:48
Speaker 2: I know we went through this back in like the
28:50
Speaker 2: days of COVID, but I don't know where it will
28:53
Speaker 2: go from there, joining us from the Virginia government part
28:57
Speaker 2: time as they are uh. And and as I said,
29:00
Speaker 2: all these folks have other jobs besides being elected officials,
29:04
Speaker 2: which is refreshing. Is Chris Runyon, who represents our flagship
29:08
Speaker 2: city and Stanton in the Augusta County area in western Virginia.
29:13
Speaker 2: How are you, Chris, I'm.
29:16
Speaker 18: Great, Joe, I am great, and I really appreciate your
29:18
Speaker 18: comments there, and I appreciate you reaching out to us.
29:22
Speaker 18: You know, it is part time legislature, and I think
29:24
Speaker 18: that's one of the things that we want to jealously
29:27
Speaker 18: protect because for a number of reasons. One is that
29:32
Speaker 18: legislators that go back home are engaged with their constituents,
29:37
Speaker 18: and our citizens have an opportunity to place their opinions,
29:41
Speaker 18: and that's how it needs to work. It is so
29:44
Speaker 18: easy to isolate, for government to isolate itself away from
29:47
Speaker 18: real people, and then you get bad decisions made, suboptimal policy,
29:52
Speaker 18: and it's not what our country was founded on. No,
29:56
Speaker 18: you know, we're I'm blessed to represent county along with
30:01
Speaker 18: portions of Rockingham and Howland in Bath. But you know,
30:04
Speaker 18: one of the interesting things about Augusta County they have
30:06
Speaker 18: been instrumental in the formation of this country. Their militia,
30:10
Speaker 18: which is now the twenty ninth Infant Division based there
30:13
Speaker 18: in a museum there in Verona. But their militia marched
30:18
Speaker 18: from Augusta County to Williamsburg and chased rural Governor Dunmore
30:22
Speaker 18: his sorry tail off the coast into a ship. And
30:26
Speaker 18: that was really the beginnings of democracy in the world.
30:34
Speaker 18: And you know, I am so grateful for those folks
30:36
Speaker 18: that made that kind of decision to represent that.
30:40
Speaker 2: It reminds us of our DNA of you know, see something,
30:45
Speaker 2: do something when when ills are what ad Jefferson right,
30:49
Speaker 2: when ills, when when pain is sufferable, we ignore it.
30:56
Speaker 2: But you know, when you realize all the usurpations that
30:58
Speaker 2: have been happening, you have to stand up. And Madison
31:02
Speaker 2: gave us that toolkit to do it every couple of
31:05
Speaker 2: years without having to go on a heavy march with
31:09
Speaker 2: firearms in our hands. Thank God for that. So let
31:14
Speaker 2: me let me ask you about this vexit. It came back.
31:19
Speaker 2: You know, I think I'm not sure if you were
31:21
Speaker 2: in the General Assembly back in COVID, or maybe you
31:23
Speaker 2: had just joined US.
31:26
Speaker 18: I came in a year before COVID hit, and so
31:30
Speaker 18: my second year was one of those irrational not good
31:34
Speaker 18: for democracy, not good for the republic. Met virtually, Yeah,
31:39
Speaker 18: people didn't have a voice. You just did not have
31:43
Speaker 18: a voice, and we learned lessons.
31:46
Speaker 2: And so they've reached out again. West Virginia has reached
31:50
Speaker 2: out and said, listen, if any of you border counties
31:53
Speaker 2: want to switch site, any discussion of that in the
31:58
Speaker 2: General Assembly after the way the last November's election went.
32:04
Speaker 18: There's not Yeah, I mean today's our first session, and
32:06
Speaker 18: so there's not been conversation. I have had a lot
32:08
Speaker 18: of conversation with constituents, and you know that that when
32:13
Speaker 18: that first broke and the West Virginia folks preached out
32:15
Speaker 18: to us, We've had conversations. Now. You know, as a
32:20
Speaker 18: as a little student of history, I'm not an expert
32:23
Speaker 18: as many folks are out there, but what I do
32:25
Speaker 18: remember was that West Virginia was rested from Virginia, not
32:30
Speaker 18: according to what the constitution says. How it was to
32:32
Speaker 18: work right, And so you could perhaps argue that West Virginia,
32:37
Speaker 18: what we should do is combine West Virginia with Virginia,
32:40
Speaker 18: and in my spirit of our partisanship, we would get
32:43
Speaker 18: four senators that would give us two nice, good conservative
32:49
Speaker 18: Republicans to balance what we currently are represented with. Let
32:53
Speaker 18: us that's right, and so maybe that's the better solution.
32:56
Speaker 18: And then let's do an addition to that. Let's make
33:00
Speaker 18: the District of Columbia as it was originally intended, a
33:04
Speaker 18: square and create that whole yeah square on its end,
33:08
Speaker 18: and that may balance out the maybe some of the
33:13
Speaker 18: more irrational politics that without and that's gotten away from.
33:18
Speaker 18: We've got a group of folks that are impassioned. It's
33:23
Speaker 18: almost a religious fever for them on this liberalism. And
33:28
Speaker 18: let's call it what it is, you know, it's progressiveness
33:31
Speaker 18: to the nth degree. The New York mayor is a
33:35
Speaker 18: great example of what the direction those folks are moving
33:40
Speaker 18: this country in. And I wish I could say they
33:43
Speaker 18: didn't really believe in it, but it appears that they
33:45
Speaker 18: do well.
33:46
Speaker 2: But when you look at these marches. We were just
33:48
Speaker 2: talking about the president's comments about the young lady who
33:51
Speaker 2: lost her life in Minneapolis tragically, but just like the
33:55
Speaker 2: one who lost their life tragically here in Charlottesville in
33:58
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, these are folks who believe that the protest
34:03
Speaker 2: is the thing, and rather than intellectually stopping and saying, okay,
34:07
Speaker 2: what are the ills? Is there something specific legislatively that
34:12
Speaker 2: is causing whatever the issue is, and let's go change that.
34:17
Speaker 2: They just want to say, we want to be able
34:19
Speaker 2: to ignore the laws that the legislature has passed in
34:24
Speaker 2: our state. And that's a dangerous place because that really
34:27
Speaker 2: leads to anarchy, which is going to lead to greater
34:31
Speaker 2: tyranny than they can even imagine us being under.
34:35
Speaker 18: Absolutely, absolutely, it is more than concerning to me. I
34:40
Speaker 18: mean it is I think a fundamental risk to our democracy,
34:46
Speaker 18: our society, our form of government when you've got what
34:50
Speaker 18: essentially is the loudest mob rule and it's not the largest,
34:54
Speaker 18: it's just.
34:55
Speaker 2: The loudest, Yeah, without question.
34:58
Speaker 18: Yeah, And we have an folks, you know, we have
35:03
Speaker 18: over the last generation or so, we have discouraged folks
35:07
Speaker 18: to celebrate work, to celebrate personal accountability, to be responsible
35:12
Speaker 18: for themselves and their families and then their community. And
35:17
Speaker 18: we've created this this mindset that, oh, it's not my fault.
35:21
Speaker 18: You know, I don't need to do this. I don't
35:23
Speaker 18: need to get up at five am and get to work.
35:25
Speaker 18: I don't need to take care of my kids making
35:27
Speaker 18: sure they did their homework. Sure it is someone AT's responsibility.
35:31
Speaker 18: And I tell you what, our country was never founded
35:34
Speaker 18: with that mentality, and until just recently, our commonwealth never
35:41
Speaker 18: accepted that mentality. And fortunately I'm sorry, go ahead, well, no, you.
35:45
Speaker 2: Go back, you know, four hundred plus years to the
35:47
Speaker 2: first time Virginia's General Assembly convened in Jamestown. And it's
35:53
Speaker 2: a small community, very close together, and you can't just,
35:58
Speaker 2: you know, you turn your back on your neighbors. You
36:01
Speaker 2: need your neighbors to hear you and to be heard.
36:03
Speaker 2: And it really was the birthplace of the government that
36:07
Speaker 2: governs the least, governs the best. And I'm looking at
36:14
Speaker 2: obviously the eight hundred pound gorilla in Virginia's General Assembly hall.
36:20
Speaker 2: Is this redistricting constitutional amendment, And I believe me it
36:24
Speaker 2: covers the ground for a marriage amendment, but also an
36:29
Speaker 2: abortion amendment that are just horrific, especially the abortion amendment.
36:34
Speaker 2: It's just a horrific idea. And it's not what people
36:37
Speaker 2: think when pollsters say, are you in favor of abortion?
36:40
Speaker 2: And they say, oh, eighty five percent of Virginia to
36:43
Speaker 2: say they're in favor of abortion, Well, not what's in
36:46
Speaker 2: the bill. If you show them what's in the bill,
36:49
Speaker 2: it turns around and it becomes like twenty five percent
36:52
Speaker 2: are in favor. Chris Runyon is on with us from
36:56
Speaker 2: that four hundred plus year old legislative body, Virginia General Assembly. So, Chris,
37:03
Speaker 2: what is the scenario for the redistricting amendment. Is it
37:08
Speaker 2: going to be fast tracked, well, we have this done
37:12
Speaker 2: before the week's out, or are they going to kind
37:14
Speaker 2: of sit on it, because I feel like the longer
37:17
Speaker 2: they wait, the harder it's going to be to pull off.
37:20
Speaker 18: Right. Yeah, and we've had conversations about that, and obviously
37:24
Speaker 18: they're deciding what their strategy is. They're in the almost
37:27
Speaker 18: a super majority, and so they can push forward. I
37:30
Speaker 18: think what we're going to see is today we convene
37:34
Speaker 18: and we'll come in and you'll see actions that will
37:37
Speaker 18: start that process. And if they follow the rules, it
37:40
Speaker 18: has to go through the committee process and then there's
37:43
Speaker 18: certain number of days that things have to be in
37:45
Speaker 18: front of the body. But I am anticipating by the
37:49
Speaker 18: end of next week it will be a finalized vote
37:54
Speaker 18: and that so all the Democrats will vote for it,
37:56
Speaker 18: and I feel that all the Republicans will vote against it,
38:00
Speaker 18: excuse me, and then that process will move forward and
38:04
Speaker 18: then they have to figure out when they're going to
38:06
Speaker 18: put it on the ballot. Do they wait and put
38:08
Speaker 18: it on the next November's ballot, which they really can't
38:11
Speaker 18: if they want to do the congressional if they want
38:14
Speaker 18: to seize all this power on congressional districts. You know,
38:17
Speaker 18: comment on that that is going to disenfranchise, in my opinion,
38:22
Speaker 18: about eighty percent of the population of Virginia because regardless
38:26
Speaker 18: of whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or an independent
38:29
Speaker 18: and undecided voter, when you have the Commonwealth stack ten
38:34
Speaker 18: to to eleven to one, I haven't heard this yet,
38:38
Speaker 18: but you know, you can envision a way that they
38:40
Speaker 18: would just wipe out every Republican congressional district as possible.
38:46
Speaker 18: They wish to do that, if they could do it,
38:48
Speaker 18: if the math works out. But think of the number
38:50
Speaker 18: of people that will no longer have a voice. No
38:56
Speaker 18: folks on the you know that are moderate Democrats. They'll
39:01
Speaker 18: be marginalized, pushed to the edge by these super progressives.
39:07
Speaker 18: And I'm disappointed as well in that. You know, one
39:10
Speaker 18: of the things the United States have really done well
39:13
Speaker 18: is we're a rule of law. You know, our people
39:16
Speaker 18: run the system and our people have said, we're going
39:20
Speaker 18: to establish these rules, and we're going to follow these rules.
39:24
Speaker 18: Now you know, we've got ability peaceful protest, and I
39:27
Speaker 18: am all about that. You should always have an opportunity
39:31
Speaker 18: to avoid your opinion, right, that is a fundamental right.
39:34
Speaker 18: And but when you take the will of the people,
39:38
Speaker 18: what did the constitutional men two years ago pass by,
39:42
Speaker 18: wasn't it two thirds sixty six? Yeah? And in this
39:51
Speaker 18: short period of time to thumb your nose at the
39:54
Speaker 18: will of the populace, And that number shows that it
39:58
Speaker 18: was a bipartisan It was not a forty nine fifty
40:03
Speaker 18: one vote. And so you know, in the short run
40:07
Speaker 18: they can seize this power, and it is more than
40:13
Speaker 18: disappointing that they're willing to do that. In the long run,
40:17
Speaker 18: it does not vote well for the Commonwealth. But I
40:19
Speaker 18: also think it also people I call the normal folks
40:23
Speaker 18: will wake up and say, I can't support those kind
40:27
Speaker 18: of policies. I'm going to vote for folks that are
40:30
Speaker 18: for conservative government, minimal government, personal accountability, and give me
40:35
Speaker 18: the opportunity to achieve the things that are important to me,
40:40
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40:44
Speaker 18: tells me is important to be and that's that's the
40:48
Speaker 18: watershed event right now. That is what's going on. And
40:54
Speaker 18: I am happy to talk with any constituents that has
40:57
Speaker 18: questions or concerns about any of the constitutional amendments. But
41:01
Speaker 18: you know, and within the next ten days, I think
41:03
Speaker 18: it will be more clear of what the Democrats plan is,
41:06
Speaker 18: how they are moved forward. And then you know, a
41:08
Speaker 18: number of us involved in conservative the conservative world have
41:12
Speaker 18: set down and said, well, you know, these are the
41:14
Speaker 18: things that we believe need to be doing. I am
41:17
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41:20
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41:24
Speaker 18: but my faith based communities are asking questions and saying,
41:28
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41:33
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41:39
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43:09
Speaker 2: going just as we head into the home stretch. Chris Runyon,
43:21
Speaker 2: one of the representatives in the Virginia's oldest legislative America's
43:27
Speaker 2: oldest democratically elected legislative body, the Virginia House of Delegates. Now, Chris,
43:34
Speaker 2: you're facing an uphill battle because you are, as you mentioned,
43:38
Speaker 2: in a super minority. Now fourteen very closely held seats
43:43
Speaker 2: with very low voter turnout last year wound up leaving
43:47
Speaker 2: the Virginia Republicans fourteen seats in arrears. Yet when I've
43:53
Speaker 2: watched the Democratic Party in arrears to that level, they
43:59
Speaker 2: managed to use parliamentary procedure and find those tools that
44:04
Speaker 2: are there to make sure the voice of the minority
44:06
Speaker 2: has always heard. Yeah, it just year after year. It
44:10
Speaker 2: frustrates me and maybe you as well, that it doesn't
44:13
Speaker 2: seem like the Republican Party leadership shows the same interest
44:17
Speaker 2: in using all of those tools to make sure the
44:22
Speaker 2: voice of the minority has heard. Have there been discussions
44:26
Speaker 2: about that amongst the Republicans in the Virginia House, about
44:30
Speaker 2: trying to just find a way to make sure the
44:32
Speaker 2: minority is heard.
44:34
Speaker 18: Absolutely, Absolutely, We've got a plan, We're executing that plan.
44:39
Speaker 18: We've identified our bills that we want to make sure
44:42
Speaker 18: and we use people like you, Joe. We appreciate your access,
44:46
Speaker 18: the ability for us to talk with you and communicate
44:49
Speaker 18: this out to our citizens. And so those things are
44:54
Speaker 18: in place. We're identifying as the Democrats drop their bills,
44:58
Speaker 18: and you know, you look at whether it be uh
45:02
Speaker 18: anti Second Amendment bills, whether it be anti life bills.
45:07
Speaker 18: Uh there's there's going to be an assisted suicide bill
45:10
Speaker 18: that comes out, and I just find that repugnant. And
45:13
Speaker 18: uh so we continue to work. I work with various
45:17
Speaker 18: other conservative groups. I'm chairman of the Conservative Caucus, which
45:20
Speaker 18: is a conglomeration of both legislators and advocacy groups that
45:25
Speaker 18: really fight for the conservative voice. And we had our
45:29
Speaker 18: first meeting here in Richmond yesterday and you know, we've
45:33
Speaker 18: continue to execute our plan. Uh These plans continue year round,
45:38
Speaker 18: and you modified based on what legislations presented. But you know,
45:42
Speaker 18: we've got our list of stuff and rest assured we
45:44
Speaker 18: will be speaking both on the floor but also to
45:47
Speaker 18: our media sources and to our community. And you know,
45:51
Speaker 18: what I am really proud of is that my fellow
45:54
Speaker 18: Republican legislators are like me, that we get out among
45:59
Speaker 18: our neighbors and our friends and again what I call
46:02
Speaker 18: normal people, people that want to be government to work
46:06
Speaker 18: effectively and do the job. It's supposed to do and
46:09
Speaker 18: not do any more than that, and create those opportunities
46:14
Speaker 18: for them to achieve those things. And so when we're
46:17
Speaker 18: out there and about we have these conversations, I've been
46:20
Speaker 18: really pleased. I'm carrying some legislation that was citizen initiated.
46:25
Speaker 18: Two of these, in particular, deal with AI and chatbots
46:29
Speaker 18: to protect children from it. And then the other is
46:32
Speaker 18: to protect minors relating to how app store purchases get
46:37
Speaker 18: done and create some guard rails so that our children
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Speaker 18: can be lives can be protected from those that wish
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Speaker 18: to really take away the parents' rights to decide how
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Speaker 18: to raise their children and what influences the outside world
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Speaker 18: have on our children. What I think those things are
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Speaker 18: really critical to do. So it can be interesting to
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Speaker 18: see how that conversation comes about and you see what
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Speaker 18: the folks on the other side are looking at well.
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Speaker 2: And given the last November, all across the country, all
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Speaker 2: these races you mentioned New York City's mayor as well,
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Speaker 2: the races were one or lost on affordability issues. The
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Speaker 2: Republicans that survived seemed to be able to roll up
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Speaker 2: their sleeves and have discussions about affordability and where we
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Speaker 2: are in the world of you know, our groceries and
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Speaker 2: those kind of things. You represent a lot of farm country.
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Speaker 2: You your constituents know what happened to the price of
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Speaker 2: fertilizer in the previous president's administration, but that hasn't that
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Speaker 2: hasn't manifested back onto the marketplace shelf. Yet as that
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Speaker 2: comes down, Chris, is is it important to have legislation
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Speaker 2: that that points towards not subsidizing as as many of
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Speaker 2: the incoming governor's plans seem to do, whether it be
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Speaker 2: a supply side subsidy or a direct subsidy, but to
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Speaker 2: actually help lift off the things that are driving up
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Speaker 2: the cost of things anywhere and especially here in Virginia.
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Speaker 18: Absolutely absolutely. And you know, I think if you go
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Speaker 18: back to the previous several administration, a lot of what
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Speaker 18: was done under that president caused the inflationary impact that
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Speaker 18: we're having, and you know, bad decisions, bad policy, and
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Speaker 18: just overspending. And so you know, I applaud government or
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Speaker 18: President Trump for addressing those things and trying to get
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Speaker 18: our deficit under control. And we've got to figure that out.
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Speaker 18: And so affordability is a big deal. You know, we've
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Speaker 18: had the renewable energy folks have forced in all this
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Speaker 18: non it's not been a transparent, open and honest conversation
48:51
Speaker 18: about the true cost of what renewable energy does. And
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Speaker 18: so our electric bills are up, what about a third
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Speaker 18: from what they were to and a half three years ago,
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Speaker 18: and he's going to continue based on the policies that
49:03
Speaker 18: we're seeing in posts the same thing as you restrict
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Speaker 18: the ability for a business community to be able to
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Speaker 18: do the things that are they want to do, like
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Speaker 18: produce food and get it to our grocery stores. And
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Speaker 18: you know, when you raise the cost of labor, when
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Speaker 18: you raise the cost of transportation, when you raise the
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Speaker 18: cost of energy, regardless of your your noble goals, let
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Speaker 18: us say, but you are raising the cost someone has
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Speaker 18: to pay for that. Yes, And that is just part
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Speaker 18: that my friends on the other side of the aisle
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Speaker 18: do not recognize the economic realities. You know, the laws
49:39
Speaker 18: of economics do not change.
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Speaker 2: Well, they seem to. Yeah, since I see that Hugh
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Speaker 2: Jackman is rewriting the Robinhood mythos to make him out
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Speaker 2: to be the bad guy now, not the good guy,
49:52
Speaker 2: because he was stealing from the government to give back
49:55
Speaker 2: to the taxpayers. It's a sad day. Chris Runyon just
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Speaker 2: got a text message listener in Corvallis, Oregon, said, can
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Speaker 2: we borrow him for a while if you're not using
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Speaker 2: him in Virginia. But so there you go.
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Speaker 17: Uh.
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Speaker 2: People like.
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Speaker 18: It's beautiful, but it's not as beautiful as a chamber valley.
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Speaker 18: Let me tell you something. I'm sitting here at my
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Speaker 18: office and I'm on the seventh floor, and I faced
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Speaker 18: the Capitol, and so I can see half a dozen U. S.
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Speaker 18: Flags and about the same number Virginia flags. I see
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Speaker 18: George Washington statue. Who I just I think he was
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Speaker 18: the phenomenal found the country appropriately. But I also see
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Speaker 18: the James River, And you know, I'm a product of
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Speaker 18: the valley. I grew up up there, and I am
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Speaker 18: who I am? And what's that that country song? Or
50:41
Speaker 18: product of my rais? And but I can look out
50:44
Speaker 18: and I can see the James River, and I know
50:46
Speaker 18: there was a drop of water that hit a barn
50:48
Speaker 18: roof in Highland County. That's my conction to home until
50:55
Speaker 18: I can get home on the weekend and visit them.
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Speaker 18: You know, it's some privilege to be here and to
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Speaker 18: do this and please your listeners know that my doors
51:05
Speaker 18: always open regardless of what your petitions are, your political position.
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Speaker 2: Chris Runyon dot com. God bless you, sir. You have
51:11
Speaker 2: a great morning, Joe.
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Speaker 18: Thank you. God bless you, and I look forward to
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Speaker 18: seeing you and you call me anytime I can be helped, Buddy.
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Speaker 2: Well I will. We're to be live from that Virginia
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Speaker 2: General Assembly on Monday for the biggest gun rally out
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Speaker 2: there until then, So long and thanks for all the fish.
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