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FTTxJT 062326 "Character Studies" · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the first thing today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: I was there too, when you know what they said,
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  Speaker 2: some of it was too at the.
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  Speaker 3: Top of the dial after what you give.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to pivot to this issue.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone here who is surprised that Nigel Farage has called
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  Speaker 5: for a general election needs to get a check up
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  Speaker 5: from the neck up.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I could have predicted this.
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  Speaker 5: We should have gone on whatever the At some point
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  Speaker 5: DraftKings is going to do a political one of those
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  Speaker 5: bet on events. I'm sure you could have got some
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  Speaker 5: action on win Nigel Farage that was going to call
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  Speaker 5: for a special election general election for the House of
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  Speaker 5: Commons in England, and the King can call for a
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  Speaker 5: House a general election generally it is his call. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think Nigel Frage and King Charles have a lot
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  Speaker 5: of chats. This would be like saying Barack Obama and
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump do lunch once a week.
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  Speaker 4: Though not likely.
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  Speaker 5: However, the Prime Minister Keir Starmer can call for a
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  Speaker 5: general election Institute for Government dot org slash dot UK.
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  Speaker 5: The ability to request a dissolution of Parliament and call
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  Speaker 5: for a general election lies with the Prime Minister. This
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  Speaker 5: means that a prime minister can effectively announce an election
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  Speaker 5: at a time of their choosing. This is what makes
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  Speaker 5: Britain fun. Not only do you have much smaller representative
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  Speaker 5: districts unlike the United States. This is how for those
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  Speaker 5: two years ago who were arguing with me over the
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  Speaker 5: idea that smaller pre Permanent Reapportionment Act congressional districts might
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  Speaker 5: lead to more political parties, less political power in the
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  Speaker 5: hands of two parties, the chance to challenge one even
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  Speaker 5: without the resources of the two biggies.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Nigel Farage, sure on the basis of Brexit, is a
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  Speaker 5: famous political leader in England. So he had some of
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  Speaker 5: the gravitas of a Jefferson or the folks who started
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  Speaker 5: the Republican Party, Lincoln, etc. In the Midwest heading up
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  Speaker 5: to the Civil War. Both times, by the way, both
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  Speaker 5: political parties in the United States started to fight out
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  Speaker 5: of control misgovernance by the centralized government. Jefferson's case it
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  Speaker 5: was alien and sedition acts. Republicans case, you know, Lincoln
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  Speaker 5: et cent slavery. But Nigel Faros starts this reform party
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  Speaker 5: and wins all these municipal governments over and so you
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  Speaker 5: know kier Starmer is not going to call for a
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  Speaker 5: general election because Labor, based on what the last local
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  Speaker 5: elections were in England, is going to get paddled. So
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  Speaker 5: don't hold your breath that kier Starmer is going to
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  Speaker 5: call one unless outcry becomes so bad that Labor cannot
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  Speaker 5: even hold on to it. Now, Labor in England is
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  Speaker 5: the far left. It is the Democratic Party of England,
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  Speaker 5: perhaps the Democratic Party of some of our bigger cities.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the rural Democrats of Georgia. It's the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: of Chicago and Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: And New York.
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  Speaker 5: That's the Labor Party in England. Nigel Farage is basically
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  Speaker 5: Britain's maga. I guess it would be mugga make the
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  Speaker 5: UK great again? What may make Britain great again? Make
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  Speaker 5: Britain great again? Muginga. However, the Parliament would automatically be
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  Speaker 5: dissolved the beginning of the day that is the fifth anniversary,
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  Speaker 5: on the day at which for so there is a calendar.
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  Speaker 5: So if there is never a special election called or
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  Speaker 5: a general Assembly election called, it can only sit for
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  Speaker 5: five years and then it's got to be called. But
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  Speaker 5: I mean the last one was twenty twenty four, so
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  Speaker 5: we're not even close to that. But the point I'm
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  Speaker 5: making is is in our American mismanagement, as the Dixiecrats
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  Speaker 5: go back to the last segment, the Dixiecrats not only
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  Speaker 5: did they want to burn down Black Wall Street and
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  Speaker 5: you scare these rising entrepreneurial, wealthy black people into submission,
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  Speaker 5: steal their money, burn it, in some cases, burn all
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  Speaker 5: their wealth confiscated. Not only did they want to do that,
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  Speaker 5: they wanted to limit what was really scaring them, which
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  Speaker 5: was more and more black men were getting elected to Congress.
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  Speaker 5: This is why they passed the Permanent Reapportionment Act. They'd
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  Speaker 5: been trying to pass a Permanent re Apportionment Act for
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  Speaker 5: almost ten years, finally got enough people in the North
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  Speaker 5: to agree to it because they were still being told
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  Speaker 5: that all these new states, oh, you don't want to
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  Speaker 5: let Missourian here. Now look at all these Missourians that
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  Speaker 5: are you know, and now my gosh, and people from Hannibal,
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  Speaker 5: and they were going to have as much say as
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  Speaker 5: somebody from New York.
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  Speaker 4: You've been here from the beginning.
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  Speaker 5: So the Permanent Reapportionment Act goes into effect with the
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  Speaker 5: nineteen thirty census and we freeze the size of the
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  Speaker 5: US House of Representatives. This leads us to not being
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  Speaker 5: nearly as representative a body as the British House of
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  Speaker 5: Commons is. British House of Commons is much smaller, districts,
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  Speaker 5: many many more representatives. Yeah, guess what government still happens.
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  Speaker 5: Scotland yard still gets its budget fulfilled, actually with less
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  Speaker 5: drama than the US FBI does. And there are lots
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  Speaker 5: of different political party I mean you have Labor, you
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  Speaker 5: have the Tories, the Conservatives, but now you have a
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  Speaker 5: form I mean years ago there was actually somebody from
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  Speaker 5: the Jedi Party elected from one of their town councils
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  Speaker 5: and got a seat in Parliament. What party are you
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  Speaker 5: a Jedi?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 5: These are not the appropriations you're looking for. They started
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  Speaker 5: a party and it became a going concern enough to
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  Speaker 5: get somebody elected to the House of Commons. But yesterday
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  Speaker 5: this text message came in from Gina, who was watching
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  Speaker 5: the Facebook live broadcast of the Virginia General Assembly breaking
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  Speaker 5: its rules or breaking its precedent anyway, and not even
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  Speaker 5: voting on its state budget, decided to vote on a
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  Speaker 5: report on the state budget. To accept the report on
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  Speaker 5: the state budget. It was really to me one of
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  Speaker 5: the more stunning opportunities that was live streaming with a
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  Speaker 5: member of the House and he said the same thing,
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  Speaker 5: our friend Tom drops bombs as it was happening, since.
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  Speaker 6: They wouldn't even let us see what was in it
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  Speaker 6: until Friday night when everybody else got to see it,
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  Speaker 6: and then by voting on the Concert Report as opposed
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  Speaker 6: to vutting on the budget, we couldn't pull line items
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  Speaker 6: out to debate those line items.
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  Speaker 4: Why Because there's fourteen more.
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  Speaker 5: Seats to the Democrats side than to the Republican side,
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  Speaker 5: no other choices, no other coalitions to build. It's green
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  Speaker 5: or red, blue or red, period black or white. And
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  Speaker 5: in a country where you're supposed to have freedom of choice,
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  Speaker 5: you don't. You can look at the two candidates for
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  Speaker 5: a congressional seat and say I don't like either one
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  Speaker 5: of these people, and what choice do you have in that?
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  Speaker 5: It's the permanent ballot slot given, which is how the
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  Speaker 5: Republican and Democratic parties act like they are the fourth
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  Speaker 5: and fifth branches of our federal government and certainly our
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  Speaker 5: state governments as well, and you don't have to challenge them.
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  Speaker 5: So why would your restaurant make a better egg sandwich
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  Speaker 5: if there wasn't a restaurant down the street making egg sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: Listen anytime you like. We won't tell your HR director,
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Dunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: Jeword said, steal me stem you have a day at
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  Speaker 8: least for work. When the sun comes up, drops a
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  Speaker 8: pet of the Scoodlands. Joe has everything a gender, all
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  Speaker 8: the Joases needs no one that Joe's as smile, he
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  Speaker 8: only eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you for letting me be of service
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  Speaker 5: to you this morning. Here's how we roll simple business premise.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you what went on last night so
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  Speaker 5: you can go into your day acknowledged of what's going
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  Speaker 5: on around you. I will give you my analysis off
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  Speaker 5: flying in the face of even people who would purport
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  Speaker 5: to be of the same commentariat. Hey, at least Candace
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  Speaker 5: Owens isn't releasing my private text messages. I guess she's
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  Speaker 5: gotten to that point of you know, hold it, nobody's
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  Speaker 5: paying attention to me again. Shoot, it's just so funny sometimes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the hate and the schisms.
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  Speaker 4: In real apropos of nothing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, And our business is to tell you what
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  Speaker 5: went on in the world and then give you our
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  Speaker 5: analysis of it. But mostly I want to find out
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  Speaker 5: how it's impacting you where you are. And in this
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  Speaker 5: spat in quote conservative you know Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 5: the late Charlie Kirk, Laura.
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  Speaker 4: Luomer, Candace Owens. There is little that.
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  Speaker 5: Bears the fruit of what I try to explain to you,
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  Speaker 5: how little life, as much as you would think it has,
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  Speaker 5: as much you would hope it has changed since high school?
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  Speaker 5: How little If you really stop and think about it,
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  Speaker 5: and I know, it can make you feel bad. It
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  Speaker 5: can make you feel really bad when you realize how
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  Speaker 5: little your life and the interaction with people around you
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  Speaker 5: has changed since high school. Nope, Nope, no evolution. It's
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  Speaker 5: just like the last episode of Seinfeld when they're arguing
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  Speaker 5: over how high George's button should be on this polo shirt.
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  Speaker 5: It's exactly how the first episode started. This group had
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  Speaker 5: not evolved at all, and that's what's happened to our societally.
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  Speaker 5: We have not We don't change from high school who
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  Speaker 5: we are in high school. We would like to think
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  Speaker 5: we're better people than then, than those than these what
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm trying to get.
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  Speaker 1: At, Amaze your friends here in the First Thing Today
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Thomas, Now, mister Joe Henry was a happy
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  Speaker 1: little man who became a legend.
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  Speaker 4: In town, celebrating pride months to.
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  Speaker 9: Everybody who's a lot of the spies to the happy
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  Speaker 9: found by hebut down.
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  Speaker 4: So we do every morning.
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  Speaker 1: One get on and four other guys who kept time
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  Speaker 1: without clapping hands.
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  Speaker 4: We called him mister Joe Henry's.
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  Speaker 1: Happy hand clapping open down rhythm band.
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  Speaker 5: So if I'm Joe Henry, then you're there with your
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  Speaker 5: happy hand clapping.
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  Speaker 4: At four three four eighty two four to two.
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  Speaker 5: One seven, we'll get back to Adam Michelle from Kato Institute.
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  Speaker 5: Are first things coming up after the news at the
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  Speaker 5: top of the hour on all the fine folks who
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  Speaker 5: put us on their radio stations to sit with you
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  Speaker 5: this morning and bring us to you, reward them, find
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  Speaker 5: the sponsors that do the things that you need done,
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  Speaker 5: and go engage. That's the way you do it. If
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  Speaker 5: it's a big box store, that's fine. If it's somebody
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  Speaker 5: who's battling against the big box store, that's even finer.
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  Speaker 5: Down in calliner uh. Doctor Clark is on the line
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  Speaker 5: with us. I tried to make that rhyme, and I
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  Speaker 5: screwed it up in the end. So bring the rest
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  Speaker 5: of this home there, doctor Clark. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Sir, Well, let's start it out with the Yogi Barra quote.
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  Speaker 4: There Joe.
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  Speaker 2: So you and Mike were talking about the home runs
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  Speaker 2: and the bats, and there's been discussions about the ball.
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  Speaker 2: You remember what Yogi Bear said about the number of
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  Speaker 2: home runs increase in Joe, no one. He said, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the players are livelier.
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  Speaker 5: So that was, of course during the era that we
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  Speaker 5: come to later refer to as the red light green
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  Speaker 5: light area era. But you know, without what was it?
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  Speaker 5: There was an ad campaign for I think it was
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  Speaker 5: Dow or you know, Dupond or somebody during the seventies
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  Speaker 5: when I was growing up, and they said without chemistry,
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  Speaker 5: life itself would be impossible.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. So, but are living through So you
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  Speaker 2: were talking about earlier the kerfuffles and whatnot amongst the
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  Speaker 2: conservative talking heads, and maybe we're going to say talking
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  Speaker 2: heads that talk to conservatives.
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  Speaker 5: Are shooting for concerned, are trying to get the attention
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  Speaker 5: of conservatives.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things. One, Joe, remember professional wrastling before
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  Speaker 2: Vince McMahon's unification.
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  Speaker 5: We all know, I don't see I I joined in
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  Speaker 5: Vince Vince. Vince was already the play by play guy.
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  Speaker 5: I think his dad was still running it. But you
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  Speaker 5: know it was who was the bald guy? With the mustache. Famous.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone loves him, and Vince.
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  Speaker 4: Was his.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and and then Vince was his sidekick.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Before Vince McMahon came along and unified,
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  Speaker 2: you had different districts, regions, et cetera, et cetera. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: had their own little fife them. Okay, Now you'd have
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  Speaker 2: been mid Atlantic wrestling, where you are probably okay, And
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  Speaker 2: there was a promoter that ran mid Atlantic and uh Richmond, Charlottesville, Roano.
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  Speaker 2: You know you have shows that happened there. Now you're
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  Speaker 2: a big name wrestler, okay, and you were in Virginia
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  Speaker 2: in Medicland four years ago. You've been somewhere else for
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  Speaker 2: a while. You're getting kind of tedious there. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: time to do something else. So the promoter from mid Atlantic, Hey, Joe,
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing from so and so that you're not drawing
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  Speaker 2: that good. You want to come back to Virginia for
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  Speaker 2: a while. Well, yeah, sure, I'd love to come back
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  Speaker 2: to Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: I get there. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, we're going to bring you back, but this
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  Speaker 2: time you're not going to be a good guy. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to bring in as a good guy, but you
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  Speaker 2: and Tom Garrett are going to have a falling out
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  Speaker 2: in the ring. You're going to be enemies, You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be a bad guy, and uh, you got to
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  Speaker 2: be the guy of the crowd, booze everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 2: For a year and a half, all this storyline plays out. Hey, cool,
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  Speaker 2: because it's.
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  Speaker 4: A gig, right right, I'm playing for a change.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get to be make beth Aia to be
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  Speaker 5: Banquo for this particular tour.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, now, all right, let's go to Fox News.
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  Speaker 2: Alison Camarata, Okay, she's on Fox and Friends in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: and she's as conservative as anybody that got on there.
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  Speaker 2: And then another promoter says, hey, Alison, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: come over here? And Alan goes over there. Alison goes
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  Speaker 2: over and she ain't conservative anymore. She's about as liberal
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  Speaker 2: as you can get. Just like that. It's like professional wrestling,
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  Speaker 2: was Joe So?
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  Speaker 5: Is the political discourse any different? Is is you know,
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  Speaker 5: whatever remains of Lindsey Graham's marbles rattling around in a
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  Speaker 5: head that's just picking a character to play. Or are
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  Speaker 5: there people who are ardently true to what they believe?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a little bit of both, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe a lot of good of one a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of the other.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's the other thing. I think we've got three
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  Speaker 2: tiers right now. Okay, and tear might not be the
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  Speaker 2: right way to put it because that implies the ones
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  Speaker 2: above the other, and I don't know that's the.
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  Speaker 4: Right way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But you've got local talk radio. Now, local talk radio
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  Speaker 2: you're getting funded primarily by Mike's flower shop, builds barbecue,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. And for the most part their
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  Speaker 2: agenda is increased sales or.
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  Speaker 4: Get more people at my shop. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the more people, the more people you get
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  Speaker 2: to listen to your radio show, the more people here
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  Speaker 2: there adds, the better business there is. And they really
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  Speaker 2: care what you say as long as more people by
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  Speaker 2: their flowers and their barbecue. Then you've got another tier
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  Speaker 2: where you have the nationals. Now your side of the microphone,
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  Speaker 2: you're to how all this bundling goes on, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. My side of the microphone. I know that
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  Speaker 2: when everybody is doing a burnout less lethal option advertisement,
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  Speaker 2: somebody sold a package to a bundled group. I know this.
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  Speaker 2: I know that they didn't just happenstanceily go to eight
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  Speaker 2: or ten different ones.
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  Speaker 5: Trust me, I've called too and I've called Keltech, I've
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  Speaker 5: called It's they're not answering my call.
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  Speaker 2: So I think, well, we can get to that in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. I think that perhaps with those package deals
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  Speaker 2: you get package deal strings, because from from my side
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  Speaker 2: of the speaker, stuff gets talked about on local conservative
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  Speaker 2: talk radio that does not get talked about on national
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  Speaker 2: They no, no, no, we're not going there. Uh uh, Well,
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  Speaker 2: so that it costs me sponsorship, I'm not doing.
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  Speaker 4: It so at the risk of it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, because we only have like thirty seconds left, doctor Clark,
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  Speaker 5: So I want to ask.
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  Speaker 2: You here, And that's the podcasters. Okay, Now, I think
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  Speaker 2: they're a lot more susceptible to mega influencers.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, one sponsor is all takes. So this this podcast
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  Speaker 5: brought to you by Yes, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Might stay brought to you by so and so, but
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  Speaker 2: it might be paid for by somebody else that own
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  Speaker 2: so and so. Sure, so, just different things to consider there.
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  Speaker 2: Just you know, who's paying your per favorite wrestler to
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  Speaker 2: say what they're saying.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's like NASCAR, isn't it. In a lot of
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  Speaker 4: To do list.
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  Speaker 1: Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
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  Speaker 5: Mountains turn in Green won a go all again see
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  Speaker 5: my Maldon brand. We're gonna allow West Virginia to steal
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  Speaker 5: that one from us too, Sorry, John John Denver's song
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  Speaker 5: is about Western Virginia. It just didn't fit into the
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  Speaker 5: cadence well enough there. But Blue Ridge Mountains, that's where
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  Speaker 5: we at. Four three four, that's our flagship Charlottesville. Thomas
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  Speaker 5: Jefferson's home empty at this point two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 5: years ago, because I know he was holed up in
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  Speaker 5: a hotel room in Philadelphia trying to get this Declaration
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  Speaker 5: of Independence thing finished and off to Great Britain. They're
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  Speaker 5: legal filing their divorce decree.
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  Speaker 4: But before we headed to.
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  Speaker 5: The news, about twenty minutes ago, we were talking about
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  Speaker 5: how your narrative is. It's a I brought it up
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  Speaker 5: just to remind you how little life has changed since
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  Speaker 5: high school. Candice Owens has released a series of text
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  Speaker 5: messages between her and Charlie Kirk that Charlie Kirk is
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  Speaker 5: bashing Laura Lumer. So I guess this is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and really is It's high school stuff all over again.
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  Speaker 5: And of course Axios and ms now and all of
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  Speaker 5: the left wing sites are all over it, saying, look,
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  Speaker 5: there's more revolution and the conservatives because all they have
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  Speaker 5: is divide us. There's too many of us. There's three
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  Speaker 5: times as many conservative thinking people as there are leftists,
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  Speaker 5: so they have to scare them into complacency and fealty,
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  Speaker 5: divide us amongst each other. Well, I like Laura Lumer, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: I like Charlie Kirk and he said she's.
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  Speaker 4: I forget.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even dwelling in it. And doctor colrk. You
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  Speaker 5: were talking about who sponsors who, but there's a bigger
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  Speaker 5: point here. You talked about the podcasters. Here's the part
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  Speaker 5: about the podcasters that becomes problematic is the the algorithm writers,
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  Speaker 5: the algorithm junkies. So I actually heard one of the
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  Speaker 5: other talk show hosts, in between her ads for Berna
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  Speaker 5: and Keltech, talking about the algorithm and how her her
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  Speaker 5: producer was mad at her because one of the topics
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  Speaker 5: she covered threw off the algorithm. And I asked my
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  Speaker 5: social media manager about it. He goes, oh, yeah, every
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  Speaker 5: time you talk to Mackett screws up. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: because now the algorithm doesn't know if you're a sports
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  Speaker 5: talk show or a talk to you know, you got
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  Speaker 5: only politics only politics, and then the algorithm will love
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  Speaker 5: you and it will send you to everyone who's only
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: on the Internet looking for politics. And I'm starting to
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  Speaker 5: think this might be the problem, because we're so much
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: more than that. I mean, I'm sure you know. You
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: may go see a movie every night, and then my
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  Speaker 5: wife just sign up. We just became supporters of Angel Studios.
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  Speaker 5: We watched this great Cuba Gooding Junior movie about Ben
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  Speaker 5: Carson that was completely unexpected, and I looked at my
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  Speaker 5: wife and I said, nobody makes movies like that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's about Ben Carson or not.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody except Angel Studios, I guess, makes movies like that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: And they're not paying me to say it either. But
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  Speaker 5: that messes up the algorithm because the algorithm now doesn't
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  Speaker 5: know what to do with me. Am I talking about
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: movies or am I talking about conservative politics? Or am
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: I talking about liberal politics? Or am I talking about sports?
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  Speaker 5: And this is where these folks like Candice Owens and
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  Speaker 5: these people who ride the wave of algorithm pushing and
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: they get paid by the clickthroughs, those are the That's
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: where we're losing our grip on our last good Marble,
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  Speaker 5: I think, doctor Clark, does that make any sense to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it does make sense. It makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing that you have to consay is
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  Speaker 2: is the advertisement selling something or is that advertisement buying something?
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  Speaker 2: How much does it cost to run a thirty second
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  Speaker 2: ad on the evening news? A lot of money.
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  Speaker 4: Right on TV. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If a big form of company runs an ad on
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the evening news for a drug to treat a condition
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  Speaker 2: that three people have had and recorded human history, they're
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  Speaker 2: not spending that money to sell that drug shoe. They
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  Speaker 2: are buying influence.
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  Speaker 4: I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 5: They say, you know, we're a sponsor, don't cover bad
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  Speaker 5: news about us. This is one of the issues I've
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: always had as I've run radio stations on a local level,
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  Speaker 5: is you know, can we sponsor the news?
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want, you know, And I.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Would say, yes, the newscast can be sponsored, but I
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: don't want my news person doing an endorsement for it.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: I don't want my newsperson reading the ad for it,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: because then you know what happened.
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  Speaker 4: And we've had it here.
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  Speaker 5: We've had a big bail bonds company get in trouble
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: because of illegal I guess what's his name, Cruz the shooter.
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  Speaker 5: But ironically at Parkland, Florida, his brother came up here
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  Speaker 5: to Central Virginia and wound up being the central figure
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  Speaker 5: in uh, these these greasy snake oil lawyers ripping him off,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: and so they're all going to prison for it, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: the and the kids just he's I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: the hell was going on, barely even speaks the language.
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  Speaker 5: More reason that citizenship matters anyway. Andy is online two
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  Speaker 5: here at four three four eight eight two four two
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  Speaker 5: one seven. Thanks for hanging Andy, what's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'm you know that CFA CFM Institute, sorry, is
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: just bizarre because I mean that's actually called the Charted
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  Speaker 12: Financial Analyst and Chartered Financial Management Institute, and they're about
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  Speaker 12: a half a billion dollar organization and they are there
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  Speaker 12: to create consistent standards for the people who do financial
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  Speaker 12: analysis and management. And I mean that was what I
• 30:21
  Speaker 12: studied but practiced as they did an entrepreneurs and ended
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  Speaker 12: up in Culture's farm and one of the long term
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  Speaker 12: presidents became my neighbor, and he had a much better
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  Speaker 12: view of the Falkner mansion.
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  Speaker 4: Than you did.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, but that means you, So CFA got
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  Speaker 5: in trouble. There there a chief accountant before lack of
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: a better term, was caught billing. I think there's one
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: hundred and forty four different invoices for work that wasn't done. No,
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  Speaker 5: he wasn't there, Okay, he was their marketing manager. So
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  Speaker 5: he started phony marketing companies that he would invoice through
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  Speaker 5: his office as marketing manager. And they were just rubber
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  Speaker 5: stamping it. And it was bad.
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  Speaker 4: It was bad, millions and millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 12: Totally bizarre that anything like that could ever ever happen,
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  Speaker 12: but it does. And I think the other thing that
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  Speaker 12: it really struck me this morning was the tons of
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  Speaker 12: vegetables in that warehouse, Oh my god, in California, and
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  Speaker 12: the fact that anyone would ever allow like something as
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  Speaker 12: toxic as the solar panels to be on the roof
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  Speaker 12: of something important.
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  Speaker 5: But you see, this is the government makes it so
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  Speaker 5: difficult to own that property that they have to offset
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  Speaker 5: the cost however they can. So this is I hate
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  Speaker 5: to sound like a broken record, broken record, broken record,
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  Speaker 5: do something to defray the cost. And the city is
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  Speaker 5: going to give us a break on our property tax
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  Speaker 5: if we put solar panels up there. So you see
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  Speaker 5: how government creates these scenarios.
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  Speaker 12: So Florida Power in Virginia whatever dominion.
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