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"More Political Violence from the LEFT" (Thursday August 21, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Absolute QUI amaze your friends here at first thing today
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  by Joe Thomas, j.
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  Speaker 2: Word said, steal me, step me have a day at
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  least for work.
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  Speaker 1: When the sun comes up, drops a kid.
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  Speaker 3: Good nay, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Has everything a gender all the Jasu said, it needs.
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  Speaker 5: No one that Joe's anes smile.
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  Speaker 3: He only as.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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  you this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Mind holding these truths for a moment. I know it's
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  what it's what they meant when they say we hold
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  these truths to be self evident. We take turns four three,
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  four eight eight two four two one seven. That is
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  the phone number. I will tell you the news. I'll
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  break down the news and do easily digestible chunks. But
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  I also want to hear how it's impacting you as
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  you find yourself yet again here really weary of being
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  called the violent ones. This is a young lady on TikTok, perhaps,
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  if not supported by the Chinese Communist Party, at least
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  using the platform provided to her by the Chinese Communist
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  Party to threaten each one of us with death.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I guess so I would like to start a
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  new movement called Sea Maga mega bee calls.
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  Speaker 9: People like that respond.
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  Speaker 10: To fear and terror and aggression, not logic and sympathy.
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  And I don't know intelligence, it doesn't work for them,
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  So that fear works. So if we all get our
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  guns and use our Second Amendment right at our common sense.
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  At this point, this administration is begging us to rise
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  up and revolt.
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  Speaker 6: See Maga, shoot Maga. And I really appreciate the liberal
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  look into what they think the Second Amendment says they
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  have the right to do. You tell me somewhere in
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  the Second Amendment where it says you have the right
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  to just come along and shoot somebody on the street,
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  because apparently that's what this nutcluster things. Now, Now, can
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  I file? Can I call the Fluvanna County Sheriff's Department
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  in my home and say I've just been threatened by
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  somebody on TikTok? I don't know, you know what? Or
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  should I call the FBI? I mean I want to
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  call somebody. There needs to be somebody who needs to
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  know that anyone with a maga hat, according to this
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  liberal on TikTok with her few thousand followers, and I
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  mean that's a few thousand people with guns out there
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  saying see Maga, shoot maga. But we're the violent ones.
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  We're the ones who were supporting political violence. Our first
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  things this morning declaring the Office of National Intelligence had
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  become bloated. DNI Tulsi Gabbert announced Wednesday the first structural
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  overhaul of the agency since its founding twenty years ago
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  in the wake of September eleventh, as a layer of
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  authority over the eighteen other agencies. By focusing on our
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  core mission finding the truth and providing objective, unbiased, and
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  timely intelligence to the President and policymakers, and ending the
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  weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential
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  to begin to earn the American people's trust, which has
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  long been eroded. She announced the creation of OD and
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  I two point zero. We were talking about dorm rooms
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  in the last segment. Pope Leo the fourteenth is starting
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  a dormitory, shaking up tradition. He's moving into a newly
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  renovated papal apartment and bringing four roommates. Leo plans to
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  share his new residence with father Edgarda Ramakuna, his Peruvian
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  personal secretary, trusted advisor, close friend, from South America. Father
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  Edgard also one of the people rumored to be moving
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  into the apartment. No word on whether they're going to
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  leave a bedspace for his brother in Chicago to come visit.
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  Eight people were sentenced for wire fraud because of the
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  COVID nineteen pandemic. No, they didn't catch long COVID and
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  commit wire fraud. They heard of the Payroll Protection Plan
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  and EIDL programs and said we got to get us
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  some of that. Frederick Smith of Cordova, Tennessee, along with
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  eight others were sentenced yesterday for their role in the
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  scheme that defrauded you and me out of seventeen million dollars.
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  They submitted false alone applications on behalf of businesses and
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  entities that the defendants quote unquote owned or started. The
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  group allegedly lied on fund applications about number of employees,
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  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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  Speaker 7: Braha's buzzed.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 17: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 18: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  art and brain who's with me.
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  Speaker 7: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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  Speaker 2: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 18: Somebody call me a ride.
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  Speaker 7: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 19: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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  it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 20: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 1: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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  know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 6: Chaos or control. We were taught at an early age,
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  gasled into the idea that control are the good guys
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  control everything? So from beneath the cone of silence comes
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  Tolsy Gabbard with O, D and I two point zero.
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  Matt writes in Oh my God, a federal bureaucracy that
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  has cotton bloated? How could we let this happen? Jerry
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  he says, Joe, of course, ODNI has bloated its population
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  and staffing should be exactly zero. That's what I've said before.
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  I asked Tom Ridge that when he left to become
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  the head of the Department of Homeland Security, we talked
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  about the constitutional proportions of a congressional district. The constitutional
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  proportions for the Department of National Intelligence is exactly zero.
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  But here's Tolsey Gabbart explaining ODNI two point zero with
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  a forty percent workforce cut.
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  Speaker 23: As you know, Jesse, this organization, the Office the Director
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  of National Intelligence, was created twenty years ago in the
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  wake of the egregious and strategic intelligence failures around the
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  islamus Terrist attack on nine to eleven in our country,
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  and this office was created by Congress to get after
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  those problems, to make sure that there is one independent
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  body providing that oversight over the intelligence community, integrating intelligence,
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  making sure that the left hand is sharing information with
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  the right hand, and fundamentally and most importantly, ensuring that
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  the intelligence that is being provided to the President of
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  the United States is timely, it is relevant, and it
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  is a political objective that they're actually he is actually
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  getting the information he needs to make the critical decisions
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  that he makes every single day.
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  Speaker 6: So here's the question and I asked this, since district
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  thing is the other theme of the day, how do
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  you get people who are political appointees to be a
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  political Hey? Listen, and you remember reading the text messages
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  in between the FBI lovebirds struck in page. He's not
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  going to win, is he? Don't worry? We have an
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  insurance policy. Oh, you're my hero. And I think that
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  was the mail right that was struck. Oh you say
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  you're my hero, Come rescue me. I'm a damsel in distruction.
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  But anyway, strocking page, how do you how do you
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  create a politic out of I think you personally have
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  to make these positions responsible to a congress, a congress
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  that has abdicated its authority over some of these things.
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  They'll like they like to hold hearings so that they
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  can speechify through their five minute allotted time. And I
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  give credit where credits due. I mean, I speak for five,
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  six seven minutes at a pop. I know it's not easy.
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  I know it's not easy to sound like they're your
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  words when you're reading them off a piece of paper
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  that you were just handed, you know, a minute before
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  you walked into the chamber. But the bigger problem is
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  is how do you make this a political in Virginia
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  when we were trying to get through redistricting and all
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  the southern states up until Horace Cooper, the great jurist
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  with the National Center for Public Policy Research and Project
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  twenty one. By the way, Horace Cooper, if you've never
• 17:31
  watched Fox News, a black man broke the Voting Rights Act,
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  especially when it came to the preclearance laws that said
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  that states that had succeeded the nation had to have
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  the federal government to dictate their voting structure, their districts, everything,
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  everything had to go through Washington. So how do you
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  make a body of people that are appointed by politicians
• 18:01
  a political? I believe you take away the ability to
• 18:07
  hire these people you can nominate and a lot of
• 18:14
  people say, oh my gosh, you know how long these
• 18:17
  nominating processes are. Well, I think you substantively need to
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  get back to a place where these nominations can't just
• 18:26
  be held up for political reasons. And I would say
• 18:29
  this if and I have said it, when Democrats just
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  bring it to a vote. If you don't have enough
• 18:36
  votes to stop them, go get them enough votes to
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  stop them. Win more elections. You know, and I understand
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  that a lot of people try to use parliamentary procedure,
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  and it does exist in places where the minority voices
• 18:53
  are not being listened to. But many of the cases
• 19:02
  of justice in this country began as dissenting opinions. Remember
• 19:09
  the US Supreme Court at one point ruled that poor
• 19:15
  black and white women could be sterilized by the state
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  government because they were on public assistance for more than
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  four years. Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in his
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  majority opinion, three generations of imbeciles are enough. Great laws
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  that changed our society, the emancipation Prime. All of this
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  began with dissenting opinions, because too often popular opinion becomes
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  the majority opinion, even in a place likes the Supreme Court.
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  Is it important for there to be intelligence gathered about
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  those who hate the United States, who would be enemies
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  of the state. Sure, But who gets to decide who
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  an enemy of the state is? Because right now we
• 20:18
  live in a world where if you criticize the state,
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  if you criticize the federal government for thinking it can
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  own ten percent of a company just because all the
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  other countries in the world have percentage ownership stakes, Benito
• 20:32
  and Mussolini's on the phone and said, gosh, why didn't
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  I just buy Lamborghini. I had to use tanks to
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  take over my share of Lamborghini. But to pretend that
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  just intels ten percent stake by the US government is
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  the only way government controls business is also barking at
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  the moon. But we live in a country that has
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  determined that people who criticize it because we've become this
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  democracy where everything has to come for a vote every
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  I cannot look unpopular. I cannot look like I have
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  a critic. I cannot take a phone call from somebody
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  who argues with me, because if I do, then I'm
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  not the great and powerful oz. I'm not the great
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  and powerful talk oracle. And it all diminishes you. When
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  the politicians can't look wrong over something, and if somebody
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  is going to bring that up, we must silence them.
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  If the Emperor has no clothes, co arrest the kid
• 21:43
  that's about to shout that before the emperor hears it.
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  And that's the problem. The structural problem with OD and
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  I is that the intelligence they're gathering is on American citizens,
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  not foreign apples.
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  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
• 24:31
  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
• 24:36
  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
• 24:42
  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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  in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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  healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com where
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  we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
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  total wellth.
• 25:02
  Speaker 14: I'm Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:06
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:17
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
• 25:26
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
• 25:38
  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
• 25:43
  or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
• 25:46
  enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
• 25:51
  dot SSA dot gov.
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  Speaker 7: Uh oh bra, that's buzzed.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
• 26:01
  Speaker 16: And now a speech.
• 26:02
  Speaker 18: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
• 26:06
  art and brain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Who's with me?
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
• 26:10
  Speaker 18: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home,
• 26:13
  somebody call me a ride.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Love that guy, me too.
• 26:17
  Speaker 19: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
• 26:19
  it's time to go home.
• 26:20
  Speaker 20: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
• 26:23
  Speaker 21: Did you know that more than half our household energy
• 26:26
  costs go.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: To heating and cooling.
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  Speaker 6: Change So so proud you know, And I love KPPF
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  and say it would let regents and agents come out
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  and say the things that he wanted to say. He
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  was one of the people guilty of taking the money
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  and the free lawyers from the Bloomberg Group to go
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  against the climate change people. Oh, by the way, we
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  think it was Oh, I don't know, Hickenloop or Mark Warner,
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  Speaker 24: We're in conversations with our attorneys to make sure we're
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  defending Colorado's elections.
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  Speaker 3: Look, mail ballots are secure.
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  Speaker 24: They cannot be hacked because they're a piece of paper
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  that is increasingly more important as Trump has made our
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  Speaker 6: Again with of course no lawyers. Why would you want
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  to show evidence? First off, a paper ballot can't be hacked. Well, sure,
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  once it's been written, but who's to say it's being
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  filed by the right person. Just its existence outside of
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  the view of election officials in and of itself is
• 32:01
  the original hack. Anyway, more of the Griswold family.
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  Speaker 24: He's disbanded much of the federal government's work on countering
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  foreign disinformation and as obviously taking cues.
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  Speaker 6: That has so it's again foreign disinformation telling you things
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  that you shouldn't know about voting. You're too dumb there
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  in Colorado Springs to vote for yourself. You're being fooled
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  by insert name of foreign actor, mostly Vladimir Putin.
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  Speaker 3: About democracy from a dictator.
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  Speaker 6: Now, now, remember when you hear somebody like Jenna Griswold
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  say democracy, you have to hear it in the correct pronunciation.
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  As Ray has taught us, it should be pronounced democracy
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  as in protecting the Democratic Nationalist Socialist Party of America's
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  Speaker 24: And we're in conversations with our attorneys to make sure
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  sure we're defending Colorado's elections.
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  Speaker 3: Look, mail ballots are secure. They cannot be.
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  Speaker 6: Hacked except for the people who get them fraudulently. So
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  that's sure. You're so proud the same person who kept
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  dictator like Putin. And these are supposedly the adults in
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  the room. I mean, she's not. She is not as
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  the new game for apparently gun owning liberals.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, I guess so I would like to start a
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  new movement called Sea Maga Mega be calls people like.
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  Speaker 10: That respond to fear and terror and aggression, not logic
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  and sympathy, and I don't know intelligence. It doesn't work
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  for them, So that fear works. So if we all
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  Maga shoot Omega is not in there in any of
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  its provisos. I know it's a very long amendment. I
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  see sea Maga shoot Omega in there. I don't see
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  There by the way, O MG, this woman is one
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  It's TikTok. This is this is like going to Temu
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  we all have I look like Colonel Sanders and Wavy
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  Gravy had a love child. I look goofy. You we
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  all look goofy. Yeah, but you're right. She does kind
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  playing a klingon. But you're right. There's a Second Amendment
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  go hunt MAGA supporters down in the streets. And for
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  those who aren't conversant in the Second Amendment, like this
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  kling on on, TikTok, I'll take the time out here
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  because it is so long a well regulated militia being
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  of the people to keep and bear arms shall not
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  be infringed. Ding That's it. That's the entirety of the
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  you don't see in their guns, I don't know, could
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  be phaser cannons. At some point, that's an armament. If
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  I have a constitution only protected right to keep and
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  bear those arms. I could be accused of bringing a
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  broadsword to a gunfight, but people say you carrying a broadsword.
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  They think you're nuts, and they may be right. But
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  I have a right to barrons. But yeah, you're right
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  to hunt MAGA supporters down in the streets, not in
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  And I do this mostly because it's mean and it
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  hurts people's feelings, and it'll it might cause some people
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  so we have a break, and then I'll tell you
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  Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville. I
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  spent much time.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, you're part of the wrong spot. We've towed your
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  wet sprocket. That's what we've done. Rating windmills. There's good
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  money to be made, especially from the rent seekers. Our
• 44:42
  friend Chris Horner calls it the world's second oldest profession. Hey,
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  at least you're getting money for it, right. So I
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  bring up Chuck Grassley, and this is especially going to
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  hurt our friends in Provo and Salt Lake. Because Chuck
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  Grassley needed some help in undoing some and sending a
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  message to Donald Trump about taking out subsidies for windmills.
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  He moved to block three of the President's Treasury Department
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  nominees fairly important thing. In a country with trillions and
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  trillions of dollars in debt and increasing by factors of
• 45:29
  more trillions every month, Treasury nominees pretty important. I think.
• 45:38
  Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a Republican for those keeping score
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  at home, blocked the nominees in protests of rules that
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  he says undercut federal tax credits for wind and solar energy.
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  So understand, when you hear the phrase federal tax credits,
• 46:00
  you need to hear the much simpler to understand concept
• 46:05
  of subsidy. Grassley is long battled with President Trump because
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  Iowa is the king of Corn, which means renewable energy.
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  And if Chuck Grassley had his say, probably Texas District
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  thing wouldn't be happening because don't give Texas more power.
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  They are South Dakota.
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  Speaker 15: Oh boy.
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  Speaker 6: But Senator Grassley was joined in his pursuit by John
• 46:42
  Curtis of Utah. John curtis disappointing in this certainly when
• 46:51
  it comes to renewable energy tax credits. A senator from
• 46:55
  Korn is going to take the pledge. Send me an
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  email saying, look at how many cars are running into
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  Indianapolis five hundred on ethanol. Yeah, no, I understand, And
• 47:15
  it's a different kind of corn. And now we're discovering
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  that we take the corn husks and use that cellulose
• 47:21
  to create That's all well and good. It still takes
• 47:23
  more energy to make the ethanol than it does to
• 47:27
  make a galony gasoline. So when we can pencil there,
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  I like that. If you want to talk about renewables,
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  I'll talk to you about hydrogen. The byproduct of a
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  hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is water vapor, which for a
• 47:43
  very brief period of time, the Greenies also had included
• 47:47
  on their epa list of dangerous pollutants water vapor, greenhouse gas.
• 47:57
  John Curtis is disappointing. He won his Senate seat with
• 48:03
  sixty two percent of the vote. You don't need to
• 48:07
  be sitting there navel gazing over gosh. Gee, I wonder
• 48:11
  if I'm going to win reelection or not if I
• 48:14
  take a different stand. Senators Grassley and Curtis have complicated
• 48:24
  the Treasury nominees and shows that the Senate wants to
• 48:32
  roll back more of the blockade of subsidies for renewable energy.
• 48:40
  Remember this is drill, baby, drill. This is energy independence,
• 48:45
  which can be all of the above. And many of
• 48:52
  the states that benefit from the solar subsidies aren't represented
• 48:56
  by Republicans, so they got to use parliamentary procedure. Hang
• 49:06
  up these very important nominees. Treasury is one of the
• 49:10
  most important things we can work on right now because
• 49:13
  we have so little left in it except IOU's little
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  papers that say, iou seven trillion dollars. But I mean, goodness, gracious,
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  if John Curtis had won the Senate seat in Utah
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  by one percentage point and it was a hard battle
• 49:32
  and it costs trillions of dollars in advis and all
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  the radio and TV stations in Provo and Salt Lake
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  City had been able to send their executives to Lake
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  Como for a getaway on all the money they made
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  off of Then you know, you say, all right, maybe
• 49:52
  he's in a state like that and IOA, You say,
• 49:55
  all right, it's it's corn and so any renewable energy subsidy.
• 50:00
  It's not right, but you can understand it. Of Course,
• 50:06
  somebody like Chuck Grassley shouldn't have to worry about getting
• 50:09
  re elected, so he might be prone to take a
• 50:12
  leadership position in this and say is this really helping anyone?
• 50:20
  But because you know the second the purveyors, the perpetrators,
• 50:24
  the performers in the world's second oldest a world's second
• 50:37
  oldest profession. It's only my third cup of first thing
• 50:43
  this morning coffee, first free in the morning coffee. These
• 50:49
  members of the world's second oldest profession, rent seeking one
• 50:56
  who subsidize solar panels, subsidized wind turbines. And because Trump's
• 51:04
  called them out on the fact that it doesn't work,
• 51:07
  They're going to block Trump nominees. And it has nothing
• 51:11
  to do with never Trumper. It has to do with
• 51:14
  pro rent seeker pro people that if you left them
• 51:22
  naked and alone in a marketplace with their products, they
• 51:28
  couldn't sell them. If you put solar panels and natural
• 51:35
  gas furnaces next to one another and said which one
• 51:38
  do you want? And you're allowing people to get a
• 51:41
  full breadth and width of what goes on. And you know,
• 51:44
  believe me, I'm talking in favor of natural gas. We
• 51:47
  just had a house blown literally to smithereens. I've never
• 51:51
  seen a house actually blown to smithereens before. I now
• 51:55
  know what smithereens looks like because it had filled with
• 51:59
  gas and went boom tragically with two people. They're trying
• 52:05
  to track down the smell of the gas. And you
• 52:10
  sure does that happen with the wind turbine? Yeah? If
• 52:13
  one falls on you and they do fall. Have you
• 52:17
  ever seen the video of the bearings in these things
• 52:19
  when they go? It's a spectacular show. I mean it
• 52:24
  looks like something out of a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie.
• 52:32
  The world's second oldest profession rent seeking. There's a business
• 52:36
  in my community that could profit from it. I'm sure
• 52:38
  I'm going to hear something from somebody. Listen now, you
• 52:40
  know my business makes a lot of money from those subsidies,
• 52:44
  and we'll weigh in tomorrow on it. Until then, I'm
• 52:47
  Joe Thomas, Talk Media Network. So long and thanks for
• 52:50
  all the fish.
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