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"That Popping Sound You Hear..." (Wednesday August 26, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Not that I don't have the right to do anything
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  I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte see.
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  Speaker 2: Have I think our country is in danger? And it
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  is in danger?
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  Speaker 4: And he said, thank you for letting us be of
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  service to you on this Tedsday morning.
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  Speaker 5: The popping sound that you may have heard was the
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  craniums of most of the never trumpers. Have we heard?
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  Do we have? I mean, we should probably get a
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  welfare check on Liz Cheney, Denver, Riggleman heard from it all.
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  President just I think sometimes there's just a little bit
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  of me that says he has these things written on
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  like post it notes somewhere and he's just you know,
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  waiting for the moment you think they're feeling comfy right now,
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  let me see if their brains can handle a statement
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  like this, just popping their heads open all over the
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  country with the statements like that. And to be fair,
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  when he's talking about emergency matters, he does now the
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  other side of this, the checks and balances are that
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  you can file suit. I mean, this is the thing
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  about the United states. That's different than all these other places.
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  You can in your home state have a prosecutor that
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  says no, you can't, or or know your emergency authority
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  is not supreme. This is the whole statement. By the way,
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  the cabinet cabinet meeting where he was asked about Governor JB. Pritzker,
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  you know trolling President Trump, and it is a new thing.
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  They're all trying to out Trump Trump. It's Newsome, it's Pritzker,
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  and it works. Newsome is caught up to Kamala Harris
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  and the Democrat polls will tell you about that coming up.
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  But this is the whole statement.
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  Speaker 2: I would have much more respect for Pritsker if he
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  called me up and said I have a problem, can
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  you help me fix it?
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  Speaker 1: I would be so happy to do it. I don't
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  love not that I don't have the right to do
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  anything I want to do. I'm the President of the
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  United States.
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  Speaker 2: If I think our country is in danger, and it
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  is in danger in these cities, I can do it
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  no problem going in and solving you know, his difficulties.
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  Speaker 6: But it would be nice if they'd call and they say,
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  would you do it?
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  Speaker 5: So just like Marlitzsville in twenty seventeen. The entire statement
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  is entirely different than what you're hearing. That leads to
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  all the never Trumpers getting all their craniums popping off,
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  skull caps flying everywhere. It's like that scene from Batman
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  when all the manholes are going up and Liam Neeson's
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  vaporizing all the water in Gotham City. Nope, it goes
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  Denver Riggelman's head. Oh, it's just popping off all all
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  over the place. Adam Kinsinger a welfare check on him,
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  make sure he's okay. I mean, you know, out of
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  your pure concern for these folks. I mean, I'm not
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  saying an FBI raid. I mean you know you might
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  infer it as an FBI right. It was just a
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  welfare check after President Trump said that. We just wanted
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  to make sure you're okay. I mean, we know how
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  you feel about the President when he says stuff like that.
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  I know that the water pressure be tween your ears
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  gets a little tight. Well on this first thing today,
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  we must do our first things. Live from the Big Easy,
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  Banking Committee is going to hold a hearing on Stephen Moran,
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  the President's nominee to fill the empty seat on the
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  Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Of course, there are suits
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  as to whether this is actually an empty seat or not.
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  Federal Reserve said it will comply with any court ruling
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  in the legal battle between President Trump and Governor Lisa Cook,
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  who is challenging her dismissal from the bank's board. President
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  Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to intervene
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  in its effort to withhold billions of dollars in foreign
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  aid from organizations and lift an injunction that is forcing
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  it to keep making payments a Department of Justice and
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  an emergency. Finally, no did that. A two to one
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  panel of US Court of Appeals for the District of
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  Columbia Circuit earlier this month ruled the injunction should be overturned.
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  US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said Tuesday that customs duty
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  and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said during the
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  cabinet meeting yesterday that an announcement could be coming next
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  We said we would listen, and we have. California Governor
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  Gavin Newsom, as we said, is gaining popularity. He has
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  rised his popularity. In a morning Console poll came up
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  eight percentage points to nineteen percent of Democrats prefer him
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  in a presidential matchup, still leading former Vice President Kamala
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  Harris with twenty nine percent support, but her support has
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  dropped seven percent, twenty two percent chose someone else. Pete
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  Boudages fell behind someone else whoever that may be at
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  nine percent, and those are our first things on this
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  ted Steam morning. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  art and brain.
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  Speaker 5: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 11: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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  Speaker 12: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 13: Somebody call me a ride.
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  Speaker 11: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 15: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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  Speaker 11: In your life.
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  Speaker 15: Treatment works, recovery is possible.
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  Speaker 5: For me personally.
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  Speaker 9: This is the most meaningful aber day of my life
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  with someone was full of jobs.
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  Speaker 3: And so for you from Joe Thomas, it's first thing
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  today working.
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  Speaker 12: For the bag.
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  Speaker 13: I'm thinking what they given because I'm working.
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  Speaker 5: For and you know, and and of course the left
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  wing media has to you know, troll. You know, a
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  statement like that, You know, how can Trump Trump inks
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  Latino man work four jobs? You know, film at eleven,
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  that kind of stuff. It's just, you know, for a
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  guy who's studio right now here in New Orleans as
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  we're coming to you from the State Policy Network annual meeting.
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  Nothing going on right now. Our studio, though, is bare
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  brick walls behind me. I feel like we're doing mornings
• 14:02
  from the improv. You got got to appreciate a cabinet
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  meeting bringing the yuks and you know that that's you
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  never you never watched the Biden cabinet meetings, did you?
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  I mean they were there. We saw photographs. It's kind
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  of like the Civil War. We'd see photographs of a
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  bunch of old people sitting around staring grimly into space.
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  Sometimes you'd get a video, but I think too frequently
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  they were afraid of getting a quick shot of the president.
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  Well times, yeah, Kamalo. What do you.
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  Speaker 16: Corn?
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  Speaker 5: Pop is four three four eight eight two four two
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  one seven. I'm going to introduce you today. We've got
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  a special guest coming by a couple of things kind
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  of thematically running through the State Policy Network events here
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  and again thanks to Daily Singing dot Com, an organization
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  that gives me the opportunity to use my name in
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  conjunction with Victor Davis Hanson, you know, outside of the
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  statement somebody who's not like Victor Davis Hanson at all.
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  I'm not no please, I'm not trolling for compliments and
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  just sticking the needle in myself because my daughter is
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  not here right now to do it for me. But
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  here two biggest stories are housing costs and the right
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  answers for that, and poverty. And finally, how many times
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  if you're an ardent habitual user of my morning program,
• 15:45
  you've heard me in the past come back from places
• 15:48
  like Seapack, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and they always
• 15:54
  do their straw pole, and the press always covers all
• 15:57
  so and so I won the straw pole, but they
• 16:00
  do a mindset straw pole as well. It's not just
• 16:05
  who do you want to be president? Next time? The
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  mindset straw Pole is always what do you think the
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  biggest issues facing conservatives and the United States are? And
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  so many times, so many times poverty, poverty would be
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  the last thing on the list, and I would come
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  back and like I said, you've heard me say this
• 16:29
  before if you have. And by the way, thanks to BJ,
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  bj Rust and Linda and the folks at WGSO here
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  in New Orleans and went over and visited with them
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  a little bit yesterday morning after the show is done.
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  We walked over and said hi, and Linda said, hey,
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  your show is coming up in about half hours because
• 16:51
  they aired in different segments in different places in the
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  morning lineup. And I appreciate it. But BJ and Linda
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  and all the folks at wg SO nine ninety am
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  independent Radio, I felt such a kindred spirit. And I'm like, yeah,
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  I own my own radio station too. It's kind of cool.
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  But they are new to the family. But if you've
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  heard this before, I apologize. It's just that poverty. I understand.
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  It's a left wing field day. They run into these
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  communities and say vote for me and I'll fix your
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  problems for you. But since nineteen sixty four, we have
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  increased the population of people living underneath the poverty line
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  by four times. We've quadrupled the number of people in
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  the United States living under the poverty line since we
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  started the War on poverty. I think it should be
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  called the War for poverty. But finally we've got people
• 17:58
  who are working hard at it. Will introduce you to them.
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  Coming up in the six o'clock hour, Actually have news
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  about Seapack not going to be in DC this year.
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  Andrew Langer from Seapack is going to join us. Paige
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  Lambermont from the Conservative the Competitive Enterprise Institute is going
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  to drop by and we're going to talk about energy,
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  because it's the root of it all. You've got food, clothing, shelter,
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  these are the things, you know. I saw something last
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  night that really we're talking about poverty and Canal Street
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  in New Orleans. You talk about these cities and it's
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  an abstract and I think a couple of years ago,
• 18:50
  we were in Memphis for Freedom Fest, the Scouson's wonderful event,
• 18:56
  and we were broadcasting live from there, and we're in Memphis.
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  That's a beat up town, too, beat up town, and
• 19:05
  there's a huge homeless encampment and We'll see where I'm
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  going with this in a second. This huge homeless encampment
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  right before I would get to the conference center that
• 19:17
  we're broadcasting from, and I posted pictures of it somewhere
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  on my social media platforms at Facebook. Seville Joe Thomas
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  is a photograph of this huge homeless encampment with the
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  building right behind it, and I made sure the photograph
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  framed the building that they all encamp in front of
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  the Federal Reserve. Did they do that intentionally? I don't
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  think they did, because it's you know, there's a food
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  pantry that comes and brings breakfast and coffee, like a
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  mission comes and brings some coffee and some hard rolls
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  and stuff and the first thing in the morning. But
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  it's right in front of the Memphis Federal Reserve offices,
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  huge homeless encampment, Like, well, there's a there's a photograph
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  for you. So and by the way, how is the
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  Federal Reserve working for us? Huh? How's that value of
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  that dollar? Say?
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  Speaker 17: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Ah, wes stabilized it. Stabilize it in a downward trajectory.
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  Our dollars buy less and less every year. We turn
• 20:30
  around and Linda Cook is fighting for her seat on
• 20:37
  the board like it was some birth right. I inherited
• 20:40
  this from my grandmother. No, you didn't. You're there to
• 20:44
  serve the people and if you're not. And somebody said
• 20:49
  something yesterday on the program about the Federal Reserve and
• 20:53
  the interest rates being too low causing the cost of
• 20:56
  housing to create her and they said the opposite. It
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  made you know, and I benefited from it. My mortgage
• 21:04
  is at three percent, but I had more money to
• 21:10
  spend on a house because the interest rate was lower.
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  So houses went up in price because there was more
• 21:17
  money available cheaper. It's one of the inflationary things. So
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  would it be great to have a lower interest rate, Yeah,
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  but it's it's mainly going to hit our credit cards
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  and things like that. We'll talk about that a little bit,
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  maybe coming up with some of our financial gurus, Stephen Campbell.
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  Maybe we'll talk to him about that Friday morning when
• 21:42
  he visits me. Man, just yes, I saw this guy.
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  He literally was drinking hand sanitizer, laying in the doorway
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  of a CBS drinking hand sanitizer, just completely sprawled out
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  on the street. And it shakes you, it really does.
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  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
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  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
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  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  Speaker 9: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:05
  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
• 25:16
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
• 25:25
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  Speaker 11: I'm great. Thanks for having me, Joe, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thanks for everything you guys do at Constituting America.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, right, exactly, Yes, you know, talk about.
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  Speaker 5: The work that Constituting America has been doing. And I
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  Speaker 20: So our organization was founded in twenty ten by Jannine
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  Turner and Kathy Gillespian. Our mission is for kids and
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  adults even to understand the Constitution, the relevancy of the Constitution.
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  You know, they always think of it as being, you know,
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  Amendment is barely a sentence. I think it's a sentence fragment.
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  I sound like one of those it's a living document people.
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  I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's it's a rule book.
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  But it's flexible enough to understand that in seventeen eighty
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  nine we were printing things on paper. Now we're printing
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  same thing as Thomas Paine doing his pamphlets. Is that
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  what you're trying to get to the kids.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, So we also want kids to understand that through
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  the note.
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  Speaker 11: So we have two learning objectives.
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  Speaker 20: We have a lot of different things that we do,
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  but one of the things that we do that I
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  specifically do is we go into classrooms teaching kids about
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  the relevancy of the Constitution.
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  Speaker 11: As they mentioned earlier, and we have two learning objectives.
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  Speaker 20: Number one, kids see how the Declaration the Constitution fit together.
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  Speaker 11: We use a quote by Abraham.
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  Speaker 20: Lincoln that said that the Declaration of Independence is the
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  golden apple. The Constitution is the silver frame that upholds it.
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  And what we mean by that is that the Declaration
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  of Independence is the prize, it's the trophy, but it
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  needs a trophy case that's the Constitution. So that's our
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  first learning objective is that kids see how the Declaration
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  of Independence and the Constitution fit together.
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  Speaker 11: We need one to support the other one. The other
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  one is that kids walk out of.
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  Speaker 20: There with a skip in their step understanding that they
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  have power to change their community. So we teach kids,
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  it you want to see change in your community or
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  Speaker 20: Or you know, you go into a rural community or
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  whatever community and rural community, I know their issue.
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  Speaker 20: In our toolbox of the First Amendment to show kids.
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  We have kids write a petition. I mean, what do
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  see it change? And how do you want to see
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  it change? And how do we walk through the right
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  the tools and the toolbox of the First Amendment to
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  bring about this. So you've written a petition? Great, have
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  you changed anything? No? Now what's your next tool? Well, now,
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  Speaker 11: Well, who are going to talk to it?
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  Speaker 20: You're going to talk to people in your community? Then, okay,
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  have you changed anything?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 20: Now we need to use Now we're going to organize
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  an assembly. So with your parent permission, two weeks from Saturday,
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  Speaker 11: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 20: And then okay, if you solved anything, no, Now you
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  Speaker 11: Have you solved anything?
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  Speaker 17: No?
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  Speaker 11: Now, who do you need to call?
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  Speaker 21: Now?
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  Speaker 11: You call your member of Congress.
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  Speaker 20: Even though it may not be, you know, a national issue.
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  But we're showing kids that they have power. They don't
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  to change their community, that they have power through the
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  First Amendment to change their community of things that they
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  Speaker 5: Talk about what the reaction is to a kid when
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  It was itching in the back of their ears somewhere.
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  You know, what's the reaction to young folks when you
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  center and you show them this and they actually see it.
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  Speaker 11: Manifest very excited.
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  Speaker 20: I remember one girl her quote literally was, uh, I
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  and we're like, no, Number one, you don't have to
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  Speaker 11: Our constitution is.
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  Speaker 20: For you, regardless of your political thought, your how you
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  register to vote, or your age, and you have the
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  Speaker 11: And our first.
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  Speaker 20: Amendment is one of those you know, gives you several
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, how does somebody help you out more?
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  You know? Do you need folks you know to start
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  So you know, what can people do when they email you?
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  What are you looking for them to help with?
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  Speaker 20: I think we're in the process of expanding our national footprint,
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  so we're not in every state, but reaching out to
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  us and getting information of hey, is this in my state?
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  Are we growing into that state? And how can they
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  Speaker 11: Group or we can bring it in.
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  Speaker 20: They can be brought into classrooms, you know, to watch
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  Speaker 11: We also have we're just wrapping it up right now.
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  I think you can do. And unfortunately, because you've got
• 46:03
  go woke or Go broke movie studios who are still
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  somehow finding money somewhere. I guess you know, Jeff Bezos
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  and or you know Steve Jobs Estate still has enough
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  money to fund movies like Avatar that you know, you know, stunning.
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  But oh, I get what you're saying. You know, as
• 46:28
  somebody pointed out to me, Avatar is just the Pixar
• 46:32
  animated sci Fi version of Pocahontas.
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  Speaker 25: Oh look, the colonials are coming. The colonialism is taking over,
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  and it's going to ruin the ecology too. And I mean,
• 46:45
  you know, Avatar managed to weave anti colonialism and environmentalism together.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's just like, oh, down there and we're
• 47:00
  gonna give it to you. Ah, that's fifteen yards for
• 47:04
  giving them the business. I mean, come on, you pile
• 47:07
  it on here. But science fiction also has that ability
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  to show you go woke or go broke in a
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  way that doesn't make anyone feel like, oh, he's making
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  fun of me, isn't he. Because we all we talk
• 47:21
  about this First Amendment guarantees your right to speak. But
• 47:24
  there's nothing in the First Amendment about being listened to,
• 47:28
  whether it's you know, Klup in San Antonio or Katie
• 47:34
  Iz in Minneapolis. You know, people like your on age.
• 47:38
  Who the hell is listening to you in Oregon with
• 47:42
  lots of people are listening to us in Minnesota and
• 47:46
  these places. They're sure they're blue cities, but they're not everybody.
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  And I don't even think they're electorally everybody. I just
• 47:54
  think sometimes that's who shows up and votes. You know
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  it's but science fiction has that amazing way when you
• 48:05
  read Moon is a Harsh Mistress or The Roads Must Roll,
• 48:10
  you want to talk about a rebuke of unionism like
• 48:13
  we were talking about on yesterday's show. The Roads Must
• 48:17
  Roll was written I think in the forties, way before
• 48:22
  I mean the mass union movement in America. That it
• 48:32
  was a Heinland short story. This was long before he did. Yeah,
• 48:40
  some of his seminal works Martians named Smith et CETERA
• 48:49
  Stranger in a Strange Land was long after he wrote
• 48:52
  The Roads Must Roll. But you know, when science fiction
• 48:56
  can be used and I think, like I said, in
• 48:58
  this overly woke time where we're sensitive to everything, except
• 49:05
  if you're a conservative, then you're not allowed to be sensitive.
• 49:08
  Oh no, then you're just a cry baby. Oh look
• 49:12
  at the conservative. He doesn't like being made fun of.
• 49:19
  It's like when the president pops everyone's cranium off at
• 49:23
  his cabinet meeting and they all lose their you know,
• 49:32
  collective bowel control. With statements like this one.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I don't have the right to do anything
• 49:42
  I want to do.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I'm the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone's head popping off. But you can even send up,
• 49:54
  you know, powerful people like the man who sold the Moon?
• 49:58
  Was it Robert Harriman, who's you know, I don't know
• 50:01
  if heinlind realized Robert Harriman was a was a real
• 50:04
  billionaire industrialist in New York. As im off, I Robot
• 50:14
  is is I Robot more tangibly important right now than
• 50:23
  ever before? And this was written in the fifties, I believe,
• 50:30
  when he wrote the Robot series. And so, so you
• 50:33
  can take these fanciful places or future scapes or anything
• 50:39
  like that and paint anything you want to. You want to,
• 50:42
  you want to do a story about, uh, a broken
• 50:47
  city that's corrupt and you know, and without actually having
• 50:52
  to worry about JB. Pritzker and you know, or Sandra
• 50:57
  Lee in San fran coming after you with their lawyers
• 51:00
  and you slandered me, and you're so you write it
• 51:03
  in a future escape, you write it, you know, the
• 51:06
  starship Heart of gold Lands at some country and yeah it.
• 51:15
  Douglas Adams, you are the great comedic works ever, The
• 51:19
  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, completely sending up the bureaucratic state.
• 51:25
  It's the reason I read it to my children and
• 51:27
  their preteens as a bedtime story, so that when they
• 51:31
  were adults, they'd every time they'd walk into a bureaucracy,
• 51:34
  they'd be like, ah, I get it now, I get
• 51:37
  why Dad was warning me about these people. But now
• 51:41
  with a mean spirit with a tongue in cheek or
• 51:47
  where you say, oh, well hold on, that sounds like
• 51:49
  what the woke people are doing. Ah, now I get it.
• 51:56
  So when you run into somebody who doesn't understand the
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  an Amendment, you're like, I remember that story that I read,
• 52:07
  even even to the point of something simple like in
• 52:11
  the I can't read. I'm not a I am not
• 52:14
  a Tolken guy. But I know that you know that
• 52:18
  there is stewardship of the forests woven in there, but
• 52:23
  not in an environmental way, but understanding that the forests
• 52:26
  can are probably better suited to take care of themselves
• 52:29
  if you leave them alone, and they want to be
• 52:31
  left alone. That kind of thing, Those kind of messages.
• 52:36
  I think we need more science fiction now until we
• 52:40
  get over this overly woke or go broke stuff. Anyway.
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