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"Pain Management" (Friday October 10, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The federal government has now been checked down for more
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  than a week. But Donald Trump, Speaker Johnson, and Republicans
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  in Congress, nowhere you found.
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  Speaker 2: Jeorge said, steal me stem have a day at least
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  for work.
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  Speaker 3: When my son comes up, drops a.
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  Speaker 2: Pet to scooping, not on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Joey has everything a dream, do all the treasures.
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  Speaker 4: Seven needs no one that Joe's as.
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  Speaker 5: Smiled, he all the aims.
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  Speaker 6: Pleas Joe here hold these truths.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be thank you for letting me be
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  of service to you at four three, four, eight, eight,
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  two four two one seven of those the phone number
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  or text message hotline. There uh and a lot to
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  talk about opioids, dragged out into the spotlight by the
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  New Jersey gubernatorial debate and the issues over whether Jack Chatdarelli,
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  the publisher who carried advertisements and articles about opioid pain medication,
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  should be held to accountable to accountability for promotion of
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  these legal products. And where is the borderline? Where is
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  the borderline? Is it the radio station's fault if they
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  run an ad for a gambling parlor and somebody becomes
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  addicted to gambling, or that we advertise the alcoholic beverage
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  stores in your state Pennsylvania, Virginia where the state runs them,
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  or even mentioned Hennessy in our sports report. If we
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  mention alcohol in front of somebody who becomes an alcoholic,
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  what's the liability there? Mikey Sheryl, which I apparently have
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  been mispronouncing name, But it's hard for me to say
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  the word Mikey. It just doesn't come out of my
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  MOUs like teamwork. But Mikey Cheryl bringing this up again,
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  it is born of and as much as we despise
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  what opioids are doing to our communities and especially driving
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  people to fenanel, it's the same idea of saying, Okay,
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  somebody did a crime with a gun, let's go after
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  the gun manufacturers or the people who advertised the gun manufacturers.
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  It's a slippery slope and we'll get in there. Bob
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  is Bob in Farmville, as we like to call him,
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  the host of the Good for America podcast. We'll get
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  into all kinds of things. Shut down, Mania, shut down.
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  As we approach day ten now and now the days
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  where the military may not get paid, where does that go?
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  Speaker 6: What happens with that?
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  Speaker 7: And is it as Chuck Schumer says to punch Bowl News,
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  every day keeps getting better. Is it good times or
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  is it great oldies? And what is it going to bring?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 7: And will somebody even remember it come September and October
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  of next year. Of course, the way they're going with shutdowns,
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  will just be back here talking about another continuing resolution
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  at this time next year. Anyway, we'll be back here
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  at Thanksgiving and probably again at Christmas as well, talking
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  about government shutdowns and short term spending plans to get
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  people passed, and in the gubernatorial debates, like I said,
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  dragging opioids, but also violence from prosecutors out into this
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  school where whether moderators.
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  Speaker 6: Wanted it or not.
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  Speaker 7: We'll get into that as well, but first we must
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  lay out our first things for you. Turning Point USA
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  is announced they're going to put on their own Super
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  during the Super Bowl. Bad Bunny and the folks who
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  will be performing will be there, but there will be
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  an all American halftime show. According to Turning Point, USA,
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  Attorney General Letitia James at the State of New York
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  has been indicted on a bank fraud charge, not by
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  a Trump appointed prosecutor, but by a grand jury in
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  the Eastern District of Virginia, the bluest part of Virginia.
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  US States are sending about two hundred troops to Israel.
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  The United States sending two hundred soldiers to Israel to
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  help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza. Meanwhile,
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  troops that have been sent into Chica are being cheered
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  by some citizens, according to Breitbart. One woman, Danielle Carter,
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  She says to the magazine she is the wife of
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  a retired Chicago cop. Meanwhile, at Judge April Perry from
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  the US District says the National Guards troops can be there,
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  but they can't do anything for at least two weeks
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  Speaker 6: She said.
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  According to Vladimir Putin's government, and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
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  Speaker 6: He needs this.
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  for some reason. I think Bob does. And that's good.
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  I appreciate Bob for that. But Andy called in, so
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  let me get to the listeners first at four three
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  four eight eight two four two one seven. Listeners always
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  go first, Andy, that's the I've just invented.
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  Speaker 1: That.
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  Speaker 6: Does that sound like a good motto?
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  Speaker 7: And left, and there's Florida beautiful this morning? Is Florida
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  nice this morning?
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  Speaker 6: A good job.
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  Speaker 7: Good job making that illegal, rond de Santis a nice
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  job on that.
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  Speaker 1: And not following up on it. The good part is
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  said Sophie Trader is getting married today.
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  Speaker 7: Oh well, I don't know who she is, but good
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  for her fellow athlete and Jordan's law.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even I'm probably.
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  Speaker 1: Just saying his last name right, and I'm gonna go
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  to l A l A is la la. But he's
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  like a baseball like stud and they're getting married, and
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  they put together this group of people who are mentoring uh,
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  you know, collegiate athletes.
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  Speaker 6: From mentoring younger people. Good for that all the things.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really cool. And her little brother actually
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  is kicking for the Colts right.
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  Speaker 6: Now and Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah like that that yeah right, he had got an
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  extra COVID year when he did a year.
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  Speaker 6: At Notre Dame. So he's like get that love. Oh wow,
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  it's cool for him? Is he the guy? Hold it?
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  Speaker 7: I saw that there was a YouTube thing about this kid.
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  There was something I can't remember what it was, but
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  there was something about it. He's been cut by like
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  every team in the NFL. Uh, and now he's on
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  with the Colts and he kicked like a whole bunch
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  of like two or three game winning field goals for him,
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  uh this year. But there was something like he's been
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  on four teams in two years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Spencer. Okay, really has only yeah he's only lost.
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  You know, he's missed one as a pro.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he did a year at Odor Dame.
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  Speaker 1: He did his like last year there. But you know,
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  the Trader family have been huge supporters of the institute,
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  all high in for me.
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  Speaker 7: So this guy's going to be in trouble at some point,
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  some some political thing will come up. He'll be another
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  one of these guys like you know, it gets in
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  trouble h for for speaking out these It's.
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  Speaker 6: Always the kickers, isn't it always the conservative kickers of America?
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  Speaker 1: He's he's just an incredible person. And he just got
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  married this summer too. I just learned that.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, it's just the family suite.
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  Speaker 1: And I photographed him, uh at a day of Ron
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  pulled me up and down in South Texas, and I
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  took the photograph and had it printed.
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  Speaker 6: Very nice, very nice. Went over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I took it over to Sophie and you know,
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  our family.
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  Speaker 6: So you're like, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: So you're you know, you're you're I want to I
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  want to ask you about the people you're You're a
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  free market business guy and you know.
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  Speaker 6: And and in.
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  Speaker 7: This Jersey debate, Cheryl is trying to make it out
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  that Chatarelli is responsible for all these opioid overdoses and
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  fentanyl poisonings because his magazine ran ads for legal medications.
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  And and again this is hard because some of these
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  things I don't believe we should be prescribing. And I
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  believe you can tie it all back to Obamacare. But
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  you know, it's it's the oldest trick in my book.
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  It's how do you regulate legal products from being advertised,
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  whether it's gambling or alcohol or you know, go back
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  to cigarettes, and uh, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 6: Speech is speech. You are allowed to say.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it all goes back to being a personal responsibility
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  for you know, you know, being being a good stirred
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  of your own body. This this opium crisis legalized opioids.
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  Speaker 6: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I had never been to the Thesis Institute, although I
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  had had them in my planning documents for a long time.
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  You know, I'm signed up to go to one of
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  these things, and little Lady asked me if I would
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  sponsor a speaker, and turns out the speaker was one
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  of those Uri guys from Russia. The I mean, it
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  was hilarious being there for the first time. The discussion
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  about forty of the talks were about this opioid crisis,
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  and Ron Paul and lou Rock or you know, kind
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  of ended the you know, the weekend there and I.
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  Speaker 16: Was just my jaws dropped.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea that the problem was that great,
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  you know, but you know a lot of people were
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  in pain, and you know they'll take things to you know,
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  alleviate their pain.
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  Speaker 7: Well, and I just learned a few weeks ago that
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  there is actually a medical use of fentanyl and has
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  to I think it has to do with dentistry. But
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  you know that there is actually a medical use for
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  this drug. It's the it's the knockoff stuff that gets
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  made half in China and half in Mexico. That's killing people.
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  But there is actually a reasonable medical use of it.
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  But I connect this back to Obamacare, Andy, because Obamacare
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  de incentivized doctors and hospitals actually fixing something. You've built
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  race running tracks, You're a runner. You know what pain
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  is when injury instead.
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  Speaker 6: Of saying.
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  Speaker 7: And so far as far as we can tell, not
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  addicted to obioids. But I mean, I don't want to judge,
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  But but here I'm My point I'm making is doctors
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  under Obamacare were d in sense device to fix injuries
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  rather than just trying to create a workaround through pain
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  management and the pain management industry. Uh and physical therapy
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  all useful things, but they became the answer rather than
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  orthopedic surgery.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, and.
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  Speaker 1: I've had body parts replaced. I was in a really
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  bad car crash like five years ago. It was in
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  downtown Richmond. We were going in to have Tom Root's
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  thirtieth birthday and got hit from a side street.
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  Speaker 7: Oh man, Yeah, and that's so many what happens to
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  a lot of different Yeah, that's that's what happens a
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  lot of folks. Well, bless you, sir, have a great weekend,
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  enjoy the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: It's all it's all about the free markets and you know,
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  just doing the best you can individually because.
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  House of Representatives of saying the quiet part out loud, Bob,
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  Speaker 6: About the way.
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  Speaker 7: She was very aggressive and often interrupting Abigail Spenberger. But
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  Speaker 6: What did you see from that?
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  Speaker 7: And do you agree with my characterization of how people
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  are responding to her debate performance.
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  Speaker 25: I haven't see the numbers on that. That's not totally
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  surprising that there would be different responses to it. I
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  thought Sears was trying to obviously shake up the race
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  the poetrajectory of it with the conventionalism saying that Spanburger
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  is ahead. I was a little concerned with her, with
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  I thought she was very weak on transgender I don't
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  Democrats in a way that we're not used to seeing
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  Speaker 7: Is that the fruit of you know these you know,
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  then that just turns off the voters who are in play. Sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, twenty four. Yeah, that's a different thing.
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  Speaker 25: Yeah, but hopefully a series was successful in exposing how
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  Speaker 6: That's Mikey.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Apparently, Mikey asked, Mikey, she'll say anything. I swear to goodness,
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  we've we've worked up this whole cheerio style ad campaign
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  for Jack Cheddarelli during the commercial breaks. You old enough
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  to remember the cheerios, ask Mikey. He'll eat it. He'll
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  eat anything, So give it to Mikey. She'll say anything.
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  You know, making this extrapolation that because he published newspaper
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  Galen press A published things like medical journals during COVID
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  in which they were suggesting that these medical treatments would
• 45:58
  help keep people out of medical offices, but still give
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  them access to medical care. And then smartphone app was
• 46:06
  created so that you could better connect to your doctor.
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  Speaker 6: All and we've gone back and checked.
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  Speaker 7: All of these were lauded by the Democrats in New
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  Jersey as well as Joe Biden in the administration. If anything,
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  she should be making hey out about Hey, Joe Biden
• 46:25
  thought your publication was pretty keen back then, just like
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  the Democrats should be worried about an Attorney general candidate
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  in Virginia that has a gun and apparently likes shooting
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  it or at least fantasizes about it. Opioids and the
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  application of them, And there's a brutality to my mindset
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  regarding inanimate objects. Things exist and they just sit there
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  on the counter until a human picks them up and
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  does something with them, abuses them, allows themselves, or over
• 47:10
  prescribes them, whatever it may be. It's the human factor
• 47:17
  from where I sit, and your results may vary. I've
• 47:19
  been having some great text message conversations regarding opioids. Opioids,
• 47:30
  this one from a friend of mine. Opioids are inherently
• 47:33
  addictive and do cause and to do will cause overdose.
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  Speaker 6: The entirety.
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  Speaker 7: The entire class of drugs should not have been approved
• 47:42
  for purposes for which they're prescribed regularly even today. And
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  I said, you know, my point is this was opened
• 47:51
  up as a way to give insurance companies a way
• 47:54
  out of paying for expensive surgeries. Remember Paul Krugman on
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  ABC television talking about the advisability of care panels, which
• 48:06
  are part of the Affordable Care Act, which Chuck Schumer
• 48:11
  and AOC have shut the government down in order to
• 48:14
  get the subsidies extended for that. Affordable Care Act created
• 48:22
  advisability of care panels, which now allow insurance companies to
• 48:27
  go to the government and say, we don't want to
• 48:29
  support a surgical fix for this guy's shoulder. Can we
• 48:33
  give him physical therapy and some pain medication. I said, well,
• 48:40
  we'll have to allow for some of these pain medications
• 48:42
  to be allowed. And it doesn't make and my friend agrees,
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  it doesn't make him liable because he advertised a legal
• 48:57
  product in his magazine and even public you know, Galen
• 49:01
  Press published medical journals and things like that opioids because
• 49:09
  their opiates are addictive. I will bring up here because
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  it's one of my favorite things to bring up the
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  percentage of us. There's a percentage of world wars that
• 49:22
  have happened around poppy fields, just saying there's a reason
• 49:30
  that coming up very soon we'll have Veterans Day and
• 49:32
  all the veterans will be wearing little paper poppies on
• 49:36
  their lapels. A lot of our blood has been spilled
• 49:40
  in and around poppy fields. Opiate taking the pain away.
• 49:49
  Pain is a physical response to saying, don't do that.
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  Speaker 6: If it hurts.
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  Speaker 7: When you lift your shoulder up this way, your body's
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  telling you don't lift to your shoulder up that way.
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  And if you think you should be able to, then
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  you go see a doctor. And most of the time
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  they would have said, well, we need to go in
• 50:09
  and you've got a rotator cuff or something like that
• 50:12
  specifically dealing with shoulder. And now it's well, you know
• 50:18
  you're fifty five, you're not really going to use that
• 50:21
  shoulder a whole lot. You know, you're an accountant, so
• 50:24
  you know you can still work the calculator with it.
• 50:26
  How about we get you some physical therapy and some
• 50:30
  pain medication. And for the lion's share of people, that
• 50:34
  has been effective. Look at the numbers your state, my state,
• 50:41
  just issuing their first quarter gambling numbers. The gambling numbers
• 50:46
  in the United States are eye popping, though not nearly
• 50:50
  as high as most states purported when they got their
• 50:54
  citizens to agree on legalizing the stuff. But the amount
• 50:58
  of billions of dollars we take out of our paychecks
• 51:02
  to spend on gambling and various types most of its
• 51:06
  sports book. Does this help you? Does this feed your family?
• 51:16
  Does it pay your electric bills? Or does it lead
• 51:19
  to greater problems with you paying your electric bill? Because
• 51:23
  most people lose. In order to be a self governing people,
• 51:28
  we have to be self governing. But if we want
• 51:35
  all these indulgences, we are just riding a roller coaster
• 51:39
  down to the ultimate demise of a free society into
• 51:43
  an authoritarian regime because we can't be trusted with the
• 51:48
  nice stuff anymore. Not a flaw but a feature. All
• 51:57
  this stuff that's allowing us to expose our corruptible psychees,
• 52:04
  our corruptible persons, our weakness is exposing our vices to
• 52:10
  be laid bare before all to see. It's being done
• 52:15
  so that somebody can come along, not all that far
• 52:17
  in the future, and say, ah, yeah, you can't have
• 52:20
  this stuff anymore. Put the Bill of Rights in the
• 52:25
  Constitution in a museum where it belongs. We need something
• 52:28
  much stronger. We need something that will help you keep
• 52:32
  you from doing all these bad things to yourself. Mark
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  my words. My mother's birthday would have been her ninety
• 52:45
  fifth birthday today anyway for you. I'm her son, So
• 52:48
  long and thanks for all the fish.
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  Speaker 19: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 19: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 26: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
• 53:04
  of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 14: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
• 53:09
  of their lives.
• 53:10
  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to all.
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  Speaker 14: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
• 53:18
  the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 24: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 14: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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  for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 19: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 27: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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  Speaker 14: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 26: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 14: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  more victories for veterans. Go to dav dot org.