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"Good-Bye, Dolly" (FTTxJT Wed 082626 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, blessings of a Tedstie on you and your kin
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  Speaker 3: this morning, and a Tedstie adjunct. And don't fool yourself,
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  Speaker 3: because her style wasn't exactly the same as Ted's. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to that little Dolly Parton was as much a Ted's
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  Speaker 3: the avatar as great Gonzo guitar man. Because she and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to draw this into, you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 3: press is still going crazy because TMZ gets more clicks
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  Speaker 3: than Fox News does. So they all try to get
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  Speaker 3: their TMZ on. By covering celebrity gossip and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this one's nose is out of joint because some boyfriend
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  Speaker 3: of someone or brother of a boyfriend said there was
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  Speaker 3: Narcan and now there's and there's scurrilous rumors all surrounding
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  Speaker 3: Hayden Panettiere and what may or may not. And of course,
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  Speaker 3: at this point, the spin goes on. But if it
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  Speaker 3: does turn out, if we ever find out to any
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  Speaker 3: reasonable degree that Hayden Panettiere's death was, if not intentional,
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  Speaker 3: brought on at least through the behaviors of someone who
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  Speaker 3: was depressed with where they were in their lives, for
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  Speaker 3: every Hayden Panettiere, there's two or three dozen Dolly Partons
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  Speaker 3: who are out there. And I'm talking in every milieu.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a Ted's D thing as well. that know
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  Speaker 3: what you do. And sure, there was a point when
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  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton was just a pretty blonde country singer, and
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  Speaker 3: she wasn't satisfied with that. And there was a point
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  Speaker 3: when Hayden Panettiere was just a pretty blonde young girl
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  Speaker 3: in movies and TV shows, better than most her age.
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  Speaker 3: And we all reach these forks in a road, whether
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  Speaker 3: you're a butcher or a baker, a candlestick maker, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make a difference. You all reach those forks in
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  Speaker 3: a road where what you were yesterday isn't sufficient anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You need to get better with some segment or change
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  Speaker 3: some segments of what you do. Whatever it is, it's
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  Speaker 3: for all of us. That's the lesson to be had
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to look at those things. But we
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  Speaker 3: must begin with our first things primarily. In South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll be the first to tell you, I was
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  Speaker 3: wrong about the way the runoff election would go yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman fell to Darlene Nardone 52.5% to 47.5% after
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  Speaker 3: President Trump weighed in. As a matter of fact, he
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  Speaker 3: weighed in in several of the primaries yesterday. Former Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: State Senator Mike Mazzei narrowly won the gubernatorial primary in
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  Speaker 3: a runoff yesterday, defeating State Attorney General Gentner Drummond by 50.3
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  Speaker 3: to 49.7 percent after President Trump weighed in on behalf
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  Speaker 3: of Mazzei. Democrat Everton Blair won a runoff yesterday to
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  Speaker 3: serve the remainder of Congressman David Scott's term in Georgia's
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  Speaker 3: 13th congressional district. Former chair of Gwinnett County School Board
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  Speaker 3: defeated Scott's daughter, Marcy Scott. Democratic Socialist Nikila Jasmine Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: no relation, won Oklahoma's Democrat U.S. Senate runoff as well yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: defeating Attorney and Minister Jim Priest to face Republican Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Hearn in November. Thomas received 60.5 percent of the vote. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: China pushed back against the economic D-Day proposals by the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: regarding Iran and Lin Jian, spokesman for China's foreign ministry,
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  Speaker 3: said Beijing will, quote, take all necessary measures to firmly
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  Speaker 3: safeguard its own rights and interests. President Trump said Tuesday
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. Navy has cleared all mines from international waters
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  Speaker 3: in the Strait of Hormuz. He also has sent Congress
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  Speaker 3: a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy
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  Speaker 3: while insisting the pact will be approved only if the
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  Speaker 3: kingdom normalizes its relations with the state of Israel. President
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  Speaker 3: Trump also has ordered American flags lowered to half-staff, federal
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  Speaker 3: buildings and federal grounds and national parks, naval vessels and
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  Speaker 3: other locations in honor of the passing of Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 3: at the age of 80. Canada Tuesday announced retaliatory tariffs
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  Speaker 3: on $ 19. 94 billion worth of U.S. goods, matching dollar for
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  Speaker 3: dollar the new duties imposed by Washington and unavailed financial
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  Speaker 3: support for Canadian businesses and workers caught in the trade war.
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  Speaker 3: And Ukraine says China is going to play a role
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us on this Tedstee, the day
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  Speaker 3: we celebrate Specifically, I think we should celebrate it every day.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that most of us do. The gifts
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  Speaker 3: that God has given us, the zealous pursuit of those
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  Speaker 3: gifts to the benefit of a grateful constituency who reward
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  Speaker 3: you thusly for your efforts. And that is Tedness. That
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  Speaker 3: is not feeling obligated to worry about what the haters
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  Speaker 3: have to say. This text message saying, what the hell
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  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton song was that? I've heard just about everything else,
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  Speaker 3: including way too many clips from Islands in the Stream
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  Speaker 3: with her and Kenny Rogers. But I've never heard that one.
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  Speaker 3: Was that Dolly or was that A.I. Joe? The song
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  Speaker 3: you heard that we play, and we play frequently here,
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  Speaker 3: is one that to me is.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, indicative of why Dolly Parton has Tedness,
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  Speaker 3: because she made an ad. And she got incinerated for this,
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  Speaker 3: because she did an ad, I think it was for UPS.
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  Speaker 4: She.
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  Speaker 3: You redid the whole 9 to 5 thing with Lily
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  Speaker 3: Tomlin and Hanoi Jane and all of that. But she
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  Speaker 3: redid the song from the movie to talk about side hustles.
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  Speaker 3: It was all about how, I think the ad was
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  Speaker 3: about how a good delivery service helps your side hustle.
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  Speaker 3: So you're out there, you're making Dungeons and Dragons pieces or...
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is you make, sheet music, whatever it is
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  Speaker 3: you're doing as a side hustle, it was made easier,
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  Speaker 3: I guess was the theme of the ad by the
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  Speaker 3: United Parcel Service. And everyone just killed her saying it
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  Speaker 3: was racist. This was, of course, in the height of
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  Speaker 3: everything was racist. If it rained, it was racist. Hurricane
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  Speaker 3: Katrina was racist. Everything was racist. This was the heyday,
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  Speaker 3: the salad days of guys like Harry Rogers. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: You know him by the name he goes by for
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  Speaker 3: book tours, Ibram Kendi, right? But Dr. Harry Rogers, Kendi,
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  Speaker 3: and his ilk, everything was racist. So suggesting that you
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  Speaker 3: work after work on something that you love to do,
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  Speaker 3: a particularly Tedness kind of thing to do, was racist,
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  Speaker 3: that it was racist to suggest that people do more
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  Speaker 3: work to succeed, not less work to succeed. And I
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  Speaker 3: just thought it fascinating that of all the people in
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  Speaker 3: all of Christendom to find themselves in the crosshairs of
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  Speaker 3: this is somebody whose image had been completely squeaky clean
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  Speaker 3: and we discover well-polished because those accusations, unlike the ones
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  Speaker 3: levied at many other people, just sort of slid off
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  Speaker 3: of Dolly. I mean, I don't even think she responded
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  Speaker 3: to it. I think a spokesperson said, you got to
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  Speaker 3: be kidding me. Or words to that ilk. It was
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  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl ad. It was one of those Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl ads that everyone talks about because it was a
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl ad and they'd spent big money. And I
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  Speaker 3: believe Dolly, the pay they gave Dolly went to her book,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Dolly's library book. If you don't know
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  Speaker 3: about this one, I mean, it's over 300 million books
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  Speaker 3: given away. And it's probably going to outlive Dollywood when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to her legacy. It's what's it called? The
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  Speaker 3: Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program. And every city around here
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  Speaker 3: has some adjunct of it in their public library system.
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  Speaker 3: Check into yours if you don't. They've gifted over 300
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  Speaker 3: million books to children around the world and work with
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  Speaker 3: either your local public library system or even through the
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  Speaker 3: schools to do it. And I thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So here in our flagship city, we have a big.
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  Speaker 3: The subject of authors. We have a big Harry Potter festival.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Queen City Mystic and Magic. And everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it ends with a Quidditch match. No, they don't actually
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  Speaker 3: fly around on brooms. But they do run around with
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  Speaker 3: brooms held between their legs, kicking a soccer ball, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, it's coming up in about a month's time,
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  Speaker 3: but they just issued a statement. You talk about books
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  Speaker 3: and their impact. Still now, what is it, 10 years
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  Speaker 3: since J.K. Rowling came out and said there are no
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  Speaker 3: trans people in the wizarding world and has been trying
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  Speaker 3: to live down that ignominity, quote unquote, ever since. Ennis
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  Speaker 3: Cantor should be in the next Harry Potter book. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: since he doesn't get drafted into the WNBA, she can
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  Speaker 3: write Ennis Cantor Freedom. Maybe he's some warlock from some
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  Speaker 3: like this year is doing its level best to do
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  Speaker 3: this Here Hold My Beer thing. type energy around the
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  Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus movement, the trans movement, really. I prefer to
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  Speaker 3: refer to it as the unicization of America. Sure, we'll
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  Speaker 3: cut out all of your... reproductive organs, and then you'll
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  Speaker 3: be happy. And you're not, but the upside is all
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  Speaker 3: we really wanted were your reproductive organs. And if it
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  Speaker 3: sounds like coming out of your radio, I'm blaming the
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  Speaker 3: eugenics movement for this, and I've blamed the eugenics movement
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  Speaker 3: for climate change as well, and the entire weaponization of psychosis,
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  Speaker 3: scaring our children into the idea of whether they cut
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  Speaker 3: their genitals off or not, just not wanting to have children,
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  Speaker 3: not wanting to continue the human race. Because over generations,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we just didn't push back hard enough. I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: back at my life thinking, I'm pretty sure we've continued
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  Speaker 3: to satirize and marginalize the idea that family is bad,
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  Speaker 3: Were you and Mike there burdened with kids? Was it
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  Speaker 3: a burden for you, Barry, coming up in the legal world,
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  Speaker 3: working for all those slumlords in Chicago was having a
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  Speaker 3: kid at home a burden to you and your spouse?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the greatest blessing that ever happened, and
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  Speaker 3: I wish more people understood that and the gravity of that.
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  Speaker 3: We wouldn't have so many unplanned pregnancies. But this is
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  Speaker 3: all part of the population bomb Paul Ehrlich tree. Climate change, trans,
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  Speaker 3: all of it is designed to make sure that the
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  Speaker 3: human race is in larger and larger numbers, doesn't procreate.
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  Speaker 3: you do something about it? I know that sounds ridiculous,
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  Speaker 3: but that phone call gets made all the time. Why
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  Speaker 3: K Street six or seven times. It just keeps winding
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  Speaker 3: back and forth. It's like a dollar sign. It's like
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  Speaker 3: How could that be? Why would you have that picture
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  Speaker 3: in your head as Wall Street intersects K Street all
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  Speaker 3: those times? But that phone call to... chairs of important
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  Speaker 3: committees or tie-breaking votes on important committees of regulation happen
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  Speaker 3: all the time. Hi, Senator Gore. And remember, Senator Gore
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  Speaker 3: was Dolly's senator for a while, and Tipper was out
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  Speaker 3: there putting the labels on Eminem's CDs, helping Eminem sell
• 31:23
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  Speaker 3: that then. I mean, it was the greatest thing since,
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  Speaker 3: you know, organic became a sticker you could get from
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  Speaker 3: anything of the tire scraps. Okay. And you have the
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  Speaker 3: check for five figures? Okay. Thank you very much. Here's
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: your six figures. I think it may be seven figures,
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• 32:18
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  Speaker 3: there getting her husband to put all these stickers on
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  Speaker 3: CDs and I mean, Dolly could have called and said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, listen, you're killing my record business. But she didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at the empire she had. So this is,
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  Speaker 3: the money she had earned from singing and said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: produced movies. She owned all of her publishing rights. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: it's not about sharing or this or that or the
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: other thing. We talk about this all the time. And
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: as a matter of fact, we talked about it with
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  Speaker 3: Elvis and Michael Jackson and some of the other folks
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  Speaker 3: who suffered with the weight of celebrity rather than saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: It's like when people slag the chief executive officers of businesses.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever run a business? Have you ever run
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  Speaker 3: a division of a business? Have you ever had to
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  Speaker 3: hire and fire people, make decisions that had spider webbing
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  Speaker 3: effects all through your business, and perhaps with impacts you
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  Speaker 3: couldn't even begin to imagine. What's the expression we use
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  Speaker 3: in politics all the time? Oh, have you ever signed
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  Speaker 3: the front of a paycheck? Meaning, have you ever been
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  Speaker 3: the guy writing the paycheck to an employee? My mother
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  Speaker 3: loved Dolly Parton for the simple fact that my mother
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  Speaker 3: felt a kindredness to Dolly because Nashville at the time
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  Speaker 3: was not the land of women in charge. Let's just
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: put it that way. They loved them female singers, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: they didn't own stuff. They didn't run things. Much like
• 34:49
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, dear, the the teller interviews are being conducted
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  Speaker 3: down the hall. And, you know, then you're branching out
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  Speaker 3: into Dollywood and saying, I want a place for kids
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  Speaker 3: hit with all the commercialism. I know it sounds funny
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  Speaker 3: to say without the commercialism, but she, she made it.
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  Speaker 3: She meant that she, wanted it to be a family-friendly,
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  Speaker 3: instead of getting slammed with sales pitches every time you
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  Speaker 3: turned around, just ride roller coasters and have a blast.
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  Speaker 3: She said once, this was years ago, but in an
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  Speaker 3: interview with the Tennessean magazine, I have a big dream
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  Speaker 3: really want to do is just to do what I've
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  Speaker 3: always done, own myself. She wasn't trying to manipulate other people.
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• 36:24
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• 36:31
  Speaker 3: And we're segueing right here into the FCC is being
• 36:35
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• 36:43
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• 36:50
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• 36:52
  Speaker 3: If you can buy placements within broadcasts, then money can
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: be connected directly to speech. But did you know that
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• 37:07
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• 37:14
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• 37:20
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• 37:22
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• 45:17
  Speaker 3: the idea of political advertising. Just brought it up at
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  Speaker 3: the very end as an adjunct. This is actually right
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  Speaker 3: off the news headlines. FCC wants to expand... the requirement
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  Speaker 3: and I love the way they make it sound like
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  Speaker 3: it's a discount. And let me give you a side
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  Speaker 3: effect of this requirement. So let's say there's a farmer's
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  Speaker 3: market in your town and a bunch of farmers, they
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  Speaker 3: want to help promote the fact that you have this
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  Speaker 3: farmer's market in town. And they're like, listen, we don't
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  Speaker 3: have a ton of money. And you tell them, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: you have to pay us $ 50 a commercial because we
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  Speaker 3: can't have anything below that because we want that to
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  Speaker 3: be our political rate. You have broadcasters who will not
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  Speaker 3: help small startup businesses get on the air for a
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  Speaker 3: dollar a holler. because it will lower the political rate
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: that they can charge congressmen go jump in the lake
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  Speaker 3: when their reelection campaign comes around. And there are few
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  Speaker 3: shining examples of how government retards things, word intentionally chosen.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: That's your WIC benefit, word intentionally chosen. The government in
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: its actions retards things benefit to a community because a
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: church group can't get a cheap rate for a commercial
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  Speaker 3: to promote their nativity scene. Or the Ramadan service. I
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: bet you that you can get the Ramadan service for free.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: But a commercial enterprise just starting out, a little food
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  Speaker 3: truck wants to tell people, hey, go to our website
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  Speaker 3: to find out where we are each day. And a
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  Speaker 3: radio station can't say, yeah, give me five bucks and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, five bucks will get you a commercial. You know,
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  Speaker 3: what do you have?
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  Speaker 4: $ 200?
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  Speaker 3: Great. That's 40 commercials. All right. So 40 commercials over
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, they'll tell you and we'll target them.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do that because now you have to allow,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: you know, citizens for the access to my airwaves. To
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  Speaker 3: buy political ads? Is that the FCC's idea now? Is
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: that the Free Thought Society can now buy ads, political ads,
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  Speaker 3: for the same low rate that Congressman Hooses gets? Which,
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: by the way, also then stops all these big corporations
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  Speaker 3: from helping out the little guy because they have to
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: protect their country. their political race, especially in states like
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: our flagship state of Virginia, where every year we have
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: an election, whether it's Congress or the State House, or
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: there's always something in November running. And broadcast, you don't
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: think we slice the bologna this thin? Oh, yay, how
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: we do. And that's just a great example of how
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: the government retards benefits. But I want to pivot because
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: there's so much going on, and I don't want to
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: wallow in one thing here, but let me ask you
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  Speaker 3: a question. I asked you to go put your metaphor
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  Speaker 3: hat on. So what do you think would happen if
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: your teacher at public school 41 said, come on kids,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to this Catholic church down the street and
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: the priest is going to teach us all about the
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  Speaker 3: sacraments and what the stations of the cross are And
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  Speaker 3: he's going to show us, you know, what the body
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  Speaker 3: of Christ means and what the blood of Christ means and,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: why we use crackers instead of unleavened bread. And we're
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: going to put on the vestments. You're going to get
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  Speaker 3: to feel what it means like you're going to fill
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  Speaker 3: the incense jar. What do you think the reaction would
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: be if people found out that your local public school
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: was going to take a field trip to do that? Well,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: in Palo Alto, California, the high school, under the guidance
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: of nonetheless than the principal of the high school, Brent Klein,
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: did exactly that. Except there is one small difference in
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  Speaker 3: the story. Except in this case, he went to a mosque.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: And parents are suing. filed the suit a week or
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  Speaker 3: so ago. During the fall 2025 mosque visit, students who
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: were minors were provided with religious attire from the Muslim
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: cleric and encouraged to wear it were on the site,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: the complaint reads. During that visit, students were provided with
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Qurans and taught that Islam in particular promotes social justice.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: The field trip activities allegedly included observation of a duhr prayer,
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: discussion of the meaning of worship, and engagement with participants
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: in the Nur Hifs Academy, a host institution's religious youth program,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: in which Islamic students memorized the Quran. Female students were
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: provided with hijabs to wear, and all students were gifted
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Qurans to take home for personal use. Hey, kids, here's
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: the Old Testament. Why don't you go take this, especially
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: the part about the Ten Commandments, why don't you? Schools
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  Speaker 3: can't even show you the Charlton Heston freaking movie, The
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Ten Commandments. Never mind, display them. Palo Alto, a particularly
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: ethnically indiverse community, perchance. But as I said, it's not
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: about the mosque per se. It's if you are one
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: of these zealots who says even saying the word religion
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: in school is some violation that's going to get you fired.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Never mind kneeling down and praying at the end of
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: a high school football game. If you're going to claim
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: that public schools, because they get public money and they're taxpayer-funded,
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  Speaker 3: can't have anything to do with any religion whatsoever, how
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  Speaker 3: does this wash? I'm not even being Islamophobic or anything else.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, how does that wash? Did they take
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: a trip to the Catholic Church the next week? Did
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: they go to the temple and read the Torah and
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  Speaker 3: discuss it and debate and why the Jewish nuclear family
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: is the core of their church, not necessarily the prayer meetings?
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: And what does community mean to each one? And what
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: about Martin Luther? Not Martin Luther King. What about Martin Luther?
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