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"Who Should Pay?" (Monday, June 01, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 6: one guarantee I have of the peace deal that's going
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Speaker 6: to come out of this battle with Iran is that
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Speaker 6: there will be no nuclear weapons. They've agreed to that,
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Speaker 6: Trump's administration sending another proposal to Iran for discussion, another
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Speaker 6: See you see this is what happens when you miss meetings?
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Speaker 6: Okay anyway four three four eight eight two four two
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Speaker 6: one seven traditional phone calls. Love the conversation, but I
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Speaker 6: folks working in the UH standards and practices and corrections
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Speaker 6: and a restatement department A first thing today. I'll get
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Speaker 6: into those in a moment, but I want to find
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Speaker 6: out how gold and Silver are greeting us this Monday morning.
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Speaker 6: Our friend James Luck, fourth generation gold dealer from jcsgold
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Speaker 6: dot com.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, James. How are you, sir?
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Speaker 13: I'm doing well, Joe, but I didn't know we had
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Speaker 13: meeting either.
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Speaker 5: I think I've missed them.
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Speaker 6: All right, Maybe I need to do a better job
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Speaker 6: in calling them. See this goes back to what I
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Speaker 6: was saying half an hour ago about you know, Greg Popovich,
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Speaker 6: you know, with san Antonio making it into the NBA Finals,
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Speaker 6: you know, I.
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Speaker 5: Feel bad for Greg.
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Speaker 6: Every picture I've seen of him in the luxury boxes,
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Speaker 6: you know, attending the games, he looks like Christopher Pike
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Speaker 6: from the original Star Trek series, And I'm like, can
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Speaker 6: somebody catch a better picture of him than that?
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Speaker 5: Please?
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Speaker 6: Because the guy's legend, the guy's leadership legend is amazing.
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Speaker 6: I mean, just kept resetting with new players, and star
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Speaker 6: players would.
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Speaker 5: Leave, and yet they're there.
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Speaker 6: He'd be in the NBA Finals or the Western Conference
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Speaker 6: finals and he just kept winning. Joe Gibbs very similar
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Speaker 6: to that. So maybe I just need to do a
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Speaker 6: better job of explaining when the when the team meets
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Speaker 6: are James.
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Speaker 5: So, how are gold and silver doing?
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Speaker 13: We have a mixed day so far for gold and silver.
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Speaker 13: Gold is down one percent, down forty four dollars, but
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Speaker 13: hovering right at that forty five hundred dollar mark, dipping
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Speaker 13: just below right now while we've been talking to forty
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Speaker 13: four ninety six. We'll see if that can hold at
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Speaker 13: forty five hundred today. Silver, on the other hand, is
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Speaker 13: up a little about three cores seven percent to seventy
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Speaker 13: five dollars, and eighty one cents, So silver is shining
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Speaker 13: this morning.
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Speaker 6: And again this is one of those points, you know,
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Speaker 6: and I hopefully people were keeping you busy over the
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Speaker 6: weekend and that's when you get to the shop this morning.
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Speaker 6: You've got a lot of packages to get off to folks.
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Speaker 6: But if you go there any old time, and I've
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Speaker 6: said this before, it's great because you can check in
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Speaker 6: on the price, but you shouldn't be fixating on oh,
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Speaker 6: it's down a little bit, it's up a little bit,
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Speaker 6: unless you're going to see where they roll back some
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Speaker 6: as an opportunity to you know, add a little bit
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Speaker 6: more to your portfolio more easily.
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Speaker 13: Right, that's exactly right. I always tell people, you know,
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Speaker 13: we're not traders. This isn't a short term investment. This
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Speaker 13: is a long term hold. This is generational wealth. This
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Speaker 13: is something that you you know, are hedging against inflation
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Speaker 13: and the shrinking dollar, but you are holding for.
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Speaker 5: The long term.
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Speaker 13: And that's why we always zoom out on the charts
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Speaker 13: and you know, look at the price of gold from
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Speaker 13: twenty years ago, look at the prices over from twenty
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Speaker 13: years ago, and it's because it is a long term investment.
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Speaker 13: It isn't a jump in, jump out quickly type of thing.
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Speaker 21: It's something that you physically hold.
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Speaker 6: On to, right, And that's the point of it is
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Speaker 6: we want to make sure that people are you know,
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Speaker 6: are are getting the most out of it, because that's
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Speaker 6: that's the part that you have to look at when
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Speaker 6: you're doing Golden SEF or any kind of investing. Really,
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Speaker 6: it's about the long term. It's about it's about making
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Speaker 6: sure that you have something finished, you know, when you're
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Speaker 6: done working, whenever that may be. I don't know what
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Speaker 6: your schedule is on that, but I've got miles to
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Speaker 6: go before I rest, mostly because I didn't get invested
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Speaker 6: in gold and silver so early on. But I'm trying
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Speaker 6: to catch up on that now. So I'm working on it.
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Speaker 6: But you guys, you talk to a lot of folks.
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Speaker 6: How many of them do you see or in the
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Speaker 6: twenty and thirty year old range where they really want
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Speaker 6: to get started now and who knows where they'll be
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Speaker 6: by the time they're sixty five or seventy.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that's definitely picked up quite a bit in recent years.
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Speaker 13: You know, when I first started doing this, it was
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Speaker 13: nobody in their twenties and thirties, But now it's more
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Speaker 13: of like, you know, I've been thinking that I need
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Speaker 13: something in addition to my stock portfolio or my T
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Speaker 13: bills or my other investments. I feel like I might
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Speaker 13: need some physical gold and silver. And that's what we suggest.
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Speaker 13: It's a it's a piece of the puzzle. It's not
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Speaker 13: your whole investment, it's not your whole whole portfolio, but
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Speaker 13: it is one piece of the puzzle.
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Speaker 22: UH.
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Speaker 13: And it definitely is gaining traction across the younger crowd
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Speaker 13: for sure that people understand that they they may need
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Speaker 13: some golden silver there to actually physically.
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Speaker 5: Hold on to.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, amen to that, and and hopefully we find better
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Speaker 6: and easier ways for people to get into that. Anyway,
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Speaker 6: go to jcsgold dot com and you can find out
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Speaker 6: all about it and UH and talk to a family,
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Speaker 6: not a call center with a quota and a call
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Speaker 6: sheet and UH and commissions. This is a family that's
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Speaker 6: been doing this since the Kennedy administration, back when John
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Speaker 6: Kennedy met the president, not the senator from Louisiana.
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Speaker 5: Uh. James, you have a great morning, sir. Thanks Joe,
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Speaker 5: you too, and the brother.
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Speaker 12: I won't thank you mother forard that it looks could.
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Speaker 5: Kill you would be any earlier. I made a quick comparison.
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Speaker 6: I said, you know, if a Republican had, you know,
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Speaker 6: Susan Collins decided to start taking you know, and finding
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Speaker 6: male staffers to started sending and it started sending this
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Speaker 6: stuff out to male staffers. Do you think there would
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Speaker 6: be room on TV for any other news stories. I mean,
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Speaker 6: you would have obviously the news stories of the text messages,
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Speaker 6: and you would have the news stories about the news
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Speaker 6: stories about the text messages. Of course, we'll have to
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Speaker 6: interview the reporters that broke the stories, so we have
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Speaker 6: to have those news stories too. And then you'll have
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Speaker 6: the news stories about sexual harassment in the workplace, which
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Speaker 6: will of course also refer to the Republican and the
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Speaker 6: sexting texting, and then and then you would also have
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Speaker 6: to have the think pieces, the NPR stuff.
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Speaker 21: And now we visit with workplace psychologist Deanna Riggs, who
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Speaker 21: is going to explain to us, you know, and and
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Speaker 21: so it would go on forever.
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Speaker 5: You wouldn't even know what, you know.
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Speaker 6: The first opening round results from the French Open or
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Speaker 6: the NBA Finals matchup would be because there'd just be
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Speaker 6: the texting scandal involving a Republican member of the US
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Speaker 6: Senate or a Republican candidate for the US Senate. But
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Speaker 6: it just strikes me as funny that Graham Platner, the
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Speaker 6: Democrat nut cluster, is doing the same thing that you
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Speaker 6: This morning we were telling you and again it's a
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Speaker 6: controversial position to you know, and if you're joining us
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Speaker 6: in progress. I was asked about this victim of weaponized
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Speaker 6: government fund Mike Pence out on TV over the weekend
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Speaker 6: saying I'm encouraging the President to drop this.
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Speaker 21: It's the president even still taking your calls, Mike, you're.
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Speaker 6: Making it sound like you just you still have the
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Speaker 6: drop this weaponization fund.
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Speaker 5: But but to me, I don't have a problem.
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Speaker 6: And Clark gave voice to what a lot of people
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Speaker 6: say about the Victim Weaponization Fund, including former Vice President Pence,
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Speaker 6: is that it's taxpayer money for something the taxpayers didn't do.
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Speaker 6: But I would pause it to you that yes they did,
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Speaker 6: Yes we did. These are the people we've allowed in government.
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Speaker 6: We've allowed these foxes to tell us, to convince us
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Speaker 6: they're guarding the chicken coop, and each time they add
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Speaker 6: a little bit more authority to their job description, we
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Speaker 6: shrug and say, well, it seems to make sense. And
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Speaker 6: then we turn around and find out that they can
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Speaker 6: use the weapons of government, the surveillance state. FBI folders
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Speaker 6: on parents at school board meetings. Come on, now, really,
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Speaker 6: it wasn't that long ago where that kind of thing
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Speaker 6: was heresy. They think that the FBI would own open
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Speaker 5: A school board meeting for hate crimes. You understand that
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Speaker 5: if somebody looks at your resume and finds out or
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Speaker 5: you've been accused by the FBI have hate crimes.
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Speaker 6: You think you're going to get a job, You think
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Speaker 5: You're lucky you still have voting rights.
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Speaker 6: Accused of such things hate crimes, we're not going to
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Speaker 6: hire you. Well, we'll hire Graham Platner before we hire you.
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Speaker 6: You've been accused of hate crimes by the Federal Bureau
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Speaker 6: of Investigation. But you see, this is what we've allowed
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Speaker 6: to happen. We voted for these people. Text message came
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Speaker 6: earlier on. We were talking about Platner, and you know why.
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Speaker 6: You know he wants to talk about issues and not character.
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Speaker 6: Play you the CLI and he wants to talk about issues,
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Speaker 6: not character. But what character are you going to employ?
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Speaker 6: What flaws in your character will allow you to make
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Speaker 6: decisions contrary to those of the voters in Maine that
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Speaker 5: They're like, well, how we better vote for her?
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Speaker 6: Because this guy you don't know who he's being run by,
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Speaker 6: don't know who's making a phone call to him say hey,
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Speaker 6: you know that stuff that hasn't made it out to
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Speaker 6: the press yet. Just saying, just saying, But I'm fine
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Speaker 6: with the taxpayers picking up the bill for the weaponization
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Speaker 6: of government because we're the government. And if we see
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Speaker 6: that position and say, no, the government was weaponized against
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Speaker 6: other citizens, but that's not our fault, then we have
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Speaker 6: abdicated our position as owners of.
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Speaker 5: The US government. Finally in the left will finally have
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Speaker 5: its coup de graze.
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Speaker 36: That makes sense, Clark, Okay, I will grant you that,
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Speaker 36: but I still think we fail to disincentivize the behavior
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Speaker 36: because we are not being represented.
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Speaker 22: They think they're ruining us. So here, I'll offer you
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Speaker 22: a compromise. Okay, Take every penny from Nancy Pelosi, Andrew McCay, Comey,
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Speaker 22: Jack Smith, Liz Cheney, everybody at DOJ that was involved,
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Speaker 22: everybody that the FBI was involved in. I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 22: was only following all. This is not an acceptable excuse.
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Speaker 22: Take every penny they have and then make up the
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Speaker 22: difference with taxpayer money.
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Speaker 5: How about that? You know, that's fine.
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Speaker 6: You know if if the federal government goes and tries
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Speaker 6: to get you know, victim money, it's it's what's the code.
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Speaker 6: There's US code that says you can't profit from committing
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Speaker 6: a felony. Uh, Like, you know these guys who write
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Speaker 6: a book and then you know, go on the book
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Speaker 6: tour and everyone celebrates them, and they make a ton
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Speaker 6: of money off of selling the book about the crime
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Speaker 6: they committed. You know, take all that money, attach all
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Speaker 6: that money. Take go after them because it's fraud against taxpayers.
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Speaker 6: You can, you can go after them for you know,
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Speaker 6: putting the money back into the fund or replacing the
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Speaker 6: moneies that had to be paid out. But we allowed
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Speaker 6: you know, as harshly as possible, and we have to
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Speaker 5: We're not going to change that, Okay.
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Speaker 22: But now two things there.
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Speaker 6: You know, certainly when when the fix has been into
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Speaker 6: that great degree. Sure, So this text message on that point, Clark,
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: The the issue, as Mike brings up, is is well,
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Speaker 6: how do we fix this. The Constitution, obviously, Mike writes,
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Speaker 6: has a blind spot when it comes to this kind
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