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"Tonight's the Night" (FTTxJT Tue 110326 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops the kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 8: Let me be your Joe. Is it really today?
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  Speaker 1: Is it now?
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  Speaker 9: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 8: this morning, satirized for your protection. We'll tell you the news,
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  Speaker 8: but the people in the middle of it, besides you
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  Speaker 8: and me, we're not going to take as seriously as
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  Speaker 8: they want us to. Because that's what gives them their
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  Speaker 8: superpower over us. It is election day. It has arrived.
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  Speaker 8: Just when you thought it was so far away, you'd
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  Speaker 8: never get there. It is finally here. And that may
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  Speaker 8: be a feeling of vertigo you feel in your head. What?
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  Speaker 8: By sometime in the middle of next month, we should
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  Speaker 8: know what California's vote totals are. And then we'll be
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  Speaker 8: able to settle in on who's won and who hasn't.
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  Speaker 8: At the end of the day, I can predict this much.
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  Speaker 8: Not much is going to change next year. I hate
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  Speaker 8: to say that because we need conservatives turning out. Because
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  Speaker 8: what will happen for the next two years, if Hakeem
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  Speaker 8: Jeffries and Chuck Schumer become the leaders of the House
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  Speaker 8: and Senate, is a gridlock that you've never seen before
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  Speaker 8: and a narrative that it is all Donald Trump's fault,
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  Speaker 8: that he just won't do what the Democrats tell him
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  Speaker 8: to do, such as Medicaid for all. And the narrative
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  Speaker 8: will be he's protecting his billionaire buddies. And you'll have
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  Speaker 8: government shutdowns that will stretch on ad nauseum, blamed on
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump and you and me. And then they will
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  Speaker 8: use that to try to win the presidency. And then
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  Speaker 8: that's when you'll get Medicaid for all. Now, the Republicans
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  Speaker 8: who I think in some cases are hoping they don't
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  Speaker 8: win the majority for the next two years. will then
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  Speaker 8: campaign against that in 2028. You see, this is what
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  Speaker 8: happens when you live in the middle of strategery. Everyone's
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  Speaker 8: always thinking about the next day. Nobody's doing the seven
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  Speaker 8: seconds in front of you process that they teach you
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  Speaker 8: in football camp, right? Go vote because, sadly, I don't
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  Speaker 8: think half of us are going to because they've been
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  Speaker 8: inundated with stories about illegals voting. And hey, we've got
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  Speaker 8: more of those. But the only way to fight back
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  Speaker 8: on that is for you to vote and for you
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  Speaker 8: to vote more. And for you to vote in such
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  Speaker 8: numbers that they couldn't possibly come up with enough phony
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  Speaker 8: baloney votes to make it count. I've already voted. My
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  Speaker 8: wife's already voted. My kids have already voted. I'm going
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  Speaker 8: to be a poll watcher later today, so will my wife.
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  Speaker 8: So we're doing what we can and you need to
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  Speaker 8: do what you can, whoever you support. Like I said,
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  Speaker 8: I was talking to Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation.
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  Speaker 8: I want better Democrats, too. I don't just want better.
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  Speaker 8: I know, I know. Music played. Time to do news, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: First things this morning, Supreme Court yesterday rejected an emergency
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  Speaker 8: request from the administration to set aside thousands of California
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  Speaker 8: mail-in ballots until officials could determine whether the voters are U.S. citizens.
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  Speaker 8: or not, the justices declined to intervene in the case. U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, meanwhile, announced more arrests of foreign
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  Speaker 8: nationals accused of illegally voting in American elections. The latest
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  Speaker 8: cases involved non-citizens accused of casting ballots in federal, state,
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  Speaker 8: and local elections. Among those, Jesus Lopez, Mexican national and
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  Speaker 8: green card holder, accused of illegally voting in 15 elections
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  Speaker 8: between 2000 and 2024. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
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  Speaker 8: told Newsmax Friday that more than 300,000 non-citizens have been
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  Speaker 8: flagged on state and voter rolls so far. The United
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  Speaker 8: States has launched new strikes against Iran's strategically important Qeshm
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  Speaker 8: Island on Monday, part of a series of limited military
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  Speaker 8: operations to remind the Iranian regime that there is a
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  Speaker 8: war going on. United States will mediate negotiations between Ukraine
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  Speaker 8: and Russia in Abu Dhabi in the Arab Emirates later
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  Speaker 8: this month as President Trump continues to try to end
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  Speaker 8: the war between Russia and Ukraine. Steve Witkoff announced these
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  Speaker 8: meetings on X in a post yesterday. The discussions will
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  Speaker 8: focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, and humanitarian measures. Witkoff
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  Speaker 8: wrote the United States will mediate working-level negotiations between Ukraine
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  Speaker 8: and Russia on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. Fox News
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  Speaker 8: has suffered one of the steepest audience declines in years,
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  Speaker 8: losing 30% of its daily viewers ahead of today's midterm elections.
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  Speaker 8: Lachlan Murdoch, the head of Fox News after his father
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  Speaker 8: passed Monday, said the figures were just a sign of
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  Speaker 8: viewer fatigue. Dodging the question as to whether it was
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  Speaker 8: his programming that made the viewers fatigued. And that he
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  Speaker 8: was asked if they would be abandoning the network programming
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  Speaker 8: and he said they'd be continuing to stay the course.
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  Speaker 8: JCS Gold was telling us yesterday that gold and silver
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  Speaker 8: were on quite a discount. Does that continue today? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 8: Gold is down $ 38 to $ 3, 908. Silver is down $ 1. 73
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  Speaker 8: to $ 48. 94 per ounce. I only know this because I
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  Speaker 8: go to their website, jcsgold.com. So can you. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 8: you call them at 434-979-COIN. to get advice about gold
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  Speaker 4: I'm not only in awe of their beauty and kindness,
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  Speaker 8: Just look at the.
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  Speaker 7: Here is the sound of thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Of Making mornings great again. First thing today on the
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  Speaker 1: Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight's the night we'll make history.
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  Speaker 19: As sure as dogs can fly.
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  Speaker 8: They can code as far as I really understand.
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  Speaker 11: Now take any risk.
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  Speaker 8: Commit felonies. To tie back the hands of time.
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  Speaker 1: And stay with you here tonight.
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  Speaker 8: It would be a great thing if everything happened in
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  Speaker 8: isolation from one another. If each moment was not somehow
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  Speaker 8: going to impact all the other things going on around us. Reminder,
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  Speaker 8: for example, Patrick Henry's famous give me liberty or give
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  Speaker 8: me death speech was given in front of a body
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  Speaker 8: of elected officials who said, didn't want to do the
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  Speaker 8: things that their constituents wanted to do because they stuck
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  Speaker 8: their finger into the air and said, the wind ain't
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  Speaker 8: blowing my way. Too many of my constituents don't want
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  Speaker 8: to break free from Britain. They like Britain. They figured
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  Speaker 8: out Britain. They figured out how to make money off
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  Speaker 8: of Britain. So why would we want Britain to leave?
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  Speaker 8: Where will we get our money from? And I'm sorry
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  Speaker 8: if we sanctify people like those who were alive in
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  Speaker 8: the United States 250 years ago, but most of them
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  Speaker 8: didn't want to get rid of Great Britain's occupying force.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't. Britain, because King George was suffering the mental
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  Speaker 8: declines accelerated by, from what we understand to be syphilis,
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  Speaker 8: or just a family tree that didn't branch enough, Or
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  Speaker 8: a combination thereof. Couldn't. You know. Manage that. Got P.O.'d.
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  Speaker 8: Started kicking in doors. And little by little. People were like.
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  Speaker 7: Alright.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe Patrick was right. Maybe we need to get rid
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  Speaker 8: of these. Red coated jackasses. Luckily enough. Listened to him. St.
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  Speaker 8: John's Church to support the idea of militarily trying to
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  Speaker 8: kick this occupying force out of our country. I'm not
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  Speaker 8: talking about military action, but we have an occupying force
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  Speaker 8: in our country. Ideologically, it is the idea that you
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  Speaker 8: are a slave to everyone else. and that that must
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  Speaker 8: be dictated to by government. And that's the abstract. And
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  Speaker 8: this is why nobody watches Fox News anymore. You know,
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  Speaker 8: talk radio is booming. News television is dying. It's probably
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  Speaker 8: a little bit of what we warned Ted Turner about
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  Speaker 8: when he launched CNN. Who's going to, first of all,
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  Speaker 8: what are you going to fill 24 hours a day,
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  Speaker 8: seven days a week with? And second off, at some point,
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  Speaker 8: I want to laugh a little bit. Remember Fox News,
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  Speaker 8: we had the story about Lachlan Murdoch and I, sorry,
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  Speaker 8: Rupert has passed on the baton. He's still, you know,
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  Speaker 8: as much as any 95 year old is kicking and
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  Speaker 8: there are still some marbles left in there, but let's
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  Speaker 8: not kid ourselves. Fox News was built on Homer and Marge.
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  Speaker 8: This is the house that the Simpsons built. This is
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  Speaker 8: the house that X-Files built. This is the network that
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  Speaker 8: the NFL built. This network was not built on Sean
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  Speaker 8: Hannity or Brian Kilmeade. As much as I like both
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  Speaker 8: of those individuals, it was not built on any of
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  Speaker 8: the interchangeable news anchors who have all gone off to
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  Speaker 8: take shots at Fox News from afar. Because the human
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  Speaker 8: brain needs more than just input. It needs engagement and
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  Speaker 8: just being sales pitched all the time. Yeah, and newsrooms
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  Speaker 8: do that. It's wearisome. That's why Fox News's ratings are down.
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  Speaker 8: It's Because anyone who does that all the time is
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  Speaker 8: going to have people saying, I can't listen to it.
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  Speaker 8: My flagship station, we have the blessing of people who
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  Speaker 8: believe in what you and I do each morning. So
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  Speaker 8: they come back to us, even if I put an
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  Speaker 8: NFL football game on it on Monday night or Sunday
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  Speaker 8: night or whatever. We break for high school football and
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  Speaker 8: then they come back to hear you and me get
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  Speaker 8: together on Saturday mornings. Because I can catch you up
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  Speaker 8: and you know, it's a little song, a little dance,
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  Speaker 8: a little seltzer in your pants. We don't take these
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  Speaker 8: puffed up pufferies too seriously. They're little dough balls to
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  Speaker 8: begin with. And they were a reminder that we, you know,
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  Speaker 8: 250 years, most of us haven't agreed with the other
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  Speaker 8: most of us, but we get it done because we
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  Speaker 8: don't try to put ourselves into other people's business. that's
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  Speaker 8: what's on the line tonight is you've got a party
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  Speaker 8: that little by little incrementally has been inserting itself into
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  Speaker 8: other people's business too much. That's what's on the line.
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  Speaker 8: So if you haven't voted that or voted yet, stick
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  Speaker 8: that into your pipe and smoke it for a while.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's legal in most states now. Dr. Clark
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  Speaker 8: is hanging on the line here at 434-882-4217 off to
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  Speaker 8: a An early start in Alabama. Good morning, Clark. What's
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  Speaker 8: going on?
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  Speaker 16: Just another day in paradise, Joe.
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  Speaker 13: So, let's see.
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  Speaker 9: When you and I were kids, we heard a story.
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  Speaker 16: About a goose. that laid a golden.
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  Speaker 8: Egg yeah I've heard that yes yes I have.
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  Speaker 16: What weren't you supposed to do to that goose Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Take care of it feed it you.
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  Speaker 9: Weren't supposed to kill it okay no that's what you
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  Speaker 9: weren't supposed to do apparently lackluster Murdoch never heard that story.
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  Speaker 8: I like the twisting of his name.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, when Fox was far right, what they
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  Speaker 9: were was fair and balanced. But because everybody else was
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  Speaker 9: totally left, in the middle seemed pretty far right.
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  Speaker 8: And they dominated.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean, they completely dominated the ratings. Now,
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  Speaker 9: when Lackluster and his brother took over, They're a pair
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  Speaker 9: of lefties and they went left. And, you know, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 9: but very attractive women and leftist news could not produce
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  Speaker 9: the same ratings as very attractive women and fair and valid.
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  Speaker 9: So there's that. Now, on this poll watching business, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Joe, there wouldn't be so many poll dancers if there
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  Speaker 9: weren't so many poll watchers.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, listen, what I'm doing today, I don't require singles for, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 16: Maybe that's a different one.
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  Speaker 8: It's a different one. And believe me, I have found myself,
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  Speaker 8: though not an aficionado, I have friends. who would say, hey, Joe,
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  Speaker 8: let's go to lunch. And they'd pick me up at
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  Speaker 8: my house, and we'd drive to the strip club. And
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  Speaker 8: I'm like, really? This is where you want to go
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  Speaker 8: for lunch? And he would, oh, my God. And he
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  Speaker 8: would order food at the strip club. I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 8: was like, please, can we just go to a restaurant?
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  Speaker 8: If we want to come by here on the way home,
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  Speaker 8: that's fine. And talk to some girl who has a
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  Speaker 8: sketchy grasp of the English language, fine. But please don't
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  Speaker 8: make me have lunch here. No, no, no, no. That's
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  Speaker 8: a whole different kind of poll watching going on this
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  Speaker 8: afternoon with me.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, I'm Brant, and her name is Sherry.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 6: She's a friend of mine whom we were just praying
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  Speaker 8: Labor Department's October jobs report starting with a jo- We've
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  Speaker 8: many creative people writing insurance company commercials, and there's not
• 29:04
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  Speaker 7: Um.
• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 31:36
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• 31:41
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  Speaker 8: country supports Donald Trump and you can't program to that?
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• 32:20
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• 32:23
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• 32:40
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  Speaker 8: So you voted with your feet. It's like Geddy Lee
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  Speaker 16: Oh, trust me, Joe. I'm very aware of that. Last
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  Speaker 16: Oh, a lot of things. First off, Fox News, their
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• 35:46
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• 35:50
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• 35:55
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• 35:59
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• 36:03
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• 36:32
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• 36:50
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 7: It's like rain.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, Alanis. Very little of what's in your song is
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  Speaker 8: actually ironic. What is ironic is a news and talk
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  Speaker 8: radio show tasked with telling you what the 10, 15
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  Speaker 8: minutes of our time together complaining about how other people
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  Speaker 8: aren't telling you what's going on in the world instead
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  Speaker 8: of telling you what the hell's going on in the world.
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  Speaker 8: So pardon me if I'm slightly critical of myself in
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  Speaker 8: this moment, but it is part of why. And what
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  Speaker 8: does Baron Von Ruthless do? He starts monologuing.
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  Speaker 1: He starts monologuing.
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  Speaker 22: He starts like this prepared speech about how feeble I
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  Speaker 22: am compared to him.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Kareem was on the line
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  Speaker 8: when I started monologuing, and I appreciate you hanging on
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  Speaker 8: the line with us and sharing what you were feeling.
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  Speaker 8: And part of it is, though, certainly this pending Abu
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  Speaker 8: Dhabi negotiations, which, if I may insert here a moment,
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  Speaker 8: there's a red flag in here, and it doesn't have
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  Speaker 8: a hammer and sickle on it, but it might. It
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  Speaker 8: sounds like if they're already talking about what happens next,
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  Speaker 8: when did they agree to stop fighting if they're having
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  Speaker 8: a meeting to talk about what happens when the fighting stopped?
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  Speaker 8: I went through the papers. I haven't seen an announcement saying, well,
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  Speaker 8: they're going to stop shooting at each other on November
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  Speaker 8: 4th because Trump will have lost the midterms, of course,
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  Speaker 8: and it'll give Putin more flexibility or Obama, somebody's going
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  Speaker 8: to have more flexibility after the midterms. But anyway, Kareem,
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  Speaker 8: you were listening to me monologue.
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  Speaker 16: Joe, you have a possibility. You have the network already
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  Speaker 16: set up. Fox News had Roger Ailes pushing them and
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  Speaker 16: going along, actually pulling them into popularity because there was
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  Speaker 16: no conservative network out there. You have a radio station.
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  Speaker 16: You have three radio stations. You've got a nationally syndicated
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  Speaker 16: radio station. You have international with Armed Forces Radio. You
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  Speaker 16: have the ability to stream online. You already interact with
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  Speaker 16: your callers, not just canned responses from various groups of
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  Speaker 16: whatever the talking points memo says you should be pushing
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  Speaker 16: that day. But you mentioned Rachel Maddow. I like to
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  Speaker 16: think of her as Dr. Maddow because she was a
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  Speaker 16: Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate in political science. So she's
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  Speaker 16: not just some jock from high school, even though people
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  Speaker 16: check out what.
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  Speaker 8: You like from high school. I'm just a jock from
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  Speaker 8: high school, so be careful what you say about us.
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  Speaker 16: Joe, I was a JV benchwarmer. Talking to my own
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  Speaker 16: runner in a game, that's how bad I was.
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  Speaker 8: I love you. I love you so much.
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  Speaker 16: She's well-trained. Al Sayed, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Maddow.
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  Speaker 16: Rhodes Scholar. Rhodes Scholar at Public Health. He's not a
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  Speaker 16: practicing doctor. He's an epidemiologist, is his main thing. So
• 47:45
  Speaker 16: you say, oh, he's this or that. I wouldn't know
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  Speaker 16: that watching for Fox. I would know that from going...
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  Speaker 16: Go ahead, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the point about these folks, is then all the
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  Speaker 8: more reason to get frustrated when they seem to holster
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  Speaker 8: that intellectual heft in exchange for 15-second sound bites. That's
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  Speaker 8: what frustrates me. For a long time, one of my
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  Speaker 8: favorite public figures was a Democrat. His name was Tom Perriello.
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  Speaker 8: I used to have marvelous conversations with him. We didn't
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  Speaker 8: agree on the results, but we could agree on what
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  Speaker 8: the problems were, and we would have wonderful conversations. When
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  Speaker 8: he was in the U.S. Congress— And then somewhere along
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  Speaker 8: the line, he sold out. And all he was doing
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  Speaker 8: was hitting me with the talking points from the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 8: I'm like, well, that bores me. That bores me because
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: there's more going on here. And maybe that's part of
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: the problem with getting Republicans elected is that people like
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  Speaker 8: me want to have a conversation on an issue and
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: want to get deeper into what's in a constitutional amendment issue.
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  Speaker 8: rather than just saying you're trying to bring back the
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  Speaker 8: handmaid's tale, which seems to suffice for our discourse these days.
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  Speaker 8: And it's people who have been Rhodes Scholars, which is
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: a small handful of people, or Nobel laureates who should
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: be smarter than that and just have somewhere found a
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  Speaker 8: way to stash that intellect somewhere that they can pull
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  Speaker 8: it out later. when hopefully they need it?
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  Speaker 16: Joe, it's kind of weird how intellectual people, if they
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  Speaker 16: weren't a certain type, they've been maligned.
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  Speaker 6: Schrodinger.
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  Speaker 16: Schrodinger, famous for Big Bang Theory, Schrodinger's cat. If you
• 49:37
  Speaker 16: put a cat in a box or.
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  Speaker 8: Is the cat still there?
• 49:40
  Speaker 16: The cat's still there, right. He was Milan as a
• 49:42
  Speaker 16: pedophile 10 years ago. Buildings were renamed. He was dishonored
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  Speaker 16: since then. But actually it's come out that those accusations
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  Speaker 16: weren't quite real. They weren't the truth. And will he
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  Speaker 16: get– he's dead and gone 50, 60 years. Will he
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  Speaker 16: get that– will the buildings be renamed back in honor
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  Speaker 16: of him?
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  Speaker 8: Don't know.
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  Speaker 16: It's just who gets to be in power and what
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  Speaker 16: they can say at that moment once they seize the
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  Speaker 16: attention of others. But you, Joe, you and more like
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  Speaker 16: you across the nation should keep doing exactly what you're doing.
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  Speaker 16: I just think you're just doing the wrong part.
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  Speaker 8: As long as you guys are listening, we'll keep doing it.
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  Speaker 8: You be good, my friend.
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  Speaker 16: Thanks, Joe. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for the call. 434-882-4217 is how you do it. Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 8: I don't screen because I'd rather have some fun with
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  Speaker 8: my brain. It's kind of dull if I know I'm
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  Speaker 8: going to pick that person because I know what he's
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  Speaker 8: talking about. It's boring. So is it wrong to stop
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: and say, why are we having a conversation with Ukraine
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  Speaker 8: and Russia about what happens after the shooting ends? So
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  Speaker 8: if you missed the story earlier, United States, along with
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  Speaker 8: Ukrainians and Russians will meet in Abu Dhabi along Steve Witkoff,
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  Speaker 8: I guess, is mediating the whole thing. It's all about
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  Speaker 8: post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian measures, next steps after the
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  Speaker 8: conflict is over. When did we agree that the conflict
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  Speaker 8: was going to be over? Did I miss a memo?
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  Speaker 8: And that would be great. I just think it would
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  Speaker 8: be something somebody would have a press conference about. You
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  Speaker 8: don't figure out what to do after the war while
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: the Japanese still are holding the Philippines. When the Germans
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: are still hanging out in Paris, you don't start talking
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  Speaker 8: about reconstruction. So if they're having these conversations, I guess
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  Speaker 8: it's supposed to be the 10th and 11th in Abu Dhabi.
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  Speaker 8: I used to watch public television when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 8: Don't judge me harshly, but there was a TV program
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  Speaker 8: called The Electric Company. And every time I say Abu Dhabi,
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  Speaker 8: I think about The Electric Company. Morgan Freeman started on
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  Speaker 8: that show, in any event. It just strikes me that
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  Speaker 8: these are the kind of things that you would say,
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  Speaker 8: hold it, are we discussing... post-war reconstructions and things? Can
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  Speaker 8: you tell us when the actual post-war begins? It sounds
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  Speaker 8: like you guys already have a date for this stuff.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm glad for it. I'm glad for it because
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  Speaker 8: I am glad for the Ukrainians who don't have to
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  Speaker 8: worry about tanks coming into their town and fending off Russia.
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