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"Trying to Draw to an Inside Strait" (Monday, March 23, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 4: some odd out of our campaign conference on ketamine treatments. Uh.
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Speaker 4: There and the emails and the text and the phone
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Speaker 4: calls have run hot and cold on it. I could
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Speaker 4: have predicted this is the story amongst the Save Act
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Speaker 4: and the Straight of Horror moves and so many other
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Speaker 4: But she said, be careful of discussing depression. Sometimes this
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Speaker 4: is teetering on trivializing a very real affliction. Joe, and
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Speaker 4: by the men they worked for to, you know, get
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Speaker 4: over it, and it's all in your head. And I
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Speaker 4: always wondered about that kind of dispatch of something because
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Speaker 4: a lot of things are in our heads, because our
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Speaker 4: heads control an awful lot of what goes on in
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Speaker 4: the rest of us, So saying that never seemed like
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Speaker 4: a good answer. But yeah, I'm understand now fibro milsia
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Speaker 4: has been elevated to something of greater understanding, And I wasn't.
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Speaker 4: We're not trivializing this, nor are we trivializing alternative treatments. Moreover,
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Speaker 4: it's why is AOC suffering depression? And as you heard
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Speaker 4: Bob say, there are some real questions about cognitive ability
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Speaker 4: if you're undergoing ketamine treatments. President Trump had his Borders
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Speaker 4: are out on the Sunday morning shows Tom Homan along
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Speaker 4: with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, arguing that ICE officers can
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Speaker 4: help airport screening. He said, when we deploy tomorrow, meaning today,
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Speaker 4: we'll have a very well thought out plan to execute.
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Speaker 4: Homan said Itran Sunday threatened to close the Strait of
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Speaker 4: Hoar Moves again. This time it will be completely closed,
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Speaker 4: and this time we mean it. I didn't add that
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Speaker 4: although they could have. This came after President Trump on
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Speaker 4: Saturday set a forty eight hour deadline to make sure
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Speaker 4: ships will be given safe passage through the strait. Iran
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Speaker 4: has effectively closed it with threats driving insurance prices on
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Speaker 4: those that would ship through there through the roof three
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Speaker 4: weeks into the conflict in the Middle East, Iran is
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Speaker 4: telling their press agents at CNN and NBC that they're
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Speaker 4: doing fine, winning the Baghdad Bob Award. Officials in Tyran
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Speaker 4: four two one seven. I heard you and Mac say
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Speaker 4: something in a feed on my phone about that. If
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Speaker 4: I hadn't looked into that, is that for real? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: And to be fair, I apologies. We haven't brought it
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Speaker 4: up this morning other things happening because we I thought,
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Speaker 4: you know, ran a vacuum cleaner over it pretty thoroughly
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Speaker 4: on Saturday morning. And you can go back to the
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Speaker 4: podcasts of Saturday morning. We spent a good deal of
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Speaker 4: time getting into the collapse of CBS News Radio. And
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Speaker 4: the point I was making in the subject matter was that,
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Speaker 4: like other broadcasters, they're blaming the wrong thing. So one
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Speaker 4: of the major networks, Cumulus, is blaming their financial issues
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Speaker 4: on a downturn in listenership and advertising. CBS Radio News
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Speaker 4: same thing. So you're getting an impression that you are
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Speaker 4: participating in a dying breed. You're listening to news on
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Speaker 4: the radio, but you're not. And that's the part that
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Speaker 4: bothers me in this that these corporations that are making
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Speaker 4: a decision based on, in my personal analysis of it,
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Speaker 4: on faulty business practice of being more concerned about what
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Speaker 4: you're selling on Wall Street rather than what you're selling
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Speaker 4: to Main Street has caused their own demise. And I
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Speaker 4: understand wanting to raise money. The whole point of the
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Speaker 4: New York Stock Exchange and the exchanges are to raise
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Speaker 4: capital for a business. At some point it has become
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Speaker 4: the more important customer than the two customers of a
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Speaker 4: broadcast that have to be pre eminent. And there's a
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Speaker 4: simple paradigm in it. Your first customer is the listener.
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Speaker 4: If you don't have the listeners, it doesn't make a difference.
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Speaker 4: But these major broadcast corporations, and I've been in the
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Speaker 4: meeting rooms with him, I feel a little bit like
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Speaker 4: Chris Horner when he was in the meeting rooms at
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Speaker 4: Enron and hearing how the green scam was being concocted
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Speaker 4: at his very earliest gestations. I've been in these meetings
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Speaker 4: where the listener is treated like a secondary consideration, an
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Speaker 4: attitude of we will give them what our analysis say
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Speaker 4: is the lowest common denominator, therefore to have the most
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Speaker 4: common participants. That's not how it works. You go to
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Speaker 4: the lowest common denominator, you'll have the lowest common impact.
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Speaker 4: And so they immediately start to lose sight or just
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Speaker 4: count on the most important customer as being an axiom
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Speaker 4: rather than something that must be cultivated and maintained all
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Speaker 4: the time. We have our fun in the morning, but
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Speaker 4: the whole point of the show is to try to
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Speaker 4: tell you something that you might not know otherwise, or
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Speaker 4: give your perspective on it that you might not get otherwise.
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Speaker 4: And it seems like you're out there and you're listening,
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Speaker 4: which is a good sign that we've struck it. But
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Speaker 4: it's always been my case in radio that you have
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Speaker 4: to start with the listener, and then once you have
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Speaker 4: the listeners, you go to advertisers and say, look at
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Speaker 4: the listeners that we have, wouldn't you like them to
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Speaker 4: come into your enterprise and participate. That's it, That's how
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Speaker 4: it works. Any other any other equation fails you. And
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Speaker 4: this is what these big corporations are blaming as, Oh,
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Speaker 4: radio doesn't work. I hate that phrase. I hear it
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Speaker 4: when bad radio goes into a business and then they
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Speaker 4: fail because they didn't have the right plan or business
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Speaker 4: or execution. And then the business is radio doesn't work.
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Speaker 4: Radio works is just fine. Nielsen reports ninety three percent
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Speaker 4: of all Americans, regardless, listen to broadcast radio. So all
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Speaker 4: these corporations that say, you know, they're getting out of
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Speaker 4: radio because it doesn't work, it's because they can't make
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Speaker 4: it work. That's actually what they're saying is they can't
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Speaker 4: make the simplest process work. And part of it is
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Speaker 4: Wall Street doesn't reward the the hard to quantify nature
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Speaker 4: of radio. They want to know you're going to charge
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Speaker 4: five dollars for each podcast, plus you're going to charge
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Speaker 4: twenty five dollars per user for access to the website,
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Speaker 4: that you'll pay the five dollars of the podcast. And
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Speaker 4: they want to know that upfront and they'll invest. And
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Speaker 4: then when you fail miserably at delivering those numbers, they
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Speaker 4: pull out. And then you turn around and say, uh,
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Speaker 4: you know, radio doesn't work. So I appreciate the text
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Speaker 4: message on it, but that's what's going on with CBS radio.
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Speaker 4: And yet again you're going to be told that radio
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Speaker 4: doesn't work when radio works better than anything else when
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Speaker 4: it's allowed to act independently from them. It's part of
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Speaker 4: the reason that I like by association with the Talk
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Speaker 4: media network because of its independence and its ability to
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Speaker 4: act independently. Just got a text message from Chris's owners.
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Speaker 4: Got a gift that he sent me of somebody with
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Speaker 4: their ears ringing. But it's true. I bet I feel
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Speaker 4: like you, Chris, feel like the way you did when
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Speaker 4: you heard what Ge and Enron were trying to concoct
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Speaker 4: with the California government. And if you don't know the story,
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Speaker 4: you should go and get I'm not sure whether it's
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Speaker 4: I think it's politically incorrect. Guide to Global Warming was
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Speaker 4: your first one, and then power Grab and red Hot lies,
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Speaker 4: all of them just necessary reading straight of horror moves,
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Speaker 4: since we're telling outrageous lies about energy costs. This email
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Speaker 4: comes in from Frank, who says you keep blaming the
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Speaker 4: insurance companies. I thought Iran had already closed the Strait
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Speaker 4: of Horror Moves. No, they Iran has threatened to sho
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Speaker 4: missiles at any ships in the Strait of hor Moves
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Speaker 4: and and you know in that threat have caused the
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Speaker 4: insurance companies that ensure those ships to decide maybe we
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Speaker 4: should change a whole lot more for ensuring that ship
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Speaker 4: since it's going to go past a place with missiles
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Speaker 4: pointed at it. That's why the cost of oil and
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Speaker 4: everything else has gone up, because the ships that carry
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Speaker 4: it have to pay a big price increase to ensure
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Speaker 4: those ships for the obvious reason they're driving past a
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Speaker 4: country that's ready to blow them out of the water
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Speaker 4: out of spite. And so, you know, we need to
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Speaker 4: address straight of hore moves, whether it's a military or not.
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Speaker 4: It you know, I think if there's ever going to
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Speaker 4: be boots on the ground, the only place I would
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Speaker 4: shrug and say probably is the coalition that is building
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Speaker 4: around keeping the strait of hor moves open, sort of
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Speaker 4: the DMZ or the Panama Can style.
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Speaker 4: And it's been a choke point since nineteen seventy seven.
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Speaker 4: It's always been a choke point. But when the Shah fell,
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Speaker 22: Sir, I'm doing great. I'm texted with James O'Keefe as
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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely.
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Speaker 23: Yeah?
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Speaker 22: I said, I was like, you know, people either remember
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Speaker 4: Ice pick, right, I try to not remember a Fatal Attraction.
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Speaker 22: Twenty nine years with the woman like that well, and
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Speaker 4: What about the you know this story because ketamine is
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Speaker 4: it or or you know, without giving away, I'm not
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Speaker 4: you have any thought on it? Andy? Helloo? I make
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Speaker 4: Andy hang up on us? I hope not. I don't
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Speaker 22: But I think when the deep state, you know, there's
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Speaker 4: Of the deep State. Well, you're you're safe with us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, So did it help? Well, yeah it did.
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Speaker 22: And I went out there a second time, you know,
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Speaker 4: So there's some questions with you and right, just I mean,
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Speaker 22: But but did they six of two thousand, I was
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Speaker 4: Well, I understand that, but I mean to the to
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Speaker 22: But the other thing that you know, he's there's some
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Speaker 4: Well, I know that's how Bob, That's how our friends.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I don't think you can make the
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Speaker 4: to do with the walking filibuster or anything like that,
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Speaker 4: because I think we told you on Saturday. One of
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Speaker 4: the things that it was brought to my attention is,
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Speaker 4: and I did not know this of Senate procedure, that
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Speaker 4: the idea of a speaking filibuster would have opened the
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Speaker 4: door up to amendments to the Save Act and that
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Speaker 4: would have diluted it. And I didn't realize that it
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Speaker 4: was one of the things that Thune was talking about
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Speaker 4: that if you allow for a talking filibuster, then during it,
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Speaker 4: amendments can be made to the bill that might actually
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Speaker 4: drive Republicans off of it as well. So this is
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Speaker 4: chip Roy's dear colleague letter. The commonly accepted sixty vote
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Speaker 4: filibuster threshold to shut off debate is not the only
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Speaker 4: way to force a vote in the Senate, the majority
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Speaker 4: can force opposing senators to speak. The majority leader Thune
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Speaker 4: can proceed to the Save America Act with a simple
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Speaker 4: majority vote, because we set it up that way in
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Speaker 4: our house in our House and passed version as soon
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Speaker 4: as he chooses. Under the current practice, he would call
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Speaker 4: it up, debate it for a while, and proceed to
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Speaker 4: a sixty vote cloture count to shut off debate. It
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Speaker 4: would fail. Republicans would shrug and say we tried. We
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Speaker 4: need to elect more Republicans. This is what we call
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Speaker 4: a fake or zombie filibuster. There's no real speaking, just
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Speaker 4: a failure to get sixty votes to shut off debate
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Speaker 4: and then default to a quorum call rather than having
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Speaker 4: fifty one senators show up to call the question in
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Speaker 4: a simple majority. But existing Senate rules allow that if
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Speaker 4: a majority fifty one is present a quorum and seeks
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Speaker 4: a vote on the Save America Act or anything, it
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Speaker 4: will force a minority, mostly Democrats, to try and stop
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Speaker 4: it by speaking on the floor, a real filibuster until
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Speaker 4: either side gives out. There's no need to change any
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Speaker 4: Senate rules to do this. If Republicans stick together and
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Speaker 4: the minority exhausts their opportunities to speak in opposition or
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Speaker 4: give up. A final vote on passage of the bill
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Speaker 4: occurs automatically at a majority thresh hold. So I hope
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Speaker 4: that made a little sense to you, is that it's
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Speaker 4: not about blowing up the Senate rules or anything like that.
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Speaker 4: It's just saying, Okay, we're going to have a discussion
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Speaker 4: about this. This is John Thune from Sunday.
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Speaker 27: Both measures have support from a vast majority of the
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Speaker 27: American public. In fact, one poll showed that most Americans,
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Speaker 27: thank you already already have to prove.
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Speaker 4: You're a citizen in order to register to vote. And
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Speaker 4: we brought up the question because what's her name? Congresswoman
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Speaker 4: Beaty from Columbus says that women, can't you qualify for this?
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Speaker 4: It's a sexist bill there because women get married.
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Speaker 28: Let me just tell you this morning, I did learn
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Speaker 28: that there are some negotiations. Ha King Jeffries and the
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Speaker 28: Democrats had been very strong in saying we will pay
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Speaker 28: the TSA the doctary.
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Speaker 4: Oh that's no, that was the TSA clip. I'm sorry
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Speaker 4: misqued you on that, but anyway, she was on with
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Speaker 4: al Sharpton, who had still having been in Poughkeepsie, New York,
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Speaker 4: the first time anyone heard the name Al Sharpton come
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Speaker 4: from a stage. I have to tell you it's seeing
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Speaker 4: him still sitting there and knowing that Tauana Brawley, whether
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Speaker 4: you know whatever, you remember you know the name Tajuana
49:37
Speaker 4: Brawley if you're old enough. And as we watch more
49:40
Speaker 4: and more race based protesting going on in the country,
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Speaker 4: this is when it really began.
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Speaker 6: Was it?
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Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty eight? Was it? And she was left with
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Speaker 4: huge damages because these lawyers and Reverend Al promoted her
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Speaker 4: into saying that two New York State troopers had raped
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Speaker 4: her and covered her in fecal matter, etc. And it
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Speaker 4: was US Attorney for the Southern District of New York,
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Speaker 4: Rudolph Giuliani, that pressed and pressed and pressed until the
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Speaker 4: case came apart, rather than capitulating like even the Republicans
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Speaker 4: in New York wanted. But it's amazing to me that
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Speaker 4: to see Al still sitting there like he's some activist
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Speaker 4: leader of the community. But the idea that the Save
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Speaker 4: Act would disenfranchise women was an interesting sidebar to it,
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Speaker 4: because it's true if you're a married woman, your name
50:43
Speaker 4: is different than it is on your marriage license. But
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Speaker 4: having gone through this, having the marriage license and your
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Speaker 4: birth certificate is sufficient to show the authorities that you
50:54
Speaker 4: are who you say you are, because the marriage license
50:57
Speaker 4: from the state that you received is sufficient to say,
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Speaker 4: here is Joanne fits you, and now she is Joanne
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Speaker 4: Thomas or whatever, and this is the document that says
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Speaker 4: we legally authorize the change of that name. You don't
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Speaker 4: have to change your birth certificate. She's what's the word
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Speaker 4: they use, it's a common word, short word. Oh yeah, lying.
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Speaker 4: She's demagoguing, But she's also playing on the same thing
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Speaker 4: that Tim Kaine is lying about. When he says one
51:32
Speaker 4: out of ten Americans won't be able to vote, what
51:35
Speaker 4: he's meaning to say is one out of ten Americans
51:37
Speaker 4: don't know where their birth certificate is. And I'm not
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Speaker 4: necessarily going to argue that. I think there are at
51:44
Speaker 4: least one out of ten of us who don't know
51:46
Speaker 4: or can't lay our hands on our birth certificate right now.
51:50
Speaker 4: So don't wait until voting day comes, don't wait till
51:55
Speaker 4: this happens. Go find your birth certificate so you can
51:59
Speaker 4: prove who you say you is. Because that's the procedure.
52:04
Speaker 4: We've got to start packing this joint up for our
52:07
Speaker 4: junket will be live from Chattanooga somewhere. I'm actually considering
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Speaker 4: going on since we're sponsored now by these heritage historic sites.
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Speaker 4: By the way, if you go to historic sites dot
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Speaker 4: for example, one of my favorite places in Montpelier, it
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