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"Give Peace a Chance" (Friday, January 23, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hundred to do lists.
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  Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today, George.
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  Speaker 3: Said, Steal me day at least for work. When the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up, drops a kid to scooping the way
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything all the Chasu needs no one that
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  Speaker 3: Joe's smiled.
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  Speaker 4: He on the eggs.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 5: you this Friday morning. All various places across the listening area,
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  Speaker 5: from central Texas all the way to the Virginia coast
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  Speaker 5: bracing for this uh winter storm is bearing down through
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee and and coming up North Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: And all all these places that you know.
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  Speaker 5: The the interesting thing is the narrative of this winter
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  Speaker 5: storm is that these are areas that never see snow.
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  Speaker 5: When I have a collection of stories of when these
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  Speaker 5: times when these places have had snow. So as you
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  Speaker 5: prepare for an unexpected snow job, even as many of
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  Speaker 5: your local, state and official government sources are beginning their
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  Speaker 5: regular annual snow job of general assemblage lawmaking.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we'll raise the minimum wage.
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  Speaker 5: And I got an email yesterday. We were talking with
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  Speaker 5: Virginia Senator Bryce Reeves about Republicans not doing the things
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  Speaker 5: that Democrats do when they're in the minority. And one
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  Speaker 5: of those things, because Tina wrote in and asked, what
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  Speaker 5: was I referring to and what are the things that
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  Speaker 5: they do is attach what you will call poison pill
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  Speaker 5: amendments to legislation that will make it easily vetollable, obviously vetoable,
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  Speaker 5: so that regardless of who's the governor, they're going to
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  Speaker 5: have to veto. Well, we can't sign that is usually
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  Speaker 5: the answer. Those are the kind of things that I mean,
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  Speaker 5: even though you may not have the possibility of passing
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  Speaker 5: your own legislation, and certainly there's always the attempts, but
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  Speaker 5: these days the Democratic Party is so locked down you
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  Speaker 5: think it's tough getting through airport security. Try to get
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  Speaker 5: to some Democrat congressman or state representative and try to
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  Speaker 5: get them to hear you out on some other agenda
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  Speaker 5: item other than what's been sent to them by the
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  Speaker 5: central party. Good luck with that. You have a better
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  Speaker 5: chance of sneaking a bottle of wine past airport security
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  Speaker 5: at TSA. What you didn't know. Trust me and those
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  Speaker 5: in the Ontario, California airport who watched my wife and
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  Speaker 5: I try to finish the bottle of wine before we
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  Speaker 5: got on the plane. We're enjoying this. Well, it was
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  Speaker 5: going to be an eight hour flight anyway, so napping
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  Speaker 5: was something we wanted to do anyway. But there's a
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  Speaker 5: tawdry tales of airport security. Notwithstanding, you're not going to
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  Speaker 5: get a Democrat to pick up a Republican bill, but
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  Speaker 5: if you can hang an amendment that's going to force
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  Speaker 5: a Democrat governor to veto it, well that's part and
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  Speaker 5: parcel of what Democrats do all the time time in
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  Speaker 5: Congress and beyond. So we get into this Friday morning
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  Speaker 5: and school. Former Special Council Jack Smith was in front
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  Speaker 5: of Congress on Capitol Hill, making his first public appearance.
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  Speaker 5: Smith pushed back against claims that he was a crooked
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  Speaker 5: prosecutor during the hearing that at many points devolved into
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  Speaker 5: a partisan rorshock test, according to those who are covering it,
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  Speaker 5: about the President's actions after the twenty twenty election. Smith
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  Speaker 5: told the House Judiciary Committee Thursday quote. I am not
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  Speaker 5: a politician and I have no partisan loyalties. My career
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  Speaker 5: has been dedicated to serving our country by upholding the
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  Speaker 5: rule rule of law. US military aircraft, carrier, Strike Group
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  Speaker 5: and other assets will arrive in the Middle East in
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  Speaker 5: the next two days, according to US officials on Thursday,
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  Speaker 5: even as President Trump voices hopes of avoiding new military
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  Speaker 5: actions involving Iran, US warships, including the aircraft carrier USS
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  Speaker 5: Abraham Lincoln, several destroyers and fighter aircraft have been moving
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  Speaker 5: in from the Asia Pacific rim House Republicans defeated a
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  Speaker 5: resolution Thursday that would have barred the President from further
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  Speaker 5: military action in Venezuela without authorization from Congress. The President
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  Speaker 5: officially launched the Board of Peace from Davos yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Many countries have just received their notice and everybody wants
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  Speaker 6: to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 5: Except for Canada and the United Kingdom. UK has turned
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  Speaker 5: down the President's offer to be involved, and Canada has
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  Speaker 5: had their invitation revoked. Louisiana State Representative Julie Emerson announced
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  Speaker 5: she's dropping her primary challenge against Senator Bill Cassidy in
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  Speaker 5: light of Congressman Julia Letlow's recent entrance into the race.
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  Speaker 5: Letlow represents Louisiana's fifth district and has been endorsed by
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  Speaker 5: the President in this primary. With Congresswoman let Low's entrance
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  Speaker 5: into the race, Emerson said through a statement, the path
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  Speaker 5: to victory that was viable a couple of months ago
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  Speaker 5: has diminished, and I respect his decision to indorse let
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  Speaker 5: Low to defeat Bill Cassidy. And those are some of
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  Speaker 2: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a couple of people have pushed back on
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  Speaker 5: the establishment of this board of peace that's going to
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  Speaker 5: oversee the rebuild and you know, turning it point to
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  Speaker 5: me in Gaza, And a lot of it has to
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  Speaker 5: do with this perception, this narrative that's been concocted, and
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  Speaker 5: you probably get hit by it as well. Oh, you pig,
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  Speaker 5: you'd be just doing all this stuff to get himself
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  Speaker 5: a peace prize. Oh and Corina Machado gives him hers
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  Speaker 5: and everyone in the genevas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they can't, she can't do that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then don't give it to someone. Don't you make
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  Speaker 5: that one of the questions before you give somebody a
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  Speaker 5: piece for Will you ever, will you swear that you
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  Speaker 5: will never give this to anyone. Don't even let them
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  Speaker 5: look at it. I mean, make it like the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 5: I know you're now, you're really wondering about the sanity
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  Speaker 5: of the guy inside the radio each morning. No, make
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  Speaker 5: it like the Stanley Cup, or you have to give
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  Speaker 5: it back at the end of the year. You only
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  Speaker 5: get it for a year, and then you have to
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  Speaker 5: give it back. I just saying, if you're gonna lose
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  Speaker 5: your bowel control over all this stuff, you're just to me,
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  Speaker 5: you're being silly. But me, somebody gave me the Nobel
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  Speaker 5: Prize for radio. I'm not giving it away to anyone.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there might be people who are important to
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  Speaker 5: me winning it.
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  Speaker 1: I might show it to.
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  Speaker 5: But this narrative that oh Trump's just doing all this stuff,
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  Speaker 5: it's just posturing so he can get himself a Nobel
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  Speaker 5: Peace Prize. I want to make it clear that I
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  Speaker 5: don't necessarily hold awards like this in high regard. I'll
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  Speaker 5: take a screen cap of my studio because as I
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  Speaker 5: look at the shelf behind me here, one, two, three, four, five,
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  Speaker 5: six different awards that I've won in my career. So
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  Speaker 5: I might be full of bovine excretions, but I'm proud
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  Speaker 5: of them. But they don't make up the sum total
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  Speaker 5: of what we did and do today.
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  Speaker 1: It's about going forward, moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: And forward is the word that comes to mind when
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  Speaker 5: I think about whether I hold the people who win
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  Speaker 5: a Nobel Prize in high esteem, because I recall a
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  Speaker 5: US president won the Nobel Peace Prize simply for getting
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  Speaker 5: elected president. That president would be Barry Stero, Little Barry Stero,
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  Speaker 5: who had changed his name to Barack Obama to pick
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  Speaker 5: up some street cred, was awarded a Nobel Prize simply
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  Speaker 5: because he got elected.
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  Speaker 19: So I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't.
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  Speaker 5: And if President Trump feels like he deserves a Nobel
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  Speaker 5: Priests Prize, he certainly has accomplished a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: At at any juncture.
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  Speaker 5: You can talk about the eight years Barack Obama was president,
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  Speaker 5: but at the time he won his Nobel Prize, his
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  Speaker 5: only accomplishment was getting elected. And if peace comes and
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  Speaker 5: people stop getting blown up on the streets because Tony
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  Speaker 5: Blair wanted to get a photo op with Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 5: there are other ways to do that. Tony Blair's participation
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  Speaker 5: in this, I still say is notable, specifically because of
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  Speaker 5: his involvement in the ending of quote the troubles in
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  Speaker 5: between the British government and the ira.
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  Speaker 9: Is.
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  Speaker 5: If there's anything that's exemplar to what's going on in
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  Speaker 5: between Hamas and If and Palestinians and the original Palestinians,
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  Speaker 5: the Israelites, it would be exemplar of the ira clashes
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  Speaker 5: with the British government. So it's up to seventeen people.
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  Speaker 5: This is the president from yesterday, the United Nations.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to thank you all for being here.
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday we had a incredibly successful visit with many of
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  Speaker 6: the world's top business leaders, the best, the biggest, most successful,
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  Speaker 6: and foreign heads of state. And now we have one
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  Speaker 6: of the most important meetings of all the official formation
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  Speaker 6: of what is known as the Board of Peace. I
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  Speaker 6: want to thank the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special
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  Speaker 6: Envoys Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner and their extraordinary work.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they have done an amazing job. We have
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  Speaker 6: peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible.
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  Speaker 6: We've settled eight wars, and I believe another one's coming
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  Speaker 6: pretty soon.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: That was after his sideline meeting with Voladimir z Olenski.
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  Speaker 6: That is the one that I thought was going to
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  Speaker 6: be an easy one. It's turned out to be probably
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  Speaker 6: the most difficult. Last month, twenty nine thousand people died,
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  Speaker 6: mostly soldiers in Ukraine Russia. Think of that, twenty nine
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  Speaker 6: twenty seven thousand in the month before, twenty six thousand
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  Speaker 6: in the month before then. It's terrible, But we have
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  Speaker 6: meetings who we think we're making a lot of progress.
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  Speaker 5: And when you talk about why people go to war
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  Speaker 5: with other countries and in the Middle East, it's entrenched
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  Speaker 5: and it's wrapped in the raiments of religiosity. But at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, what Hamas wanted was what
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  Speaker 5: the Israeli government has, which is the land under Israel,
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  Speaker 5: including Jerusalem. So you don't negotiate that stuff away. What
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  Speaker 5: you do is you get everybody at the table. You know,
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  Speaker 5: and this is going to sound really obtuse, but this
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  Speaker 5: reminds me a little bit administratively of when Chrysler was
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  Speaker 5: in trouble and the US government came to help it out,
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  Speaker 5: and in order to secure US bailout Leiahkoca had to
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  Speaker 5: put the United Auto Workers president on the board of
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  Speaker 5: Chrysler so that he could have full access to what
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  Speaker 5: was all the financials and everything else. So when he
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  Speaker 5: went back to the union rank and file, he could say, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: this is what we see. This is what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: And you can't have a rule of law governing a
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  Speaker 5: planet if you can just invade somebody because you want
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  Speaker 5: access to a port, because you want if you have
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  Speaker 5: a sovereign border and you want something on the other
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  Speaker 5: side of that border, there are negotiative ways we'd like
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  Speaker 5: to think. And I think this Board of Peace at
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  Speaker 5: its root, whether it lasts, I think it's built pretty
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  Speaker 5: well to last. We'll see what the next president does
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  Speaker 5: with it. But the charter of it is, regardless of
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  Speaker 5: who is president, it exists in the United States. Is
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  Speaker 5: the chair of this Board of Peace? Does the next
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  Speaker 5: guy tear it down?
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't have realized that, Yeah, it's four three four eight
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  Speaker 5: A two four two one seven. You know, because you
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  Speaker 5: whole lot, does it. American Dream. We were talking about
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  Speaker 5: one of the well property ownership in general is one
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  Speaker 5: own a piece of land and live on it. It's yours,
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  Speaker 5: in to take bites at that your ability to own
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  Speaker 5: that property. But then the taxes must be paid. The
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  Speaker 5: that if you have an accountant here in the home,
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  Speaker 5: have to pay sales tax on the money you pay
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  Speaker 5: the realtor the acount Mountain that's providing you these services.
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  Speaker 5: So they'll tax you there. I mean, it's becoming like
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  Speaker 5: they'll even tax your feet. It's insatiable and it is so.
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  Speaker 5: The idea that if I don't have then as an
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  Speaker 5: We all have things. You may not realize it, but
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  Speaker 5: it's all fun in games. Because the Great Society has
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  Speaker 5: borne such poisoned fruit that we are on the verge
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  Speaker 5: of having a crisis. And that's why we were talking
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  Speaker 5: about this American Dream Act with the guy who wrote it,
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, I think you're right. I mean it's crazy. I mean,
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  Speaker 23: The Democrat Party wants to tax and spend you out
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  Speaker 23: the American dream has always been to own the home right.
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  Speaker 23: And the problem is new next generation is they're becoming
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  Speaker 1: So I gave this idea.
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  Speaker 23: I spent three months in the district. Every time I
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  Speaker 23: ownership under the age thirty two is like twenty percent
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  Speaker 23: in America. Now it's on mony closer to one percent.
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  Speaker 23: And so what the proposal was or it is.
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  Speaker 24: It says, if you're age sixty five or older and
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  Speaker 5: And that to me is a rebuke of this. It's
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  Speaker 5: really a progressive taxing service. We went through this back
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  Speaker 5: are some whose I'm a flat earther as well, but
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  Speaker 1: Because what they want to.
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  Speaker 5: Do is they want to continue to play this progressive
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  Speaker 5: game with the sliding scale, and it continues to be softcore.
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  Speaker 5: that you've achieved something and someone hasn't. Nobody gets the
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  Speaker 5: fact that the longer we do this, the more people
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  Speaker 5: It's not just about owning a home. And after we
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  Speaker 1: Ill afford.
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  Speaker 5: Because the federal government said home ownership helps neighborhoods. Well,
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  Speaker 5: at the time, and it was what Bill Clinton used
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  Speaker 5: to gentrify neighborh hoods. He went in and said, well,
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  Speaker 5: I really would like it if you just lowered all
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  Speaker 5: And that's how we wound up. In two thousand and
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  Speaker 5: seven two thousand and eight, people were getting home improvement
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  Speaker 5: loans and then going on vacation with them, so their
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  Speaker 5: house never grew in value because of the improvements, and
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  Speaker 5: then when it came time to pay that back, they're like,
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• 35:53
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• 35:56
  Speaker 5: if you sell your house and you have to pay
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  Speaker 5: capital gains on the on the moneys you earned from
• 36:05
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today on The Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 22: Black.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, do I have no authority on this program?
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  Speaker 1: Stays from John?
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  Speaker 5: I think this is Yeah, this song is so grating
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  Speaker 5: and and elitist. Could you know, if you have to
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  Speaker 5: find a song about home ownership, couldn't you just go
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  Speaker 5: to Stevie ray Vaughan's The Houses of Rockin' or something?
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  Speaker 1: Please? I mean, this song just is so.
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  Speaker 5: Derisive and and it's just smug John bellen Camp out.
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  Speaker 1: There, you know, poor guy who's gotta you know this.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks he's got it so good.
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  Speaker 5: It's just I can't stand. You know, the music is fine,
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  Speaker 5: but I just can't stand the politics of John Mellencamp.
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  Speaker 5: And it's been just infesting my ear and nesting since
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  Speaker 5: since the day he means it. Please you take that
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  Speaker 5: out of any possible rotation. Go find Stevie ray Vaughan's
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  Speaker 5: The House's Rock. And if we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 5: home ownership, Matt's hanging online. Joel's with us, but I
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  Speaker 5: want to find out what Matt's got for us too.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Matt, thank you for calling. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 19: I'm pleased that you're offended by whiny millionaires.
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  Speaker 5: Especially when they complain about, you know, people who are
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  Speaker 5: scraping together on the other end of the economic spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 19: Well, you were talking before about taxes, and one of
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  Speaker 19: the primary rules of parasites is that you don't kill
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  Speaker 19: the host.
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  Speaker 1: Well said, you.
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  Speaker 19: Suck enough blood from the host to keep you going,
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  Speaker 19: and if you do it right, the host doesn't even
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  Speaker 19: notice that you're there.
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  Speaker 1: Right, then there's the next.
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  Speaker 19: Level of sucking so much that the host notices you're there,
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  Speaker 19: but you're still not annoying enough to be brushed away.
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  Speaker 5: Right, I'll make a cursory attempt, like a horse flicking
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  Speaker 5: its tail, but he knows the flies coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is.
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  Speaker 19: This is the difference or the difficulty with politics today.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the old joke that.
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  Speaker 19: Politics comes from the Greek poly meaning many ticks being
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  Speaker 19: blood sucking insects.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: But it's always something else they want to do with
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  Speaker 5: your money. And I know that there are a lot
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  Speaker 5: of folks who virtue signal with their vote, and I
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  Speaker 5: voted to help people.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't mind my taxes going up. Well that's great.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, taxes in all shapes and forms are
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  Speaker 5: a minimum. If you feel like your school board doesn't
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  Speaker 5: get enough of your property taxes, you can give them more.
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  Speaker 5: You just can't give them less than what they're they're
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  Speaker 5: asking for. If you think that the government needs more
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  Speaker 5: money from your paycheck, send them a check. It's coming
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  Speaker 5: on tax season. IRS does have a function for taking
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  Speaker 5: in money more than you've been asked for. That's perfectly allowable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and.
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  Speaker 19: But one of the big difficulties is win. A lot
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  Speaker 19: of these guys figured out that they don't even have
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  Speaker 19: to tax us directly, if they could just keep spending
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  Speaker 19: and running up the bar tab and figuring that, hey,
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  Speaker 19: we'll be out the door before anybody realizes how much
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  Speaker 19: the bar tab is. We'll stick the last guy to
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  Speaker 19: leave with it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and part of it is the arrogance that comes
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  Speaker 5: from being the reserve currency ever since the end of
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  Speaker 5: World War Two. What was it Breton Woods up in
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  Speaker 5: the New England where the meeting was where Britain said
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  Speaker 5: we we can't be the world's currency anymore because our
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  Speaker 5: country is a pile of rubble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in tatters, right, so.
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  Speaker 5: Could and the United States said we will be the
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  Speaker 5: exchange currency for the world and we've not and it
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  Speaker 5: hasn't stopped since. But that that immunity syndrome, you know,
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  Speaker 5: makes us think that we can do whatever we want.
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  Speaker 5: As long as Cutter and Turkey and Vietnam has to
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  Speaker 5: do business in US, dollars will always be okay ish.
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  Speaker 5: That was why this Brick association it was was it, Russia, China, Brazil, Iran,
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  Speaker 5: all these countries coming together to create a world bank
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  Speaker 5: of their own was very concerning to me. Now it's
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  Speaker 5: pretty much fallen apart thanks to Vlad the Invader and
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  Speaker 5: the Ayatola, but I mean it's still there were people
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  Speaker 5: out there saying, if we created a world where you
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  Speaker 5: didn't need to have a reserve currency, we'll just be
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  Speaker 5: the world's bank. Anything you want to buy, you you
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  Speaker 5: give to us, and we'll will turn it into the
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  Speaker 5: appropriate exchange rates. It was I was very concerned about it,
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  Speaker 5: and I think some other economists were too. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: not saying that that we're happy that people lost money
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  Speaker 5: in the collapse of the brick, but it's still out
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  Speaker 5: there and people might want to do it well.
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  Speaker 19: The diff I think the difficulty with the whole bricks
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  Speaker 19: concept was that you look at this clown's car of
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  Speaker 19: nations that were in it, and the only thing that
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  Speaker 19: they all had in common.
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  Speaker 1: Was they all hate us and they were all riding
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  Speaker 1: on China.
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  Speaker 19: You can't build a bank on that kind of interest,
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  Speaker 19: not so fet you got to have a few more
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  Speaker 19: things in common. But again, the thing, the thing that
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  Speaker 19: we're stuck with right now is that.
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  Speaker 1: We owe everybody money. Yep, we owe We are.
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  Speaker 19: So deep in debt, we are trillions in debt, and
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  Speaker 19: we don't seem to understand. Well I don't. I was
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  Speaker 19: going to say, we don't seem to understand. But there
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  Speaker 19: are a lot of people who have deliberately put us
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  Speaker 19: in this position.
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  Speaker 5: Sure absolutely, and you know, and some of it I
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  Speaker 5: think is important to keep a world coalition going. Some
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  Speaker 5: of the countries on the Peace Board, we owe them money.
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  Speaker 5: And into a degree, what is it they say, if
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  Speaker 5: you borrow one hundred dollars, the bank owns you. If
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  Speaker 5: you borrow a million dollars, you own the bank.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: These folks are looking at the US and saying, we
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  Speaker 5: need the US to stay a viable concern. So I
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  Speaker 5: think it's as President I'm said in his first term,
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  Speaker 5: he knows how to leverage debt, which made a lot
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  Speaker 5: of conservatives go oh crap. I mean at least, but
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  Speaker 5: at least at least he wasn't lying saying I'll cut
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  Speaker 5: the deficit.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, we need to.
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  Speaker 5: Use this right now as a as a fulcrum, but
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  Speaker 5: well said and a well articulated. Matt, you have a
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  Speaker 5: wonderful day. I know you're you're bracing for the snow
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  Speaker 5: as much as all our listeners all the way through
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee and and Texas and Arkansas. So hunker down in there,
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  Speaker 5: get the bread and milk if you can find it,
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  Speaker 5: and uh and we'll talk to you.
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  Speaker 19: I'm stocking in tobacco and beer and some food.
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  Speaker 1: Some food when the beer in the tobacco runs out. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have a good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 19: All right, take care of Joe.
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