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"Morality" (FTTxJT Fri 092526 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Is it really safe and is it really effective?
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 4: A steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 5: kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 6: he needs.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you. Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Bless you for letting me be of service to you. 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 7: That is how we get around. Blasting through the amplitude
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  Speaker 7: and frequency modulation receptors in your hand and telling you
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  Speaker 7: what went on last night and then I'll, of course,
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  Speaker 7: give you my analysis of it. That's the price of admission.
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  Speaker 7: But then I want to hear how it is impacting
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  Speaker 7: you where you are. Unlike most of your elected representatives,
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  Speaker 7: I actually want to know. And obviously the price of
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  Speaker 7: gas is the dominator. But is it, as the president
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  Speaker 7: said once, worth it? What is the abstract? And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 7: because we live in a world where everything has to
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  Speaker 7: fit behind a hashtag, Or a five-second soundbite. Don't get nuanced. Well,
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  Speaker 7: we've got four hours here. I know, I know. You're
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  Speaker 7: staring at your radio there in Chicago saying, hold it,
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  Speaker 7: you do this for four hours? Yes, WCGO, there's four
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  Speaker 7: hours of this somewhere floating around. And yes, one of
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  Speaker 7: our projects for this weekend, this week has been a challenge.
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  Speaker 7: There have been a lot of physical manifestations tearing away
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  Speaker 7: at my time. back here at our flagship station trying
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  Speaker 7: to get transmitters built and things like that. But we're
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  Speaker 7: going to get all the podcasts up over the weekend
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  Speaker 7: from this week. There's last week up through September 11th.
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  Speaker 7: They're already up there. As a matter of fact, all
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  Speaker 7: the way through the following week. So we've got about
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  Speaker 7: six days behind on that. But we will get it
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  Speaker 7: all up there. If you don't hear it all live,
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  Speaker 7: You can go check it, or as Scott in Virginia
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  Speaker 7: Beach tunes out as soon as WTAR leaves us. And please,
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  Speaker 7: I don't want it to be misunderstood. It is a
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  Speaker 7: great blessing to me, Scott, when he stays with us.
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  Speaker 7: But it makes the radio stations look at my show.
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  Speaker 7: Are you telling them to stop listening to it? You know,
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  Speaker 7: it's competition. It's a competitive marketplace. Be better. That's what
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  Speaker 7: I always say. Be better, and then people will listen.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the shenanigans and all the things that try
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  Speaker 7: to get into people, you know, force you to listen
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  Speaker 7: and trick you to listen and all that. It's not
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  Speaker 7: anything that I have time for. So we begin with
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  Speaker 7: our first thing so that we know what we're going
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  Speaker 7: to be talking about this morning. The press complaining because
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  Speaker 7: so far no big announcements from President Trump and Chairman Xi. Today,
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  Speaker 7: President Trump will take Chairman Xi away. down to the
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  Speaker 7: National Archives and show him the Holies. Read the Ifla
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  Speaker 7: Mista to him, if you will, and show him our
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  Speaker 7: Bill of Rights. Now, Chairman Xi might burst into flames
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  Speaker 7: at that moment. We will keep you up to date
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  Speaker 7: if that happens. Last night, a state dinner for Chairman Xi,
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  Speaker 7: including food apparently purchased at the wet market in Wuhan province. What?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 7: Okay. food not purchased at the wet market in the
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  Speaker 7: Wuhan province. Apparently it was a very nice salmon dinner
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  Speaker 7: or something along those lines. But the guest list was
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  Speaker 7: technology billionaire heavy, as the leaders of all the high-tech
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  Speaker 7: companies in the United States wanted to rub elbows with
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  Speaker 7: Chairman Xi. Three news organizations, CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, were
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  Speaker 7: back at the White House yesterday after getting a court
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  Speaker 7: order telling them they had to go back to that
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  Speaker 7: exquisite prison over the FDR swimming pool, where they only
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  Speaker 7: get the news that the president tells them. Polymarket has
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  Speaker 7: been sued by the state of New York, arguing the
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  Speaker 7: state is that they are an unlicensed gambling operation, and
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  Speaker 7: darn it, New York is only in the business of
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  Speaker 7: licensing gambling operations. They want a judge to block the
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  Speaker 7: company from operating again, on technology in the state. The
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  Speaker 7: lawsuit is the latest challenge from a state moving to
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  Speaker 7: rein in the betting apps, but also with a precedent
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  Speaker 7: that might lead to how do you stop some internet
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  Speaker 7: technology from operating within your state. Riverside County Sheriff Chad
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  Speaker 7: Bianco has been ordered by a judge to return 650,000
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  Speaker 7: ballots he seized after the redistricting special election in November
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  Speaker 7: of last year. The court called the ballot seizure unlawful.
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  Speaker 7: And at the UN, one last round of speechification. This time,
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  Speaker 7: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the lectern just
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  Speaker 7: a day after Iran's president said, we're not the terrorists.
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  Speaker 7: Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza as
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  Speaker 7: the biggest lie of the century. And those are some
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  Speaker 7: of our first things this Friday morning here all along
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  Speaker 7: the Talk Media Network. My most recent column for the
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  Speaker 7: Daily Signal is about how the unions keep losing. And
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  Speaker 7: in this case, the Teamsters were kicked out by the truckers.
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  Speaker 7: An upside in this, and I forgot to put this
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  Speaker 7: in our column, is that we might be able to
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  Speaker 7: identify where Jimmy Hoffa is buried now because He's spinning
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  Speaker 7: somewhere under some off-ramp from the New Jersey Turnpike. And
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  Speaker 7: if you can pick up the vibrations on the USGS,
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  Speaker 7: you might be able to say, hey, that's Jimmy's remains.
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  Speaker 7: Because the Teamsters were kicked out of Penske trucking by
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  Speaker 7: the drivers here in Richmond, Virginia. I cover Virginia stories
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  Speaker 7: for the Daily Signal. We have state pages, Rebecca Downs.
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  Speaker 7: um emily madera in texas rebecca covers ohio we've got
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  Speaker 7: coverage rebecca bice in georgia team coverage of california as
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  Speaker 7: well at dailysignal.com.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 18: Is this a sovereign nation or just a Polish state?
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  Speaker 7: You better look out, people.
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  Speaker 4: Before it gets too late.
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  Speaker 7: You know, and the authoritarian state, we were talking about
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  Speaker 7: this earlier, ethical people in office. We're here at Common
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  Speaker 7: Ground at the weekly meeting we come to broadcast to
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  Speaker 7: you so that I spread the word to all the
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  Speaker 7: corners of the nation, any place that's within the sound
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  Speaker 7: of our dulcet tones of city elders. An organization, really,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it is effective. It is local organization. I
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  Speaker 7: think nine states now have City Elders branches in it
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  Speaker 7: in some way, shape, or form based out of Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of them here in Virginia, I think, which
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  Speaker 7: is appropriate. But if you want to start one for yourself,
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  Speaker 7: go to cityelders.org. But you can also, our host here,
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  Speaker 7: our local chieftain, Kevin, Kevin at cityeldersva.org says he'll help
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  Speaker 7: you through any of the efforts you need to get
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  Speaker 7: your own city elder operation started. But part of this
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  Speaker 7: state that we're in comes from the idea that somehow
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  Speaker 7: government can protect us from immoral people. unethical people, and
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  Speaker 7: unfortunately what you've done is just hand the keys to
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  Speaker 7: unethical people. And it's not that one guarantees the other,
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  Speaker 7: but the more authority you give people, the more it's
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  Speaker 7: going to attract.
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  Speaker 19: Satan.
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  Speaker 7: I know we've rewritten this history. We just think he's
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  Speaker 7: a good-looking British man who runs a sleazy nightclub in
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  Speaker 7: Los Angeles. And that may be true. He might be
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  Speaker 7: doing that as well. But Lucifer, his own self, will
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  Speaker 7: go to that place where men have authority over others
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  Speaker 7: and corrupt them because it's what he does. And so
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  Speaker 7: the beginning, middle, and end of this starts with somebody
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  Speaker 7: saying there ought to be.
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  Speaker 4: A law.
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  Speaker 7: So the media, my brethren and sistren, play in their
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  Speaker 7: own particular role in this play. Go out there and
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  Speaker 7: take CHICOM money to tell you AI and data centers
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  Speaker 7: are bad. Wonderful visit we had with Mark Marano, producer
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  Speaker 7: of two great movies on the climate hustle, just coming
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  Speaker 7: back from Climate Week where Al Gore and company are panicking.
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  Speaker 7: Because all the money that used to flow into their
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  Speaker 7: pockets are now flowing into the anti-AI movement. Because AI
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  Speaker 7: has replaced climate change as the existential threat to humanity itself.
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  Speaker 7: And so tech billionaire Mark Warner, man who made his
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  Speaker 7: fortune in cell phones... is out there lecturing us on
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  Speaker 7: how to deal with technology. It's amazing to me. Scott
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  Speaker 7: in Virginia Beach writes, after watching Mark Warner's cringy car videos,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure what's going on in his head. Well,
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  Speaker 7: this is the thing. I mean, he is trying to
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  Speaker 7: out-AOC AOC. And I told this, I was a guest
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  Speaker 7: on a podcast, Rob Bluey, executive editor of The Daily Signal,
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  Speaker 7: got a bunch of us who write for The Daily Signal,
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  Speaker 7: me and Rebecca Downs and Emily Medeiros from Texas, and
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  Speaker 7: Rebecca covers Ohio, I cover Virginia, and we were talking
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  Speaker 7: about different things. And he said, what's the one thing
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  Speaker 7: you're looking for in 2026? And I said, watch the
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  Speaker 7: Virginia Senate race. The last time Mark Warner was unfettered
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  Speaker 7: in a midterm election, which was 2014. He won by 18,000
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  Speaker 7: votes over Ed Gillespie. And that's 1,100 votes in each
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  Speaker 7: congressional district. And so I said, be careful, because he
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  Speaker 7: wasn't Nutty Mark then in those, as you mentioned, his
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  Speaker 7: car videos. He wasn't crazy Mark trying to out AOC, AOC,
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  Speaker 7: getting his TDS on. And he nearly lost that election.
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  Speaker 7: It was, you know, recountable. It was 18,000 votes in
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  Speaker 7: his state. I think 3 million votes were cast and 18,000
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  Speaker 7: was the difference. So when it's just a midterm, Mark
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  Speaker 7: doesn't have great history. And nobody is covering this. Nobody
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  Speaker 7: is talking about General Missisawa, Burt Missisawa, who was one
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  Speaker 7: of Trump's military advisors, foreign affairs advisors, is running against him.
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  Speaker 7: So he's out there doing these, chasing the populist tale.
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  Speaker 7: The media says AI is scary. The CHICOMs say AI
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  Speaker 7: is scary. Mark Warner takes, and maybe Eric Swalwell has
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  Speaker 7: shown him how to get a little CHICOM money to
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  Speaker 7: go out there and say stuff like this, but it
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  Speaker 7: was reminiscent. When Mark Warner said this the other day,
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  Speaker 7: it reminded me of an old skit.
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  Speaker 13: For God's sake, let's go ahead and put some safety
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  Speaker 13: protocols in place and not simply trust these large companies
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  Speaker 13: who are in a race to do all the safety
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  Speaker 13: and security on their own.
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  Speaker 7: You know, and I'd like to say I can come
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  Speaker 7: up with something pithy to make the point about what
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  Speaker 7: Mark Warner and these tech billionaires like Dario Emoji at
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  Speaker 7: Anthropic want, but how can I question Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi,
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  Speaker 7: and Michael Palin saying, when they showed us exactly what
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  Speaker 7: the tech industry is doing. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 7: this could be direct dialogue taken from last night's state
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  Speaker 7: dinner with all the tech billionaires and Chairman Xi.
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  Speaker 18: Fighting on deck is a serious breach of my articles
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  Speaker 18: of strict discipline.
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  Speaker 13: I'm afraid the guilty party is in for a very
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  Speaker 13: severe punishment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: O'Dell... Captain, I did indeed take Mr. Sprung's spot. I
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  Speaker 7: am ready to accept my punishment.
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  Speaker 13: Captain, I threw the first blow.
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  Speaker 7: If anyone is to be punished, let it be me.
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  Speaker 16: I ask only that whatever you do, please don't put
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  Speaker 16: me in a tight-fitting lassie costume and make me eat
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  Speaker 16: from a monogrammed dog dish.
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  Speaker 7: Captain, I encourage this fight. Punish me. Make me wear
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  Speaker 7: nipple-pinching clothespins, sir. Me, Captain.
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  Speaker 8: No, no.
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  Speaker 13: Punish me.
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  Speaker 7: And of course, that last voice was Mark Warner's co-conspirator
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  Speaker 7: in the US Senate, Al Franken. Which I find to
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  Speaker 7: be the most ironic bit of that skit is there's
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  Speaker 7: Al Franken, who eventually would sit with Mark Warner in
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  Speaker 7: the US Senate asking to be punished. And that's what
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  Speaker 7: these tech leaders, the three of them, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft,
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  Speaker 7: They want the government to regulate AI so that you, me,
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  Speaker 7: or someone else can't come up with a better way
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  Speaker 7: to do AI. This is what's happened to all of
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  Speaker 7: the free markets of the world because somewhere... Some Starbucks
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  Speaker 7: has said we need to regulate coffee shops. Somewhere a
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  Speaker 7: Amen to that. Punish me, punish me. And that's usually
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  Speaker 7: like that. And we made this comparison earlier. The great
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  Speaker 7: week or so ago posted to his social media that
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  Speaker 7: on Monday of this week or Tuesday, whatever it was,
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  Speaker 7: It was on this program saying that the climate billionaires
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  Speaker 7: like Al Gore are in a panic because the money
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  Speaker 7: is gone. Michael Bloomberg and all these folks have found
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  Speaker 7: a better horse. And they're out there pitching AI as
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  Speaker 13: Is it really safe and is it really effective?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that will be the yardstick. Please punish me so
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  Speaker 7: that I will have to make sure that I only
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  Speaker 7: And AI has come out of, it's like the Kentucky
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  Speaker 7: great giver of authority. See, COVID was a biological thing
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  Speaker 7: I haven't heard anyone else say this. If somebody else
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  Speaker 7: has said this, by all means, let me know. I'm
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  Speaker 7: not trying to nick their point. But here's what. Why
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  Speaker 7: we've talked about this before. It used to be a
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  Speaker 7: horse race between climate change and gun violence. We figured
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  Speaker 7: were the two most likely candidates to be the next
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  Speaker 7: global pandemic. What's going to be the thing that's going
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  Speaker 7: to make us all stay home? What's going to be
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  Speaker 7: the place that's going to lock us into our homes?
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  Speaker 7: And we figured, you know, as the summer wore on,
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  Speaker 7: there were some violence, gun violence at some block parties
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  Speaker 7: and things like that. I felt like climate change was
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  Speaker 7: fading anyway. But because there's so much CHICOM money tied
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  Speaker 7: Amendment here. So if the data centers are here, we
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  Speaker 7: can apply the Fourth and really the Third Amendments to them.
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  Speaker 7: If they're in the Wuhan region of China, good luck
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  Speaker 7: with you. But here's the reason AI has got folks
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  Speaker 7: like Mark Warner so excited about it being the next
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  Speaker 7: this is what makes this such a dangerous time and
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  Speaker 7: to take the Bill of Rights especially and overlay it
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  Speaker 7: over any issue, any issue at all. But especially as
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  Speaker 7: somebody in this industry needs the government to put guardrails
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  Speaker 7: are so important because we have first given overwhelmingly too
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  Speaker 2: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 7: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 4: And call it even.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on.
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  Speaker 7: The Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 15: That's how we roll here.
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  Speaker 7: We say the quiet part out loud. Sometimes it's weird
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  Speaker 7: to hear, but that's why we roll each morning here
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  Speaker 7: with you. Buying indulgences. There was an old story. You
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  Speaker 7: may have heard the old story about a guy who
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: showed up and found that people, well-off people, had been
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  Speaker 7: buying indulgences from the temple. That's what these tech billionaires
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: are trying to do, buy indulgences from the temple. And
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  Speaker 7: we need somebody to go in there and knock over
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  Speaker 7: some tables. And I get in trouble every time I
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  Speaker 7: point out that January 20th of 2017, somebody finally showed
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  Speaker 7: up in our American temple and started kicking over tables.
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  Speaker 7: Are you comparing Donald Trump? No, I'm saying that the
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: metaphor is that we have, in our American temple, started
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  Speaker 7: selling indulgences. And it didn't start with Barack Obama. He
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: and Joe Biden profited pretty good from it. But it
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: started when we started to allow people to circumvent the
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  Speaker 7: restrictions put on them by the Constitution. It begins with
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: the perversion of the Commerce Clause and its post-Civil War,
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  Speaker 7: its reconstruction, its government contracts. I mean, to be fair,
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: Thomas Jefferson signed the very first government military-industrial complex contract
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  Speaker 7: with E.I. DuPont, who was just a black powder maker
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  Speaker 7: out of Wilmington, Delaware, who was friends, you know, drinking
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  Speaker 7: buddies with Ben Franklin, who said, hey, Tom, if we're
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: going to have a Navy... And we're going to call it,
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: maybe we should have like a store of black powder.
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: And so the federal government started buying big piles of
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: black powder from EI DuPont. And then Jeff Gordon happened.
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know, something like that. There may have been
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  Speaker 7: some points in the middle there. So it's as old
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  Speaker 7: as America itself. Again, to double mention Chris Horner, he's
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: turned a wonderful phrase, rent-seeking, the world's second oldest profession.
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  Speaker 7: Think about it. Well, I get to you at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe first thing
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  Speaker 7: this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 19: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: It's Kareem. Good morning, Kareem. How are you this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 19: I'm doing well, sir. I'm tooling around northern Virginia, so traffic.
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  Speaker 3: Already.
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  Speaker 7: See, that's the thing. People forget about these big cities.
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  Speaker 7: If you don't live in one, when the traffic begins
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  Speaker 7: at 6 o'clock eastern, You know, the sun isn't even
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: up yet, but the brake lights are illuminating the road
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: in front of you. It's not a fun feeling to
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: get your day started. But I appreciate what you do
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: to get the stuff, you know, your truck and wherever
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: it is, sir. So what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 19: Oh, a lot of things, Joe. We can start with
• 47:50
  Speaker 19: Mark Warner. When he ran for governor, I think back
• 47:54
  Speaker 19: in early 2000, he only claimed his net worth was
• 47:56
  Speaker 19: $ 200 million. Now, am I reading sources that he's worth
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  Speaker 19: around $ 250 million now? Is that what I'm– about 20
• 48:06
  Speaker 19: years later, 30?
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: $ 250 million?
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  Speaker 19: Literally. Now, granted, I don't know which source is reputable,
• 48:14
  Speaker 19: which source is accurate, which I'm just.
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: Well, remember, two things have to be true about a
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: member of the U.S. House or Senate. The first one
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: is they can't have investitures. So when Mark got elected
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: to the U.S. Senate, all his stock and shares in
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: what is now Verizon, which he collected each time there
• 48:36
  Speaker 7: was a buyout, each time there was a merger, are
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: at very best a blind trust, if not some familial trust.
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: This is what they used to love. You remember 2017's
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: favorite word, emoluments. This is supposedly how we keep Nancy
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: Pelosi from becoming wealthy on the backs of government regulation,
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: but because you're supposed to divest your holdings. It's a
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  Speaker 7: blind trust in the name of your wife or your
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: son or whoever it may be. It could be your cat.
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  Speaker 7: And so Mark Warner's true worth is well into the
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: billions based just off of his Verizon holdings. Once he
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: leaves Congress, which we're hoping will be January of 2027,
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: but whenever he's done with his government service, then that
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: money can go back to his family.
• 49:36
  Speaker 19: Joe, as much money as I've paid Verizon over the years,
• 49:38
  Speaker 19: in fact... One of the years I was truck driving earlier,
• 49:42
  Speaker 19: $ 400 a month for just my phone bill.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 19: But set that aside, as a man who is a
• 49:50
  Speaker 19: son of a World War II veteran and whose father
• 49:53
  Speaker 19: did a milk run. Now, that could be like Clinton
• 49:56
  Speaker 19: say he was a log cabin Democrat.
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: Who knows?
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  Speaker 19: But I think he's a success story in some regards.
• 50:03
  Speaker 19: But I would prefer if he would actually have the
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  Speaker 19: testicular fortitude to come on and talk to you on
• 50:09
  Speaker 19: your radio.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: He should welcome that. I used to get invited. I
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: was the token conservative in his press gaggles back in
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: that 17-year redacted portion of my career that I'm not
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: allowed to talk about. So I used to get invited
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: to that all the time. I've talked to his chief
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: of staff. I've talked to his scheduling person. They just
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: don't want me in there anymore. And it wasn't even
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: like we got prickly. I would ask him questions ripped
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: right from the pages of the show. And he'd like, oh,
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: this is why I like when Joe is the last one,
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: because he always asks interesting questions. And, you know, he
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: tries to bloviate his way around the answers. But, you know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: he he. He used to invite us to the program,
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: and maybe it's the re-election campaign. I truly think Burt
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: Missisawa could be the surprise of the 2026 midterm elections
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: because Mark has put the crazy hat on. If you
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: watch any of these passenger seat videos that he shoots,
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: he's making Ilhan Omar seem judicious and deliberative in some
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: of his rhetoric. He really is... become the voice of
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: Trump derangement syndrome. And I think Virginians have grown weary
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: of it.
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  Speaker 19: Joe, I think there's a lot to what you say.
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  Speaker 19: But moving on topic just for a quick bit.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 51:37
  Speaker 19: I get where Netanyahu is saying that there's no genocide.
• 51:42
  Speaker 19: From his view, there's no genocide in Palestine. But, Joe,
• 51:46
  Speaker 19: the videos I'm seeing show otherwise, and they're not all AI.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, Joe, thanks for taking the call.
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  Speaker 19: Have a great day.
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: Well, there you go. He's just left an incendiary device
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: on our porch, and we're going to have to stomp
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: it out and then throw out the shoes. that we
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: used for it. But I appreciate it, Kareem. With the
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: news trundling towards us at a pretty good pace here,
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: I'm going to stick a pin in that. If I
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: don't address what Kareem said about genocide and how one
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: person can say it and where the truth lies in that,
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: if I forget, call me at 434-882-4217. But we have
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  Speaker 7: news coming up here at the top of this Friday.
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  Speaker 7: Second hour in the books for those who are listening
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  Speaker 13: Four.
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  Speaker 7: There's four of this. And if you go to JoeThomasInTheMorning.com,
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  Speaker 17: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 19: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 19: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 16: I'm Sam.
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