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"Louise and the Grifting Racketeers" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 3: The steel mill, he's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 4: Leased for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 4: kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only.
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  Speaker 6: Aims to please you.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: this morning. On the radio program that first and foremost
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  Speaker 7: is unabashed about calling itself a radio program, but if
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  Speaker 7: we insist on living in the world, how about we
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  Speaker 7: call you our content creators? That way we sound cool
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  Speaker 7: in the room, right? I will tell you what went
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  Speaker 7: on last night, and there is a bunch of it.
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  Speaker 7: I will also give you my analysis of it. but
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  Speaker 7: it might be impacting you differently. So as the most
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  Speaker 7: important local aspect of this here radio station that you're
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  Speaker 7: listening to, I want you to tell me how the
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  Speaker 7: news of the day is impacting you. Don't be afeard.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to call in and talk on the
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  Speaker 7: air if you don't want to. Some folks like to.
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  Speaker 7: Some folks are just too damn busy to. It's mornings,
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  Speaker 7: and this is the suppository of all those things that
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  Speaker 7: you thought you had enough time to put off until later.
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  Speaker 7: Now is later. So you're running around like the metaphorical
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  Speaker 7: chicken with its head cut off, trying to get everything
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  Speaker 7: done before either the day closes festivities or begins for you,
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  Speaker 7: one way, shape, or form. So we'll take text messages
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  Speaker 7: at 434-882-4217. Bob in Portland, Freedom 970 out there. What
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  Speaker 7: should we do with people who rely on government information
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  Speaker 7: handouts but are too lazy to work. Kick them out
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  Speaker 7: of Congress is a great cartoon. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of people who have decided that working in the
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  Speaker 7: government is a pretty good gig for your side hustle.
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  Speaker 8: Attorney General, Ms. Lucas, for the last nearly five years,
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  Speaker 8: accumulated nearly $ 5 million in ill-gotten gains.
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  Speaker 5: Through her criminal enterprise.
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  Speaker 9: Ms.
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  Speaker 8: Lucas served in a position of trust for nearly four
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  Speaker 8: decades and served as the president pro tempore of the
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  Speaker 8: Senate for the Virginia State Senate for these last five,
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  Speaker 8: six years. During that time, as alleged in the indictment,
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  Speaker 8: her and her six co-conspirators, instead of serving the public,
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  Speaker 8: as was her job, manufactured and created a criminal enterprise
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  Speaker 8: to illicitly enrich themselves by procuring sales and stores and
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  Speaker 8: divisions through the marijuana and CBD enterprise.
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  Speaker 7: Now, we will continue into the story. There's plenty more
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  Speaker 7: going on, but that has got a lot of folks' attention.
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  Speaker 7: for a couple of reasons, and we'll explain coming up.
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  Speaker 7: But I want to get our first things out there
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  Speaker 7: because there is so much afoot. Severe weather striking the
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  Speaker 7: Four Corners region. Our friends out there in Cortez listening
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  Speaker 7: to us this morning. Flooding, swamping dozens of homes in
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  Speaker 7: southern Utah, as well as southern Colorado. Tornadoes blowing off
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  Speaker 7: roofs and knocking down houses and power lines in Arizona.
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  Speaker 7: AI industry, perhaps driven by this hack that took over
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  Speaker 7: the Internet, especially in Europe yesterday, pulled the AI stocks lower.
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  Speaker 10: S & P 500.
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  Speaker 7: Fell 1.2% for its worst day since July, while the
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  Speaker 7: NASDAQ fell 2.6%. Dow Jones did go up 11 points.
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  Speaker 7: AI-related stocks have been swinging on worries that not only
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  Speaker 7: did this hack either come from or was found by AI,
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  Speaker 7: could be both, but money is tightening up towards the
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  Speaker 7: building of data centers while Chinese advertisements and Chinese-managed activist
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  Speaker 7: campaigns have created a groundswell of local animus towards the
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  Speaker 7: development of those necessary internet Pipelines. PHP. No, it's not
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  Speaker 7: date rape drug. This is the underpinning software of all websites,
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  Speaker 7: or at least most of them. And it was hacked on,
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  Speaker 7: it looks like, Tuesday from the stories I've found. And
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  Speaker 7: the internet managers found out about it on Wednesday and
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  Speaker 7: tried to get fixes in there. Europe especially hit, shut
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  Speaker 7: down many internet sites online. as this hack created spoof
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  Speaker 7: websites that looked just like the websites like Amazon you
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  Speaker 7: would have gone to and stealing your information and then
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  Speaker 7: getting into your computers and using your computers to mine Bitcoin.
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  Speaker 7: the use of student IDs during the midterm elections this year.
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  Speaker 7: the trilateral meetings. Russian President Putin agreed in principle to that.
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  Speaker 7: about CBD, and that came up in this case against
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  Speaker 7: Luis Lucas. It's interesting that here in Virginia, the CBD manufacturers,
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  Speaker 7: I hope the water doesn't damage his hemp farm, They're
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  Speaker 7: an amazing boon to my family. I had never used
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  Speaker 7: CBD oil, and Seeley's stuff works great. That being said,
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  Speaker 7: here in Virginia, CBD manufacturers are facing the squeeze. As
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  Speaker 7: the government legalizes the wacky tobacco, they've been squeezing the
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  Speaker 7: manufacturers of CBD oil who have been in business for decades.
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  Speaker 7: who are just trying to use the pain-relieving portion of
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  Speaker 7: the marijuana plant to help ease your pain and suffering.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Top Media Network.
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  Speaker 7: So as Virginia's highest ranking Democrat was arrested, turned herself
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  Speaker 7: in technically. A friend of mine called and said, where's
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  Speaker 7: the perp walk? Well, there was no perp walk. She
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  Speaker 7: turned herself in to the FBI along with six co-conspirators
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  Speaker 7: selling marijuana, racketeering, money laundering, all the things you want
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  Speaker 7: in an elected official leading the Democrat Party here in Virginia.
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  Speaker 7: And there's a lot to be said about this. And
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  Speaker 7: people want to know, will Louise Lucas... do any time?
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  Speaker 7: Will there be a size 10 orange jumpsuit and will
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  Speaker 7: she be allowed to keep her signature wigs when she's
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  Speaker 7: in the who's gal? And there's a, there's a good
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  Speaker 7: answer to that. And that answer is no. Um, odds
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  Speaker 7: are if I was a gambling man and Louise Lucas
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  Speaker 7: worked very hard to also get casinos in and around
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  Speaker 7: the Portsmouth, Virginia area as well. Um, If I was
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  Speaker 7: a wagering man, if Calchi had this up on its
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  Speaker 7: prognosticative website, I would say that at least one, if
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  Speaker 7: not four or five of the six co-conspirators will try
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  Speaker 7: to take the fall for Louise Lucas. Now, Kash Patel
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  Speaker 7: sort of addresses that yesterday in the arrest announcement.
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  Speaker 13: Ms.
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  Speaker 8: Lucas has many things to answer for on the allegation.
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  Speaker 8: The purpose of her enterprise included trafficking large quantities of
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  Speaker 8: illegal marijuana, creating generational wealth for members and associates of
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  Speaker 8: her criminal enterprise, recycling drug proceeds to expand the operation
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  Speaker 8: that she launched and created, and steering marijuana licenses to
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  Speaker 8: entities in which members held financial interest.
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  Speaker 7: And that last bit is, I think, the most disqualifying
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  Speaker 7: because she held that position of authority that once it became,
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  Speaker 7: and she also lobbied for, the legalization of marijuana and
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't on several occasions recuse herself. Joe Morrissey, former Virginia Senator,
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  Speaker 7: filed ethics violations charges for her insistence that she not
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  Speaker 7: recuse herself from votes regarding the sale of marijuana legally
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  Speaker 7: in Virginia.
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  Speaker 8: During her time as Virginia State Senator, instead of enforcing
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  Speaker 8: the law, she was actually breaking the law as alleged
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  Speaker 8: in the indictment. and then using her position of power
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  Speaker 8: and public trust to deflect and defend against her own
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  Speaker 8: criminal enterprise. Truly the epitome of hypocrisy for a public official.
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  Speaker 4: Ms.
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  Speaker 8: Lucas on January 24th, 2022.
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  Speaker 7: Now this is the important part because, as I said,
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  Speaker 7: at least half of these six co-conspirators, many members of
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  Speaker 7: Louise's own family, are going to try and take the
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  Speaker 7: fall for her. But this next bit is going to,
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  Speaker 7: if they're smart, undo that sit.
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  Speaker 8: On social media i'm a 78 year old grandma who
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  Speaker 8: legalized pot and now has her own cannabis store and
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  Speaker 8: i'm the last thing standing between the gop and total
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  Speaker 8: control of virginia that's worth an rt.
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  Speaker 7: This is after of course winning the governor's mansion the
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  Speaker 7: attorney general's office and the lieutenant governor's race coming up
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  Speaker 7: uh the fellow who tried to be the lieutenant governor
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  Speaker 7: uh john reed who's been there covering this, was a
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  Speaker 7: TV news anchor for a long time before that as well,
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  Speaker 7: is going to weigh in on it. My dear friend
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  Speaker 7: Nick Freitas, who many of you know from the Turning
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  Speaker 7: Point USA world, posted this. He said in his Twitter
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  Speaker 7: feed and his Instagram, we now go live to Governor
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  Speaker 7: Abigail Spanberger's reaction.
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  Speaker 5: It's too good to be true!
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  Speaker 7: Oh, but I feel really bad!
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  Speaker 13: Oh, me too! I know, it's a great tragedy. Some
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  Speaker 13: people did something.
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  Speaker 7: Tongue out of cheek, I do actually have Governor Spanberger's
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  Speaker 7: reaction to this, and it tells quite a bit about
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  Speaker 7: what I was saying earlier that Louise Lucas may have
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  Speaker 7: some defenders in her co-conspirators, but not amongst Virginia Democrats.
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  Speaker 7: Listen to this. I, and this is at Governor VA,
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  Speaker 7: I have read the charging document alleging a series of
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  Speaker 7: criminal acts by a member of the Virginia Senate. In
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  Speaker 7: our American system of justice, people are presumed innocent until
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  Speaker 7: proven guilty, and that is true for Senator Louise Lucas.
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  Speaker 7: She and her family deserve the opportunity to present their
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  Speaker 7: defense and speak to the allegations presented. Well, that certainly says, beep,
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  Speaker 7: set me up, doesn't it? These two can't stand one another.
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  Speaker 7: Because Abigail Spanberger is, for most people's intents and purposes,
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  Speaker 7: the most powerful Virginia Democrat. And certainly also the most
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  Speaker 7: important and well-known Democrat woman. Louise Lucas has long held
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  Speaker 7: that and wasn't thrilled. She would have been happier if
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  Speaker 7: Winsome Sears had won the governor's mansion. At least then
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  Speaker 7: she'd have been a Republican to rail against. Spanberger, though,
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  Speaker 7: does identify something interesting in this. The timing of this indictment,
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  Speaker 7: and tell me you haven't heard this before and has
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  Speaker 7: frustrated many of you regardless of where you find yourself.
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  Speaker 7: The timing of this indictment undermines the U.S. Department of
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  Speaker 7: Justice's previous longstanding policy of not taking legal actions to
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  Speaker 7: include indictments or significant investigative steps close to an election.
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  Speaker 7: And sadly, this timing further erodes the trust the American
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  Speaker 7: people deserve to have. in the Department of Justice. And
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  Speaker 7: I have long held on this program, Governor Spanberger, there
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  Speaker 7: has been a long held policy on this program that
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  Speaker 7: that is a load of bovine excrement. If you know
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  Speaker 7: that an elected official, whether they be running for re-election
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  Speaker 7: or on the eve of that reelection or not, and
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  Speaker 7: you don't do anything about it, you deserve to go
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  Speaker 7: to prison as a law enforcement person. You are impeachable
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  Speaker 7: as a judge, a sheriff, a police chief. If you
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  Speaker 7: know that an elected official is doing something illegal, and
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  Speaker 7: you don't do something just because it happens to be
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  Speaker 7: close to election day, and by the way, an election
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  Speaker 7: day that has nothing to do with Louise Lucas. She's
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  Speaker 7: not on the ballot. She's not running for reelection. Now
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  Speaker 7: her district, Rob Whitman's district, is considered one of those
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  Speaker 7: flippable districts. I've seen some polling that says that that's
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  Speaker 7: probably not going to happen.
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  Speaker 13: Ms.
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  Speaker 7: Taylor is probably not going to win. About the only
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  Speaker 7: district in Virginia that might flip is nearby in Jen
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  Speaker 7: Kiggins facing former Congresswoman Elaine Luria. But all of that
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  Speaker 7: being said, One friend of mine sent me an email yesterday, said, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: but Joe, we've been voting for 40 days now. What
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  Speaker 7: about all those people who voted? Again, Louise Lucas isn't
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  Speaker 7: on the ballot. If you decide now you don't want
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  Speaker 7: to vote for Tom Perriello or Beth Macy or Elaine
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  Speaker 7: Luria or Shannon Taylor because she's a member of the
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  Speaker 7: Oh, and I'm already hearing from the people who said, oh,
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  Speaker 7: to continue her ill-gotten gains, she would have kept marijuana
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  Speaker 7: with her dispensaries as she could now. Joining us to
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  Speaker 7: kind of break this down is a man who's been
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  Speaker 7: on in this Louise Lucas case with us is the
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  Speaker 7: great John Reed, the host of the Reed Revolution podcast. Now,
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  Speaker 7: Brother John, how are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 13: I'm doing very well.
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  Speaker 19: I'm certainly doing better than Louise Lucas, so that puts
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  Speaker 19: things in perspective.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it is, although I can't imagine she's on cell
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  Speaker 7: block D with six other girls in the holding cell.
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  Speaker 13: No, you know, you want to be fair. I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: want to act like a Democrat.
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  Speaker 19: I want to be a Republican and say that people
• 30:04
  Speaker 19: deserve a fair trial and they deserve an opportunity to
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  Speaker 19: explain themselves. I think this is pretty damning, though, when
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  Speaker 19: you when you actually read the indictment and you read
• 30:16
  Speaker 19: about the evidence that is going to be presented here.
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  Speaker 19: It sounds like this is more than just running an
• 30:23
  Speaker 19: operation with illegal marijuana. This is an abuse of her office.
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  Speaker 19: And of course, if you are down at the Capitol
• 30:31
  Speaker 19: for any period of time in Richmond, they refer to PC,
• 30:36
  Speaker 19: not as politically correct, but Portsmouth corruption. because the place
• 30:39
  Speaker 19: is filled with people who are sycophants for Louise Lucas.
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  Speaker 19: She has served for 34 years, keeps getting elected by
• 30:47
  Speaker 19: the same people who do not have the same standards, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 19: I mean, I hate to beat up on an entire
• 30:52
  Speaker 19: group of folks, but they keep sending this woman to
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  Speaker 19: the Capitol, and she is one of the most powerful
• 30:58
  Speaker 19: legislators in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and it appears the
• 31:04
  Speaker 19: public trust. And for those of us who've watched her,
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  Speaker 19: that's not a surprise. She's a nasty, racist woman.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me ask you, though, about the machine politics,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: because we see this time, whether it's the Daley family
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: in Chicago or the corruption that grips Sacramento. New York
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: is especially bad for the machine politics. We remember Donald
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: Maness and the Queens Democratic Party. All of these machines
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: all seem to come with a D attached to them.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: I never hear anyone talking about the corrupt Republican machine.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: And to some of my listeners' concern, why doesn't the
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Republican Party develop a machine? I guess Newt Gingrich might
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: have been the closest to trying to put that together.
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: But this decades-long machine politics has left the Portsmouth area,
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: if I'm not mistaken— poorer now than it was 30
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: years ago when Louise Lucas first got elected.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, Portsmouth is a disaster.
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  Speaker 19: And when I was campaigning last year, I will tell you,
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  Speaker 19: I made a point of going to Portsmouth for several events,
• 32:15
  Speaker 19: and people warned me, don't get pulled over. And I thought,
• 32:18
  Speaker 19: what the hell are you talking about? Are we back
• 32:21
  Speaker 19: in the civil rights movement where if I get pulled over,
• 32:23
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  Speaker 13: And they said, we just don't know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 19: Don't do anything that attracts attention to you and your
• 32:30
  Speaker 19: vehicle while you're in. I mean, that's how bad it
• 32:34
  Speaker 19: has gotten. And there is a race component of this.
• 32:38
  Speaker 19: No one wants to talk about it. Well, I'll talk
• 32:40
  Speaker 19: about it. I'm tired of this. We live in the
• 32:42
  Speaker 19: Commonwealth of Virginia. It's a modern era. All of us
• 32:45
  Speaker 19: should be able to travel from the top of the
• 32:48
  Speaker 19: state to the bottom of the state without feeling like
• 32:51
  Speaker 19: race is an issue or some sort of problem. And
• 32:58
  Speaker 19: there are a great number of people who hate white
• 33:00
  Speaker 19: people who have matriculated into the Democratic Party. And they
• 33:05
  Speaker 19: are abusing their authority. And we've got to stand up
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  Speaker 19: against it.
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  Speaker 7: But here's the point I was asking about Portsmouth is,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's the old question. Are you better off
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: now than you were 34 years ago? You know, if
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: you use race as that shield to hide your corruption
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: behind and you keep telling your community that Luis Lucas
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: is the only one who who can And she hasn't
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: helped you in two generations. At what point does somebody
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: stand up and say enough is enough? Or is that
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: a little bit of what's going on here? Is that
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: maybe somebody blew the whistle within this corrupt organization saying,
• 33:47
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• 33:51
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll be very.
• 33:52
  Speaker 19: Curious to see when the testimony is revealed from some
• 33:56
  Speaker 19: of these people who are who are shielded at the moment.
• 33:59
  Speaker 19: I mean, you look, this is a pattern in certain
• 34:03
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• 34:08
  Speaker 19: still revere Marion Barry? Why have they put a statue
• 34:11
  Speaker 19: up to him after the corruption that was associated? with
• 34:14
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• 34:18
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• 34:27
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• 34:30
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  Speaker 13: There's a twisted.
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  Speaker 19: Mindset in certain communities that excuses illegal behavior. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 19: I mean, you might be able to see some sort
• 34:48
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  Speaker 13: It's a corrupt system.
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  Speaker 19: And I think we're going to find out that Senator
• 34:59
  Speaker 19: Lucas has really played her cards to try to benefit herself. Indeed,
• 35:04
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• 35:07
  Speaker 19: not to be greedy. She was intent on creating generational
• 35:12
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• 35:14
  Speaker 13: I mean, this is outrageous.
• 35:16
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• 35:19
  Speaker 19: this woman has been in charge.
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• 35:25
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• 35:29
  Speaker 19: served time in federal prison. He's the Speaker of the
• 35:31
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me go to my favorite bit. I guess
• 35:42
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• 35:45
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• 35:50
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• 35:56
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• 36:05
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• 36:08
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• 36:12
  Speaker 7: each other. And I think Louise doesn't like the fact
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: that she's not in the world's eye, the most important
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  Speaker 7: Virginia Democrat. Governor Spanberger in her statement said this is
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: really violates the FBI's longstanding tradition of not investigating politicians
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  Speaker 7: so close to an election. I'm sorry. I feel like
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: that's a violation of our public trust as well. If
• 36:36
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• 36:39
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  Speaker 7: I want them going after them. I want to know
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: that before votes get cast. John, talk about that. Senator
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: Lucas isn't on the ballot this year. There's somebody, I
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: think her daughter is on the ballot down at Fort Smith. But,
• 36:56
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  Speaker 7: part of the state that it had to be revealed.
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  Speaker 13: And we will ensure.
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  Speaker 19: That there is a fair trial and that there is
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  Speaker 13: But the governor, Governor Spanberger... Again, I think there's a
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  Speaker 27: I'm not only in awe of their beauty and kindness,
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  Speaker 27: but also their tireless work ethic. Just look at the
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  Speaker 27: birds who gather supplies to build nests, or Swiss foxes
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  Speaker 27: who work hard to provide for their young, or penguins
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  Speaker 27: who travel up to 500 miles to secure food for
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  Speaker 27: their families, or bush babies whose impressive jump allows them
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  Speaker 27: to navigate the trees and the wild in search of fruit.
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  Speaker 27: This remarkable work ethic is shared by our best friends,
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  Speaker 27: the canines. We know dogs are our wonderful pets at home,
• 41:30
  Speaker 27: but because of their acute senses, they also perform life-saving
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  Speaker 27: work every day Dogs keep us safe at airports. They
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  Speaker 27: comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer from PTS. They
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  Speaker 27: work with diabetics, alerting them when there's a change in
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  Speaker 27: their blood chemistry. Working dogs have a variety of highly
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  Speaker 27: trained roles that contribute to society and help those in need.
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  Speaker 27: So please join me and American Humane in supporting our
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  Speaker 27: heroic working dogs and all the amazing animals on this
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  Speaker 27: planet we inhabit together. Go to AmericanHumane.org to learn more.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 22: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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  Speaker 7: Heart and brain. Who's with me?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed. And my
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  Speaker 3: brain is saying, when it's time to go home, somebody
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  Speaker 3: call me a ride.
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  Speaker 5: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 22: Me too.
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  Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs? Call for a ride when
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 28: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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  Speaker 28: costs go to heating and cooling? Energy efficiency isn't just
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  Speaker 28: One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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  Speaker 28: energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
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  Speaker 28: You'll learn to look for air leaks around windows and doors,
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  Speaker 28: check ducts for holes, and improve your insulation. Another time
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  Speaker 28: the Energy Guide label. And there are day-to-day things you
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  Speaker 28: in the summer. Close fireplace dampers when they're not in use.
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  Speaker 28: And keep air filters clean. For more tips on saving
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  Speaker 28: money by reducing your energy waste, check out ftc.gov slash green.
• 43:24
  Speaker 28: A tip from the Federal Trade Commission. the nation's consumer
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  Speaker 28: protection agency.
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  Speaker 18: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  Speaker 18: first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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  Speaker 18: going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
• 43:41
  Speaker 18: anger could be a sign of a larger health concern.
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  Speaker 18: But help is available. Listen to hundreds of inspiring stories
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  Speaker 18: in your life. Treatment works. Recovery is possible.
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: here coming to you as we talk about The situation
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: of the corruption in Virginia's government here at the city
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: elders meeting where the issue of getting people ethical into
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: government is the key. And what are we battling about?
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: And the issue with Louise Lucas and machine politics wherever
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: you go, if you see a machine that always just,
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: you know, you've got to kiss the ring, you've got
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: to get Don Corleone's endorsement in order to do anything,
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: is always a red flag because then they're considering those
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: machines issues, not the real issues of the day as
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: to protecting your rights. And the more power we give government,
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: the more that's going to happen. A couple of emails
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: off topic, or actually on earlier topic, the internet. Joe,
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: how come I'm not reading anything about this internet thing?
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: Is this just another conspiracy theory? Well, the Associated Press
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: has it. Agence France is actually the one who went
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: in and actually reported on this hack into the PHP language.
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: And I'm still saying, watch your websites. And an internet
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: security expert told me that if you normally have your
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: personal information saved at a website that you go to
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: and it's not there, it's a spoof. It's very much
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: like an Internet version of what happens when they put
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: the credit card readers on top of the gas pumps
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: and things like that to take your money to steal
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: your information. John, hang on the line. John Reed, Reed Revolution,
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: talking about the issue with Luis Lucas. And we'll come
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: back to you in a moment. Find him on X
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: live every day with the Reed Revolution. Let me get
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: give me line two first. I want to get them
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: on hold and then we'll go back to line one.
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: Good morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 13: It's Joel.
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: Hey, Joel. Do you mind if we call you line
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  Speaker 7: two for the moment?
• 46:50
  Speaker 13: That's fine. Thank you. I'll identify as line two.
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: We know that we're allowed to identify for whoever we
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: want to. So on line one, good morning. You're on
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: the air with Joe first thing this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Joe.
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  Speaker 19: It's Clark.
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: Morning, Clark. How are you doing this Friday morning?
• 47:08
  Speaker 10: Pilly, but I'm good.
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm telling you about it. Can we call it
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Indian summer? Or is it indigenous, marginalized community summer?
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: That might be politically incorrect now.
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: It would confuse with Hamas summer or Arab Spring. Can
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: you have Indian summer and Arab Spring?
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: Wow, I don't want to have either one.
• 47:32
  Speaker 25: Okay.
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: Anyway, what's on your mind?
• 47:35
  Speaker 13: Well, let's see.
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: A couple or three things.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: A longstanding FBI tradition of not investigating close to an election.
• 47:49
  Speaker 10: Is this the same FBI that perpetrated Crossfire Hurricane Arctic
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: Cross and had an insurance plan? Is that the same FBI?
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  Speaker 7: Faster than you can say 8647. So maybe they're violating
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: a longstanding tradition.
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  Speaker 10: Of the FBI not putting their thumb on the scale
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  Speaker 10: this close to an election.
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no. It's a longstanding FBI tradition of
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: investigating Republicans instead of Democrats.
• 48:22
  Speaker 10: Yes, there you go. Thumbing on the scale there. So
• 48:27
  Speaker 10: there's that. Today is October.
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  Speaker 7: The 23rd, Joe. Oh, yes. Oh, my goodness. God bless
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: you and Semper Fi. And let's not forget. What happened
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: when— what would Ilhan Omar say? Some people did something somewhere?
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: Did something, yes. The single greatest day loss the Marine
• 48:50
  Speaker 10: Corps has had since Iwo Jima took place 43 years
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: ago today, and Donald Trump started a new war. I
• 48:58
  Speaker 10: don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: You know, this is the world's oldest war, and thank
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: you for reminding people. of that and bad form on
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  Speaker 7: me for not talking about this anniversary. Is the Marine
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: Corps League where you are planning anything? I know we
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: have a pretty voracious Marine Corps League here in central Virginia,
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: and they're getting ready for the anniversary of Tun Tavern,
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: which is November 10th. So I don't know if they
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: have an event, but I'm pretty sure they're going to commemorate.
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  Speaker 10: You know, Joe, I don't want to sound whiny or anything,
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  Speaker 10: But I think the only people that do something for
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: remembrance on that are people that were there. I think
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: there's a concerted effort by the government and to some
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  Speaker 10: degree the Marine Corps to forget that Beirut happened. It
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: was a dark day and it was stupid. While we
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: were there to begin with, I was there. And I
• 50:11
  Speaker 10: like to think and reflect, Joe, and I still ain't
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: figured out why we were there.
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  Speaker 7: But also, how does a big yellow truck drive up
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: to a Marine Corps barracks and blow itself up?
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  Speaker 10: The State Department.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: The State Department.
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  Speaker 10: You know, when I left there, I spent time at
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: that compound probably two days a week. I had to
• 50:35
  Speaker 10: go back there and participate in meetings and briefings. And
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: you could not have driven that truck in there at
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: that time because there was not one but two walls
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: constructed around that building. Now, apparently, after I left, somebody
• 50:54
  Speaker 10: from the State Department visited and said, this looks militaristic
• 50:58
  Speaker 10: and offensive, and we don't want people to get the
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: wrong impression of why we're here. This has to come down.
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: So, you know, that's why.
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  Speaker 10: That's why, that's the same reason they were able to
• 51:13
  Speaker 10: drive a truck bomb into the American embassy in April
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: of that year, because we did not have proper defenses
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: around it. And it's not like there wasn't a truck
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: bomb every week somewhere within the distance that I could
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: feel the percussion of it. This is a pretty common thing.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: But anyway.
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: Beirut was synonymous. Beirut was synonymous. with the issue of
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: battling radical Islam at the time. We only heard about
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: it here as more trouble in the Middle East. Middle
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: East was the blanket term for battling radical Islamists.
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  Speaker 10: Well, the interesting thing there, you know, you had somebody
• 52:01
  Speaker 10: send you an email about why aren't we hearing about this.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: And what immediately popped into my head, Joe, You're not
• 52:08
  Speaker 10: hearing about it because before they report any news, they
• 52:13
  Speaker 10: decide the news. And the news that we get to
• 52:17
  Speaker 10: hear is the news that somebody decided we were going
• 52:21
  Speaker 10: to get to hear. It's not like they report on
• 52:23
  Speaker 10: everything they pick and choose.
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  Speaker 7: It's not like some of these networks don't have 24
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  Speaker 7: hours of nonstop news coverage. there's only, I mean, we
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: got to pick and choose, right? 24 hours runs out
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: pretty quickly, doesn't it? Anyway, let me, we've got our
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: news bearing down on us here, but bless you and
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: to all our Marines out there, Semper Fi, and remember,
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: thank you for reminding us and you have a good weekend, sir.
• 52:49
  Speaker 13: Take care.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: My name is Bobby.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 13: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: of and supporting my family.
• 53:06
  Speaker 25: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 25: of their lives.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 25: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 25: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 17: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 25: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 2: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 15: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 25: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 25: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 13: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 7: Go to DAV.org.