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"Dopesick" (Tuesday, May 5, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 4: gmail dot com. Tony writes in capital is not that Tony,
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Speaker 4: is it?
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Speaker 9: I mean? You know, we we joke.
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Speaker 4: I never know who's out there half the time, and
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Speaker 4: sometimes I'll see bills in Congress.
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Speaker 9: I'm like, hold it, that was what we said.
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Speaker 4: It was just like when Donald Trump endorsed the idea
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Speaker 4: of adding national to the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency
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Speaker 4: so that they'd be nice agents. I mean, that's something
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Speaker 4: I never heard anywhere except when doctor Clark called and
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Speaker 4: said at that time.
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Speaker 9: But you don't think, Tony is and is it really effective?
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Speaker 9: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean it's we'll see. But Tony writes in your
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Speaker 4: argument with Bob shows how limited you are. Croniism is capitalism.
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Speaker 4: Capitalism begats cronyism. Once you have capitalism, you're doomed to
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Speaker 4: have cronyism. The only way forward is with strict egalitarian
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Speaker 4: redistribution of wealth. Write a loss, saying what something is worth,
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Speaker 4: and then that is the law. History has proven that
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Speaker 4: only societies that determine what something is worth by law
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Speaker 4: and punish it violations of it pardon me criminally, are successful.
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Speaker 9: Well.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Tony. I mean, I think we've been
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Speaker 4: pretty successful. I don't know if we've always been safe
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Speaker 4: and effective. But I think after two hundred and fifty years,
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Speaker 4: and I think our problems are a perversion of the
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Speaker 4: Commerce Clause and things like that, and which was written
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Speaker 4: into the Constitution. It's not that the Commerce Clause is bad,
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Speaker 4: it's how it's been provoided. This all basis off of
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Speaker 4: patterns and explore ways to reduce long term use of
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Speaker 4: the drugs. Meanwhile, in Iran, their Navy says that they
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Speaker 4: have prevented an American Zionist warship from entering the Strait
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Speaker 4: of Hormuz. However, the trade unionists said that they were
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Speaker 4: able to get through, but the separatist movement, which you'll
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Speaker 4: hear about shortly, was unsuccessful.
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Speaker 9: It was May the fourth.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, State TV out of Iran says that two missiles
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Speaker 4: had hit the US warship near Jask Island. However, a
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Speaker 4: senior US official denied that any US hit ship was
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Speaker 4: hit by Iranian missiles there. Foreign minister warned the US
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Speaker 4: and the United Arab Emirates against any further military action
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Speaker 4: like I don't know trying to make sure ships can
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Speaker 4: go safely through the Strait of hor moves. Abasarachi said
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Speaker 4: that there is no military solution to this political crisis.
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Speaker 4: Here's the secret to that. First, you got to make
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Speaker 4: the green bags. So you got to make the green
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Speaker 4: bags before you can give them away. That's one of
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Speaker 4: my friends. Dave Ramsey says always about that. You know,
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Speaker 4: you make the money so that you can you live
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Speaker 4: like no other and give like no other theirs, because
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Speaker 4: you know, there is no morality to money. Money is
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Speaker 4: an inanimate object. Whether it be a gold coin or
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Speaker 4: a one hound note or a real it doesn't make
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Speaker 4: a difference. That's a piece of paper or a minted
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Speaker 4: piece of metal. It has no inert more inborn morality
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Speaker 4: any more than a firearm does or a medicine does.
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Speaker 4: It's our morality. And I'll get to further into that
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Speaker 4: because we have lists in case you were wondering if
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Speaker 4: people are hitting me up with well, what's your references?
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Speaker 4: I got a lot of references. There are some fairly
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Speaker 4: easy digestible lists. None of the more than ten entries
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Speaker 4: long that show you that it's a human issue. And
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Speaker 4: we don't like that because again victim shaming can't. Oh no,
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Speaker 4: it's not our fault, it's the it's the money's fault.
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Speaker 4: The money makes us crazy.
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Speaker 11: Man.
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Speaker 4: No, we do crazy things with money sometimes, and we
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Speaker 4: ask our politicians to do crazier things with money, and
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Speaker 4: it's all to our detriment. But that's that's on us.
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Speaker 9: You know, this is the whole bit.
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Speaker 4: About you know, this country only works if we're a
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Speaker 4: moral people. But I'll step off the pulpit for a
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Speaker 4: moment and bring in our friend James Lucke heard me
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Speaker 4: talking about gold coins.
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Speaker 9: I said, what what's he talking about?
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Speaker 4: But James, good to see you again, my friend At
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Speaker 4: jcsgold dot com. They will help you get yourself involved
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Speaker 4: in gold and silver coins if you are interested and
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Speaker 4: it works for you.
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Speaker 9: How are you doing this morning, I'm Joan.
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Speaker 23: Well, Joe, you had me at Hello and then you
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Speaker 23: said gold coins and I didn't know, well.
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Speaker 4: No, but I mean it's just saying gold. Gold coins
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Speaker 4: have been you know, the coin of the realm for centuries,
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Speaker 4: and people have done bad things with money and good
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Speaker 4: things with money. Money is just an inanimate object. It's
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Speaker 4: it's what we do with our money that that's the
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Speaker 4: important bit. That's all I was getting.
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Speaker 23: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 4: And and you know that I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 23: I haven't really you know, explored why gold has this
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Speaker 23: effect on people. But people just seem to have this
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Speaker 23: natural attraction you know to gold, gold coins and gold bars,
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Speaker 23: gold jewelry, you know, all of it seems very natural
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Speaker 23: that it's something that everyone just sees as value.
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Speaker 9: Everyone.
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Speaker 23: It's easy to understand that you see something made out
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Speaker 23: of gold and you understand that that that has value.
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Speaker 23: It seems to be a very natural, you know, attraction
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Speaker 23: level there, which is is really cool and gold and
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Speaker 23: sober in the green today, gold is up about half
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Speaker 23: of the percent, a little bit over half a percent,
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Speaker 23: to four thousand, five hundred and fifty three dollars twenty
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Speaker 23: nine dollars so.
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Speaker 9: Far this morning.
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Speaker 23: Silver is up one and a quarter percent to seventy
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Speaker 23: three dollars and sixty five cents so doing.
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Speaker 4: Green today were still on sale considering a couple of
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Speaker 4: weeks ago. There you said something about gold and silver.
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Speaker 4: I think one of the things that this intransible, this
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Speaker 4: tangibility of it, because paper always strikes us as temporary.
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Speaker 4: I mean you look, they just found some bits of
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Speaker 4: the Dead Sea scrolls that had been missing or something
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Speaker 4: along those lines.
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Speaker 9: Oh no, no, no, it was the Iliad.
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Speaker 4: Somebody hit some ancient Egyptian pharaoh had been buried with
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Speaker 4: the Iliad in his stomach. I'm not sure how it
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Speaker 4: got there, but they buried the Iliad in his stomach
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Speaker 4: and the paper you're looking at it and it's worn
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Speaker 4: through and you can barely read it. And there's you know,
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Speaker 4: even things that we try to preserve on paper. There's
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Speaker 4: a there's a temporariness to it, whereas gold and silver
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Speaker 4: seemed to me anyway to have a permanent thing going
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Speaker 4: on there, because you have some tradition to some historically
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Speaker 4: old gold and silver coins in your collections there JCS
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Speaker 4: Gold die co and and many people have coins going
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Speaker 4: back to the Civil War and to Greece and to
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Speaker 4: the Roman Empires and things like that. They stick around.
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Speaker 4: James James, okay, I thought it, well, I don't know
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Speaker 4: what happened to James there. It's one of those maybe
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Speaker 4: I stunned him with my oratory there is It's just
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Speaker 4: like our friends hamp and John down in the Treasure
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Speaker 4: Coast is called the Treasure Coast because all the Spanish galleons,
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Speaker 4: galleons and galleons of Spain spilling into the ocean there,
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Speaker 4: and thus the name of the Vero Beach area of
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Speaker 4: Florida as the Treasure Coast. But this is the thing
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Speaker 4: about cronyism. You know, there's there was cronyism in the
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Speaker 4: Soviet Union, there's cronyism in China today. Greed is right
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Speaker 4: there and the list of the heavy seven, you know it.
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Speaker 4: And then charity is its counterbalance. So you have seven
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Speaker 4: vices and seven virtues, and greed is right there amongst them,
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Speaker 4: along with gluttony and lust and sorrow or despair. There's
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Speaker 4: the Bobby Kennedy investigation. Wrath, sloth, vanity, and pride all
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Speaker 4: have counterbalancing virtues, which I wish we spent more time on.
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Speaker 4: Is sort of the the thing about abortion. We talk
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Speaker 4: about abortion all the time, we never talk about adoption.
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Speaker 4: We really should give adoption as much airtime as we
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Speaker 4: give abortion. More people would consider it. And then you
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Speaker 4: know in the Ten Commandments, covet.
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Speaker 9: And even you know in.
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Speaker 4: Our Bill of Rights, our Fifth Amendment protections of our
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Speaker 4: wealth from other people's greed, including our government's greed. And
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Speaker 4: it's a text message, Charis writes in she says, Joe,
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Speaker 4: it sounds like you're campaigning for Beth Macy for Congress.
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Speaker 4: Beth Macy, if you don't know, is the author of
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Speaker 4: Dope Sick. I know you think Michael Keaton wrote it,
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Speaker 4: but that's just because he starred in it. But she's
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Speaker 4: the author of Dope Sick, and she is running as
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Speaker 4: a far left to wing Obamacare Democrat for Congress against
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Speaker 4: you know, it's you've got to come into office with celebrity.
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Speaker 4: And she blew away all the other Democrats that wanted
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Speaker 4: to be in there because she showed up with a
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Speaker 4: bag full of Hollywood money.
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Speaker 9: And that's okay.
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Speaker 4: You know the money is going to come from out
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Speaker 4: health care system, which, as we fall prey to our
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Speaker 4: immoralities and our vices, say, oh, if the government's going
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Speaker 4: There was a great clip from This Week with George
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Speaker 4: snuffle up Agains from ABC during the Obamacare debate, and
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Speaker 4: it was right after Sarah Palin had referred to the
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Speaker 4: death panels that were part of the Patient Protection and
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Speaker 4: Affordable Care Act and Paul Krugman. Nonetheless, most people don't
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Speaker 4: know who Paul Krugman is, but he is economically speaking,
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Speaker 4: He's the economic version of Anthony Take the Shot, Leave
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Speaker 4: the Cane Fauci. Tony Fauci is to healthcare what Paul
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Speaker 4: Krugman is to economics. My Socialism is Safe and Effective
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Speaker 4: was on ABC and was queried by the host about
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Speaker 4: death panels because he had just said Republicans complain about
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Speaker 4: death panels, and then say, but they won't save any money,
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Speaker 4: and so the host picks up on that and says,
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Speaker 4: so the death panels will save money, and Krugman, realizing
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Speaker 4: what he had done, was admitting that there were death
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Speaker 4: panels and Obamacare said well, well, they're called affordability of
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Speaker 4: care no a feasibility of care panels, and they save
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Speaker 4: money by determining what expensive procedures you qualify for or not.
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Speaker 4: And ever since then everyone went, oh, well, okay, who
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Speaker 4: is the government to determine? And this is what makes
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Speaker 4: these expensive procedures more expensive because there's government money that's
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Speaker 4: going to pay for them. Government just gets more money
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Speaker 4: every year, so I'm not going to worry about how
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Speaker 4: much I charge the government for it. My BMW isn't
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Speaker 4: going to pay for itself. Nor should a doctor be
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Speaker 4: slagged for having a nice car, because they do things
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Speaker 4: most of us can't do. But in this corrupted system.
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Speaker 4: Go back to the very beginning of today's program, if
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Speaker 4: you want to jump around on the podcast, we talked
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Speaker 4: about capitalism and cronyism when the government starts pushing around
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Speaker 4: the money to the things it wants to, and it
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Speaker 4: really it goes back to nineteen sixty four, and that's
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Speaker 4: the year after I was born, the year the Great
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Speaker 4: Society began, So the year the Great Society begins, the
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Speaker 4: trajectory of the value of AUS dollar is stark, each year,
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Speaker 4: getting worse and worse and worse till the point in
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Speaker 4: nineteen seventy two when the Nixon administration was faced with
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Speaker 4: a choice, a choice like Donald Trump faced in Iran
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Speaker 4: or Robert F. Kennedy faces with antidepressants, is do I
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Speaker 4: deal with this issue or do I skirt it? And
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Speaker 4: at the time, in nineteen seventy two, things were already
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Speaker 4: kind of rough for Dick Nixon, so he decided to
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Speaker 4: skirt it, and he pulled us off the gold standard
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Speaker 4: because we were running out of money, and on the
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Speaker 4: gold standard we could only print as much money as
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Speaker 4: there was gold. So he pulled us off of the
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Speaker 4: gold standard so he could print more money to keep
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Speaker 4: up with the aid programs that the Great Society had
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Speaker 4: started us on the track for. And it begins there
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Speaker 4: and it continues unabated through Obamacare and all of the
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Speaker 4: different things that come along that become government subsidies. Hilary
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Speaker 4: Care was a government subsidy too big to fail, as
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Speaker 4: a corporate subsidy. All of these things are the government
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Speaker 4: step being in saying we will pay for things you
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Speaker 4: can no longer afford. Yet they are the very cause
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Speaker 4: of the things that we can no longer afford, and
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Speaker 4: we can fix it all. The point of going through
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Speaker 4: this historical exercise is the point that these are all
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Speaker 4: undoable things.
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Speaker 9: Upward to the great Society. Yeah, upward? Something I went
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Speaker 9: upward with.
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Speaker 4: Great society rests on abundance and liberty for all.
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Speaker 9: How you doing that one, Lindy. It demands an end.
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Speaker 4: To poverty and racial injustice. That was nineteen sixty four.
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Speaker 4: Just a quick look around your neighborhood, Just a quick
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Speaker 4: one glance at look at your news headlines. We've been
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Speaker 4: doing this for sixty years. How's that been going for
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Speaker 4: you so far?
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