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"Redistricting Revisited" (Friday August 22, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Say bye body to the barrel on cracker barrel iconic.
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Speaker 2: Globe making mornings great again. First thing today on the
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Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas, Jeorde.
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Speaker 3: Said, steal me. Why did we not lead with this
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pleas for work?
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Speaker 4: When the sun comes up, drops a pet to scooping, then.
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Speaker 5: Joy has everything, all the treasure needs no one.
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Speaker 6: That Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 4: He only aims.
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Speaker 3: Let them be Joe, here hold these truths.
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Speaker 6: I want to be Joe.
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Speaker 3: We go to the mail bank real quick. Bob hanging
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on with us. And I received an email yesterday afternoon
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that I thought was very nice and wanted to bring
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it up because it hearkened back to Adam in Adkins, Texas.
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I enjoyed the show this morning discussing the Apportionment Act
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of nineteen twenty nine and the effects that it had
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on redistricting. I think that each congress person should represent
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sixty thousand citizens and be voted in by random selection.
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That way, they would write things that the public could
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understand and they wouldn't be worried about re election. My
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response to Adam, I wrote back, I said that was
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exactly what the Framers wanted. They wanted a frequent turnover
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of people who were just there to do some very
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simple things and then head on back home. And they
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were supposed to be the part time legislators, and having
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that many just got this note. We were talking about
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our sponsors First Free in the Morning coffee roasted by
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our friends at one twenty seven roastery, and that it is.
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It is sold locally by First Free Coffee Bar, and
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it's a great coffee bar started by a dear friend
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of mine. And Steve and his wife run this coffee bar,
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and they're right across the street from a Starbucks. Big Jim,
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gentleman Jim writes in did you see the Starbucks across
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from First Free in the Morning is closed? I drove
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by there and all the windows were papered up and
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the signage was down. So the little guy beats the
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big guy. I don't know, you know, And there's a
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school of thought that says that's good. I don't know,
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school of thought that maybe somebody who drives in there
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looking for coffee and they say, oh, local coffee shop
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versus Starbucks, I'm going to go here. I don't know
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if it hurts. A friend of mine ran a men's
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wear store for a while, and he had a competitor
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down the block, and the competitor closed, and he said,
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my problem is now nobody comes downtown looking for clothing.
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They used to come to both of our stores and
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check and see which deals were the best, and now
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they're just going to the store they see at retised
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on their smartphone, which is, you know, the big box
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men's warehouse kind of stoff. And so I'm not sure,
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you know, there is a there is a school of
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thought that says, you know, having that competition right next
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door isn't necessarily a bad thing, but in any event,
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that's that's good news. I did not see that or first.
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That's where you get if you're in town. If you
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ever come to Charlottesville and you know you're in between
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visiting Jefferson's Monticello and Madison's Montpelier, you've got to stop
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and see Stephen his crew at first three in the morning.
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Coffee our first things this morning, aside from the cracker
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barrel story. Of course, President Trump took to the streets
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and a ride along with police and law enforcement yesterday.
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I thank the law enforcement officers who are carry out
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his crackdown on crime. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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announced the United States has paused the issuance of work
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visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign
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drivers operating large tractor trailers on US roads is endangering
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American lives. Meanwhile, in Florida, the illegal immigrant who didn't
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speak English but yet was still driving a trunk in
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Florida is facing charges, according to Florida and US officials.
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Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can proceed
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with cuts to the National Institute of Health grants for
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research as part of the nationwide crackdown on DEI initiatives.
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President Trump tweeting that his civil penalty has been declared
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unlawful and a total victory in the fake New York
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State Attorney General Letitia James case on truth Social Yesterday,
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Attorney General James vowed to appeal the court ruling that
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vacated the president's five hundred and twenty seven million dollar
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fraud penalty. Therapist, who had been president at the time
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of haul Kogan's death, is alleging malpractice led to it.
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She said that the wrestling legend had a critical nerve
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severed while undergoing surgery. Recently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
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that Israel will begin to have immediate negotiations for the
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release of all hostages held in Gaza and the end
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to the nearly two year long war. Speaking of ending wars,
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President Trump was asked if peace between Russian and Ukraine
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was realistically attainable. His answer was, oh, well, I'll let
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you know about I would say within two weeks, we're
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going to know one way or the other. After that
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we maybe have to take a different tack. We'll see,
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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call me a ride.
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Speaker 2: Amaze your friends here A first thing today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Get back to a former Congressman, chair of the Freedom Concuss,
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Bob Good this Friday morning. We like to call them
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Bob and Farmville now a host of the Good for
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America podcast. You were talking about the issues with the
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potential shutdown coming in September, Bob, right before we had
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the head to the news at the top of the hour.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, Republicans are going to come back and do a CR.
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I'm convinced another CR, which they own because they have
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full control of government. Chuck Schumer should like the CR
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because it keeps Democrats spending levels and Democrat policies in place.
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Yet again, but I don't whether or not he'll try to.
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I'm sure that he'll try to extract some concessions and
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some wins for Democrats in order to go along, because
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you need sixty vottions. The Senate Republicans ought to refuse
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that dere Chuck Schumer to shut the government down and
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then russ vote as a budget director can declare all
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federal workers essential. He has toil to do that. As
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budget director. Democrats have been saying all federal workers are
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essential anyway, when Trump's been trying to lay off and
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reduce federal work staff, declare them extend essential rather, and
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then Republicans ought to say, we're not going to backpay.
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Federal workers don't have to come to work. They won't
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get paid during the shutdown unless Democrats agree to keep
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the government open and Republicans artists implement spending cuts and
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policy changes and make them crafts come along. That's what
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they ought to do. Unfortunately, fear that's not what's going
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to happen.
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Speaker 3: Well, you look at what happened in the Senate. I
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know you're not in the Senate, but you know, you
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know the players, Chuck Grassley and it was Curtis from
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Ohio from Utah that you blocked or blocking Senate appointments
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because the Act formerly known as the Great Big Beautiful Bill,
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took away wind farm subsidies. So, I mean, you know,
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even within something that you would think is a slam dunk,
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you've got some Republicans out there, especially Grassley, Ohio from
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Iowa where corn is King wanting these Green New Deal subsidies.
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Speaker 18: Well, you had about twenty republic can send a letter
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during the battle for the Big Bill pleading with Mike
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Johnson and John Thune not to include climate subsidy cuts,
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not to include climate credit cuts, not to include these
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Green New Deal subsidy cuts, and begging them not to
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do that. Yet by the same number begging for no
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Medicaid cuts. So John Curtis one of the most liberal
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members of the House before he ascended to the Senate
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in the state of Utah. In the state of Utah,
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the most Republican states picking someone like John Curtis to
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be their senator. Weren't the most liberal Republicans from the
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House during my time there. And to your point, Grassly,
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literally ninety years old, has been there for I've seen
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incredibly a long amount of time and is addicted to
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the subsidies. That's important the state of Bile from a
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farm standpoint.
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Speaker 3: It is the bribery that has bankrupted us. You mentioned
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it before you left office that they were pork. You know,
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they were trying to bribe with pork. And then after
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you left, you one of the first alarm bells you
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fired off, which was you know, they're they're going to
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try to do pork barrel spending again.
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Speaker 18: And the Big Bill made it worse. The Big Bill
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made it worse. They put threw in subsidies, farm subsidies
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I shouldn't have been. They threw in stuff for Alaska
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to buy Murkowski's vote. They threw in fifty billion dollars
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for rural hospitals. So the Big Bill will make the
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debt and the deficit worse by an estimated six trillion
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dollars on top of the two trillion dollars a year
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that's already accumulating on Republicans watch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. Well, at least I guess from the
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here hold my beer file. You know, I can imagine
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what would happen if Chuck Schumer was in charge. Bob,
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what's coming up on the Good for America podcast?
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Speaker 18: Well, we'll turn from I've been doing a lot of
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interviews in my house colleagues, former House colleagues, about six
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eight of the Freedom Caucus members. Ending those going to
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go back to my own individual monologues, if you will,
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sounding off on issues the day. We'll be talking a
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lot about the funding of the government and the looming
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shutdown fight. We'll talk some about redissearching for sure, talk
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a little bit about Virginia elections and issues like that.
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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate it, sir. You have a wonderful weekend
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and enjoy.
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Speaker 18: You as well.
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Speaker 19: Joe, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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emails come into JT in the morning radio at gmail
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dot com. And you know how many of our problems
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get fixed if we have a more proportional representation. And
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as Adam wrote in from San Antonio, you know, the
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issue that cripples us is this idea that there's just
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this guaranteed Republican versus Democrat stuff. And Jefferson warned us
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about growing accustomed to things that when you challenge the
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things that we've grown accustomed to, the obvious reaction is, well,
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hang on a second here, and there's a pretty good
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chance that you're either a member of the Republican or
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the Democratic Party, and you don't want to be thought
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foolish for signing up for such a thing, nor do
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you think you know your party is the wrong one.
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And that becomes part of the essence of the corruption,
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is that each party claims to have this this monopoly
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on correct knowledge. And I've said it before in so
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many different ways that left yells freedom when they want
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people to hear freedom from debt, freedom from pay, freedom
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from rent, freedom from hunger. Conservatives yell freedom when they
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say freedom for achievement, freedom for opportunity, freedom for greatness,
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and so on and so forth down the line the
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patent differences, brand A and brand acts. And if you
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went back and got rid of the true racist document,
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not the phony racist document, because back in the sixteen
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nineteen project and all of that silliness, you were told
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that the Constitution itself was a racially biased document, that
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the Foundation of America itself was a racist conflagration. When
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the actual racist document, if you go into the people
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who drew up the nineteen twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act,
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is that's the racist document in the foundation of our
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country right now, because it was written intentionally to stop
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blacks from getting more voice in Congress. Was his whole
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premise was to stop the growth of all these states
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with free black populations. We're going to start seeing more
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congressional districts because now we have all these new free people,
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we had seen it for three censuses in a row
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and they had to stop it. Now three censuses, My gosh,
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we keep growing and they're going to be more freed slaves.
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And the Dixiecrats, the real racists, were the ones standing
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in the way of that, standing on the parapet saying
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not on my watch, none shall pass. And so they
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passed this. And think about Congress with three times as
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many members.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I'm ANDREWS. Saul, Commission of Solid Security. I'm here
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to warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
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call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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Speaker 12: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 13: And now a speech.
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Speaker 14: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 3: Who's with me?
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Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
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call me a ride.
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Speaker 22: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 5: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time to go home buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Speaker 3: Can you guys got to be built?
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Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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Speaker 3: Why's he got to be built? It's a bipouns got
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to build biops.
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Speaker 2: He's from the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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Speaker 12: Ah.
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Speaker 3: Yes, life is a highway. Yeah, especially if you're in Congress.
28:41
That's the best way. And who doesn't want to live forever?
28:44
As you know, the congressman named highway the Bud Shuster
28:50
Memorial Highway Interstate ninety nine, going in between Altoona and
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State College, Pennsylvania. The Bud Shuster Highway, which was paid
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for by pork money brought back to Pennsylvania by Bud
29:04
Schuster Junior, who somehow wound up on the Appropriations Committee
29:09
even though he was a freshman in Congress because that's
29:12
where his dad had been for a decade. How many
29:17
of these things get fixed if we have thirteen hundred
29:21
and five congressmen and women, how many of these things?
29:26
You look at the map of America and eighty five
29:32
eighty five percent of all the counties in America voted
29:36
overwhelmingly in most cases for Donald Trump. So a Congress
29:42
that's apportioned the way it was in nineteen twenty nine
29:48
before they froze the growth in Congress because too many
29:52
black people. And this is the thing that's insidious is
29:55
where are the black leaders in Congress saying that this
29:58
Permanent Apportion Act is truly the racist document. Where are
30:04
the black leaders in Texas or California saying this has
30:08
been designed to keep black voices? And then, you know,
30:12
a few years later, you get the voting or you know,
30:14
you take the Voting Rights Act on top of it,
30:24
and what you've done is you've guaranteed just one out
30:27
of thirteen or twenty congressional districts as a black black district,
30:32
therefore relegating them to permanent minority status. In Congress, you
30:42
look at all those counties, So how many things that's
30:45
wrong with Congress can we fix? So remember, you'll need
30:54
six hundred and fifty three votes to pass anything. But
30:58
if you look at a cunt that's eighty five percent read,
31:03
don't you think it'll be easy enough to find six
31:05
hundred and fifty two votes within a caucuss? How much
31:09
harder would it be to lean on Congress and wield
31:13
dictatorial power. Congress would simply throw you out if you
31:19
were a speaker that wasn't allowing bills to come to
31:22
the floor. I bet you we could get six hundred
31:25
and fifty two people to say that was a bad idea?
31:34
How much of the spending? How quickly could you get
31:38
the conservative, fiscally sound counties of America to vote to
31:43
stop the money machine to audit the Fed. Now that
31:50
doesn't suppose that there aren't corrupt people. Madison understood that
31:55
if you ask government to do last, you'll be better
31:59
served because humans are corruptible. Right, That was the whole
32:04
reason Congress didn't have this wild funding power to build
32:09
highways and all these things. And we extrapolate silly things
32:17
like well, if you use an interstate highway. Now it's
32:19
interstate commerce. But I never leave the state.
32:21
Speaker 20: AH.
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Speaker 3: But you use an interstate highway, So now we can
32:25
regulate it, and you create the regulatory capture. That is
32:29
what Congress does. The tax collections in the sixteenth Amendment.
32:34
How many of these things could you undo? Because the
32:37
pork comes from the sixteenth Amendment. The sixteenth Amendment is
32:42
the butchery that creates the pork spending. You get rid
32:46
of the sixteenth Amendment. You get rid of the pork
32:48
spending because now we don't have an unending stream of money.
32:53
You put in a balanced budget Amendment with recisions guaranteed
32:58
in based on GDP. Now, all of a sudden, we're
33:05
talking about shrinking government and fiscal responsibility and better stewardship
33:10
of your tax dollars. You don't think any of that
33:16
is possible, Sure it is. You get enough people in
33:21
the House of Representatives, you will get a coalition who
33:24
will come together and do that, and just maybe you
33:28
start to break up this power structure of the Republican
33:31
and Democratic Party. Two words that appear nowhere, four words,
33:38
I guess Republican Party, Democrat Party. Those four words appear
33:43
nowhere together because democratic principles and republic do show up.
33:59
The the political parties act like they're some birthright of
34:04
the Constitution, and they're not. You don't think we could
34:07
get a bill passed that takes away their permanent ballot status.
34:18
All of the things that we sense are wrong. And
34:20
this is why it's hard to think. You say, Joe,
34:23
but I'm a small government conservative. You're talking about growing government.
34:27
I'm not talking about growing government. I'm talking about growing representation.
34:33
Growing government is just give me more bureaucrats. Get rid
34:39
of the bureaucrats, replace them with actual elected representatives, and
34:47
watch how the country changes. Look at the breakup of
34:55
the power of these political parties, because now all of
34:58
a sudden, you're dealing with districts that are much smaller.
35:04
What's the math, what's the arithmetic? So we have three
35:07
hundred and thirty nine million people divided by thirty So,
35:15
I mean, I don't think it's great yet, and the
35:18
constitution says thirty thousand people. Adam and Texas suggested sixty.
35:29
I mean, even by my premise, if we just went
35:34
back to the moment they passed the Permanent Reapportionment Act
35:40
two hundred and sixty thousand people in each congressional district.
35:44
That being said, it's more likely. Think about any small
35:48
town metropolitan area that you've lived in, whether it be
35:55
San Bernardino, California, Provo, Utah, Court Vallis, Oregon, the Beaverton, Oregon, regardless,
36:06
you go to these small towns Charlottesville, Virginia, the metropolitan
36:12
area is about two hundred thousand people. Maybe it's four
36:18
hundred thousand people. But it's much more likely that you'll
36:21
get a community that can agree on somebody if you're
36:25
only asking two hundred and fifty thousand of them to
36:27
vote for a particular person. You see what I'm getting
36:34
at is so honestly, how many would thirty carry the
36:44
zero once over the other side? And what would that
36:50
look like? I mean, because the Constitution clearly says thirty thousand,
37:00
that would be eleven thousand members of Congress right now.
37:05
That might be a little much. This text message, Joe,
37:10
have you ever seen the first three installments of the
37:13
Star Wars trilogy? Most specifically, when that giant body of
37:18
representatives all vote for Emperor Palpatine, one person voted for
37:26
Emperor Palpatine, and it was that one person because he
37:32
had got it to a point where he knew it
37:34
was going to be a flat foot tie, and he
37:37
needed that one vote, and he knew which one vote
37:39
it was going to be. Jar jar binks. I have
37:42
seen it. I have seen it, and anyone should see it.
37:50
It's perhaps a better film series than the first three
37:55
that we ever saw, episodes four or five and six,
37:58
but that last scene when they vote to give.
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40:05
mid century side table and denim jacket. You spotted them
40:08
nestled in their display case. Miniature donut earrings, Oh yes, yes,
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your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
40:20
made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
40:24
those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
40:28
Speaker 23: Shh do you smell that?
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Speaker 4: That's the sugary center of shopping success?
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Speaker 25: For this is goodwill, And with every item you buy,
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you fund local job training and more so, go forth,
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bring home those donut earrings and bring home so much.
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Speaker 4: Good to your community. Goodwill, bring good home.
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Speaker 3: So this is an interesting email from Mary said, here's
44:35
the problem with your apportionment scenario, Joe. It's just going
44:40
to lead to more despotism. Large groups of people tend
44:45
to devolve into despotism. You know, she's referring to Speaker
44:52
of the House and sent you know, taking on greater
44:55
Then you restrict that through law. You make law law
45:00
that is unbinding but final, and that they that anyone,
45:06
regardless of political ideology, when they fit into that office.
45:09
It's sort of like the story of the US attorney
45:13
from the Western District of Virginia who was asked by
45:17
the Trump administration to get rid of an attorney who
45:21
was part of the weaponized Department of Justice appointed by Biden,
45:27
and he wouldn't do it well if he was And
45:34
this goes back into a deeper, deeper, deeper problem. If
45:39
this Biden appointee in the Western District of Virginia was
45:43
ignoring crime, doing hug and release and that kind of thing,
45:47
that's a problem and you shouldn't be standing up for that.
45:53
And that's you know, the hard part to understand is
45:57
that there's there's nuance below it. It's not just I've
46:00
got majority now so I can do whatever I want.
46:03
They because they'll do the same thing and you'll be frustrated.
46:07
Rule of law is supposed to dominate these things. Rule
46:10
of law says, here are the laws you're supposed to
46:13
enforce and the manner in which you enforce them, And
46:17
that's what we've lost. And I still maintain that we
46:21
lost this when President Obama announced to all that he
46:30
was ordering federal law enforcement to cease marijuana possession laws,
46:39
to cease enforcing. And then, really, so if I decide
46:48
I don't want to enforce some law because I think
46:51
it's unjust or unfair or uncommunist or whatever it is,
46:55
if I decide to that's perfectly okay. That's the stuff
47:06
that the ignorance of law. Not ignorance of the law
47:14
is no excuse, but the act of ignoring the law saying,
47:20
what are you going to do to me, Copper, And
47:23
if the answer is nothing, then it's going to be
47:26
nothing and they're going to keep being thugs. And law
47:34
fair is real. Remember they told you nobody will ever
47:38
get voted for if they're on trial, if there's and
47:41
if certainly, if they lose a multimillion dollar judgment.
47:45
Speaker 26: Well I think, Dana, that Trump may be ultimately completely
47:51
exonerated on this. For now, the penalty goes. There was
47:55
division in the appeals court about the merits of the
47:58
underlying suit, but as you point out what they found
48:01
basically under an eighth Amendment theory. That's the amendment that
48:06
prohibits cool and unusual punishments. There was such a mismatch
48:11
between whatever wrong was actually established in the trial and
48:16
the outrageous penalty that was imposed for it, which was
48:21
I think three hundred and fifty five million, which with
48:24
interest and other costs is already up to about five
48:27
hundred and thirty million now because it continued to approve
48:31
for a while.
48:32
Speaker 3: As Andy McCarthy, former US Attorney for the Southern District
48:36
of New York, telling you about the Letitia James suit,
48:41
and he pointed out something that's important. The verdict on
48:44
whether or not President Trump committed real estate fraud despite
48:52
having nobody charging him with it except for Letitia James,
48:59
that hasn't gone. They've taken the penalty away because it was,
49:03
in their view, excessive, and we have laws against excessive.
49:13
But I'm really really mad at him. We have really
49:18
really important laws that say you can't. If I'm just
49:21
really mad at him, I can break into his house
49:24
and grab all his stuff as evidence, right and probably not?
49:30
And what is evidence? What will evidence be in this trial?
49:42
I don't near the end of the day is that
49:46
they're all mismanaging this in your name, and they're trying
49:49
to tell you vote for us, send us back. And
49:52
they're in the district right now shaking hands and kissing
49:55
babies in their recess, gaining baby you know, gaining babies
50:04
and shaking kisses. No gaining votes and gas lighting you
50:09
into this idea that you have to have them around
50:12
in order to vote to get anything. And so you
50:15
vote for a concierge government, a government that's designed to
50:22
do stuff for you. My guide didn't win the presidency.
50:28
You know, we read that stroke and Paige had an
50:30
insurance policy. Do you can you cut me in on it?
50:41
So as we wrap up festivities today, you know, made
50:46
some sense for it all for you. We'll be back
50:51
Saturday morning, six am for the Saturday morning edition to
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the program live on a Saturday, and then we're heading
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next week. We're going to be at the State Policy
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Network annual meeting groups. I'm part of the Virginia Institute
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for Public Policy. But there's the Madison Institute in Florida,
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and a Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania and Pelican Foundation in
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New Orleans. All of these places gathering together to talk
51:18
about ways, and I want to investigate. One of the
51:21
things I want to investigate when we're there is the
51:24
fiscal possibility of the states rescuing the federal government. The
51:30
question I don't hear a lot of people get into is,
51:32
you know, each one of these states, most of them
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outside of New York and California, have rainy day funds,
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have more than enough money to operate These Policy Network members.
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These are the folks that quite often are the ones
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who write the bills, and you know, we've helped them
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do it, and it's an amazing thing. So next week,
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tune in Monday through Thursday for special coverage of the
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Long Island until Tomorrow morning for many of you, and
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Monday morning for the rest of you. I'm Joe Thomas.
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So long and thanks for all the fish. My name
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is Bobby.
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Speaker 1: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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Speaker 21: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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weightlifting champion.
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Speaker 1: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
53:04
of and supporting my family.
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Speaker 19: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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of their lives.
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the benefits they've earned.
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for victories great and small.
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Speaker 19: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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