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"Church and State" (FTTxJT Fri 092526 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Is it really safe and is it really effective?
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 4: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 4: kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 2: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the.
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  Speaker 1: Treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 6: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 7: this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 7: On location with our friends from City Elders, governing the
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  Speaker 7: gates of the city for everyone who sits there and says,
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  Speaker 7: why don't we have more ethical people? in these elected offices? Well,
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  Speaker 7: first off, it's because you've given these elected offices way
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  Speaker 7: too much power. Because James Madison understood this, George Mason
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  Speaker 7: understood this, that if you give people power, they're going
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  Speaker 7: to abuse it. So don't give people power. and then
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  Speaker 7: their corruptibility is going to impact you hardly at all. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 7: since the end of the Civil War, we just keep
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  Speaker 7: handing these people more power. One of the most hysterical
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  Speaker 7: clips we're going to pull for you is personal, because
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  Speaker 7: it hurts, because he's my senator, but a man who
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  Speaker 7: made billions of dollars in technology, innovative technology at the time,
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  Speaker 7: bought in at the of this stuff called cellular telephone communication.
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  Speaker 7: And we're trying, we're efforting right now to find any
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  Speaker 7: clips of Mark Warner railing when he was the head of,
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  Speaker 7: what was it, Nextel at the time? I mean, it's now,
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  Speaker 7: I think it's all part of Verizon now. railing about
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  Speaker 7: government regulations because now he wants to put guardrails, that's
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  Speaker 7: one of their favorite words, guardrails around artificial intelligence while
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  Speaker 7: claiming that he's doing it to punish those tech billionaires
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  Speaker 7: like himself from becoming billionaires like himself. Damn you. Who
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  Speaker 7: do you think you think you are? Oh, it's fun
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  Speaker 7: times here at First Thing Today. It's so target rich.
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  Speaker 7: And I love the press. Xi Jinping, the chairman of
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  Speaker 7: the People's Republic of China, comes to visit. And now
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  Speaker 7: the press is saying they didn't do anything. There's no substance.
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  Speaker 7: They didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 8: They had dinner.
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  Speaker 7: That you know of. And I think that's what bothers
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  Speaker 7: them the most. Although the judge did say the press
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  Speaker 7: could go back into the press room. More to that.
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  Speaker 7: But let's do our first thing so that you know
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  Speaker 7: what we're talking about this morning. President Trump is going
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  Speaker 7: to take Chinese Premier Xi Jinping to the National Archives
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  Speaker 7: and rub his nose in the Bill of Rights. Literally,
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  Speaker 7: that is what they're going to the National Archives to
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  Speaker 7: look at the original U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to see him take some members of Congress
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  Speaker 7: down there to show them what's in there, too. Last night,
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  Speaker 7: President hosted Chairman Xi for a state dinner whose guest
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  Speaker 7: list was heavy with technology billionaires. Mark Warner should have
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  Speaker 7: been there trying to get them to put their own
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  Speaker 7: guardrails up. Three news organizations that had been banned from
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  Speaker 7: the White House for days were back Thursday after a
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  Speaker 7: judge gave CNN, MSNOW, and Politico orders sentenced to be
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  Speaker 7: sent back to the prison of the White House press
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  Speaker 7: room where they're stuck covering whatever it is the White
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  Speaker 7: House tells them to cover. New York State has sued Polymarket,
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  Speaker 7: gambling operation, and darn it, the state is the only
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  Speaker 7: one that's allowed to license gambling operations. They're calling for
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  Speaker 7: a judge to block the company from operating in the
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  Speaker 7: state The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge from the
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  Speaker 7: state moving in to rein in ubiquitous betting apps that
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: See, that's where you're fooling yourself. I appreciate this.
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  Speaker 1: Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Who's listening this morning and says he's going to enter
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  Speaker 7: to win there on my 1570 out in Youngstown. Says, Joe,
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  Speaker 7: I just did a quick lookup. You mentioned city elders.
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  Speaker 7: I had never heard of the organization. Web searches seem
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  Speaker 7: to make me feel like this is an organization that
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  Speaker 7: violates the protections of the separation of church and state
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  Speaker 7: by unabashedly trying to elect religious leaders in into government. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know the web search that you got. You
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  Speaker 7: didn't send me a screen cap of it. But first off,
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  Speaker 7: we appreciate you in Youngstown. Just did a neat thing.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, our friends, I write for the Daily
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  Speaker 7: and go, why did you put him on camera? He
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  Speaker 8: So....
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  Speaker 7: Your question about the ethical people that City Elders works,
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  Speaker 7: and I think there's nine states in the union that
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  Speaker 7: have City Elders chapters. And we're here at ours in
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  Speaker 7: our flagship city. It's Fishersville, Virginia. It's kind of in
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  Speaker 7: between Waynesboro and Stanton and Charlottesville and Harrisonburg right here
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  Speaker 7: in the center of it all. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 7: think about it, the two different versions of America came
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  Speaker 7: from within an hour of each other. Woodrow Wilson died.
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  Speaker 7: born in Stanton, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, born in Charlottesville, Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: and how different their versions of America could be. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I know we're supposed to be congenial with former presidents, right?
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump broke protocol by being mean to Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 7: Presidents all love each other. I'm sure Jefferson and Wilson
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  Speaker 7: do not love each other, wherever they may be. As
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  Speaker 7: a matter of fact, as these UN meetings go on,
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  Speaker 7: one wonders about Woodrow Wilson's idea to create such things
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  Speaker 7: as the United Nations. But back to your question about
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  Speaker 7: this separation of church and state, that's ascribed to Thomas
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  Speaker 7: Jefferson because he wrote a letter to a Connecticut legislator,
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  Speaker 7: our friends in GCH land, 1490 out of Greenwich. in
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  Speaker 7: which he said that there should be a separation of
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  Speaker 7: church and state. It's not a foundation. There's nothing in
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  Speaker 7: the U.S. Constitution about it, aside from the First Amendment,
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  Speaker 7: which says Congress shall make no law establishing a religion. Meaning,
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  Speaker 7: after being challenged many, many times, that Congress can't say
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  Speaker 7: to you, here's the church you have to go to
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  Speaker 7: every week, And here's the tribute. You must pay them.
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  Speaker 7: And they tried. Thomas Jefferson, if you ever visit our
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  Speaker 7: flagship city, there's some historical stuff here like Montpelier and
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  Speaker 7: Monticello and the studios of First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Although you could visit jcsgold.com. They're right here as well.
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  Speaker 7: Great supporters of what we do. But if you ever
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  Speaker 7: visit this very historic place, Take a moment away from
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  Speaker 7: the tour. You're allowed to do this once the house
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  Speaker 7: tour is done. You can walk down a pathway down
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  Speaker 7: a hill to the Jefferson Graveyard. Actually, it was just
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  Speaker 7: in the news. The first African-American descendant of Sally Hemings,
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  Speaker 7: and this has been a court battle for a while,
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  Speaker 7: was just interned in the family cemetery. It was proven through,
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  Speaker 7: I guess, a lock of Jefferson's hair that somebody had somewhere.
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  Speaker 7: You'd think in all these battles for two decades now,
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  Speaker 7: somebody would say, hey, you know, I got a lock
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  Speaker 7: of his hair here. Regardless, if you come to the
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  Speaker 7: cemetery and go to Thomas Jefferson's tomb, it's right there,
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  Speaker 7: his burial site, and you look at his gravestone, the
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  Speaker 7: first thing that strikes you is he doesn't mention that
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  Speaker 7: he was president of the United States there. The author
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  Speaker 7: of the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom is on there.
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  Speaker 7: And it is the mac daddy of all Blaine Amendments.
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  Speaker 7: You've probably heard Blaine Amendment is a phrase when the
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  Speaker 7: subject of school choice comes up, Mark. Because the Blaine
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  Speaker 7: Amendment is basically a law, your state has a version
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  Speaker 7: of it, saying that taxpayer money cannot go to, and
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  Speaker 7: the language changes depending on your state, but in most
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  Speaker 7: cases for course generalization, a religious organization, parochial school, that
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  Speaker 7: kind of thing. And it was written because as independence
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  Speaker 7: had been won from England, that also meant citizens of
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  Speaker 7: these United States were not required to go and give
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  Speaker 7: tribute to the Church of England anymore. And a lot
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  Speaker 7: of people just took that to mean they didn't need
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  Speaker 7: to go to church anymore, which meant the churches saw
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  Speaker 7: a dramatic downturn in their collections. So Madison asked Jefferson,
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  Speaker 7: who had written this legislation, it failed when Jefferson tried
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  Speaker 7: to get it past the Virginia General Assembly, but it
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  Speaker 7: was still a document. So Jefferson's off in France. I
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  Speaker 7: think it's before he meets with the heads of the
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  Speaker 7: Barbary pirates and all, but he's ambassador to France of
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  Speaker 7: this new country. And James Madison wires him and says,
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  Speaker 7: can I reintroduce this? Because we've got a problem. The
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  Speaker 7: churches all want us to levy a tax on Virginians
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  Speaker 7: to refill their coffers. And Madison actually gets it passed,
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  Speaker 7: and it creates this fire. Therein lies about the only
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  Speaker 7: firewall that exists in reality between church and state, Mark.
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  Speaker 7: There's no law that says, and as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 7: we see this more and more frequently, the zealots want
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  Speaker 7: prayer at the start of a city council meeting taken away.
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  Speaker 7: And what we're winding up with are these people who
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  Speaker 7: violate not necessarily the First Amendment, but the First Commandment.
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  Speaker 7: You shall have no other gods before me. Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 7: has made himself the Godhead. We have created this craven
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  Speaker 7: image of the Almighty being the Almighty government. And this
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  Speaker 7: is where the city elders, cityelders.org, by the way, wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: do my due diligence if I didn't tell you where
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  Speaker 7: to find them for yourself, say, how about we send
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  Speaker 7: people who understand that the government is not the God?
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  Speaker 7: Because what we've wound up with, Mark, over this time
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  Speaker 7: is in this misinterpretation of separation of church from state
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  Speaker 7: is it's become a confrontation of church versus state or
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  Speaker 7: vice versa, really. And we need ethical people, whether they get,
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  Speaker 7: you know, regardless of their faith. This is why Jefferson's
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  Speaker 7: most important word in American history, their faith. endowed by
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  Speaker 7: their creator with unalienable rights.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 7: What's your target audience, Joe? Everyone. It really is. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I have to thank Andy. I know he gets up early.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: We had a package arrive. And I want to know
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: more about the painting. I don't have a lot of
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: paintings in my house. We have a lot of photographs.
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  Speaker 7: My wife and daughter are both. photographs. One's professional and
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: one is amateur, but she is pretty damn good. But
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: we were gifted this portrait, this painting of Thomas Paine.
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: It is perhaps one of the best depictions of Thomas
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Paine I've ever seen. I mean, there are some older,
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: you know, from the period, from the 18th century that are,
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: you know, like Well, the fifth grade class did a
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: nice job with Mr.
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: Payne.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: But they're from the period, so they become historic, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: I get it. I understand. This one's a little bit
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: more contemporary. I don't think it's... I think it's in
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: the 2017 range or whatever, but it is a terrific
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: depiction of Thomas Paine, and I appreciate the message, I guess,
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: if there's a clattering hint there. Bring the common sense.
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  Speaker 7: or a sense of the commons, whichever it may be there.
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  Speaker 7: But I appreciate that. It's a beautiful portrait. I think
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: that's the only other portrait I have besides the one
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: of my grandfather, which is eerie because he looks just
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: like me without the goatee. I'm sorry. Pardon me. Yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: that's my grandfather. So those are the only two paintings
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: I have in my house. I have to figure out
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: How I'm going to fit it in my studio because
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: I already have a Gadsden flag that's been stretched across
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: a frame that used to hang in a Democrat congressman's
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: office back when Democrats could acknowledge the Gadsden flag as
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: anything more than hate speech. It's a Dickerson. It was
• 30:45
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• 30:50
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  Speaker 7: And I like this one coming out of Salem. Let
• 31:02
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• 31:04
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• 31:34
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• 31:37
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• 32:07
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  Speaker 7: to it. And I know haters got to hate. So
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  Speaker 16: Speaking of the devil.
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  Speaker 7: I would hardly call you the devil, Andy. How are
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  Speaker 7: you this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 16: This is my only interface with the real world in
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  Speaker 7: It's crazy. We'll get into that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: But I am curious about this portrait. So Thomas Paine,
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: it's a terrific picture.
• 34:44
  Speaker 16: It was actually, there was a kind of a freedom bank,
• 34:49
  Speaker 16: if you will, in Owensboro, Kentucky. And they had a
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  Speaker 16: series of portraits made including.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: The one that you have there.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 35:01
  Speaker 16: And the framer, so there's a local framer in Owensboro, Kentucky,
• 35:06
  Speaker 16: who also ended up nearby where I am. And I
• 35:12
  Speaker 16: was going downtown to go pick up, I think it
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: were like some glasses or something. And there was this
• 35:18
  Speaker 16: cool little store that had this little sign outside that
• 35:25
  Speaker 16: curated art and jewelry or something like that. And so
• 35:29
  Speaker 16: I went in here and I met this guy who,
• 35:33
  Speaker 16: you know, sort of closed up his framing business and
• 35:36
  Speaker 16: all the inventory that he had, he brought it down
• 35:39
  Speaker 16: with him. And he is actually housed in something that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 16: an old thing called the Kentucky militia, something or other training,
• 35:50
  Speaker 16: something or other. And it's in Venice, Florida.
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: Very nice. So the Kentucky militia has been driven to Florida,
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: have they?
• 35:59
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 16: Well, I mean, obviously, this guy was about my age
• 36:03
  Speaker 16: and funny. And so but he's a patriot, too. And
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: it was just kind of interesting. He gets the pay,
• 36:11
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• 36:17
  Speaker 7: So who did the painting? Did he do the painting
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: or he did the framing? Who's the artist?
• 36:24
  Speaker 16: He did the framing. The painter is still alive and
• 36:31
  Speaker 16: i i do know that and i tried to reach
• 36:34
  Speaker 16: out to him but was not.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: Successful it's it's a terrific likeness i mean like i
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: said you know there were some period pieces from the
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: 18th century that you know look like mrs margaret's 50th
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: fifth grade class did it and they're like oh it's
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: it's thomas pain this one is i mean a terrific likeness.
• 36:54
  Speaker 16: And and Ben Stanford is the actual painter.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
• 37:02
  Speaker 16: And I think I paid like $ 1, 850 for it. So,
• 37:07
  Speaker 16: you know, it's a real deal.
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: Well, it's stunning. I have to figure out where in
• 37:15
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• 37:21
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• 37:25
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• 37:30
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• 37:33
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• 37:37
  Speaker 16: The gentleman was actually a Quaker. And he came here
• 37:42
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• 37:46
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• 37:51
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• 37:52
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• 37:57
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  Speaker 5: is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 23: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 23: first date?
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  Speaker 20: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 12: Probably?
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 7: I can probably swim.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 5: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 4: Cramp! Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 17: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 2: Probably.
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  Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 7: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 23: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive? Yeah, I'm
• 43:30
  Speaker 23: pretty sober.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 5: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 23: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:50
  Speaker 23: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 23: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 23: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 2: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 16: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 3: And call it even.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today, Joe Thomas will.
• 44:24
  Speaker 22: Talk to you in Edmonton.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 9: I believe they've.
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  Speaker 13: Come to town.
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  Speaker 15: When everything just falls in line.
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  Speaker 18: We never learn.
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  Speaker 1: From our mistakes.
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  Speaker 7: You have got to be, because you have to realize
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: the blessings. I had the opportunity to help raise money
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: for the Salvation Army on Tuesday night. My friends at
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: the local CBS affiliate here in central Virginia said, still
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: invite me even though I've had 17 years of my
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: career redacted by court order I still have friends and
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: they put me on stage with our local TV anchor
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: Dan Schuette and we raised I think $ 191, 000 for local
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: operations of the Salvation Army here and you know it
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: is that time and we're all having these issues and
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: everyone I talk to, I talk to businesses about support
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: for the radio program or ways that I can help,
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: and this came up. This was yet another one of
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Joe's wonderful moments with the Federal Communication Commission, and our
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: check cashed, right? Yeah, just yesterday, every single broadcaster had
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: to make sure their regulatory fees were paid to the FCC,
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: so I'm paid up, right? Okay, so I can say
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: some I could, okay, I can open, as long as
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: they've cashed our check, I know my license is good
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: and Kevin Carr isn't going to come after me for it.
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: He's already spent my money. So the FCC in this
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: whole court case about expanding a law that is such
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: a great example of unintended consequences. So there's a law
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: that says broadcasters, television and radio broadcasters, not the internet, Oh, no,
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: not digital, but broadcasters, FCC-controlled broadcasters, have to offer politicians,
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: campaigners for office, the lowest rate they charge. Which, therefore,
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: then becomes a case where small businesses like the event
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: space that I'm broadcasting to you from right now can't
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: generally afford to get on the radio. First, it's big
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: corporations who have Wall Street to try to fluff up
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: their 15 cent share stock. I'm not kidding either. You
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: look at some of the publicly traded radio companies and
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: you'll see what how much can I get a share
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: of that company for? And they don't realize they're constantly
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: in the press saying, oh, no one listens to radio anymore.
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: And then they wonder why nobody invests in radio anymore.
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry. I see people listening to radio all over
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: the place. And I see statistics that say people listen
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: to radio all over the place. But I talk to
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: businesses and they say, I can't afford, you know, $ 100
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: a commercial because these broadcasters try to make sure that
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: their lowest rate is what they can charge Congressman what's
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: his face for his reelection campaign. And I have always
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: thought it was the silliest damn thing, because you're talking
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: about a window of time. That's what, if you do
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: a primary season and the general election four months out
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: of 12, and you're going to really price out small businesses.
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: And if there's a hero of our business here, Thomas Media,
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: the producers of this program, as well as people talk
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: to me about sponsorship, JCS Gold and these folks who
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: sponsor this program. I mean, they're getting a deal for
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: the amount of places that are hearing their message. Because
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: my wife and I are Scottish and we live frugally
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: and we don't have heavy needs and stuff like that.
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: And we don't have Wall Street investors to have to
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: suckle up to and make sure that their check's in
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: the mail. So we can offer pretty good prices. And
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: somebody asked me about political rates. And I told them
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: what our political rate is because it's based on what
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: we charge a place like Common Ground here in Fishersville
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: for our efforts. And the guy said, really?
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: I said, yeah. I said, I don't pump up my
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: commercial rates just to make sure that you politicians pay
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: the most possible. And now I have to give it
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: to all the political action committees. which is fine. Like
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: I said, for four months out of the year maximum,
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to screw over the little guy because
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: there's so many businesses that need to spread the word
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: about themselves. And it's not working through Instagram, and some
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: of it does. But all their algorithms have become much
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: more insular over the last month, just in the last month.
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: You're really only getting to the people who already follow you.
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: You're not spreading your word to a bunch of people
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: who have never heard of you before. That's very hard
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: to do. Except here, where we do it all the time.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: But the.
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: The FCC tries to help, if you will. And it's
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: unintended consequences, is what we've said all the time about
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: these unintended consequences. And so when guys like Mark Warner, yes,
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: Matt Kelly, Ned Patterson, yes, Ned Patterson was the congressman
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: from New York who gave, well, through his chief of staff,
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: Tim Hulbert, who was our Chamber of Commerce president, gave
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: me my Gadsden flag. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: The name was in there. It came up without the
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: file being opened. But what everyone is struggling with right
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: now are these costs, the gas costs, the electric costs,
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: and the laughable bit. Do we have the Mark Warner clip?
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: You see, Mark Warner made billions of dollars owning, I
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: think it was called Nextel at the time. And now
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: it's been merger, merger, merger, singular, whatever. And little by little,
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: all of his money comes from Verizon and Now, I
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: believe a merger to a merger to another merger, but
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: he made a fortune. And I believe his family trust
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: still makes a fortune from his shares of former ownership
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: of what is now Verizon. And so he's on the
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: stump complaining about AI and the AI regulators the AI billionaires,
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: and that's the laughable bit, is when he complains about
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: the AI tech billionaires having been one himself. I'm like, really, Mark?
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: Did you think this through? Did you look in a
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: mirror for a little bit when you said this?
• 52:23
  Speaker 12: For God's sake, let's go ahead and put some safety
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: protocols in place and not simply trust these large companies
• 52:32
  Speaker 12: who are in a race to do all the safety
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: and security on their own.
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: I think that pregnant pause was where there was a
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: little voice in his head saying, Mark, you realize you're
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: talking about yourself as well. Because the cell phone companies,
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: trust me, I'm using cellular technology right now to do this.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 5: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 5: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 5: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 1: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 1: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 1: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 1: they face and conquer their challenges.
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