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Is Anything Incorruptible - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It is seven six. I think about kersee talk station
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  Speaker 1: Thomas always happy at this moment in time because it
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  Speaker 1: is the time when we get the brilliance of the
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  Speaker 1: big picture with jack Adathan and jack Ada and my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much or for your time today and
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  Speaker 1: for all your time previously. I really enjoy hearing from
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  Speaker 1: me and I've just the way you weave history in
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  Speaker 1: with things going on right now in modern times is
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  Speaker 1: always brilliant. Good to have you back on the show,
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, brother, I appreciate it. To celebrate spring
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  Speaker 2: and opening day, Let's hear a Democrats version of Elizabeth
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  Speaker 2: Barrett Browning. How do I hate Trump? Let me count
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  Speaker 2: the ways I hate him for securing the border and
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  Speaker 2: disarming you run. I hate Trump for his tax cuts
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  Speaker 2: and his spending cuts, his regulatory cuts, and his haircut.
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  Speaker 2: I hate him for his wealth, for his wife and
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  Speaker 2: his oh so perfect kids, don't you miss hunter. I
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  Speaker 2: hate how he's keeping boys from becoming girls and illegals
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  Speaker 2: from becoming voters. And if some crazed who or paid
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  Speaker 2: assassin shoes, I shall but hate Trump better after death.
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  Speaker 2: My friends, that's the Democrat Party in a nutshell and
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  Speaker 2: it's still hard to believe that Democrats are playing Russian
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  Speaker 2: Roulette with homeland security during the war. Yes, they may
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  Speaker 2: soon cut a deal that does not include long term
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  Speaker 2: funding for ICE. Senator Eric Swalwell wants to disband ICE altogether,
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  Speaker 2: and House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries he says ICE agents
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  Speaker 2: the President has helping out at airports. Now those ICE
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  Speaker 2: agents may shoot passengers, and not just the ones who
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  Speaker 2: recline their seats right into your lap. We'd all like
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  Speaker 2: to shoot them. Democrats want to abolish immigration and customs enforcements,
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  Speaker 2: and we know why, so tens of millions of illegal
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  Speaker 2: invaders can be counted in this census and swell the
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  Speaker 2: populations of all the sanctuary cities and seventeen sanctuary states
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  Speaker 2: run by Democrats, giving the more seats in Congress and
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  Speaker 2: more taxpayer funds for fraudulent social programs. Folks, it's all
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  Speaker 2: about power. The power that Lord Acton said, and we
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  Speaker 2: say all the time, corrupts a little bit of history,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what we do here. Corruption started polluting American
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  Speaker 2: politics about two hundred years ago with the new spoil
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  Speaker 2: system of Democrats. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. In fairness,
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  Speaker 2: corruption continued under establishment Republicans, and it does to this day.
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  Speaker 2: Politicians handed governor contracts and jobs to fatcats, filling their
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  Speaker 2: campaign coffers and their pockets, even though our whole constitutional
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  Speaker 2: system was built to avoid corruption by keeping divided government
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  Speaker 2: as small as possible. Chief job of the federal government
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be what we now call national security,
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  Speaker 2: homeland security, including border security. President Eisenhower who swept up
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  Speaker 2: and deported one point three million illegals, Obama, who, after
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  Speaker 2: he lost the midterms, deported three million illegals, and Trump,
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  Speaker 2: who's been called hitler for deporting two point five million,
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  Speaker 2: most of whom self deported. They and all other presidents,
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  Speaker 2: even Lion Joe Biden, agreed we must ban illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 2: Yet Democrats continue to undercut national security, from criminals here
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  Speaker 2: at home to Iranian mullas hoping to blow us the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom come. Lacking any growth or security agenda, Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: corrupt to the core, which got me wondering, Brian, has
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  Speaker 2: there ever been an institution that proved incorruptible a group
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  Speaker 2: so high minded it was immune to Lord Acton's warning.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe because this is the last time we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be talking before Easter. I came up with one, one
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  Speaker 2: incorruptible institution, monasteries. You didn't see that coming.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Monasteries, Christian monasteries shielded from temptation, monks taking a vow
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  Speaker 2: of poverty, chastity, and service to God. If power can
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  Speaker 2: corrupt monks, it really can't corrupt anything. Well, sadly Brian coming.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened. Not today, and not with the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority of monks, much less nuns anytime, but just
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  Speaker 2: enough of them to threaten the entire institution, until monasteries
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  Speaker 2: underwent the kind of reform that our Leviathan government is
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  Speaker 2: crying out for. Here's that history. The first monk, in
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  Speaker 2: a way, was Jesus cousin John the Baptist. John wandered
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness wearing animal skins, eating locusts and wild honey,
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  Speaker 2: proclaiming the coming of the Messiah. John paid for that
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  Speaker 2: with his head. Nothing corrupt about him. The apostles were
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  Speaker 2: also monks of a kind, living communally until they set
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  Speaker 2: out across their own world preaching the Gospel. Except for Judas'
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  Speaker 2: carrit in his Thirty Pieces of Silver, the first true
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  Speaker 2: monastery gathered monks in all places in Egypt. The word
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  Speaker 2: monk comes from the Greek meaning solitary. Soon other monasteries
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  Speaker 2: and then convents started spreading, led by saints remarkable people
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  Speaker 2: like Benedict and Francis, they improved farming, found its schools,
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  Speaker 2: and together with Islamic scholars, a story we've told before.
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  Speaker 2: Monasteries during the Dark Ages also preserved writings of the
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  Speaker 2: ancient Greeks and Romans, paving the way for the Renaissance.
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  Speaker 2: We should pay particular attention of that because we may
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  Speaker 2: be entering another period of Dark Ages. At their best,
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  Speaker 2: monasteries devoted themselves to the imitation of Christ. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: during a terrible famine in the twelfth century, one monastery
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  Speaker 2: in Westphalia slaughtered all of its flocks and herds, sold
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  Speaker 2: its books and even sacred vessels, and donated the proceeds
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  Speaker 2: to feed the poor. That was the ideal. However, many
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  Speaker 2: monasteries fell short of the ideal. They became rich because
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  Speaker 2: rich benefactors bequeathed them fortunes. Trying to buy a ticket
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  Speaker 2: to heaven. Monasteries expanded their land holdings, they accepted into
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  Speaker 2: their ranks the cronies of their day, the younger sons
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  Speaker 2: of noblemen. They paid laymen to do the hard work
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  Speaker 2: they used to do, and let many abbots and friars
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  Speaker 2: live like anyone but John the Baptist. Does this remind
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  Speaker 2: you of anything of maybe modern day politicians, maybe our
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  Speaker 2: entire Congress. The good news, in every sense is that
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  Speaker 2: for monasteries, decadentes finally brought on reform. The Protestant Reformation
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  Speaker 2: and the Catholic counter Reformation drove these latter day money
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  Speaker 2: changers out of the temple. We don't have time to
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  Speaker 2: continue the much more uplifting history that followed. Suffice it
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  Speaker 2: to say I have enormous respect for the more than
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  Speaker 2: five hundred and eighty monasteries today in the US alone.
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  Speaker 2: My point is that, just as in medieval times, when
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  Speaker 2: corrupt monasteries sold out deeply devout brothers in Christ, today
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party and some Republicans, in a quest for
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  Speaker 2: power and graft, they have sold out core constituencies. American
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  Speaker 2: workers whose wages are undercut by tens of millions of
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  Speaker 2: illegal migrants here at home, and by manufacturers who ship
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  Speaker 2: their jobs to communists China, families whose kids' education has
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  Speaker 2: been sacrificed to the greed of teacher unions. Inner city
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  Speaker 2: minorities made abjectly dependent on Democrat big government for food, housing,
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  Speaker 2: everything except their safety, because big government leads them utterly
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  Speaker 2: unsafe from street thugs and from enemies like communists China
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  Speaker 2: and Iran. Brian, just as churches had to reform themselves
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  Speaker 2: and rid themselves of corrupt prelates, America has to rid
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  Speaker 2: itself of corrupt, power hungry politicians and their paymasters in
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  Speaker 2: both parties. Because if you can corrupt a monastery, imagine
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  Speaker 2: what it can do to a political party, or rather,
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  Speaker 2: don't imagine. Just look and then in the coming primaries,
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  Speaker 2: and especially this November vote to cleanse America, what do
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  Speaker 2: you say, brother Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the reformation process brought about by a lot of corruption,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and that was a thing. I know. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of my listeners are clamoring for non incumbents, those
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  Speaker 1: who have not benefited from the political machine, those whose
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  Speaker 1: hands are clean and free of the corruption about which
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  Speaker 1: you speak, And I understand that maybe this is a
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  Speaker 1: form of reformation on our own. We don't need term limits,
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  Speaker 1: We just need to make more informed, better choices when
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  Speaker 1: it goes to selecting candidates, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to get behind outsiders, anybody who is
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  Speaker 2: running against incumbents that we feel are falling short of
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  Speaker 2: the job. And I'm not going to name some of them.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them don't have opponents incoming primaries, and that
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  Speaker 2: really is a shame because everybody, even the good ones,
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  Speaker 2: even the best, have to face challenges in order to
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  Speaker 2: stay on their toes. Something more about the Democrats, Brian
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  Speaker 2: Democrat leaders like Chuck Schumer, Zora and Mondami, they're no
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  Speaker 2: longer even trying to pass as Centrists. And the scariest
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  Speaker 2: thing about that claim from HAAKM Jeffreys that ice agents
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  Speaker 2: at airports will shoot passengers, yeah, is that he knows
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  Speaker 2: millions of Democrats will buy that. Why because they're so stupid.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry my Democrat friends and family, but it's true.
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  Speaker 2: With their control of schools, social media, and most pop culture,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are racing to make America totally dependent on their
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  Speaker 2: totalitarian big brother government. To fight against stupidity has to
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  Speaker 2: begin at home, each of our homes and schools, and
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  Speaker 2: just in time for passover in the Easter, it's got
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  Speaker 2: to beginning in our places of worship. The alternative is
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  Speaker 2: literally unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, you know it's interesting timing on your comments. Sir
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hagin is going to join us at eight oo five.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to empower you someonar tonight about socialist efforts
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  Speaker 1: to change America and of course focusing largely on the
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  Speaker 1: education system which is taken over by socialists. But lo
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  Speaker 1: and behold Jack Avidan behind the scenes on that one.
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  Speaker 1: What are we seeing in education? A reformation effort, choice,
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  Speaker 1: giving people the option, a growing growing rank of people
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  Speaker 1: that are doing exactly that, more states giving people the option,
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  Speaker 1: having the dollars follow the children as opposed going directly
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  Speaker 1: to the public schools, which are nothing more than in
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  Speaker 1: doctrination camp. So maybe we'll find ourselves on the other
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  Speaker 1: side at some point, Jack outed any better place thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the efforts by somebody out there who are pushing
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  Speaker 1: for school choice in order to prevent the indoctrination of
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  Speaker 1: their children along these extraordinarily stupid lines.
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  Speaker 2: And more and more parents and students realizing that they
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  Speaker 2: don't need so called higher education. Higher education is a
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  Speaker 2: racket that bill has started after World War Two with
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  Speaker 2: the GI Bill. A lot of people my dad among
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  Speaker 2: them did get a good education. My dad became a dietitian.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't go to reuniversity, and it stood them in
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  Speaker 2: good stead. More and more people are realizing you got
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  Speaker 2: to get something that works. And we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 2: AI when I come back after reaster and the fear
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of people have, but the possibilities that
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  Speaker 2: AI opens, the possibilities that it's unfortunate term, but creative
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  Speaker 2: destruction has always presented to people going to all the
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  Speaker 2: babyboard back to cavemen. Yes, that's a long history for
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  Speaker 2: that talk.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Easter to you early, Jack, look forward to next Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: another brilliant episode of the Big Picture with Jack Aivan
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  Speaker 1: and Jack Aivan in best of health and loved you
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  Speaker 1: and your better half. I look forward to talking to
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  Speaker 1: you again real soon, my friend, you too, Thanks so much.
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