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"Capitol Punishment" (FTTxJT Fri 100226 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, there's plenty of time.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 3: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims
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  Speaker 3: to please you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you for letting me be of service to
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  Speaker 2: you this morning. You know what we all need to
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  Speaker 2: do every now and then is we need to look
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  Speaker 2: in and past all the things, the trials and tribulations
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  Speaker 2: that confront us and remember the things that are amazing
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  Speaker 2: about our lives and even minutia, little things like my association.
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  Speaker 2: with the Talk Media Network, so I get to spend
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  Speaker 2: the morning with you and break down the news stories
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  Speaker 2: of the day and talk about capital punishment, let's just say,
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  Speaker 2: for the sake of I don't know why I would
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  Speaker 2: bring that up. Wink, wink. But, you know, we just
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  Speaker 2: went through, and you may or may not know, I
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  Speaker 2: also own a radio station along with this program, and
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  Speaker 2: I get a text message from About 20, 25 minutes ago,
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  Speaker 2: one of the programs that was on my station, on
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  Speaker 2: my flagship, was cutting in and out. And it's unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: because this guy is a pretty highly regarded intellect. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, was nearly governor of California. I won't
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  Speaker 2: say his name, but I'm sure you can figure out
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  Speaker 2: who it is. And he's on, you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: these big boy, you know, we are, you know, listen
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  Speaker 2: to our, you know, what's clang as we walk down
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  Speaker 2: the hall networks who treat this guy like he's a
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  Speaker 2: second class citizen. They feed his show with cruddy audio quality.
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  Speaker 2: They chintz out on, you know, how they send the
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  Speaker 2: shows out so they can squeeze more audio into a
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  Speaker 2: little tube. pun intended. And I am so blessed to
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  Speaker 2: be associated with the talk media network who don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, sure. They, they make sure they're being
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  Speaker 2: the best stewards of their investors money. You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: not insane, but they also understand that there are cost
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  Speaker 2: savings and there are penny wise and pound foolish opportunities. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time and effort into putting together for
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  Speaker 2: just all slop that needs to fill some time. And
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  Speaker 2: that's just my particular story. You have blessings, too. You
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  Speaker 2: need to look at them and figure out where they
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  Speaker 2: are and take an accounting of them. So I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: capital punishment. Tennessee still embroiled with the issue of Krista Pike,
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  Speaker 2: who remained alive yesterday through into this morning after she
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  Speaker 2: survived multiple failed attempts to execute her for a 1995
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  Speaker 2: murder in what Tennessee's governor called a deeply disturbing procedure.
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  Speaker 2: Randy Pivey said Pike is reportedly receiving life-saving care in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital and the jail. where she was taken after
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday night's failed execution, but that the rest of her
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  Speaker 2: legal team didn't know her exact condition. United States on
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  Speaker 2: the wake of the administration asking refiners that remain in
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  Speaker 2: White House Council of Economic Advisers said Thursday implementing major
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  Speaker 2: policies backed by Democratic Socialists of America would impose nearly
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: just say the name Krista Pike. I mean, my wife,
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't they just go in and hit her in
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  Speaker 2: costing the state of Tennessee tons of money in medical
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  Speaker 2: bills to keep her alive because the law says you
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  Speaker 2: screw up an execution, now you've got to keep them alive. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the range. And then you get the
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  Speaker 2: other side, which is we shouldn't have... capital punishment because
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  Speaker 2: only God can take a life. Life isn't ours to take.
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  Speaker 2: euthanasia protections. We brought this up yesterday with the family foundation.
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  Speaker 2: They're holding an event today. We got into this because
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  Speaker 2: apparently the Netherlands killed a two-year-old because the parents and
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  Speaker 2: the doctors said he was severely brain damaged and was
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  Speaker 2: never going to amount to anything and probably most importantly
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  Speaker 2: So the state said, sure, fine. They have a law
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  Speaker 2: that says you can kill kids. and kill kids if
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be contributors to society. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the way the law is written, which is frightening,
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  Speaker 2: considering what Central Europe has done with euthanasia before. It's
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  Speaker 2: never gone badly there. Executive Director of the Death Penalty
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  Speaker 2: United States at least, to get out of the death
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  Speaker 2: penalty business, called what happened to Krista Pike singular and unparalleled.
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  Speaker 2: She even said before the injection started, I'm ready to
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  Speaker 2: be free. They say it's an adjunct to a medical
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  Speaker 2: condition that they didn't know about that rendered her reaction
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  Speaker 2: to the lethal cocktail she was administered singular and unparalleled.
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  Speaker 2: And the issue over Krista Pyke is the murder that
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  Speaker 2: she committed to get herself onto death row becomes the question,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, embroiled because there are large numbers of
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  Speaker 2: conservative groups that stand against death penalty because of their belief,
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  Speaker 2: their faith that only God can take a life. She
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  Speaker 2: was on death row for a 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer,
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  Speaker 2: who they were all working at a Job Corps training
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  Speaker 2: campus near the University of Tennessee when Pike was convinced
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  Speaker 2: Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend. So she got
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  Speaker 2: her to come down to a stream where Slimmer was beaten,
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  Speaker 2: cut up with a box cutter. And then Pike, by
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  Speaker 2: her conviction reports, I wasn't there, smashed Slimmer's skull with
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  Speaker 2: a large chunk of asphalt, killing her. Thus my wife's
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  Speaker 2: reaction at dinner last night saying, why didn't the warden
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  Speaker 2: just go in and smash her skull with a brick
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  Speaker 2: like she did to the girl by the river? Pike's
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  Speaker 2: defense was they were only trying to scare her and
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  Speaker 2: the plan got out of control. These were 17-year-olds at
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  Speaker 2: the time. I think if we had been doing this
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  Speaker 2: radio program in 1995 in Tennessee, and we have great
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  Speaker 2: affiliates in Tennessee, and please, I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: The The issue that a 17-year-old, you can live 17 years,
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  Speaker 2: and think about 17 years. Think about doing something for
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  Speaker 2: 17 years. Why, I have an entire 17-year segment of
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  Speaker 2: my radio career that's now under redaction thanks to court orders.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it didn't exist. It's like I was in
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  Speaker 2: jail for something. But where in those 17 years is
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  Speaker 2: the idea of slamming somebody in the head with a
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  Speaker 2: giant piece of asphalt a good response to something? So
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  Speaker 2: you can argue all you want, and we can. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that there is a reasonable point to say
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  Speaker 2: only God can take a life. But then you sit here,
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  Speaker 2: personal childhood experiences much longer ago than 1995. 1977, David Berkowitz,
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  Speaker 2: debatably one of at least one Sons of Sam, going
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  Speaker 2: around murdering people in my hometown, now keeps asking for
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  Speaker 2: and I think the last 30 years he's been in
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  Speaker 2: Son of Sam. or arguably at least one of the
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  Speaker 2: sons of Sam. And he's just not getting out of prison. Now,
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  Speaker 2: does that mean he doesn't help people? And this becomes
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  Speaker 2: the argument. Are there people who were brought to Christ
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• 28:11
  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
• 28:17
  Speaker 23: I know it's yacht rock or it's considered that, but
• 28:21
  Speaker 23: I saw the Moody Blues tour before Justin passed away
• 28:28
  Speaker 23: and everything.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: And, and, I never expected them to be the kind
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of band to light it up on stage. I was
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: actually seeing them in a show with Chicago, who I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: actually expected to jam, and they didn't. So maybe it
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: was the juxtaposition. But the story in Europe, and this
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: is as much as, and again, I don't mean to
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: be this guy. But for all the folks who want
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: to blame artificial intelligence or computers for the troubles we have,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: then you're fine with blaming the gun for gun violence.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's my flaw that this is the way
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I do my analysis of things. But I say, well,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: if I don't blame the gun for a shooting, I
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: really can't blame, you know, insert next inanimate. object. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I know the debate on the emails at JTInTheMorningRadio at gmail.com
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: and on the text message lines as well as phone
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: calls at 434-882-4217. run the range of, is artificial intelligence
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: really inanimate? Or flock cameras. Flock cameras are another one.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Because police officers do bad things with flock cameras, is
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: that the flock camera's fault? So the same thing holds
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: true if I'm here defending life in all its iterations
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: before it's born. What about capital punishment? And it becomes
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: a very controversial thing. And the left, and believe me,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to sit here and tell you the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: left doesn't try to use that to break up coalitions
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: because they want everything to go up for a vote.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: And don't fall prey to these Marxist mofos. That's an
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: acronym I won't go into. Don't fall for them because
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: they're out there trying to.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Make something elected, voted for. Oh, we all voted for it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Meaning the 35% of the people that showed up to vote,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: 17% of the population then gets to dictate to the others.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't think so because they're just democracy addicts or actually, no,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: they're the democracy pushers. And too many of us become
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the democracy addicts. We all need to vote for things,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: but there are codes and whether or not you have
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: capital punishment. Are there crimes that deserve capital punishment? States
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: like Tennessee say, well, that's a decision the courts and
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the juries can make. States like New York say, we're
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: not even putting it on the table unless it's a federal.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Federal law says it can be on the table if
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you've committed a federal felony rising to that level. But
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the reason I brought up David Berkowitz, not just because
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: of his particular role in my childhood. No, I wasn't
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: one of the people in the cars he shot at.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: God bless my blessings. He shot, he nearly killed two
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: people in my neighborhood in Bayside outside of a disco
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: called El Fas, which never recovered from the ignominy of
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: being associated with him. But still to this day, a
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: prison minister. So the question remains, if we had killed
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: David Berkowitz the way capital punishment would, there are many
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: people in jail who have been brought to Christ because
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: of his ministry. Does that change what he did? He's
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: not allowed out. He's not allowed to go to a
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: movie or stop for a slice of pizza. He's in
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: jail and he's staying in jail. The other argument is
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: we're feeding him. We're clothing him. We're taking care of
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: him at the doctor's office. We're paying for all this.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Why are we paying for a guy who shot and
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: killed dozens of people across New York City or this
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Krista Pike? Why are we paying for her health care?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Nobody paid for the girl's health care on the side
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: of the Tennessee River. Slammer. Nobody was paying for her
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: health care after she got slammed in the head with
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a giant mass of asphalt. And what about the people
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: who probably should have mentioned to Krista Pike at some
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: point before she turned 17 and went down to that river?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Hitting somebody in the head with asphalt, giant block of concrete,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: is probably a step too far. Responsibilities. But lots of
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: our friends are... adamant about taking life, that it's not
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: our decision to take life, and that because somebody has
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: fallen prey to Satan, to Lucifer, and has taken a life,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: but then there's the eye for the eye, and this
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: is where the conundrum comes in, and I don't think,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: you might have a better chance of coming out of
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: a conversation about the Trump administration today with all your
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: digits still attached than you would talking about this Krista
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Pike issue. Like I said, my wife at dinner yesterday,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: my dear sweet wife, said, why didn't the warden just
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: go in there and slam her in the head with
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: a brick like she did to the slammer girl? Kareem's
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: on the line. He may have a thought or two
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: about this at 434-882-4217, or he's calling about the diesel.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Exports, which might be a less controversial issue. Good morning, Kareem.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: How are you doing this morning?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Joe.
• 34:44
  Speaker 24: I'm enjoying the dark hills of West Virginia.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful country. It's a shame you're in the
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: dark there because the hills and the way the road
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: winds through the mountains, it's stunning. Have we gone on
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the air yet in Martinsburg? We have our first West
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Virginia affiliate in Martinsburg. I'm there, and I think they
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  Speaker 2: told me it was going to be a couple of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: weeks to get the satellite receiver up and everything else.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: If we're not, then nobody's going to know, and I'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: the tree falling in the woods. But I know we
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: have our first West Virginia affiliate coming on soon. If
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: you're listening to us in Martinsburg saying, what the hell
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: is this on my radio, 434-882-4217, let me know. But anyway,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: so what's on your mind this morning?
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  Speaker 24: Well, Joe, there's a lot of there, but focusing, I
• 35:34
  Speaker 24: know there's a lot, but focusing on Krista Pike.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Joe, since 1973, over 100 death row inmates have been exonerated.
• 35:39
  Speaker 14: So that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 24: One botched, as far as the New York Post has said,
• 35:50
  Speaker 24: 3 percent, only 3 percent in the last few hundred
• 35:53
  Speaker 24: years of American executions where there are botched executions. And
• 35:57
  Speaker 24: they have a pretty detailed article if anybody wants to
• 35:59
  Speaker 24: look at it and see just how botched it was.
• 36:02
  Speaker 24: But looking at the people who were innocent. And exonerated
• 36:06
  Speaker 24: and then thinking, well, if they were innocent, exonerated, who
• 36:09
  Speaker 24: are the ones who were executed? And you go back
• 36:11
  Speaker 24: to that nine out of 10, if non guilty individuals
• 36:15
  Speaker 24: go free just because that one out of the 10
• 36:18
  Speaker 24: may be innocent, is it worth it? And then you
• 36:20
  Speaker 24: look at people like the Apostle Paul, if you want
• 36:22
  Speaker 24: to use Christianity, he spent his years before.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead. Well, no, no. I want to hear
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: your point about Paul and then and then I'll jump
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: in on the nine out of 10 point. because I
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: think that's the essential argument, because that's the essence of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: American U.S. jurisprudence. But go ahead, finish on Paul. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: want to hear that.
• 36:42
  Speaker 24: Paul went around not necessarily just imprisoning Christians at that time,
• 36:47
  Speaker 24: but they.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Weren't persecuting him. When he was Saul, it was the Pharisee,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and his story is one of the most important ones,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: because He was like Snopes. He was the ultimate fact checker.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: It would be like, you know, metaphorically today, and I
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: don't want to demean it, you know, it would be
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: like Whoopi Goldberg going out on campaign stops for Donald Trump.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: That's the kind of sea change it was for Saul
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to turn around and say, you know what, I was wrong.
• 37:23
  Speaker 24: And Joe, going on that, what your beloved wife, High
• 37:27
  Speaker 24: Miss Elaine, said last night at dinner, it's not so
• 37:30
  Speaker 24: much my thought that the warden should be the one that,
• 37:33
  Speaker 24: if you want to go that route, the one who
• 37:36
  Speaker 24: issues the sentence should be, like Game of Thrones, the
• 37:39
  Speaker 24: one who issues the sentence should swing the sword. But
• 37:42
  Speaker 24: the flip side is, well, who would be judges? Well,
• 37:44
  Speaker 24: we get Roy Beans, and that would not be it
• 37:47
  Speaker 24: because everybody gets sentenced to death just because they enjoy
• 37:49
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• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Anyway, Joe, I better let go so you get some
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  Speaker 7: other calls. You have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call. Always do. Always do. Thank
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you for your insertions here, Kareem, at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 17: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: Probably? It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes. Okay, don't tell me
• 43:08
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't build.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, define good, I guess it's by definition there.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get into this 92-page report. It only
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  Speaker 2: took 92 pages to explain what's wrong with the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Socialists of America agenda. I want to pick up on that.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of folks reacting to the Krista Pike situation.
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  Speaker 2: This one, Larry writes in, he said, what is the
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  Speaker 2: definition of depraved indifference? Didn't the girl take a piece
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  Speaker 2: of the murdered girl's skull home with her? I'm not
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  Speaker 2: arguing that this was not a pleasant person. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: put it this way. And this becomes... The misinterpretation of
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  Speaker 2: the glass houses portion of your scripture, this becomes judge
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  Speaker 2: not lest ye be judged, is not about, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: you can't judge people. It's about how we're all supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be above reproach. We're supposed to live a life
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  Speaker 2: so that we can be judged. And so whether you're
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  Speaker 2: a Pharisee who comes to realize, oh, hold it, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's the goods or not, or the son of Sam,
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  Speaker 2: or arguably one of the sons of Sam, please, who
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  Speaker 2: along with blackouts and 110 degree temperatures kept the city
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  Speaker 2: of New York in its grips for the entire summer
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  Speaker 2: of Spike Lee movies. What is the impact of that?
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  Speaker 2: Can you be redeemed? We're told we can be redeemed.
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  Speaker 2: There are people in my neighborhood who don't believe David
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  Speaker 2: Berkowitz for a second that he's been redeemed. Yet there
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  Speaker 2: are people who, over his time as a prison minister,
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  Speaker 2: have probably given up their life of crime and their
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  Speaker 2: life of misery and affliction with Lucifer and have been
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  Speaker 2: redeemed because of him. So if you kill him, then
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  Speaker 2: all these people maybe don't. And so if you ask me,
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  Speaker 2: where do I stand on capital punishment? I stand with
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  Speaker 2: the core of the U.S., jurisprudence system, which is if
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  Speaker 2: 10 guilty people must go free so that one innocent
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  Speaker 2: one is not unjustly punished, now you know. DNA, what
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  Speaker 2: technology is going to come about? We just had a
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  Speaker 2: guy released because in 1984 when he was convicted of murder,
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  Speaker 2: There was no such thing as DNA evidence. So what
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  Speaker 2: science is going to help us investigate and get to
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  Speaker 2: the truth because that's what policing means is you go
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  Speaker 2: and collect all the evidence possible to determine who it
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  Speaker 2: is that violated someone else's rights. In this case with
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  Speaker 2: Krista Pike, we know and her co-conspirator slash boyfriend, what
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  Speaker 2: a pair they must have been, what a treat that
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  Speaker 2: camp must have been In the hills of Tennessee, down
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  Speaker 2: by a river, smashing somebody's skull with a rock. There's hate.
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  Speaker 2: There's the devil at work. Lucifer was there, not God. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, does she get the chance? I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: was 1995. We're here 30 years later. and she's finally
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  Speaker 2: facing execution and a medical condition that, according to what
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading, they didn't know about, bollocks the lethal injection.
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  Speaker 2: But it brings back the question of, is it our
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  Speaker 2: life to take? And if you're defending the unborn lives,
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  Speaker 2: the innocents, because we don't know what path God has,
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  Speaker 2: for them, each day there's a day for redemption we're
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  Speaker 2: taught anyway. And do we govern that way? Because I
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  Speaker 2: think the barn door gets open to abortion when you
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  Speaker 2: talk about capital punishment. That's just personally where I sit
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  Speaker 2: with it. you can argue the fact because, believe me,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. Like I said, my wife said, why
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  Speaker 2: didn't the warden just go in there with a brick
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  Speaker 2: like she did to the slimmer girl? And I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people agree with that. Nobody was there
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  Speaker 2: pleading for the defense of the girl that was murdered
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  Speaker 2: by her. And as Lowry pointed out, the depraved indifference
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  Speaker 2: of taking a piece of the skull home with you No,
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  Speaker 2: Lucifer was by the side of that river without question.
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  Speaker 2: And was he still there? What sort of recanting had
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  Speaker 2: gone on in this case? We're joining it in progress
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  Speaker 2: at the very end. Who knows? And the Tennessee taxpayers
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  Speaker 2: are paying for extreme medical care to help her stay
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  Speaker 2: alive now because law says if you screw up, Be nice.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia's abortion law says if you screw up the abortion,
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  Speaker 2: what did Governor Northam say? Well, we'll keep the infant
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  Speaker 2: comfortable while we have a discussion. Good morning. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the air with Joe first thing this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: It's Joel. Hey, Joel. How are you doing, my friend?
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  Speaker 26: I'm doing okay. I had an interview at a stand-up
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  Speaker 26: ER yesterday at You just never know how they go out,
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  Speaker 26: but this ER is a stand-up that's run by doctors,
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  Speaker 26: and it's not hospital-oriented.
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  Speaker 2: God bless them for going out and helping people.
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  Speaker 26: But I'm hoping I get it. I'll find out Monday,
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  Speaker 26: but a lot of interviews.
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  Speaker 2: I've Not to distract, but do they seem like good people?
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about this in abstract, but here you are
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  Speaker 2: with a specific interview. I know that getting paid is important,
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  Speaker 2: but do they seem like people you could work with?
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  Speaker 2: Because I believe that employment needs to be viewed as
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  Speaker 2: a relationship as much as dating or anything else. So
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  Speaker 2: tell me, do they seem like good folks to work with?
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  Speaker 26: Yes, they do, in the sense that they don't have
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  Speaker 26: the tentacles or the bureaucracy attached to it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good start there. And is it kind
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  Speaker 2: of an entrepreneurial thing, like a bunch of doctors said
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  Speaker 2: it would be nice if somebody had an emergency care
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  Speaker 2: center available to folks without having to get into an
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  Speaker 2: ambulance and go to the hospital?
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  Speaker 26: Well, exactly, or the ambulance is coming to them, and
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  Speaker 26: for us, for stabilization or treatment so they don't have
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  Speaker 26: to get exposed to all the bureaucracy and maybe possible
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  Speaker 26: other diseases and its control.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad to hear that because, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: see them. We have a bunch of them here. They've
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  Speaker 2: survived the certificate of public need laws here in Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: In Virginia, hospitals get to decide whether other medical facilities
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  Speaker 2: get to open or not, which would be great in
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  Speaker 2: most businesses, right?
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  Speaker 7: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 7: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 9: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 9: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 9: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 9: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 14: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 14: of their lives.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 14: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 14: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 14: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 14: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 16: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 14: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 2: Go to DAV.org.