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"A Self-Loathing Potter-Fest" (FTTxJT Sat 092626 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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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 1: And we'll do it live. It's still me here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a part of me Part of me is smirking
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  Speaker 1: at the desperation of the climate zealots. We talked to
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  Speaker 1: Mark Marano earlier this week. I'm going to pull some
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  Speaker 1: highlights for us this morning because he was in New
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  Speaker 1: York for Climate Week and he detailed to us the
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  Speaker 1: panic in the climate rent-seeking universe because all the money
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  Speaker 1: has disappeared. All the money has left in exchange for
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  Speaker 1: the much cooler, hipper campaign against artificial intelligence. And I
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  Speaker 1: have a theory as to that. We'll get into that. So,
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  Speaker 1: so desperate were the climate alarmists to come up with
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  Speaker 1: something They have what they have, I've talked to two meteorologists,
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  Speaker 1: is yes, a moderate to severe nor'easter. Certainly not the
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  Speaker 1: worst nor'easter that has come up through the mid-Atlantic and
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  Speaker 1: into the.
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  Speaker 3: Area.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the first one since, quote, hurricane season started.
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  Speaker 1: So you listen to weather people talk about cyclonic action
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to make every possible... attempt to make
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  Speaker 1: this sound like a hurricane. They can't quite use Superstorm yet,
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  Speaker 1: but if it gets serious enough, if there's enough damage,
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear the phrase Superstorm. They'll give it a name.
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  Speaker 1: They'll give it a name. But the Nor'easter has got
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  Speaker 1: the Long Island area in a state of emergency. I
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  Speaker 1: just checked PSE & G. There's about four or five
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  Speaker 1: hundred people without power right now, and they're relating it
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  Speaker 1: to the storm. Travel advisory through the area, even all
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  Speaker 1: the way into New York City. So please, you know,
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  Speaker 1: button down. Do the right thing. And residents of Long
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  Speaker 1: Island don't need to be told this. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: the ones. Look out for your neighbors. Look out for
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  Speaker 1: the washershores, the ones who just moved out from Queens or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Bronx. where this kind of stuff is
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  Speaker 1: much less commonplace. And just, you know, make sure they're
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  Speaker 1: cool this morning as well. It was a storming through
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  Speaker 1: the mid-Atlantic, canceled high school football games, and that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Lightning action, aluminum grandstands, tallest thing in the area, bad combination.
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  Speaker 1: So we begin our first things on this stormy Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: As you head south from Long Island, where our friends
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  Speaker 1: are listening on Long Island News Radio, you start to
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  Speaker 1: get down into our flagship area. Do they do Norfolk
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  Speaker 1: part of the Saturday lineup? It might be. Scott down there,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Beach, they pick us up on WPAR on Saturday mornings.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly even as far in as our flagship station
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  Speaker 1: in Stanton, which is on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: John Denver Mountains, There we are seeing storm activity because
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  Speaker 1: of the cyclonic activity in the Atlantic this morning. The
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court Friday, before that storming began, turned away in
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  Speaker 1: Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and
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  Speaker 1: resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if
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  Speaker 1: Tasha Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute and
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  Speaker 1: Friday is pausing his relationship with the group Life Surge
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 15: We have a fascinating thing going on here.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, I don't think this should be a
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  Speaker 1: cautionary tale against achievement. But I tell you, my kids
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  Speaker 1: have great fun at my expense because I'm an aficionado.
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  Speaker 1: I am a fan of the science fiction genre that
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  Speaker 1: was depicted on television before. at first to me in
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  Speaker 1: the reruns I watched in the late 70s, but first
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  Speaker 1: broadcasted between 66 and 68, known as Star Trek. You
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  Speaker 1: may have heard of it. It's an old guy who
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  Speaker 1: actually looks better now than he did 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Going around, he used to be captain of a starship
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. But regardless of whether or not they think
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Trekkie, and I fight back saying, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Trek fan, not a Trekkie. And unfortunately, they
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  Speaker 1: point to some radio promotion I did involving William Shatner
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  Speaker 1: and paintball as their defense, and I still say it
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  Speaker 1: should be thrown out of court for relevance. But that
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  Speaker 1: not being withstood, Be careful what you wish for. If
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  Speaker 1: you're seeking to create something cultural, if you're seeking to,
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  Speaker 1: at some point in your life, create something that might
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  Speaker 1: outlive you, that might create ripples through the world, let J.K.
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  Speaker 1: Rowling be a cautionary tale. Here in our flagship city,
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  Speaker 1: look up Queen City Mischief and Magic. I think it's QCMM.com.
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  Speaker 1: nuts or something on there. So Queen City Mischief and
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  Speaker 1: Magic pays Warner Brothers a large sum of money every
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  Speaker 1: year so that they can hold a weekend-long Harry Potter
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  Speaker 1: fest here in Stanton, Virginia. And about a month, month
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago, in what really can only be
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  Speaker 1: described as a publicity stunt, they decided to go on
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  Speaker 1: record decrying and distancing themselves from the author of the
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, for her decades-old statements regarding
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  Speaker 1: trans and why they're... And it was all because some
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  Speaker 1: reporter asked her one time, were there transgender people in
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  Speaker 1: the wizarding world? And her answer, I don't even remember
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  Speaker 1: all the specifics of her answer, but her answer was basically,
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  Speaker 1: what do you... What part of your head did you hit?
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 1: And this becomes the maelstrom and half the stars of
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  Speaker 1: the movies whose careers were made by it. I mean, really,
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  Speaker 1: who would know who Daniel Radcliffe was if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for Harry Potter? And the only place and he actually
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  Speaker 1: seems to be degrading as an actor. He was better
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  Speaker 1: when he was 12 than he was... I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever seen Now You See Me 2 or what's
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  Speaker 1: the Sandra Bullock.
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  Speaker 1: The Queen of the Amazon or something like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: every time I see Daniel Radcliffe in something, he's becoming
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  Speaker 1: less talented as an actor as he gets older. You're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to get better at something the more you do it,
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  Speaker 1: but what do I know? So these devotees, some would
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  Speaker 1: call them.
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  Speaker 1: No, I won't even use the word because I've already
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  Speaker 1: confessed my Star Trek fandom. So these folks come and
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  Speaker 1: they have a grand time. They actually have a blast.
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  Speaker 1: They actually have a Quidditch match. Yes, it's people running
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  Speaker 1: around with brooms under their legs chasing, I think, volleyballs.
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  Speaker 1: But that's okay. they're having fun, they're outdoors. And as
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  Speaker 1: I said, as I stood in line at a Barnes
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  Speaker 1: & Noble bookstore one Tuesday or Wednesday night in the
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  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock hour, knowing full well that I had to
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  Speaker 1: be up for a radio show the next morning. But
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  Speaker 1: my kids were, you know, six, seven, eight years old
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  Speaker 1: and loved reading. They all wanted this book. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought to myself that one time in Westchester, Pennsylvania. So
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  Speaker 1: we stood there in the bookstore. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if somebody had told me five years ago that a
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  Speaker 1: bookstore would be full of kids, young kids waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a book to come out so they could go home
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  Speaker 1: and read it, I would have said you're insane. And
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  Speaker 1: these kids then, you know, in the gaps in between
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter books started reading other books. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: like a little thing. I argue that part of Turning
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  Speaker 1: Point USA's power came from Harry Potter because these kids
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  Speaker 1: started reading and in between Harry Potter books they picked
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  Speaker 1: up things and some of them picked up things like
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  Speaker 1: the Federalist Papers. Some of them picked up historical fiction.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them picked up history books and started reading them.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have any statistics but I just look
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  Speaker 1: at the young people who are part of Turning Point USA.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a poll. I think Zogby did a
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  Speaker 1: poll that said Gen Z is the most religious generation
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  Speaker 1: in history. So apparently in between Harry Potter books, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these kids were reading the Bible. Well, or
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  Speaker 1: at least, you know, some Tim LaHaye and You start
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  Speaker 1: with Left Behind and you start going from there like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: what's this book? Mom, what's the tribulation? What are end times?
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  Speaker 1: So I credit J.K. Rowling for that. I credit J.K.
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  Speaker 1: Rowling for having a brain. I don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: personal view of her writing style notwithstanding. She created something cultural.
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  Speaker 1: Rare is it that people, one person can be pointed to.
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  Speaker 1: Even things like the personal computer. I mean, was it
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  Speaker 1: Bill Gates? Was it Steve Jobs? Or was it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the people who worked for them who actually did
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  Speaker 1: the work? But to watch the fans who are gathering
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  Speaker 1: specifically because J.K. Rowling is wrote these books, to watch
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  Speaker 1: them say, oh, no, she doesn't exist. Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: what psychiatrists call a mass formation psychosis. You're here specifically
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  Speaker 1: to play out or to imagine a world where this
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  Speaker 1: kind of camaraderie and magic and peril and all these
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  Speaker 1: exciting things happen And at the same time, pretend the
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  Speaker 1: person who wrote the books that you're going to spend
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  Speaker 1: all weekend dressing in costume in tribute to, I won't
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  Speaker 1: even say anything about pretending or anything, as a tribute
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  Speaker 1: to these books, you will sit there and say, we
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  Speaker 1: don't acknowledge the existence of the author? I don't even
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  Speaker 1: think we have medication in the DSM for this. So
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  Speaker 1: far has this identity politics taken us. And these ones
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  Speaker 1: who are gathering in Stanton, Virginia, are the ones who
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick up Left Behind or the Bible or the
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  Speaker 1: Federalist Papers in between episodes of Harry Potter. God bless
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  Speaker 1: the fact that there seems to have been a lot
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  Speaker 1: who did.
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  Speaker 1: Like socialism. You know, I love human nature. If you
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  Speaker 1: most exciting things for me to do is to get
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  Speaker 1: Generation Z is, quote, the most religious generation and is
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  Speaker 1: good job. Good job, zealots. Good job. Good job at
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  Speaker 1: watch this stuff play out because you and me, we
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this, whether it's Turning Point USA or
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  Speaker 1: Time magazine wrote a whole piece warning, warning you, be careful.
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  Speaker 1: there are secular religions. Religiousness is at the core of
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  Speaker 1: looking out for one another. And there is nothing ill
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  Speaker 1: with looking out for one another. And there are varying degrees,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from truly conservative, ardent followers of any of
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  Speaker 1: the Hasidic Jews. Obviously, we spend a good deal of
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  Speaker 1: time talking about Islamists. I saw a sign, something like 200...
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  Speaker 1: some fake news circulating about millions of Muslims registering to
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  Speaker 1: is the fastest growing population amongst Texas voters, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not like this. But here in the Harris poll about
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  Speaker 1: the Generation Z, 33% of Gen Z respondents identified as religious.
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  Speaker 1: In other cells, 18% of baby boomers identified as religious,
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  Speaker 1: 22% of Gen X, 19% of millennials. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Harris Poll published in Fortune magazine. 19% of the Gen
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  Speaker 1: Z respondents said They were neither religious nor spiritual. That's
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  Speaker 1: the lowest share of any of the generations. So 33%
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  Speaker 1: say they are religious, and only 19% said, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I sleep in on Sunday. And I point to the zealotry,
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  Speaker 1: I find it truly fascinating to watch that despite all
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  Speaker 1: the efforts, all the king's horses and all the king's
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  Speaker 1: men marshaled at creating this Maoist secular government as God's society,
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  Speaker 1: they're accomplishing exactly the opposite and nothing, nothing Call the
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  Speaker 1: contains a clear warning for Republicans. Democrats continue to lead
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  Speaker 1: on the generic congressional ballot while Republican advantage on the
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  Speaker 1: capitalism versus socialism question is narrowed sharply. Okay, John, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Some of the churches we were talking about, these quote-unquote
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  Speaker 1: making you feel good and giving you.
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  Speaker 1: Those are populist churches. They just want lots of... The
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  Speaker 1: reason the Pope continues to back off biblical doctrine. The Pope.
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  Speaker 15: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because he's trying to put butts in seats. He's the
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  Speaker 1: the Pope is now out there changing and backing off
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if he would be able to receive communion.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting to watch the young people who the
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  Speaker 1: governor of New York as we head into the home
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  Speaker 1: stretch of what everyone's talking about, the midterms. And the
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  Speaker 1: poll I saw still says that 30 percent of New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers have no idea who Bruce Blakeman is, yet he's
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  Speaker 1: within nine points of Kathy Hochul. And I think it
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  Speaker 1: was 2% or 3% of the people had no idea
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  Speaker 1: who Kathy Hochul was. Those are the people I want
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  Speaker 1: to have a beer with. And I know that's fun
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  Speaker 1: to say, and it's like a Three Stooges skit, but
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  Speaker 1: New Yorkers are like that. Go into a bar in
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn and say, hey, do you know who the governor
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  Speaker 1: of New York is?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: He's a jerk, though. So the storm, and really this
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  Speaker 1: is where everyone's panicking because the storm's kind of doing
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  Speaker 1: what Sandy did. And all the climate zealots and all
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  Speaker 1: are out there saying, oh, it's going to be another,
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  Speaker 1: because it's angling into New York rather than following the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Stream. But earlier this week in New York, before
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  Speaker 1: the storms came, it was the storms of a dying agenda,
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  Speaker 1: the climate change agenda. And we caught up with Mark Marano,
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  Speaker 1: producer of those great films, Climate Hustle 1 and Climate
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  Speaker 1: Hustle 2, and founder of the Climate Depot, with the
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  Speaker 1: Committee for Constructive Tomorrow, CFAC.org, about Climate Week in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Was on there, that kind of stuff. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: fun story that I like to go back to when
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  Speaker 1: the subject of journalism, journalists, come up. Do we have the.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's not the clip I was expecting. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about Mark Morano from last week.
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  Speaker 7: So they're now turning AI, the climate actors are turning
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  Speaker 7: AI into the next doomsday scenario. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 7: we're seeing. The same rhetoric they used about climate change.
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  Speaker 8: Is now on AI.
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  Speaker 7: End times, apocalyptic, we're all going to die, it's going
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  Speaker 7: to kill us. And it's the same rhetoric, and it's
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  Speaker 7: all designed to do exactly what COVID fears did, force
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  Speaker 7: us to make decisions without using our rational side, because
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  Speaker 7: they want everything to be fear-driven. And that's where we
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  Speaker 7: are right now.
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  Speaker 1: So how did it go? I mean, are people confused
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  Speaker 1: by it in Climate Week, or are they fired up
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  Speaker 1: about it? I mean, I know I disagree with them,
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  Speaker 1: but are they are they dispirited because they feel like
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  Speaker 1: they missed their window or are they fired up to
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  Speaker 1: maybe find a new way to do some rent-seeking?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think they're going to be looking for new ways.
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  Speaker 7: We were at the Jacob Javits Center last night walking around.
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  Speaker 7: This was a lot of the green tech people. We
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  Speaker 7: saw actually Extinction Rebellion people out on the sidewalk. And
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  Speaker 7: I think what's happening is they're trying to deal– with
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  Speaker 7: this big, massive shift. When you have Larry Fink of
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  Speaker 7: BlackRock say solar and wind can't power AI because you
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  Speaker 7: need actual dispatchable power like fossil fuels, that sends a
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  Speaker 7: signal to the entire financial system, to the university system,
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  Speaker 7: that the climate movement is essentially kaput as we knew it.
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  Speaker 7: And so now they're freaking out. And that's why this
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  Speaker 7: shift to AI, because that's the new thing, the new boogeyman.
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  Speaker 7: And so they're putting all their energy into it. We're
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  Speaker 7: going over to– I'm speaking tomorrow at NYU at a
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  Speaker 7: sustainable development event. The organizer didn't realize my website's Climate Depot.
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  Speaker 1: It was a neutral enough name.
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  Speaker 7: That I got, we asked if I could be on
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  Speaker 7: a panel, and they said yes, and then later realized
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  Speaker 7: who I was and said they were going to honor
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  Speaker 7: free speech. So that's tomorrow morning. And that's going to
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  Speaker 7: be about how, in education, the panel title is How
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  Speaker 7: do we get trained young climate activists from kindergarten basically
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  Speaker 7: to university? And that's what they're talking about. And I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to go up there and say, stop brainwashing the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really, I mean, fear mongering. And I see it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the fear mongering that these doom scrollers are
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  Speaker 1: all about, which is AI is going to replace us all.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. This is, well, the rising water
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  Speaker 1: is going to drown us all. Now it's AI is
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  Speaker 1: going to replace us all. I don't know which is preferable.
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  Speaker 1: I think I nearly drowned once, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to ever do that again. So I imagine being replaced
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  Speaker 1: by AI would be less painful anyway than being drowned.
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  Speaker 1: But why do they need this? Is it because all
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  Speaker 1: of us react so well to our emotional banjos being
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  Speaker 1: picked that that's how they can most easily get our
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  Speaker 1: money out of our pockets, Mark?
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  Speaker 20: This is a.
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  Speaker 7: Very simple concept, and it goes as old as human civilization.
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  Speaker 7: The idea is if you want to implement policies which
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  Speaker 7: you know are not going to be popular, you have
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  Speaker 7: a very simple way around the policies, and that is
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  Speaker 7: to instill fear, instill ridiculous deadlines, to get the population
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  Speaker 7: so worked up in a frenzied state that that they'll
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  Speaker 7: go along with policies they otherwise would never even consider
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  Speaker 7: in rational moments. And if you go back throughout history,
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  Speaker 7: I'm talking thousands of years, emergency decrees, declaring emergencies, panics,
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  Speaker 7: have all been used to implement large-scale advancements of big
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  Speaker 7: government policies. And specifically, you could even say things like
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  Speaker 7: war on terror was overdone after 9-11 because it created
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  Speaker 7: the surveillance state. Look at COVID. You had death tolls
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  Speaker 7: that were going to be exceeding the Spanish death toll.
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  Speaker 7: Billions dead. The Black Plague. We have to lock down.
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  Speaker 7: We have to have vaccine mandates. We have to cancel surgeries.
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  Speaker 7: We have to cancel weddings and funerals. Stay out. This
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  Speaker 7: is what the science demands.
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  Speaker 1: You're a grandma. And you had to give power over
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  Speaker 1: the government. Mark Morano podcast will be up at Joe
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  Speaker 1: Thomas in the morning later on this weekend. There you
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  Speaker 1: can hear the whole interview. But here's here's the thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when those hair on fire deadlines come, when Chicken Little
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  Speaker 1: finally has to fess up, the sky is not actually falling.
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  Speaker 1: When the boy who cried wolf actually is confronted with
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  Speaker 1: the wolf, where are we and what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to do? And you can only be lied to so much.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe that there is a mania.
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