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"Lies, Damn Lies and Polls" (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr2) · 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: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 3: A steel mill, he's down here every day. Leaves for
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  Speaker 3: work when the sun comes up, drops a kid to
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  Speaker 3: school and all the way. Joe has everything he dreamed of,
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  Speaker 3: all the treasures that he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling,
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  Speaker 3: he only.
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  Speaker 4: Aims to please you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 5: this morning.
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  Speaker 6: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 5: Those are important numbers because I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 5: what went on last night. I will give you my
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  Speaker 5: analysis of it, of course. And then don't roll your eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Stop it. I could hear that through the radio. And
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  Speaker 5: it And I want to hear how it's impacting you,
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  Speaker 5: where you are. 434-882-4217. You can do it by text message.
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  Speaker 5: Joel texting in about Mark Warner after hearing us talking
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  Speaker 5: about government intelligence and what happened in Britain. We'll get
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  Speaker 5: to that in a moment. This text message comes in
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  Speaker 5: now that election influencing news is out. What percentage of
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  Speaker 5: likely voters is left to influence the election? Quite a few, actually.
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  Speaker 5: A text message coming from Virginia. Only about a million
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  Speaker 5: people have voted early. And there's two days left in
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  Speaker 5: our flagship state. I think there's two days left for most.
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  Speaker 5: Saturday will be an early vote. And then it'll take
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  Speaker 5: Monday off and come back for Election Day. And then.
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  Speaker 5: Good luck figuring out California. What is he over under?
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  Speaker 5: What's Kalshi's bet on how long it'll take to find
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  Speaker 5: out who won California's governor's race? But this whole story
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  Speaker 5: of election influencing is problematic to me because it infers
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  Speaker 5: and requires you to seed your own intellectual capabilities. And
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  Speaker 5: maybe I'm being Pollyannish about it, but I just truly
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  Speaker 5: have more faith in people's ability to smell the bovine
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  Speaker 5: excrement as it's being shoveled on them. I just wrote
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  Speaker 5: a piece. Oh boy, this one is going. This one
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  Speaker 5: has gone 10 rounds so far with the editorial board
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  Speaker 5: and the lawyers at DailySignal.com because it calls into question polls.
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  Speaker 5: and the accuracy of polls and how polls are used
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  Speaker 5: to influence elections. It'll be a great piece. It'll be
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  Speaker 5: at DailySignal.com. You know, my guys in editorial are on
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  Speaker 5: my side with it. It's just, you know, when lawyers.
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  Speaker 8: Start looking, they go, oh, that's Larry Sabato he's calling out.
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  Speaker 8: And Larry Sabato knows lots of lawyers. Some of them
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  Speaker 8: are even in Congress. So we'll see if it comes out.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you what's in it coming up.
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  Speaker 5: The New York Times citing sources saying that the Obama
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  Speaker 5: administration began the investigation in the summer of 2016. Gosh,
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  Speaker 5: they were so busy then. That was also when they
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  Speaker 7: Lean on me when you're not strong.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on
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  Speaker 5: This is the Polster's Blues.
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  Speaker 3: It won't be long Till I'm gonna need Somebody turn
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  Speaker 3: me on.
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  Speaker 5: Leaning on you and trying to influence your vote. And
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  Speaker 5: debate in school. I was taught how you have to
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  Speaker 5: spend almost as much time knowing the other guy's position
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  Speaker 5: as you have to knowing yours. And you know what
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  Speaker 5: that does? It makes you a better arbiter of your
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  Speaker 5: position as well. It has been my experience. Oh, sure,
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  Speaker 5: we want to believe what we believe, but you've got
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  Speaker 5: to read the other stuff. Why did Thomas Jefferson, when
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  Speaker 5: he was at William and Mary University studying law, get
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  Speaker 5: himself a copy of the Koran? That same copy of
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  Speaker 5: into Congress and it was like, he's using Jefferson's Koran.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, never mind the fact that that's still where
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  Speaker 5: I guess you're swearing to God. The people you really
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  Speaker 5: need to worry about are the elected officials that take
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  Speaker 5: the tax code out, put their left hand on it,
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  Speaker 5: and swear to their God. So I wrote a piece,
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  Speaker 5: and it's actually been a back and forth, because they
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  Speaker 5: get concerned when people like Larry Sabato are going to
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  Speaker 5: fall into the crosshairs. And of course, I don't care
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  Speaker 5: where you're listening to this program, you've heard of Larry Sabato.
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  Speaker 5: He is the Lord High Mugwump of the Virginia Center
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  Speaker 5: for Politics. I don't know if he does all the
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  Speaker 5: same analysis that he used to. Became famous in 2002
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  Speaker 5: and then again in 2012 when he was like 98%
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  Speaker 5: accurate in predicting. And he's predicting there's going to be
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  Speaker 5: like 240 Democrat congresspeople. But as Lee Corso says, just
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  Speaker 5: a moment, my friend. So I published a piece on
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  Speaker 5: polling and get out the vote for the Daily Signal.
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  Speaker 5: It hasn't been published yet, so you may be the
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  Speaker 5: only one who ever sees this or hears it. And
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  Speaker 5: he got the nickname Larry's Crystal Balls when he predicted
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  Speaker 5: the outcome of 433 of 435 contests. And 32 out
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  Speaker 5: of 34 Senate races. And he's weighed in and, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you just forget it. Your Republican congressperson could
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  Speaker 5: be running unopposed and Larry thinks you're going to lose.
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  Speaker 5: And Larry has put aside some of his pretense because
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  Speaker 5: he just can't stand the living idea that Donald J.
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  Speaker 5: Trump was elected president. Twice. Twice, Larry Donald. And both times.
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  Speaker 5: He got that so famously wrong. He said Hillary was
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  Speaker 5: going to get a 350 electoral votes or something like
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  Speaker 5: that in 2016. So Cambridge University studied. That U.S. Senate races,
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  Speaker 5: campaigns degenerate into unsubstantiated and shrill attacks. Voters tend to
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  Speaker 5: stay home. The use of polls, the use of attack
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  Speaker 5: ads and that kind of thing is a tacit vote
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  Speaker 5: suppression maneuver. Cambridge University did a study on it and
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  Speaker 5: said negative ads make people stay home. Marquette University did
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  Speaker 5: an adjunctive study and said that when turnout is above 50%,
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  Speaker 5: Republicans win more, and when it's below 50%, Democrats win
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  Speaker 5: more frequently. So what did I do that has made
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  Speaker 5: them very nervous about Larry Sabato? So I bring into
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  Speaker 5: my column Wedgwood Polls. Do you remember the name Wedgwood Polls? Why,
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  Speaker 5: it was only just a week ago they admitted, admitted,
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  Speaker 5: admitted that they published phony numbers in the Michigan Democrat primary,
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  Speaker 5: causing Mallory McMorrow to suspend her campaign because the phony
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  Speaker 5: poll numbers they put out made it look like she
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  Speaker 5: was going to lose miserably to Mike Rogers. So all
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  Speaker 5: of her fundraising disappeared, and so did she. And now
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  Speaker 5: they've admitted, well, yeah, we just made all that stuff
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  Speaker 5: up and published it. We're calling it an experiment. And
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  Speaker 5: I go into the unscientific way that polls are done,
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  Speaker 5: but then I get into, when you get to places
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  Speaker 5: like Sabato's crystal ball, which will love to expose itself,
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  Speaker 5: it'll open its overcoat and show you its 95% success
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  Speaker 5: rate in its.
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  Speaker 5: Predictions. Lee Corso again, not so fast, my friend. So
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  Speaker 5: when you get in there and you realize that, what's
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  Speaker 5: the expression? Lies, damn lies and statistics. So the statistics
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  Speaker 5: that sound like Larry gets it right all the time
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  Speaker 5: are actually just a case. And I thought I was
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  Speaker 5: dropping stuff this morning. That his statistics are driven by
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  Speaker 5: just the races that he deems safe Republican or safe Democrat.
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  Speaker 5: He gets 95% of the right. But anything that's considered
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  Speaker 5: leaning Democrat or likely Democrat, his record is more like 60%.
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  Speaker 5: It's still better than 50-50. I bet you make money
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  Speaker 5: at Calchi with a 60% approval rating. But if Larry
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  Speaker 5: is saying that there's going to be this blue tsunami
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  Speaker 5: The math doesn't add up. He has 41 seats leaning
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  Speaker 5: or likely Democrat. 18 of those are actually currently held
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  Speaker 5: by Republicans. When you apply the 60% success rate, you
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  Speaker 5: wind up with 200 seats in Congress, not 225, upwards
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  Speaker 5: of 230 with some of the leaners in Larry's prediction. 200,
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  Speaker 5: in case you're wondering, is not a majority. As a
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  Speaker 5: matter of fact, it's fewer Democrats that are in the
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  Speaker 5: House now. Now, all this is predictive, but it's to
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  Speaker 5: point out that when you publish Larry Sabato's stories about,
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  Speaker 5: you know, oh, he's got 95, it's all to drive
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  Speaker 5: you to stay home. You've got to get out. You
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  Speaker 5: have to vote because when people, conservatives, get out to vote,
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  Speaker 5: they win.
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 23: You've got to be live from our friends at Common
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  Speaker 5: The weekly get-together of our city elders meetings. Folks, their
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  Speaker 5: slogan is Governing the City Gates. You know, you sit
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  Speaker 5: there and I know you've said it. I know you have.
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  Speaker 5: Some of you have even said it to my face.
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  Speaker 5: We need people of better character in these elected offices,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: to which I counter. We also need these elected offices
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  Speaker 5: to carry a whole lot less authority, which we agree
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  Speaker 5: to as well. But I think the start is getting
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: ethical people elected to it and then saying, hey, can
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  Speaker 5: you give up some of the power you hold over
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  Speaker 5: the economy? Because ethical people would say, yeah, it seems
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  Speaker 5: Just email him, kevin at cityeldersva.org. We're here in Fishersville, Virginia, which,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: by the way, isn't near any water, so I'm not
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: sure who's fishing, but somewhere someone's fishing. No, there's a
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  Speaker 5: pretty good-sized lake up as you head into the Blue
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  Speaker 5: Ridge Mountains right here in the foothills of Sane. Hey,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I forgot to get in and talk to James. And
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here saying, ask James about this crypto hack.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Because our friend James Luck at jcsgold.com, it was my
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: point earlier, James, that you're not going to have somebody
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: hack in to your safe and take all your gold
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: without actually having to physically carry it out if you're there. Now,
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  Speaker 5: this cryptocurrency deal $ 2. 5 billion worth of cryptocurrency is frozen
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: right now because somebody hacked into this Binance company, James.
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: That isn't happening to gold and silver. If you own gold,
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: you own gold. Nobody's hacking into that stuff, are they?
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: You're exactly right, Joe.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: If you own gold, no one can figure out your
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  Speaker 4: password and steal it from you in the middle of
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the night just through your phone. It is something that
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  Speaker 4: you physically.
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  Speaker 5: Own and carry.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people actually that have never bought physical
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: gold and silver before are actually surprised when When I
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: say to them, like, you know, this is yours, you
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: can take it with you now. And they're like, oh,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I actually get to keep it and hold it? And
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I said, yeah, you can do whatever you want with it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: No, what is it? There's that old movie, Hunt for
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Red October, where Sam Neill's character said, can I drive
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: from state to state? And Sean Connery says, I think so.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: He said, no papers? No papers. Yes, no papers needed.
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  Speaker 5: You don't need the government permission to take your gold home,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: although there are some good practices like having a safe
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: and things like that to hold them in. But what
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: you do with it, it is your property, and you
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: get to take it home with you. This is probably
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: why government doesn't like us talking so much about gold
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: and silver sometimes.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: That's typically correct. It is something that really cannot be
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: controlled other than by the owner of the physical gold
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: and silver. So that makes it the actually decentralized money
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: system there is that you are in full control of
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  Speaker 4: your gold and silver. And actually today, you can buy
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: even more gold and silver because both are on quite
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: a discount so far this morning. Gold is down about 1%,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: down $ 39 to $ 3, 980, dipping just below that $ 4, 000 level.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: So far over the past two weeks, every time gold
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: has dipped below 4,000, it's quickly snapped back up. We'll
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: see if that's the case today on Friday. Silver down
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: about 3%, having one of the biggest drawdowns here in
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: a while for silver, right at $ 50.
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  Speaker 14: 60.
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  Speaker 4: And I know you can find some really good.
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• 32:47
  Speaker 4: We have some items there right at spot and some
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: items even below spot and take advantage of that while
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  Speaker 4: they last.
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  Speaker 5: I know you and I have talked about this and
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: it fascinates me with so many things that silver is
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: used for besides value and currency and everything. I think
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: that the equation would be inverse, that silver would be
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: far more valuable than gold. But get it while the
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: getting's good. And you can do it online. You've got
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  Speaker 5: a no spot deal on JCSGold.com, don't you? Where, you know,
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: on some items, there's not even a spot. You get
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: it right for the spot price, right, James?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no premium on some silver items there at JCSGold.com.
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  Speaker 4: You can buy it for below the market value there,
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  Speaker 4: below that spot value. So you can take advantage of
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  Speaker 4: that while that's still in stock.
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  Speaker 5: Or as we say in the colloquial business, get it
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  Speaker 5: while the getting's good. James, you have an awesome weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Happy Halloween. And I know, you know, you'll probably be
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  Speaker 5: going trick-or-treating somewhere. And I hope the kids have a
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  Speaker 5: great time doing that. And we will see you on
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  Speaker 5: Monday morning.
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  Speaker 20: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 5: You too.
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  Speaker 5: our situation with Larry Sabato's poll numbers. Joe, it's fascinating
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  Speaker 5: to me how they can make these statistics say whatever
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  Speaker 5: they want. So when Larry says he has a 95%
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: accuracy rate for his predictions, he's just talking about the
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• 34:52
  Speaker 5: a 95%? Yes. I mean, if you look at however
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: many are considered safe, and I guess the hard job
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• 35:05
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  Speaker 5: But the bigger challenge to me, and you really want
• 35:21
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• 35:27
  Speaker 5: we repeal the 19... You're already rolling your eyes. We
• 35:32
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• 35:38
  Speaker 5: back to where our congressional representation was in 1929, 1930.
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  Speaker 5: We're approaching 100 years since the last time we added
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  Speaker 5: a congressional district. And we have three, I think it's 3.3
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: or 3.4 times as many citizens As we did then.
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  Speaker 5: And so Democrat or Republican, I mean, you go to
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: some college campus and the twinks with the pink hair
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  Speaker 5: are saying the same thing that conservatives are. They're not
• 36:13
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• 36:24
  Speaker 5: you tell me, are you going to get listened to?
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: You know, me, I had a sibling, so I know
• 36:32
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• 37:24
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  Speaker 7: A couple of things.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 20: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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  Speaker 5: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 21: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 20: Well, there's an awful lot of issues important to me.
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  Speaker 22: Here's my campaign policy.
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  Speaker 5: Education.
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  Speaker 29: Arbitration.
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  Speaker 7: Equalization. United Nations.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Race relations.
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  Speaker 7: Hospitalization.
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  Speaker 15: Accusation.
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  Speaker 5: Violation.
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  Speaker 19: Copying.
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  Speaker 5: Realization. I'm freaking out. Oh, that's what they want. day
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: or two left of early voting in most places, then
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Tuesday it's put up or shut up time. Joining us
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: from the Election Transparency Initiative and friends of ours and
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: working with the Heritage Foundation there, the former Homeland Security
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: Director under President Trump and Attorney General. And, you know,
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: while we're here at the City Elders and we're talking
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: about putting ethical people at the levers of power. I
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: often think of Ken as one of those ethical people.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: They're the great Ken Cuccinelli. Good morning, Ken. How are
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: you doing this morning, sir?
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: I'm doing just fine, Joe. I hope you are.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, I'm in a room full of people
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: who want to put ethical people into political office. What
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: could go wrong?
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  Speaker 7: Laughter Yeah.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: Nobody wants voter fraud here.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Well, boredom isn't a threat in that front anyway.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Exactly. So is the coming election from where you sit? Obviously, you,
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: along with many of us, frustrated about the failure of
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: the U.S. Senate to do what 90 percent of Americans want,
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: which is pass the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, does this make our case for us what
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: happens on Tuesday? potentially anyway?
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: Well, you'd think you wouldn't even need it relative to
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: the SAVE Act. I mean, you're literally watching the federal
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: government finally, really for the first time in our lives,
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: apply resources to investigate voter issues like voter rolls, particularly
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: non-citizens on the voter rolls. And they're coming up with
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: tens of thousands of them per state. I mean, last
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: summer we saw New Jersey have to admit that in
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: one year they registered over 6,000 non-citizens using their automatic
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: voter registration, which by the way is a reason automatic
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: voter registration is a bad idea. And over 400 of
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: them voted. That's just one year's worth in one state. Um, and, um, uh,
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: and the courts of course are trying to get in
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: the way of the Trump administration, trying to clean up
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: the voter rolls. But, uh, we're, we're decades overdue and
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: this is not just this Democrats. This is the first
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: Trump administration. It's the Bushes. I mean, how far back
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: do you want to go?
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: Well, you can, um, what was it called? The, uh,
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Madison Mafia, all those Wisconsinians in the Trump administration, Priebus
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: and Ryan and all those folks.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. Very tragic.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: So what I mean, is it purely out of fear
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: of retribution for, you know, saying somebody can't vote just
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: because they're here? Because that seems to be the argument is, well,
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: they're here, let them vote. And I'm like, how can
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: that even be an argument? How do adult human beings
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: with some semblance of education make that case?
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: I think it's beyond an argument. It's a goal of
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  Speaker 7: the open borders Democrats. And they're the majority of Democrats.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: I mean, you've seen the same polling I have. Only
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: 25% of Democrats love America. Down from almost 90%. Twenty
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: five years ago. Right. And, you know, they open borders
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: is isn't a goal unto itself. It's to dilute America
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: as it is. And and part of that is allowing
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: and getting those illegal aliens on the voter rolls. because
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: they're very confident, they'll vote their way. This is just
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: about power. Voter ID gets in the way of Democrats
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: getting elected. That's how they view it. And so they
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: fight it like crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I've compared it. Our dear friend, to take Jake Fry,
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: the mayor of Minneapolis or Somalia, as we refer to
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: it here, said that in his famous battles with ice
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: over the summer, they're coming to take our abuelas and
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: our busboys away. And I think he gave voice to
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: something I've said for a while. This isn't the beginnings
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: of a new civil war. This is just the same
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: old one we thought we put to bed in Appomattox.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: And it's about the same thing. a brown-skinned, permanent underclass
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: of people here to work for us, and we'll give
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: them a vote as long as they vote for the
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: people who keep the gravy train coming and the aid
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: wagons showing up.
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's no question about that. I mean, we could
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: go all day on the racist statements that they don't
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: think are racist. That certainly is.
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: Well, because they're Democrats.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: We can start walking through congressmen and women who say
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: very similar things. Who the hell is going to what's
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: the woman who said who's going to wipe my ass?
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: Who's going to mow my lawn? You know, so if
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: a Republican said this stuff, they'd be strung up. I
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: don't have a problem with that. My problem is that
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: when a Democrat says that they.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: Aren't right there, they're sanctified as taking a stand and
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: pushing back against the mean people. Trump administration that, you know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: wants people to actually be citizens. And, you know, people
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: don't make this point. Donald Trump is not stopping somebody
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: from becoming a citizen. If they go through the process,
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: they make it out. I mean, the same thing they
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: do with abortion.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: No, people, people lose track of the fact. And I
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: had to deal with it head on that. He's pretty
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: enthusiastic about that, frankly.
• 50:47
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Um, I think what he'd really like is a system
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: where we're bringing in economic immigrants, by which I mean
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: people who contribute to the economy rather than people who
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: are interested in participating in it. And that's an America
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: first mentality. We want an immigration system that grows our
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: economy and grows our opportunities. And that's not what we
• 51:13
  Speaker 7: have right now.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: Well, you used to have it. Both of my in-laws
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: were immigrants. and they had to get sponsors in this
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: country who were going to put up some capital and
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: say that, you know, if this guy turns out to
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: be a drain on the community and not a benefit
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: to it, we have to put up some value to that.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: There has to be some skin into the game. You know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: what would be wrong with going back to that? And
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: I don't even know what was right with going away
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: from it.
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's where we're actually supposed to be now. That
• 51:49
  Speaker 7: was the public charge rule that we put out in 2019,
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: was an update to that. That's been an expectation of
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: American law as long as we've had immigration law, which
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: is about 145 years.
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. Ken Cuccinelli is on with us. Election transparency issues. And,
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: you know, Ken, is the best way to get to
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: you through the Heritage Foundation now or do you go
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: directly to it? Yeah, it is.
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we operate with the Election Transparency Initiative. So the
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: Heritage Foundation is C3. We do policy work there. And
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: I participate with Don Palmer and others in formulating good
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: election policy. We also work at Heritage Action, which is
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: a C4 organization. which goes around the country and tries
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: to get those good policies enacted.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's one of the most important things that
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: we can do because it's like being a dew tank.
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  Speaker 25: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 21: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 21: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 20: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 9: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 9: of their lives.
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  Speaker 25: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 9: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 9: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 30: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 9: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 25: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 9: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 9: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 22: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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