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"Rich Marxists? Oxymoron?" (FTTxJT Fri 082826 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We've got to protect our phony baloney job, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: We must do something about this immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Immediately, immediately. For you, from Joe Thomas, it's First Thing Today.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 4: A steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the.
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  Speaker 2: Kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 6: he needs.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: You know what we do here? I tell you what
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  Speaker 1: went on last night and sometimes early this morning. And
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  Speaker 1: then I will give you my analysis for certain. But
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  Speaker 1: I also want to find out how it's impacting you
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  Speaker 1: where you are at 434-882-4217. Andy's been hanging on the
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  Speaker 1: line here. Andy, thank you for hanging on down in
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  Speaker 1: Sarasota this morning. How are things in Florida?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I got up this morning at 4.53 to make
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  Speaker 8: sure I didn't miss your program.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, sir. It has obviously had no ill
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  Speaker 1: side effects on you.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 8: I've always been an early riser. I used to watch
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  Speaker 8: Tarzan at 6.30 when I was little. And then go
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  Speaker 8: scout around the neighborhood. So a couple of things that
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  Speaker 8: you keep repeating and people need to take action by
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  Speaker 8: not running payrolls. There's some places that people can't do that.
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  Speaker 8: But Ron Paul, I think, is a good model and
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  Speaker 8: Lou Rockwell as well.
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  Speaker 1: Great examples.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, just, I mean, they're folks who... You know, walk
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  Speaker 8: the walk, and Lou doesn't even vote, which I actually do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you have to have a say. I do
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  Speaker 1: disagree with Lou on that, which is proof, again, that
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  Speaker 1: most everyone will agree on 80% of everything, and we're
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  Speaker 1: always going to have little things here and there that
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  Speaker 1: we're not necessarily going to agree on, but we can
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  Speaker 1: agree on all the other stuff, right?
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  Speaker 10: Exactly.
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  Speaker 8: And, you know, I think making the collegiate program better,
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  Speaker 8: and I'm talking academic, not necessarily the athletic.
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  Speaker 11: Part of it.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there was a Corrigan report back when Dean
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  Speaker 8: Corrigan was the athletic director when Castine rolled into town.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that was in that was.
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  Speaker 12: If you build the athletic program, you know, get more people.
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  Speaker 8: From out of state coming in to apply to your
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  Speaker 8: academic program. You know, one of the things, I was
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  Speaker 8: married to Justin Kempstein's second wife.
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  Speaker 1: It's my second wife. Now, for those who don't know, UVA,
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  Speaker 1: that is the former president, president who oversaw probably the
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  Speaker 1: largest expansion of a university ever. there while he was
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  Speaker 1: president at the University of Virginia. So catching people up
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  Speaker 1: in Sacramento don't know who John Castine is.
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  Speaker 12: So what's interesting about the breakfast table was we both
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  Speaker 12: agreed that he was doing a perfectly good university.
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  Speaker 8: Is that not a little funny?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and here's the thing. I was talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: It was intentional on his part. We were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this earlier in the week. I was talking to a
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine about academics and college and higher ed,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like the major college systems are about
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  Speaker 1: to— you know, go that hold my beer moment. They've
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  Speaker 1: pushed the envelope so far. They've indebted themselves into so
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  Speaker 1: many places, even the ones with the big endowments. They
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  Speaker 1: have created a scenario where they're inaffordable for the average person.
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  Speaker 1: The average kid is not looking at an Arizona state
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  Speaker 1: or a University of Texas or Michigan or UVA as
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  Speaker 1: the place they want to go to get a law
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  Speaker 1: degree or an engineering degree, they're finding, you know, Moorhead
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  Speaker 1: State or some other college.
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  Speaker 9: Or Liberty.
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  Speaker 1: Or Liberty. Liberty does it online. Liberty has, I think, 100,000
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  Speaker 1: students online and 16,000 on campus. I mean, they do
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  Speaker 1: a great job of making their university available to people
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are. So these less well-known colleges in your
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood are really becoming the hotbed of young people looking
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  Speaker 1: for an actual education rather than just a piece of
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  Speaker 1: paper that said, I'm in the cool kids club.
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  Speaker 10: So there was a friend of mine who I knew
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  Speaker 10: lived in Columbia for a long time, Columbia, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 10: and I'd reached out to him to let him know
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  Speaker 10: if he could keep an eye on this little black
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  Speaker 10: girl who's coming to town. She's probably the greatest living
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  Speaker 13: And he let me know that his own granddaughter was
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  Speaker 13: actually entering a little small college in Farkburg.
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  Speaker 8: And it turns out that one of my favorite Institute
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  Speaker 8: people is actually the economics professor there.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what I mean. There's so many places that
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows about, and we've run into our time to
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  Speaker 1: tell people what's going on. Apologies to the folks who
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  Speaker 1: are like, hey, I don't know what happened last night.
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  Speaker 1: Iran says they've got a deal for the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the details coming up, Andy, but I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you hanging on the line with us. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: But she just laughed. I made her day, I think,
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  Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we didn't get our first things out there. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how do you know what we're discussing here
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  Speaker 1: if I don't tell you, right? Well, I'm sure you're
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  Speaker 1: versed in the news anyway. You have a smartphone somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: But here are the first things that we're covering. Iran
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  Speaker 1: is claiming that they were not the ones who had
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  Speaker 1: a plot to assassinate Barron Trump, the president's youngest son,
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  Speaker 1: Iran's security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, was on Lebanese television denying
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  Speaker 1: that this was their plan. Meanwhile, he also said that
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  Speaker 1: they may have come to a deal with Oman to
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  Speaker 1: create an international shipping channel down the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz that would be beyond the capability of
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  Speaker 1: either party to close it down to international shipping. Chief
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  Speaker 1: of Naval Operations, Admiral Darrell Caudill, told a group of
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  Speaker 1: reporters Wednesday in Norfolk, Virginia, that the Navy ain't big enough.
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  Speaker 1: He needs more ships and more sailors. The Theodore Roosevelt
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  Speaker 1: aircraft carrier is bringing its big stick to the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: along with its battle group. George Soros opened Society Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council of American
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Relations. A list of organizations I've never been a
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  Speaker 1: member of? Sure. But they are also a list of
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  Speaker 1: non-profits that the Department of Treasury is investigating for violating
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  Speaker 1: their tax-exempt status by engaging in political activities inappropriately. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump said Thursday he's renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: as the battle with Canada continues over tariffs. Meanwhile, he's
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  Speaker 1: picked up an unlikely ally in this, Congressman Jared Golden,
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat from Maine whose congressional district runs along the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian border, is backing President Trump in his tariff fight
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: with Ottawa. He said, quote, if Canada thinks they're better
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  Speaker 1: off without our goods, I wish them luck. He told
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  Speaker 1: the Portland Press-Herald, I suspect in the long run it
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  Speaker 1: won't go well for them. And President Trump will not
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: be attending the New York ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: of the terrorist attacks on the United States. September 11th,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: he will be at the Pentagon for their ceremonies. J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance will be in New York. This radio program is
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  Speaker 1: going to be in Shanksville, Pennsylvania for the 25th anniversary there.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I'm a member of the administration or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but hey, you've got to take your shots where you
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  Speaker 1: can take your shots. Our friend Bob Good, goodforamerica.org, is
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  Speaker 1: on with us and checking in with us as the
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  Speaker 1: city elders meeting going on here at Common Place. ground.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you hanging out with us, Bob. So Bob,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, in the world around us,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching strange things again. We've talked about this. There
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  Speaker 1: are two Irans right now. There's this militant military, the IRGC,
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  Speaker 1: the mullahs versus the political Iran, which seems to be
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  Speaker 1: working towards a deal. They apparently now have a deal
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  Speaker 1: with Oman where there will be international waters down the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. They're claiming they're not the ones that
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  Speaker 1: are out there shooting videos about killing Barron Trump. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see the same things I am, or is this
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  Speaker 1: just a feint to fool us into complacency or to
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  Speaker 1: look the other way?
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  Speaker 5: It's really hard to say, Joe. It changes not just
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  Speaker 5: by the day, but by the hour, the whole Iran situation.
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  Speaker 5: To some degree, it's, hey, the more they stay the same,
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  Speaker 5: the more they change. You know what I'm trying to say?
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  Speaker 5: The more things change, the more they stay the same,
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  Speaker 5: if you will, with Iran. And I support certainly what
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  Speaker 5: the president's trying to do and take it to a
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  Speaker 5: new level of economic pressure to try to break the regime.
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  Speaker 5: to cause, inspire, hopefully motivate an uprising within the country
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  Speaker 5: to take over the country, to take back the country
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  Speaker 5: for the people who, the majority of whom I don't
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  Speaker 5: believe support the regime. But at the same time, I
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  Speaker 5: also fear that the radicals, if you will, might try
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  Speaker 5: to provoke Trump, provoke the United States heading into the election.
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  Speaker 5: They know that the war is unpopular. They know the
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  Speaker 5: president's kind of desperate to get the war ended. and
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  Speaker 5: wants to pull back from that heading into the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Might they try to provoke a military response with things
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  Speaker 5: that they do? They do seem resilient over there and
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  Speaker 5: willing to allow their people to suffer massively and not
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  Speaker 5: to care what happens to their people. And they might
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  Speaker 5: begin to perceive it the will of the United States
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  Speaker 5: to fight to the degree that it was fighting previously
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  Speaker 5: might not be there. So concerned about what they might
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  Speaker 5: do to try to provoke a military response.
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  Speaker 1: It's been said to me, um, by a mutual friend
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  Speaker 1: that they have calendars in Tehran and they know that
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  Speaker 1: the midterms are coming. How does, um, if you were
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  Speaker 1: consulting a political candidate right now, you've, you've run for
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  Speaker 1: your share of offices, Bob, how does, how does a conservative,
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  Speaker 1: you know, campaign in this landscape where, uh, unfortunately a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks are just pointing at the price of
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  Speaker 1: gasoline right now? Yeah, it's a.
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  Speaker 5: Difficult spot because as we've talked about from the beginning, um,
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  Speaker 5: I think what the president did last summer with Israel,
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  Speaker 5: the 12-day war, and decimated Iran, massively set back their
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  Speaker 5: nuclear program. He said eliminated it. He said obliterated it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's correct or not. But exposed, weakened,
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  Speaker 5: emasculated Iran. They were broken very quickly by the United
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  Speaker 5: States and Israel. They couldn't fight back. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: he made the case effectively for why the war was
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  Speaker 5: needed in February and It's been going on now for
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  Speaker 5: six months. He was saying, hey, we've got to do
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  Speaker 5: it so they won't have a nuclear bomb, nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 5: But yet we eliminated the ability to have a nuclear
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  Speaker 5: weapon last summer, he continued to say. And so it's
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  Speaker 5: been on again, off again, on again, off again. It's
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  Speaker 5: a tough spot. And Republicans wanting to support the president,
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  Speaker 5: wanting to stand behind the president, haven't been consistent voices
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  Speaker 5: to say, hey, Congress has the authority. You need to
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  Speaker 5: make the case to Congress. Same time, we don't want
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  Speaker 5: to cut off funding for a war when the troops
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  Speaker 5: are in harm's way, when the bullets are– and the
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  Speaker 5: war is raging. So it's a tough spot for Republicans
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  Speaker 5: coming into the midterm, quite frankly, because it's an unpopular war,
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  Speaker 5: and they're the party whose president is responsible, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a concern, and we went through, you and
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  Speaker 1: They were just talking about here at this particular meeting
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  Speaker 1: Mike writes in to JT in the morning radio at gmail.com.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know, why is this constitutional amendment so
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  Speaker 1: important to lie so blatantly to your constituents? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you mean me. I think he means the leftists
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  Speaker 1: that are promoting it. If you did, Mike, I... Apologies
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  Speaker 1: for me. your intent on it. It's because the agenda
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  Speaker 1: is not about money. And this becomes one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that a capitalist has to figure their way out through.
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  Speaker 1: You say, well, what is the profit motive? George Soros
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  Speaker 1: pours bajillions of dollars into these things. Where is he
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  Speaker 1: making his return on investment? This isn't about a return
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  Speaker 1: on investment. A friend of mine years ago asked me,
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  Speaker 1: why did it seem like all these rich guys were
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  Speaker 1: supporting Marxism? And I said, it's because Marxism promises them
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  Speaker 1: Marx and Engels were poor and they wanted to be wealthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Nancy Pelosi. I get by the levers of
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  Speaker 1: to benefit. And I profit. And so wealthy people fall
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  Speaker 1: prey to Marxism because capitalism allows for a churn of wealth.
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  Speaker 1: Free markets. We don't have free markets right now. So
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  Speaker 1: don't look at me. Don't look at the radio and
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a free market right now. We have
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  Speaker 1: But it's by a fellow named, there it is, Patrick Newman.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Cronyism, Rise of the Corporatist State from 1849
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  Speaker 1: to 1929. And that's really the important... That era, that
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  Speaker 1: 70-year era, is completely changing how America operates. Because the
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  Speaker 1: American government didn't know how to deal with powerful industrialists.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't tell them, you're free to do what you want,
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  Speaker 1: laid into the wall when those agreements were made after
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War. And war funding and things like that
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  Speaker 1: all led to this corruption, this cronyism. But in a
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  Speaker 1: free market, a wealthy industrialist is going to be very
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  Speaker 1: possibly poor in a week. It is possible that somebody
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  Speaker 1: finds out something. Look at the story Mac told us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a golfer. I know Callaway golf clubs. So
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  Speaker 1: they signed this deal with Callaway Golf. and everything is
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  Speaker 1: going great for them, and they've got all this money,
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  Speaker 1: and they've done everything short of an initial public offering.
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  Speaker 1: And the owner of the company, because he's not smart,
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  Speaker 1: did a horrible advertisement. Everyone found out about it. He
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  Speaker 1: pulled out of their deal. They've lost everything in a
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  Speaker 1: manner of, What, 45 seconds it took the video to
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  Speaker 1: start circulating on the Internet. So it's possible in a
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  Speaker 1: free market to lose everything. Marxists come along and tell
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  Speaker 1: wealthy people that you've done all this, you've created all
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  Speaker 1: this wealth. If you support our Marxist form of government,
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  Speaker 1: we will guarantee that you never lose that. Because Marxism
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  Speaker 1: is not about rich versus poor. It's about middle class
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  Speaker 1: versus poor. The proletariat, if you will. And the rich
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  Speaker 1: people hide behind the Marxist in their pursuit of permanent wealth.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they support it. It's not about making a
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  Speaker 1: dollar more than they made last week. It's about making
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  Speaker 1: to never lose that other 75. But if a free
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  Speaker 1: market ever came back around, you've heard the expression, the
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  Speaker 1: idiot sons of the idiot sons. Capitalism is driven by
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  Speaker 1: the failures of the idiot sons of the idiot sons. And,
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  Speaker 1: the analogy there is that if you don't have somebody
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  Speaker 1: running your enterprise that has the same passion for it
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  Speaker 1: that you do, it'll go away. It will fail. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not mean. It's just, you know, if you start
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  Speaker 1: a business and, And it means everything to you. Then
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  Speaker 1: you're going to put everything you have into it. But
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  Speaker 1: from the person who started the business. Or you might
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  Speaker 1: like being wealthy because of the business or well off.
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  Speaker 1: And they've managed to keep that into their next and
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  Speaker 1: take somebody's wealth and dissipate it, redistribute it. Let's use
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  Speaker 1: under Marxism quickly learn, hold it. It's not as much
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  Speaker 24: diabetes and heart disease. And if your doctor recommends lifestyle
• 41:28
  Speaker 24: changes or medication, listen. The reason so many die is
• 41:33
  Speaker 24: because not enough are willing to change. You can stop it,
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  Speaker 24: starting right now. It's your life. Listen to your doctor.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Eat better.
• 41:42
  Speaker 24: Get moving. Visit CheckUpAmerica.org or call 1-800-Diabetes. A message from
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  Speaker 24: the American Diabetes Association.
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  Speaker 9: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran, and I lost
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that a
• 41:56
  Speaker 9: disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Julius.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 19: At DAV, we're on a mission, helping veterans of all
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  Speaker 19: generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 23: I'm CeCe.
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  Speaker 24: My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 19: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
• 42:16
  Speaker 19: more victories for veterans.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Go to DAV.org.
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  Speaker 14: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 1: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 3: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 23: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 3: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 14: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 14: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 15: Think first.
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  Speaker 19: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 1: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 5: first date?
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  Speaker 21: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 15: Probably?
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  Speaker 11: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 5: Cramp! Oh, I have a cramp. I can probably hit
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  Speaker 5: the green from here.
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  Speaker 3: Probably.
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  Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 1: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking and driving.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: If you're drinking, call a cab, a car, or a friend.
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  Speaker 1: by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 23: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:50
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• 43:56
  Speaker 23: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 23: the Federal Trade Commission.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: So that's what we were talking about before.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Is this belief in the Constitution. But then it only
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: works if people who violate it get in trouble, go
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: to jail, that kind of thing. And what we've done
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is we've created this allowance state that says, well, it's
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: just political. And we dismiss these issues as if they're political.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I invited, we're going to talk in greater length, Marin
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Murdoch is on the phone with us from the Competitive
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Enterprise Institute. We were talking about regulations and the regulatory state.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: And she just wrote a piece about called the protection
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: paradox in which she lays out the fact that it's
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: actually doing the opposite than, you know, for all these regulations. Maureen,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: thank you for taking some time out with us this morning.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 21: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. And thank you for putting this together
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  Speaker 1: because I know that it's fun to ascribe evil to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: two things, because that's the way our minds are wired.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: We want to imagine that when Tony take the fifth,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: leave the cannolis, Fauci walks in the room, we all
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: smell fire and brimstone. But I think most of what
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: we wind up with in terms of regulation is born
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: out of somebody's idea of a good intention. And we
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: were talking with Ken Cuccinelli earlier in the show about
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: how You know, all the early voting and all the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: easy voting regulations have actually driven down voter turnout. And
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: it seems like that's exactly what your paper is about is,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: you know, whether it's best laid plans of mice and
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: men or the predictable outcome of trying to tell somebody
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: what to do. You wind up making it worse, not better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 21: We kind of started with this idea when we were
• 46:23
  Speaker 21: talking to individuals who potentially had claims against OSHA for
• 46:27
  Speaker 21: some of the OSHA regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• 46:33
  Speaker 21: And as we were talking to them, we recognized their plight.
• 46:38
  Speaker 21: We wanted to, like you said, ascribe evil to the agency.
• 46:43
  Speaker 21: But as we were looking deeper into it, we realized
• 46:45
  Speaker 21: that The agency was also trying to accomplish something good.
• 46:50
  Speaker 21: They were trying to protect workers. They were trying to
• 46:52
  Speaker 21: keep people safe. But how it actually manifested did the
• 46:56
  Speaker 21: exact opposite. It was making things unsafe. And so we
• 47:00
  Speaker 21: were kind of trying to square the circle, as it were.
• 47:03
  Speaker 21: We were trying to figure out how these policies had
• 47:10
  Speaker 21: gone so askew, how they had started out with a
• 47:12
  Speaker 21: good intention, And ended up doing the exact opposite. And
• 47:16
  Speaker 21: most of the time, what we found is it's through overregulation.
• 47:21
  Speaker 21: Too much involvement and too much of a hand on
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: the market where it could probably come to some of
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: these solutions on its own.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Well, talk about how the market gets there on its own,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: because there is a role if somebody is being immoral
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: to their employees. Let's pick on the OSHA since you
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: started there. Let's just say somebody has created an unsafe
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: work environment. Rather than having a government regulation, a lattice
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: work by where workers could find, whether it's legal recompense
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: or would be able to I think would be a
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: better marketplace-driven solution where the workforce, maybe wanting to work
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: for somebody doing something that they believe in, but just
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: wants a safer workplace, could push that to happen rather
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: than wait for the government to come in and mandate
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: things that might have no relevance to their business.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, I completely agree. I think the tech industry is
• 48:29
  Speaker 21: a good example of this is they're providing more and
• 48:32
  Speaker 21: more benefits to try and attract new employees and within
• 48:37
  Speaker 21: an industry, try to recruit from one company to another.
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: And so similarly, if.
• 48:46
  Speaker 21: You can see workplace safety conditions as a similar benefit, uh,
• 48:52
  Speaker 21: one that we would all like to have, hopefully. But
• 48:55
  Speaker 21: if that's not there, the market itself would tend to
• 48:58
  Speaker 21: correct that. And more than that, what we were seeing
• 49:03
  Speaker 21: in our example was that innovation is a huge part
• 49:06
  Speaker 21: of this as well, of the market is really, really
• 49:10
  Speaker 21: good at when it identifies an issue, people want to
• 49:13
  Speaker 21: jump on that and innovate to find a solution. And
• 49:16
  Speaker 21: so when we take that away, when the government gets involved,
• 49:21
  Speaker 21: it suppresses that innovation. And so instead of coming to
• 49:25
  Speaker 21: the best possible solution, it oftentimes backfires because the Opportunity
• 49:33
  Speaker 21: for innovation goes away, and therefore, with the OSHA example specifically,
• 49:38
  Speaker 21: we're left with less safe working conditions because they can't
• 49:42
  Speaker 21: innovate to solve those problems.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: They're sort of stuck in the paradigm they started in,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: just trying to make where you are safer. And that's
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: one of the things we bring up frequently, the Bill
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: of Rights, and how elegant it is in its inspecificness.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: And I'm not even sure if I invented that word
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: or not. But, you know, when you read the Second
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Amendment and it says the right to bear arms, it's
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: taking into account that, you know, this is for my
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Star Trek fans or my Star Wars fans. If we
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: invent lightsabers or phasers, we still have a constitutionally protected
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: right to carry them. You know, and in the Fourth Amendment,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: when they take their you know, they say your effects. Well,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: that could be my hard drive. That could be the
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: floppy disk with my documents on it. So so they
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: take into effect. And that's one of the things that
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I think has been so elastic and lasting about the
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: United States is that we didn't write. Here's how we're
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: going to regulate firearms. Here's how we're going to regulate paper.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: You know, we took into the idea that change was
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: going to happen. And that's sometimes the bureaucratic problem is,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: is it is the regulation is written in a frozen
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: moment and five years later or five months later, it
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: might be completely irrelevant, couldn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 21: Even with, again, not to harp on the OSHA example,
• 51:11
  Speaker 21: but with OSHA, again, a lot of their safety standards
• 51:15
  Speaker 21: that we were seeing and we were studying were were
• 51:17
  Speaker 21: based off of policies and research that was done back
• 51:21
  Speaker 21: in the 1970s. And so we had seen 50 years
• 51:28
  Speaker 21: of industry development, new products, new, even the buildings that
• 51:33
  Speaker 21: they are working on, the materials that they are using
• 51:36
  Speaker 21: are completely different than they were in the 70s. And
• 51:38
  Speaker 21: so all of these innovators and the individuals that we
• 51:42
  Speaker 21: were talking with in the industry were so frustrated because
• 51:47
  Speaker 21: even the standards themselves didn't fully apply to the equipment
• 51:52
  Speaker 21: that they were trying to alter that then would make
• 51:54
  Speaker 21: things safer. And so it was just completely outdated. And
• 51:58
  Speaker 21: that in and of itself, I mean, there's just at
• 52:01
  Speaker 21: this point, our regulatory state has so many regulations that
• 52:05
  Speaker 21: oftentimes one's made and then it's tossed to the wayside
• 52:08
  Speaker 21: and it's not reevaluated as new developments come.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Marin, as somebody who read, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to my kids so that they were prepared to face
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the bureaucracy. I appreciate everything you've done. Find her work
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: at CEI.org. If you're successful, our friend Wayne Cruz won't
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: be able to write his 10,000 commandments report anymore. Again,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: thanks and a blessing to our friends at City Elders
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: for letting us come and drink their coffee and eat
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: their biscuits. This morning, and that's not a metaphor for anything,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I ate a biscuit. While we were talking to Marin,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: for you until Saturday morning or Monday, I'm Joe Solong,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: and thanks for all the fish.
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: My name is Bobby.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  Speaker 18: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
• 52:58
  Speaker 18: weightlifting champion.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: I'm Sam.
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: I'm a veteran.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: of and supporting my family.
• 53:06
  Speaker 19: America's veterans are on their most important tour. the tour
• 53:09
  Speaker 19: of their lives.
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: I'm a veteran.
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: My victory was going from homeless to home.
• 53:14
  Speaker 19: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
• 53:17
  Speaker 19: the benefits they've earned.
• 53:19
  Speaker 24: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
• 53:23
  Speaker 19: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
• 53:27
  Speaker 19: for victories great and small.
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
• 53:36
  Speaker 19: We help more than a million veterans every year as
• 53:38
  Speaker 19: they face and conquer their challenges.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
• 53:44
  Speaker 19: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
• 53:47
  Speaker 19: more victories for veterans.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Go to DAV.org.