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"The U.N. Cola" (FTTxJT Fri 091826 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's 8 o'clock in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: It's 9 o'clock in Denver. It's 10 o'clock in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: In Baltimore, it's 6.42.
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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. You're 16.
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  Speaker 4: You stand here every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 6: Drops a kid to school in the long world.
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  Speaker 7: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 8: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 7: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 9: this morning. Coming to you live from the weekly meetings
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  Speaker 9: We'll get into that. It's a heady day for me.
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  Speaker 9: A lot going on in my world. But enough about me.
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  Speaker 9: for three constitutional amendments. A judge has decided that you
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  Speaker 9: is going to join us. We're going to talk about, well,
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  Speaker 9: to be fair, what Blair called us about yesterday. And
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  Speaker 9: if you don't think you have an impact, because we had...
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  Speaker 9: published the text of one of Virginia's constitutional amendments in
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  Speaker 9: a column I wrote for the Daily Signal. It didn't
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  Speaker 9: strike me until Blair called us yesterday that they're seeking
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  Speaker 9: to amend a very interesting part of Virginia's constitution, the
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  Speaker 9: a medical... It's the due process, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 9: a human life deserves due process once it's become a
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  Speaker 9: viable person. And by viable, most of these places mean
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  Speaker 9: that 24 weeks, I think, is what most states. Some,
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  Speaker 9: it's down at 22 weeks. So that's just some of
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  Speaker 9: the things that we got cooking for you this morning.
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  Speaker 9: But our first things, U.N. President Trump is heading to
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  Speaker 9: the United Nations next week. And it might get prickly.
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  Speaker 9: The White House is pushing back because the United Nations
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  Speaker 9: fact-finding mission has leveled allegations that U.S. forces committed war
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  Speaker 9: crimes in two February missile strikes in Iran. White House
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  Speaker 9: spokeswoman Anna Kelly dismissed the findings, criticizing the Human Rights
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  Speaker 9: Council's record as the administration rejected the allegations. Thursday, the
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  Speaker 9: fact-finding mission said there is reasonable grounds to believe the
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  Speaker 9: United States was responsible for two missile strikes on February
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  Speaker 9: 28th that killed at least 180 and 78 civilians, including
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  Speaker 9: women and children. Also at the UN yesterday, Russia and
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  Speaker 9: China vetoed a U.S. resolution Thursday to extend UN monitoring
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  Speaker 9: of sanctions on Iran, leaving the 15-member UN Security Council divided.
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  Speaker 9: The vote came after the United States asked for a
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  Speaker 9: one-year extension of expert panels that would report possible sanctions.
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  Speaker 9: The administration has approved a potential $ 24. 3 billion sale of
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  Speaker 9: up to 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Federal
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  Speaker 9: judge on Thursday ordered the Kennedy Center to cease any
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  Speaker 9: operations that would cause physical damage until clearance was given
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  Speaker 9: by the court. District Judge Christopher Cooper said his ruling would, quote,
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  Speaker 9: There is a report that President Trump and President Rodriguez
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 9: So what's so civil about war anyway? It's a famous line,
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  Speaker 9: I forget which general said it, but all war is
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  Speaker 9: a crime by those who battle in it. Most who
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  Speaker 9: lead some of the most successful battles will tell you
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  Speaker 9: that combat is... the least preferable. Sun Tzu himself said
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  Speaker 9: the best military strategy is the strategy that convinces your
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  Speaker 9: opponent not to go to war with you. So the
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  Speaker 9: UN says that there's a... And this is the wonder
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  Speaker 9: of this. So the UN issues a statement that says
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  Speaker 9: it's possible. Okay, so your expert investigators... the Human Rights
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  Speaker 9: Council issues a statement saying it's possible. What exactly have
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  Speaker 9: you been doing since February 28th then? It's possible that
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  Speaker 9: a missile strike committed a war crime.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to go there and say, so since February 28th,
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  Speaker 9: what have you been doing to ascertain whether it was
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  Speaker 9: or wasn't? Because if I remember correctly, The programming was,
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  Speaker 9: I think that was Saturday, right? February 28th was a Saturday.
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  Speaker 9: So by Monday, March 2nd, we were already hearing people
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  Speaker 9: complaining about civilians. It was the school. Remember, this was
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  Speaker 9: the school that used to be a military base that
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  Speaker 9: got turned into a school. So what exactly has the
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  Speaker 9: UN's Human Rights Council been doing since February 28th, or
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  Speaker 9: even let's give them to Monday, since March 2nd of
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  Speaker 9: this year? I look back at some of the stuff
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  Speaker 9: you and I have done. We've done a lot since
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  Speaker 9: March 2nd. I'm curious, since the UN statement is it's possible,
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  Speaker 9: you could have said that on March 2nd, it's possible
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  Speaker 9: that there was, there were allegations of it. We were
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  Speaker 9: reporting it on March 2nd. So it seems timed to
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  Speaker 9: make headlines but not actually accomplish anything. And I don't
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  Speaker 9: have a problem with people investigating whether or not you're
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  Speaker 9: doing righteous things when you're in combat with somebody. I
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  Speaker 9: don't have a problem with that prima facie at all.
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  Speaker 9: But Don't just issue press releases the end of the
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  Speaker 9: week right before all these heads of state are supposed
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  Speaker 9: to gather in New York and double park and not
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  Speaker 9: pay for parking and collect parking tickets and that kind
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  Speaker 9: of thing that the U.N. ambassadorial class does regularly, like
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  Speaker 9: parking is easy to find in Manhattan anyway. Maybe they
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  Speaker 9: can all park at Zorhan Mamdani's free grocery mart. But
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  Speaker 9: this is a tempest in a teapot because it's a
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  Speaker 9: release saying, well, there could be. Okay, you could have
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  Speaker 9: said that on March 2nd. Why did you wait? Because
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  Speaker 9: President Trump is coming to the UN next week and
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  Speaker 9: it makes headlines and it'll percolate for the weekend. See,
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  Speaker 9: this is the stuff that drives me nutty because you
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  Speaker 9: have a high calling. You are the UN Human Rights
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  Speaker 9: Council's investigative arm that's supposed to be going out and
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  Speaker 9: finding war crimes. We won't even begin to talk about
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  Speaker 9: Darfur or some of the other places where war crimes
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  Speaker 9: have been completely ignored. Go online. Our friend Tom Drops
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  Speaker 9: Bombs years ago, it wasn't that many years ago, was
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  Speaker 9: part of a team building a documentary called Exiles. Let
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  Speaker 9: me see if I can find that link for you
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  Speaker 9: real quick. The sizzle reel is what they call this.
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  Speaker 9: And everyone, including Netflix, was ready to publish this as
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  Speaker 9: long as they dropped the episode about the Uyghurs. Why
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  Speaker 9: would the targeting of ethnic cleansing on a community based
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  Speaker 9: on their religious belief be against Netflix programming since all
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  Speaker 9: the other episodes of Exile were about religious persecution and genocide. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: that's right. It's because it's China doing the exterminations. You'll
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  Speaker 9: hear a lot of people in my position railing, oh,
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  Speaker 9: this is just a.
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  Speaker 9: But it will be misinterpreted In some cases, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 9: get out of here, kids, you know, UN, nobody's. I
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  Speaker 9: don't care about that. I welcome any investigations into anything
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  Speaker 9: that the United States does because I believe the United
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  Speaker 9: States has to live in a higher moral plane because
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  Speaker 9: we are a higher moral plane. If we are going
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  Speaker 9: to live up to the words, as Martin Luther King said,
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  Speaker 9: live up to the words you wrote down on paper,
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  Speaker 9: then we have to be better than that. But don't
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  Speaker 9: just issue, oh, look, it's like Moe, Larry, and Curly
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  Speaker 9: sprunking each other in the eye. Oh, wise guy. And
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  Speaker 9: that just diminishes all authority of groups like this that
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  Speaker 9: you're supposed to be counting on. Of course, it's laughable,
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  Speaker 9: like I mentioned, all these, that Tom Garrett and the
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  Speaker 9: folks who did the film X I'll find that link
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  Speaker 9: for you in a second because we have folks on
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  Speaker 9: the phone so I can listen to them while I
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  Speaker 9: type I cannot type and talk at the same time
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  Speaker 9: unless you want to hear me say out loud what
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  Speaker 9: I'm typing my brain just doesn't work you know I'm
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  Speaker 9: a guy I have a one-track mind, and right now
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  Speaker 9: that track is on this hypocrisy of the Human Rights
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  Speaker 9: Council at the UN. Good morning. You're on the air
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  Speaker 9: with Joe. Who's this?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, this is Moscow Bob. Hey, Bob. In that report
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  Speaker 4: on human rights or whatever, it's all an attempt to
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  Speaker 4: affect the elections. It's purposely timed with the elections coming up.
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  Speaker 4: to put a negative input on what the United States
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  Speaker 4: is doing in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to long-term benefit the whole world.
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  Speaker 9: Right. So now the Congress people who are aligned with
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  Speaker 9: President Trump are all going to be facing opposition from
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  Speaker 9: the Democratic Party saying, oh, you support a war criminal, basically.
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  Speaker 4: And those congressmen and senators that had that big report
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  Speaker 4: about you don't need to do anything illegal or obey
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  Speaker 4: illegal disorders, where are they going to go? Are they
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  Speaker 4: going to go and have all the people that dropped
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  Speaker 4: those bombs or shot off those drones? Are they going
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  Speaker 4: to say, you need to convict them, you need to
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  Speaker 4: punish them because they didn't follow orders like they said
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  Speaker 4: they should?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's all in the proving. And that was my
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  Speaker 9: point about this issuing of this press statement. If you
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  Speaker 9: started digging into this, because by March 2nd, there were
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  Speaker 9: complaints from Iran. I think you called Bob on March 2nd.
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  Speaker 9: And we spoke about this. You can go back into
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  Speaker 9: the podcast channels, but I know that the conversation was
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  Speaker 9: being had that this school got hit. Uh, and the
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  Speaker 9: Pentagon was saying, well, hang on a second here. Our,
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  Speaker 9: our data said this was a military base. And then
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  Speaker 9: the Iranians said, well, it was a military base to
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  Speaker 9: like six months ago. And then we turned it into
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  Speaker 9: a school.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, Iran.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's no extra charge for sensitivity here. But the U.N.,
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  Speaker 9: So what is a war crime by the 1949 Geneva Convention? Well,
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  Speaker 9: of the things the 1949 Geneva Convention allows are the
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  Speaker 9: to kill, thus gain-of-function research. Have you heard of it?
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  Speaker 9: gain of function. SARS viruses. is okay because it wasn't
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  Speaker 9: designed to be fatal. I mean, there were some people
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  Speaker 9: war crimes because it really wasn't designed to kill. It
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  Speaker 9: was designed to make soldiers really, really, really sick. And
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  Speaker 9: then we could march in and win. But it's a
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  Speaker 9: Geneva Convention that is bovine excrement as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 9: who marched into Buchenwald and said, Oh my God, what
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  Speaker 9: the hell we think it is. But this was written
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  Speaker 9: too busy wondering what Joseph Stalin was doing with that,
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  Speaker 9: These were politicians who wrote these war crimes laws. But just,
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  Speaker 9: you know, for... Contextual element is part of the War
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  Speaker 9: Crimes Act out of the UN. This is from the UN.
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  Speaker 9: The act must take place in the context of and
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  Speaker 9: be associated with an armed conflict. You didn't know that,
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  Speaker 9: the conflict. So that's from the International... International Rights Commission. So,
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  Speaker 9: I mean, these are things that the UN can't prove
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  Speaker 9: or show and hasn't been able to since March 2nd
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  Speaker 9: when complaints from within Iran that they blow up a
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  Speaker 9: because I have a serious issue with drone warfare and
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  Speaker 9: how we're becoming dehumanized. The only humans who left on
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  Speaker 2: Right, Bob?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 9: I was like, did Bob go away? Nudge Bob, did
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  Speaker 4: No, that's not the problem. It's just amazing what's going
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  Speaker 4: on because even with what happened with Hamas, it's been
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  Speaker 9: It's interesting because... And one got blown up in Zwift.
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  Speaker 9: There was an instance.
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  Speaker 4: And one got blown up in Zwift. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Gaza, it was proven with video evidence there was a
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  Speaker 9: high crimes and misdemeanors under war crimes is intentionally, you know,
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  Speaker 9: But then so you say, hmm, we've got a big
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  Speaker 9: had a command and control center in the basement? Where
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  Speaker 9: is the war crimes tribunal saying that Hamas or, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: that was Hamas, hiding in the basement of a hospital
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  Speaker 9: is a war crime? Because it technically should be.
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  Speaker 20: Very true.
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  Speaker 4: One quick thing. That's what Ukraine is doing with the munitions.
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  Speaker 4: But my question to you is Russia has three elections today,
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow and Sunday. What are the probability that Zelensky has
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  Speaker 4: his drones blow up schools? Because usually the schools are
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  Speaker 9: Well, gee, I don't know. If you attack a school
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  Speaker 9: I misunderstood when you were saying that. No, schools are closed.
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  Speaker 9: Military operations that target municipal elections, and I don't have
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  Speaker 9: the book with all the war crimes in it that
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  Speaker 9: This is for regional stuff. This is like our midterm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: just out of curiosity, like in Russia today? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not that much of a dirty campaign, which
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  Speaker 9: Interesting.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Those are some interesting regulations, guardrails, rather than just saying
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  Speaker 9: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 18: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 22: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 22: first date?
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  Speaker 18: Probably? It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 18: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 19: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 5: Probably.
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  Speaker 9: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 17: Somewhere there was.
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  Speaker 7: A crooner that sang about the most wonderful time of
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  Speaker 7: the year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he had something.
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  Speaker 9: Else in mind. But for me, it is when September
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: rolls around. It's not even my birthday, per se. It
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: is the fact that coincidentally around my birthday, we find
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  Speaker 9: out when the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas tour is going to
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: come out, when the tickets are going to go on sale.
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  Speaker 9: And over the last couple of years, Nightcastle has been
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  Speaker 9: so gracious as to cook up something unusual in the
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  Speaker 9: world of nationally distributed talk radio, which is a chance
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  Speaker 9: for you, to do what I'm going to do just
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: in your town. And there's so many great towns like Youngstown, Ohio,
• 45:31
  Speaker 9: and Portland, and Ontario, California. They're going to have Trans-Siberian
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  Speaker 9: Orchestra there for their 30th anniversary tour. And as the
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: morning progresses, we're going to give away more and more
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  Speaker 9: of the tickets that they've given us in promotion before
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: you can even buy them, which is later on this
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  Speaker 9: morning through our friends at Live Nation. And one of
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: my favorite people to talk to is Jeff Plate, who
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: is the drummer for TSO, has been for all 30
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  Speaker 9: years of them being around. As much as it is
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  Speaker 9: for me, I'm sure it's even more existential for you, Jeff,
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  Speaker 9: to think about it being the 30th anniversary tour going
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  Speaker 9: on there because it must go by in a blink
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  Speaker 9: of an eye. How are you doing this morning? And
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: happy Christmas, if nobody else has said it to you yet.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 24: You are the first.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 24: Everything is good on my end, man. I mean, you
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  Speaker 24: just mentioned the 30 years and it's gone by in
• 46:35
  Speaker 24: a flash, for sure. But it also takes me back
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  Speaker 24: to when we were in the studio initially recording these
• 46:43
  Speaker 24: songs and the first album, Christmas Eve and Other Stories,
• 46:47
  Speaker 24: where A lot of us were scratching our heads. We
• 46:50
  Speaker 24: didn't really know what was going on. But Paul O'Neill,
• 46:54
  Speaker 24: our manager, producer.
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  Speaker 9: Inventor, the man whose idea it was to kind of
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: take this to that level.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, but he knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: He knew what was happening.
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  Speaker 24: So he landed on something amazing.
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  Speaker 9: It's amazing to look at the touchstones. And we have
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  Speaker 9: dear friends who are remarkable musicians who never have come
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: close to the touchstone that TSO has become. And you say, well,
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: what is it? Is there some hidden force that I
• 47:33
  Speaker 9: always go with that says this is the time for this?
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  Speaker 9: This needs to happen. And all the fates have come together.
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  Speaker 9: And I want to stick a pin in the band
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  Speaker 9: that preceded TSO, Sabotage, that many of the folks you'll
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: see on stage with TSO are finishing a marathon through
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: Europe with that brand on top of it as well there, Jeff.
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  Speaker 9: But I remember distinctly Al Petrelli walking into the studio
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  Speaker 9: of WRCN on Long Island. and saying to me and
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: Captain Kevin Thompson, our music director, he said, hey, I'm
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: not going to be around for a while, guys. I'm
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: going to go out to California and record a Christmas album.
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  Speaker 9: And we said, oh, okay, Al, good luck with that.
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  Speaker 9: And then Christmas Eve, Sarajevo arrived in my inbox, and
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: I played it, and I realized, oh, that's what you
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: meant when you said you were recording a Christmas album.
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  Speaker 9: Jeff plate is on with us. How do you do
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: 30 years? And every time my wife's favorite part of
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: TSO is bringing, as she calls them newbies, which you'd
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: think after 30 years, it's hard to come by, but
• 48:51
  Speaker 9: we have lots of newbies that you've given us a
• 48:54
  Speaker 9: chance to bring into the show. And we've received emails
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: last year about it. What is it that, that keeps
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: the band alive? plugged into doing a tour again and
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: plugging in and getting maybe to the newbies, but certainly
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: to the folks who it's a Christmas tradition for like
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: me and my family. How do you guys do it?
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  Speaker 24: Well, the band, is, we're all friends. I mean, we've
• 49:22
  Speaker 24: all been working with each other for a long time. Obviously,
• 49:26
  Speaker 24: you know, the Sabotage members that you mentioned, we've all
• 49:29
  Speaker 24: been together for 30 plus years. A number of the
• 49:32
  Speaker 24: people on stage with me have been in TSO East
• 49:36
  Speaker 24: for 15 years, some even longer.
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 49:39
  Speaker 24: We're a team, you know, we're, we're a family for
• 49:42
  Speaker 24: those two months. We get out there and do this.
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  Speaker 24: We love the music. We love the positive energy, the
• 49:48
  Speaker 24: positive meaning behind these shows, the audiences give it right
• 49:52
  Speaker 24: back to us, which makes everything that much better. But,
• 49:55
  Speaker 24: you know, all in all, Paul O'Neill created something that
• 49:58
  Speaker 24: was really just magical. And along with that gave us
• 50:01
  Speaker 24: all the opportunity to do some things that we've always
• 50:04
  Speaker 24: dreamed of, you know, when we were younger and you just,
• 50:06
  Speaker 24: you kind of touched on the magnitude of this whole
• 50:09
  Speaker 24: thing and the success of it. None of this would
• 50:12
  Speaker 24: have happened without Paul. And I mean, he was, he
• 50:15
  Speaker 24: was the visionary, he was the creator, but he was
• 50:18
  Speaker 24: also the endless energy behind this, pushing this, pushing all
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  Speaker 24: the right buttons, taking some huge risks, making some decisions
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  Speaker 24: that we all kind of questioned, but he turned out
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  Speaker 24: to be right at the end. He, you know, gave
• 50:33
  Speaker 24: us all something very, very special. And out of respect
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  Speaker 24: to that, you know, we go up there every night
• 50:37
  Speaker 24: and just try to do the best we can to
• 50:40
  Speaker 24: help carry on his legacy. But, but nonetheless, I mean,
• 50:44
  Speaker 24: the music is a lot of fun to play. The
• 50:47
  Speaker 24: music is powerful. And when you're on a stage and
• 50:51
  Speaker 24: part of a show that's this big and this dynamic,
• 50:54
  Speaker 24: it really, there's nothing better. There really is nothing better.
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  Speaker 24: So everybody comes back every year and I'll be honest
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  Speaker 24: with you. The people that surprised me are the crew members.
• 51:05
  Speaker 24: Cause if you think that if you think the band
• 51:07
  Speaker 24: has a pad, the crew, those guys, they know exactly
• 51:12
  Speaker 24: what they're getting into. They come back every year. These
• 51:16
  Speaker 24: are long days. These are long weeks. It's, it's a
• 51:19
  Speaker 24: short tour, but a lot of work is crammed into that.
• 51:22
  Speaker 24: And these guys show up. They love the company that
• 51:25
  Speaker 24: they work for. They love the people they work with. And,
• 51:28
  Speaker 24: They make it all happen, so my hand is off
• 51:30
  Speaker 24: to them.
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  Speaker 9: Without question. One of the upsides of being me is
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: that I've had the opportunity to do what they call
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: the backstage, the meet and greet, whatever, after the shows
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: on several occasions. As a matter of fact, we've had
• 51:45
  Speaker 9: the honor of hosting the shows and presenting stations back
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: during that redacted segment of my career that apparently didn't exist.
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: Maybe someday we'll find it. It'll be like Tutankhamen's tomb.
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: We'll unearth it. I didn't know these 20 years even happened.
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: But that being said, Jeff Plate is on with us
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: from Trans-Siberian Orchestra. They're a drummer. Been there since the
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  Speaker 9: first album, since Christmas Eve, Sarajevo, and still going strong.
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  Speaker 9: I want to focus a little bit, but remind people
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  Speaker 9: that we still have time. Tickets don't go on sale
• 52:20
  Speaker 9: until 10 Eastern Eastern. for the shows but they're all
• 52:24
  Speaker 9: over the place and if you go to joethomasinthemorning.com there's
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: a link right on the menu bar takes you to
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: a place to enter to win tickets to shows in
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: your area whether it's Portland or San Antonio or Chicago
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: all these places that you hear this program the folks
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: at Nightcastle Management and Live Nation have been very kind
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: to give us some free tickets if you don't get
• 52:47
  Speaker 9: them from me get them from Live Nation.
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  Speaker 19: My name is Bobby I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 19: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 18: weightlifting champion.
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