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"After the Arab Spring..." (Friday, December 26 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 9: I want to take a little bit of time on
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  Speaker 9: these ISIS strikes in Nigeria and the Islamic State, which
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  Speaker 9: is the first two letters of ISIS. ISIS is a
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  Speaker 9: lot of things. The Islamic State of Iraq and the
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  Speaker 9: levant which is Syria, really began in the early two thousands.
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  Speaker 1: And this is.
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  Speaker 9: Where if you hear the word caliphate at Califate wasn't
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  Speaker 9: invented by ISIS. But Isis's business model was to be
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  Speaker 9: the political wing of the caliphate. So we're going to
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  Speaker 9: scare the Infidel into giving in to us, but we're
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  Speaker 9: still going to need to have somebody make the traffic
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  Speaker 9: lights work and the buses to run on time. So
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  Speaker 9: Isis is Syria, isis Iraq is Icil technically, but they've
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  Speaker 9: become conflated to mean the same thing. But this is
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  Speaker 9: the political This was like shin Fine to the ira
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  Speaker 9: he went there, he come, well, I mean to be fair.
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  Speaker 9: Bombs as bombs back of cars, in the back of cars.
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  Speaker 5: So Isis is to.
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  Speaker 9: Islam is what Shinfeine was to the ira Let's just
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  Speaker 9: say that. And what did we do when we struck
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  Speaker 9: in Nigeria? Well, first let me tell you what we did.
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  Speaker 9: So President Trump announced last night the US has launched
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  Speaker 9: air strikes against northwest Nigeria, targeting militants he's accused of
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  Speaker 9: killing Christians. Shots in the New York Times. Of all
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  Speaker 9: places of the church that was shot up by the activists,
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  Speaker 9: the christ Apostolic Apostolic church in Aquara fired on by
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  Speaker 9: these militants, the operation decisive, and warning further attacks would
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  Speaker 9: follow if violence against Christians continued. Meanwhile, in another kinetic
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  Speaker 9: part of the world. Ukraine's President vladimir's Lensky spent Christmas.
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  Speaker 9: I believe he's Orthodox, so his will come later. On
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  Speaker 9: the phone with Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner
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  Speaker 9: Christmas Day, discussing substantive details of the ongoing work on
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  Speaker 1: So interesting to see how many different fingers.
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  Speaker 1: Where were we? What were we doing?
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  Speaker 9: Isis isis Isil, the Islamic state, and it owes its
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  Speaker 9: beginnings really to the Arab Spring. And like all seasons
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  Speaker 9: of the which Arab Spring was followed by the inevitable fall.
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  Speaker 9: And you may or may not be old enough to
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  Speaker 9: remember the Arab Spring. It's not a shower soap. Although
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  Speaker 9: we could continue to torture the shinfein versus Ira analogy.
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  Speaker 9: Just you know, a guy covered from head to toe
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  Speaker 9: in towels no longer.
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  Speaker 19: Two.
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  Speaker 9: The Arab Spring was the overthrow of Hosni Mubarik in Egypt,
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  Speaker 9: who was running a police state in order to keep
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  Speaker 9: the three battling factions of Islamic adherents from selling one another.
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  Speaker 5: There was a police state really to keep each.
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  Speaker 9: Segment of the Islamic belief structure from killing the others.
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  Speaker 9: So they overthrew Hoseny Mubark, and Barack Obama famously told CNN, well,
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  Speaker 9: I understand President Mubarak shut down the internet. I wish
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  Speaker 9: I had a button like that.
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  Speaker 1: That was easy. Michelle, bring me a sandwich.
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  Speaker 9: So the Arab Spring comes to pass, and almost, I
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  Speaker 9: mean it's almost comical. It's almost cartoon like. How quickly
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  Speaker 9: the Egyptian said, hang on a second here.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as.
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  Speaker 9: It became springtime for Mullah, it became autumn for everyone else.
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  Speaker 5: And they didn't like it.
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  Speaker 9: So like Paris in the late eighteenth century, they just
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  Speaker 9: revolted again. And a year later they're overthrowing the people
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  Speaker 9: who tried to govern after the Arab Spring, and Isis
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  Speaker 9: is kind of That's where the seed of Isis has planted,
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  Speaker 9: is that they decided the jihadis the authoritarian Easterners that
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  Speaker 9: wanted to get rid of life, liberty in the pursuit
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  Speaker 9: of happiness. For shut up, sit down, or I'll chop
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  Speaker 9: your head off, because that's inspiring decided that when they
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  Speaker 9: win the revolution again, they need to have a plan,
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  Speaker 9: They need to have a governing structure. There needs to
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  Speaker 9: be a political wing. And I'm sorry to my Irish friends.
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  Speaker 9: You know, the IRA was making you know, a lot
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  Speaker 9: of noise against the British royal family. Wasn't until they,
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  Speaker 9: you know, Shin Fine started to wield political power and
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  Speaker 9: wound up with representatives in Parliament Jerry Adams and Bill
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  Speaker 9: Clinton and all these folks there. Everyone was, oh, my god,
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  Speaker 9: they have Shin Fine as a seat and p oh,
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  Speaker 9: this is awful. But it's one thing to just start
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  Speaker 9: blowing stuff up and killing people randomly. Isis is the
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  Speaker 9: government that is waiting in the wings when you finally
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  Speaker 9: give in in Dearborn Michigan or Minneapolis and you.
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  Speaker 23: Go no, no more, just take over.
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  Speaker 9: And remember the Summer of Love, you know, the chop
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  Speaker 9: chat zones in Seattle and Portland and up the resistance
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  Speaker 9: and all these places were being taken over like postmodern
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  Speaker 9: more heavily armed hate Ashbery's much more hate less Ashbury.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the biggest.
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  Speaker 9: Concern at that point, where these neighborhoods were going to
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  Speaker 9: be sharia esque in their operation that much of who
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  Speaker 9: was supporting it were these Califans who wanted to overthrow
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  Speaker 9: the American system so they could start killing their enemies,
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  Speaker 9: because that the whole constitution thing kind of gets in
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  Speaker 9: the way of that. Well, everything will be fine, The
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  Speaker 9: floggings will continue until morale improves. We are ISIS, So
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  Speaker 9: just understand when ISIS sends gunmen out to shoot up
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  Speaker 9: Christian churches, this is a governing body. This isn't ISIS
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  Speaker 9: isn't the Taliban. ISIS is the Taliban. What shin Fein
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  Speaker 9: is to the IRA. They there's the dirty work doers,
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  Speaker 9: and then the people who go out and perhaps collect
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  Speaker 9: the list of who the dirty workers are and who
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  Speaker 9: needs to be total lesson. And it's the same thuggery
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  Speaker 9: that goes on every place when authoritarianism is allowed. And
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  Speaker 9: this is why the point I was making a half
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  Speaker 9: of an hour ago is that in all of their
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  Speaker 9: bluster about hating America and the IS brought up ilhan
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  Speaker 9: Omar earlier and all these folks who decry the United States,
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  Speaker 9: they're doing so to get you softened up to the
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  Speaker 9: idea of voting out the US Constitution. They want lawlessness,
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  Speaker 9: They want chaos. That's why they spend so much time
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  Speaker 9: saying anyone who opposes them is promoting chaos. Liberty is
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  Speaker 9: chaos to them, fealty to their authoritarianism is organized society.
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  Speaker 9: And like I said to Matt earlier in the show,
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  Speaker 9: humanity has done this dance before. We've been in this
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  Speaker 9: nightclub and we've had the same results. Body bags filled
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  Speaker 9: with patriots fighting for liberty after the last batch of
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  Speaker 9: liberty was frittered away by lazy souls who decided, well,
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  Speaker 9: we're free now, I don't have to do anything I
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  Speaker 9: don't want to do. And then apathy sets in, and
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  Speaker 9: then apathy leads to debauchery. His apathy, added to ego,
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  Speaker 9: turns into debauchery, and then that debauchery devolves into chaos,
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  Speaker 9: which then leads to a tyrannical authoritarian figure wash Rinse, repeat,
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  Speaker 9: predictable as can be, down to almost the month until
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  Speaker 9: the United States came around and our Bill of Rights
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  Speaker 9: slowed that cycle. I'm not saying it stopped it, but
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  Speaker 32: It couldn't it could have been I don't know what
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  Speaker 32: we'd like to thank the Lions for participating six turnovers. Really,
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  Speaker 32: and you play a team that throws for three yards,
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  Speaker 9: The coach said about the forward past, there were three
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  Speaker 32: It to them, Margot, that's that's exactly right, all right,
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  Speaker 32: one quick thing and then with Tony Elliott and you know,
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  Speaker 23: I'll probably be able to hear them.
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  Speaker 32: You know, the party's going on in Jacksonville for I
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  Speaker 32: live one hundred miles away. And probably the ACC is
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  Speaker 32: transitioning to a nine game conference football schedule. Now, that
• 30:18
  Speaker 32: release came out a couple of weeks ago that the
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  Speaker 23: Going to go to nine.
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  Speaker 32: The move to a nine game conference schedule begins in
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  Speaker 32: twenty twenty six. It's a transition year. Not every team
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  Speaker 32: Five BC Clemson, Florida State, Carolina, and Georgia Tech will
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  Speaker 32: play eight because of existing non conference power for matchups
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  Speaker 32: and contracts.
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  Speaker 23: That they couldn't get out of.
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  Speaker 32: So anyway, if you're interested, UVA, California, Duke Carolina, NC State,
• 30:49
  Speaker 32: and that game is going to be in Brazil, by
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  Speaker 32: They're going to Brazil to play and Syria I used it,
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  Speaker 32: and then Florida State on the road, SMU, Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 32: and Wake Forest. So UBA's now Virginia Tech. They're gonna
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  Speaker 32: play nine Georgia Tech, Pitt Stanford, and UVA at home.
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  Speaker 32: But they've got five on the road Boston College, California, Clemson, Miami,
• 31:14
  Speaker 32: and SMU. And I've said this a million times for
• 31:17
  Speaker 32: those who might be new listeners. Dave Ohen once told
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  Speaker 32: me the three most important things in coaching is scheduling, recruiting,
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  Speaker 32: and scheduling.
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  Speaker 23: So anyway, the way it just your schedule breaks down.
• 31:28
  Speaker 32: And nobody could speak about that more than Tony Elliott.
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  Speaker 32: With a seven and one regular season record, they won
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  Speaker 32: the title regular season title for the first time ever
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  Speaker 32: by themselves.
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  Speaker 23: They shared it in eighty nine and ninety five and.
• 31:40
  Speaker 32: Now playing Missouri and the Gator Bowl, which you know,
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  Speaker 32: which ought to be fun. But Tony Elliott has been
• 31:46
  Speaker 32: interviewed a million times now over the last couple of
• 31:49
  Speaker 32: months about how did you do that?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 31:51
  Speaker 32: Money They UVA ponied up a ton of money and
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  Speaker 32: he ended up with thirty new players, you know, a
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  Speaker 32: bunch in the portal got nineteen freshmen. And so with
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  Speaker 32: all that, Tony says, it's the landscape that we're watching.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: is what it is, and I'm just grateful that folks
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: believe enough in this staff and these players to invest
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: and hopefully that this is kind of an indication of
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: what's possible. It's not guaranteed. We're not entitled to what
• 32:23
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  Speaker 2: if we don't have the resources available, it's going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: be hard to be able to have the caliber talent
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: to be able to go out and compete in games
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: like this or games within our league.
• 32:35
  Speaker 32: Yeah, for sure, because the Missouri's good.
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  Speaker 23: They're an SEC team. They did lose four games.
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  Speaker 32: They're ranked twenty fifth and UVA is ranked twentieth, so
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  Speaker 32: it should be good.
• 32:44
  Speaker 23: UVA is an underdog tomorrow night in Jacksonville. Yeah, it's
• 32:47
  Speaker 23: a heavy Bowl day.
• 32:48
  Speaker 32: Three bowl games today, and then it's a heavy Bowl
• 32:51
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• 32:54
  Speaker 32: and naturally we will talk about that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: What happened to Cal?
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: By the way, so Cal was up like twenty twenty
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  Speaker 9: one points and.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: They lost by five to Hawaii. Who's Hawaii?
• 33:08
  Speaker 15: Is it?
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: You know, Jason Momoa and a bunch of Samoans.
• 33:12
  Speaker 32: And maybe they know how to throw a home game too,
• 33:15
  Speaker 32: because only about twenty thousand people show up because there's
• 33:18
  Speaker 32: a lot to do.
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  Speaker 23: It's too much to do, and you know, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Fly to Hawaii to watch a football game and.
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  Speaker 32: Wow, no Shore, there's you know, there's just a lot
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  Speaker 32: going on. So anyway, yeah, the Rainbows won a good one.
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  Speaker 32: So with all that being said, and with the three
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  Speaker 23: And I didn't see much of really any of them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 23: I was having too much fun sitting outside.
• 33:40
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  Speaker 5: We were we were like sixty eight or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, here's the thing I saw. Yeah, but I'm.
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  Speaker 32: Draft Kings bonanza Joe. But it's you know, really it's
• 34:16
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• 34:20
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  Speaker 23: Play them in August their ratings, that'd be better. You
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  Speaker 1: They'll go to it.
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  Speaker 32: You know, August is the time to do this. And
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  Speaker 9: host of the Good for America podcast, former Chair of
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  Speaker 9: I hope you and your family had a marvelous yule
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  Speaker 5: I hope we did.
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  Speaker 9: Oh absolutely we actually spend some of it here on
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  Speaker 9: you know, and and you know, for folks, I said,
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  Speaker 9: anyone listening first thing in the morning on Christmas Day
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  Speaker 9: falls into two camps. The people who need to remember
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  Speaker 9: why Christmas is special because it's not apparent to them, and.
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  Speaker 1: The ones who it's really really special.
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  Speaker 9: Too, and that's why they're up at that hour getting
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  Speaker 9: you know, hopefully some folks had a better Christmas Day
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  Speaker 9: or it just kickstarted it for them there. And speaking
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  Speaker 9: of I mean Christmas Day. If there was ever an
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  Speaker 9: example how the Trump administration doesn't take time off, you know,
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  Speaker 9: with assaults on ISIS in in Nigeria, after shooting up
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  Speaker 9: a church an in Gaza, a Christian church was attacked
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  Speaker 9: by ISIS as well, and they burned a Christmas tree
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  Speaker 9: and a Nativity seen down you know, as somebody who
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  Speaker 9: has walked those halls in government, it's interesting after this
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  Speaker 9: attack on the church in Nigeria, I'm not hearing the
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  Speaker 9: usual suspects saying where's our war powers legislation? Because it
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  Speaker 9: seems like the president has used his authority to send
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  Speaker 9: a message to isis.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Nigeria is certainly you know, but for listeners don't know.
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  Speaker 7: It's a large country. It's a couple hundred million people,
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  Speaker 7: two d and fifteen and twenty million people. It's nearly
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  Speaker 7: half Christian. It's certainly Muslim majority population. But you got
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  Speaker 7: to particularly this bocal Haram Bokoharam, how you said that name,
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  Speaker 7: that is doing Apparently the majority of the killing is killed,
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  Speaker 7: you know, some ten thousand or so Christians a year
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  Speaker 7: for some fifteen years or so. And as you're to
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  Speaker 7: your point, burning churches, hundreds of churches, thousands of Christians
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  Speaker 7: being abducted even just this year. It is a real
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  Speaker 7: humanitarian crisis, particularly directed as to Christian Christians themselves by
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  Speaker 7: these Muslim terrorist groups. And there's always tension there. What
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  Speaker 7: is the role of the United States to intervene around
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  Speaker 7: the world from a humanitarian standpoint, from a protection standpoint
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  Speaker 7: of persecuted groups in the United States has intervened historically
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  Speaker 7: and situations like this and President Trump, you know, declared
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  Speaker 7: the United States, excuse me, Nigeria to be a country
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  Speaker 7: of particular concern during his first term, and Biden rescinded it.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump has done it again, which allows for greater
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  Speaker 7: sanctions on Nigeria because the government of Nigeria has been
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  Speaker 7: accused of being complicit in terms of not intervening or
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  Speaker 7: not prohibiting it themselves and allowing it to go on.
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  Speaker 7: Directed at the Christians and to the government in Nigeria
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  Speaker 7: and the people of Nigeria and need insist that their
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  Speaker 7: government does intervene to protect religious people of faith in
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  Speaker 7: the country, particularly Christians who are suffering. So President Trump
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  Speaker 7: glad to see him take strong action. He's increasingly rammed
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  Speaker 7: up to pressure on the government in Nigeria to take
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  Speaker 7: responsibility for protecting people in their country, particularly Christians, are
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  Speaker 7: being attacked. So sympathize with President Trump's intentions, hearing what
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  Speaker 7: he's done, and hopefully it'll make a difference for the
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  Speaker 7: people in Nigeria.
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  Speaker 9: Well, and you see, you know the cities, and you
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  Speaker 9: talk about a population that I mean is I think
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  Speaker 9: they were one of the top five most populous countries
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  Speaker 9: on the planet.
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  Speaker 5: But there are.
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  Speaker 9: For the folks who say, you know, and I see
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  Speaker 9: these We've been playing this clip of a young fellow
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  Speaker 9: that was caught on the streets of dearborn Michigan and
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  Speaker 9: he was asked by the reporter, if America went to
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  Speaker 9: war against Iraq, would you who you know, who would
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  Speaker 9: you fight for? And he said, I won't fight for America.
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  Speaker 9: You look at Nigeria and you realize that I think
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  Speaker 9: there's something along the lines of four to five hundred
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  Speaker 9: different languages spoke there. The it's still very tribal almost
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  Speaker 9: as in terms of the ethnicity they don't And I
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  Speaker 9: worry that that's our future if we don't stop and say,
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  Speaker 9: here's what Americanism is, and your right to follow your
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  Speaker 9: faith up to the point when it impedes somebody else's
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  Speaker 9: has to be And it's the simplest concept, yet people
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  Speaker 9: like Tim Walls can't seem to grasp it while they're
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  Speaker 9: in the middle of handing out other taxpayer money to people.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Nigeria in particular is a place in the world
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  Speaker 7: for a Christian right now, and as a result of
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  Speaker 7: it is one faith that is attacking other faiths, in
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  Speaker 7: particular the Christian faith, and it is the radical Muslim
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  Speaker 7: terris who are doing it. Someone once said that you
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  Speaker 7: know all there, all Muslims are not terrorists, of course,
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  Speaker 7: but all terrorists tend to be Muslim. Uh. And we
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  Speaker 7: need to recognize that, and we need that needs to
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  Speaker 7: be part of our immigration policy. Uh, in terms of,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we need to prioritize those who embrace what
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  Speaker 7: our country is founded upon, what our country stands for,
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  Speaker 7: what our country believes, and radical Islams in contrast with that.
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  Speaker 7: And you see the consequence of that around the world
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  Speaker 7: in Europe, but you all see the consequence in some
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  Speaker 7: places here in the United States as well.
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  Speaker 9: Congressman former Congressman Bob good, host of the Good for
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  Speaker 9: talk about the GDP growth numbers that came out and
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  Speaker 9: but you know, on that subject of you know, what's
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  Speaker 9: what's going on in around the world, uh. Voladimir Zelenski
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  Speaker 9: said right before Christmas he was now open to the
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  Speaker 9: idea of this DMZ zone around the Dawn Bass. If
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  Speaker 9: Russia leaves, will leave And I guess you pardon me,
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  Speaker 9: the UN or somebody is supposed to create a demilitarized
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  Speaker 9: economic zone around there. What do you know about what
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  Speaker 9: they're talking about?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I saw that headline that Ukraine. I saw that
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  Speaker 7: headline that Ukraine and Zelensky is agreeing to that. I
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  Speaker 7: haven't looked into the particulars on that, but you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think that the key here is that a piece
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  Speaker 7: agreement and I'm going to call it that, but a
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  Speaker 7: piece agreement can't reward or incentivize Rushiat for future aggression.
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  Speaker 7: It's one thing for US to not you know, continue
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  Speaker 7: to invest resources and as you know, long a post
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  Speaker 7: borrowing money to send it to Ukraine. But it's another
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  Speaker 7: thing for US to actually pressure Ukraine to give up land,
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  Speaker 7: to produce their arms, to reduce their military force, to
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  Speaker 7: prohibit them from ever being part of NATO, which I
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  Speaker 7: don't disagree with that prohibiting from being part of NATO,
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  Speaker 7: but UH, and and then to really only consequence to
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  Speaker 7: Russia is they get to at disagree for Delhi Stemberger
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  Speaker 7: to stop killing Ukrainians and they get land in exchange
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  Speaker 7: for their UH invading Ukraine. I think it's it's we
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  Speaker 7: will regret it if there's a piece deal that does
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  Speaker 7: actually rewards what Russia has done. Yeah, and I think
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  Speaker 7: that'll be that that will incentivize China avice others to
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  Speaker 7: take similar action that Russia has taken.
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