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"Northern Exposure" (FTTxJT Thu 082726 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: All natural and free of artificial intelligence. Joe works at
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  Speaker 1: a steel mill.
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  Speaker 2: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops a kid to school and all the world.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, thank you for letting me be of service to
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  Speaker 8: you this morning. So we joined together here with the
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  Speaker 8: idea of getting it right and actually caring about people,
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  Speaker 8: not waiting for someone else to do it. This was
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  Speaker 8: the point of what I was making. Somebody else's problem
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  Speaker 8: is the government's con job that they will take care
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  Speaker 8: of people for us. So our charitable work is our vote.
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  Speaker 8: And nobody, well, Joe did a lot of community service
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  Speaker 8: in his day. He voted for 85 different Democrats. Did
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  Speaker 8: he work in any of the charitable groups? No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 8: But he did vote every year for Democrats. And so
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  Speaker 8: we want to have a, we're going to make an
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  Speaker 8: award in his name for all of the community service
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  Speaker 8: he did and all the people he helped by electing Democrats. See,
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  Speaker 8: when you put it that way, it just sounds so silly.
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  Speaker 8: But then you have the SAVE Act, which is supposed
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  Speaker 8: to make sure that, you know, my civil rights aren't
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  Speaker 8: being violated by someone else. And Lisa Murkowski out there
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  Speaker 8: saying she's going to withhold support because Alaskans, and this
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  Speaker 8: is for our friends at KFAR and all across the country,
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  Speaker 8: James O'Keefe decided to go to Alaska.
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  Speaker 9: This is James O'Keefe on a remote island off the
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  Speaker 9: coast of Alaska known as Unalaska. Senator Murkowski said that
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  Speaker 9: if the SAVE Act passes, people on this island, including fishermen,
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  Speaker 9: won't be able to vote. But everyone that I spoke
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  Speaker 9: to posing as a poll worker contradicted Senator Lisa Murkowski.
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  Speaker 10: What we're talking about right now is just the registration
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  Speaker 10: to vote. So you're in on Alaska, the flight to Anchorage,
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  Speaker 10: because this is where you're going to have to go.
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  Speaker 10: You're going to have to go into Anchorage.
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  Speaker 11: Let's say you were trained. to process voter registrations.
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  Speaker 12: We can do that here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you do?
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: You do voter registrations here?
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  Speaker 3: That's so convenient.
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  Speaker 14: You can just do it at the library. You don't
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  Speaker 14: have to go to Anchorage.
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  Speaker 9: Everyone we spoke to here said they're able to register
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  Speaker 9: to vote here. They're able to prove citizenship by going
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  Speaker 9: to the library.
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  Speaker 14: Because we're just interested in voting tomorrow. We don't have
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  Speaker 14: to go to Anchorage to get an ID.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can come here.
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  Speaker 14: I don't have to go to Anchorage?
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  Speaker 15: No, come here.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 16: You're able to prove citizenship, right?
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  Speaker 10: Um, yeah, this is where citizens, Alaskans can present their
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  Speaker 10: documentary proof of citizenship. I'm going all the way to Anchorage.
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  Speaker 14: Why don't those politicians tell us we've got to go
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  Speaker 14: to Anchorage?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 14: That's strange.
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  Speaker 8: So that's the latest, uh, OMG O'Keefe media group, uh,
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  Speaker 8: footage up there now, uh, blowing up Lisa Murkowski. And
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  Speaker 8: please can, you know, It's an amazing, beautiful state.
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  Speaker 16: It needs better.
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  Speaker 8: This is just what a hot mess. And this is
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  Speaker 8: what happens when anything, you know, you define yourself.
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  Speaker 16: Pardon me. I know we have to do our first
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  Speaker 16: things here.
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  Speaker 8: But when you define yourself by what you're against only,
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  Speaker 8: this is what you wind up with. Anywho, our first
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  Speaker 8: thing is rescue teams looking for thousands of people missing
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  Speaker 8: and flooding right on the Nepal-China border. Rivers overflowing after
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  Speaker 8: a glacial collapse sent thousands of extra gallons of water
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  Speaker 8: down this waterway. More than 1,300 currently are listed as missing,
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  Speaker 8: many of them pilgrims to the region outside the Himalayas.
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  Speaker 8: In the Kremlin, John Ratcliffe held talks with the heads
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  Speaker 8: of the GRU and the FSB We don't know what
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  Speaker 8: they spoke about. I imagine this will come up in
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  Speaker 8: the White House press gaggle later today. But Dmitry Peskov,
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  Speaker 8: spokesman for the Kremlin, said that Ratcliffe didn't meet with
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  Speaker 8: President Putin, but the president was informed on the meeting
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  Speaker 8: and its contents. Trump administration is facing more legal backlash
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  Speaker 8: over legal federal public safety funds being withheld if states...
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  Speaker 8: Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, and the
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  Speaker 8: City of Columbus, Ohio, according to the Texas Tribune. Three
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  Speaker 8: Bronze Star recipients were honored by the Secretary of War,
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  Speaker 8: Gunnery Sergeant Jonathan Eby, Corporal Michael Gregson and Lance Corporal
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  Speaker 8: Jordan Houston received the Bronze Star for their actions during
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  Speaker 8: the 2021 terrorist attack at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 8: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks,
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  Speaker 8: will face court in 2028. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael
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  Speaker 8: Schrama set the trial date today. rather than go along
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  Speaker 8: with a request for it to be earlier, to be
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  Speaker 8: in 2027. Hi, this.
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  Speaker 1: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't cost anything in the first place, so let's say.
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  Speaker 18: One million dollars!
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  Speaker 13: Well, I thought my razor was gone until I heard
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  Speaker 13: him speak. And that reminds me of a story that's
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  Speaker 13: so dirty, I'm ashamed to think of it myself. I
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  Speaker 13: don't know what they have to say. It makes no
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  Speaker 13: difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it.
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  Speaker 25: No matter what it is or who commenced.
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  Speaker 18: It, I'm against it.
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  Speaker 16: It's an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 8: I realize how much Lisa Murkowski sounds like Groucho Marx
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  Speaker 8: when she sings that. She probably walks around her office.
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  Speaker 8: How frequently is she back in Alaska?
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  Speaker 16: Just curious.
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  Speaker 8: Does she stay in Washington a lot there to do
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  Speaker 8: Alaskans business there? But we were playing the clip of
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  Speaker 8: Lisa Murkowski misrepresenting the Alaskans. And I think this is
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  Speaker 8: such a classic example of, oh, my poor dumb constituents.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, she might as well be Mark Warner or...
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  Speaker 8: Adam Schiff, the way she speaks of her constituents' abilities.
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  Speaker 8: And my favorite part about the James O'Keefe video that
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  Speaker 8: he shot in Unalaska is they apparently have all sorts
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  Speaker 8: of things like buildings and and offices and roads and
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  Speaker 8: airports and things like all kinds of fun stuff.
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  Speaker 9: This is James O'Keefe on a remote island off the
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  Speaker 9: coast of Alaska known as Unalaska. Senator Murkowski said that
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  Speaker 9: if the SAVE Act passes, people on this island, including fishermen,
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  Speaker 9: won't be able to vote. But everyone that I spoke
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  Speaker 9: to posing as a poll worker contradicted Senator Lisa Murkowski.
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  Speaker 10: What we're talking about right now is just the registration
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  Speaker 10: to vote. So you're in on Alaska, the flight to Anchorage,
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  Speaker 10: because this is where you're going to have to go.
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  Speaker 10: You're going to have to go into Anchorage.
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  Speaker 18: Let's say you were trained.
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  Speaker 14: To process voter registrations.
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  Speaker 4: We can do that here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you do? Yes.
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  Speaker 11: You do voter registrations here?
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  Speaker 19: That's so convenient.
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  Speaker 14: You can just do it at the library. You don't
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  Speaker 14: have to go to Anchorage.
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  Speaker 9: Everyone we spoke to here said they're able to register
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  Speaker 9: to vote here. They're able to prove citizenship by going
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  Speaker 9: to the library.
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  Speaker 14: Because we're just interested in voting tomorrow. We don't have
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  Speaker 14: to go to Anchorage to get an ID.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can come.
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  Speaker 8: They have buildings. They have electricity. I mean, they have
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  Speaker 8: all this cool stuff. In this island, they have office
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  Speaker 8: buildings and with running water inside plumbing. And I love
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  Speaker 8: the folks who listen every morning at KFAR in Fairbanks.
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  Speaker 8: But I thought I had it bad with Mark Warner
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  Speaker 8: and Tim Kaine. And there is a force multiplier factor
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  Speaker 8: of I've got two of them I.
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  Speaker 16: Have to deal with. But Lisa Murkowski is a Republican.
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  Speaker 8: She's not supposed to be the person who's out there saying,
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  Speaker 8: here's why I'm against this bill, because my constituents are
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  Speaker 8: too stupid to comply with it. So, I mean, and
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  Speaker 8: when she set up, bless James O'Keefe and O'Keefe Media
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  Speaker 8: Group for putting the proof out there. And, you know,
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  Speaker 8: I hope Murkowski has a retirement plan. I hope she
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  Speaker 8: has her investments. If not, she needs to sit down
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  Speaker 8: with Nancy Pelosi and the Girls Senate Investment Club book
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  Speaker 8: deal or whatever it is they do every Wednesday afternoon
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  Speaker 8: and start getting her investments squared up so that she
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  Speaker 8: can not have to live on the public dole when
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  Speaker 8: she's finally retired by Alaskans.
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  Speaker 16: But just My constituents are so dumb. How dumb are they?
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  Speaker 16: It's like a Johnny Carson routine. Good morning. You're on
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  Speaker 16: the air with Joe. First thing this morning, who's this?
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  Speaker 26: Good morning, Joe. It's Kareem.
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  Speaker 16: Hey, Kareem. What's going on, my friend?
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  Speaker 8: Kareem had this whole conversation, and it was fun because
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  Speaker 8: it was like he had this whole conversation, and I
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  Speaker 8: didn't need to be there because he called in and
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  Speaker 8: then convinced himself.
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  Speaker 16: That he could call back later. I was amazed.
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  Speaker 8: I I would have made room for you before, Kareem,
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  Speaker 8: but I was just enjoying watching you have this whole
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  Speaker 8: arc with yourself.
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  Speaker 16: So now you're back. What's going on?
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  Speaker 26: That's just what I run out to the world, Joe.
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  Speaker 27: You believe what happens inside.
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  Speaker 26: So honestly, I'm reminded of a bridge to nowhere.
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  Speaker 27: And I'm thinking about the Keys in Florida. And I'm
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  Speaker 27: thinking about all the money that's spent on infrastructure or
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  Speaker 27: has been spent on infrastructure.
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  Speaker 26: In Alaska and how expensive it is to live there.
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  Speaker 27: The people, if they're smart enough to get to the
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  Speaker 27: middle of nowhere and enjoy a fruitful life, they're smart
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  Speaker 27: enough to get an ID when they need to.
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  Speaker 26: And they will do what needs to be done to
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  Speaker 26: get that ID.
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  Speaker 27: It doesn't matter how the government tries to hide it. Now,
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  Speaker 27: I know this is skewed just a little bit off,
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  Speaker 27: but I lived in Alabama. when they were having issues,
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  Speaker 27: outcry about the.
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  Speaker 26: DMV only being open one day a week or at
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  Speaker 26: selective times.
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  Speaker 27: And I have stood in line out the office door,
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  Speaker 27: down the hallway in one of those counties.
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  Speaker 26: To get my ID at that time. So it was
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  Speaker 26: my driver's license.
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  Speaker 16: I can see that.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, if you're going to make ID a requirement,
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  Speaker 8: we did that in Virginia too. In, I think it
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  Speaker 8: was 2009, we decided we were going to tighten up
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  Speaker 8: on voter identification. And so what the General Assembly did
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  Speaker 8: in a compromise, because compromises are, you know, the compromising
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  Speaker 8: position is not a good position to be in, is it?
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  Speaker 8: But they set aside, I think it was a million dollars,
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  Speaker 8: and they were going to pay for anyone who couldn't
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  Speaker 8: afford to get a photo ID from the Department of
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  Speaker 8: Motor Vehicles. I think it cost, you know, there was
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  Speaker 8: a processing fee. But the state decided that they would
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  Speaker 8: set aside actual money to pay for poor residents who
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  Speaker 8: couldn't pay the fee to get the photo ID. And
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  Speaker 8: I think two people took part in it. And the
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  Speaker 8: million dollars got folded back into the slush fund somewhere.
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  Speaker 16: But nobody needed it because you need a photo ID
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  Speaker 16: for so many other things.
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  Speaker 8: Now, I get the fact that if there is a
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  Speaker 8: population of Alaskans who don't want government ID, I understand that.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you mentioned the folks who made their way
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  Speaker 8: When the newscast came along, Kareem and I were talking
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  Speaker 8: So I appreciate you hanging on so I can make
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  Speaker 8: So I don't even think the Postal Service... was ever
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  Speaker 27: Tell you what, I'd rather take my time in Woolworth,
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  Speaker 16: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: And actually, uh, Do we still have the Cuccinelli clip
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  Speaker 16: Go get that clip. Play it back now.
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  Speaker 18: Let's zero in on that a bit, Joe. So Bill
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  Speaker 16: I guess they figure we all forgot, right?
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  Speaker 18: And he laid out the data about voter participation. He compared,
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 18: They, them, all of them. But the voter turnout had
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  Speaker 18: There's a certain amount of what they call logic. I
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  Speaker 16: Data? So it's Oregon, Kareem, not Washington. I thought it
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  Speaker 15: I'm CeCe.
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  Speaker 28: My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 7: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 6: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 3: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 4: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 16: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 15: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 6: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 16: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 28: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 28: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 6: Think first. Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 16: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 15: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 15: first date?
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  Speaker 5: Sure. We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 30: Probably?
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  Speaker 29: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 16: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 25: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, don't tell.
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  Speaker 3: Me what to do. Cannonball!
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  Speaker 5: Cramp! Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 6: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 16: Probably.
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  Speaker 3: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 26: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 21: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 8: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 8: and driving.
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  Speaker 30: If you're drinking, call a cab, a car, or a friend.
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 5: Now I believe.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, now I believe they've come to town. Everything just
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  Speaker 12: falls in line. We live and learn from our mistakes.
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  Speaker 16: You got to be. You got to be.
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  Speaker 8: Email here from Teresa. And I appreciate you tuning in
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  Speaker 8: this morning, Teresa, in Chattanooga. I bet it's tough to
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  Speaker 8: find anything that's not all Dolly all the time in
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  Speaker 8: Tennessee right now. And I appreciate you taking a moment
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  Speaker 8: with us there on WGOW AM. We are going to
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  Speaker 8: get down there. It was so much fun, the visit
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  Speaker 8: we had to Chattanooga. But she writes in, Joe... I
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  Speaker 8: saw this video of Hayden Panettiere's mom, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 8: help but think about what you were saying about how
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  Speaker 8: she wound up deceased and the Narcan. And I'm listening
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  Speaker 8: to her mom talk about her boyfriend and how she
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  Speaker 8: hasn't really had anything to do with her. And I
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  Speaker 8: looked up that she had sort of been stage door
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  Speaker 8: mom through her Disney years and that she was an
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  Speaker 8: actress herself. And I couldn't help but think of you, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: And here I am all morning. I haven't heard you
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  Speaker 8: mention it once. Well, first off, I'm trying to process
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  Speaker 8: the interview I watched because it was almost like a
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  Speaker 8: Saturday Night Live skit. You know, if Saturday Night Live
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  Speaker 8: wanted to make fun of this, this is what they
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  Speaker 8: would have done. I'd be right down to the ill-applied lipstick.
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  Speaker 8: And the Steven Tyler wig that she was wearing, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I almost look like dude looks like a lady. And
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to be mean spirited because, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I have my own particular look.
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  Speaker 16: And people say, you chose that, Joe? You choose to
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  Speaker 16: look like that?
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  Speaker 8: But the story, as you point out, is very much
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  Speaker 8: what you would kind of sort of expect of this world.
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  Speaker 16: And so when you hear the other.
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  Speaker 8: Actresses talking about how the industry is to blame for this,
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  Speaker 8: it's like saying China is to blame for the hack
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  Speaker 8: of the Department of Justice. There was somebody at the
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  Speaker 8: Department of Justice that clicked on the phishing email, just
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  Speaker 8: like John Podesta clicked on the phishing email that got
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: the Russian bot farmer all of Hillary's emails. Somebody wrote
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: the code for Anthropix AI that allowed it to go
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  Speaker 8: break into other AIs because it was told by its
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: creator this was okay. There's always a human factor to it.
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  Speaker 8: And at what point did her career stop being about
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  Speaker 8: her acting and being about being the famous mom of
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  Speaker 8: Hayden Panettiere? And it's dangerous because Munchausen syndrome We see
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: it with the trans movement. Here I go dragging more
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  Speaker 8: controversy into this mess. But we see it with Munchausen's parents. Oh, look,
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  Speaker 8: my trans child.
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  Speaker 16: She's 10. How does she know what she is? Or they, whatever.
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  Speaker 8: And parents are gaining gravity for things that they haven't done.
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  Speaker 16: It's a mess.
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: It's a mess, but it's a fixable mess if we
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  Speaker 8: just have honest conversations about about things.
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  Speaker 16: Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Clark, speaking of honest conversations, is on the phone with
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  Speaker 8: us at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Clark.
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  Speaker 16: What's going on?
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  Speaker 25: Oh, another day in paradise. So you talked about Lisa Murkowski,
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  Speaker 25: and now I guess she could be the wicked senator
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  Speaker 25: of the West, and we're going to get Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 16: Nor don't.
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  Speaker 26: Whatever.
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  Speaker 18: I don't care.
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  Speaker 25: Lindsey Graham's seat. All right, Joe, that's not Lindsey Graham's seat.
• 48:28
  Speaker 25: He was not the Earl of South Carolina. This is
• 48:31
  Speaker 25: not a heritable title. Kinship to a politician should not
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  Speaker 25: disqualify you from office, but it shouldn't be a qualification either.
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  Speaker 16: Fair, fair.
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  Speaker 25: And the DSA wants to get rid of the Senate?
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  Speaker 25: I don't know, Joe.
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  Speaker 26: You know, I think.
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  Speaker 25: conservatives and the dsa could find common ground on election
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  Speaker 25: security and get rid of the senate because of the
• 48:57
  Speaker 25: senate is just going to be a body of appointed
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  Speaker 25: empty suits that do what corporate overlords tell leadership what
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  Speaker 25: to tell them to do what is the point hold.
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  Speaker 8: On a second here that sounds very familiar to the
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  Speaker 8: editorials that william randolph hearst was running 100 years ago
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  Speaker 8: that got the senators turned into elected office holders in
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  Speaker 8: the first place. You can fix the Senate several ways.
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  Speaker 8: I think you can go back to appointed senators who
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  Speaker 8: collected the taxes from the states get rid of our
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  Speaker 8: income tax. How many people do you think would vote
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  Speaker 8: for somebody who said, I'm going to get rid of
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: the income tax? Not the IRS, the income tax. We're
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: going to get rid of the 16th Amendment altogether, and
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  Speaker 8: we're going to go back to funding the government the
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  Speaker 8: way we used to.
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  Speaker 25: It would be a minority, Joe, because that would be
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  Speaker 25: people with jobs.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I think you could win a plurality of Democrats
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  Speaker 8: and Republicans, because I want to go back to the
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  Speaker 8: Senate the way it was, because the one thing they
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  Speaker 8: never did with the Senate when they changed them to
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  Speaker 8: elected officeholders is they let them keep the six-year term,
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: which was there specifically so that a senator would probably
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: outlast the governor that appointed him, so there was a
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  Speaker 8: forced amount of bipartisanship that would have to go along
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  Speaker 8: with it, but now they're just super legislators.
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  Speaker 23: Yes.
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  Speaker 26: You know, it's not a.
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  Speaker 25: Why is it a separate body if we're going to
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  Speaker 25: do it this way?
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  Speaker 16: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Because they didn't want to change all the things, and
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  Speaker 8: bless them for it, because nobody had the intestinal fortitude
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  Speaker 8: to actually change things. They just play in the margins.
• 50:54
  Speaker 16: We can... go back.
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  Speaker 8: To the way this originally worked, that created all this prosperity,
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  Speaker 8: to create an economy where people could go out and
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  Speaker 8: find a place to earn a living that grows their family,
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  Speaker 8: because we've long since left that. And some of us
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  Speaker 8: are being told that that's a bad thing to shoot for.
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  Speaker 16: Yes.
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  Speaker 25: Hey, real quick, on the postal cervix.
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  Speaker 26: Yes.
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  Speaker 25: You know, it's an interesting argument because I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 25: that mail fraud is a crime.
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  Speaker 26: It's a big crime.
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  Speaker 25: The Postal Service is tasked with making sure that fraud
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  Speaker 25: doesn't take place. And now it's not okay for them
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  Speaker 25: to ensure that fraud isn't taking place. So, that's an
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  Speaker 25: interesting argument. And we had three Supreme Court alleged justices.
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  Speaker 18: I don't know.
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  Speaker 26: They got appointed.
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  Speaker 16: They got confirmed.
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  Speaker 8: One of them can't tell you what a woman is,
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  Speaker 8: but that's okay.
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  Speaker 16: That's their oversight.
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  Speaker 25: Did I hear the WNBA was going to hire her
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  Speaker 25: to help them out?
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  Speaker 16: I don't know.
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: They won't let Ennis Cantor Freedom get into the draft.
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  Speaker 8: I would like to see that. But I must run
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  Speaker 8: as the clock is ticking on us.
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  Speaker 16: I appreciate it. So you have a good morning.
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  Speaker 25: They don't know what a woman is, but they know
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  Speaker 25: he ain't one.
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  Speaker 16: Apparently, apparently it's there.
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  Speaker 8: And it's this is this is what happens when you
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  Speaker 8: define yourself by what you're against. We're for things here.
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  Speaker 8: And we're for you coming back tomorrow morning at five.
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  Speaker 8: So long and thanks for all the fish.
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