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"Saving 'CanDo'!" (Monday November 10, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 7: Never be your Joe.
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Speaker 8: I want to be Orrah, and I want to take
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Speaker 8: a second here before get into our first things. Of
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Speaker 8: course here on the radio program that tells you what
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Speaker 8: went on. And yes we will talk about the test vote,
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Speaker 8: and we may even examine your cloture. I'm sorry, right,
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Speaker 8: did I distract you? But I take a second. For
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Speaker 8: decades now, on November tenth or thereabouts, we've been invited
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Speaker 8: and it's been a great honor of mine to broadcast
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Speaker 8: highlights from and interact with the Marines celebrating the anniversary
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Speaker 8: of the founding of the Corps. I even have a
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Speaker 8: pen given to me as an honorary marine, to which
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Speaker 8: several salty leathernecks have explained to me in no uncertain terms,
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Speaker 8: there is no such thing. Well, I tell it to
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Speaker 8: the Bradley t Arms detachment of the Marine Corps League
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Speaker 8: here in our hometown. But you know, you look around,
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Speaker 8: and I was trying to do a fair job on
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Speaker 8: our flagship station of announcing where Marine Corps leagues would
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Speaker 8: be holding ceremonies tonight. And it was, you know, a
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Speaker 8: little melancholy to me to see that the one detachment
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Speaker 8: in Charlottesville was the closest for miles around until you
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Speaker 8: get to Fairfax or Winchester to the north and Roanoke
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Speaker 8: to the south. And we need more of these organizations,
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Speaker 8: whether it's the VFW or the American Legion, you know,
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Speaker 8: any number of these groups. Wounded Warrior Project I think
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Speaker 8: has survived its controversies, but especially these fraternal orders like
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Speaker 8: the Marine Corps League, because I see it as the
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Speaker 8: way past this horrific and terminally deadly suicides amongst soldiers, sailors,
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Speaker 8: airmen who returned from theater having seen things that nothing
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Speaker 8: in their up bringing would have ever given them any
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Speaker 8: tool kit to deal with, and they just don't know
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Speaker 8: how to process it, and they need to have those fraternities.
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Speaker 8: And the reason I say the Marine Corps leagues specific
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Speaker 8: you know, and those specific corps, because you get it.
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Speaker 8: If it's the Army, you know, and you're in with
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Speaker 8: a bunch of other soldiers from the Army infantry men,
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Speaker 8: you get it. You understand each other, you understand, you
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Speaker 8: know what they're coming from and where they're going to,
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Speaker 8: and so you know, I suggest, you know, as soldiers
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Speaker 8: find those groups, find those places of fraternal organizations so
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Speaker 8: that they can help battle back those demons that lead
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Speaker 8: us to twenty two veterans suicides every day. It's it's
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Speaker 8: frightening and it needs to stop. Our first things, this
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Speaker 8: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the
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Speaker 8: Marine Corps, and of course celebrations will be going on
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Speaker 8: across the country at Marine Corps leagues, but they'll also
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Speaker 8: be kicking off their annual toys for Todd's Drive and
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Speaker 8: is when Marine told us this morning it's actually the
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Speaker 8: unofficial kickoff of the holiday season Marine Corps Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
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Speaker 8: New Years. US Senate has advanced a deal to end
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Speaker 8: the forty day government shutdown. It took a test vote,
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Speaker 8: with eight Democrats siding with the Republicans, including John Fetterman,
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Speaker 8: Dick Durbin and Tim Kaine of Virginia all joining in
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Speaker 8: to vote for a plan that would fund the government
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Speaker 8: until January thirtieth of next year and fund several key
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Speaker 8: agencies for the entire year regardless of whether the government
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Speaker 8: was shut down or not. After that, President Trump granted
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Speaker 8: into the twenty twenty elections, including Rudolph Giuliani, Mark Meadows,
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Speaker 8: aiding an enemy state in the imposition of martial law.
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Speaker 8: The head of the BBC resigned Sunday after criticism mounted
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Speaker 8: of Donald Trump's January sixth, twenty twenty one speech in
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Speaker 22: First of all is it raises healthcare premiums for over
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Speaker 8: been reopened, we can have discussions about extending the Obamacare subsidies.
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Speaker 8: How did we you tell me, Riddle me this, batman.
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Speaker 8: How did we go from repeal and replace in twenty
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Speaker 8: fourteen to extending subsidies for the very insurance payments that
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Speaker 8: we said we were going to drive down and make
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Speaker 8: insurance affordable for Americans. Thus the name the Affordable Care Act.
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Speaker 8: Really it was supposed to be the Affordable Insurance Act.
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Speaker 8: But again, twisting the words what they do best. They're
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Speaker 8: like a metal worker with a lathe, just twisting and
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Speaker 8: bending and making words sound like they say something they don't.
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Speaker 8: They're and I brought this up that these subsidies that
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Speaker 8: they're talking about because Bernie Sanders is not actually talking
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Speaker 8: about increasing healthcare premiums. He's talking about allowing the subsidies
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Speaker 8: to expire.
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Speaker 22: What it does, first of all, is it raises healthcare
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Speaker 22: premiums for over twenty million Americans by doubling.
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Speaker 8: No, it allows the subsidies that and Americans don't realize
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Speaker 8: how much their healthcare premiums are because we're subsidizing them.
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Speaker 8: So what's an insurance company going to do? Keep raising them?
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Speaker 8: Government's going to pay. And I pointed this out earlier
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Speaker 8: in the program, and I want to get to a
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Speaker 8: text message on this because I think it's a very
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Speaker 8: important point on this that these subsidies were put in
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Speaker 8: by the Biden administration to cover these insurance companies who
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Speaker 8: all of a sudden were seeing a massive influx of
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Speaker 8: people with SARS cove two, far more people than an
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Speaker 8: actuarial could ever have predicted, would all be turning up
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Speaker 8: at hospital looking for medical care and expecting to put
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Speaker 8: it on the arm of their insurance silly mortals. And
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Speaker 8: I posited to you that, certainly after the Affordable Care
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Speaker 8: Act had been passed and moved into legislature, given all
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Speaker 8: of the Chinese national and many Chinese national military officers
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Speaker 8: that were taking classes at American universities, it would certainly
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Speaker 8: surprise me to wonder if perhaps those at the Wuhan
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Speaker 8: Institute of Virology didn't get an email or two saying, hey,
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Speaker 8: what would happen to the American economy? Never mind the
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Speaker 8: world economy, Let's just talk about the American economy. If
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Speaker 8: now that they're anchored to this Affordable Care Act, if
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Speaker 8: we made everyone really really sick, got anything that could
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Speaker 8: do that? And you know, odd job down at the
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Speaker 8: Wuhan Institute of Virology responded, absolutely, we've got something that
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Speaker 8: will keep the oxygen from getting from the blood to
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Speaker 8: the from the lung to the heart. And ooh, that's evil,
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Speaker 8: wrote back the head of the Chinese Communist Party. But
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Speaker 8: it's not always fatal, own, it's not always fatal, just
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Speaker 8: to the people who have weakened immune systems and perhaps
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Speaker 8: are elderly. Ooh, that'll scare a lot of Americans. Let's
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Speaker 8: do that. It's a reasonable scenario. It's about as it's
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Speaker 8: more reasonable a scenario than Donald Trump paying prostitutes to
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Speaker 8: jump up and down on a bed in Moscow because
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Speaker 8: Barack Obama had slept there. But it's with that this
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Speaker 8: text message comes in. We were talking about this earlier.
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Speaker 8: Hold up a second, given what we have learned about
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Speaker 8: the level of coordination in arctic frost, the January sixth
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Speaker 8: bomber being CIA et cetera, et cetera, convince me Obamacare
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Speaker 8: and Anthony take the shot, leave the gun. Fauci financing,
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Speaker 8: the gain of function research and the timing of the
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Speaker 8: release of that work product wasn't coordinated. It takes a
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Speaker 8: dark heart to think that there are people who think
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Speaker 8: that George Bush coordinated the planes flying into the World
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Speaker 8: Trade Center towers on September eleventh, two thousand and one,
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Speaker 8: as well to make us do things, to make us think, things,
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Speaker 8: to make us change things, to make us give up things.
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Speaker 8: And what we learned during COVID was that we didn't
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Speaker 8: so much have healthcare as we had insurance. And those
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Speaker 8: insurance policies being assigned risk had very high premiums, very
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Speaker 8: high co pays, because they weren't policies generally gold standard.
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Speaker 8: They were what the insurance companies could afford to give
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Speaker 8: everybody because as a rule, it's a greater chance that
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Speaker 8: everybody has some sort of pre exist in condition that
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Speaker 8: they'll now have to be able to cover the costs for.
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Speaker 8: So they do what insurance companies do, and they factor
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Speaker 8: in costs and they try to make it as inaffordable
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Speaker 8: to use their insurance policy as possible. And I apologize
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Speaker 8: that in two thousand and eight I got this a
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Speaker 8: lot sooner than others because in New York State where
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Speaker 8: I grew up. That's how automobile insurance has been done
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Speaker 8: since my childhood. It's called assigned risk. You force insurance
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Speaker 8: companies to ensure people they never would have insured otherwise.
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Speaker 8: You subsidize it to a degree, but tell the insurance
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Speaker 8: companies that they can't operate in your state unless they
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Speaker 8: go into this assigned risk pool. And the insurance companies say, sure, fine,
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Speaker 8: will will do that. However, we don't think we're going
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Speaker 8: to ensure everybody and their grandmother equally. These people you
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Speaker 8: know that we never would have assigned an insurance policy to,
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Speaker 8: they're gonna have to pay a lot. And Obamacare is
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Speaker 8: built on the same model as the New York State
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Speaker 8: Automobile Assigned Risk Assurance program. So when Bernie Sanders talks
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Speaker 8: about all these Americans that are going to have their
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Speaker 8: healthcare costs co op, it's not that they've gone up.
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Speaker 8: They've always been up. The government's been running cover for
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Speaker 8: them and we can't afford it. And COVID is gone,
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Speaker 8: so we shouldn't still be doing it. But while we
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Speaker 8: were doing it, the premiums went up even more because
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Speaker 8: they were being subsidized. No, certainly a subsidy isn't going
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Speaker 8: to make something more expensive. No, what are you some
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Speaker 8: sort of capitalist or something thinking that that would happen?
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Speaker 8: Surely no faster than you can say college tuitions. I
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Speaker 8: would argue that, Hey, I.
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Speaker 20: Mitch.
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Speaker 11: Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our optimized curcumin seems
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24:24
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Speaker 8: you're absolutely right, Joe about veteran suicide. That's why Bouldercress,
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Speaker 8: I think is really what I'm talking about in our combat,
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Speaker 8: with this sadness that that that befalls are soldiers when
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Speaker 8: they come back. Twenty two suicides over the weekend. President
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Speaker 8: Trump said he should give Affordable Care Act money to
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Speaker 8: the people instead of going through the Congress. And again
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Speaker 8: this is just like him saying, let's get rid of
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Speaker 8: the filibuster. You're treating the system. You're trying to bring
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Speaker 8: down the fever rather than stop the infection that's causing it.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I get it, I understand it. But the
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Speaker 8: There's a book called Saving can Do by Philip K. Howard,
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Speaker 8: and he's stopping by the visit with us a little
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Speaker 8: how to revive the spirit of America. Doctor Howard, Thanks
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Speaker 8: for joining us. How are you doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm good. Nice to be with you.
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Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate it, it seems and I guess that's
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Speaker 8: the sad part of it is it seems like it's
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Speaker 8: such an obvious place to begin. When did we start
30:41
Speaker 8: to get told that can do is a bad thing
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Speaker 8: that we should be putting aside, this idea that we
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Speaker 8: can handle things. Was it when Barack Obama said, well,
30:54
Speaker 8: you didn't build it, or was it long before that?
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Speaker 1: It was before that. After the nineteen sixties, you know,
31:03
Speaker 1: we woke up to all kinds of things that needed
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Speaker 1: to be changed, like you know, discrimination and pollution and such,
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Speaker 1: and so we changed those values and created those laws.
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Speaker 1: That's fine, but the legal geniuses at the time thought
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Speaker 1: that they could prevent any abuses of authority in the future.
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Speaker 1: By turning governing governing into kind of a legal software program,
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Speaker 1: the government would not only tell you that she had
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Speaker 1: to avoid cheating or whatever, but would also tell you
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Speaker 1: exactly how to do things correctly. So just give an example,
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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty six Interstate Highway Act was twenty nine
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Speaker 1: pages long, and ten years later it was and ten
31:48
Speaker 1: years later, twenty one thousand miles of interstate highway had
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Speaker 1: been built. The last transportation bill was about one thousand
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Speaker 1: pages long, implemented like thousands of regulations, and it takes
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Speaker 1: years just to get approval to fix one stretch of road.
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Speaker 8: You to pay one pothole, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And so we created this kind of micro management legal
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Speaker 1: system that's now embodied in and I'm not kidding here,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million words of binding federal law
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Speaker 1: and regulation.
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Speaker 8: Good colleagues, So, no wonder we don't know what we're
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Speaker 8: supposed to do. I can't read the instruction manual on
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Speaker 8: my remote control. I'm not going to read that, my gosh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we created this system. So we've now for
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Speaker 1: five decades now sort of indoctrinated people into thinking that
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Speaker 1: the way to do things is to comply with all
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Speaker 1: these rules, not to actually roll up your sleeves and
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Speaker 1: make it happen. Well, it doesn't work. Nothing works. Rules
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Speaker 1: don't work. I mean lots of things don't work. That
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Speaker 1: everybody's going through the day with their noses and rule books.
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Speaker 8: Is this. And years ago I talked to Harvey Silverglade
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Speaker 8: on this program. He had just penned the book three
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Speaker 8: Felonies a Day, talking about the criminal code of this.
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Speaker 8: But I mean even the civic violations of violating. We
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Speaker 8: see this with the capture of the bureaucracies EPA, FDA. Sorry,
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Speaker 8: you can't start that restaurant. You don't have licenses from
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Speaker 8: the FDA, and OSHA, et cetera, et cetera. And we
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Speaker 8: even saw the darkest application of it during COVID nineteen
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Speaker 8: where the governor here in Virginia said, I have no
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Speaker 8: authority to close your business. However my health Department does,
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Speaker 8: or my Alcoholic Beverage Control does, so we'll shut you
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, people sort for them. In New York City,
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Speaker 1: there's there's a study that showed that it took approvals
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Speaker 1: from eleven different agencies to start a restaurant. So you
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Speaker 1: have these systems where that are beyond the capacity of
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Speaker 1: real people. And so I'm fine with government oversight overstarted,
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Speaker 1: you know, over a restaurant, you know, having sanitary conditions
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Speaker 1: and not pouring the grease into the sewer and clogging
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Speaker 1: it up in such fine. Great, but but let's create
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Speaker 1: a one stop shop, you know, for you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: for somebody to get the approval and then and then
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Speaker 1: get on with life. And so so we created a
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Speaker 1: system where people at this point feel powerless. And oddly
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Speaker 1: even the people in government are powerless because they can't
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Speaker 8: As a philosopher, and I want to happened to this
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Speaker 8: because something I've always felt was missing in America now
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Speaker 8: was the idea that certainly our judicial system could be
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Speaker 8: used to punish somebody when they do something illegal against
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Speaker 8: the rights of another citizen, against you know, whether it
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Speaker 8: be polluting the river or stealing from them. But somewhere
35:25
Speaker 8: in my life we moved into a world and it
35:28
Speaker 8: seems like what you're describing in here, where maybe it's
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Speaker 8: the politicians telling the electorate they will protect you from
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Speaker 8: bad things happening. But that seems to be the root
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Speaker 8: of a lot of what you're talking about. That millions
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Speaker 8: of pages of building codes and health codes and all
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Speaker 8: these other rules are to prevent bad things from happening,
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Speaker 8: rather than simply adjudicating them when they do, finding the
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Speaker 1: And so so let's just pause there for a second.
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Speaker 1: If you make somebody go through years of procedure to
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Speaker 1: build anything, it actually doesn't make the thing better generally.
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Speaker 1: What it does is it doubles or triples the cost
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Speaker 1: or fix the highway interchange or whatever it is. So
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Speaker 8: People forget faster than you can say. Adam Smith that
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Speaker 8: a free market will actually punish bad actors, and you know,
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Speaker 8: of why this book is so important. Philip Howard, author
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Speaker 8: the break Dodger Howard government has become the largest organized
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Speaker 8: going on even today. Your first chapter, really, I mean
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Speaker 8: the title of your first chapter in the book, Saving
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Speaker 8: Can Do? How to revive the spirit of America? Philip
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Speaker 8: Howard is with us, Is this America's nineteen seventeen moment?
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Speaker 8: Explain that as I think it's a terrific you know,
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Speaker 8: it makes this book a page turner by dragging us
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Speaker 8: right into it. But talk about that so that the
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Speaker 8: I had to keep reading it when I got to
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Speaker 8: that chapter, well, you know it's.
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Speaker 1: It's a reference to the Russian Revolution. So what you
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Speaker 1: have in nineteen seventeen is this situation where the state
45:48
Speaker 1: had failed, Russia had gotten crushed in World War One.
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Speaker 1: And what did happen, obviously, is that the most vicious
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Speaker 1: of them, the Bolsheviks, took over and subjected Russia to well,
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Speaker 1: so we thought a version of it, but to seventy
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Speaker 1: years of of a horrible communists rule, murdering you know,
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Speaker 1: millions of people and with a ridiculous ideology of central
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Speaker 1: planning where nothing worked, and and all that, and the
46:53
Speaker 1: and what we have in this country is not as bad,
46:57
Speaker 1: but you knows of a mild version of this. We
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Speaker 1: have a failed state. Two thirds of Americans think the
47:03
Speaker 1: government has broken. It needs to get overhauled, but neither
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Speaker 1: party has a vision of how to fiction it. Trump
47:11
Speaker 1: has done a good thing, which he's disinterrupted the system.
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Speaker 1: He said that it's broken, and he's right, but he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a vision about how to make it work better.
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Speaker 1: He just has a vision of trying to get rid
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Speaker 1: of stuff, and you know it doesn't work. I mean,
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47:29
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47:32
Speaker 1: push all this paper around, you know, the legal labyrinth,
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Speaker 1: then there's nobody to push the paper around, so worse paralysis.
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Speaker 8: Does this go back to the great society. And I
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Speaker 8: keep a clip of Lyndon Johnson's University of Michigan's speech
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Speaker 8: where he talks about, you know, a great society of
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Speaker 8: you know, not just uh freedom, but you know, equity
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Speaker 8: for all. And this seems to be to me the
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Speaker 8: beginning of the American twenty nineteen seventeen movement of yes,
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Speaker 8: you're poor, and we're going to make it so you're
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Speaker 8: not poor anymore. And now we have more poor people
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Speaker 8: sixty years later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it does go back to that. And
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Speaker 1: again it was a it was they had a fatal
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Speaker 1: flaw in the operating system they put it. For example,
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Speaker 1: not only do you have these thousand page rule books.
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Speaker 1: You know, you under stand up comedy, but how stupid
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Speaker 1: the rules are. But we got this idea of individual
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Speaker 1: rights that was not the rights of the framer. The
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Speaker 1: rights of framers were rights that gets state power. You know,
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Speaker 1: government can't come in take your property away or whatever
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Speaker 1: without due process of law. These new rights, we're rights
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Speaker 1: against other free people. So all of a sudden, somebody
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Speaker 1: has the right to tell their supervisor you can't fire me.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Everybody knows you're not trying hard or
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Speaker 1: you're a bad judgment or whatever. They said, No, you
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Speaker 1: have to prove that. Well, to think about it for
49:19
Speaker 1: a second. That's so called right is a use of
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Speaker 1: state power, because that's what a lawsuit is. Right. It's
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Speaker 1: the use of the coercive power of the state to
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Speaker 1: undermine the freedom of the say, school principle to do
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Speaker 1: his job. I mean, it's just it's so we turn
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Speaker 1: the idea of rights into its opposite. It's like George orwell,
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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like rights. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so keep bad teachers saying, well, you you know,
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Speaker 1: you can't fire me. You know, I have the right
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Speaker 1: to do quote due process. That means nobody ever gets fired.
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Speaker 1: And then post second you say, what about the rights
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Speaker 1: the twenty eight kids who were stuck with you, you know,
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Speaker 1: and the rights of the principal to take responsibility to
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Speaker 1: run the school as best you can.
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Speaker 8: Philip, and you tee up right there a story that
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Speaker 8: I saw this morning that just stunned me. And by
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Speaker 8: the way, you know, please get the book. It is
50:19
Speaker 8: saving can do how to revive the spirit of America.
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Speaker 8: And I appreciate you taking a little time out with
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Speaker 8: us and going through it. But this story just stunned me.
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Speaker 8: Where a trans student, a trans teacher in Massachusetts was
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Speaker 8: just confessed it pled guilty to charges of molestation along
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Speaker 8: with a partner at a school he was working at.
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Speaker 8: And I'm sorry, this is just to me. In the
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Speaker 8: same folder where House of Cards the actor when he
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Speaker 8: was caught, you know, when the fifteen year old when
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Speaker 8: the kids said, hey, this guy molested me when I
51:08
Speaker 8: was fifteen, and his defense was, but I'm gay. We
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Speaker 8: these stereotypes. We're told we want to fight the stereotype
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Speaker 8: of the trans people molesting kids right out of the
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Speaker 8: bathrooms of Virginia's Louden County high schools. Yeah, when it happens,
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Speaker 8: we're supposed to ignore it and somehow pretend that it
51:38
Speaker 8: didn't have anything to do with that. And I'm sure
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Speaker 8: that the defense lawyers would make a great deal out
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Speaker 8: of oh, well this, that or the other obfuscating matter
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Speaker 8: then changed things, But I just don't follow it. I'm
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Speaker 8: going to be heading to the local Marine Corps League
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Speaker 8: detachment tonight. We'll have some highlights for you tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 8: Two hundred and fifty years of Oorah, two hundred and
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Speaker 8: fifty years of the Marine Corps and a grateful nation.
52:36
Speaker 8: Thanks you for being on that wall and behind that
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Speaker 8: trumpet if you need to be for all of us here,
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Speaker 8: and then Veterans Day tomorrow and we'll celebrate that appropriately.
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Speaker 8: Until then, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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