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"On Behalf of Crackers Everywhere..." (Friday August 22, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Say bye bye to the barrel on Cracker Barrel Iconic Globo.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First Thing Today on the Chunk
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  Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Jewort said, steal me.
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  Speaker 4: Why do we not leave with this at least for
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  work when the sun comes up?
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  Speaker 5: Drops a kid to school? Joe has everything a dream
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  does all the.
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  Speaker 4: Joss that needs no one that Joe Sellence smiled.
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  Speaker 3: He only as it's fun.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, bless you for letting us be of service to.
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  Speaker 3: You hold these truths. And I want to say, on
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  behalf of Crackers Everywhere, it's about damn time. I mean,
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  I mean, really, how long? How long do we have
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  to battle the day piction of a cracker on the
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  on the logo of Cracker Barrel before somebody says we
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  need to take that down? I mean, I mean, let's
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  let's just I can't. It's too many people take too
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  many things too seriously these days. But you get the point.
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  As as a Cracker, as a national spokesperson for Crackers everywhere,
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  I want to say that I'm offended that you would
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  take us off your logo Cracker Barrel. And I say
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  this having never actually ever been inside a cracker Barrel.
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  But it had nothing to do with the depiction of
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  a cracker or a barrel outside on their logo. But
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  even even Gavin Newsom, although I believe Gavin Newsom is
• 1:56
  this is still part of Gavin Newsom's trolling of President
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  Trump through X and his social media platforms. But you
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  tell me, you tell me if this isn't the biggest,
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  most important story first and foremost, the corporate ownership of
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  Cracker Barrel really needs to stop and take a moment
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  and say, if you were going to go woke, you're
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  like five years too late. I mean, I mean, how
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  slow does your market research team work if you're only
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  just getting to the woke party now. I mean, I
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  don't want to be mean spirited, and I'm certainly not
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  like Larry Kudlow or Jim Kramer or some other expert
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  in business, mostly because they give TV cameras to me.
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  So all right, I have a TV camera in my
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  studio here in some lights, maybe I'm just as qualified
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  as Jim Kramer to make these pregnant. But if you're
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  going woke in twenty twenty five, I think your market
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  research team needs to be checked, because this was like
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  the policies of five years ago. Maybe they didn't care
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  five years ago because such you know, racially disparate and
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  disparaging imagery. Nobody noticed it five years ago. It was like, hey,
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  you know, I think that logo means something here. And
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  so finally the crackers of America get their own, their
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  own hashtag woke moment. And and yes, I agree with
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  Brian kilmeaan. Why didn't we lead with this story yesterday?
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  Why wasn't Why wasn't this the big story? Never got
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  a dinner? Crackers everywhere never got a dinner, all sorts
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  of crackers, never got even at Cracker Barrel. Anyway, there's
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  real news afoot, and we will chronicle it all for
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  you and then find out how it's impacting you on
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  name remains. President Trump took his law and ordered message
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  Thursday quote the increasing number of foreign drivers operating large
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  lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truck drivers. Earlier
• 4:53
  this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Motor
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you a question as we move
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  off the cracker and by all means if you have
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  a thought on cracker. Barrel received this text, Joe, I
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  had forgotten that that was a racial derogatory stereotype. Yeah,
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  that's right. The mind races at other applications of similar
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  racial derogatory stereotypes. But be that as it may. We'll
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  coming up as well. Is the is the franchise known
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  as Canuck Barrel up in Canada. I mean, I know
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  that some places they do things differently. You know, it's
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  royale with cheese, et cetera, et cetera. No you don't, Okay, no, regardless,
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  I don't want to get caught up in it, but
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  it is it is worth the mirth there. But I
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  have a story that yet again, the media narrative anything
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  to make Donald Trump look bad, and and I hate
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  it because I'm not out here to fluff Donald Trump.
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  And so it forces people who want to be honest
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  brokers to wind up sounding like we're out here fluffing
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  Donald Trump. But the president. The narrative, of course, is
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  the president has loyalty tests, and and that befell friends
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  of mine, actual literal, verifiable friends of mine, who may
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  actually be listening to this program right now, probably clinching, thinking,
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  oh God, he's going to talk about the US attorney
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  from the Western District of Virginia. Well, it's a national
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  story now, and so Therefore, this impacts any of you
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  that have a US Attorney's office for your area, which
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  is all of you. This befalls you, and damn it,
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  I hate that I have to spend some time on
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  what is a pretty obvious story. So first off, I
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  have to good job. I have to standing ovation for
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  Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, leaders of the Virginia Democratic Party,
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  who set about earlier this year weakening the Republican Party
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  as we head into an election season the entire Virginia
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  House of Delegates up for election, and they did so
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  by well allowing Republicans to see themselves in the mirror
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  as something more So, they went out and they said, hey,
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  you know, we're looking for nominees to be US Attorney
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  to the Western District of Virginia. And one of those
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  who sought the position was the leader of the Republicans
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  in the General Assembly, Todd Gilbert. They said, great, let's appoint.
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  Let's get him appointed, and then we'll lose all this
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  institutional memory. Arch conservative. He's the guy. If you are
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  a consumer of this kind of news coverage, you will
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  remember a very famous video that you know, all the
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  way up the food chain of talk show hosts, even
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  Rush Limbaugh spent months on the story of Kathy Tran.
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  Kathy Tran was the Virginia delegate who who was the
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  fore mother or the midwife or whatever it was of
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  what is about to become Virginia's constitutionally protected right to
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  kill your baby, all the way up to the moment
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  it's about to take its first breath. She was giving
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  testimony to Todd Gilbert in his committee and he simply
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  asked her, so, what do you know about what's in
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  this bill? And she didn't, And it's hysterical, great mind
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  in the General Assembly. So let's appoint him to the
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  US Attorney's office and get him out of the General Assembly.
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  Let's take all that institutional knowledge and move him somewhere else.
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  That was Mark Warner Tim Kaine's agenda. It seems because
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  they've been remarkably successful, because now not only is Todd
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  Gilbert no longer the leader of the Virginia Republicans in
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  the General Assembly, he's also not the US Attorney for
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  the Western District of New York. He resigned on Wednesday
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  at five pm. Now the story, and this is where
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  the never trumpers. The Adam Kinsinger's the Liz Cheney's come involved,
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  and I never seemed though Todd Gilbert did endorse other
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  candidates in that period of time in between twenty twenty
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  and twenty twenty four, endorse the idea of maybe we
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  need somebody different in the party, so he gets branded
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  never Trumper. But that's not the essence of the story
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  as I find it. The essence of the story was
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  that Todd Gilbert, when he was made US Attorney from
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  the Western District of Virginia, was told, hey, you've got
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  a part of the weaponized justice system there, Biden appointee.
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  We want you to get him out and replace him
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  with somebody else. This is where friend of mine comes in,
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  because friend of mine is somebody else, and they're playing
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  it out like this was a loyalty test. You tell
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  me if you take over a law firm and they say, hey,
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  this guy has been you know, or let's say you
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  become police chief. Ostensibly metaphorically what we're talking about here.
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  So you become police chief, and your first order of
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  business is to get rid of the cops that have
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  been on the take and have been targeting members of
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  the community simply for their political beliefs and or connections,
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  going after businesses that might have supported a particular political party,
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  or perhaps of an ethnic minority. Perhaps they were seen
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  eating at a cracker barrel, and oh well it's broke,
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  not woke, so you had. So in this analogy, you
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  have corrupt cops and you become police chief, and then
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  the mayor says to the police chief, I need you
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  to get rid of the corrupt cops and you say, no,
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  I don't want to. Is that failing a loyalty test
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  or just not good governance? We already know about the
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  weaponization of the judicial system, that's a given. Why would you?
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  And of course everyone has circled the wagons in this
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  because the media narrative is, oh, look, it's more of
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  mister Trump's loyalty tests. Oh, it was get rid of
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  more of the corrupt, weaponized legal system. And Todd Gilbert
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  wouldn't do it, okay, And you know, so he was told,
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  apparently that if he didn't resign on his own, the
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  administration would rescind their nomination because he hadn't gone through
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  the Senate confirmation process yet, so they could do that.
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  He's been sworn in and he was actually working as
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  the US Attorney but acting US attorney, he hadn't gone
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  through the Senate confirmations yet, so the story goes that
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  he was told resign or we're going to put And
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  to be funny, he posted on his social media, Wow
• 21:26
  that escalated quickly from the Anchorman movie. But it's not
• 21:31
  in the press all loving to bash Donald Trump. Even
• 21:36
  those who feign conservatism are out there saying, look, it's
• 21:40
  more royalty tests. When as I go through it, and
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  I talked to a crap ton of people yesterday about this,
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  it's about getting rid of part of the weaponized legal
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  system that the Biden administration had used to target Americans,
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  and he wouldn't do it.
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  it's a quickie. You have to wait on hold, or
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  you know, wait for me to finish a statement, or
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  I think Bob sends in some stuff this morning, always
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  said Cavin Newsome in an orange jumpsuit. I like that one, Bob,
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  is the thirteen years of government education. Eighteen year olds
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  in America can't grow their own food, can't build a
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  house or fix a car, are economically and historically illiterate,
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  unaware of proper nutrition or how the human body actually functions.
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  But this goes back, Bob, your your graphic that you
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  sent me is just what we were talking about yesterday
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  and the day before, which is that there are people
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  who have finally grown so weary of being cute about it,
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  are saying no, we want the schools to be in
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  doctrination centers. So we'll get into that this morning. Also,
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  the overturning of the ruling in the Lutitia James five
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  hundred and twenty seven million dollar suit on the President.
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  So much going on, Mac, What are you working on
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  at the Sports Stats?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 23: Here are the stories we are following on this Friday
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  at East Lake in Atlanta and the Tour Championship. Russell
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  Henley carted eleven threes and fired a nine under sixty one,
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  two shots back the world's number one, Scottie Scheffler. The
• 30:16
  scoring average yesterday was three under. Seven players fired sixty
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  four or better for Henley, the former Georgia Bulldog. Results
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  can come from hard work and respect.
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  Speaker 22: I've tried to just work really hard at all aspects
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  of my game to try to put myself in position
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  to win tournaments and compete at the highest possible level
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  on the biggest and best courses. And I have so
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  much respect for this game and all these amazing players.
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  It's so it's so difficult to even put yourself in
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  the position to try to win a golf tournament in
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  these in these on the PGA Tour.
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  Speaker 23: Tea times have been moved up for tomorrow's second round
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  with the forecast for thunderstorms and severe weather in Atlanta.
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  The college football season kicks off this weekend with five games.
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  Number twenty two Iowa State will travel to Manhattan, Kansas
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  to battle Number seventeen k State. Kay You will host
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  Fresno State, and the ACC Stanford Cardinal will visit Oahu
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  and meet Hawaii. Seventeen games are on the slate for
• 31:13
  next Thursday. A story broke Wednesday regarding Kansas City Chiefs
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  head coach Andy Reid. It had been kept under wraps
• 31:19
  until now. Last May fourth, twenty twenty four, a gunman
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  fired bullets into the Chief's offices. One bullet shattered the
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  glass and Read's office and lodged into a wall between
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  the coach's bathroom and entry door. Two other shots were fired.
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  One bullet hit the third floor office above Reed's area,
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  and another shot penetrated and air conditioning unit. The Kansas
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  City Police Department is still investigating the incident. Indiana Fever
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  guard Caitlin Clark is now dealing with another injury that
• 31:47
  may keep her out of the lineup until the playoffs
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  in September. Clark injured her right ankle during a workout
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  earlier this month in Phoenix. Clark suffered a bone bruise
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  that delayed her return to the Fevers. First five. That's
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  our sport update for this hour. We'll see you with
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  a note bucket seven thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by the Lunch Pale Foundation. What's important
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  now getting kids a good education. Speaking of so you
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  or may have heard yesterday we were talking about the
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  trans rights issue. Such a Porwellian phrase. Ah, but that's
• 32:23
  what you see it as. I want to keep it
• 32:25
  in a reference point, and it's really about allowing convicted
• 32:30
  sex offenders into girls' locker rooms in Arlington, Virginia, because
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  they said, but I'm trans. Now, this is like Kevin
• 32:40
  Spacey saying it's okay to molest a preteen boy because
• 32:44
  I'm gay. Look it up. That's what he said. And
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  so the gubernatorial candidate from Virginia was at this school
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  board meeting where they're debating, you know, to continue their
• 33:02
  trans policies that included these ridiculous ideas that all you
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  have to do is fill out a form and you
• 33:16
  can go into the girls' locker rooms. And the most
• 33:23
  hurtful and I think indicative sign that I saw outside
• 33:28
  of the Arlington school board meeting was this quote handwritten sign.
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  It looked like it was it almost it almost looked
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  so bad. It looked like one of those hostage letters.
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  But it said, Hey Winsome. Winsome series the lieutenant governor
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  who's running for governor, Hey Winsome, if trans if trans
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  people can't use my bathroom, then you can't use my bathroom,
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  referring to the fact that Win some series is a
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  black woman, so they're equating Jim Crow one point zero
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  and saying that allowing sex offenders male sex offenders who
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  had decided, hey, a pretty good scam might be if
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  I just tell people I'm trans, then I can go
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  use the girl's bathroom. Not that we haven't seen this
• 34:30
  problem before, where school's ignorance and desperate attempts to be
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  seen as woke, regardless of whether they get their school
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  meals from cracker barrel or not. Not only ignored a
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  rapist who had committed a rape, they moved him to
• 34:57
  another school so he could addictively commit another attempted rape.
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  This is what they do. This is what the schools
• 35:09
  are doing all across the country. They're still doing it,
• 35:12
  even though the Trump administration and Republican governors are trying
• 35:16
  to stop it. They're like, no, we'll we'll just get
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  two or three hundred people, a terribly small minority of
• 35:24
  the population, but we'll get people to turn out. Look
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  like we'll have big crowds. Everyone wants girls to be
• 35:31
  boys and boys to be girls. Because it's mixed up,
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  jumbled up, shook up world except for Lola. So we're
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  equating racial segregation to gender segregation now, and I have
• 35:57
  a simple fix for this, and it has nothing to
• 35:59
  do with public policy. It has to do with the obvious.
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  Because every house in America has unisex bathrooms. Every NASCAR
• 36:17
  race has unisex bathrooms out in the parking lots. Every
• 36:21
  big field concert like Woodstock has unisex bathrooms. They're called portagohns.
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  Real simple fix. Get rid of community bathrooms, get rid
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  of community showers, single stalls. It's easy enough to do.
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  Go into a buck ease. Fifty percent of all the
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  facilities in the mail bathrooms that I've been in are
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  full door to ceiling cubicles. Do that? Why is that?
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  You know? Oh, well, as you can't do that. Why
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  do we have to have these Roman style community bathrooms. Well,
• 37:13
  let the sink be a community area, but you know
• 37:15
  everyone else go into a little privy and when people
• 37:24
  commit sexual assault, you punish them. You put them away,
• 37:28
  and you lock the key into a box somewhere and
• 37:32
  you bury it, and then people won't commit sexual assault.
• 37:37
  But as long as you do these handwringing adult knit
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  wittery policies of saying well, if the guy wears a dress,
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  he can be a girl and go into the girl's
• 37:49
  bathroom with other girls, and girls can go into the
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  boy's bathroom and take pictures of what they see. Crazy.
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  Speaker 11: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
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  mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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  nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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  Speaker 12: That's the sugary center of shopping. Success, for this is goodwill.
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  And with every item you buy, you fund local job
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  Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
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  both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that the
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  disability is not a limitation.
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  homeless tall.
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  generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 13: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 11: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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  Speaker 22: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
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  Speaker 13: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
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  bound together and guaranteed Think First. Learn more at Think
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  Speaker 19: Sure?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 5: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, hey, okay them but easy on the radio
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  here the phrase a lot Overton window, and the Overton
• 44:53
  window is simply the way that unacceptable things because acceptable,
• 45:01
  like boys getting to go into the girl's locker room
• 45:07
  by simply saying I feel like a girl today, and
• 45:14
  when the sexual assaults that predictably happen with them, we
• 45:19
  try to move the Overton window back where and that
• 45:23
  refers to an area of an issue that has reached
• 45:32
  politically popular. You know, it goes from unthinkable to radical,
• 45:40
  to acceptable, to sensible to popular, and you can drag
• 45:45
  something and some of it, like the idea that black
• 45:55
  people and white people are different, or that black people
• 46:00
  are intellectually in that white people are intellectually superior to
• 46:09
  black people inferior. That was the word all of a sudden,
• 46:12
  improving my point, Joe can't even think of the word inferior.
• 46:19
  Because there was a time in the world where that
• 46:21
  was the idea that everyone was the same was unthinkable,
• 46:26
  was heresy, and over time it moved to a radical idea.
• 46:39
  And then that radical idea became more and more discussed
• 46:46
  and put into the public sphere, and it became an
• 46:50
  acceptably held concept, and then it started to fall under
• 46:57
  the canticle. Well, I mean, look, I know some great
• 46:59
  lawyer and doctors, and so it's sensible. And then it
• 47:05
  moves into the overton window of popular. And this is
• 47:11
  the battle over whether boys can go and pray on
• 47:16
  girls so that they can win a sporting trophy, or
• 47:20
  that they can pray on girls for sexual activity. They
• 47:26
  couldn't win on their own because they're what the Internet
• 47:29
  refers to as in cells. But if I dresses a girl,
• 47:33
  I get to go hang out with girls. I used
• 47:35
  to have to cut a hole in the girl's locker
• 47:37
  room to now I just have to say, I feel
• 47:40
  like a woman. Give me that, Shanaia Twain song man
• 47:45
  feel like a woman. And the more you cover it,
• 47:50
  unless you are ardently pointing out the lunacy of these
• 47:56
  ideas and the propos and some such things, will go
• 48:02
  back and say, well, you are considered a lunatic if
• 48:05
  you thought black people and white people were the same intellectually.
• 48:11
  And why even your hero mister Jefferson wrote that, yes,
• 48:17
  when he was a young man, he did write things
• 48:19
  about the intellectual incapabilities of blacks and whites. Yes he did.
• 48:26
  Can't deny it because that was the acceptable view. But
• 48:35
  we're dragging the insane into the Overton window that you
• 48:41
  can just change your biology and beyond insane. What we're
• 48:48
  doing is we're harming people by not helping them figure
• 48:52
  out why it is they hate themselves. This is the
• 48:56
  part of this story that, you know, maybe it's too
• 49:00
  nuanced for a lot of people in talk radio to
• 49:02
  get into, but the most heartbreaking thing to me is
• 49:06
  that there are people who truly hate who they are
• 49:11
  and want to change it physically, medically, and we're no
• 49:20
  longer interested in trying to help them with that pain.
• 49:23
  And one of the things that we know true now
• 49:26
  is that there are people who go through transitionary surgeries,
• 49:31
  go through all the hormone treatments and all of the
• 49:33
  medical treatments and all of the punishment that you put
• 49:36
  your body through to do the transitioning, only to find
• 49:41
  that the things that we're making them hate themselves were
• 49:44
  still there. This is where the suicide rates amongst the
• 49:51
  communities that go through transgender It doesn't have to do
• 49:55
  with missing their body parts that they cut off. It's
• 49:58
  the fact that there was pain and self loathing and
• 50:03
  brokenness inside of them before they had the surgeries that
• 50:08
  still existed surprise, surprise, after the surgeries. And this is
• 50:14
  what we need to drag into the Overton window, is
• 50:18
  the idea that people sometimes need help, and we stigmatize that,
• 50:25
  but we celebrate self mutilation as a coping mechanism to that,
• 50:34
  regardless of the rapists and the violence that can be
• 50:43
  done to girls in the name of equity and sports.
• 50:51
  But we've dragged this and this is what these crowds
• 50:55
  of people outside of the Arlington, Virginia school Board meeting,
• 50:58
  and I've seen them in Colorado. I've seen them in California.
• 51:02
  Half of the General Assembly go out there and march
• 51:06
  with their rainbow scarves on saying we believe in you.
• 51:10
  What about believing in helping somebody who is in pain,
• 51:15
  who doesn't like who they are. Why have we decided
• 51:25
  we can't help them, so we'll just allow them to
• 51:30
  self mutilate themselves. I believe some of it roots into
• 51:39
  a misunderstanding of the passage judged, not lest thee be judged,
• 51:46
  because there are things that are societal norms. And let's
• 51:51
  point out that when societal norms are wrong, it's usually
• 51:55
  the conservatives that are the ones who find it pointed
• 51:58
  out and get chained brought in like Martin Luther King Jr.
• 52:09
  So we have dehumanized and normalized the idea of this
• 52:17
  inhumanity for political power so that we can be seen
• 52:25
  as politically active. And we know when these things become
• 52:30
  political issues, they're not winners. But you add it as
• 52:34
  a plank. This is why these school boards turn a
• 52:42
  blind eye because most of these school board members fancy
• 52:45
  themselves maybe governors someday, or secretary of education or something
• 52:50
  high er.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  weightlifting champion. I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 19: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 22: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 7: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless tall.
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  Speaker 7: At DAV, We're on a mission to help veterans get
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  the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 7: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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  for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 17: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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  Speaker 7: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 19: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 7: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  more Victories for Veterans, go to dav dot org