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"Throwing the Pope a Rope" (Tuesday, May 26, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 4: you can get on about your day knowing what's happening.
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Speaker 4: And we can discuss here at four three, four eight,
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Speaker 4: two four to two one seven. Federal agencies sent out
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Speaker 4: roughly one hundred and eighty six billion dollars and I
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Speaker 4: and other welfare related programs accounted for much of that
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Speaker 4: total let's say twenty four billion dollar increase from the
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Speaker 4: prior year. According to the Government Accountability Office, fifteen federal
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Speaker 4: agencies reported improper payments across sixty four programs. Eighty two
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Speaker 4: percent tied to overpayment. Medicare accounted for, surprise here, fifty
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Speaker 4: the deal is bad for Israel, bad for the region
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Speaker 4: forty percent in a three way race, and we'll see
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Speaker 4: I wait, what excuse me? A couple of emails and
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Speaker 4: I knew this would tweak some things. This one from Mark,
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Speaker 4: who I like you playing along? Mark sends me a
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Speaker 4: link to one of my fellow columnists at the Daily
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Speaker 4: Signal who wrote piece Jay Richards. Pope Leo's message is
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Speaker 4: one all need to hear, and his point was, doesn't
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Speaker 4: sound like your buddies at the Daily Signal agree with you, Joe.
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Speaker 4: We read to you what Mark writes, so first, if
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Speaker 4: you're joining us in progress. Earlier, I expressed disappointment with
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Speaker 4: Pope Leo's first and cyclical in which he calls for
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Speaker 4: better regulation of artificial intelligence for the right reasons, that
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Speaker 4: it can be used as an incredible harmful tool, and
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Speaker 4: he calls on the leaders of the world to make
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Speaker 4: sure that it is used for good. That's fine, He's
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Speaker 4: skipped a step. We read to you, and I lump
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Speaker 4: artificial intelligence in with all the other inanimate objects that
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Speaker 4: aren't going to do anything until we ask it to.
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Speaker 4: Stickball bat isn't an assault weapon until somebody in my
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Speaker 4: neighborhood picks it up and goes into the alley with it.
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Speaker 4: See what I'm saying. Social media isn't dangerous until somebody
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Speaker 4: starts writing horrible things about you that aren't true, but
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Speaker 4: everyone sees it and believes it to be true. The
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Speaker 4: Pope circumvented our responsibility. And I said to this earlier Mark,
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Speaker 4: you maybe not heard it. I said, you know, you don't.
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Speaker 4: I know that the Pope is a priest. But for
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Speaker 4: the sake of these edicts in this operation. He is
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Speaker 4: the CEO of an organization, and his job is to
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Speaker 4: make sure that his organization remains popular and serves the
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Speaker 4: needs of those who seek its membership, and do as
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Speaker 4: little as possible to make somebody not feel welcome there.
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Speaker 4: That's one of the biggest challenges I think the last
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Speaker 4: five popes have faced. But anyway, so the article Mark
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Speaker 4: sent me is from Daily Signal, Jay Richards wrote rights
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Speaker 4: for them, as do I. By the way, my piece,
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Speaker 4: my most recent one on the Dominion Energy Next Era merger,
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Speaker 4: is up there. Now it's an explainer transcript some of
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Speaker 4: the thing. So Mark writes. The short answer the Pope
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Speaker 4: gives is the same one the Church has consistently taught.
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Speaker 4: Technology is not quote a force antagonistic to humanity, nor
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Speaker 4: is it quote inherently evil. At the same time, technology
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Speaker 4: is never neutral because it takes on the characteristics of
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Speaker 4: those who devise, finance, regulate and use it. And then
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Speaker 4: that he is right, But let's eliminate some of the
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Speaker 4: other obfusations. Just say use it, don't qualify, devise, finance, regulate.
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Speaker 4: That's all uses. And the most insidious one is the last.
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Speaker 4: If it weren't for understanding that the pope's role is
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Speaker 4: as CEO of an organization, no different than the head
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Speaker 4: of Apple or the head of Paramount Pictures. Is the
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Speaker 4: head of an organization, so they're going to say things
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Speaker 4: positive about their organization. President Trump is the head of
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Speaker 4: an organization. And he said at the end of his
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Speaker 4: at the end of one of the portions of his
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Speaker 4: speech yesterday at Arlington, and.
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Speaker 6: Our nation is doing better today than it's ever done before.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure I agree with him on that. Certainly
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Speaker 4: better than it's done in much of our adult lifetime.
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Speaker 4: But the danger in that is the fact that we
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Speaker 4: have ten cities all over the place, and we have
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Speaker 4: issues that really need to be addressed. But as the
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Speaker 4: CEO of America, Inc. He needs to say America is
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Speaker 4: doing great, so that we keep doing great. It's that
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Speaker 4: aspirational management. So what I wish the Pope had done
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Speaker 4: is in his encyclical said, it's all on us to
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Speaker 4: look at the most important rule book regarding artificial intelligence,
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Speaker 4: the Ten Commandments, because by that, and certainly as the pope,
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Speaker 4: he shouldn't find himself in controversy for saying, hey, see
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Speaker 4: these ten things up here on the wall. That's our
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Speaker 4: regulation for artificial intelligence, because if more of us were
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Speaker 4: adherent to the Ten Commandments, fewer of us would have
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Speaker 4: problems with artificial intelligence. And I know you think, oh, Joe,
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Speaker 4: that's overly simplistic. But let's not be hypnotized by the complexities.
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Speaker 4: The gas lighters want us to see the complexities. The
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Speaker 4: gas lighters want us to feel like, oh wow, this
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Speaker 4: is way too much for me. I could never figure
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Speaker 4: it out. Sure, do you know how to cast a
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Speaker 4: ratcheting socket? No, I don't know how to make one.
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Speaker 4: I have the concept of a lever and through that
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Speaker 4: I can make a wrench. I don't know how you
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Speaker 4: make the gears do the things I know the theory.
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Speaker 4: Ask me to machine a ratcheting socket, No way. I'd
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Speaker 4: be here for the next twenty years just trying, Or
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Speaker 4: you'll find my dehydrated, emaciated corpse laying across a pile
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Speaker 4: of rocks that I was trying to somehow fabricate a
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Speaker 4: and I know how to use one ethically. I know
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Speaker 4: how to pick one up and understand that I could
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Speaker 4: use this ratcheting socket for good or I could use
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Speaker 4: it for evil. I could build something horrific with it.
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Speaker 4: I could build something amazing with it. It's what kind
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Speaker 4: of person am I? And that's where the popes message.
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Speaker 4: I felt like missed the opportunity to say, we have
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Speaker 4: this list now. He grew up in Chicago. He's a
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Speaker 4: contemporary of mine, so I understand the world he grew
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Speaker 4: up in. I also under the understand the world he
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Speaker 4: went out and ministered to in South America. And sometimes,
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Speaker 4: whether you're the pope or a talk show host or
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Speaker 4: a guy just driving to his morning job, we all,
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Speaker 4: you know, become creatures of our experiences. And this is
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Speaker 4: where intellect becomes important, because your intellect is there to
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Speaker 4: sort through your experiences. So you're just not purely a
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Speaker 4: creature of your experiences, because then you're no different than
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Speaker 24: Really how closefully get Tom to getting killed without him
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Speaker 24: actually getting killed while filming? But the concept was to
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Speaker 24: sort of create an appreciation amongst American people of faith,
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Speaker 24: women who might feel put upon as women, which I'm
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Speaker 24: not suggesting that there's not an equality in our society,
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Speaker 24: and these are things that we should addressed. This is
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Speaker 24: why the founder suggested that we should form a more
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Speaker 24: perfect union, implying perpetual work as opposed to a perfect union,
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Speaker 24: which implies you're going to get there because you're not
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Speaker 24: Romans three twenty three. So we wanted to go these
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Speaker 24: places and show these things, really so that we'd appreciate
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Speaker 24: America and stand up for a be a voice for
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Speaker 24: the people who don't have voices. That was the idea.
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Speaker 4: So you've opened a Pandora's create here because you reminded me.
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Speaker 4: One of the last places you filmed was Ukraine, and
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Speaker 4: about a week week and a half go very poignant
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Speaker 4: email from one of our listeners saying, Hey, haven't heard
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Speaker 4: anyone in the news talking about Ukraine ever since Iran started,
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Speaker 4: And every now and then it seems like Voladimir Zelensky
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Speaker 4: has to do something to get his name mentioned in
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Speaker 4: association with it Ron. I guess and they're you know,
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Speaker 4: really different view of the Ukrainians. Not necessarily the Ukrainian government.
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Speaker 4: Has that changed over the couple of years since you
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Speaker 4: were first there.
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Speaker 24: Well, they're egregiously corrupt, and I knew that when I was.
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Speaker 4: There, the government, not the people.
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Speaker 24: Yeah, the government is. But you know again, I mean,
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Speaker 24: let's who's the bad guy in the fight. It's Russia.
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Speaker 24: It's not Ukraine, right, And the reason that Asile sort
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Speaker 24: of fell in on Ukraine, and that's the closest I
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Speaker 24: were three miles from the Russian border forty five days
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Speaker 24: after Putin came in with Ukrainian special forces, and the
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Speaker 24: Russians had inkling that there were people there and started
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Speaker 24: dropping artillery on us, which my father used to say,
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Speaker 24: it's better to give thaness to receive. And as a
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Speaker 24: former artillery that I can help in any event. The
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Speaker 24: lies that you must tell your populace to justify and
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Speaker 24: pacify when you're sending tens and tens of thousands of
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Speaker 24: their sons off to die and be maimed, are always
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Speaker 24: rich in their in their origins. In Ukraine, you know
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Speaker 24: the different there's probably a key Evan Rus before there
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Speaker 24: was a Ruse or at least an organized sort of
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Speaker 24: governance therein. And the argument that Putin used was really
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Speaker 24: co opting of the Eastern Orthodox Faith, the Russian Orthodox Church,
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Speaker 24: and then this ethnic argument that if they weren't both
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Speaker 24: white with Christian tradition, would have sent it a whole
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Speaker 24: lot like Hitler like, that's ours with the state man,
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Speaker 24: you know the the what was it Leving's Rome or
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Speaker 24: something that ring to live It's it's the same sort
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Speaker 24: of lies that undergird what he told the Russian people
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Speaker 24: needed why this needed to be done, and why their
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Speaker 24: sons should shed shed their lifeblood on that soil. It
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Speaker 24: just didn't get the attention. And again the Ressian Orthodox
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Speaker 24: Church was co opted as a messaging appratus for justification
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Speaker 24: of atrocity. Right, so you know, again I'm pulling for
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Speaker 24: Ukraine all the way. But to the extent that we're
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Speaker 24: going to shower and lavish American assistance it translated as
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Speaker 24: tax dollars onto an entity, we probably have responsibility to
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Speaker 24: make sure that we're not lining the pocket of oligarchs.
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Speaker 4: Well, we just saw the government accountability and oversight, we're
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Speaker 4: lining the pockets of a lot of people one hundred
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Speaker 4: and eighty two billion dollars in one year inappropriate. I
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Speaker 4: hashtag under that great society. Tom, I didn't even get
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Speaker 4: and the kind of people we want to be, and
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Speaker 4: maybe I'll circle back to that in a little while.
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Speaker 4: But what's coming up in Tom's and Tom drops bombs
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Speaker 24: Oh my goodness, I'll tease a twenty one gun salute
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Speaker 24: to America on her two hundred and fiftieth birthday and
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Speaker 4: Okay, not the one you just did about Alberta.
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Speaker 24: You know, I enjoy shooting. I've never played eighteen holes
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Speaker 24: I'm shooting, I'm pretty good at it. And so I
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Speaker 24: incorporated a firearm into a video the video had nothing
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Speaker 4: Okay, there you go. All right, Tom drops bombs on YouTube,
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Speaker 4: a great morning.
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Speaker 24: Yeah you're not going to get any gun videos on TikTok.
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Speaker 24: I learned that.
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Speaker 4: Oh really, that's good to go. This is a good note. Okay,
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Speaker 4: very good. Do pump action shotguns there? All right? Well, uh,
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Speaker 24: So it was most of Minnesota, but they'll just Saynapolis,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just like we had East and West Berlin.
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Speaker 24: Okay, sir, you have a I'm wondering I'm wondering how
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Speaker 4: Oh oh, he went there. See this is the I
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Speaker 4: God bless you, sir, and we'll talk to you soon.
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45:51
Speaker 4: I get what you're saying. That's a little bit of
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Speaker 4: what they said about Martin Luther and Steve Gutenberg. It's
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Speaker 4: the Bible and letting it be in your own hands.
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Speaker 4: If and here's again where it comes down to us.
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Speaker 4: If somebody is doing an AI generated video of somebody
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Speaker 4: And this is what I feel like the Pope missed
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Speaker 4: He's not going to be any individual's priest. We mix
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day. His job is to
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Speaker 4: represent the organization, and the organization doesn't want to see
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Speaker 4: He's like the owner of a baseball team. You better
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47:44
Speaker 4: And it came up a little bit, and I think
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Speaker 4: We've we have, through decisions made by the leaders of
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Speaker 4: our churches to take portions of of the scriptures and say, Okay,
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Speaker 4: we're not stoning somebody for planting, you know, two different
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Speaker 4: kind of crops next to each other. You know, we're
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Speaker 4: we're we're not shunning someone for working on the Sabbath.
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Speaker 4: We've allowed for those things. We've allowed for the fact
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Speaker 4: that other people may, you know, ardently say I'm not
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Speaker 4: working on the Sabbath. Keep the Sabbath day Holy ten
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Speaker 4: Commandments right there. You're not going to get them out,
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Speaker 4: you know, to get a report done AI generated or
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Speaker 4: not on Sunday, which is not going to happen. And
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Speaker 4: that's his choice. In America, you're allowed to be as
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Speaker 4: ardent or not an adherent to your faith as long
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Speaker 4: as by law. And this is where Suzanne asks, what
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Speaker 4: is the role of the government. Then in AI, the
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Speaker 4: government is and only can be in this free society.
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Speaker 4: And there are other societies that are going to be
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Speaker 4: more regulatory, more dictatorial, more authoritarian. But if we are
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Speaker 4: ever going to get back to the constitutional republic, that's
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Speaker 4: still under here somewhere. I'm seeing it. I got boxes
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Speaker 4: and boxes of other stuff on top of it, but
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Speaker 4: I know it's under here somewhere. If we're ever going
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Speaker 4: to get back to that, we have to get back
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Speaker 4: to the rule of law simply based on the concept
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Speaker 4: of when somebody wrongs another citizen. Here are the punishments
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Speaker 4: because we've allowed things to go far afield in this
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Speaker 4: development of the Great Society. Drag that portion of today's
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Speaker 4: program into it as well, because now we have a
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Speaker 4: nanny state. The nanny state is in and of itself
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Speaker 4: a violation. If you don't contribute to the nanny state,
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Speaker 4: you violated someone else's right to have federal money sent
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Speaker 4: to them. You see why you start to run into
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Speaker 4: these problems with the right to healthcare, the right to housing.
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Speaker 4: What if I don't rent somebody a room in my house,
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Speaker 4: have I violated their right to housing? What if I
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Speaker 4: don't hire somebody, have I violated their right to a
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Speaker 4: living wage? That's the Pandora's crate that you're opening. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's almost a Pandora's shipping container full of these. Ellen
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Speaker 4: writes in are you talking Max Headroom with a tab
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Speaker 4: collar to minister to us?
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Speaker 11: What?
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Speaker 24: Yes?
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Speaker 4: Actually, I think AI is better than Max Headroom. Although
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Speaker 4: I did come across an old Max Headroom video, I
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Speaker 4: forget where it was. I was just like, my gosh,
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Speaker 4: that's so old. It was around the last time the
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Speaker 4: New York Knicks were in the NBA finals. On that note, hey,
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Speaker 4: I grew up. My dad was a season ticket holder
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Speaker 4: at Madison Square Garden and we suffered some bad times,
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Speaker 4: we suffered some great times. When Patrick Ewing and Mark
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Speaker 4: Jackson were young and Rick Patino was young, that place rocked.
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Speaker 4: I know my dad watched, you know, Earl Monroe and
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Speaker 4: Walt Fraser and Willis Reid and that crowd, and he
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Speaker 4: would sit with me and say, this is a lot
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Speaker 4: like it was in nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy. But
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Speaker 4: remember it's on us. The regulations for AI are on
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Speaker 4: the well, they're not on the wall of your schools anymore,
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Speaker 4: but they're still around and there's only ten of them,
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Speaker 4: and if we can follow them, ai'll be fine.
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