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"Engaging in Indiscriminate Congress" (FTTxJT Tue 101326 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops a
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  Speaker 2: kid to school and on the way. Joe has everything
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  Speaker 2: he dreamed of, all the treasures that he needs. No
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  Speaker 2: wonder Joe's always smiling, he only.
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  Speaker 3: Aims to please you.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a superpower. You know what's important. You get
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  Speaker 4: what's important. And then the rest of it just seems
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  Speaker 4: to fall into place. And you can do what you
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  Speaker 4: need to do, whether it's butcher, baker, radio show maker,
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  Speaker 4: without worry. And you can care about people without trying
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  Speaker 4: to be sycophantic. And I watch people all the time.
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  Speaker 4: They're always trying to get people to pay attention to them.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? Tell the truth. Do your thing. Don't
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  Speaker 4: be dull. And people will listen and they will enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why you're here on the receiving end of
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  Speaker 4: the radio. Your interactions with us tell us how the
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  Speaker 4: news of the day is impacting you where you are.
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  Speaker 4: Like Dr. Clark in northwest Alabama wants to tell us
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  Speaker 4: how the news of the day is impacting him this morning.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll get to our first things. Morning, Clark. What's
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  Speaker 4: on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Well, first off, there are no unwanted babies. pregnancies when
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  Speaker 5: the result is a baby and there are no unwanted babies.
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  Speaker 5: So there's that. Now, going quickly here, if I go
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  Speaker 5: to my local doctor's office, I get bills from my
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  Speaker 5: local hospital, which tells me that my local doctor's office
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  Speaker 5: is not my local doctor's office.
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  Speaker 4: It's an office of my local hospital.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the thing about that, though. My local hospital is
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  Speaker 5: not owned locally. It's owned by the Huntsville Hospital. And
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  Speaker 5: these things I know. Now let's start speculating. I'll bet
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  Speaker 5: you that the Huntsville Hospital is owned by some very
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  Speaker 5: large investment conglomeration. Now, I think that it's very likely
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  Speaker 5: that the people that provide my health care insurance are
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  Speaker 5: also owned by a very large investment conglomeration. I think
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  Speaker 5: that The pharmaceutical industry is largely owned by very large
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  Speaker 5: investment conglomerations. And as you were doing the interview with
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  Speaker 5: Tom and Tom's Grouch Bombs, the amount of money that
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  Speaker 5: the Planned Parenthood people received was discussed, and it's for profit. Joe,
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  Speaker 5: you reckon Planned Parenthood You reckon the abortion places are
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  Speaker 5: owned by the local hospitals, which are owned by the
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  Speaker 5: big hospitals, which are owned by the large investment conglomerations?
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  Speaker 5: Is there a pattern there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I definitely see it. I definitely see a pattern.
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  Speaker 4: What people miss is where is the money coming from?
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  Speaker 4: The money is coming from. Coming from us.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It is coming from the rent seekers who then go
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  Speaker 4: out to the government and say, we will help you
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  Speaker 4: in your campaign if you help us in our campaign. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we want you to be seen as a
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  Speaker 4: hero to women. So and I'm sorry, the whole Mifepristone
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  Speaker 4: thing is is about easy abortions. It's no longer like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: should we? Do we need to? Where do we go? No,
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  Speaker 4: this is long since past that. It's mail order, and
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  Speaker 4: it's taken the difficulties that even the minor difficulties that
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  Speaker 4: still confronted somebody in the 90s. Now it is just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, hey, get on Amazon, order some milf or pristone.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll be better. And that's the part that I
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  Speaker 4: think has really debased society is the death of someone is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we are societally becoming like that woman in
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee who smashed in, you know, somebody's face with a
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  Speaker 4: rock and seems dispassionate about it. Because that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: what happens to some of these babies when they're not
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  Speaker 4: aborted by, you know, some Mifepristone. And who knows what
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  Speaker 4: happens to them when they get killed, poisoned by Mifepristone
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  Speaker 4: when it gets there. Well thought out, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Clark.
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  Speaker 4: You have a great morning, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: We have to tell you what the first things are
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  Speaker 4: this morning. How are we going to discuss? President Trump, Youngstown,
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  Speaker 4: Ohio yesterday, big rally for John Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy
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  Speaker 4: said that he is still working on the $ 5, 000 checks.
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  Speaker 4: for American adults if Republicans remain in control of the
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  Speaker 4: House and Senate. He also was asked on his way
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  Speaker 4: in about the DOJ raid at the home of Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 4: of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, said she's totally crooked,
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  Speaker 4: but didn't talk about the raid, saying that's for the
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  Speaker 4: Department of Justice. European leaders upped the ante on sanctions
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  Speaker 4: against Russia, even as President Trump said their opening up
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  Speaker 4: oil exports to help diesel costs come down. Al Qaeda says,
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  Speaker 4: you kill Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to just start killing any Americans that we take hostage.
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  Speaker 4: Justice Department, we got to talk about this with Tom
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  Speaker 4: Drops Bombs, 16 people arrested on election fraud-related cases, including
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  Speaker 4: casting ballots on behalf of deceased persons, voting multiple times.
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  Speaker 4: fraudulent registration, and non-citizen voting. They also caught cases of U.S.
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  Speaker 4: citizenship falsification. Department of Homeland Security says 52,000 crimes were
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  Speaker 4: committed by people connected to 16,000 immigration and custom enforcement
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  Speaker 4: detainers that the city of New York ignored over the
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  Speaker 4: last two years. And Kimberly Guilfoyle pushes back against her accuser,
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  Speaker 4: Kentucky Attorney Eric Dieters, saying that the text messages that
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  Speaker 4: she sent were about him paying her for already delivered
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  Speaker 4: services and that she had asked the State Department about
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  Speaker 4: flying in his airplane. And no, that's not a metaphor
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  Speaker 4: for something else.
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  Speaker 6: A few years ago, my youngest son had something minor
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  Speaker 6: turned into something very major in a matter of hours.
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  Speaker 5: It was MediShare that came through for us, and there
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  Speaker 8: MediShare is a biblical approach to health care where Christians
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  Speaker 8: share each other's medical expenses.
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  Speaker 9: MediShare is a family, a group of people that stick
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  Speaker 9: with you through the hardest times of your life.
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  Speaker 8: MediShare isn't insurance. It's a nonprofit ministry over 30 years old,
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  Speaker 8: and members have shared over $ 8 billion of each other's
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  Speaker 8: medical bills.
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  Speaker 10: We don't have to spend so much on health insurance.
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  Speaker 10: You can focus on supporting other people.
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  Speaker 4: Metashare is affordable.
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  Speaker 8: Metashare is biblical.
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  Speaker 13: I'm Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security. I'm here to
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  Speaker 13: warn you about telephone scammers. pretending to be government employees.
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  Speaker 13: personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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  Speaker 6: Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker 14: on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated with animals.
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  Speaker 14: I'm not only in awe of their beauty and kindness,
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  Speaker 14: but also their tireless work ethic. Just look at the
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  Speaker 14: who work hard to provide for their young. Or penguins,
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  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 16: friendship is about heart. Heart and brain.
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  Speaker 1: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 14: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
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  Speaker 17: And my brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
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  Speaker 11: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 19: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  Speaker 1: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 4: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 1: And call it even. First Thing Today by Joe Thomas
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  Speaker 1: on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 20: Work to your moms, I came to drop bombs. I
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  Speaker 20: got more rhymes than the Bible's got songs. And just
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  Speaker 20: like the prodigal son, I've returned. I came to get down,
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  Speaker 20: I came to get down. So get out your seat
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  Speaker 20: and jump around.
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  Speaker 4: He is Tom Drops Bombs on YouTube, Delegate Tom Garrett
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  Speaker 4: on Facebook, YouTube. And Tom, sorry we ran out because
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  Speaker 4: the light at the end of the tunnel was the
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  Speaker 4: oncoming top of the hour news. But I appreciate you
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  Speaker 4: hanging on because I want to talk about this voter
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  Speaker 4: fraud issue and the people there. Again, actual arrests being
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  Speaker 4: made in cases of voter fraud. So, Tom, I want
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  Speaker 4: to go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Again, the tragedy is that we're trying to make a
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  Speaker 7: difference through messaging on social media. And if I go
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  Speaker 7: longer than three minutes, I'm blowing it because nobody watches,
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  Speaker 7: which is symptomatic.
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  Speaker 4: No, that reminds me. This is another tangent. So I
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  Speaker 4: used to listen to these pinheads all the time when
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  Speaker 4: I was doing music radio. Ah, JT, play 12 songs
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  Speaker 4: an hour. Ah, JT, you didn't play enough songs there
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  Speaker 4: in that hour. Only played four songs or eight songs
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  Speaker 4: or six songs. And I would always say to these consultants,
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  Speaker 4: I said, do you realize that the three most highly
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  Speaker 4: listened to, most well-compensated radio personalities who deliver so much
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  Speaker 4: results for their advertising sponsors never play a song between
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  Speaker 4: the three of them? Their names were Don Imus, Howard Stern,
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  Speaker 4: and Rush Limbaugh. I said, so don't tell me talk
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  Speaker 4: doesn't work on the radio. Inane, drivelous talk doesn't work
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  Speaker 4: on the radio. Useless talk doesn't work. So I'll bet
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  Speaker 4: you somebody will watch a five-minute YouTube video if it's good.
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  Speaker 4: I was told kids wouldn't read anymore. And then J.K.
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  Speaker 4: Rowling came along. Then I was told kids wouldn't sit
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  Speaker 4: through a two-and-a-half-hour movie anymore. And Chris Columbus came out,
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  Speaker 4: not the one with the holiday this week, but the
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  Speaker 4: one who made the Harry Potter movies and said, no,
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  Speaker 4: apparently kids will sit through a two and a half
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  Speaker 4: hour movie. Funny that. So, you know, all these all
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  Speaker 4: these rules that people have make me laugh because they're
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  Speaker 4: usually just excuses for the inability to do the specials.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It really comes back
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  Speaker 7: down to people recognizing fundamental truths, and that is that
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  Speaker 7: doing things for others feels better than doing things for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 7: That nothing that's truly enjoyable in the long term is easy,
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  Speaker 7: and that sometimes we don't get what we want, but
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  Speaker 7: our character is monitored not by what we get, but
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  Speaker 7: by how we respond to it. These are simple, basic
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  Speaker 7: truths in our society. Like, spoiled children is collectively a denial.
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  Speaker 4: So I wanted to ask you before we run out
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  Speaker 4: of time here about the this raid DOJ has got
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  Speaker 4: all these voter fraud cases coming again. And we're back
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  Speaker 4: to the insignificant numbers. Oh, it doesn't happen. It doesn't
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  Speaker 4: happen much. It doesn't happen enough to change the election. OK,
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  Speaker 4: we've already certified the election. So it's too late. Wash, rinse, repeat.
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  Speaker 4: How many more times are we going to have all
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  Speaker 4: these people voting for dead people? before somebody says we
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  Speaker 4: should pass, oh, I don't know, the SAVE Act?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, as long as the Democrats can get away with it.
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  Speaker 7: I worked as an attorney, a recount, for a guy
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  Speaker 7: named Nick Freitas who was running for Congress against a
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  Speaker 7: woman named Abigail Spanberger, and the Department of Elections was
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  Speaker 7: compelled by law to give us about 6%.
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  Speaker 21: Of the ballots.
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  Speaker 4: That's six.
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  Speaker 7: And in the 6% of the ballots, we found something
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  Speaker 7: like 200 dead people who voted. This is years ago. Now,
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  Speaker 7: he lost by about 2,000 votes. We had less than
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  Speaker 7: 10 percent of the ballots. We don't know who the
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  Speaker 7: dead people voted for. We actually found a guy who
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  Speaker 7: we could prove died in April who voted in November,
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  Speaker 7: and he had a wonderful obituary that was run in April.
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  Speaker 7: But nothing to see here move along, right? Somebody had
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  Speaker 7: mailed in a ballot. I think it was probably his daughter,
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  Speaker 7: but I couldn't prove that in a court of law
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  Speaker 7: that had been mailed to him, filled out. And again,
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  Speaker 7: you don't get to know who the vote was for.
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  Speaker 7: So it could have been an illegal Nick Freitas vote.
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  Speaker 7: But it has been my experience that Democrat or the
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  Speaker 7: dead people vote almost exclusively for Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, they need social services as well. Somebody
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  Speaker 4: needs to pay the guy who cuts the grass in
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  Speaker 4: the cemetery, Tom. We need to get this right. And
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  Speaker 4: it's just as simple. And your experience, you've been Washington, Richmond,
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  Speaker 4: all over the place, all over the world. Isn't governance
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  Speaker 4: really simple and we like gaslight ourselves into thinking it's complex?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 7: Ultimately, the role of government is not to bestow upon
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  Speaker 7: others rights, but instead to protect the rights that we've
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  Speaker 7: been naturally given by our creator. And when you start
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  Speaker 7: thinking that men can be made good by law, paraphrasing C.S. Lewis,
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  Speaker 7: then you're headed down the wrong track. And now it
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  Speaker 7: is a policy debate over who can do more with
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  Speaker 7: stuff taken by force, threat, or coercion from another for
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  Speaker 7: an entity who's chosen not to do for themselves. There
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  Speaker 7: should be a social safety net by all means. When
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  Speaker 7: the government picks winners or losers, ultimately we are all losers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, at some point that safety net just becomes a
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  Speaker 4: net and you start just grabbing people in them. Tom,
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  Speaker 4: God bless you, sir. It's Tom Drops Bombs on YouTube
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  Speaker 4: and Delegate Tom Garrett on Facebook. Bless you, sir. You
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  Speaker 4: have a great day.
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  Speaker 7: You're the man, you as well.
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  Speaker 16: To get my fair share of the beat.
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  Speaker 4: You remember when this was President Trump's, candidate Trump's walk-up
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  Speaker 4: song whenever he appeared? I always thought the subtle, maybe
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  Speaker 4: not so subtle message.
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  Speaker 21: You can't always get me.
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  Speaker 17: You can't always get what you want.
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  Speaker 1: You can't always get what you want.
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  Speaker 19: Try sometimes, well you just fight back.
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  Speaker 22: You get what you need.
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  Speaker 21: It's like Donald Trump knew what was coming.
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  Speaker 4: That he'd win and then everyone would lose bowel control,
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  Speaker 4: soil their pants over all the way he would go
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  Speaker 4: about doing things. And see, and talk radio can every
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  Speaker 4: now and play a little bit of a song.
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  Speaker 4: raped and is pregnant, is that baby a wanted pregnancy
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you giving voice to the most common of these arguments.
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• 21:21
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  Speaker 16: They tried to make me go to rehab.
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  Speaker 4: So more reaction, our commentary, our breakdown on the breakdown
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  Speaker 4: of James Tallarico. in Texas. And I like this one.
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  Speaker 4: Mary writes in to 434-882-4217. I actually wrote this in yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: but I didn't see it until after we had ended festivities,
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  Speaker 4: at least the ones carried on the amplitude and frequency modulators.
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  Speaker 4: She writes, the biggest crisis to me is that he
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  Speaker 4: that he knew that it would get out. Sure, he
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  Speaker 4: used a fake name, and he went to a state
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: where he just looks like another entitled white brat. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: but I think there are people in most mental health
• 29:30
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  Speaker 4: Tallarico out of a line of this one. On James
• 29:42
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• 29:46
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• 29:49
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  Speaker 4: under a numb daguerre. This will be denied, it is,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: until it's proven, and then they will proclaim his bravery
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: for seeking the necessary mental health care. Oh, and you
• 30:05
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• 30:14
  Speaker 4: back to my last segment where the social safety net
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: just becomes a net. And I'm going to tie it
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: into what Joel wrote about rape and incest. Because first
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: and foremost, we need to start punishing rape and incest
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: better so that we get less of it. Okay, can
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: we agree on that?
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  Speaker 4: Because of all the things that have been subsidized in
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  Speaker 4: the United States... Extramarital Congress has been one of the
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: most damaging. You want a bunch of self-absorbed shites running
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  Speaker 4: around your country? Tell them they can have indiscriminate, non-consensual,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: if mostly, hopefully, consensual intercourse with one another. And never
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: have to worry about raising a family because of it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Seems like we're describing where we are now. And I'm
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: not saying, you know, what was it? What was Barack Obama's?
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I don't want Sasha and Malia to be punished with
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: a baby. That's the mindset. That's why Barack and Mike
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: are not grandparents at this point. Because Sasha and Malia
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: believe that if they have a baby, it's punishment. Dad
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: said so. Dad told the entire nation. He's just not
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: dad saying so. Dad told the whole country that if
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: they had babies, they were going to be, there was punishment.
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  Speaker 4: We just had the celebration anniversary of the birth of
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: my younger son.
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  Speaker 1: 29 years.
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  Speaker 4: I'm about to be the parent of two, count them,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: two 30-year-olds and a Philadelphian. I mean, two 30-year-old Virginians
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: and a Philadelphian. And I can't think of a moment
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: in all those years where I considered it to be
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: a punishment. But that's what we're raising. That's what we're raising. So,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: So Joel's question is, well, what about these babies that
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: were created by a rape or incest? The baby didn't
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: do it. And I'm not saying that the woman should
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: be forced to raise the child that she didn't want
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: in the first place, but I think she should have
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: the option. What about women who started a family with
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: a guy who turned out to be an abusive drunk
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: and now they want to get out of the marriage?
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Can that be part of the divorce decree? We have
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: European countries that are doing postpartum abortions now. I thought
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: I loved him. Then he turned out to be an
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: abusive gambling drunk and I want out, but I don't
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: want to bring the kid with me either. I want
• 33:41
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• 33:50
  Speaker 4: have a society with too many. I don't think it's
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: a majority, but I think there's too many people who
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: are too caught up in themselves. Humanity became a society
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: because we found ways to no longer have to fight
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: for survival every single day. And somewhere in between the
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• 34:37
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• 34:44
  Speaker 4: look out for one another. And And that's a cycle
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: that I really am sad that we've come full circle
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: because we have gotten to a point economically, whether it's
• 35:00
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• 35:05
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• 35:11
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• 35:19
  Speaker 4: through the Serengeti That's a cycle I never wanted to
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: see us come full circle in. So to answer your question, Joel,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I know you're thinking I'm avoiding it. I think adoption.
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  Speaker 4: I wish we talked about adoption half as much as
• 35:48
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  Speaker 4: My niece, as a child of adoption, saved two lives.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps even, you know, more. Because you don't know the
• 36:14
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• 36:23
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• 36:25
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• 36:36
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• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the military-industrial complex? So, you know... we have to, and
• 36:53
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• 36:58
  Speaker 4: outward view of this other person has value outside of
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: a port in the storm. I'll use that analogous phrase.
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• 37:14
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  Speaker 16: Greatest time of the year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, talk about a challenging birth and a couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Dragged all the way to a foreign city to pay
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  Speaker 4: their taxes, and then they couldn't find any place to stay,
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  Speaker 4: and it all worked out anyway, didn't it? For you
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: and me, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the tickets are on sale, and
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  Speaker 4: the tour begins in a little bit more than a
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  Speaker 4: month in Colorado Springs, as well as Youngstown, Ohio, and
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  Speaker 4: we have tickets for both shows. If you go to JoeThomasInTheMorning.com,
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  Speaker 4: Joel Hoekstra is on with us this morning, the lead
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: guitar man. You hear the riff there and the amazing
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: things that, and I've always said this is like when
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: guitar grew up. But I'm curious, Joel, we were talking
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: earlier about, you know, 30th anniversary tour, and you mentioned
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: you would come into the band later. You talk about that.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: And I tell my kids this and they've been coming
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: with us. I have pictures of my daughter. She's like
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: four years old backstage and in Philadelphia. And it's always
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: but it's it's a lesson beyond TSO. It's always eyes open,
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: head on a swivel. You never know where the next
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: thing is going to come from. I'm curious, you know,
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: what we you had done. I believe you had already
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: done Broadway with Rock of Ages. And, you know, where
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: were you? What was going on in Joel Hoekstra's world
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: when you signed on to do this?
• 46:19
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I had just kind of started to become a
• 46:22
  Speaker 21: part of, I guess, what I call the 80s resurgence.
• 46:25
  Speaker 21: That's a lot of the stuff that I grew up
• 46:26
  Speaker 21: on when I was a kid. And then, of course,
• 46:28
  Speaker 21: the 90s made that 80s music totally, totally uncool. And
• 46:33
  Speaker 21: then I'd say when the 2000s came around, it wasn't
• 46:37
  Speaker 21: too far into that, that it became cool again to
• 46:40
  Speaker 21: play some of.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: This 80s stuff. So I was.
• 46:42
  Speaker 21: Had just joined Night Ranger. I was with them for
• 46:45
  Speaker 21: a couple years at this point. I was with them
• 46:48
  Speaker 21: seven years total, but I think I was two years
• 46:50
  Speaker 21: into it and was playing in the Broadway show Rock
• 46:53
  Speaker 21: of Ages, which of course was an 80s rock musical.
• 46:57
  Speaker 21: And that is right about when the opportunity to audition
• 47:01
  Speaker 21: for TSO came along. So it was a little scary
• 47:03
  Speaker 21: when I got offered the job because I had to
• 47:05
  Speaker 21: go to Night Ranger and say, hey, I'm not going
• 47:08
  Speaker 21: to be able to play with you guys in November
• 47:09
  Speaker 21: and December. And I was only two years into being
• 47:12
  Speaker 21: with that band. And I was kind of praying I
• 47:14
  Speaker 21: wasn't going to get fired when I said that, you know,
• 47:16
  Speaker 21: because then the next next thing you know, you're you're
• 47:19
  Speaker 21: playing just two months out of the year. And obviously
• 47:21
  Speaker 21: that's incredible two months with TSO. But nonetheless, as a musician,
• 47:25
  Speaker 21: you'd like to stay busy 12 months out of the
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: year if you can. So.
• 47:29
  Speaker 15: Uh, yeah.
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: So thankfully they were cool with it.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 21: That's kind of the way it rolled. And then, you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 21: ever since joining TSO, things just kind of kept moving
• 47:37
  Speaker 21: and left night ranger for white snake at a point.
• 47:39
  Speaker 21: And then, you know, play with share for. I guess
• 47:42
  Speaker 21: four years or something, something like that. And even recently
• 47:45
  Speaker 21: did some, some of her television stuff, like her rock
• 47:48
  Speaker 21: and roll hall of fame induction and the SNL.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Some of that. And, you know, but it's just, it's,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: it's you, you, the, the, the journeys and, and the,
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: the choices we make and, and sometimes being brave to
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: take that leap of faith into it. I was thinking
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: you were talking about the pyrotechnics and all the different three,
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: three D almost, uh, I was thinking about the first
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: time I saw TSO 30 years ago, and I think
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: some of the fireworks were involved, but nothing to the
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: degree that it is now. When you guys get together,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: is half of it rehearsal, half of it, here's the
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: new tech that we're bringing in for the show, here's
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: the 3D and the live action and the artificial intelligence
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: and all these things that they're bringing to to play
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: because I know Paul always loved that technology side of it, uh,
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: as an augment, not necessarily a replacement, but something to,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: to help tell the story.
• 48:50
  Speaker 21: Yeah, that's, that's a big part of the musical, um,
• 48:54
  Speaker 21: portion of it is taken care of individually like you
• 48:57
  Speaker 21: know we try and get to that first rehearsal and
• 48:59
  Speaker 21: know it already um it's not like we're getting to
• 49:01
  Speaker 21: the first rehearsal and going what chord is that again
• 49:04
  Speaker 21: and that kind of thing you know we try and
• 49:05
  Speaker 21: have our act together and that the reason is just
• 49:07
  Speaker 21: what you touched on i mean we've got a lot
• 49:10
  Speaker 21: to work on in terms of syncing that the music
• 49:13
  Speaker 21: and everything with the video and with the light the
• 49:16
  Speaker 21: laser light show with the pyro um with the lifts
• 49:20
  Speaker 21: i mean all that requires time um and it's you
• 49:24
  Speaker 21: know it's a incredible thing to be a part of
• 49:27
  Speaker 21: that rehearsal process is almost as cool as the tour
• 49:29
  Speaker 21: because you know we're all about putting together the best
• 49:32
  Speaker 21: show we can so show number one looks like we've
• 49:34
  Speaker 21: been on the road for months already.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: You know Well, you know, I wanted to ask you this,
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: and obviously, please get your tickets, livenation.com or trans-siberian.com. The
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: tour begins November 22nd and goes all the way through
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: past Christmas. I think December 27th or 28th is the
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: end of the tour. We've got tickets for Portland and
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Chicago and Youngstown and all over the place where they're coming.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: And of course, our flagship city, welcoming them back to Charlottesville,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: where the University of Virginia will nervously hope that all
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: the pyrotechnics keeps their nice new arena, you know, safe there.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: But you know, when the tour gets going, I mean,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: how much, you know, because every year is different. And
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: that's one of the interesting things is that every year
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: you guys are doing something A little bit different. I
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: add a little things. I'm still well up. Last year
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: when you all did the tribute to Paul and you
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: finished it, you know, When the Crowds Are Gone, which
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: is a sabotage song, but I mean, it's so poignant
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: to losing somebody like Paul O'Neill, the founder or the
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: brainchild of the producer that sort of put this all together.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: You know, is there that process of like, you know,
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: maybe we should try these songs because the library of
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: music from TSO is so immense. That's got to be
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: a big part of the process, just saying, you know, hey,
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: let's try this. Let's try that.
• 51:17
  Speaker 21: Oh yeah, the song list is always much longer than
• 51:20
  Speaker 21: the set list. Like we go into rehearsals knowing much
• 51:23
  Speaker 21: more music than we're actually going to play in the show.
• 51:25
  Speaker 21: I'd say probably an additional 40 to 50%. Like, so,
• 51:29
  Speaker 21: you know, the amount of stuff that they, and it's
• 51:32
  Speaker 21: not just listening to the song and debating what order
• 51:35
  Speaker 21: should go in.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: It's looking at it, right?
• 51:37
  Speaker 21: Like you see what production production has put to it
• 51:40
  Speaker 21: and then trying to run a, get a set order together.
• 51:43
  Speaker 21: Something else I want to touch on that we didn't
• 51:45
  Speaker 21: hit this year is that we really we understand the
• 51:48
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• 51:52
  Speaker 21: when they're getting their tickets that they're going to TSO
• 51:55
  Speaker 21: tickets dot com. Oh, did I give the TSO tickets
• 51:58
  Speaker 21: dot com? No, trans trans Siberian is good, but we're
• 52:01
  Speaker 21: really trying to get people to avoid the extra fees.
• 52:04
  Speaker 21: So if you want to get, we've got five different
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  Speaker 21: from because we understand people go to this show in
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  Speaker 21: large groups. So we did our best. So everybody, please,
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• 52:19
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Joel. God bless you, sir. And, of course,
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: I was talking about this song. This is it. So
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: until tomorrow, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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