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"Saint Clare of Assisi" (Tuesday, February 10, 2026, Hour4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We've got to protect our phony b lot of job. Gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: we must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately on a.
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Speaker 2: Need to know basis, because you need to know the
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Speaker 2: first thing today.
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Speaker 3: Your word said, steal me stem you have a day
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Speaker 3: at least.
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Speaker 4: For work when the sun comes up, drops a kid
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Speaker 4: to school, has everything, agenda.
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Speaker 1: All the treasure said, and needs no one that josas smiled.
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Speaker 5: He only is.
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Speaker 6: Joe.
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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 7: this morning. We'll tell you what went on last night.
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Speaker 7: We'll give you our analysis of the evidence we find
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Speaker 7: left behind at the crime scene, and we will ask.
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Speaker 8: You how it is impacting you where you are.
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Speaker 7: You get to us through our multitasking line four three,
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Speaker 7: four eight eight two four to one. Seven text messages
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Speaker 7: have driven the conversation in the last ten to fifteen
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Speaker 7: minutes on rights versus doing right there. And I wanted
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Speaker 7: to for the public record enter the esteemed junior senator
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Speaker 7: from Virginia, former vice presidential candidate. And boy doesn't Tim
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Speaker 7: Wald's look a whole lot better in light now? Tim
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Speaker 7: Kaine sitting there, say, man, what a hot mess he was?
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Speaker 7: The esteemed Tim Kane, You stayed.
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Speaker 9: And this is a quote from Secretary Rubio.
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Speaker 10: Our rights come from God, our Creator, not from our laws,
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Speaker 10: not from our governments.
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Speaker 9: Okay, I find that very very troubling.
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Speaker 8: Oh dear.
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Speaker 9: I'm a devout person. I was a missionary in Honduras.
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Speaker 9: We've got other devout.
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Speaker 10: Folks in this room, Catherine, Jim, Jewish, Muslim American. The
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Speaker 10: notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come
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Speaker 10: from the government, but come from the Creator.
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Speaker 9: And that's what the Iranian government believes.
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Speaker 7: It's that's what the Iranian government believes, really, Tim and
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Speaker 7: how long? And I understand now Tim's very first campaign,
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Speaker 7: Just in case you were wondering Tim Kaine's curriculum vitee.
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Speaker 7: Tim Kaine's very first campaign for public office was for
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Speaker 7: mayor of Richmond, Virginia. And in that campaign, his number
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Speaker 7: one fundraiser was a fellow named George So, wealthy venture
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Speaker 7: capitalists Hungarian I believe to Iron Curtain descendant escaped that
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Speaker 7: communism in an effort to bring communism to the rest
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Speaker 7: of the world. Tim Kaine has been friends with the
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Speaker 7: Soros family since the moment he stepped onto the public stage.
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Speaker 7: So it's no doubt that a Catholic like himself would
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Speaker 7: say that. I wonder if he was given communion. I
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Speaker 7: know that Catholic Republicans are often not giving communion when
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Speaker 7: they don't.
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Speaker 8: When they support abortionists.
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Speaker 7: Wonder if Tim Kaine gets communion when he goes there,
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Speaker 7: you know, little cracker, little cheese, little wine.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 7: You know, how do you give Tim Kaine communion when
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Speaker 7: he talks like that? But our first things this morning,
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Speaker 7: and we'll get back into this abstract. Speaking of Catholics,
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Speaker 7: the Vatican may well he actually has beatified Archbishop Fulton Sheen,
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Speaker 7: broadcaster and evangelist. Priest's now listed as blessed, which puts
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Speaker 7: him closer to possible sainthood. Could he be made the
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Speaker 7: patron Saint of broadcasters?
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Speaker 8: That would be very cool.
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Speaker 7: Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer found a podium
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Speaker 7: and some TV cameras hanging around Washington and insisted that
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Speaker 7: President Trump's counter proposal to forestall a shutdown at twelve
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Speaker 7: oh one am on Saturday over funding and reworking the
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Speaker 7: laws governing the Department of Homeland Security includes quoting here
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Speaker 7: neither details nor legislative text, and does not address quote
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Speaker 7: the concerns Americans have about ICE's lawless conduct. Nobody in
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Speaker 7: the press. Galgal asked the two leaders which laws Ice
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Speaker 7: was breaking, but they trundled on. The FBI was questioned
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Speaker 7: regarding stories that Savannah Guthrie's family has been interacting with
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Speaker 7: the suspected kidnappers. The FBI said, that's news to us. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 7: the FBI has one hundred and twenty four other kidnapping
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Speaker 7: cases that they currently have posted at FBI dot gov.
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Speaker 7: In case you were wondering, Amber Glenn is a member
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Speaker 7: of the US skating team that won an Olympic gold
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Speaker 7: medal the other day and now is scrubbing her social
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Speaker 7: media platform despite being an ardent supporter of LGBTQ plus
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Speaker 7: community through her social media because now she's in trouble
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Speaker 7: because NBC broadcasted her routine, which was skated to a
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Speaker 7: a Canadian artist named Seb McKinnon, who apparently was not
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Speaker 7: asked for permission nor compensated for the use of the song.
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Speaker 7: He said, it aired all over the world. What is
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Speaker 7: that the usual practice for the Olympics. The US Marine
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Speaker 7: Corps is buttoned up and in their dress blues after
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Speaker 7: passing their financial checkup for the third consecutive year, marking
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Speaker 8: Not Not Not that's right, you know.
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Speaker 7: And when Jesus just left Chicago, he was bound for
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Speaker 7: New Orleans and maybe for this forensics conference, uh Tony
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Speaker 7: writes in what what forensics conference is going on in
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Speaker 7: New Orleans? It's the annual scientific conference of the American
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Speaker 7: Academic American Academy of Forensics Sciences. It's called back to Basics,
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Speaker 7: that's what is being called. And very cool on appreciative
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Speaker 7: that just an offhand comment about watching the detectives would
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Speaker 7: trigger somebody who was in a hotel room listening to
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Speaker 7: us nine ninety down there, and that's kind of that's
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Speaker 7: kind of fun.
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Speaker 8: Bob picked up Bob.
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Speaker 7: I keep struggling, how do we refer to Bob, Bob
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Speaker 7: at the bar, Bob behind the bar, Bob in the bar,
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Speaker 7: or just Bob in Virginia, He writes in on my
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Speaker 7: question at the end of the news regarding Bishop Fulton Sheen,
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Speaker 7: and I didn't know this, and I'm actually pleased to
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Speaker 7: be corrected on this case. Saint Clare of a CCI
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Speaker 7: is considered the primary or is the primary patron saint
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Speaker 7: of television and broadcasting. Pope Pious the twelfth in fifty
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Speaker 7: seven fifty eight somewhere in there. She is honored because
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Speaker 7: when too ill to attend Mass, she was reportedly able
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Speaker 7: to see it and hear it on the wall of
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Speaker 7: her room over a miracle considered the first broadcast. And
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Speaker 7: I appreciate that the patron Saint of broadcasting as a listener,
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Speaker 7: not a broadcaster. I think that's much that makes me happier,
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Speaker 7: knowing that the patron Saint of broadcasting was a right
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Speaker 7: a viewer. But somebody like you, not like me, I
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Speaker 7: would I would much sleep much better at night, not
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Speaker 7: like I sleep badly. He goes on to say, if
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Speaker 7: the other way, the broadcasters would spend years arguing about
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Speaker 7: why they deserve the distinction. Oh, he knows too many broadcasters,
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Speaker 7: I think. But it goes back to our esteemed senator
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Speaker 7: and his idea about rights and and you know where
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Speaker 7: they come from, Barnes.
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Speaker 10: I was struck by your your opening comments, and I
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Speaker 10: asked to get a copy of them so I could
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Speaker 10: read them and make sure I quoted them correctly.
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Speaker 9: You stay, and this is a quote from Secretary Rubio.
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Speaker 10: Our rights come from God, our creator, not from our laws,
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Speaker 10: not from our governments.
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Speaker 9: I find that very, very troubling and.
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Speaker 7: Here's why, And he goes on to parse John Locke.
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Speaker 7: John Locke really is the source of the Enlightenment view
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Speaker 7: that all men are created equals, is actually and is right.
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Speaker 7: All men are created equal and dowbed by their creator
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Speaker 7: with the rights to life, liberty, and property. But he
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Speaker 7: also goes on to write, and here's where Tim Kaine
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Speaker 7: parses it. And it's in the Declaration of Independence as well,
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Speaker 7: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted amongst men,
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Speaker 7: deriving the just powers from the governed. And so our
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Speaker 7: experiment constitutionally was how can we block blunt protect from
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Speaker 7: the natural inclination to corrupt because we have them. I
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Speaker 7: don't care how godly we are. We have seven profound
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Speaker 7: vices woven into our Dna. We have seven amazing virtues
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Speaker 7: equally woven in as a counterbalance.
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Speaker 8: Just we living down here amongst the deceiver.
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Speaker 7: Fall prey to the seven vices more frequently. And that's
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Speaker 7: where Tim Kane comes into this, is he's just lifting
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Speaker 7: out that part that if the government chooses not to
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Speaker 7: defend a particular God given rights, God gives you the right.
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Speaker 7: But if government chooses not to protect it, government has
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Speaker 7: actually either given or taken away your right, and that
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Speaker 7: hubris is what leads them to believe that they can
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Speaker 7: also manufacture new ones, like the right to housing, or
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Speaker 7: the right to medical care, the right to groceries. To
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Speaker 7: my friends in New York City, Zorhan Mamdani can't keep
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Speaker 7: the heat and hot water on. What do you think
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Speaker 7: he's going to do about this city run grocery store.
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Speaker 7: So the conceit is that since we have to choose
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Speaker 7: whether we're going to defend these god given rights that
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Speaker 7: everyone comes in with, and we can pick and choose
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Speaker 7: because we vote and we will ye. I don't think
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Speaker 7: people should have guns. Well, they have the right to
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Speaker 7: defend themselves.
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Speaker 8: Now, I don't think they do.
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Speaker 7: I don't really look at how many states have We
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Speaker 7: were playing that guy last week, the lawyer from Minneapolis.
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Speaker 7: You have a right is it called a responsibility to
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Speaker 7: retreat law that if you're in a confrontation, if somebody
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Speaker 7: comes up to you with a gun and you could
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Speaker 7: have run from it, even if doing so puts you
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Speaker 7: in the line of fire and actually makes you more
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Speaker 7: likely to get shot in the back than defending yourself,
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Speaker 7: you must do it. It's the opposite of the castle
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Speaker 7: doctrine where you're allowed to defend yourself. So we've invented
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Speaker 7: this world. And the Constitution was supposed to put limits
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Speaker 7: on that ability. And after the Civil War, we were
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Speaker 7: so punchy from having just engaged in this war between
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Speaker 7: the states that we sort of gave in on all
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Speaker 7: of it, and we decided, you know what. And the
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Speaker 7: argument was by a lot of the folks and the
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Speaker 7: lot of the Dixiecrats, you made us do this, Let's
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Speaker 7: establish some more guardrails to keep all this stuff from
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Speaker 7: happening again. And they were doing it with a subtext
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Speaker 7: of racism, because they figured if they created a government
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Speaker 7: that could give rights, then they could keep the black
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Speaker 7: men down. The more things that the government had to
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Speaker 7: do for you, the more they could deny the freed
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Speaker 7: black slaves, the less the freed black slaves would be
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Speaker 7: able to create. The very economy that Thomas Jefferson wrote
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Speaker 7: about in Was It on the Situation in Virginia. I
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Speaker 7: forget the official title of the book, but he wrote
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Speaker 7: this treatise about not freeing the slaves just with a
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Speaker 7: stroke of a pendant. You have to allow for them
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Speaker 7: to establish an economy so that they have the rights.
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Speaker 7: And this is where Lincoln's forty Acres and a Mule
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Speaker 7: came from. Was so that the freed black slaves wouldn't
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Speaker 7: be one hundred years or two hundred years behind the
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Speaker 7: free whites. They would be able to have land and
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Speaker 7: an economy. And that's what happened in Oklahoma City was
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Speaker 7: they had developed a pretty burgeoning economy and the whites
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Speaker 7: couldn't handle it. I say this as you know your
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Speaker 7: field guide to the American Caucasian. I will tell you
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Speaker 7: they're wrong. They were wrong to do it in Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 7: They were wrong to do it in detecht. But this
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Speaker 7: is the build up of we will choose the rights
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Speaker 7: we give you. And it's all racist. And that's the
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Speaker 7: part is these folks go out to the black community
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Speaker 7: and said they're the racist.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm I'm fine and I'm just a pair that
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Speaker 5: Senator Kane, that man needs a immedial CIVICX lesson. As
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30:17
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Speaker 5: Yeah. But the well, the Declaration of Independence, which as
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Speaker 5: the purpose of people like mister Caine, I regret to
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Speaker 5: And anytime he violates those rights, he is not only
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Speaker 7: It, and his and his oath of office there and
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32:33
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Speaker 5: Were supposed to make a good slogan for a bumper sticker. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: but I'll think I'll go a step further. Most people,
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Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely, you're understand.
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Speaker 5: That is the deceiver on our shoulders, whispering in our
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Speaker 5: I find it amazing that mister Caine is supposedly a
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Speaker 7: Yeah, can you imagine that that, you know, lining up
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Speaker 7: Say no, no, not for you this week, tim h
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Speaker 5: Well, well, it'll depend on how liberal his his clergy is.
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Speaker 5: There's certainly there are certainly Marxist Catholics who believe that
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, And I think that the common is, am
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Speaker 7: You know that miss misquoting from text that that they
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Speaker 5: Right exactly and at any rate. I wish God, I
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Speaker 7: At this point, and it's a shame. But remember, and
35:12
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35:15
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35:19
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35:23
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Speaker 8: But yes, yes it does, Yes it does, indeed, but
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Speaker 5: Bargain with the devil that he makes that I'm thinking of, fouse.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yes it is, and and unfortunately these folks are
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Speaker 8: And and if we I don't know. I started out
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Speaker 7: Out that if you keep them there all these days
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Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 8: Well, thank you, sir, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 8: I appreciate it. As always, I.
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Speaker 5: Don't know when one would have run across it.
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Speaker 7: Otherwise this is actually, you know, a relatively older clip.
36:38
Speaker 7: And when did he say that? He said that five
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36:47
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, I can't. I can't get everything you say, so
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's why we saved it in the archives.
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Speaker 7: It's actually a debate because Ted Cruz is almost apoplectic
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Speaker 7: lot of response is the skater who apparently is in
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Speaker 7: trouble because she was using somebody's music without permission. And
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Speaker 7: I like this one, Felicia writes in typical American leftist
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Speaker 7: is the title of her email. So if I understand
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Speaker 7: this correctly, somebody who has worked very hard to learn
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Speaker 7: something very difficult and to become expert at it is
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Speaker 7: using her platform to promote a lifestyle and a belief
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Speaker 7: in gay relationships. That's fine, But why does it not
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Speaker 7: surprise me that somebody with that kind of political ideology
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Speaker 7: also thinks that something that somebody else has worked very
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Speaker 7: hard to do, like create a piece of music, is
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Speaker 7: hers for the taking to use as she sees fit. Alicia,
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Speaker 7: thank you, that is.
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Speaker 8: Such a good.
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Speaker 7: Treatise on this story. Of the skater who apparently used
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Speaker 7: this guy's music. And I don't know there was another
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Speaker 7: email did we have Steve. Steve wrote in saying, so
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Speaker 7: the guy's a home, I'm a fobe, or if he
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Speaker 7: wasn't before, he is now because he criticized the hero of.
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Speaker 8: The LGBTQ community.
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Speaker 7: Also equally good Steve to your point, and I thank
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Speaker 7: you for listening in San Bernardino to k met there.
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Speaker 7: And if you want your station recognized, just tell me
48:20
Speaker 7: where you're writing from and I'll share the love. I mean,
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Speaker 7: if it's Minneapolis, it's like you know, I got one
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Speaker 7: email from U this Maurice. I just appreciated to take Jake,
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Speaker 7: the Jerry Curle mayor of Minneapolis, and the way we
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Speaker 7: refer to him.
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Speaker 8: You're so proud.
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Speaker 7: You must be so proud, you must be a couple
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Speaker 7: of other things in here in Virginia, there we were
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Speaker 7: facing a situation where the Virginia government was going to
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Speaker 7: under the premise, the long standing political premise of oh.
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Speaker 8: What's it called, oh yeah, bait and switch.
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Speaker 7: So they wanted to expand sales taxes to all these services,
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Speaker 7: including I believe hiring somebody to do your taxes would
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Speaker 7: now just be a taxable expenditure, and they had it
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Speaker 7: was going through the House and Senate here in Virginia,
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Speaker 7: massive tax increase on all these things that you never had,
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Speaker 7: renting a storage space, hiring a therapist, which they told
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Speaker 7: you is an important thing. If you're having trouble, you
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Speaker 7: got to hire a Well, now we can tax you
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Speaker 7: on that as well. So they tweaked the bill to say, oh, well,
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Speaker 7: in it, we're going to reduce the number of grocery
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Speaker 7: store items that we're going to tax. This is part
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Speaker 7: of our making things more affordable plan. And their defense
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Speaker 7: of it was that not everybody uses a home a gym,
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Speaker 7: not everybody uses a car wash, not everybody uses an
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Speaker 7: auto mechanic, but all those things would have sales tax
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Speaker 7: now attached to them in a state that couldn't sell
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Speaker 7: marijuana because they couldn't figure out how to tax it somehow,
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Speaker 7: right or now that I want them selling marijuana, I'm
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Speaker 7: just saying that was their reason for not legal or
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Speaker 7: decriminalizing it. So now they've tabled that bill and in
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Speaker 7: our legislative parliaance. Because it's a part time they only
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Speaker 7: meet for a couple of months each year. They've tabled
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Speaker 7: it until next year, and I thought this was notable
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Speaker 7: because according to election law, the General Assembly that will
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Speaker 7: convene next January is going to be exactly the same
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Speaker 7: as the General Assembly that meets right now. None of
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Speaker 7: the seats are up for election. Nobody's going to be different,
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Speaker 7: except they're going to be a year older. So what
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Speaker 7: could possibly be causing them to want to table a
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Speaker 7: bill that was going to enact the sales tax on
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Speaker 7: all these different things? And if you look at the calendar,
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Speaker 7: you say, oh, my gosh, what was it? Oh the
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Speaker 7: mid term elections. So somebody in the Democratic Party called
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Speaker 7: someone else in Virginia's government and said, dude, do not
51:34
Speaker 7: do this. I mean, we're working hard enough to try
51:37
Speaker 7: to rewrite all the congressional districts. You really want to
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Speaker 7: screw it up for us and get the Republicans even
51:44
Speaker 7: more angry with us than they already are. So they
51:51
Speaker 7: have tabled it so that next year, with a general
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Speaker 7: Assembly that's constructed exactly the same, they can come back
51:58
Speaker 7: to do it, but they won't be facing the midterm
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Speaker 7: elections and the people who might get a little salty
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Speaker 7: about the increase in all their sales taxes and a
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Speaker 7: small decrease in a few of the grocery items that
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Speaker 7: they current sell with sales tax. I know some of
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Speaker 7: you are looking at the radio saying you charge sales
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Speaker 7: tax on groceries. Yes, and we have an income tax,
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Speaker 7: and we have personal property tax, and we.
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Speaker 8: Have you name it.
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Speaker 7: So as we ramp out and they continue to play
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Speaker 7: dueling banjo's on my last good nerve, I am in
52:32
Speaker 7: a great mood. You know, people think I'm all hyped
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Speaker 7: because somebody's picking on my last good nerve. Just I
52:41
Speaker 7: am actually having a great day. Thank you for being
52:43
Speaker 7: part of it until tomorrow morning at five.
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Speaker 8: I am Joe so long and thanks for all the fish.
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