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"Ethical vs Moral" (FTTxJT Fri 090426 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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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 2: $ 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. Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 3: He's down here every day. Leaves for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up. Drops the kids to school and on
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  Speaker 3: the way. Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 4: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 5: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 4: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Or as they said in the Motown era, thank you
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  Speaker 6: for letting me be myself again.
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  Speaker 8: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to.
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  Speaker 6: Want to remember that number. I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 6: what went on last night. I'll give you my analysis, certainly,
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  Speaker 6: in the interim. But because you are the most important
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  Speaker 6: local aspect of the radio station, I need to hear
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  Speaker 6: from you as to how the news of the day
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  Speaker 6: is impacting you, where you at this morning, as we
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  Speaker 6: used to say in my neighborhood, because Grammar was sold separately. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: we are here at Common Ground. It's in a wonderful
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  Speaker 6: area known as Fishersville, just outside of Waynesboro, kind of
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  Speaker 6: in between Waynesboro and and Stanton, Virginia, over the mountain
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  Speaker 6: from Charlottesville, for the weekly City Elders Meeting, because there
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  Speaker 6: are two things in the world I want to see
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  Speaker 6: happen before they shovel six feet of dirt over me,
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  Speaker 6: or actually close the urn. I'm going to kind of
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  Speaker 6: take six feet.
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  Speaker 9: Of dirt up.
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  Speaker 6: And that is a convention of states to finally be
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  Speaker 6: called and convene, and for there to be City Elders Meeting,
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  Speaker 6: operations in every city that, at least every city that
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  Speaker 6: gets first thing today by me, Joe Thomas, because if
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  Speaker 6: there's an itching, burning, peeling problem that we have in
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  Speaker 6: the United States these days, it is the representatives who,
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  Speaker 6: let's just say to be nice, have a casual relationship
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  Speaker 6: with ethics. And we need to get ethical people back
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  Speaker 6: into the halls of government. Because you know what happens
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  Speaker 6: when ethical people get into the halls of government? Even
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  Speaker 6: if they're not the majority, those with the casual relationship
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  Speaker 6: with ethics feel that they better get with their ethics
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  Speaker 6: just so they don't look bad. Which is fine. If
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  Speaker 6: you're just doing it so that you don't look bad
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  Speaker 6: in comparison to those school board members or supervisors or
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  Speaker 6: representatives that are ethical, I'm good with it. As long
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  Speaker 6: as you're behaving ethically, we can fake it until we
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  Speaker 6: make it, as they used to say. So here are
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  Speaker 6: those first things I spoke to you about. And we
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  Speaker 6: begin with a congressman from Texas, Brandon Gilt, introduced legislation
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  Speaker 6: yesterday that would prohibit restaurants from accepting SNAP benefits. That's
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  Speaker 6: what we used to call food stamps. Texas Republicans ending
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  Speaker 6: restaurant purchases with SNAP Act would eliminate the program's restaurant
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  Speaker 6: meals program. Did you know that you could go out
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  Speaker 6: to dinner on your SNAP card? Trump administration Thursday asked
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  Speaker 6: the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal
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  Speaker 6: judge that stops it from implementing new rules regulating mail-in
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  Speaker 6: ballots to states that haven't cleared their voter rolls of
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  Speaker 6: folks who aren't residents yet. This is shortly after a
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  Speaker 6: judge queried them as to whether the computer system that
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  Speaker 6: would govern the project was operational yet, a question they
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  Speaker 6: weren't able to answer successfully. Meanwhile, two Democrat lawmakers, one senator,
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  Speaker 6: one congressman, Alex Padilla of California and Joe Morrell of
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  Speaker 6: New York, are demanding $ 40 million in electronic security funding
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  Speaker 6: to be released by the Homeland Security Department. They've sent
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  Speaker 6: a letter to Mark Wayne Mullen demanding that the monies
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  Speaker 6: coming from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency be released.
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  Speaker 6: Missouri Supreme Court has blocked congressional districts from being redrawn
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  Speaker 6: for this election. However, they insist that it be put
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  Speaker 6: to the voters to enact for next session if they wish.
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  Speaker 6: The Justice Department is preparing unprecedented election monitoring efforts, according
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  Speaker 6: to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, trained
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  Speaker 6: government lawyer's will be available across the country. She said
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  Speaker 6: on Newsmax TV, we will be observers similar to the
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  Speaker 6: observers of the ACLU and the League of Women Voters.
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  Speaker 6: And NVIDIA, the chip maker, has purchased an AI company.
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  Speaker 6: It's the one you heard about last month, Hugging Face.
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  Speaker 6: It's an open source AI platform. NVIDIA spent $ 12. 9 billion
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  Speaker 6: of it. And those are some of our first things.
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  Speaker 6: Next week, we're going to be live from Shanksville, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 6: at the site of the Flight 93 Memorial to celebrate
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  Speaker 6: the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and those who
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  Speaker 6: stood up against it. Brought to you in part by
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  Speaker 6: our friends here at the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites.
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  Speaker 5: Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell
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  Speaker 5: the American story. But not every site is telling that
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  Speaker 5: story honestly and fairly. That's why the Heritage Foundation created
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  Speaker 5: the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites. This interactive guide equips
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  Speaker 5: American citizens with the tools they need to enjoy the
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  Speaker 5: sites that depict some of the greatest moments in our
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  Speaker 5: nation's history, analyzing them for historical accuracy, and provides resources
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  Speaker 5: for families or educators planning a visit. It currently covers
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  Speaker 5: over 45 sites in the 13 original colonies, but sites
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  Speaker 5: from all 50 states will be added in time for
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  Speaker 5: citizens to celebrate America 250 this summer. From Mount Vernon
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  Speaker 5: to Independence Hall to Gettysburg and more, Americans deserve transparency
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  Speaker 5: and sites that steward our history faithfully deserve our gratitude.
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  Speaker 5: The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites invites every American to
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  Speaker 5: rediscover the places and stories that define our nation, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's across the country or in your backyard. Visit historicsites.heritage.org.
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  Speaker 5: to start your adventure today.
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  Speaker 10: Let's see, if something costs less, a lot less, but
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  Speaker 10: people are actually happier with it, that sounds like something
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  Speaker 10: Metashare can save you or your family up to 500
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  Speaker 11: People are just happier with it.
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  Speaker 10: They love being part of something that reflects and promotes
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  Speaker 10: their values and what they believe in, MediShare works, too.
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  Speaker 10: It's been around for 30 years now, and members have
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  Speaker 10: love having telehealth and a huge nationwide PPO network. So, yeah, really,
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  Speaker 10: two minutes. A very, very smart use of two minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends. Here at First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 8: Who, me?
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  Speaker 15: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 18: Come again?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, the truisms in 516th measure 434-882-4217. That is the
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  Speaker 6: phone number. Emails come in to jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com. That
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  Speaker 6: phone number functions as a text message hotline to Scott,
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  Speaker 6: who listens to us for the first hour on WTAR
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  Speaker 6: down in Virginia Beach, and then transitions. because we're all
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  Speaker 6: about transitioning, aren't we, Scott? Kidding. Transitions to our web
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  Speaker 6: stream from our flagship station. He said, given the situation
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  Speaker 6: the founders were given, what they created was amazing. Amen
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  Speaker 6: to that, brother. I mean, you think about it. Who
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  Speaker 6: has the courage to say, you know, a bunch of
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  Speaker 6: my friends were talking about this idea. You want to
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  Speaker 6: try it? What have we done with the system we inherited? Well,
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  Speaker 6: this is why coming to these city elders meetings is
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  Speaker 6: important to me. And I mentioned this at the onset
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  Speaker 6: of the hour, that if we're successful at city elders
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  Speaker 6: of getting ethical people elected to these, whether it's Congress
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  Speaker 6: or your state house or your city council, the guilt
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  Speaker 6: trip that will befall other members of it because they
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  Speaker 6: don't want to look bad standing next to somebody ethical.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly they don't want to get struck by lightning standing
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  Speaker 6: there or burst into flames, um, is profound because you
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  Speaker 6: will actually get people who aren't necessarily fully vested in
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  Speaker 6: ethics to behave ethically, lest they look bad because they're
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  Speaker 6: wired to not look bad. And, and I understand that there's, uh,
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  Speaker 6: theological feeling that that's not really being ethical. If you
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  Speaker 6: just LARP ethics, that's fine. As long as it comes
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  Speaker 6: out to our benefit on this end, that they vote
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  Speaker 6: along with the ethical people because they don't want to
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  Speaker 6: look bad. What happens when they meet their maker, when St.
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  Speaker 6: Peter rolls out their ledger and he's like, you didn't
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  Speaker 6: believe any of that stuff, did you? I understand you
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  Speaker 6: said it because actions, you know, do speak louder than words.
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  Speaker 6: at least on this realm there. So, Scott, I appreciate
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  Speaker 6: the text there for that. Our family friends out at jcsgold.com
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  Speaker 6: had a busy day, I'm sure, yesterday. Gold spiking, getting
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  Speaker 6: a lot of attention there. I don't know if it
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  Speaker 6: held on to it or not. I have not had
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  Speaker 6: a chance to open jcsgold.com on my smartphone it's optimized
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  Speaker 6: for that so you can check anytime so i call
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  Speaker 6: james it's a little earlier than he's usually in the
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  Speaker 6: office 10 eastern at 434-979-COIN happy friday james how are
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  Speaker 6: you doing sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Joe. Happy Friday to you too.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: Gold had a great day yesterday, continuing that, that breakout
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  Speaker 23: move and it's holding onto it so far overnight sitting
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  Speaker 23: right at even at $ 4, 470.
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  Speaker 2: A very similar story for silver.
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  Speaker 23: Silver is down just a quarter of a percent so
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  Speaker 23: far this morning, which is just 16 cents. It's at
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  Speaker 23: $ 66 and 81 cents. So silver had a, had a,
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  Speaker 23: nice move yesterday as well. Uh, gold really shining though. And,
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  Speaker 23: and that's why we always say just as, as investing
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  Speaker 23: in gold and silver as a stacking, we call it
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  Speaker 23: a gold stacker, silver stackers. You just buy over time,
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  Speaker 23: you stack up your pile of gold and silver, which
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  Speaker 23: is a.
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  Speaker 2: Great way to think about it. Talk about a rewarding investment.
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  Speaker 23: Uh, you can stack up a pile of gold in your, uh,
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  Speaker 23: in your gun safe there.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, and, and you can really see your wealth
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  Speaker 2: and track it over time.
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  Speaker 6: And if the EMP comes, you know, if Kim Jong-un
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  Speaker 6: finally finds out a way to fire a missile that
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  Speaker 6: stays in the air and that EMP goes off, it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't go poof like, say, somebody's cryptocurrency might.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You don't need an Internet connection.
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  Speaker 23: You don't need a power connection or login credentials or
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  Speaker 23: anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: If you as long as you know where your gold
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  Speaker 2: and silver is, you have access to it. It is easy.
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  Speaker 2: it is physically yours.
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  Speaker 23: At all times, which is the really cool thing about
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  Speaker 23: the gold and silver investment.
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  Speaker 6: Now, we hold no warranty on forgetting the combination to
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  Speaker 6: your safe, but that's on you. And the rest of
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  Speaker 6: it's on us to help you make the good decisions
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  Speaker 6: on that. That's why I always suggest calling a family
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  Speaker 6: business that's not out there trying to upsell you, not
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  Speaker 6: trying to fill a quota for some guy who's walking around.
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  Speaker 6: And I always think about this, James. I know this
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't mean anything to the price of tea in China.
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  Speaker 6: But friends of mine, I used to live in State College, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 6: which is the home of AccuWeather. A lot of folks
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  Speaker 6: have heard of AccuWeather. It's a mostly radio weather forecasting network,
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  Speaker 6: and they'll provide radio stations with weather forecasts and all.
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  Speaker 6: And they were founded by State College residents, Penn State graduates,
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  Speaker 6: because they have a huge meteorology school there. Farm school,
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  Speaker 6: go figure. But the guy who founded it, you want
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  Speaker 6: to talk about a complex? So he built the office
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  Speaker 6: with all the cubicles for all the forecasters to work in.
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  Speaker 6: And he would walk on a gangplank. He had a
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  Speaker 6: platform built in between all of the, like a runway.
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  Speaker 6: And he would walk up and down, you know, at
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  Speaker 6: six feet in the air, walking along this runway in
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  Speaker 6: between all of the cubicles, just looking down at all
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  Speaker 6: of his forecasters, ostensibly to, quote, unquote, answer any of
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  Speaker 6: their questions. But it got a little Roman, you know,
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  Speaker 6: oarship kind of feel to it after a while. And
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  Speaker 6: I always think of that when we talk about these
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  Speaker 6: call centers that are much less personal than calling jcsgold.com.
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  Speaker 6: I always kind of visualize a guy walking around. a
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  Speaker 6: gangplank in between a bunch of cubicles saying, Observe them.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't made your quota yet.
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  Speaker 4: No gruel for you.
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  Speaker 6: And so, you know, call a family that's not doing that,
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  Speaker 6: at least until the Renaissance Fair starts. So give him
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  Speaker 6: a call at 434-979-COIN. It's always in my head, James,
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  Speaker 6: and I just felt the urge to confess it to
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  Speaker 6: you this morning.
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  Speaker 23: Well, I really appreciate that, Joe, because I think that's
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  Speaker 23: a great idea.
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  Speaker 6: We can all chat with you, Joe, but James can't
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  Speaker 6: a great weekend. Enjoy Labor Day weekend. I haven't even
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: who are here, our neighbors, this is all the rhetoric
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  Speaker 6: them anything else after that. Gave them, you know, in
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  Speaker 6: some cases, barely a crate to live in. Whipped them
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  Speaker 6: if they didn't do what they were asked to do.
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  Speaker 6: And we're heading towards the same civil war that we
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  Speaker 6: had 150 years ago because we are losing people The narrative,
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  Speaker 6: the argument, we're allowing them to phrase it like it's
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  Speaker 6: a voting rights issue now. It's a civil rights issue.
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  Speaker 6: You're here, you have civil rights, and they want to
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  Speaker 6: write a list of what those civil rights are. They
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  Speaker 18: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 6: They would never have a no queens protest because that
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  Speaker 6: space where you're holding a city elders meeting, just saying
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  Speaker 2: Look it up.
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  Speaker 6: that the people who want to bring it back, you know,
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  Speaker 6: That even the mere discussion of a group like City Elders, oh,
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  Speaker 26: birds who gather supplies to build nests or Swiss foxes,
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  Speaker 26: who work hard to provide for their young. Or penguins,
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  Speaker 26: who travel up to 500 miles to secure food for
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  Speaker 26: their families. Or bush babies, whose impressive jump allows them
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  Speaker 26: to navigate the trees and the wild in search of fruit.
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  Speaker 26: This remarkable work ethic is shared by our best friends,
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  Speaker 26: the canines. We know dogs are our wonderful pets at home,
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  Speaker 26: but because of their acute senses, they also perform life-saving
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  Speaker 26: work every day. Dogs keep us safe at airports. They
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  Speaker 26: comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer from PTS. They
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  Speaker 26: work with diabetics, alerting them when there's a change in
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  Speaker 26: their blood chemistry. Working dogs have a variety of highly
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  Speaker 26: trained roles that contribute to society and help those in need.
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  Speaker 26: So please join me and American Humane in supporting our
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  Speaker 26: heroic working dogs and all the amazing animals on this
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  Speaker 26: planet we inhabit together. Go to americanhumane.org to learn more.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 16: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 22: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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  Speaker 3: Heart and brain.
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  Speaker 6: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 26: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
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  Speaker 22: And my brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
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  Speaker 22: somebody call me a ride.
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  Speaker 20: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Me too.
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  Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs? Call for a ride when
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 27: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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  Speaker 27: costs go to heating and cooling? Energy efficiency isn't just
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  Speaker 27: good for the environment. It means lower utility bills, too.
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  Speaker 27: One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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  Speaker 27: energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
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  Speaker 27: learn how to do it yourself at energysavers.gov. That's energysavers.gov.
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  Speaker 27: You'll learn to look for air leaks around windows and doors,
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  Speaker 27: check ducts for holes, and improve your insulation. Another time
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  Speaker 27: to cut energy costs is when you shop for a
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  Speaker 27: new appliance. Look for the Energy Star logo and read
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  Speaker 27: the Energy Guide label. And there are day-to-day things you
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  Speaker 27: can do. Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it
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  Speaker 27: in the summer. Close fireplace dampers when they're not in use.
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  Speaker 27: And keep air filters clean. For more tips on saving
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  Speaker 27: money by reducing your energy waste, check out ftc.gov slash green.
• 43:24
  Speaker 27: A tip from the Federal Trade Commission. the nation's consumer
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  Speaker 27: protection agency.
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  Speaker 19: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  Speaker 19: first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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  Speaker 19: going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
• 43:41
  Speaker 19: anger could be a sign of a larger health concern.
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  Speaker 3: But help is available.
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  Speaker 19: Listen to hundreds of inspiring stories at maketheconnection.net and learn
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  Speaker 19: how you can support the veterans in your life. Treatment works.
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  Speaker 19: Recovery is possible.
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  Speaker 1: Listen anytime you like. We won't tell your HR director,
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  Speaker 1: but we might post it to your Grindr profile. First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: As we celebrate Labor Day weekend for you. Isn't it
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: funny that you celebrate labor by taking the day off?
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: That's what we do. That's what makes everyone hate us
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: so much is we go to work and that makes
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: them feel bad by comparison. On the subject of immigration
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: and citizenship, I was asked an interesting question yesterday. Gary,
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: who listens up in Berlin, New Hampshire, he sent me
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: an email. He said, Can I get your text message?
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Text message he sent to me. Can I
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: get your opinion on Svalbard as it compares to our
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: immigration policies? And it was just out of left field.
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  Speaker 6: It was about six o'clock last night. And I don't
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  Speaker 6: know what bemused him at that moment, but he just
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  Speaker 6: he wanted my thoughts on Svalbard. And I know that
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  Speaker 6: you and I haven't spent a lot of what? I
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  Speaker 6: think we can say Svalbard on the air. I mean,
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: we've already established I can't say Whitey on the air.
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  Speaker 6: But I think Svalbard is okay. And in my research
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: about Svalbard, I discovered that I'm glad I didn't know
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  Speaker 6: about them beforehand because the name before they were Svalbard
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: was even more funny. Svalbard is an archipelago. It's got
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  Speaker 6: a population. It's a Norwegian archipelago up by the Arctic Circle.
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  Speaker 6: It's in between Norway and the Arctic Circle. And it
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: used to be known as Spitsbergen. And I'm sorry, I'd
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: emigrate there just to say we were coming to you
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  Speaker 6: live from Spitsbergen. But Svalbard, it's been called that since
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  Speaker 6: the 20s. So it's not like six years ago they
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: decided to change the name because Barack Obama visited. It's
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  Speaker 6: a coal mining area. It's kind of like West Virginia
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: with more snow and ice there. But their policy, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: this is what brought Gary in Berlin to ask me
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: about Svalbard, while you're scrambling to say, hey, chat GTP,
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: can you tell me about Svalbard? Their immigration policy is
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: what made him curious. Because as long as you can
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  Speaker 6: support yourself, you're allowed to move there. That's all they
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: ask is that you prove that. And you have to
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: prove that you can afford your own health care, that
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  Speaker 6: you can take care of yourself. That you can provide
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  Speaker 6: for yourself. And if you can't, you know what happens
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: to you if you can't support yourself? They kick your
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: ass out. They say, get out of here. I'm sure
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: in some other dialect, but they basically tell you to
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: get the hell out of here. Stop sucking up their
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  Speaker 6: natural resources. And I know this has been discussed on
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  Speaker 6: a grander scale. And one of the things that's interesting
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: is that people say you couldn't do that here in
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  Speaker 6: the United States because we're too big of a country.
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  Speaker 6: And whenever anyone says that we couldn't do something here
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  Speaker 6: because we're too big of a country, I push back on.
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  Speaker 6: But I was trying to gameplay out what a United
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: States immigration system would be like If you could come
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  Speaker 6: here visa-free, you can live and work indefinitely without a
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  Speaker 6: residence permit or a work visa, but they require that
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  Speaker 6: you show proof of self-sufficiency, meaning you must have the
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: financial means, a job, income, housing. You have to show that, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I've got a place to live. Health insurance. Can you
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: imagine the U.S. government saying to people in Ohio or
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: California or Texas or Virginia, can you imagine them saying, okay,
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  Speaker 6: we're going to open our borders. However, here's what you
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: have to do. What racist, fascist, Marxist, istist, behavior. Oh,
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: my goodness. This must be the Trump administration's fascism making
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: us prove that we have to work. Now, I don't know,
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: you know, apparently hospitality is one of their big things
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: because tourism, it's got to be the Northern Lights or something.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Because somewhere in between Norway and the Arctic Circle doesn't
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: sound like beachfront property to me. But if there might
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: be skiing. But apparently there's some military stuff that goes
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: on up there. Don't talk about it. But imagine if
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: Donald Trump said, you know what, Tom, Tom Homan has
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: taken a lot of folks out of here and people
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: are a little upset about it. How about this? How
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  Speaker 6: about we take Svalbard's immigration policy and we apply them
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  Speaker 6: here in the United States? And if you can prove
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  Speaker 6: that you have a job and that you can pay
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  Speaker 6: for your own way.
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  Speaker 12: I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, I would like to have the other shoe fall
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: that that job does not necessarily have to pay you
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: $ 20 an hour because you want to start to bring
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: costs down, have more and more people in this country
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: make less. I know that sounds weird, but people will
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: charge what they think they can get. And if you
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: insist people pay $ 20 an hour minimum wage... then the
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: cost of things are going to go up to match
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: that wage, which then becomes the cat chasing the tail,
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: which is exactly why Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez before
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: him instituted price controls, because they had inflated the minimum
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: wage in Venezuela, nationalized all the big businesses, and then
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: forced the small businesses to pay a confiscatory wage, but
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: not charge... their customers enough to pay it. They're like, okay,
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: so we're going to pay our employees this many dollars
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: an hour. Well, now it's going to cost this much
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: to put out the farm produce and set up the
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: dairy in the grocery store. And then they started closing
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: the grocery stores. Maybe this is where Zorhan Mamdani learned
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: it all. But just imagine if Donald Trump said, you
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: know what, No more immigration issues, but you have to
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: prove to the U.S. government that you have a job.
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: What would the reaction of your kindly neighborhood leftist be?
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: Your kindly neighborhood open borders, no laws, no ICE, no
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  Speaker 6: justice system at all, protesters. Hey, hey, ho, ho, immigration's
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  Speaker 6: got to go. You know, the folks, the ones wild-eyed,
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: wearing some t-shirt depicting Donald Trump and a donkey in
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: a compromising position, big red circle with a line through it,
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: acting like fascists while insisting that they're against the fascists.
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  Speaker 6: You know the group that I'm talking about. You know
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: the people. Tell them about Svalbard and see what they
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: would say about that.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Bobby.
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 20: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 3: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 12: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 12: of their lives.
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 12: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 12: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 12: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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  Speaker 12: for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 9: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 2: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 12: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 12: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 22: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 12: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 12: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 2: Go to DAV.org.