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"News Fatigue?" (FTTxJT Tue 110326 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 3: Works damn near every day. Leaves for work when the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops a kid to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that
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  Speaker 3: he needs.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 3: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 6: Let me be your Thank you for letting me be
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  Speaker 6: of service to you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You know what we do here?
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  Speaker 6: We take the news of the day, chop it up
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  Speaker 6: into easily digestible gummies, and then once the side effects
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  Speaker 6: start to take effect, we start talking about how it
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  Speaker 6: makes you feel, how it's impacting you where you are.
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  Speaker 7: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you do it. Emails, text messages.
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  Speaker 6: Phone calls, however you want to do it. John writes in,
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  Speaker 6: I think one of the worst things about 24-hour news
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  Speaker 6: conglomerates is that they do the short-form interview crap all
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  Speaker 6: the time. They have plenty of airtime to actually dig
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  Speaker 6: into a subject but refuse to. I understand they're chasing ratings.
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  Speaker 6: I guess that says it all.
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  Speaker 2: Short-sighted.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here's the thing. They undersell you. I was talking
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  Speaker 6: with my kids the other day and I was telling
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  Speaker 6: a story about my younger son, Kyle, who I think
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  Speaker 6: was three or four at the time and an occupational
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  Speaker 6: therapist from our elementary school, was also a personal friend
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  Speaker 6: of ours, but she was over for tea and was
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  Speaker 6: watching him play. And she said, oh, he's going to
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  Speaker 6: have to be so medicated by the time he gets
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  Speaker 6: to school. And I mean, I about near blew a
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  Speaker 6: gasket on the woman. I'm lucky Mama raised me to
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  Speaker 6: be polite to people that you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to throttle.
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  Speaker 6: The more you want to grab somebody by the neck
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  Speaker 6: and give them what for, the less you should, the
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  Speaker 6: more it indicates that you shouldn't, is what my mother
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  Speaker 6: always taught me. But I said, have you watched him
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  Speaker 6: play with his trains, Thomas the Tank Engine stuff?
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  Speaker 2: And she said, no.
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  Speaker 6: I said, he'll sit there for hours. Don't tell me
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  Speaker 6: he's got ADHD. I mean, he can sit and focus
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  Speaker 6: on things he's interested in for hours. Maybe that's something
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  Speaker 6: you learn as a parent watching your kids, if you're smart,
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  Speaker 6: that they will, because we all out of hand say, oh,
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  Speaker 6: it's short attention span, the TV viewer, the radio listener,
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  Speaker 6: they don't have, and I understand you have a busy morning.
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  Speaker 6: So it's on me to make sure everything is out
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  Speaker 6: front and clear so that the little bits you have
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  Speaker 6: to spend with us You get it. Because if you
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  Speaker 6: don't get it, I got it. But that's what TV
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  Speaker 6: executives undersell. They're like, oh, the TV viewer doesn't have
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  Speaker 6: interest in all that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure we do.
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  Speaker 6: Do something interesting and we will have interest in it.
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  Speaker 6: I remember when I was told kids weren't going to
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  Speaker 6: read anymore. And then the Harry Potter books came out
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  Speaker 6: and kids started reading again.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what they did?
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  Speaker 6: They read other things in between the Harry Potter books.
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  Speaker 6: They were finding all sorts of books like Bible.
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  Speaker 8: Shh!
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell anyone. You want to read, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: they were reading C.S.
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  Speaker 6: Lewis, and then all kids won't sit through a two-and-a-half-hour movie,
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  Speaker 6: and then the first Harry Potter movie came out, and
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  Speaker 6: guess what?
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  Speaker 2: We will.
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  Speaker 6: We will watch something for two-and-a-half hours. Isn't the Jim
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  Speaker 6: Caviezel movie, you know, Two Hours of the Sound of Freedom,
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  Speaker 6: like two and change hours? We'll watch interesting things. Me,
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  Speaker 6: on my behalf, I have to tell you what's going
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  Speaker 6: on here. Since I was on the subject, Fox News
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  Speaker 6: has reported losing almost 33% of its audience in daily
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  Speaker 6: viewers over the last year. And Lachlan Murdoch, who's running
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  Speaker 6: the company now for Dad, says it's viewer fatigue, dodging
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  Speaker 6: the question as to whether it was his programming that
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  Speaker 6: made the viewers fatigued or not. Of course, this joins
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  Speaker 6: CNN and MS Now that had already been watching plummeting
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  Speaker 6: ratings in all-news television. Supreme Court Monday rejected the administration's
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  Speaker 6: call to step in on the case of the thousands
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  Speaker 6: of mail-in ballots in California. While officials look into the
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  Speaker 6: citizenship status of each of the voters, the justices declined
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  Speaker 6: to intervene in the case, meaning that the lower court's
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  Speaker 6: ruling that it must stop prevails.
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  Speaker 2: U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, meanwhile, have announced dozens of additional
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  Speaker 6: arrests of foreign nationals who have been found to have
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  Speaker 6: been voting, in some cases, since 2000 in American elections,
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  Speaker 6: such as the case of one Mexican national who voted
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  Speaker 6: in 15 elections since 2000. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne
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  Speaker 6: Mullen was on Newsmax TV Friday and said that more
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  Speaker 6: than 300,000 non-citizens have been flagged on state voter rolls,
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  Speaker 6: up from 250,000 in July. The United States has launched
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  Speaker 6: new strikes against Iran's strategically important Qeshm Island on Monday,
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  Speaker 6: part of a series of limited military operations in.
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  Speaker 2: The last few days.
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  Speaker 6: As diplomatic agreements are dragging on between the two countries,
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  Speaker 6: officials told The Wall Street Journal strikes were intended to
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  Speaker 6: prevent Iranian forces from threatening more commercial shipping in the
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  Speaker 6: hammered it out after the show yesterday. And it's up online, dailysignal.com,
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  Speaker 6: chronicling the tales of woe when it talks about voter restoration.
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  Speaker 6: And some of it is exactly what we're getting at
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  Speaker 6: when we talk about the short attention span theater that
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  Speaker 6: the news has become repeat over and over and over
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  Speaker 6: again because in and amongst all of the stories, important
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  Speaker 6: ones are getting left out. And I think this is why,
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  Speaker 6: what did Lachlan Murdoch call it.
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  Speaker 2: News fatigue?
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  Speaker 6: News fatigue benefits the authoritarians. It does because then the
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  Speaker 6: authoritarians can tell you what the news is as we
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  Speaker 6: approach election day. I don't think it's going to go
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  Speaker 6: either way that the pundits say, oh, you know, so
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  Speaker 6: this is going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think personally, if.
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  Speaker 6: The House and Senate move to the other party, you're
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  Speaker 6: going to watch gridlock and massive government shutdowns just to
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  Speaker 6: make Donald Trump look bad. The governance will be simply
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  Speaker 6: to make Donald Trump look bad. And to be fair,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of what is going to come out of
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  Speaker 6: the White House is going to be designed to make
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  Speaker 6: the Congress look bad. And we're not going to get anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: And gas prices may come down and then they'll start
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  Speaker 6: talking about needing to hike the gas taxes so that
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  Speaker 6: you buy more hybrids again, which is why the gas
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  Speaker 6: prices were so high four years ago when we weren't
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  Speaker 6: battling with Iran to make them stop killing people. civilians
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  Speaker 6: and our soldiers there. So that being said, it's not
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  Speaker 6: a flaw. It's a feature. They want you to not
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  Speaker 6: want to hear the news. That way they can do
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  Speaker 6: whatever the hell they want because you're not paying attention
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  Speaker 6: because we've made it almost unwatchable slash unlistenable. Our friend
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  Speaker 6: James stands with us and what we do to try
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  Speaker 6: to make it interesting, to try to make it compelling
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  Speaker 6: and try to get it all into your ear. Before
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  Speaker 6: you have to get on with your day, of course,
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  Speaker 6: at the Jefferson Coin Shop, jcsgold.com is the phone number
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  Speaker 6: that you would need.
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  Speaker 2: It's 434-979-COIN. Good morning, James. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Joe. How are you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I happen to take a peek because jcsgold.com is
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  Speaker 6: optimized for smartphones. And I took a peek earlier, and
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  Speaker 6: it looks like gold and silver are still going to
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  Speaker 6: keep you busy. because they seem to still be like
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  Speaker 6: the department store. Everything must go. It's our post-election day sale.
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  Speaker 6: And they are still looking like they're discounting. Has that
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  Speaker 6: bounced at all with the foreign markets opening?
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  Speaker 2: No, gold and.
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  Speaker 21: Silver are still under pressure this morning. Gold's down about 1%,
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  Speaker 21: down $ 42 to $ 3, 904. Silver, broke back below 50, down
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  Speaker 21: over 3% in the red so far today to $ 48.
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  Speaker 17: 95.
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  Speaker 21: So both metals still on the low end of this
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  Speaker 21: channel that we've been talking about, really trying to find
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  Speaker 21: some support here. But the biggest indicator that I've noticed
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  Speaker 21: is that our clients have really been taking advantage of
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  Speaker 21: this discount in silver.
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  Speaker 2: And some of our silver stock has.
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  Speaker 21: Really gotten low to where who are almost out of
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  Speaker 21: have five ounce silver bars in stock, which are a
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  Speaker 21: great deal at the moment. And if you're interested in
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  Speaker 21: we do try to keep those in stock every week.
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  Speaker 21: every couple of days.
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  Speaker 6: And just a reminder, I know it's just starting to
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  Speaker 6: get brisk in the morning, but, uh, great Christmas gifts. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: those silver rounds, they get, they get these amazing holiday
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  Speaker 6: silver rounds, um, for Christmas gift giving. I, as I
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  Speaker 6: call them one part ornament, one part investment. Um, so,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you make sure you tell us as soon
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  Speaker 6: as they get into the shop, uh, James, I will.
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  Speaker 21: Uh, I'll tell you, they are in the works to
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  Speaker 21: be added to the website, so that is coming very soon.
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  Speaker 21: So I will definitely let you know as soon as
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  Speaker 21: those are live at jcsgold.com.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have a blessed morning, sir, and thank you.
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  Speaker 14: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: You too.
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  Speaker 6: And call them for advice. I mean, don't buy stuff
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  Speaker 6: because you hear it on the radio. I mean, be
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  Speaker 6: compelled by it, sure. But call and vet this stuff out, 434-979-7000.
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  Speaker 2: Coin.
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  Speaker 6: Joel is hanging on the line with us at my number,
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  Speaker 6: which is 434-882-4217. Good morning, Joel. What's on your mind
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  Speaker 6: this morning?
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  Speaker 17: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to get this stuff out, man. Why,
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  Speaker 2: do you feel clogged? Do you feel backed up?
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  Speaker 6: Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go trouble down the drain.
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  Speaker 6: Sign of a kid that watched too much television.
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  Speaker 22: No impaction here, but I just wanted to say this,
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  Speaker 22: that I think, I think what Fox news or the
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  Speaker 22: survey with Fox news is purposeful. And it's kind of
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  Speaker 22: like the rebranding of Coca-Cola and they're doing it to
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  Speaker 22: themselves because they, instead of having to pay people to
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  Speaker 22: do surveys that the, the, the people that are, I'm
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  Speaker 22: sure that are calling in or writing or, or sending
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  Speaker 22: texts or giving their opinions and their, and their views and,
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  Speaker 22: And that'll be their way to adjust. I mean, you
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  Speaker 22: have 18 to 18. What I read on the statistics
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  Speaker 22: is 18 to 24 year olds that really like shorter news,
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  Speaker 22: more focused on the subject. And they don't like real
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  Speaker 6: Well, and that's one of the problems is the star
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  Speaker 6: quality of it. But let me jump onto something you
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  Speaker 6: said about young people and opinion news. See, if something
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  Speaker 6: is a grievous event, I don't need the news anchor
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  Speaker 6: to tell me it's serious. If a Learjet crashes onto
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  Speaker 6: the sidewalk in my hometown, what was it, Orlando?
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  Speaker 14: That was Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 6: Palm Beach, yeah. I think I can grasp that that's serious.
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  Speaker 6: I think what we're weary of is people making things
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  Speaker 6: that are certainly an important story or an interesting story,
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  Speaker 6: make it feel like It's an emergency that you need
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  Speaker 6: to do something out. It's the chicken little-ism. Is something
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  Speaker 6: that's happening in a school in Colorado impacting you in Arizona?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, certainly it's something you want to think about,
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: and there may be aspects of it that are worth discussing,
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  Speaker 6: but it's not going to change the way you get
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk Media Network.
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  Speaker 9: For one zillion dollars.
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  Speaker 4: The question is, who let the dogs out?
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: Who let the.
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  Speaker 28: Dogs out?
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  Speaker 6: No, right at ground zero yesterday, we told you the
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  Speaker 6: sad tale of Biscuit Rigsby. Biscuit Rigsby is back and
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  Speaker 6: has had her voting rights restored, unaware to her family
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: that she had been a felon. And it had her
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: voting rights suspended. Also, ironically, that she was a beagle.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: But right there in the midst of Biscuit Rigsby's voting precinct,
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  Speaker 6: looking for every dog that he can possibly shake the
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  Speaker 6: paw of or at least scratch behind the ears on
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  Speaker 6: this election day morning, he is Congressman John McGuire.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, John. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, hey, good morning. Yeah, it just shows the incompetence
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  Speaker 17: of the Democrat leadership. They can't govern. They can't handle
• 29:19
  Speaker 17: restoring rights individually. Imagine they do it automatically. They're going
• 29:24
  Speaker 17: to just put rights on just about anybody. But, yeah,
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: it's just everything they do is ridiculous.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: It's pandering.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: It's pandering, John. I mean, I think that's what people
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: get tired of is the pandering.
• 29:37
  Speaker 17: Yeah, did you see? that photograph Spanberger had? So she
• 29:41
  Speaker 17: has the most diverse cabinet.
• 29:44
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I did see that. It's a governor of Virginia.
• 29:47
  Speaker 14: Is that pandering or what is that?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but that's the thing. I think people are
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: weary of that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: As much as anything, we've spent probably an inordinate amount
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: of time this morning talking about Lachlan Murdoch complaining that
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Fox News has hemorrhaged and now their ratings have fallen
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: down to CNN level and MSNL level. And his complaint
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: is that there's news fatigue. And I don't think there's
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: news fatigue. I think there's pandering fatigue, John. You talk
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: to people on the street. I mean, you're out on
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: the street corners like a guy who wants to clean
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: my windshield, shaking hands and actually talking to people in person.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: You must get a whole different view of people than
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: maybe even a lot of your fellows in Congress who
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: just kind of do campaign events.
• 30:43
  Speaker 17: Well, I do think being close to the people is
• 30:45
  Speaker 17: where you find out what's going on. I remember in
• 30:47
  Speaker 17: the General Assembly— They would say, where do you get
• 30:50
  Speaker 17: these ideas?
• 30:51
  Speaker 14: Most people get their ideas from lobbyists.
• 30:53
  Speaker 17: Most of my ideas for legislation came from meeting people
• 30:56
  Speaker 17: at the door or at restaurants. Same thing in Congress.
• 31:00
  Speaker 17: And I don't know if I can live up to it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: I pray I can live up to it. But so
• 31:04
  Speaker 17: my brother was at an event with me. He said
• 31:05
  Speaker 17: that woman said you were the most real politician she
• 31:08
  Speaker 17: ever met. So he said, you're not afraid to get
• 31:11
  Speaker 17: your hands dirty, be down here with.
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: Us and ask us questions. I think that's the way
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: our fathers wanted it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: Is there a point, and I know you were in
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: the state Senate for a long time, and then you
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: moved into the U.S. House of Representatives, and I've talked
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: to people who've made that transition, and they talk about
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: how incredibly different the U.S. House is from state office,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: where there seemed like, and it grew, it almost looked
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: like it weighed on them like a stone. But My question,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: John McGuire, on with us on this election day, this
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: midterm election day, as you work, it seems like just
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: as somebody who's known you for a long time, you've
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: grown more comfortable in the job because, you know, I've
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: started new jobs where I'm like, oh, I don't know
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: what I'm supposed to do. And then you realize, oh,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I already knew what I was supposed to do. I
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: just convinced myself that the new job required new things.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when did you start to feel like, oh, OK,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: so the.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Same John McGuire that was in the state Senate is
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: the same John McGuire. I don't need to do things
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: differently just because it's in Congress.
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: Well, I've been in Congress 22 months and I joke
• 32:32
  Speaker 17: with the media.
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: I've got it all figured out. I got no more questions.
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: That's a joke.
• 32:37
  Speaker 17: You know, I am learning a lot, but I think
• 32:39
  Speaker 17: this is where God wants me right now. And I've
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: got a philosophy that I picked up in the Navy SEALs.
• 32:44
  Speaker 17: And that is, if you put God first, put your
• 32:47
  Speaker 17: differences aside, treat people with respect and work as a team,
• 32:51
  Speaker 17: sometimes in special operations outnumbered behind any lines, not always,
• 32:55
  Speaker 17: but sometimes you can turn.
• 32:56
  Speaker 14: Impossible to possible.
• 32:58
  Speaker 17: And in politics, not always, but that philosophy can sometimes
• 33:01
  Speaker 17: turn a.
• 33:01
  Speaker 14: No into a yes.
• 33:03
  Speaker 17: And so what I've been doing for 22 months is
• 33:05
  Speaker 17: building relationships across the aisle at the local, state, and
• 33:09
  Speaker 17: federal level with Democrats and Republicans You know, I got
• 33:12
  Speaker 17: the highest war for conservatism, so I'm not compromising my
• 33:15
  Speaker 17: biblical values, but I'm building those relationships.
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: If you ever needed my help, Joe, you would.
• 33:20
  Speaker 17: Say, there's three ways I can answer you. I can say, one,
• 33:24
  Speaker 17: I don't know what I'm doing.
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: I don't know anything.
• 33:27
  Speaker 17: Two, I can say I've burned every bridge possible. Or three,
• 33:32
  Speaker 17: I've built bridges across the island, local, state, federal level,
• 33:36
  Speaker 17: and I can't promise I can help.
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: You, but I'm more likely to help you.
• 33:40
  Speaker 17: But by using that philosophy, we just passed a bill
• 33:43
  Speaker 17: 25 years. Your last six congressmen never got it through
• 33:47
  Speaker 17: a subcommittee. And people were very skeptical every step of
• 33:51
  Speaker 17: the way, but I was respectful. And we passed it
• 33:53
  Speaker 17: out of the subcommittee, the full committee of the House.
• 33:56
  Speaker 17: And it recently just passed the full Senate committee with
• 34:00
  Speaker 17: every Democrat, every Republican voting yes. It was amazing the
• 34:04
  Speaker 17: skepticism I had. But again, I just put God first
• 34:07
  Speaker 17: and treat people with respect and build those relationships.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: So, so what was this unicorn of a bill about?
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: That's a, that's a great story. If, you know, if
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: it's been trying to, that sounds like that Saturday morning cartoon.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. What was,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: what was the bill about?
• 34:27
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I remember that cartoon as a kid.
• 34:29
  Speaker 29: Yes.
• 34:29
  Speaker 17: Basically, in Wintergreen and Nelson County, they can hold 10,000
• 34:34
  Speaker 17: people on the mountain at their peak. But there's only
• 34:36
  Speaker 17: one road and one road out.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 34:38
  Speaker 17: So I travel around the district. I met with the
• 34:41
  Speaker 17: fire chief, the police chief and different people in the community.
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: And they I said, hey, is there anything I can do.
• 34:46
  Speaker 14: To help you guys?
• 34:47
  Speaker 17: Because I always say that wherever I go in the district.
• 34:49
  Speaker 17: And they said, just like everybody else, no, we're pretty good.
• 34:52
  Speaker 17: And then finally one guy goes, we do have this
• 34:54
  Speaker 17: one thing. And I said, well, what is it? And
• 34:56
  Speaker 17: he goes, well, I spent 25 years. And I said, well,
• 34:59
  Speaker 17: I'd like to help you. And I go, yeah, we've worked. Yeah,
• 35:02
  Speaker 17: they said, we've worked with six congressmen. And I said, well,
• 35:06
  Speaker 17: I'm going to get it done. They were very skeptical,
• 35:08
  Speaker 17: but we've made a.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Lot of progress.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: You even got, you know, worked with Tim Kaine on it,
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: you know, of all things. I mean, you know, and
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: that's good. I mean, that is because this is a
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: real thing. It's, you know, you needed permission to build
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: a road so that people could get out if, you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: the excrement hit the air handler. John McGuire, you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: McGuire for VA is his website. There, John, I wanted
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: to ask you, because you're on the House Oversight Committee,
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: you know, all this stuff, you know, now it's, you know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: it's more illegals on the voting rolls. It's the Ilhan
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Omar story. I mean, at what point is this all
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: designed to make us not trust what's going on in Washington?
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: Who's got their hand in the till there? will anyone
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: ever be held to account for allowing all these people
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: onto the voter rolls? Never mind all the people who
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: are getting aid from the government. I was reading a
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: Jamie Comer report about how many people are inappropriately getting aid.
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: You know, my listeners, they want to see perp walks, John.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: At some point, somebody's got to be fitted for an
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: orange jumpsuit.
• 36:18
  Speaker 17: Well, I got to tell you, what I hear from constituents,
• 36:21
  Speaker 17: because I'm on the ground every day, I've been to
• 36:23
  Speaker 17: 413 different churches and hundreds of businesses, I'm really active
• 36:27
  Speaker 17: in the district, is they say, when are we going
• 36:29
  Speaker 17: to get to the handcuffs part? And the crazy thing is,
• 36:33
  Speaker 17: you know, I was with Kash Patel in my district
• 36:36
  Speaker 17: a few weeks ago, and we were talking about the
• 36:39
  Speaker 17: handcuffs part. And I think he knew but didn't tell
• 36:41
  Speaker 17: me because about a week later, we see Louise Lucas
• 36:45
  Speaker 17: get handcuffs. But we are making progress on that. We
• 36:49
  Speaker 17: got a long ways to go. But here's the thing.
• 36:50
  Speaker 17: David Yancey won his election by one vote. And that
• 36:54
  Speaker 17: one vote gave us a one-vote majority in the House
• 36:56
  Speaker 17: of Delegates, and we stopped their attacks on life and
• 36:59
  Speaker 17: our Second Amendment and everything else.
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: One vote matters. That's why everybody needs to vote today.
• 37:04
  Speaker 14: It's Election Day.
• 37:06
  Speaker 17: First thing Democrats tell you is there's no election fraud.
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: That's the first thing they tell you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 17: Then when you show them evidence, they go, well, it's
• 37:13
  Speaker 17: only one or two.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: You don't want to be there.
• 37:16
  Speaker 14: Even if it's one, one's too much.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's you don't want to be that one guy who,
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: you know, in Texas allows James Tallarico to become your
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: senator or Abdul El-Sayed to become the senator from Michigan.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: You know, amazingly, the Democrats have found a way to
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: put Michigan in play through, you know, just pushing that,
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: you know, that here, hold my beer. You think the
• 37:40
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by joe thomas on the talk media network.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, how in the world can the Supreme Court not
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  Speaker 6: take up the question of whether or not the federal
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: government has the authority to check citizenship of voter rolls?
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: And I don't know all the specifics. I haven't read
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  Speaker 6: the pleading in the case, so I don't know. 80%
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: of these things that happen in the Supreme Court that
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: are puzzlements are usually based on something that was done either.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: Ineptly or intentionally to spike the pudding by the lawyers
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: who were pleading the case. So I don't know who
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: asked the court to intervene, but a lot of it
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: has to do with what.
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  Speaker 2: The intervening case.
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: And if it was over states' rights, I still wish
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: we had, you know, where's Harmeet? Can we get Harmeet
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Dhillon out here to do that? Because I'm pretty sure
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: she gets it. This is a civil rights thing. If
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: you're diluting my vote, my civil rights have been infringed.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Can we at least have an honest conversation about that?
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: We have folks on the line. I want to get
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: to them. John, I wanted to ask you about the
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: next two years. John McGuire running as one of these
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: midterm elections running to keep his seat in Congress. John,
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  Speaker 6: I made the case that the next two years, if
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are in charge, are going
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: to be a lot of vetoes. President Trump said that.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: But I'm more worried about the government shutdown that is
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: going to loom at some point early in the year,
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: maybe even December when the budget comes due. And we
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  Speaker 6: see because I know they've been trying to enjoin this
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: current Congress from doing anything legislatively in the lame duck
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: session if they get power.
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  Speaker 2: What do you hear about that?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's exactly right. You know, if they want to
• 46:10
  Speaker 17: get President Trump sober, throw away our country. Trump derangement
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  Speaker 17: syndrome is.
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  Speaker 14: Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: John, he's out there.
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  Speaker 6: He's literally on the side of the road somewhere. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you went out there. Trump derangement syndrome and then you
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  Speaker 6: were gone.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, Trump derangement syndrome is perfect.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: We need to get you Starlink. That's what we need
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  Speaker 6: to do, John. John, Yeah, we're losing his phone connection there.
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  Speaker 6: John McGuire, it's John McGuire for VA.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Try to get him back. Bruce is on line two
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  Speaker 6: here hanging on with us. Bruce, thank you for hanging
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: on the line while they try to get him back.
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  Speaker 6: Their cell service this hour of the morning, I guess,
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  Speaker 6: is some folks good, bad, indifferent.
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  Speaker 2: But what's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I just wanted to brag, I guess, because I've
• 47:12
  Speaker 12: already voted and made it home. And they had a
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: higher than normal turnout at this time of the day.
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  Speaker 12: They had about 15 people there.
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  Speaker 2: In line before you? That's good.
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  Speaker 6: So do you live in a normally, you know, kind
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: of conservative-leaning area?
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  Speaker 12: I have no idea, to be honest with you. I
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: don't know who my neighbors are. I live off of
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  Speaker 12: West Rio.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: Well, that's not, you know, the sticks or anything there.
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  Speaker 6: That's got some density there.
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  Speaker 12: It has density, but, I mean, you know, you have
• 47:48
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• 47:56
  Speaker 12: I just on the main road, and I don't see
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  Speaker 12: any– Any signs or anything?
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  Speaker 6: No trick-or-treaters coming to you. No yard signs either. Usually
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  Speaker 6: that's a pretty busy area for yard signs because it's
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  Speaker 6: a busy road, if I remember correctly, John. You sound
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  Speaker 6: like my dad. My dad was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to know. I don't want to know what's going on
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  Speaker 6: with the neighbors. My mother would try to tell him
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  Speaker 6: what was going on with the neighbors. He was like, nope, nope,
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  Speaker 6: don't want to know.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I didn't see any trick-or-treaters this year either.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Zero.
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  Speaker 6: I know that they do the more safe trick-or-treating now,
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  Speaker 6: which is all about the Chamber of Commerce.
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  Speaker 2: Come down to the downtown.
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  Speaker 6: Shopping district and we'll have all the stores giving out candy.
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  Speaker 6: And they sell this to the parents that it's safer.
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  Speaker 6: But I think it's another one of these COVID things, Bruce,
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  Speaker 6: where it's like don't talk to your neighbors. Don't know
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: your neighbors. Never see your neighbors again. And I worry
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: that it's just another symptom of us getting siloed off
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: from each other.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I live in a condo. I'm an owner and
• 49:07
  Speaker 12: have a lot of renters. And, you know, I really
• 49:11
  Speaker 12: don't get to know them much. You wave to them
• 49:13
  Speaker 12: and talk to them and try and get to know them. But,
• 49:15
  Speaker 12: I mean, no activities or anything.
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  Speaker 2: At least you do that.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: A lot of folks, I mean, they just, you know,
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: they've got like blinders on. They get in the car,
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: they put their podcast on or their radio on, if
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: I'm lucky, and they're gone. But I appreciate you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad you voted. And now you can go and
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  Speaker 6: tell all your friends to get out and vote too.
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  Speaker 2: All right. It's on sale this morning, I'm telling you. $ 49.
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  Speaker 12: Below $ 50.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well, good to hear from you, John. You
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  Speaker 2: have a great morning, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 6: So the idea of what comes next, and I know
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  Speaker 6: that there.
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  Speaker 6: Say, Joe, that's fear-mongering, that's electioneering your campaign. But I
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  Speaker 6: think it's a worth conversation because we live in this
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  Speaker 6: world of it's not a flaw, it's a feature. We
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  Speaker 6: viewers away is a feature that feeds to the authoritarian.
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  Speaker 6: Because if You go looking for alternative news sources. That's good.
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  Speaker 6: That's all well and good. But the commerce, if you
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  Speaker 6: want to look at news and anything else that often
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  Speaker 6: of doing good broadcasting is lots of viewers or listeners.
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  Speaker 6: you know, like John just said, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: But what you get.
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