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"Dear Mister Fantasy (email)" (Friday, December 26 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you all this question.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to leave at the Bernie Sanders and Alec
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  Speaker 2: alexandri Cosio COTEXT hundred.
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  Speaker 3: To do list.
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  Speaker 4: Putting the radio on is the first thing today, George said.
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  Speaker 1: Steal men every day, please for work, when the sun
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  Speaker 1: comes up, drops a pet to school.
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  Speaker 3: Then Joey is.
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  Speaker 5: Everything a Jane do all the jerses seven needs no
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  Speaker 5: one that Joe's smile.
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  Speaker 3: He on the eggs peg.
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  Speaker 6: Let them be.
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  Speaker 7: Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us and letting me be of
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  Speaker 1: service to you. I want to be each and every day,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for spending Christmas Day with me. If
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  Speaker 1: you did UH and UH and Christmas Eve and all
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the times you got to share UH together and convene
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  Speaker 1: in the mornings or the late nights. As you join
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  Speaker 1: us in progress at four three four eight eight two
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  Speaker 1: four to two one seven. That is the tele phone number.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Multitaskers can join in as well to text message, because
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  Speaker 1: I know what mornings are like. Heck, you know I
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  Speaker 1: used to have this tradition. I would send out greeting
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  Speaker 1: cards to email contacts. My weekend has been so busy
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  Speaker 1: and it's only Friday that I've only made it through
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  Speaker 1: the bees in my mailing list. So if you if
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  Speaker 1: you've been in e contact with me, you'll be getting
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  Speaker 1: a greeting card at some point. But it just hasn't
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  Speaker 1: happened yet. It's just been a cacophonous weekend of stuff. Yeah,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: I know technically is Wednesday and Thursday, but it's a holiday,
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  Speaker 1: and this day continues that kind of well what are
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: we doing here? Are we back at work? I mean
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: there are lots of places back at work? Are you?
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  Speaker 1: There's other people, your competitors might be back at work,
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: but it's up to you and your customers unless you'd rather.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: How did Stephen A. Smith say it so brilliantly in
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: the opening of the program, Let me ask you all
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  Speaker 1: this question.
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  Speaker 8: We're supposed to leave at Bernie sand as an aoc.
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  Speaker 1: No Bernie, no, stephen A not so much there this
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  Speaker 1: but so the hot takes notwithstanding much going on, bombs flying,
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  Speaker 1: verbal and actual, and we'll chronicle it all, will break
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  Speaker 1: it down, We'll tell you what we see in the
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  Speaker 1: evidence locker, and then we will open it up to
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: you and tell us how the news of the day
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  Speaker 1: is impacting you where you are as you come in
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  Speaker 1: to us. I appreciate all the folks who've reached out
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  Speaker 1: over the past couple of days and been grateful to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with the show a little bit. We're a
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  Speaker 1: little different than everyone else. We're not the same flava.
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  Speaker 1: I don't come in here with the poor tend I
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  Speaker 1: am different. I've learned over the years that I've walked
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  Speaker 1: this face of the earth, that pretending that I'm just
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  Speaker 1: like any other guy, and that I see things that
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  Speaker 1: everyone else sees not so much. So I will share
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  Speaker 1: my perspectives with you. Born and raised of people watching
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  Speaker 1: in the biggest city, in the most bankrupt, corrupt government
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  Speaker 1: in the history of America. And yet she's still there,
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  Speaker 1: and she's about to get herself a communist mayor, and
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  Speaker 1: who knows what will come out the other side. I
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  Speaker 1: live through the first time the New York Stock Exchange
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: threatened to move out of New York. They may do
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  Speaker 1: it this time, But so much as we now gird
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  Speaker 1: our loins and other parts for the trip into twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, I'm ready for you if you're ready for
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  Speaker 1: it as well. Here along the talk media network, new
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  Speaker 1: places new ears to fill with the common sense I
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  Speaker 1: mean of your Democrat. I'd love to see a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of real conservative, family values democrats take their party
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  Speaker 1: back over. Really would make America a much more interesting place.
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  Speaker 1: But I digress. That's for the commentary section of the program.
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  Speaker 1: These are our first things. President Donald Trump announced that
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: he launched air strikes in northwest Nigeria Christmas night, targeting
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  Speaker 1: ISIS militants accused of killing Christians, calling the operation decisive
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  Speaker 1: and warning further attacks would follow if the violence continues.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's President Vladimir Zolensky said yesterday that he had a
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  Speaker 1: very good conversation with President Trump's Special envoy Steve Witkoff
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  Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner. He described the Christmas Day discussion certain
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  Speaker 1: substantive details of the ongoing work and a potential deal
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  Speaker 1: with Russia. Just before Christmas, Zolensky announced that he would
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  Speaker 1: be open to the idea of a demilitarized economic freedom
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  Speaker 1: zone where the Russian troops are However, news now that
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  Speaker 1: Russian forces are appear to be close to being pushed
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  Speaker 1: out of krupp Yanks to northeastern Ukrainian city with only
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  Speaker 1: about a dozen Russian forces, mostly mercenaries. They still use
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  Speaker 1: Hashians to Christmas. NFL games yesterday have drawn some rebuke
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  Speaker 1: from NBA spokespeople, as Christmas Day had traditionally been a
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  Speaker 1: place to find NBA broadcasts for the afternoon after Christmas dinner.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, broadcaster and Basketball Hall of famers that the
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  Speaker 1: NFL got greedy and started adding Christmas games. We used
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  Speaker 1: to have this day to ourselves. A strong storm system
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  Speaker 1: that brought the winds, rain, and some snowfall to California
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  Speaker 1: is expected to ease today. There is still a risk
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  Speaker 1: of high surf. San Francisco reporting waves at twenty five
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  Speaker 1: feet this morning, and there is still bracing four potential
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  Speaker 1: mud slize from the soaked earth. The GDP grew at
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  Speaker 1: four point three percent in the third quarter the US economy,
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  Speaker 1: marking the strongest growth in two years. According to government
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  Speaker 1: data released yesterday. The GDP growth between July and September
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  Speaker 1: far outstripped the forecast of just three percent growth. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump continued to deliver his backhanded Christmas messages. This latest
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  Speaker 1: one on Christmas Day included the sleeze bags that loved
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein Merry Christmas to all, including these lees bags,
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  Speaker 1: and gave him bundles of money and went to his
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  Speaker 1: island and then tried to blame your president, Donald J. Trump,
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  Speaker 1: who was actually the first one to drop Epstein in
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  Speaker 4: you need to know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 11: But I'm afraid of the Russians.
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  Speaker 3: I can't sleep at night.
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  Speaker 10: I'm so afraid of the Russians.
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  Speaker 1: There's email yesterday after the program, and I appreciated it
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  Speaker 1: because not everyone does what we did yesterday, even you know,
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  Speaker 1: the people who are in the peripheries of media. It
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  Speaker 1: was pre recorded. You know, my family bought into this biz.
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  Speaker 1: When I started it. My wife met me at a
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  Speaker 1: radio event. So not a play Misty for me kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing, no, no, no, no. She had never heard
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  Speaker 1: of the radio station and actually sung me a four
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  Speaker 1: letter aria before it was done. So it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those some of those Christmas Hallmark movies, right, although
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  Speaker 1: it was in July. But she she's known the radio world.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I mean. It was interesting listening to a
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  Speaker 1: piece about one of our great local businesses here in
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  Speaker 1: the valley, here in the Stanton area, McKee Foods. You
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  Speaker 1: may know it as Little Debbie the snack Cake company,
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  Speaker 1: and Little Debbie is the CEO. Now she's Big Debbie.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know do they make her call her Big Debbie.
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  Speaker 1: Stuart's draft anyway. But the couple that started McKee Foods,
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  Speaker 1: the McKees eb and it's Brenda. I think I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: her name wrong. But Ebie and and Brenda started this company,
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  Speaker 1: and she was in charge of all the production. He
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  Speaker 1: was out there, you know, and it sounded so much
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  Speaker 1: like what my wife and I do. She's conservative, like
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  Speaker 1: trying to pull everything together, don't go, don't run too
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  Speaker 1: fast or go too far. And I'm out there just
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: barking at the moon. And so spending some Christmas time
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  Speaker 1: together with you on the radio was fun. And I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate these emails that thanked us for being live and
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  Speaker 1: giving some folks a respite from the crazy and even
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  Speaker 1: prepping some folks for the onslaught of family and what
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  Speaker 1: they might be ready to yell at you about maga I.
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  Speaker 18: Go.
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  Speaker 1: So this email came in, I thought I appreciated it.
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  Speaker 1: Janice wrote in, I was getting my turkey prepared for
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  Speaker 1: my family coming over, and I appreciated hearing a live
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  Speaker 1: human being coming out of my radio in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: It really was a blessing. I'd never heard your show before,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be tuning back in if I can. And
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  Speaker 1: I sent her a link to the podcast. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where you are or what you're listening to.
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  Speaker 1: She hasn't gotten back to me. But some places are
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  Speaker 1: only picking us up for holiday fill ins. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, you can keep us around. We don't eat
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  Speaker 1: a lot. But Jennis's question was about the story of
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  Speaker 1: these economic freedom zones that President Trump and Steve Witkoff
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  Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner and obviously Marco Rubio. And have you
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  Speaker 1: noticed that the news coverage out of the State Department
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  Speaker 1: has been downplaying Marco Rubio a little bit? You think
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  Speaker 1: they're leaning on the twenty twenty eighth scale. It's much
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  Speaker 1: more you know, Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcough, all these
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  Speaker 1: guys and les Marco Rubio. I think, do you think
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  Speaker 1: somebody got a little like Marco's out there? A lot
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  Speaker 1: sounded like Marco's doing all this. But in any event,
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  Speaker 1: so the proposal weeks and weeks ago was that we
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  Speaker 1: establish a DMZ sort of ekon free zone economic freedom
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  Speaker 1: zone in the area that don Bas and Crimea and
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  Speaker 1: all that area of Ukraine that Russia invaded and they're
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  Speaker 1: clinging to though I'm in the news this morning one
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  Speaker 1: of the northeast cities is about to fall back into
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainian government officials hands. What has that got to be?
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  Speaker 18: Like?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we complain about our city councilors, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and apologies, this is how my brain works. Sometimes I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through the story and intellectually digging it up in Jena.
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  Speaker 1: I will come back to your email question in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But we complain about our grab astic city councilors.
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  Speaker 1: And we look at guys like Gavin Newsom or Karen
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  Speaker 1: Bass in Los Angeles, or Zefod mad Money about to
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  Speaker 1: be sworn in in New York, or even you know,
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  Speaker 1: my classmate Eric Adams for you know, his term as
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  Speaker 1: mayor of New York, or even our small towns like Harrisonburg, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and Stanton and Charlottesville, Norfolk, and we and we shake
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  Speaker 1: our heads at you know, oh, the city council's raising
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  Speaker 1: taxes on this, and oh they can't get the trash
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  Speaker 1: collection working, and now they do this special program and
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  Speaker 1: they can't even get the potholes filled. But you imagine
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  Speaker 1: a city that's like, well, the Russian troops are still
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  Speaker 1: here and I wanted to leave it. Oh, some mortars
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  Speaker 1: going off. Maybe they'll leave soon. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: wholly different thing. We complain about our stuff loud and
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  Speaker 1: proud as we should as a you know, free American
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  Speaker 1: citizens for now unless FCC chair Crampus gets his way.
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  Speaker 1: But just the abstract of having foreign troops in Stanton, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: occupying the city and US battling to win it back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that's the kind of stuff that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think about the Battle of Trenton from you know,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years ago, an occupation. It's a
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  Speaker 1: whole different mindset you try to conceptualize it, and for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: those who have served in theater, you know, when you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, anyway, back to Jenesi's email, how would it work?
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  Speaker 1: Who would be paying for it? Whose laws would this
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  Speaker 1: place follow? The un We've seen how bad that can go. Joe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't argue with you, Janis. I have
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  Speaker 1: said this before and I'll say it again. It's a
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  Speaker 1: weird nuance. I don't like slogans. People who say I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: hate the idea of a world government. I hate most
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  Speaker 1: people's idea of what a world government is. And I
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  Speaker 1: will qualify this saying I'd like America, the United States,
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  Speaker 1: to start living under its constitution and declared Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 1: And if we can prove we can do that, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't be such a bad government for the planet.
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  Speaker 1: But everything else sucks, and I wouldn't want global government
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  Speaker 1: backed by anything other than our Bill of Rights. So
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  Speaker 1: if I had my druthers, it would be let's have
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  Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution dictate what
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  Speaker 1: goes on in this free economic zone, and we who knows,
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  Speaker 1: we might even get a great example of what happens
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  Speaker 1: if free market economics is applied. They wouldn't like that
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  Speaker 1: Such as the title of an email that just came
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  Speaker 21: Good morning to Merry Christmas, to you.
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  Speaker 21: I'm good, I'm good. I'm still plugging away but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Right Because any of you, if you suggest that in Tehran, uh,
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  Speaker 21: And Joe, what I was going to say too, is
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  Speaker 1: So when murder is staring you in the face, what
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  Speaker 1: you all the time? Do you.
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 1: A fella and I don't know his background, but he
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  Speaker 1: was doing some on the scene reporting as riots were
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  Speaker 1: going along. It's the guy's name is Eli Yakobe, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: a Jewish young man. And there was a protest going
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  Speaker 1: on in Dearborn, Michigan, because well it's Dearborn Michigan, and
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  Speaker 1: what the hell else are you going to do? But
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  Speaker 1: it's a bunch of folks along the main drag in
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  Speaker 1: Dearborn protesting. I guess the existence of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And here is what Eli was. What was what Eli
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  Speaker 1: recorded on the streets. This is to follow up what
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  Speaker 1: Joel was talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I have a question for you guys.
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  Speaker 24: Have America word again to war with someone with a
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  Speaker 24: country like Iraq. Who would you, guys, defend America or Iraq?
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  Speaker 3: That's not permissible for us. About the same time, who
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  Speaker 3: would defend we asked much we went.
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  Speaker 1: To about our brothers in Iraq. That's the only way.
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  Speaker 24: So you want to defend America, we went in America.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, first and foremost, having been in the
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  Speaker 1: mob here in Charlottesville and confronted with a young man.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: There's a if you go to the if you go
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  Speaker 1: to my Facebook page, somewhere, there's a clip to this
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  Speaker 1: a screen cap of the Roanoke Times from August thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, the day after the riots. It's a
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  Speaker 1: photograph of your humble host in a shouting match with
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  Speaker 1: a young man from Black Lives Matter, who, prior to
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  Speaker 1: the verbal part of the altercation, had bumped into me
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  Speaker 1: as he was chasing the white Nazi grab assers down
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  Speaker 1: the street and I was covering it. He bumped into me.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, sorry, dude, and he turned on me.
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  Speaker 1: He turned on me. He started yelling and screaming about
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  Speaker 1: how I was a racist, And I asked him how
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  Speaker 1: he knew that. He said, because I was white. He said,
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  Speaker 1: oh ah, just it hurts when you hear it's like
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  Speaker 1: getting brain freeze. So you know who I am simply
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  Speaker 1: by the color of my skin, and I'm the racist.
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  Speaker 1: The young man was bigger than me and younger than me.
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  Speaker 1: Yet after a bit of this, my fist started to clench.
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  Speaker 1: The kid who grew up in Queens, New.
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  Speaker 19: York was about to the level of I've heads all
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  Speaker 19: I can stands, and I can't stand them are And
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  Speaker 19: if I had a can of spandich, I would have
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  Speaker 19: downed it and gone Popeye in his ass.
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  Speaker 1: And we were about to go when Hawk Newsom. You
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  Speaker 1: know Hawk because he's shown up in the news a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He's wavered back and forth. But I'll tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: In my interactions with Hawk Knewsome, the head of Black
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  Speaker 1: Lives Matter in New York, he's always been a thoughtful fellow.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him in a few years, and
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  Speaker 1: it seems like he's decided keeping his job with Black
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  Speaker 1: Lives Matter means just pitching the party line rather than
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  Speaker 1: thinking through all of it. He interceded with me and
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  Speaker 1: this young fella before we had a chance to start
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  Speaker 1: throwing blows. He said, no, no, no, not him. He's cool.
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  Speaker 1: And he knew that only because I had taken time
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  Speaker 1: to get to know this guy. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll find out what they had. A Black Lives Matter
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  Speaker 1: thinks about things, and we were remarkably similar on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. I bring this up because the young
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: fellow later ran into me on one of the side
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  Speaker 1: streets of Charlottesville. It was before the state troopers were
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  Speaker 1: killed or the protester was killed. This was that kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird period afterwards where every international news agency was
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  Speaker 1: calling me saying, hey, you got ten minutes for the BBC,
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  Speaker 1: pardon me. And so he bumped into me and he said, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really sorry. Hawk told me about you, and I
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  Speaker 1: really didn't. I didn't know. It's just we were all
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  Speaker 1: and I was struck by how different his bearing was.
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  Speaker 1: And I hear that in this crowd, because the fellow
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  Speaker 1: that ELI is talking to at one point is trying
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: to think through something and then the crowd starts shouting.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, yeah, that was right. We're gonna We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna bomb us a because we're four. It was he
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  Speaker 1: was having a moment of like, no, no, we don't
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  Speaker 1: go to war, and they're like, and then the mob,
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  Speaker 1: the mob mentality. You can hear it in in the
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  Speaker 1: young fellow just for a moment there. And I'm just
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  Speaker 1: trying to find the good in people the same times.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only way.
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  Speaker 24: So you want to defend America.
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  Speaker 1: America, that's mob think, that's mob think right there. The
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  Speaker 1: kid actually was trying to nuance an argument as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible in one of these dearborn Michigan things, and
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: then all of the guys around it were like, yeah,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: nor right. The kid in Charlottesville, to finish the story,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: was an engineering student at Columbia University Ivy League engineering student,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, do me a favor. They said, you're
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: going to make more change in the world by finishing
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  Speaker 1: your degree and being the best damn engineer any ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, all these necklace wonders that you were
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: chasing down the street aren't going to amount to anything
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  Speaker 1: except maybe getting a job laying brick at a project
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  Speaker 1: you help design. I said, you know, just He's like,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I was just caught up in the moment
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  Speaker 1: please remember this for that. I don't. I've never run
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  Speaker 1: into him in the eight years interceding, but I hope
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: he took my advice. Maybe he's listening to us this
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: morning in Greenwich where he's got a big house and
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: he and his wife have changed the world, and he's
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: got old school Greenwich neighbors going it got the neighborhood, marge.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, he's a world class engineer, building amazing
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  Speaker 1: things for people to do amazing things inside of. But
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: you hear what the mob does. Would you defend.
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  Speaker 24: We were as we were brothers.
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  Speaker 18: That's the only way.
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  Speaker 24: So you want to defend America, America.
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  Speaker 1: On the streets, on the streets of a country that
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  Speaker 1: allows him to say that, Because if he was in Baghdad,
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  Speaker 1: or if he was in Kandahar or Tehran and he
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: was asked, would you support Iran or the United States?
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  Speaker 1: And he said the United States, that's the last you
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  Speaker 1: would ever see of the young fellow. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: part that's bothersome the most about this is the terrorism
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  Speaker 1: that's using the very essence of what makes this country
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  Speaker 1: special as a weapon against us. And that's what we
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: have to grapple with fighting back against.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 6: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 8: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 8: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 8: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 8: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 20: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 6: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 3: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 20: When America's veterans win, we all win.