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"Genocide" (FTTxJT Fri 092526 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Is it really safe and is it really effective?
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 1: Joe has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning. Coming for you on location, our Big Ridge
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  Speaker 6: meeting of city elders here in our flagship area where,
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  Speaker 6: where you are, email him at kevin at cityeldersva.org. I
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  Speaker 6: love this one. So earlier we were telling you about
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  Speaker 6: the state dinner last night. Chairman Xi of the People's
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  Speaker 6: Republic of China dined with President Trump in a gala
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  Speaker 6: full of tech billionaires. And for once, the press didn't
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  Speaker 6: discuss that at your leisure on this radio program that
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  Speaker 6: first and foremost isn't afraid to call itself a radio program,
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  Speaker 6: but secondly will promote tell you what went on last night,
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  Speaker 6: give you our analysis of it for sure, and then
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  Speaker 6: give you the opportunity to tell us how it's impacting
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  Speaker 6: you where you are. But I suggested that without knowing
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  Speaker 6: that it would have been fun if the president had
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  Speaker 6: imported all of the food for last night's dinner from
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  Speaker 6: the wet market in Wuhan. And Terry said, funniest line
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  Speaker 6: I've heard on the radio this year, Joe, including all
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  Speaker 6: of yours. President Trump should absolutely have sent emissaries to
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  Speaker 6: the Wuhan wet market for last night's dinner. Missed opportunity. Hashtag.
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  Speaker 6: Amen to that, brother. Amen to that. So, President Trump, yes,
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  Speaker 6: dined with billionaires in a glitzy dinner for China's premier chairman,
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  Speaker 6: Xi Jinping. Today... President Xi and President Trump will be
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  Speaker 6: going to the National Archives, where the president will take
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  Speaker 6: President Xi up to the Bill of Rights to see
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  Speaker 6: if the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party will burst
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  Speaker 6: into flames or not. Three news organizations that had been
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  Speaker 6: banned from the White House, and that's not... Can somebody
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  Speaker 6: punish the guy who wrote that? They weren't banned. They
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  Speaker 6: had their press credentials taken away. We're back Thursday after
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  Speaker 6: a judge insisted that CNN, MSNOW, and Politico be allowed
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  Speaker 6: back in because for some reason there's due process involved
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  Speaker 6: in getting a free pass to a building of political leadership.
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  Speaker 6: New York sued the prediction market, Polymarket, saying that New
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  Speaker 6: York is the only source of gambling in New York,
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  Speaker 6: and that Polymarket is an unlicensed gambling operation. It's a
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  Speaker 6: legal challenge. Another one from New York trying to rein
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  Speaker 6: in the betting apps like Polymarket and CalSheet that operate
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  Speaker 6: in a gray area. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was
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  Speaker 6: told by a judge yesterday that he had to turn
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  Speaker 6: back in 650,000 ballots that he confiscated to check for
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  Speaker 6: improprieties after the November 2025 special election. The measure easily
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  Speaker 6: passed statewide and won Bianco's county by 80,000 votes. Court
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  Speaker 6: called the ballot seizure unlawful. And yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister
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  Speaker 6: Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the gathering of the United Nations General
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  Speaker 6: Assembly angrily dismissing allegations of genocide in Gaza as the
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  Speaker 6: biggest lie of the century in a defiant speech to
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  Speaker 6: the General Assembly. And I just realized you've fallen down
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  Speaker 6: on the job. You were supposed to remind me if
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  Speaker 6: I didn't get into the, you know, how can things
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  Speaker 6: like the Gaza Strip be seen both as a genocide
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  Speaker 6: and not? And what are the definitions of it? No
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  Speaker 6: So earlier today we were talking with Kareem at 434-882-4217
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  Speaker 6: and he left an incendiary device on our radio porch
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  Speaker 6: regarding Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the United Nations calling the
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  Speaker 6: accusation of genocide the biggest lie of this century. To
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  Speaker 6: be fair, the century is young yet, but Certainly going
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  Speaker 6: to make the top five by the time the century
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  Speaker 6: is over. Because here is the thing, and I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to be legalistic, because I know our friends on
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  Speaker 6: the left like to play this, you know, exact words,
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  Speaker 6: Greg Brady kind of game. But genocide has a specific meaning. And,
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  Speaker 6: of course, in this, the abstract, Israel is saying that
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  Speaker 6: they're trying to stop people from coming into their country
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  Speaker 6: and killing them, like on October 7th. Parasailing, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and we thought hijacking airplanes was an interesting way to
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  Speaker 6: engage in terrorism. But when you parasail into a concert
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  Speaker 6: and just start killing people, regardless of what you believe
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  Speaker 6: happened after the killing, you've got to say, there's some angst.
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  Speaker 6: There's some intent. So Israel goes into Gaza looking for
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  Speaker 6: the people who did that. And the people who have
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  Speaker 6: artfully rebranded Hamas as a marginalized community since October 7th,
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  Speaker 6: in a Svengali-like manner, turn of marketing skill that could
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  Speaker 6: only be rivaled if somehow we get McDonald's Big Mac
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  Speaker 6: declared health food so the question is Benjamin Netanyahu says
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  Speaker 6: calling what Israel is doing in Gaza genocide so let
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  Speaker 6: me read to you from this is not my opinion
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  Speaker 6: of genocide this is from the International Court of Justice
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  Speaker 6: In Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention,
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  Speaker 6: genocide involves specific acts committed with the intent to destroy
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  Speaker 6: a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group in whole or
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  Speaker 6: in part. For the complete list of specific acts, you've
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  Speaker 6: got to go to the site. But it includes specific intent,
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  Speaker 6: dolus specialis, The distinguishing characteristic of genocide is the precise
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  Speaker 6: intent to physically destroy a protected group rather than just
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  Speaker 6: harming or displacing its members. And this is where Israel
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  Speaker 6: is right in its defense that it's a lie. There
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  Speaker 6: are actually Muslim members of the Israeli Knesset. So you
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  Speaker 6: can't say that Israel is out there trying to kill
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  Speaker 6: all the Muslims. Now, you can't necessarily apply that the
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  Speaker 6: other way, but if there are more prosperous and working
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  Speaker 6: members of the Arab community inside of Israel than there
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  Speaker 6: are in the Gaza Strip... then one would have to
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  Speaker 6: argue that Israel's not trying to exterminate all the Muslims.
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  Speaker 6: You see, I mean, that's the thing is your words
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  Speaker 6: have meanings. And, you know, at the risk of sounding
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  Speaker 6: like a lawyer, which I'm not, but I have stayed
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  Speaker 6: at a Holiday Inn Express. I will read. That's just
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  Speaker 6: from their text. I'm not inferring my own opinions of
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  Speaker 6: it one way or the other. We have folks on
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  Speaker 6: the line at 434-882-4217. Good morning. You're on the air
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  Speaker 6: with Joe first thing this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, this is Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, Matt. What's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I was impressed with the juxtaposition of images yesterday
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  Speaker 12: in that you've got Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN, which
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  Speaker 12: reminded me of the old quotation from the Bible, and
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  Speaker 12: the Lord set a place for me at the table
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  Speaker 12: of my enemies.
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  Speaker 6: Well said, well said.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, Netanyahu was surrounded by his enemies at the UN.
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  Speaker 12: At the same time, Trump is making a fuss over Xi,
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  Speaker 12: whose communist Chinese are trying to completely wipe out the
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  Speaker 12: Uyghurs in their own country.
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  Speaker 6: Who are Muslim, by the way.
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  Speaker 12: This is a genocide.
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  Speaker 6: Right, right. The actual Muslim genocide is going on in China.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's interesting how And I know that supposedly
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  Speaker 6: the economy in China is so compelling that people will
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  Speaker 6: sell their soul to be able to sell their widgets there.
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  Speaker 6: But when they can quash even the discussion of this
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  Speaker 6: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 16: You.
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  Speaker 6: Worry that... their ability to control the message in the
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  Speaker 6: United States has grown too far. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: back in the days when I used to work for
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  Speaker 6: someone else, I would expect this kind of conversation to
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  Speaker 6: lead to a conversation after the show because some advertiser,
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  Speaker 6: you know, pulled because they can't have China bashed because
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  Speaker 6: they sell their, you know, or they get their Volvos
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  Speaker 6: from China or wherever it might be. You know, that
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  Speaker 6: kind of conversation can't be allowed. Don't bash China. We
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  Speaker 6: watched it with that documentary Exile, a beautiful documentary about
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  Speaker 6: actual genocide, about religious persecution. And Netflix loved it, wanted
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  Speaker 6: to put it up there right next to House of Cards.
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  Speaker 6: And they said, only though if you take the episode
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  Speaker 6: about the Uyghurs out. And bless the fact that the
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  Speaker 6: filmmaker didn't capitulate. I'm sure a lot of filmmakers do that.
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  Speaker 6: They sell out and they're like, all right, it's just
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  Speaker 6: one episode. We'll take that out. And then China gets
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  Speaker 6: emboldened to keep doing that.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, well, I mean, I think we spend too much
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  Speaker 12: time kowtowing to China, and I worry that we may
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  Speaker 12: abandon Taiwan.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, that's what I think this cadre, although I'm
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  Speaker 6: not necessarily big fans of the four senators that sent
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  Speaker 6: that note saying, hey, we've appropriated all this money for Taiwan.
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  Speaker 6: How come you haven't applied it yet? But as the point,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Taiwan is to Asia what Israel is to
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  Speaker 6: the Middle East, isn't it?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Your consult is well advised there. And the other
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  Speaker 6: thing about this kind of capitulation, and I'm fine with
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  Speaker 6: keep your enemies close because, yes, we need to have
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  Speaker 6: a seat at the table with Chairman Xi and the
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  Speaker 6: People's Liberation Army. because otherwise we're guaranteed a war with
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  Speaker 6: a country that's got a gazillion soldiers and they haven't
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  Speaker 6: done anything except send them to our American universities so far.
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  Speaker 6: Am I wrong? That seems to be the only thing
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  Speaker 6: they've done with their... Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 12: Anyway, that's all I wanted to contribute today.
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  Speaker 6: No, that's very well done and I appreciate it, sir.
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  Speaker 6: See, that's the problem. That's the sadness. Ray writes a
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  Speaker 6: Last I noticed, is the title of his email, people
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  Speaker 6: may be selling their souls to sell their widgets in China,
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  Speaker 6: but last I noticed, people are not lining up to
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  Speaker 6: get into China. Well said. Although there are, and this
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  Speaker 6: is an interesting use of our media, and China, they
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  Speaker 6: are the the Lord High mugwump of all of our
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  Speaker 6: these guys, these non-insiders, although Nixon keeps popping up. You
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  Speaker 6: shouldn't be, Jack Kennedy. And Nixon was the first instance
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  Speaker 6: that I will insert that we learned that character assassination
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  Speaker 6: just mentioning it regarding China bashing. And that's interesting because
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  Speaker 6: Communist Party. Why is it the American Democratic Party seems
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  Speaker 6: fine with the word communist? And the Chinese, who have
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  Speaker 6: called that? Interesting. As I said, you know, what do
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  Speaker 6: they say about inscrutable? Inscrutable versus inscrutable? Jan writes in
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  Speaker 6: to 434-882-4217. Come on, Joe. Stop teasing us about this.
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• 33:42
  Speaker 6: some foreign planet. where the people had been battling the
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  Speaker 6: the idea of the Chinese being our enemies, the Combs
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  Speaker 6: were the dominant race on this planet because they had
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  Speaker 6: beaten the Yangs, and the Yangs were living in the
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  Speaker 6: hills fighting back, and they couldn't understand who these people
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  Speaker 6: were and why they were fighting back. It was like
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  Speaker 24: To ourselves and our posterity, to ordain.
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  Speaker 23: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the sound of thousands of sounds. First thing
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  Speaker 2: today by Joe Thomas on.
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  Speaker 6: The Talk Media Network. So tell me, Christmas, are we kind?
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  Speaker 5: More this day than any other day.
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  Speaker 6: Or is it only in our mind? And must it leave.
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  Speaker 3: When you have gone away?
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  Speaker 24: It's different now. It's changed somehow.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're here to stay.
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  Speaker 5: She's coming home this Christmas day.
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  Speaker 6: He's giving us a chance. to do another drawing here
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  Speaker 6: and let's go reach into the bag of folks who
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  Speaker 6: have entered for free Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets from our website JoeThomasInTheMorning.com
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  Speaker 6: and we've got a bunch of shows coming up to
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  Speaker 6: all kinds of places Portland, Ontario, California Dallas, Texas, dollars, taxes,
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  Speaker 6: as Harpo or Chico Marx once called them. But let
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  Speaker 6: me pull out this first one here. And congratulations to
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  Speaker 6: James Craft, who wants to go to the show in
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  Speaker 6: our flagship city, Charlottesville, on December 16th. Congratulations. We ring
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  Speaker 6: the bell for you and throw our shot glass into
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  Speaker 6: the fireplace there and say huzzah. Congratulations. You've got a
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  Speaker 6: free pair of tickets. to that show in Charlottesville from
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  Speaker 6: Talk Media Network and my special relationship with the band.
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  Speaker 6: And we'll keep doing these, keep entering. Tell your friends
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  Speaker 6: Chicago and Minnesota and all these places where Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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  Speaker 6: is bringing their 30th anniversary tour and you get to
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  Speaker 6: hear us. this program at 434-882-4217. Last week, we were
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  Speaker 6: talking with a former Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, Winsome Sears,
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  Speaker 6: and she said something I think is really applicable to
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  Speaker 6: all things that come down the pike, especially when these
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  Speaker 6: people are talking about, ooh, ooh, ooh, regulate me, regulate me,
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  Speaker 6: that I think is important. But first, let me get
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  Speaker 6: to you because I want to hear how the news
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  Speaker 6: of the day is impacting you where you are. Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Who's this on the air with Joe first thing this morning?
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  Speaker 12: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: It's Joel.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Joel. How are you doing this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay.
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  Speaker 17: I'm just going through a lot of things with job
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  Speaker 17: search and all that, but I wanted to say this.
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  Speaker 6: Actually, no, no, no. Stop a second, because I have
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  Speaker 6: something I want to say to you. Because I've been
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  Speaker 6: going through a lot of this as well. As a
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  Speaker 6: matter of fact, I've been having some pretty tough financial times.
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  Speaker 6: And I was reminded of something the other day when
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  Speaker 6: I was working with the folks at the Salvation Army.
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  Speaker 6: There's a bravery that comes from knowing that God has it.
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  Speaker 6: And that we just need to do our part and
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  Speaker 6: to do it with faith and to not fall prey
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  Speaker 6: to the deceiver anymore. and take that to the bank,
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  Speaker 6: that you are safe, that God has got you as
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  Speaker 6: long as you do your part, okay? Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 6: We're all praying for each other. Thank you. What's on
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  Speaker 6: your mind?
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  Speaker 17: I just wanted to say this. I've noticed since I've
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  Speaker 17: gotten older that A lot of the people that work
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  Speaker 17: in businesses are taught to apologize for things that aren't
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  Speaker 17: really necessarily apologetic. And it takes away from the genuineness
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  Speaker 17: of what actually an apology is and being truthful.
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  Speaker 6: How do you mean? Because I think I know what
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  Speaker 6: you mean, but I don't want to misunderstandify. You're saying
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  Speaker 6: that when people say, hey, my bad, that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry you took offense, isn't apologizing for the offensive thing,
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  Speaker 6: but apologizing for the fact that you were offended by it,
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  Speaker 6: that kind of backhandedness about it?
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  Speaker 17: Well, kind of, but I think people are more in
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  Speaker 17: a rush to get things done Rather than take care
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  Speaker 17: of the individual at that, let's say at a service counter, right?
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  Speaker 17: At a service counter, they go, oh, I'm sorry it
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  Speaker 17: took so long, and it was less than a minute.
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  Speaker 17: And I always say, look, take your time. I'm not
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  Speaker 17: in a hurry. There's nobody behind me or nobody in
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  Speaker 17: front of me. Just take a breath and take your time.
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  Speaker 17: And they still come back because, and I say this
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  Speaker 17: in a nice way, they've been indoctrinated to say, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, this happens to me sometimes because my wife,
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  Speaker 6: even bless her heart married to me over three decades
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  Speaker 6: now we're into our fourth decade of marriage sounds so
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  Speaker 6: much longer when I say it that way doesn't it
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  Speaker 6: but you know she gets on my case all the
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  Speaker 6: time because if something happens to her or to a
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  Speaker 6: friend say gosh I'm sorry And she's like, well, you
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  Speaker 6: didn't do it. Why are you sorry? I'm sorry it happened.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sorry I did it. I'm not sorry that
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  Speaker 6: I caused it. I'm sorry that it happened. And I
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  Speaker 6: think it's something that we have to understand that sometimes, frequently,
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  Speaker 6: bad things happen in the instant or the things that
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  Speaker 6: we will conceive as bad. And our reaction to it
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  Speaker 6: is what really makes it good or bad. and how
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  Speaker 6: we respond to it. And that's important. I have a
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  Speaker 6: phrase I like to use, things is things. There are
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  Speaker 6: no good things and bad things. It's how you react
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  Speaker 6: to those things that are important. Does that make any
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  Speaker 6: sense to you at all? No, it does.
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  Speaker 12: It does.
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  Speaker 17: I just think that everybody needs to take a breath
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  Speaker 17: and understand who is dictating those thoughts.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I think it also is imperative that we
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  Speaker 6: know each other individually, is that if there's going to
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  Speaker 6: be a theme that as the years go on in
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  Speaker 6: this program, because... You guys play a role in this.
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  Speaker 6: I know people write to me sometimes and they're like,
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  Speaker 6: it's Joel and Clark and all these people, Kareem and Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Are they characters or callers? They're callers. A character would
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  Speaker 6: imply that I tell you what I want you to do. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you can call and the more people that call,
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  Speaker 6: the more people that interact. Like we meet our friend
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  Speaker 6: Sealy out in Four Corners and that kind of thing. John,
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  Speaker 6: all these folks that interact with us, we need to
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  Speaker 6: know each other personally. We need we because that's how
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  Speaker 6: you pardon the phrase, Dr. Fauci, vaccinate us from the
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  Speaker 6: virus of hate and division, which is where the deceiver
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  Speaker 6: wants to send us. He wants us to hate each other.
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  Speaker 6: He wants us to distrust each other because then he
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  Speaker 6: wins because he can insert himself into the place where
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  Speaker 6: our family and friends should be. Got it?
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: That's the key.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: That's the most important part of being a caller to
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  Speaker 6: this program is agreeing with me.
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  Speaker 17: Well, we're all striving for the truth, and the truth
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  Speaker 17: always points back to God, and God is love, but
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  Speaker 17: we've got to focus on that rather than greed and hate.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly. Well, you have a great morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: You too, Joe. Thank you again. Not at all. 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 6: As we wrap up festivities, a reminder, one of the
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  Speaker 6: most dangerous words in all of human history is I'm
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  Speaker 6: from the government and I'm here to help. Right, Governor Warner?
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  Speaker 25: For God's sake, let's go ahead and put some safety
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  Speaker 25: protocols in place and not simply trust these large companies
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  Speaker 25: who are in a race to do all the safety
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  Speaker 25: and security on their own.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Watch out for that. Until Saturday, so long
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  Speaker 6: and thanks.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 18: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 21: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 21: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 22: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 16: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 16: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 1: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 1: of their lives.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 1: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 1: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 24: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 1: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 6: For victories great and small.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 1: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 1: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 9: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 1: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 6: Go to DAV.org.