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"Do Good vs Look Good" (FTTxJT Tue 100626 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Well, I asked you, okay, you know, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to do nonsense, do nonsense. First Thing Today by Joe
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  Speaker 1: Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves for work when the sun comes.
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  Speaker 3: Up, drops the kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 4: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 4: he needs.
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  Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims.
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  Speaker 4: To please you.
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  Speaker 6: I'll ask you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 6: you this morning. You know, it strikes me that abstract
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  Speaker 6: to maybe nothing and everything at the same time, we're
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  Speaker 6: spending more and more time worrying about whether or not
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  Speaker 6: we look good or not. or whatever is happening in
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  Speaker 6: our lives makes us look good versus actually doing good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid to find out whether the career image consultant
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  Speaker 6: is more popular than minister because I'm pretty sure I
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  Speaker 6: know the answer. It's like being social media influencer Like
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  Speaker 6: I said, you can infer what you will about what
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  Speaker 6: the basis of that musing is. But you tell me,
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  Speaker 6: are we spending more time worrying about looking good or
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  Speaker 6: even perhaps take the opposite approach, worrying about not looking
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  Speaker 6: bad than.
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  Speaker 7: We are about actually doing bad? I mean, it's always
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  Speaker 7: that thing. And it may just be a parent's view
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  Speaker 7: of the world that if you spent the amount of
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  Speaker 7: time you spent on trying to not look bad, on
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  Speaker 7: doing good, the world would be a whole lot better
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  Speaker 7: place because it takes an iota of the effort to
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  Speaker 7: do good versus how much you have to expend to
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  Speaker 7: look like you're good, like to avoid looking bad for something.
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  Speaker 7: It's like those alternative energies like hydrogen fuel cells. Wonderful idea.
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  Speaker 7: Takes more energy to make than it generates, so doesn't
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  Speaker 7: come out in the wash, really, if you come right
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  Speaker 7: down to it. So maybe we need to spend more
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  Speaker 7: time doing good than worrying about whether we look good.
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  Speaker 7: Our first things this morning, oh, there's so much going on,
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  Speaker 7: and it has nothing to do with the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 7: or you name it. I mean, there's stories, Cornell, the
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  Speaker 7: kids had to march because there was danger that they
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  Speaker 7: would be forgotten as a news story. All these things
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  Speaker 7: coming up for you on the docket of things. Our
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  Speaker 7: first things, forces of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen
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  Speaker 7: have recaptured the strategic spots along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
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  Speaker 7: from Houthi rebels, the Iranian-backed militia that's been shooting apparently
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  Speaker 7: ballistic missiles. Wonder where they got those. Yemeni officials said
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  Speaker 7: forces allied with the internationally recognized government of Yemen retook
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  Speaker 7: the town of Dubab just north of the Strait, vital
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  Speaker 7: shipping routes that connect the Red Sea coast with the
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  Speaker 7: Gulf of Aden. President Trump Monday criticized election officials in
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  Speaker 7: Arizona's Maricopa County. Can't imagine anything weird going on there.
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  Speaker 7: How about 3,000 ballots mistakenly mailed early to voters? Maricopa
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  Speaker 7: County blamed it on a third-party vendor error and said
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  Speaker 7: it should have no effect on voters who received the ballots,
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  Speaker 7: the county's recorder's office said. The Supreme Court started its
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  Speaker 7: session Monday and dealt with whether or not local governments
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  Speaker 7: can sue oil or gas companies in state court to
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  Speaker 7: their lawsuit is an attempt to hold energy companies like
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  Speaker 7: Suncor and ExxonMobil accountable for climate change. The Supreme Court
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  Speaker 7: also said they won't hear a challenge to a school
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  Speaker 7: district ban on shirts with the phrase Let's Go Brandon
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  Speaker 7: of a NASCAR race where the driver was being chanted
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  Speaker 7: a vulgarity regarding climate. intercourse with the former president, the
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  Speaker 7: host of the NASCAR race said, listen to them chant,
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  Speaker 7: let's go Brandon, which immediately took off as a way
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  Speaker 7: who briefly appeared on American Idol said, was sentenced Monday
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  Speaker 7: to life in prison without the possibility of parole after
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  Speaker 7: a jury convicted him last week of murdering his wife
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  Speaker 7: while he was having an affair. Busy days. Daily Signal
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  Speaker 7: just published my sit-down with U.S. Senatorial candidate General Burt Missisawa.
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  Speaker 7: We talked about everything and anything under the sun with
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  Speaker 7: just a month to go before the culmination of our
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  Speaker 1: We didn't make talk radio. We made it better. First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 12: I'm going to tell you a story about an obscurity,
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  Speaker 12: but you tell me if I'm misguided in my concern
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  Speaker 12: about this.
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  Speaker 7: And I'll set the scene by saying that back in
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  Speaker 7: the glory days of the Soviet Union, there was another Joe.
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  Speaker 7: And he didn't worry about whether he was popular or not,
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  Speaker 7: because if you said he wasn't popular, you went to
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  Speaker 7: a gulag. So this other Joe, obviously compensating for some
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  Speaker 7: shortcoming that he had, but because he had all the
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  Speaker 7: guns and all the soldiers he won, used to put
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  Speaker 7: people in insane asylums. A lot of his detainments of
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  Speaker 7: those who didn't think he was very popular were were
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  Speaker 7: based on the fact that obviously you're crazy because if
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  Speaker 7: you don't think Joe is the guy, then you must
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  Speaker 7: be nuts and we need to care for you. It's
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  Speaker 7: out of an abundance of caution we will remove you
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  Speaker 7: from your family because you obviously are insane. So with
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  Speaker 7: that as a backdrop, I'm going to tell you a
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  Speaker 7: sordid tale Virginia's part-time General Assembly. And again, these are
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  Speaker 7: things that are like the star player that your Major
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  Speaker 7: League Baseball team has sent to the Arizona Penal League.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Arizona Fall League.
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  Speaker 18: Sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Somewhere Charlie Sheen just went, huh? The The bill that
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  Speaker 7: was just filed, first one for the 2027 part-timers, would
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  Speaker 7: make an autistic individual incapable of making admissible police statements.
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  Speaker 7: It'll rattle that around for you. So if the state
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  Speaker 7: has determined that you're autistic, and there are details... Always
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  Speaker 7: going to be details. And the details have to be
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  Speaker 7: worked out by a government official. And we know that
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  Speaker 7: that couldn't go wrong. Right, Joe? So now anyone potentially
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  Speaker 7: who's on the autistic spectrum, having seen this faster than
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  Speaker 7: you can say Robert F. Kennedy Jr., explode over the
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  Speaker 7: last decade, he says with a wink to RFK Jr.
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  Speaker 16: 's uncle.
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  Speaker 7: Faster than you can say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or
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  Speaker 7: even Maha, the population of those who are classified as
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  Speaker 7: on the spectrum or autistic has exploded. Many sociologists attribute
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  Speaker 7: this to the expansion of what we believe to be
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  Speaker 7: autistic behavior. From simply being fastidious, obsessive-compulsive disorders, so many things, superstitiousness,
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  Speaker 7: have fallen under the growing umbrella of the autism spectrum.
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  Speaker 7: The concern I have putting these two separate but equal
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  Speaker 7: stories together is that you're ostensibly saying that an enormous
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  Speaker 7: portion of the American population is no longer a credible
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  Speaker 7: witness to a crime. I mean, I'm no civil rights attorney,
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  Speaker 7: but I have a feeling that there might be a
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  Speaker 7: case here. Somebody should tell the U.S. Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 7: save some spots on their, say, 2028 or 2029 docket
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  Speaker 7: for the cases of people who were perhaps violated in
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  Speaker 7: some way, he says desperately, desperately trying to keep from
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  Speaker 7: saying the words Cornell or seven in this conversation. Or
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  Speaker 7: what was it Dr. Clark said yesterday? We should call
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  Speaker 7: it the Cornell eight.
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Because of the girl, right? Seven guys and the girl.
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  Speaker 7: It's like a Disney movie gone horribly awry. But your
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  Speaker 7: testimony would be inadmissible if a defense or a prosecuting
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  Speaker 7: attorney could say, well, Mr. Thomas is listed here by
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  Speaker 7: his medical records as on the spectrum. And we have
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  Speaker 7: on state code 207-11 subsection D, people who are autistic
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  Speaker 7: cannot be trusted to give testimonies. Now they say advocates,
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  Speaker 7: civil rights advocates, say that autistic individuals are more likely
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  Speaker 7: to be coerced by law enforcement. They more willingly will
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  Speaker 7: comply to authority figures. They're supposedly by these civil rights
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  Speaker 7: spokespeople who are saying that this is a good thing.
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  Speaker 7: This is the civil rights activists saying, yes, we should
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  Speaker 7: take away one of the most important protected speeches of
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  Speaker 7: an American citizen. Think about that one for a second
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  Speaker 7: if you want to try to rattle your brain around crazy.
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  Speaker 7: They would provide inaccurate statements under stress to please authority figures.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to go far. There were points when
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  Speaker 7: during the Jim Crow South, there were communities under their
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  Speaker 7: banner of states' rights that were trying to make sure
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  Speaker 7: that members of the black community for their obvious, God,
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  Speaker 7: this is the same world you and I live in,
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  Speaker 7: what was then determined to be their inability to reason,
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  Speaker 7: their willingness to comply, their fear of authority figures, And
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  Speaker 7: what's really stunning to me is that it's the civil
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  Speaker 7: rights groups that are saying, yeah, we shouldn't allow autistic people,
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  Speaker 7: anyone who's been stamped. Now, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 7: fun details of this law proposed for the Commonwealth of Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: the same place that wrote all men are created equal,
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  Speaker 7: I guess, unless you get on the spectrum, is who determines...
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  Speaker 7: who's on the spectrum or how far into the, quote,
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  Speaker 7: spectrum you have to go, because that obviously will be
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  Speaker 7: handled by a government official. Like that fellow Joe we
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  Speaker 7: were telling you about at the beginning of the story.
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  Speaker 7: Joe with the big brush mustache. What could go wrong? Hey,
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  Speaker 9: AI is a powerful tool.
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  Speaker 3: Considered by most, optimized curcumin is one of the few
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin.
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  Speaker 4: Products on the market.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Dr.
• 24:13
  Speaker 17: Mitch.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our optimized curcumin seems
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: to be a perfect addition to any nutritional program. It
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: makes sense to me that preventing or reducing inflammation is
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a key component to our overall health. The Mayo Clinic
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: found that curcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation, has antioxidant properties,
• 24:39
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, and the emails come in, cards and letters. We
• 28:20
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• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Virginia down in Hampton Roads. You know this would never
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: even make it out of committee. This is some grab
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: for some money. Really?
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: Why not?
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  Speaker 21: You sure got to climb a lot of steps to
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  Speaker 21: get to this Capitol building here in Washington.
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: Well, I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I'm just a bill.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm only a bill.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: So let me remind you something, Mike. There was a
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: very laughable period. Do we still have the Kathy Tran clip?
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: Kathy Tran was a Virginia delegate. who became a big
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: joke all the way up to and including Rush Limbaugh
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: made fun of her. She testified before Judge Todd Gilbert,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: who was then chair of the Judiciary Committee, and a
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: friend of mine, Rob Bell, who was also vice chair
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: of the Judiciary Committee. She went up there to propose
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: a bill that would allow for abortion right up to
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: the moment of birth. And everyone made fun of her
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: because she, upon cross-examination, was so.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: Unaware of the contents of the bill, it was just
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: patently obvious. She was handed a packet of papers from
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Planned Parenthood who told her, listen, there's a check inside
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: for your campaign. Don't worry about the other papers. Go
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: cash the check and then file the bill. So you
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: didn't even know what was in the bill. And we
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: all made fun of it. It was a joke and
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: it was, oh my God, what a crazy thing. That's
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: on the ballot right now as a constitutional amendment. So
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: don't tell me this is just a proposal and it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: never going to go anywhere.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: Overton is on the phone and would like to explain
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: how he's going to get you some new windows for
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: the winter. We start talking about this stuff And it
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: gets normalized. We start, well, I mean, you know, should,
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, and there are some severely autistic
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: men and women who you could make a case. We're
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: never going to get any information out of because they're nonverbal.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: But that doesn't mean they don't see things. There are
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: plenty of people in the field. So they see and
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: understand just as much as you and me. They're not.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: You're incapacitated. There are things that are misfiring in their head.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: But where does this end? See, this is Dr. Overton
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: in his window. Where does this end? Okay, so autism.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: No longer are you allowed to give testimony in court.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: You can't bear witness, nothing like that. Does that mean
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: college campuses like, let's say, Cornell now will not admit
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: you because if something happens to you, you won't be
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: able to bear testimony? If you call the rector or
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: whoever's in charge of Title IX defense and said, I
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: was raped, they'll say, I'm sorry, you're on the autism
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: spectrum and you're not allowed to give testimony about that
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: because you'll lie. And remember, they said the same thing
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: about the intellectual property incapacity of black people in the
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: American South. Is this where we're going, Mike? And I
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: get it. I understand. In 2027, in February, probably not
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: even in February, it's not going to make it past January.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: It will be bounced out of a committee. And then
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: in 2029, it'll come back and maybe it'll make it
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: to the floor and it'll be bounced out. But by 2030,
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: all of a sudden, the governor will be signing it
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: into law to protect our autistic citizens, or I'm sorry,
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: our autistic members of our community, because citizenship isn't going
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: to mean anything anymore anyway. Tell me, tell me that's
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: not the pattern that we've seen so far. You may
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: not be as old as I am, but gosh, oh man,
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: just in the last year and a half to two years,
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: We've watched this happen, wash, rinse, repeat. And as I said,
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: this bill that everyone laughed off five or six years
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: ago is now on every Virginian's ballot as a constitutional amendment.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: It was a national punchline, and now it could be
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: a constitutional amendment? My God, man. I mean, I know
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: I can sound paranoid. And I certainly sound like there's
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: aluminum foil somewhere in my back pocket. But that doesn't
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: mean they're not out to get us. Kareem's on the phone.
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: He was just driving through D.C. and heard the story
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: of folks on the spectrum not being allowed to testify
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: and said, boy, in D.C., that certainly hit him pretty hard.
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: How are you doing this morning, Kareem? Much better.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I made it safely through. But, yeah, Joe, you're right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 18: I thought it was ironic that, you know, at that time. But, Joe,
• 33:56
  Speaker 18: I'll tell you what, that spectrum is pretty wide. People
• 33:59
  Speaker 18: like to think, oh, Rain Man. Trying to get Rain
• 34:03
  Speaker 18: Man to testify. But with RFK Jr., his spectrum is
• 34:09
  Speaker 18: a little bit more narrow. His equating of non-testimony is...
• 34:14
  Speaker 18: Bless their hearts, the wolves that sit in a chair
• 34:16
  Speaker 18: and bang their heads against the wall. They're nonverbals. They
• 34:19
  Speaker 18: don't have the abilities. But that spectrum, it goes pretty wide.
• 34:24
  Speaker 18: For example, right now in the news is that Brian
• 34:26
  Speaker 18: Cole Jr. Four and a half hours of FBI interrogation,
• 34:31
  Speaker 18: and he's doing a lot of stimming. Stimming is that
• 34:33
  Speaker 18: self-stimulating because he's just having a hard time processing the
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: sensory overload. And but he's in better shape than some
• 34:42
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• 34:43
  Speaker 7: But you're right, Joe.
• 34:45
  Speaker 18: I don't see how it's good to not let autistic
• 34:48
  Speaker 18: people testify if they can communicate. We let children testify.
• 34:52
  Speaker 18: We let and but the jury is the people. They're
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: the ones who decide, yes, take this information in or no.
• 35:01
  Speaker 18: So I don't think it's a good idea, Joe.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: And you reminded me of something, thinking of Washington, D.C.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as we all gather together
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: for a good ma-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. If you're not allowed to give testimony,
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: are you allowed to serve on a school board? Are
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: you allowed to represent your community? Are you allowed to
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: serve on a jury? Are you allowed to hold a
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: position of any authority? What if we have to eliminate
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: a third of our school teachers? You know, there's a
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: huge ramification of this, especially given the fact that, as
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pointing out, there may very
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: well be a complicity in how we've created these people
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: on the spectrum through our actions, through whether it be
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: Vaccine overloads, adjuvant reactions, allergic reactions to things, an expansion
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: of the things we're allergic to, our sensitivities have gone up.
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: I mean, there are so many things that point to
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: not necessarily an organic expansion of those on the spectrum,
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: never mind the legislative expansion. Every year they try to
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: expand it a little further. And it was fun and
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: games when you thought maybe I could get a blue
• 36:35
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• 36:39
  Speaker 7: not just, you know, I'm fastidious about how my bathroom
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: is set up. Now I'm not allowed to testify in court.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: You know, if I'm mugged and I'm on the spectrum,
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: can I not bear testimony about my own mugging? What
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: if I'm not allowed to have my Second Amendment rights?
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: What about my Fourth Amendment rights? So the ramifications of this,
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: to me, only scratch the surface. And I know I
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: may seem verbally OCD about this, but gosh, I've seen
• 37:13
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• 37:17
  Speaker 18: Joe, especially in Virginia, eugenics, it's not just part of
• 37:21
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• 37:27
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• 37:33
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• 37:35
  Speaker 18: did a fantastic job.
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Thomas Jefferson. Most people say Thomas Jefferson would be on
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: the spectrum today. We don't want Thomas. Well, there are
• 37:44
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• 37:46
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• 37:50
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• 37:53
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• 37:58
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  Speaker 25: Delegate Tran.
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  Speaker 21: Yes, sir.
• 44:18
  Speaker 25: How late in a pregnancy would your bill apply if
• 44:22
  Speaker 25: a physician was simply willing to certify that the continuation
• 44:28
  Speaker 25: of the pregnancy would impair the mental health of the woman?
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  Speaker 25: How late are we talking about?
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  Speaker 15: Well, so.
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  Speaker 21: So the way the suggestion that we've made in the
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  Speaker 21: bill is to say it's in the third trimester and
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  Speaker 21: with the certification of the physician.
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  Speaker 25: So how late in the third trimester would you be able.
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  Speaker 1: To do that?
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  Speaker 21: You know, it's very unfortunate that our physicians, our witnesses
• 44:55
  Speaker 21: were not able to attend today to speak specifically.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about your bill.
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  Speaker 25: How late in the third trimester could a physician attend?
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  Speaker 25: perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the
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  Speaker 14: Or physical health.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: I'm talking about the mental health.
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  Speaker 21: So, I mean, through the third trimester. The third trimester
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  Speaker 21: goes all the way up to 40 weeks.
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  Speaker 26: Okay.
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  Speaker 25: But to the end of the third trimester?
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  Speaker 23: Yep.
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  Speaker 21: I don't think we have a limit in the bill.
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  Speaker 7: So for everyone who says I'm overly sensitive about this
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: proposed ban on autistic people being allowed to testify or
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: give a testimony under oath, that was 2019. And it
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: was lampooned across the nation because Kathy Tran so obviously
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: had no connection to the authorship of the bill that
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: she had brought before Virginia's General Assembly, the same General
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  Speaker 7: Assembly that will hear this bill that says an entire swath,
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: a growing swath of our population, whether organically or inorganically created,
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: depending on how much of the Maha movement you are
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: into will no longer be allowed to give testimony, will
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: no longer be allowed to bear witness against the things
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  Speaker 7: going on in their world. Based on the government's determination
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: of their capability for simply existing in a spectrum. And
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: you say, well, it's not going to pass. That was
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: a joke in 2019. Here we are in 2026, seven
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: short years later. It is on the ballot as a
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: constitutional damn amendment. Don't tell me I'm overreacting. Kill this.
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: Kill this now. Bury it in a sarcophagus like the
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: nuclear waste at Chernobyl. I want nothing to do with
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: any human beings that think this is a good idea.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: And I understand, oh, no, we're proposing it under the
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: idea of we're trying to protect. That's what Stalin said.
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: We're trying to protect the crazy people who think that
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: liberty might be a good idea, because if they don't
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: believe in the Soviet, they must be crazy. It's the
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: government determining what crazy is, the government determining who is appropriate.
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: And I take that as seriously as you can take anything.
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: And it embarrasses me the same way it embarrasses me
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  Speaker 7: that we'll have a constitutional amendment that will allow people
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: to be arrested simply because they said, hey, Have you
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: ever considered adoption? Weep, weep, weep, weep, weep. Open the door, Mugsy.
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: It's the police. What did I do? You got in
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: the way of this girl's constitutional right to kill her baby.
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Get in the paddy wagon, Mugsy. It will be a
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: crime to even suggest Maybe reconciling with the baby daddy.
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: It will be a crime for you to say to
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: some 21-year-old frat boy, what do you need Mifepristone for? Oh, nothing.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: I just like to have it on hand, you know,
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: because I'm a busy guy. Because we haven't seen cases
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: where guys have slipped Mifepristone into their wives' cocktail, to
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: their seltzer in the morning, and all of a sudden
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: the wife's like, what happened to the baby I was carrying?
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: I didn't want it aborted. Don't tell me these things
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: are just, this is Dr. Overton's window. Here we are
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: talking about it on the radio. This is the most
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: insane of insane. And I've already got emails, Joe, we're
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: just trying to put up guardrails so that law enforcement
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: doesn't take advantage of these people. You mean like you said,
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: law enforcement might take care, take advantage of the intellectually
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: incapable black people 100 years ago. This stuff just... And
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: I apologize. I'm supposed to be bringing the yucks this morning.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: Let's move on to something more lighthearted. The Supreme Court.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: Let's talk about the Supreme Court because it's more fun.
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sorry, Kareem. This stuff just gets under
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: my skin.
• 50:36
  Speaker 18: Especially if it comes and goes with the populist ideas
• 50:39
  Speaker 18: of what people want now versus what they want tomorrow.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 18: We've got a lot of rules and laws and regulations
• 50:47
  Speaker 18: and things that we can't even touch because of our
• 50:48
  Speaker 18: administrative policies.
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 50:53
  Speaker 18: Joe, thank you for taking my call. Have a great day.
• 50:55
  Speaker 24: No, no.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: Don't tell me what kind of day to have, damn it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: I think he was laughing there at the end. I
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: was like, what? Sometimes I could be too cute by half.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: So the Supreme Court, and we're going to talk about
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: this with Ilya Shapiro a little bit later on in
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: the program, is taking up a case where the city
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: of Boulder wants to be able to sue ExxonMobil because
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: ExxonMobil has what they call money and the city of
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: Boulder does not. So the city of Boulder says, well,
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: that's just not damn fair. And they want some of
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: ExxonMobil's money because people in Boulder, oh, buy gas. And
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: darn it, Boulder, Colorado had thought it would have been
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: done with this by now. But damn it, the Boulder
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: residents are still buying gasoline. And so they want to
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: be able to sue ExxonMobil for existing gas. And the
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: Supreme Court is listening to it. And the frightening bit
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: is one of the most ardent conservative constitutionalists have recused
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: himself from this. And we'll tell you about that coming
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: up as to why. Justice Alito said, I'm going to,
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: and part of it has to do with a book tour.
• 52:21
  Speaker 18: Really?
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: Really. But I'll tell you what. Here's an offer for
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: those who want to be able to sue ExxonMobil if
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: you're a municipal government. We'll trade you this ability in
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: exchange for loser pays laws. You can sue, but if
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: you lose, you have to pay up. How about that?
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: Is that a fair trade? We'll give you one quid
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: for it.
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